just to make those dreams come true

Chapter 228 World Indoor Championships

Yankyo
The hotel arranged by the organizing committee for the national team.

After finishing the afternoon competition, the relay team returned to the hotel. They simply added some nutrition, and the athletes returned to their rooms one after another.

In a small suite, Chen Jianhai, who was half lying on the ground covered with mats, was doing some stretching exercises for his body.

It seemed to be moving unconsciously, but the thoughts in his mind never stopped for a moment.

The organizing committee arranged a room for two people, and He Jun lived with him. Now He Jun went to find Coach Chen.He could figure out why He Jun was there. Originally, he wanted to talk to the coach, but he hadn't figured it out enough. He hadn't made up his mind yet, how to make this decision.

In just one year, he felt that what he had experienced was more exciting than the previous ten years. To say that he felt a little satisfied, and even more so, he felt a sense of expectation.It seems that he has regained the longing for the future he once had when he first entered the sports school.

But I am 24 years old this year, and it seems that my career should reach its peak. Will I still have a chance at the Olympics, the World Championships, and the next Olympics?Chen Jianhai hesitated in his heart.

"Jianhai!"

While Chen Jianhai was meditating, Meng Shaoqiang walked in and sat down beside Chen Jianhai casually.

"Master~"

Meng Shaoqiang smiled, "Well, I thought you would come to me..."

"I didn't think about it, and I couldn't explain it to you." After completing another leg movement, Chen Jianhai stopped.

Exhaling, sitting up straight, the master and apprentice faced each other, looking at each other quietly.

After a minute or two of silence, Chen Jianhai couldn't help smiling.

"Master, I remember the first time I met you, your hair was more lush than now!"

"You boy, most of the hair is not because you don't have it!" After Meng Shaoqiang scolded with a smile, his face couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional: "It's been 12 years, time flies, my hair is less, and my body doesn't feel as strong as before. And you, a dark, skinny boy, now have the title of world champion..."

"Thank you, Master..."

"Thank you? What can I thank you for? In fact, I should thank you!" Meng Shaoqiang shook his head, feeling quite emotional: "People always say that athletes and coaches achieve each other. I used to say that, but in fact I don’t completely agree with it.”

"In my opinion, there may be more athletes to achieve coaches, such as Coach Kim, do you remember?"

Chen Jianhai nodded. Of course he remembered that when he entered the provincial team, his master was slightly lower than the opponent.He also almost became the opponent's disciple, but then Coach Jin chose to take another athlete, Zhao Hao, so he had Meng Shaoqiang as his master.

Later, his performance improved by leaps and bounds. He won the championship and entered the national team. Meng Shaoqiang also entered the national team together.But Coach Jin is still in the provincial team. Not to mention that the national team must be better than the provincial team, but the life situation is really hard to say.

"I met him today, and I brought Xiao Zhao to participate in the competition. I was eliminated in the third group of the 60-meter preliminaries!" Meng Shaoqiang smiled slightly, "Actually, according to the situation at the time, I thought I was better than the old man." Jin's level is a bit worse. But the current situation..."

Meng Shaoqiang couldn't help shaking his head, laughing at himself.More than ten years have passed, if Lao Jin chose Chen Jianhai at that time, what would be the current situation...?
"Master, that's not what I said. It's hard to say who is who. But from the day I followed you to now, if I don't have you, I can't continue to be an athlete..." Chen Jianhai feels that the master today Extraordinarily emotional, "When I couldn't keep up with the provincial team at the beginning of training. Then there were two serious injuries, especially the one with the provincial team. If it wasn't you, I probably would have retired just like Director Lin did. , after the Asian Games the year before last, it was still you... If I retire early, I guess I don’t have the perseverance and dedication of Lin’s guidance.”

"Hehe, it's really hard to say! Then don't talk about this! Tell me about the current situation..."

Restraining his expression, Meng Shaoqiang looked at Chen Jianhai seriously, and said, "Have you considered Director Lin's suggestion?"

