At dinner time, coaches and athletes arrived at the hotel's cafeteria one after another.
It has long been known to everyone that the relay team entered the National Games main competition with first place in the qualifying round. You must know that several athletes on the relay team can only be regarded as second-rate athletes in the sprint group. Their qualifying was also regarded as a huge upset, so many people were discussing this matter at the dinner table.
"I really didn't expect that the relay team actually won the first place in the qualifying round."
"No, I didn't expect it. But having said that, Coach Li who came back from the national team is really amazing. He can achieve such results with a group of average athletes."
"And I also heard that during the competition, our relay team had a huge advantage. It led all the way and almost crushed the second place. The coaches from the national team are extraordinary. If I had known this, I would have Go sign up for the relay team.”
"Do you regret it? It's too late now! I remember when the relay team was not established yet, a dozen athletes came to coach Chu Weidong and argued that they were unwilling to run in the relay race. Later, when the relay team signed up independently, they also Not many people are willing to sign up, but what’s the result? Now that the relay team has qualified for the National Games, if they want to join the relay team again, I’m afraid they won’t!”
"It's true. What's that sentence called? Today you are indifferent to me, but tomorrow I will make it impossible for you to reach your heights!"
These sounds reached Chen Tingshan's ears, making him extremely irritable. He wished he could find a place where no one was around to stay, but in the entire restaurant, there seemed to be always people with rhythm discussing matters about the relay team, which made Chen Tingshan helpless. No place to hide.
"Wu Yihao is here!" Someone suddenly said. Chen Tingshan raised his head and saw Wu Yihao walking into the restaurant with a smile.
"Xiao Wu, congratulations, you have entered the main competition of the National Games!" someone said immediately.
When he heard the words "National Games Main Game", Wu Yihao suddenly smiled from ear to ear.
"Xiao Wu is only 18 years old this year. It is really amazing that he can enter the main game of the National Games at the age of 18. When I was 18 years old, I was still in the youth team." Someone else praised.
Chen Tingshan's face turned red unknowingly. He was one year older than Wu Yihao, and they were both the same age. Now Wu Yihao had entered the main competition of the National Games, but he could only stop qualifying. race.
"I'm not convinced, I'm not willing to give in! Why can Wu Yihao go to the National Games, but I can't! I'm obviously stronger than Wu Yihao." Chen Tingshan clenched the chopsticks in his hands tightly, with a look in his eyes. There was even more anger.
"Relay races rely on relay races to allow Wu Yihao to participate in the National Games. If I can join the relay team, I can also compete in the National Games." Chen Tingshan took a deep breath. For a moment he thought of Dai Li.
"By the way, let's go find Coach Li. With my strength, I am stronger than the four people on the relay team. If I go find Coach Li, he will definitely let me join the relay team!" Chen Tingshan made up his mind. I plan to go to Li Dai and recommend myself.
…
That night, Chen Tingshan did not go to Li Dai, and it was time for the track and field team to return, so Chen Tingshan still did not find a suitable opportunity.
After returning to Qingcheng, the track and field team had a day off. Li Dai bought a ticket and went back to Yuzhou. Chen Tingshan still could not see Li Dai. He waited until he returned from the holiday and the track and field team resumed normal training. Waited for the opportunity.
Chen Tingshan found out which dormitory Li Dai lived in, so he went alone.
"Building A of the dormitory, number 407 on the fourth floor should be in front." Chen Tingshan counted the dormitory door numbers and finally found the door of room 407.
Chen Tingshan straightened his clothes and walked forward. Before he could get close to the door of 407, the door suddenly opened.
A person walked out, carrying a packaging bag in his hand. It looked like there were two square boxes inside, and the packaging bag had the icon of a certain brand of liquor printed on it.
Chen Tingshan took a closer look and saw that this person was Shen Kun.
"Brother Shen?" Chen Tingshan looked surprised. He didn't expect that Shen Kun would come out of the 407 dormitory with two bottles of liquor in his hand.
The next moment, Chen Tingshan suddenly realized that Shen Kun came to see Li Dai, and he also brought wine, obviously intending to give gifts, but looking at the posture, Li Dai did not accept it.
"Shen Kun came to give Li Dai a gift!" No matter how stupid Chen Tingshan was, he still knew why Shen Kun came to give Li Dai a gift.
