just to make those dreams come true

Chapter 343 February 8

"Coach, come on!"

"Zhu Kun, come on!"

"He Jun, come on!"

In the indoor rest area of ​​the Bird's Nest Stadium, when Lin Mu, Zhu Kun, and He Jun came off the warm-up track, Yang Zuyao rushed up to greet them, and then cheered for the coach and juniors.

It was almost 9 o'clock in the evening. Yang Zuyao came here after watching the previous games in the stands of the stadium. He wanted to cheer for the coach and teammates.

There are a lot of games today, and there are also many games that attracted China's attention. In addition to Lin Mu's 400-meter final, which is the highlight, there is also the men's and women's 4*100-meter preliminaries.

The just-concluded men's 4*100m preliminaries were easy and normal, although considering his explosive performance yesterday, he needed to save up and adjust his state today and did not participate in the preliminaries.However, Zhang Meng, who replaced him in the preliminaries, performed well, basically running out of personal and cooperative levels.

The long-term tandem training of the relay team finally showed its effect at this moment. Although Zhang Meng did not cooperate with them very well, he was relatively familiar with his teammates, which allowed Zhang Meng to show his personal strength and do a simple handover It's not difficult.

Now Huaxia no longer has to rely on the athletes to perform their best to make it to the finals.Among the finalists in the [-]-meter race, Huaxia accounted for the third place. From the perspective of personal strength, the strength of Huaxia's relay players on paper is not inferior to any country.

Huaxia played normally, but the process of the entire relay preliminaries was not always normal and calm, and it could even be said to be ups and downs.

The first group surprised people at the beginning.Jamaica, also a strong team, also played normally, with 4 bats down. Because they ran more easily, they did not make any mistakes in coordination. They also advanced to tomorrow's final smoothly.

One of the most powerful countries in the world, the U.S. team is also in this group. This time they are not as strong as they used to be. Their four stick players are Rodney Martin, Padgett, Button and Tyson Gay. In terms of overall strength, there is no such thing as a strong crush on any country in the world in the past.

Therefore, from the beginning of the game, they showed extra care in terms of personal cooperation.

And precisely because of this, they played "normally" as always. With the first three bats played normally and the relay cooperation was average, they competed very anxiously with their opponents in the same group. Compared with the Jamaica team, they were even more A lot behind.

Including South Africa, including Nigeria, the United States does not have much advantage.When the third baton was handed over, they were extremely anxious. When Button, who was running the third baton, was about to enter the final handover to Tyson Gay, he quickly started the handover procedure.

Tyson Gay's starting preparations were fine, and his hands had been stretched back, but after all, their old problems appeared. Button quickly gave the stick, but the strength was a bit light.

Tyson Gay just held the baton tentatively. Before he could hold it firmly, Button let go of his hand, and the baton fell to the ground unceremoniously.

A serious mistake caused the baton to roll several meters away. When Button hopped his feet, Tyson Gay had already run several steps while maintaining his posture.

Guy stopped in despair, didn't even pick up the connecting rod, and accepted their miserable defeat with his head in his arms.

And the situation in this group during the fourth baton handover process can be called chaotic, and it is not only the United States that made mistakes.

The Nigerian team next to the United States was in a good situation, but the fourth bat also made a mistake, and this number one African team was blocked from the gate of the final!
South Africa, Poland and Brazil in the same group ended the game, and when the referee looked back, they were also found to have fouled during the process and their results were cancelled. In the end, only three teams in a group had the final valid results. In any competition It is rare in China.

In the second group with Huaxia participating, except for the British who were disqualified due to a handover foul, the other teams performed normally.

In the end, the teams that won the men's 4*100m final were China, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, and Brazil.

Without many strong teams, it seems that tomorrow's final will be a competition between a few countries, and even in the eyes of many people, it will be a direct collision between China and Jamaica.

Moreover, with the addition of Yang Zuyao, a 200m champion, Huaxia's 4*100m lineup will be a well-deserved luxury dream team at this stage.The Huaxia team has naturally become the focus of attention from all countries in the world.

