At breakfast time, Li Dai saw Zhao Yue again in the hotel restaurant.
"Should we tell him the truth about his forced retirement?" Dai Li hesitated.
"Three years have passed since the incident, and Zhao Yue is not really suffering from bone cancer now. We can't let Coach Xue take the blame for the rest of his life!" Wanting to attack here, Li Dai finally took the dinner plate and left. past.
"Is there no one here?" Li Dai pointed to the position in front of Zhao Yue.
"Coach Li, there is no one here, please take a seat!" Zhao Yue did not reject Li Dai. The two were of similar age, so they would have felt more close to each other.
After Li Dai sat down, he chatted casually with Zhao Yue for a few words, and then said, "I had a phone call with coach Xue Li of the national team yesterday."
When the name "Xue Li" was mentioned, Zhao Yue still frowned.
"Actually, I have been studying in the national team some time ago, and Coach Xue is my teacher. He also arranged for me to become a coach at Tsinghua University." Li Dai took the lead in explaining, and then said: "I told Coach Xue your business."
Zhao Yue put down the chopsticks in his hand and raised his head with a somewhat unkind expression: "What did he say?"
"Xue Lian told me the truth about your forced retirement." Li Dai calmed down and continued: "At that time, your mother went to the national team and asked you to retire."
"My mother?" Zhao Yue looked a little surprised.
Li Dai told Zhao Yue everything Xue Li said, but after Zhao Yue listened, he fell silent and remained silent for a long time.
There is a saying that a child is better than his father, and the converse is also true. Of course, children will know their parents very well. Zhao Yue himself also knows very well that his mother will definitely do such a thing.
Zhao Yue understands that he may have wrongly blamed the national team for the forced retirement.
Dai Li also didn't speak anymore. He let Zhao Yue digest the information before asking, "Does your mother not support you becoming an athlete?"
"How should I put it? In the past, she was very supportive of me, but since she was misdiagnosed with bone cancer, she has been urging me not to be an athlete anymore." Zhao Yue sighed, and then added: "I Mom is not very educated, and she always thought that my 'bone cancer' was caused by practicing sprinting."
"Then do you still hate the national team now?" Li Dai then asked.
"I don't know." Zhao Yue shook his head: "I really don't know!"
Zhao Yue seemed a little confused and a little painful. Over the years, he has been brooding about forced retirement, but the truth he learned today overturned his perception.
"I hope you can untie this knot." Li Dai continued: "You should know that our country's track and field athletes cannot break away from the system and enter the national team to serve the country. This is also the ultimate goal of athletes. Home.”
"Since you have chosen the path of an athlete, it means that you must continue to sprint towards a higher level. Sooner or later, you will have to face the national team. Even if you retire and become a coach, with the status of Nandu University, you will definitely If you have any interactions with the national team, you can’t do this and face the national team with hatred for the rest of your life!”
"Besides, you are only 26 years old now. You still have a chance to return to the top and return to the national team!" Li Dai said here and looked at Zhao Yue deliberately and seriously. The desire in Zhao Yue's eyes flashed. But he happened to be captured by Li Dai.
Later, Zhao Yue shook his head: "I am already 26 years old, how can I go to the national team again? The national team will not want me. I ran 10 seconds 42 in this competition, which is said to be a pretty good time." Results, if an athlete is in his early twenties, he will definitely be called up by the national team, but a 26-year-old athlete who runs a time of 10.42 seconds will not be able to join the national team."
"But this 10 seconds 42 is not your ultimate result, right? You are still far behind your peak now." Li Dai continued: "When Lin Feixiang was 26 years old, he was even second. Breaking the world record for the first time. As long as you don't give up, I think you can get back to your peak."
Speaking of Lin Feixiang, Zhao Yue suddenly thought of something.
"Lin Feixiang? I remembered that when we were at the Beikou training base, you were the coach who followed Lin Feixiang!" Zhao Yue said suddenly.
Dai Li smiled and nodded, and Zhao Yue finally remembered him.
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There is an intercity high-speed rail from Wanzhou City to Nandu City, so it is relatively convenient for Zhao Yue to go home. He left the hotel just after nine o'clock in the morning, and when he got home, lunch had not yet started.
"Dad, Mom, I'm back!" Zhao Yue returned home. Although this was a small rented house, as long as his family was there, it was a warm home.
"Xiao Yue is back, your mother is cooking in the house!" Zhao Yue's father said.
Last night, Zhao Yue had already told his parents that he had won a silver medal, so the two elders did not ask about the competition.
"I'm going to help my mother cook!" Zhao Yue put down his bag, took off his coat, and walked into the kitchen.
After a while, several side dishes were placed on the table. Although they were not rich, they were nutritionally balanced.
"Xiao Yue, it's hard to go out to compete, please eat more." Zhao Yue's mother kept feeding Zhao Yue.
"That's enough, that's enough." Zhao Yue took a big mouthful of rice and said casually: "I went to Wanzhou to compete this time and met an acquaintance. He is now the coach of the national team."
Zhao Yue's parents did not answer the call, or they were unwilling to answer the call.
So Zhao Yue continued: "He told me that when I was misdiagnosed, you went to the national team and found the head coach."
Zhao Yue's parents stopped holding chopsticks at the same time, and then looked at each other. They knew that the matter could no longer be hidden.
Finally, it was Zhao Yue's father who said: "Yes, we went to the national team and met the national team's head coach Zhao Shuren and deputy head coach Xue Li. We asked you to retire from the national team on our own initiative. .”
Before Zhao Yue could ask why, his father continued: "Your mother and I don't want you to continue to be an athlete. Although the lump in your leg was finally confirmed not to be bone cancer and was cured, it is still due to years of It’s caused by training. This time it’s not bone cancer, but what about next time? What about in the future?”
Zhao Yue's father sighed melancholy, and then said: "Your mother and I are old and can't stand the hardship anymore. If you continue to train, if you really get bone cancer, you can let me and your mother what to do?"
Next to him, Zhao Yue's mother also said: "We only have a son like you. We don't need you to become famous, win so many championships, or make a lot of money. We just hope that you can be safe and sound, and that our family Your dad and I will be content if we are all together."
"After you came back from the United States, your father and I have been worried about you. We were afraid that you would really get that bone cancer. Your father and I also had some differences in information. Many athletes, because of long-term training, have lifelong problems. It will be accompanied by disability, especially when you get older, it will be very painful. We don't want you to become like that." Zhao Yue's father said.
Next to her, Zhao Yue's mother also immediately advised: "Xiao Yue, listen to mother, if we don't train, we won't be athletes anymore!"