"Shen Kun also wants to join the relay team!" Chen Tingshan looked at the two bottles of wine, and then looked at the frustrated expression on Shen Kun's face, and knew that Shen Kun was rejected.
Shen Kun didn't expect to meet Chen Tingshan here, and when Chen Tingshan saw him like this, he suddenly showed a very embarrassed expression.
"Brother Shen, are you here to see Coach Li?" Chen Tingshan paused, then asked: "Are you here to join the relay team?"
Shen Kun did not hide anything from Chen Tingshan. He nodded and said, "Coach Li did not agree. Hey, I had already guessed that Coach Li would not agree. After all, Coach Li had rejected many athletes before. I just want to give it a try. Xiao Chen, what about you? Are you also here to see Coach Li?"
"Me? I'm just passing by!" Chen Tingshan was embarrassed to tell the truth.
"Oh, then I'll go back first. You take your time for a walk." Shen Kun didn't expose Chen Tingshan and turned around to leave with two bottles of wine.
Looking at Shen Kun's leaving figure, Chen Tingshan felt as if he had obtained the five-flavor bottle.
"Shen Kun also came to see Coach Li and gave him gifts, but Coach Li didn't agree to him. I came here empty-handed, will Coach Li agree to me?" Chen Tingshan sighed unconfidently, and finally knocked on the door. Dai Li's door rang.
…
A few minutes later, Chen Tingshan walked out of the room, with a disappointed look on his face and a hint of anger in his eyebrows.
As expected, Dai Li rejected him.
Chen Tingshan felt that he had been insulted. Li Dai would rather choose the young Wu Yihao than the old Shen Kenan. He would rather choose Qian Dong and Zhang Jialiang who are not strong enough than him, rather than choose himself.
"Damn it!" Chen Tingshan cursed secretly, and couldn't help but hate Li Dai in his heart.
Chen Tingshan walked to the door of the dormitory building and saw Shen Kun standing there. He was still holding the two bottles of wine in his hands and looking at him with a smile.
"Brother Shen..." Chen Tingshan stepped forward.
"You must have been rejected by Dai Li!" Shen Kun seemed to have expected this result. He continued: "If you think about it carefully, this is not surprising. At the beginning, we all went to Coach Chu collectively and said we did not want to join the relay team. As a result, Li Dai has no one to use. Now that the relay team has entered the main competition of the National Games, he must teach us a lesson! It’s strange, what we did at that time was amazing!”
"We went to find Coach Chu at that time. Our coach asked us to do this!" Chen Tingshan pouted, as if he had no responsibility at all.
"Xiao Chen, if you really didn't resist joining the relay team at that time, you wouldn't have gone to Coach Chu to complain, right? In the final analysis, it was because we didn't want to give up our individual events at the time." Shen Kun said.
"That's because Dai Li's conditions are too harsh. If you want to join the relay team, you have to give up the individual event. Not many people are willing to agree to this." Chen Tingshan once again shirked his responsibility.
"It is indeed a bit harsh to ask people to give up individual competitions, but I think about it now. If I didn't put all my energy into relay training, I'm afraid it would be impossible to enter the main competition of the National Games. Li As a coach of the national team, Dai must be well aware of this, so he proposed from the beginning to give up personal events and focus on practicing relay races." Shen Kun said.
"Brother Shen, why are you speaking for Li Dai instead!" Chen Tingshan complained: "Are you willing to just give up? We have to wait at least four years for the next National Games!"
"Of course I won't give in! That Shen Kenan is already 30 years old and still has a quota for the National Games! There is also Zhang Jialiang, who is so mediocre and his grades have not improved at all in the past few years. As for me, I happen to be At the peak age of 24, if I wait another four years, maybe I should retire!" Shen Kun said, sighing helplessly: "But what can I do? It's not that I don't want to run the relay now. Sai, it’s Dai Li who doesn’t want us!”
"Brother Shen, I have an idea." Chen Tingshan said.
"What's your idea? Tell me." Shen Kun asked immediately.
"Let's go to Coach Chu again, just like last time, call Zhu Yueyang, and then call a few other people with good grades to make a fuss." Chen Tingshan continued: "Last time we went to Coach Chu collectively, Isn’t it a success? He forced Dai Li to let everyone sign up for the relay team on their own. This time if we unite again and force the relay team to accept us, we will definitely succeed!"