We have to wait until tomorrow for the final, and everyone is more relaxed, and the main focus naturally falls on the 400-meter final.Including the 4*400m relay that will start tomorrow, these people will be the main lineup of the 4*400m relay.

Moreover, the most important thing for Yang Zuyao to come here is to see his coach. This is the coach's last individual competition.He hopes to be the witness of the coach's last individual game.

Lin Mu smiled relaxedly, patted Yang Zuyao's arm, and waved to the staff serving them.

He checked his equipment and spikes again, looked left and right at Zhu Kun and He Jun, and briefly explained a few words.

Because of the previous relay, and because there was Lin Mu, the director Lin, in this game, the other coaches were basically in the stands and did not come to the inspection area.

Therefore, taking care of the athletes naturally fell on Lin Mu, but it had no effect on Lin Mu. The 400-meter race is very hard-powered, and there are really not many things that need special attention before the race.

Moreover, Zhu Kun and He Jun are not fledgling new athletes.In fact, they all have a good mentality. They have the previous 200-meter and [-]-meter results as the bottom line, and now there is Lin Guiding, the top seed, at the front.

What they need is to relax their minds and fight hard without being influenced by others. They have long been mentally prepared to run hard.

After they warmed up, they checked each other knowingly, and then nodded to Yang Zuyao and the others.

Lin Mu waved his hand again, and led the two of them into the preparation area.

Watching the three of them leave, Yang Zuyao and others did not stay any longer, and followed them into the arena through the passage on the other side.

For the rest of the focus battle, as long as there is time, no one in the delegation wants to miss it.

At this time outside the preparation area,
In the Bird's Nest National Stadium, the radio sounded again.

After the men's 4*100m relay preliminaries, the women's 4*100m relay will begin soon.

Like the men's 4*100m race, the women's team is also composed of 16 national and regional teams with the best performance in recent years. The 16 teams are divided into two groups, and the top four in each group will advance.

At this time, the eight relay teams of the first group have appeared on the field one by one, and the athletes of each battalion are warming up and preparing for their steps.

After the game started, the Jamaican women's relay team won the first place in the first group without any suspense.

"The technology is too rough!"

In the stands, many coaches of the delegation's track and field team couldn't help shaking their heads, and Yuan Guohua even sighed a little.

Take the first place lightly, unmatched strength, but the cooperating technique is indeed poor.

Just handing over the baton and waiting for the baton to be handed over, which makes them, the coaches who are in charge of relay training cooperation, look very dazzling.

"But the individual strength is indeed very strong. The whole group is of such a level as a whole, and the strength is absolutely crushing."

Supporting the fence with his hands, Liu Ren, the coach of the national team in charge of the relay training, followed up.

The Jamaican women's 4*100m relay team in the Yanjing Olympic Games has a strong lineup, which is rare in history. Except for a silver medal in the women's 200m that fell to an American player, they won all the medals in the women's 200m sprint.

It is even better than Huaxia. If Huaxia is the dream team of the men's event, then Jamaica is the complete luxury dream team of the women's team.

Including Yu Weili and Feng Yong, they all nodded slightly.The world's strongest 4 female sprinters form a team, and their strength is absolutely superior.

"If tomorrow's final does not have a major mistake like the US men's team, the champion, the Jamaican women's team should not be able to run."

As a sprint coach and a former head coach of women's events, Yu Weili is very emotional about the current situation.

Although the relay race pays attention to baton skills, if the average individual strength is too strong, there will hardly be much suspense.

Baton handover technology can make up part of it. If every player has a gap of 0.1, 0.2 or even 0.3 seconds, it will be too difficult to make up for the gap by relay.

In fact, everyone has basically learned about some relay situations in various countries, except for a few countries in Asia and Europe that pay more attention to long-term relay running-in.In the past, those traditional world strong teams basically did not have special relay training cooperation.

