In the conference room of the Athletics Association, another meeting was held. The theme of this meeting was to discuss Zhang Guan's love affair.
The president glanced at the people in the audience and said: "The bureau asked our association to come up with a solution first, and then report it to the bureau, and the bureau leaders will discuss it later."
"Solution!" Director Luo breathed a sigh of relief. These four words can represent the above attitude towards Zhang Guan's love affair. It is not the best, nor the worst.
The Chinese language and writing culture can be said to be broad and profound, and the higher the level, the more carefully the meaning of each word conveyed needs to be carefully considered, because different words will represent different attitudes.
If the bureau requires the association to give "handling opinions", then it is equivalent to giving a characterization of Zhang Guan's love affairs, and if punishment is required, the association will also give corresponding punishment opinions; if the bureau requires the association to give "handling opinions" If it means "measures", then it is obviously to keep Zhang Guan, and it is at least a tacit attitude towards Zhang Guan's love affair; and now the words "solution" given by the bureau mean that as long as it can be solved more satisfactorily This matter can be punished or acquiesced. This also shows that the bureau does not have a clear attitude towards Zhang Guan's love affair.
President Qu once again took the lead and said: "We have clear regulations that young athletes are not allowed to fall in love. Zhang Guan is only nineteen years old. Falling in love is obviously against the rules, so he should be punished according to the regulations! Let him stop immediately Fall in love and break up with that foreigner! I didn’t support athletes setting up agent teams before. If these athletes have too much autonomy, they will definitely be disobedient and disobey management. Now Zhang Guancai is starting to talk about it at such a young age. We are in love. If we let it go, we will have no way to manage it in the future. So I think we should immediately take back the right to operate Zhang Guan’s business activities!"
Director Luo immediately said: "We originally asked athletes not to fall in love. The main purpose was to worry that falling in love would affect the athletes' performance. But Zhang Guan's results this year are obvious to everyone. He broke the 60m indoors twice. world record, broke the 100-meter dash world record three times, won all six events of the Track and Field Golden League, and won more than a dozen championships. Obviously Zhang Guan’s competition status has not been affected in any way, and it is getting better and better.”
"So what if I have high grades? Zhang Guan did violate the rules!" President Qu said.
"We originally made the rule that athletes were not allowed to fall in love in the 1970s and 1980s. It has been 20 or 30 years ago now, so we should keep pace with the times. And 20 or 30 years ago, we did not have athletes. It can break the world record in the 100-meter dash. Regulations are dead, but people are alive. If you cannot adapt to the regulations of the times, you should change them." Director Luo said immediately.
"I don't have an opinion on whether the regulations should be changed. But Zhang Guan's behavior, this kind of blatant violation of the regulations, obviously has a bad impact. Zhang Guan's grades are very good, so he We should take on the role of role model! If everyone imitates Zhang Guan and blatantly violates the rules, wouldn’t it be chaos? So Zhang Guan must be punished this time. Punishment is not the purpose, but it can serve as a warning to other athletes. The role is to let them know that even the most famous athletes in the country will be punished as long as they violate our regulations. This is very meaningful for us to strengthen management work in the future!" President Qu said.
Director Luo shook his head: "Now is different from before. More and more athletes are only children. They are more willful and individual. Sometimes if the management is excessive, it may be counterproductive, so our management should also Rationalization and humanization. Moreover, I have also collected some public opinions on Zhang Guan’s love affair. Both the media and the general public are very supportive of Zhang Guan’s love affair. The society generally believes that Zhang Guan is in love. Being the most beautiful woman in tennis is a very honorable thing, and some media say it is a different kind of bringing honor to the country.”
President Qu sneered: "This is another point I want to make. Sharapova is a foreigner after all! How could Zhang Guan find a foreigner as his wife! Look at Yao Yao, who went to the United States to play ball. In the end, I didn’t find a Chinese. Our country’s athletes, and they are such well-known athletes, have found a foreign girlfriend. This has such a bad influence and is so outrageous!”
Director Luo frowned helplessly. He really had no way to argue with this kind of traditional thinking. That you are old-fashioned? But in fact, many people have this idea, and it is not a wrong thing to abide by tradition.
At this moment, the office director knocked on the door and came in. He ran to the president and whispered a few words. The president motioned for everyone to discuss first and then walked out.
A few minutes later, the president walked in and said: "I just received a call from the leader of the foreign affairs department. They want us to deal with the relationship between Zhang Guan and Sharapova. Factors of international influence must be taken into consideration.”