Shen Kun sighed: "Xiao Chen, you are still too young. The reason why we succeeded last time was because Li Dai failed to achieve results, and the team was counting on us to get results. At that time, it was Li Dai who begged us Joining the relay team, the initiative is in our hands. Now that we have all been eliminated, it is Dai Li who has achieved results and entered the National Games. This time we begged him, and the initiative is in his hands. .”
"Brother Shen, no matter who has the initiative, we have to give it a try! This track and field team is not what Li Dai said! If we don't even dare to try, there will definitely be no chance of participating in the National Games! If you give it a try, you might still have a chance of survival." Chen Tingshan then persuaded.
Shen Kun frowned and thought for a while. The words "There is still a chance of survival if you give it a try" really touched Shen Kun.
"That's right. Anyway, if I don't participate this time, I won't have much chance in four years. Even if I take a desperate risk, I have to fight again!" Shen Kun nodded and then said: "Let's go find Zhu Yueyang. , discuss it together!”
…
Chu Weidong is a little busy today.
More than 20 athletes in the entire track and field team have qualified for the National Games, and the subsequent training of these 20 athletes has become the top priority of the track and field team's next work.
Now, the training plans of these more than 20 athletes have been reported to Chu Weidong. Chu Weidong has to review and approve them one by one to see if there is anything unreasonable or anything that needs improvement.
Chu Weidong also has a business background. Although he cannot be said to be very proficient in the training of various track and field events, he can be regarded as relatively knowledgeable. As a coach of a provincial team, Chu Weidong is more knowledgeable than ordinary coaches. .
I saw him holding a red pen, and in just a few minutes, he marked a dozen question marks on a training plan.
"This training plan doesn't work. We have to gather the coaching staff for a meeting later to discuss it." Chu Weidong put this training plan aside, and then picked up the next training plan.
"The training plan for the relay team was written by Dai Li." When Chu Weidong saw the words "4x100m relay team", a smile suddenly appeared on his face.
"The first place in the qualifying round was qualified, and he was far ahead of the second place. This Li Dai is really amazing. With a group of average athletes, he has achieved such results. No wonder coach Xue Li is retiring, and he still has To accept him as a closed disciple, Xue Li has been a coach in the national team all his life, so he has a really good vision! In less than ten years, this Li Dai may become the top coach in the national team."
Chu Weidong sighed while looking at Dai Li's training plan with an eye of appreciation and learning.
This is a change in mentality. Looking at other people's training plans, Chu Weidong always rushes to find faults, but looking at Li Dai's training plan is different. Chu Weidong is like a painter going to a high-level art exhibition, and he is filled with all kinds of emotions. It’s the idea of learning from each other’s strengths to offset weaknesses.
While he was deep in thought, the phone rang, and Chu Weidong immediately picked it up.
"Hey, it's me, what's the matter? Here we go again? Last time, they didn't want to join the relay team. Why did they want to join the relay team this time? Do they want to join the relay team again? Dai Li doesn't want to join? He deserves it! Okay, I understand, let's make arrangements first Go to the conference room, I’ll be there in a minute.”
Chu Weidong put down the phone and his face became gloomy.
"These guys can come here whenever they want. Do I, Chu Weidong, think this place is a convenience store?"
…
In the conference room, Chu Weidong did not look good to Chen Tingshan and others this time.
"Three months ago, here, in this conference room." Chu Weidong tapped the table with his fingers, and then said: "You said you didn't want to join the relay team or run in the relay race. Now you say you want to go to the relay team. It’s you too! What do you want?”
Chen Tingshan was about to speak to explain, but Chu Weidong did not give them a chance to speak. He continued: "Our relay team qualified first in the National Games qualifying competition not long ago. I am very satisfied. . I think that for a team that can take first place, it is very important to maintain the integrity of the lineup, so I can answer your request now. The lineup of the relay team will not change."
"But I am faster!" Chen Tingshan said hurriedly.
"I just said that we must maintain the integrity of the lineup." Chu Weidong glared at Chen Tingshan and then said: "Whether you are faster or slower, it is impossible for the team to break up one team and win first place." Famous team!"
"Okay, it's almost time. I have a meeting next. Let's end our discussion today." Chu Weidong looked at his watch, stood up, turned around and left, leaving a group of athletes in the conference room.
"Coach Chu is also a qualified saint! You really can't use the same move twice..." Chen Tingshan looked at Chu Weidong's leaving figure and complained silently in his heart.