Speaking of the topic, Chen Jianhai also became serious, "Actually, I have seriously considered it. It is nothing more than a long-term and current development direction issue, and it boils down to just one issue. As Director Lin said, if we follow the current progress , when it comes to the Olympics, I guess I can run well. But in terms of results..."

Chen Jianhai shook his head.

"As for the results, according to Director Lin's estimate, there is still hope for around 10 seconds and 10. You know, his assessment has always been very accurate!"

"10 seconds 10!" Chen Jianhai laughed, a little self-deprecating, "One year ago, Zhao Lin was already at this level, and this result has reached the competition, how much can it be? Then, I look forward to passing it again next time." Such a reincarnation, to improve the score one step further? 10 seconds 05 or 10 seconds?"

"In the World Championships, I didn't participate in the single event, and I mixed up with a relay champion. But that relay relied on his mistakes, and more importantly, it relied on the strength of Yang Zuyao and Zhao Lin..."

"Then you have thought about it?" Meng Shaoqiang rarely asked seriously and definitely, "Director Lin means that when you don't feel the limit, don't consider it based on the momentary results. The pace of raising the upper limit of the body is not enough. Stop, constantly adjust and cooperate with the technical movements in this process, and find the awareness of pace adaptation in the process of such technical adjustments. The performance may be improved from time to time, but it is definitely not as large as the improvement of a stable rhythm. "

"If you are a young athlete who has just started, I will definitely not ask your opinion. This seems to be a long-term way of training. But now that you have achieved certain results, we have to think more about it. The immediate question..."

After another period of silence, Chen Jianhai suddenly laughed, and the more he smiled, the weirder his expression became.

"Master, how do you think He Jun and Coach Chen will choose?"

"I think, I should choose the direction Director Lin said!" Meng Shaoqiang said with certainty without much consideration.

"Yes, I should choose. I also think it is..." The expression on Chen Jianhai's face became more and more determined, "Master, just after you finished your analysis, I suddenly figured it out!"

"I think I'm a little funny..."

"You said, it was so difficult for us to improve by 0.01. The record of 10 seconds was there. I worked hard for several years. It was not until last year that I really had the confidence to make an impact."

"Now, according to what Director Lin said, I think that in one or two years, no matter how hard you try to sharpen your consciousness, it's not for the purpose of short-term improvement. But it's not that you can't make 0.01 progress, right?"

Meng Shaoqiang understood what Chen Jianhai meant, and laughed at himself.This is indeed the case. It took more than two years for Chen Jianhai to run about 10 seconds, and they recorded the impact time to the whole country.Even if the obsession with the impact in my heart has almost been dissipated, and the desire to go further is not so strong, but the hard work is not without it.

It's just that when I feel that my efforts have reached my goal, the situation suddenly changes, and the previous efforts seem to be meaningless, and the national record is being improved step by step.

The stubbornness from the bottom of their hearts prompted them to seek change, but when there was a change, they seemed to worry about gains and losses again.

"Now that it's been decided, I'll start to make plans. If you don't want to go to the competition in Europe, the two of us will plan carefully at home. Try to maintain a stable progress in all aspects. When they come back, I need Make a plan."

"Go to rest early, I'm going back!" Meng Shaoqiang got up, patted the dust that didn't exist on his body, and waved away.The pace seemed a little hasty.

Watching the master leave, Chen Jianhai let out a breath slowly, he knew that the master would stay up late again when he returned.

In fact, when I think about it, the decision was not difficult, but I was unconsciously influenced by the thoughts of previous years.I always want to be more stable and maintain a certain dominant position. As for a breakthrough, some are happy, and none are happy.Of course, there are also physical factors, after all, he has suffered two major injuries.

But the situation is different now, the dominant position is gone, he is no longer the leader, and his physical injuries have gradually improved over the past few months. He doesn't know if it is because of the nutritional meals arranged by Director Lin, or because of More sophisticated team doctor and physical therapy services.In short, he feels that everything is fine now, so what else can't let go? !

