just to make those dreams come true

Chapter 180 Qualifiers
The City Games of the People's Republic of China is a comprehensive sports event aimed at promoting the development of urban sports, discovering and cultivating outstanding sports reserve talents.

The original intention of the City Games is to encourage the enthusiasm of cities to run teams and promote cities to discover and cultivate more sports reserve talents for the country.But the initial development of anything is inevitably contrary to the original intention.

For a long time, most of the outstanding athletes have been discovered by various parties since they were very young, and most of them are finally concentrated in sports organizations above the provincial level. Therefore, national sports competitions are generally participated in by provinces.

Now that the City Games has appeared, no matter how you think about the subdivision, the administrative agency has decided that the athletes who can be active in the City Games are only those athletes from the provincial and municipal teams, which can truly reflect the multi-directional and multi-channel "" It is difficult to discover the original intention!
After three events in 1988, 1991, and 1995, in order to further standardize the City Games, the regulations are constantly being optimized.After a series of measures to increase the number of events, expand the number of participants, and strictly limit the age of participating athletes, the City Games is gradually on the right track.

Because the competition targets are all young athletes, they have the characteristics of rapid progress and lack of stability.In order to provide more young athletes with the opportunity to show themselves again, in addition to the performance standards in any prescribed competition in recent years and the special selection competition, another promotion channel, the qualifying competition has also emerged.

This fifth City Games is no exception.A qualifying match was held as early as two months ago, and on October 10, the last qualifying match will be held in Nanhutanzhou, where the City Games will be held.Nearly a thousand young athletes who have not qualified in recent years but whose performance has barely reached the baseline will make a final push to qualify for the City Games.

Lin Mu and his temporary team also embarked on the journey at this time!

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"Coach, this stadium is pretty good. It's no worse than the one in Beihe last time. I heard this isn't the main venue?..."

A small team of more than 10 people rushed to Nanhu Tanzhou with the team in the afternoon before the preliminaries.Under the leadership of Lin Mu and the three coaches, all other athletes of the track and field team who will represent Luzhou in the qualifiers rushed to Tanzhou Stadium by bus.This will be the main venue for the track and field competition of this qualifier.

The qualifiers lasted for two days, and a total of 29 major events and 289 minor events were competed for the final promotion places.In this stadium, all track and field events for men and women except marathon and race walking will start one after another, and they will also end within two days.

The competition is tight, the competition items are intensive, and the number of participants is no less than that of a formal youth athlete.After the arrangements were made, there were very few rounds of competition. The quotas for long-distance events and individual field events were determined in just one round.As for the sprint events that Lin Mu led the athletes to participate in at this time, there were only two individual events and team events.

In the 200 meters, more than 70 athletes compete in groups, and the 8 with the best results will enter the next round. On average, less than 1 person in each group can enter the final battle, and only the top 4 in the second round can enter the main race.

4*100米接力，57个城市共78支代表队，除已经进入正赛的20支队伍，剩下的58支队伍有24支获得了预选赛的资格，他们也将是通过两轮争夺最后的4个晋级正赛资格。

With fewer games and more participants, chances have undoubtedly become much greater, and some factors that can affect the game have become particularly important.For young athletes, strength, venue, game atmosphere, and psychology are all major determinants!

"Don't just look at the stadium, what we need to pay attention to is the runway... While there are not many people, go up and run twice, and the preliminaries will start tomorrow..." Coach Long reprimanded him, expressing his emotion while admiring the stadium just now The little athlete roared back to reality in an instant.

Coach Huang and Coach Long also started to move, chasing the five athletes onto the track like chasing ducks.

Lin Mu looked at the athletes and smiled slightly, maybe he was still nervous.I remember that when I took a few students to Jiangzhen for the first time to compete, they did the same.Intentionally or unintentionally, I will find some visual things to distract myself as much as possible, which can be regarded as a spontaneous way to relieve tension.Compared to those few students, they may be more nervous, because this is the only chance for them to participate in the City Games.

The age limit for the Fourth City Games is January 79, and the current age limit is January 1. By the next time, the age limit will only be 83.The youngest among these athletes, Jiang Shaobin, was born in 1 and obviously has no chance to participate again.The City Games are one of the few events where the threshold is low enough for young athletes to showcase themselves, especially those who are not at the top.To a certain extent, for ordinary athletes, it also determines their future.