This is also the main reason why the world's top teams always make strange mistakes in the usual games.Including the United States, including Jamaica, their relay team has hardly made any preparations before the game, and they have not even practiced how to hand over the baton.

They are all professional athletes, and the so-called professional athletes are completely professional. Throughout the year, there is basically no possibility of recruiting athletes together before the competition.

As one of the most powerful countries in the world, Huaxia is an unexpected existence.

Therefore, most people still have confidence in Huaxia's relay.

Of course, it's just the men's relay event.

As for women...

The first group of games ended, and the second group of players entered the field until the end. For a few minutes, the coaches who cared about the game seemed a little silent.

"Ah~"

After a long time, Yu Weili sighed.

In the second group competition, the Huaxia Women's Relay Team made an obvious mistake and ended up fifth in the group, losing the right to the final.

For the women's event, Yu Weili has spent almost his entire career as a first-line coach there. It can be said that he has a little more affection than the men's event.

However, the development of the women's sprint event has not been satisfactory in recent years.

Since the development of the men's event a few years ago, Yu Weili has put more energy into the women's event. He is almost half-forcing the women's event to learn from the experience of the men's side to implement development and changes.

Speaking of it, the results have also improved, from the technical level to the ideological concept, there has also been great progress.

But there are still many things that are lacking.

In this women's individual competition, Huaxia was completely excluded from the finals, so he was not disappointed.But in the relay race just now, he was disappointed.

Compared with other teams, the overall strength of the four Huaxia girls is not too bad.If they cooperate, the hope of entering the final is very high.But something went wrong.

Mistakes seem accidental and accidental, but how to put it, it should be said that in the final analysis it is the gap in individual strength.

Because of the gap in individual strength, the players can't be confident, so they have become as extra careful as the United States in terms of cooperation.

Without self-confidence, without any fault tolerance rate, and without a sense of normalcy, the girls were cautious, but they still made mistakes.It has to be said that it is the result of the synthesis of a series of key elements.

Occasionally, and then it seems inevitable.

Even if they make it to the finals, even if they perform super perfectly, they won't be very competitive in the end. Without a solid foundation, many things are just empty talk.

"Old Yu, don't be emotional, it will get better in the future!"

Feng Yong patted Yu Weili on the shoulder, and he could feel the feeling of his old partner.

10 years ago, when the women's event was still excellent, Yu Weili was the head coach of the women's event, and he was the deputy head coach.They have contributed a lot to the women's program.

"Yeah, it's going to be fine!"

After Yu Weili sighed for a while, he unconsciously gained some confidence when he thought of the next arrangement.

"Director Feng, Director Yu, have you decided?"

Yuan Guohua heard something, and asked directly.

Liu Ren beside him also looked at Feng Yong and Yu Weili with concern.

"It's decided!" Feng Yong looked at the two of them, smiled, and continued: "Old Yu is going to retire, and even if he is rehired, he will no longer be responsible for managing specific projects. The center has already discussed, and then Lin Mu will first Succeeding Lao Yu's position for a period of transition.

Well, the main thing is to grasp the men's and women's sprint events, including the relay.In the future, you may have to pay more attention to Yuan Yuan in the men's event. Now your system is relatively mature.Lin Mu can also focus more on women's events.In the end it was for our entire track and field team..."

The two nodded, including the other coaches who came to listen and couldn't help nodding.Lin Mu didn't get promoted, but the importance of position has been further strengthened, which seems to be what he should have meant.

However, those who cared could hear something else from Feng Yong's words.

Take over from Lao Yu first, transition?
Thinking about the current situation, and the importance and attention that Lin Mu received vaguely mentioned.

It seems that as long as the men's and women's events can have a stable development trend for a period of time, it seems that many things will come naturally.This is very enviable.

"The match directed by Lin is about to begin!"

While a few people were talking and thinking, the athletes who had finished the game had left.

After the women's 4*100m relay preliminaries, tonight's main event, the men's 400m final with Lin Mu, is about to begin.