Everyone's expressions suddenly became strange, and it was obvious that this matter was starting to become complicated.
Just listen to the president continue to say: "Tennis is still very popular in developed countries such as Europe and the United States, so Sharapova has a high reputation in Europe and the United States. Regarding the relationship between the two, our domestic media reports mainly focus on On Zhang Guan, most of the foreign media's reports focus on Sharapova. According to the public opinion monitoring of the foreign affairs department, foreign media have reported on this matter relatively extensively, so we are somewhat passive now."
The president looked at everyone and then said: "Under the current circumstances, it is not appropriate to punish Zhang Guan. Freedom of love and marriage are principles we have always adhered to, and they must be reflected in real cases. We and the West The world has adopted different systems. Our system is obviously more advanced, but Westerners have always used their values to smear and criticize us. For example, the United States clearly has problems with rights, but it still continues to do so every year. What is the "Country Rights Report" to be released? I don't need to say more about this, everyone will understand it."
Everyone nodded. If Zhang Guan is really punished and the mandarin ducks are beaten with a stick, those foreign media will criticize China for not even having freedom of love, and will then bring up the issue of rights. This is what the foreign affairs department least wants to see. .
President Qu said with some reluctance: "Are Zhang Guan blatantly violating the regulations and we still have to support him?"
"No." The president shook his head and continued: "Athletes, their daily activities are of course centered on training and competition, so we will not support or encourage active athletes to fall in love, nor do we advocate that athletes fall in love at such a young age. Love. However, we respect the freedom of love, so we are not opposed to free love. Even if Sharapova is a foreigner, we should not prevent them from falling in love. However, it is wrong for athletes to violate the rules after all. Yes, this kind of behavior cannot be tolerated. Considering that Zhang Guan is relatively young and his ideological understanding is not yet in place, we can do some ideological work for him appropriately, at least to improve his understanding, and we will not do it next time!"
"In addition, this incident also reflects that there are still deficiencies in our management work. Our management needs to adapt to local conditions and the times. We need to make changes to some outdated and unreasonable systems and regulations and work with them. Keeping pace with the times, with the development and progress of society, our system construction must also develop and progress, and we must establish a system that adapts to the current situation, so that athletes will consciously abide by the system."
"As for the bureau asking us to come up with solutions, I think we can grasp a few key points: no support, no encouragement, no opposition, no promotion, no blocking, and no condoning!"
President Qu opened his mouth slightly, but did not speak. These key points sounded familiar to him. It seemed that they were often talked about by a certain unit.
"Is it possible that we went to the wrong place today and came to the Religious Affairs Bureau?"
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After the Athletic Association's plan was reported to the General Administration, the General Administration directly approved it. In fact, under normal circumstances, the General Administration will not intervene in the athlete management of each association. The General Administration's institutional responsibilities are mainly to study and formulate policies, regulations and development plans, so when it comes to a certain athlete, each association makes its own decision. Then report to the General Administration, which will basically not be involved in the specific management of each sports association.
After Zhang Guan finished his vacation, he did not rush to the Xinzhuang training base. Instead, he returned to his home in the provincial capital and then joined the provincial track and field team to prepare for the 10th National Games on October 12.
In terms of scale, the 10th National Games is even larger than the Doha Asian Games. With 46 national delegations and 10,000 athletes participating, it can be said to be the largest high-level event before the 2008 Olympic Games.
In track and field events, the vast majority of athletes are not eligible to compete abroad, so the Tenth National Games has become the highest stage for them to showcase themselves. For athletes like Zhang Guan who have absolute strength in a certain event, they are more responsible for winning gold medals for the provincial team.
At the domestic level of the 100-meter dash, Zhang Guan would have a chance to win even if it took half a second, so the gold medal in the 100-meter dash at the 10th National Games was won by Zhang Guan without any suspense.
Next, at the end of October, there will be another event, the East Asian Athletes in Macau.
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On the track, Zhang Guan is training for the 400-meter sprint.
"Pay attention to your feet! Inside! Adjust to the inside of the track! Yes!"
"Swing your arms, how many times have I told you, swing your arms in a wide range!"
"Take bigger steps and don't mess with the rhythm! Why has the rhythm changed again?"
Director Yu kept shouting at Zhang Guan, and his voice could be heard throughout the stadium.
In the distance, Liu Feiren looked at Zhang Guan who was training and couldn't help but shook his head.
"Hey, after practicing for so long, my skills are still very average. It seems that there is basically no progress today! I can see that he is almost done with it! With such talent, I really don't know how he became a world champion."
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