"Director Lin, I'll leave it to you here. There are quite a lot of people this time, and I have to go to other places to watch. Don't worry if you take us here!"

As a team participating in the qualifiers, they obviously didn't pay much attention, whether it was the Provincial Sports Bureau or the Municipal Sports Bureau.This time the team was only led by a deputy director of the Sports Department of the Provincial Sports Bureau and a deputy director of the Luzhou Sports Bureau.As for who was in charge, Lin Mu couldn't tell who was in charge, and of course he didn't care.

At this time, it was the deputy director of Luzhou Sports Bureau who spoke extremely politely using the honorific title.It was just a word, and Lin Mu only nodded and left without even saying hello to anyone else!

Lin Mu smiled and shook his head. According to him today, if he goes to the sports department of any province, he may be treated as a guest of honor.He didn't expect that it would be like this in his hometown, and he didn't know how to say it!
"Director Lin, the people in these places are just clueless. They can't distinguish priorities. I said..." The deputy director, who was also one of the team leaders, felt that he was strongly disrespected. As soon as he saw Lin Mu shaking his head, a lot of scolding followed.

Lin Mu also smiled. No matter what the deputy director chattering beside him said and hinted, he had no interest in participating.Lack of attention leads to unclear rights and responsibilities.Because Fengfu, another city in Hui Province, also participated this time, there were too many entangled things in terms of some arrangements for athletes in the province and various private interests of Mingli.

After all, I am a coach, and competitive sports is my foundation.

Finally, after talking for a long time, Lin Mu didn't seem to respond much, and the deputy director also felt bored and left!
Beside Lin Mu, there was no one else except Chen Guobin who had been following him all the time, and it finally became quiet!

"Coach Lin, I don't know if there will be spectators in the qualifiers. If there are athletes..." Chen Guobin said when everyone left.

I was a little worried about what I said. A large audience may be good or bad, but there are also good and bad if there are few audiences.He is also concerned about chaos!After working as an assistant coach for several years, he became a coach in charge. It is not once or twice that he takes athletes out to compete, but this is the first time for him on such a scale.

"Coach Chen, it's actually much easier to lead athletes to compete than to train! You just need to make sure, have your athletes improved?" Seeing that Chen Guobin was a little nervous, Lin Mu said with a smile, "There are many competitions, one year There are many in the country. From each competition to the next, what we coaches must do is to find the shortcomings from the last competition and make up for them. Test the results through the next competition. As for the results, they are not final. That podium, everything else is secondary.”

"The game is a process of testing. Even if it is forced, we must maintain enough attention, because many things that cannot be found in training are often discovered inadvertently during the game. The job of our coaches is to find and analyze problems. ,Solve the problem!"

Whether it's imparting experience or letting go, Lin Mu can't do much.After all, you have to experience it yourself to grow.

Maybe just like athletes, to a certain extent, this qualifier also concerns many things about Chen Guobin.He has reasons to care more than any other coach.

This small team has only been established for 6 days, and Lin Mu, who is in charge of the national team, will eventually return to the national team no matter how good or bad the results are.As for rewards and future status in Hui Province, that's all for the future.

Coach Long, seeing that he won't be able to work for a few more years, it would be best if he could have some achievements to enrich his career. It doesn't matter if he doesn't.As for Coach Huang, Zhu Kun still wants him to lead him in the end. He can see Zhu Kun's progress and future direction, and most of his expectations this time have been fulfilled.Not to mention the staff. At this time, the City Games are over and they are still going back to their respective places. Their performance will have little impact on them.

As for Chen Guobin, because he was young, because he cared, and because he hoped to prove Lin Mu's training results.Only in this way can he, the interim assistant coach who is most familiar with this process, have a better chance of development.

"Coach Lin, thank you!" Chen Guobin thanked.

"Thank me for what. I'm speaking according to myself. In fact, it doesn't make much sense. It's true that every coach is different." Lin Mu waved his hand indifferently.

