The legend of short track speed skating

Chapter 165 ISU Additions
At the short track speed skating meeting at the BJ Ice Training Center, Wang Meng and other coaches who accompanied the team to the summer training in the United States had just returned to the base by bus when they were called by Li Yan to hold an emergency meeting.Team leader Zhou Yang and vice-captain Wu Dajing also came together.

"The latest news, ISU announced that starting from this season, the 2000-meter mixed relay will be added to the short-track speed skating competition. The International Olympic Committee announced at almost the same time that the 2000-meter mixed relay event will be officially selected as an official event for the 2022 BJ Winter Olympics !"

As soon as the meeting started, Li Yan dropped a blockbuster directly.

Everyone knows exactly what this means!
Adding one event to short track speed skating in the Winter Olympics will also add a gold point!Especially for new projects that debuted for the first time, the attention will definitely be higher than other projects.

As the backbone of the BJ Winter Olympics gold medal, the pressure on the shoulders of the short track speed skating team will only increase!

Li Yan looked around the crowd and continued: "The specific rules haven't been released yet. According to past experience, the mixed relay should be reported as 6 to 4. There will be two men and two women on the field, and each male and female contestant will have a substitute."

"The candidates for the Olympics are not in a hurry. Everyone needs to confirm the candidates for the mixed relay of this season's World Cup. After all, the first stop in Calgary will start in November. If you have a suitable candidate, you can talk about it. It is best Olympic-age athletes, after all, everything must serve the Winter Olympics at their doorstep four years later."

That being said, there are only a few people who can really be chosen.

Among the female players, Zhou Yang and Fan Kexin are undisputed.Among the male players, Wu Dajing, Han Tianyu and Li Yuang are well-deserved.

So the only thing that needs to be selected is a substitute female player.

When everyone started to discuss the candidates, only Wang Meng remained silent. At present, the only players under her are Li Yuang and Li Wenwu.One of these two people is definitely selected, and the other is definitely not selected.She didn't have to fight for it, she was thinking about another thing.

"Coach Wang Meng, do you have anything to say?" Seeing that Wang Meng didn't participate in the discussion, Li Yan asked directly, seeing that Wang Meng was just thinking about something.

"Physical strength! Especially the World Championships and the Olympics!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was aware of the problem.According to the short track speed skating World Cup competition system, each player can participate in a maximum of two individual events.But in the Olympics, you can participate in all individual events. Under intensive competitions, the distribution of athletes' physical strength will inevitably be affected.

Take Li Yuang as an example. In the World Cup, he registered for two events, and if he added the men's relay and mixed relay, it would be four events.

But if this is changed to the Olympic Games, Li Yuang will definitely register for all three individual events. From this point of view, Li Yuang will participate in five events at the same time in the Olympic Games, that is, all events.Quarter-finals, semi-finals, and finals for five events!This is a great test of his physical strength and willpower.

Wang Meng can think of physical problems, mainly because she herself was affected by physical strength and voluntarily gave up the 1500-meter event.

In the inherent impression of many people, Wang Meng is not physically strong and can only suppress other competitors in the 500 and 1000-meter events. He is not competitive in the 1500-meter event and cannot skate Zhou Yang!
But Zhou Yang once said in the program: When training, if you only compare 1500 meters, Wang Meng is faster than me!
Therefore, it is not that the cute master is not competitive in the 1500 meters, but that she voluntarily gave up the 500 meters in order to secure two gold medals in the 1000 meters and 1500 meters.In other words, the cute master knows that there is Zhou Yang in the 1500 meters, so she doesn't need to waste energy on it!
"There must be a trade-off! Group events are always greater than individual events!" Li Yan said firmly.

The meeting room suddenly fell silent!

Wang Meng didn't say it clearly, but everyone knows that the physical problem Wang Meng mentioned refers to Li Yuang!
Looking at the entire short track speed skating team, Li Yuang is the only one who is competitive in all events!Others have technical or physical shortcomings of one kind or another.

