Chu Weidong looked at the celebrating team members at the end of the track and pinched his arm hard. After feeling the pain, he murmured to himself: "We really won!"
At the beginning, Chu Weidong accepted Li Dai's suggestion and decided to specialize in relay races. He also planned to become a horse doctor. After all, the sprinters in the team were relatively weak and it was difficult to achieve results in individual events.
But after the team members "petitioned", it became difficult to even form a relay team. Especially after Li Dai recruited a group of relatively mediocre athletes, Chu Weidong didn't have much hope for the relay team.
But the relay team's first place in the qualifying round made Chu Weidong excited again, but Chu Weidong still didn't dare to imagine winning the championship.
Now that the championship has been won, Chu Weidong feels like he is dreaming.
"The gold medal in the relay race, this is the championship in the team competition!" Chu Weidong couldn't help but feel excited.
Although the calculation of the number of medals is the same for individual events and team events, the gold content of gold medals in team events is obviously higher.
The gold medal in the team event is a collective honor. If it is implemented in the work summary, the collective honor is an achievement worthy of bragging. In comparison, personal honor is not so easy to express.
In formal writing, especially in work reports submitted to leaders, you can praise how awesome a group is, how powerful it is, and what dazzling results it has achieved. But the same expression cannot be applied to an individual, even if the athlete has more than a dozen Olympic gold medals hanging around his neck.
There are only a few collective events in track and field, and the 4x100m is obviously the one that attracts the most attention. At this time, Chu Weidong still began to fantasize about the scene of being commended by his superiors.
After all, the National Games is known as the "Olympic Games within the system." For someone in a leadership position like Chu Weidong, this relay gold medal is undoubtedly the best advertisement for him to show his political achievements, and may even become the basis for his future promotion. An important pedal.
"Sure! With this relay gold medal in hand, our track and field team will definitely be popular next year!" Chu Weidong thought while looking at Dai Li.
"It really all depends on Li Dai! I have to record a great achievement for him this time, and reward him well when I get back!"
Chu Weidong frowned when he thought of rewards. He couldn't think of how to reward Dai Li for a moment.
"There should be no problem in letting him be the leader of the sprint team! But he should not stay in the team for a long time, and maybe he will return to the national team soon. Being the leader of the sprint team does not mean much to him. , and he may not be rare."
"Give me more bonuses? The bonuses for this National Games are actually not very large, but there are a lot of welfare rewards. Even if I give Li Dai an extra 8,000 yuan, it doesn't show any sincerity. Moreover, These days, even if you spend eight thousand yuan, you can’t buy anything.”
Chu Weidong put his hand on his chin: "The official can't give it, and the money can't be given, so what should I give? This is really difficult to handle!"
The next second, Chu Weidong suddenly remembered something. He hesitated for a few seconds and finally made up his mind.
"Forget it, just give Xiao Li this opportunity to study in the United States! This kind of opportunity should be rare even for the national team coach!"
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In the dormitory canteen of the Hanbei Provincial Track and Field Team, the athletes gathered together and looked at the TV hanging on the wall.
What was broadcast live on the TV was the final of the 4x100m relay race of the National Games.
After the starting gun sounded, the athletes in the cafeteria couldn't help shouting. Although they were thousands of miles away from the competition venue, the cheers still kept coming.
"Qian Dong, hold on, you must hold on!"
When Xie Jun and Yang Sijie were about to catch up with Qian Dong, everyone was sweating for him.
"We win! Qian Dong is the first to cross the line, we win!"
Shouts and applause all broke out in an instant.
The sound of celebration lasted for more than a minute before stopping, but the athletes did not leave. They were still staring at the TV screen, waiting to watch the next award ceremony.
"They're out!"
On the screen, the teams that won the championship, second place, and third place, in groups of four, with a total of twelve people, walked up to the podium.
"Look, Zhang Jialiang has no expression at all on his face. He has never seen such a scene before and was so frightened!"
"Wu Yihao is waving to us!"
"That's waving at the camera, not at us!"
"It must be aimed at us. Wu Yihao knows that we must be watching him in front of the TV!"
"Look at Qian Dong's smile, his front teeth are sticking out."
"Why are Old Shen's eyes so red? It seems like he just cried!"
"I must have cried. Shen Kenan is thirty years old and can still stand on the highest podium of the National Games. How could he not cry? If it were me, I would cry too."
"When Lao Shen wins this gold medal, he can retire with no regrets."
"Isn't that right? If he wins the gold medal at the National Games and then retires with great glory, the bureau will definitely assign him a job. Maybe the leader will be happy and give him a good job, and he will be secure for the rest of his life."
"And Wu Yihao, I think he will definitely become a key training target in our team after he comes back!"
"Then he said, this is 100% a matter of fact."
"If you ask me, Wang Wenqiang is probably the luckiest. As a substitute, although he has never played, he is actually on the relay team list. When we look back and commend him, Wang Wenqiang also has a share. "
"Yes, Wang Wenqiang is so lucky. Do you think if it were me, would I be able to win a gold medal in the relay race?" someone said jokingly.
"It would have been great if I had signed up when the relay team was recruiting people. Then maybe I would be the one standing on the medal podium now!" Someone said with a regretful expression.
These comments reached Shen Kun's ears, but they made him feel even more depressed.
"Hey, if I had known I could win the gold medal, I should have signed up for the relay team. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slipped away from me just like that."
Shen Kun's face was full of regret. If he could turn back time, he would definitely choose the relay team without hesitation.
Also feeling regretful were Chen Tingshan and Zhu Yueyang.
In fact, when the relay team advanced to the main competition of the National Games, they already felt regretful, and they even resorted to suing for this.
But at that time, they didn't think that the relay team could win the championship. All they were striving for was a chance to appear in the National Games.
But when they saw the four teammates with gold medals hanging around their necks in the middle of the podium, the strong regret and annoyance instantly occupied their minds.
"When the relay team was just about to be formed, we were supposed to be drafted! If we had not gone to 'petition' at that time and had followed the team's arrangements, we would definitely be the ones standing on the championship podium on the TV now, right? !" Zhu Yueyang sighed softly, then lowered his head silently:
"I feel that I missed the best opportunity in my life! And it was given to others by myself..."
Not far away, Li Guodong gently poked Sha Baojun's shoulder.
"Lao Sha, I think we really did something wrong this time! We shouldn't have come against Dai Li in the first place. This time, it was us who harmed these athletes."