As Xu Zhongyi said, on the second day after Dai Li started working, the Provincial Sports Bureau talked to him and asked if Dai Li was willing to be a shot put coach for the youth track and field team.
Dai Li knew that this was a good thing, and of course he had no reason to refuse, so he immediately nodded and agreed. The next day, Dai Li completed the relevant transfer procedures, and then went to take up the post in the youth track and field team.
The provincial youth team can be regarded as the reserve team of the provincial sports team. The outstanding talents in the youth team will be selected to be trained in the sports team. Athletes in the youth team are between the ages of 16 and 18. Those under 16 are considered to be in the youth team, and those over 18 have to leave the youth team.
Among the youth teams, athletes with more potential will be selected to continue training in the sports team. If they are not selected by the sports team by the age of 18, it basically means that this athlete has no room for improvement. Most of them can hang out in the city-level sports team.
Since there is a limit to the youth of youth team athletes, the youth team is much smaller than the sports team in terms of size, and the mobility of athletes is also relatively high. Sports schools and sports teams in various cities recommend athletes to the provincial youth team every year. Those athletes with good talent may be picked up by the sports team after they have been in the youth team for a few months. Choose to give up.
"Acting head coach of the shot put event of the Hanbei Provincial Youth Track and Field Team!" Li Dai looked at the transfer document in his hand and muttered about his new position.
The word "agency" means that there is no formal appointment, but it does not affect the performance of duties. This situation is common in the system, such as the acting mayor of a certain place, the acting director of a certain bureau, the acting president of a certain hospital, etc. Although they all have the word "acting" on their heads, getting a formal appointment is just a matter of time. As a matter of time, no one will really regard them as "agents".
The head coach of the youth track and field team is named Lubin. He is forty years old and looks very smart and capable. Since there are relatively few coaches in the youth team, Lubin also serves as the head coach of the hurdles event.
After Dai Li arrived, Lubin took Dai Li to familiarize himself with the environment of the youth track and field team and get to know his new colleagues before going to the training ground for the throwing event.
There are four throwing events in track and field, namely shot put, discus, javelin and hammer throw. Among them, the training venue for shot put is definitely the smallest.
In the javelin and hammer throw, professional athletes can easily throw 50 to 60 meters, and world-class players can throw more than 70 meters; in the case of discus, ordinary athletes can also throw it 40 to 50 meters. But if you can throw the shot put over 16 meters, you will be considered a first-class athlete in the country.
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"Our team's shot put team now has five members left. This is the list." Coach Lubin handed a piece of paper to Dai Li.
"Only five people? So few?" Li Dai felt a little unbelievable. Shot put is not a sport with a good threshold, and this is a provincial training team after all. How could there be only five athletes, even for a high school sports team? Even the shot put has more people than this.
Coach Lubin smiled awkwardly: "Before the Chinese New Year, the sports team held a selection and picked out all the good prospects. The selection of a new batch of athletes has not yet started, so the current athletes in the team Less so.”
"But this is too few, right? Only five people? I used to run a training class for sports students, and I could get eight people." There was a slight complaint in Li Dai's tone.
Lubin looked indifferent, and he explained: "Whenever the sports team comes for selection, it is very important for these young athletes, especially those who have reached the age of eighteen. If they cannot be selected by the sports team, If they are selected, they will not be able to stay in the youth team, because after the New Year, they will be one year older and they will no longer meet the youth requirements of the youth team.”
"As for the new batch of athletes, they are basically junior high school graduates. They will not report to our team until July after they graduate from school. So every year from the Spring Festival to June, we We are in a state of drought here for athletes.”
Lubin said this, taking a breath with regret, and then said: "In addition, there are a large number of athletes who will quit midway."
"What made them quit midway?" Dai Li asked.
"There are various reasons, some of which are family reasons. Parents do not support their becoming athletes and feel that they should study hard and enter college. Some of them cannot bear the hardship. The training that young athletes received before was at most amateur level. After coming to our team, , to receive professional-level training, the training intensity has increased a lot, and the athletes can't stand it, so they quit on their own. Some people feel that they will not achieve any results if they continue to practice, so they give up as soon as possible and don't continue to waste time." Lu Bin thought. After thinking for a while, he continued: "In addition, there are some athletes who choose to leave due to psychological reasons."
"What psychological factors?" Dai Li showed a curious expression.
Lubin went on to explain: "Those who can be selected to our provincial youth team will not be very bad. They should be among the best in their respective counties. Even if they are in the municipal training team, they will be outstanding." . But when we come here, it is really a gathering of elites. Those good talents at the municipal level are nothing here. There are many people better than them. Some young athletes who won first place in municipal competitions came to us. The provincial youth team may not even be ranked in the middle. This psychological gap has caused many outstanding athletes to choose to give up."
"Yeah, it's not that easy to be an athlete. Listening to what you said, I still have five people left here, which is pretty good." Li Dai said with a smile.
"Don't be too optimistic. The talents of these five athletes are relatively average, and their usual training can't be said to be hard. They feel like they are just dawdling. They haven't left yet. I think it's because they haven't found anyone else yet. It's something you can do." Lu Bin said, patting Dai Li on the shoulder: "In short, you should adapt to it during this period. The performance of leading the team is not important. It will be when the new athletes arrive in the second half of the year. It’s the focus of our work.”
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"Call your name first!" Dai Li clapped his hands, and the five athletes stood in a row.
"Zhao Zhanshan, Qin Lei, Luo Feng, Chen Jianjian, Wang Bin."
The five people below shouted "arrive" one by one, and Dai Li finally got to know these five athletes.
While taking roll call, Dai Li also used detection on them, but the result made Dai Li very depressed.
Among the five people, the one with the best talent is Su Jianjiang, who has a C talent. The others all have C- talents. In terms of ability values, they are all below 100.
"In the shot put sport, young athletes are lighter and do not have an advantage, but their ability values are too low!"
Dai Li couldn't help but shook his head.