……

At 21:15 in the evening, Bird's Nest Stadium.

Finally came to the penultimate game tonight, the game that most affected the audience and the Chinese people in front of the TV - the men's 400m final.

When the eight players participating in the men's 400-meter final appeared in the track and field field, it caused a huge noise on the scene almost instantly.

Many Chinese and foreign audiences waiting in front of the TV stood up excitedly.

In a certain position in the auditorium,

Lin Mu's parents did not gather with other athletes' relatives and friends today.

Lin's father, Lin's mother, and Lin Wenyue are just three of them, and they have lost a lot of the reservedness they usually deliberately maintain.

From the moment Lin Mu appeared on the stage, Father Lin even let go of all his scruples and stood up, waved his hands and shouted a few times vigorously.

Mother Lin's eye sockets couldn't help getting moist.

For many days, they came to watch the game live almost every day, but she never understood the game.

All she knew was that a few athletes with black or white skin were running in the field.The only thing she knew was that among the children she knew, whoever won the race would make her happy.

That was her own son, or the child her own son taught, she just felt proud.

The atmosphere at the scene was very hot. She was in such an environment. From the beginning, she felt bored again and again, but now she couldn't help being moved when it was hot.

Especially when I saw my son waving his hands in the field and cheering up, I was very moved at that moment.

"Wen Yue, you said we are so close, why don't the two sons even have time to see each other?"

Mother Lin stared at her son for a while, then turned her head and pulled Lin Wenyue. The scene was quite noisy, so she couldn't help but increase the volume and asked.

It has been many days, and she also complains a little, that is, it is only a few hundred meters away, even if the village is not a few miles away from where they live, why don't they even have time to meet each other? !

"What do you know!"

Father Lin, who yelled a few times, heard his wife's question, took a breath and sat down again, and then shouted: "There is discipline in their regiment, and the other athletes are not doing well. The second son is a coach. He Can you still take the lead in violating discipline?..."

"Yes, Auntie, disciplined."

Lin Wenyue also pulled the old lady, and explained closely: "Besides, he is also the leader, and he has to run the competition himself, so there are many things to worry about. After a few days, when it is over, he can only rest for two days. When the time comes I will definitely run across the country for a few days..."

"Well, that's the thing, this time I won a lot of that...gold medals, it should be like a few years ago, right?"

Although Lin's father didn't understand, but after thinking about the situation after the Olympic Games a few years ago, he roughly understood.

"Yes, Lin Mu has won gold medals in all the projects he is in charge of. He will definitely lead the team. There will be an interview with national leaders, and there will be a literary report. In the end, he will definitely go to Xiangjiang. And..."

Lin Wenyue pondered for a while before continuing: "Uncle, Auntie, after the closing ceremony, Lin Mu and I will accompany the two elders to play in Yanjing for two days, and then when Lin Mu is going to lead the team to report to the whole country, I will follow..."

"You are busy with your work, don't worry about us, the business is important!"

Lin Wenyue didn't finish talking, so Father Lin just spoke directly.

"Yeah, Wen Yue, you have been with us for quite a few days, and we should do things. We are so happy to be here so close to watch so many games."

Gently patted Lin Wenyue's hand, Mother Lin looked at the prospective daughter-in-law with satisfaction, and said with a smile, "The old man and I are both happy to see you all doing well..."

"We're sure to be fine!"

Lin Wenyue nodded seriously and agreed with a smile.

An unexpected encounter, an unexpected contact, an unexpected feeling.Another unexpected encounter a few years later awakens all senses.

In order to verify this feeling, she took a step without hesitation.

Moving forward together for several years seems to be normal and natural to the extreme, but everything seems to be harmonious.

There was no sweet talk, or even a confession, it just seemed to be a matter of course, and they finally came together.

Sometimes, emotion and fate are unreasonable, but they are so wonderful!

She looked at Lin Mu, who was seriously preparing for the game, and murmured in her heart.

(End of this chapter)