Even if you're not a leader, you can't be left behind, right? !Chen Jianhai silently strengthened his determination.

This night, in the hotel, several athletes of the national team and his head coach were almost facing the same problem.Decisions may vary.But one thing is clear to everyone, because of these decisions, it is inevitable that their paths will take a turn from this moment on.Whether it is good or bad, it is not clear, and only the future can prove it!

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"Our reporter is reporting from the front of Levin, France. In the just-concluded International Indoor Athletics Invitational Competition in Levin, the Huaxia Athletics team ended perfectly with two golds, two silvers and two bronzes. After winning the 200-meter championship in the World Championships Since then, Yang Zuyao has made great achievements again... Liu Xiang, the runner-up in the 110-meter hurdles of the World Championships, won the championship in the 60-meter hurdles... In the men's 60-meter competition, Chinese players Shen Huan and Shen Bao won the second and third places, and the Chinese [-]-meter sprinter Zhao Lin Won the fourth place in the project, and the champion was American player Grimes...

Feng Yong, head coach of the National Athletics Team, said that results are not important!This is just a warm-up before the big competition, with competition as a substitute for training, to lay a solid foundation, so that Chinese track and field athletes can find and solve more problems through competition with world masters, in order to further improve their competitive level...

The next stop, the upcoming World Indoor Athletics Championships in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is the highest level of current indoor competitions.The delegation of 12 top players in China will participate in the competition of 7 events...Training, competition, combination of competition and practice, fully trained from actual combat, and better prepared for the Olympics..."

A piece of CCTV sports news about the Chinese track and field team's competition in Europe spread to thousands of households in China through TV information.

Compared with last year, the current Huaxia track and field events, especially the sprint, undoubtedly have more attention.As the information is being transmitted, more people know that from March 3th to March 5th, the first official international competition of the year will be held in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.Even if the weight of this international competition is not too heavy, it is still very precious to Huaxia...

Indoor competitions have been held for 10 sessions. In fact, there are not many absolute top players in each competition. Every time, the IAAF and the event organizers are racking their brains in order to attract more top stars to participate and improve the competition. influence.The game prize money has gradually increased from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands now.But overall, the results are not optimistic.

Compared with the previous ones, the 11th World Indoor Athletics Championships to be held this time is less than half a year away from the Athens Olympic Games due to the adjustment ahead of schedule.It just provided opportunities for many countries to test their strength and warm up for the competition.It also made the participating countries and regions of this indoor competition a new high.

As in previous editions, prize money and record prize money were further increased, which also attracted some of the top athletes from many countries.Since warm-up is required and there are huge bonuses, why not do it?

Compared with the top athletes of track and field powerhouses, athletes in most countries actually do not have these options to consider official factors.Like the general world competitions, participating in the indoor world championships itself has a standard requirement.

Just like last year, the 60-meter sprint, 6 seconds, has already stopped many people.It was only because of Shen Huan brought out by Lin Mu that Huaxia achieved a breakthrough in this project.Therefore, often in each competition, some relatively weak countries only have a small number of participants.

The Huaxia Athletics team was a bit better this year, but only 11 people met the standard. In addition, Zhao Lin, who applied for a wild card because of his status as the World Championship champion, only had 12 people.

In this atmosphere where the strong considered objective choices and the weak tried their best to get in, after the Huaxia delegation ended the Levin Indoor Track and Field Invitational Competition, they streamlined their troops and streamlined their administration.Under the leadership of head coach Feng Yong, the group rushed to Hungary.

On March 3, a delegation composed of 1 athletes, two head and deputy head coaches of the track and field team, three head and deputy head coaches of the relay team, the head coaches of each athlete, and some outreach and security staff arrived in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.

Under the arrangement of the event organizer, the delegation settled in the residence not far from the competition venue.In a small training ground near the station, the athletes made final preparations before the competition.

3月5日，12名运动员将分别代表华夏参加男子4项、女子3项，共7个项目的赛事角逐。

In 2004, the first shot of Huaxia Athletics in the world arena is about to start!

(End of this chapter)