Chen Guobin shook his head. He didn't thank Lin Mu for what he said to him. He wanted to thank Lin Mu for sharing his training experience with him in the past few days.But he didn't explain, some things, you can just keep it in your heart, it's meaningless to say it with words, there will be opportunities in the future!
"Okay, let's pack up and go back, let them rest after a little activity today, and their quiz will start tomorrow!"

yes!It was indeed just a small quiz, but such a small quiz was not small for the athlete, or even for him!Chen Guobin felt emotional again!
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On October 10th, Tanzhou, the weather was fine and there was a breeze!
Nanhu Tanzhou Stadium

A large crowd filled the stadium early in the morning.Busy staff, nearly a thousand young athletes from dozens of cities across the country, and accompanying coaches and staff brought a rare spectacle to this stadium that already rarely carries tasks.

Today is an ordinary day, but for all the athletes and coaches on the field at the moment, this day may be two days later, and their lives will usher in many turning points because of these two days.Nervousness, excitement, worry, anticipation, all kinds of emotions are intertwined, and it's no wonder!

At 10 o'clock in the morning, at the age of 13, Zhu Kun bid farewell to his parents from a small county town in Huizhou Province. Zhu Kun, who entered the provincial capital, will face a test of his life.From an amazingly gifted boy to an object of regret and disappointment by countless coaches.Maybe the disappointment continues until it sinks to the bottom, maybe it will be a turning point...

"Hurry up and warm up, there are still 15 minutes. Move your hips and knees, remember what Coach Lin told you..."

Hearing Master Huang's shout, Zhu Kun nodded silently and started his warm-up.

In fact, after coming here today, several coaches have taken them to warm up on the sidelines several times, and their bodies have already been active.Moreover, the temperature in Tanzhou today is about 20 degrees, which is also very suitable. Now it is no problem to run directly on the track.

But he still meticulously followed the warm-up exercises he did on weekdays again, including knees, joints, waist and abdomen, and then simply stretched some muscles, simulating a few starts and accelerated sprints. time has passed!

"The following is the first round of the men's 200m qualifiers, please..."

The live radio broadcast reminded him once again that his game was coming.Having already experienced many battles, he felt that he was more nervous at this moment than when he was watched by tens of thousands of spectators in the National Championships.

It may be gained and lost, lost and recovered. 13 years old, because his cadence is extremely good, because his movements are smooth, and because his results in the first and 200 meters are excellent.He came to the provincial team, but as a few years passed, as his body developed and he became taller and taller, everything was lost.

Except that the pace is still fast, he lost his former talent, and lost his former 200-400 meters.If it weren't for the existence of a master who always regarded him as his own, perhaps he would have completely sunk.For his own sake, and even more for his master, he persevered, changed his practice, and continued to work hard, even though he himself felt that his future was far away.In the National Championships, he ran 200 meters to meet the standard, and [-] meters also hung the rear of the car and hung it on the side of the qualifiers.But he wasn't very happy, perhaps the only thing he was gratified about was that he didn't disappoint Master!

Now, he is going to run the 200 meters once again!
A staff member started the final roll call. After some confirmation from the staff and the referee, Zhu Kun, who slowly suppressed his worries, followed the leading staff into the arena.

Standing on the track, without looking at the few people in the stands or the sidelines where coaches and teammates might be, Zhu Kun silently adjusted the starting block.Coach Lin explained that these are very important. Because of changes in quality, the starting block must be adjusted to the most comfortable position according to one's own situation.

When everything was ready, Zhu Kun took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. After moving his body for the last time, he slowly leaned down.

"Everyone is in your place!"

Although it is only a qualifier, the organizing procedure is still an official competition format.The referee finally confirmed the players' information and called out the password.

Coach, I will not let you down!
Not only Coach Huang, but also Coach Lin.Zhu Kun, who had already taken his seat, said one last sentence silently in his heart.

"Get ready~"

Bow your body, step on the starting block with both feet, the waist, abdomen, and legs, the strength is instantly condensed!
"Bang~"

With a gunshot, Zhu Kun, who had already fully concentrated his attention, fired instantly, and shot out like an arrow from the string!

This is a game, but as Coach Lin said, this may just be a journey to find yourself and surpass yourself. You are just running alone.

Run out of your past self and run into your desired future.

You have no opponent, your current self is the biggest opponent.

Using all his strength and accelerating furiously, Zhu Kun didn't know where he was running now.Whether it's a game procedure or something else, being behind and leading is meaningless.He only knew that what he needed was to accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate again with all his strength.

There is no speed control, no physical distribution, just to rush to the straight road, to that finish line!
(End of this chapter)