Although Li Yuang only won the second place in the all-around championship at the World Championships, but now we can see that Lin Xiaojun, the number one all-around player in South Korea, was defeated by their internal consumption... If Lin Xiaojun really sinks like this, the BJ Winter Olympics will be held four years later Yes, Li Yuang's competition pressure will be the greatest!

From this point of view, Li Yan's meaning is also very clear, Li Yuang must "choose" at the critical moment!
"The team event must be greater than the individual event. We should trust our athletes, and they will handle the relationship between the team event and the individual event well." Wang Meng said.

For Li Yan's words, she only agrees with half of them. The team event is greater than the individual event, but it does not mean that the silver medal in the team event is greater than the gold medal in the event.It is unscientific and unreasonable to force athletes to give up individual group sports!
Wang Meng believes that when it comes to the competition, Li Yuang must compete in every game!Under such circumstances, the so-called "trade-off" is naturally a false proposition.Li Yuang also has subjective "choices", the physical distribution and "choices" of the event are only related to the start time of the event!
Wang Meng also figured this out so she didn't continue the discussion with Li Yan!
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After Li Yuang finished speaking with Xu Hongzhi, he walked out of the room without waiting for his reply.

In the conversation just now, Xu Hongzhi was very calm, but from his slightly trembling body, it could be seen that he was suppressing something.

When Li Yuang finished his last sentence, he clearly felt that Xu Hongzhi's expression was showing signs of getting out of control.Li Yuang stepped out resolutely, because he knew that if it were him, he would also not want others to see him crying.

He came to the public bathroom on the second floor, turned on the faucet, and poured water on his cheeks with both hands.Wanting to calm myself down in this way, no matter how domineering, decisive, and righteous he said just now... it can't change the fact that Xu Hongzhi was injured because of him!
The memory that had been gradually forgotten was recalled again after seeing Xu Hongzhi.

After a while, Li Yuang looked at himself in the mirror and said to himself: "Li Yuang! There is only one person who can define your life's achievements, and that is yourself!"

"The coach is not good! Xu Hongzhi is not good! The system is not good either!"

Li Yuang thought a lot in an instant, and his strength improved rapidly after the system was activated for the first time.

But gradually, Li Yuang found that his original intention of contacting short track speed skating had changed. It was no longer pure love, no longer to win glory for the country, but for the system and for the mission...

Train hard by yourself, not for anyone but for yourself!Do your best on the field, not for the system but for honor!

Also four years later! In the BJ Winter Olympics, he, Li Yuang!The ice surface that I have to protect with my life is not for the mission, but for the motherland!

Be worthy of yourself, never forget your original intention, and be worthy of your youth!
Looking at his firm eyes in the mirror, Li Yuang subconsciously wanted to bump his fists with himself in the mirror.

With a sound of "Boom!", cracks began to crack from the place where the two circles intersected...

In the room, Xu Hongzhi wrapped himself in a quilt, with his body turned away from the door.He didn't want people to see his miserable appearance.He was trembling and crying bitterly in the quilt, without making a sound.

For ordinary people, giving up is the easiest thing. Once the belief is changed, the breath is relaxed, and the strength is relieved, it immediately feels more relaxed.

But for athletes, especially at the level of the national team, giving up is the hardest thing!The belief that has persisted for 20 years has collapsed, and 20 years of hard work have been devoted to it, all of which have disappeared into clouds.

20 years of hard work, an Olympic gold medal!worth it!

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　　Previously, a book friend corrected Xia Yu that men in short track speed skating at the BJ Winter Olympics can win at most 5 gold medals, and there is also a mixed relay.The mixed relay was officially announced in July 2018. Xia Yu has not forgotten it, but the timeline in the novel has not yet arrived.

　　Wu Dajing was officially the captain of the single short track speed skating team on September 2018, 9. You can check it online. The previous captain was Zhou Yang
　　
　
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