All-round Athlete

Chapter 11 Qualifications

On the train back to the provincial capital, Zhang Guan sat next to Mr. Chen and asked, "Mr. Chen, I won the championship this time, can I go to the Asian Athletics Championships?"

Old Chen thought for a while, then shook his head solemnly: "Not necessarily, it's hard to say now."

"Why? Isn't this the selection of the Asian Athletics Championships? As usual, I won the championship, so naturally I should be qualified for the Asian Athletics Championships." Zhang Guan seemed a little impatient. The task prompt in the system also required Zhang Guan to participate in an international competition. If the Asian Athletics Championships fails, this task will not be completed until the year of the monkey.

Elder Chen sighed and said, "Things are not as simple as you think. Although this competition is called the trials of the Asian Athletics Championships, it does not mean that the first place in the trials will be able to represent the country."

Zhang Guan looked at Mr. Chen in confusion, apparently not understanding what Mr. Chen meant, but Mr. Chen continued: "Although you are the champion of this selection competition, it is actually not a big deal for the center to send you to the Asian Athletics Championships." So the situation is more complicated. You can take it as the national conditions. Let alone the Asian Athletics Championships, even when it comes to the selection of the Olympic Games, athletes who meet the Olympic A standard may not be able to compete for the Olympic B standard. Let me tell you You may not be able to understand it now, and you will understand it naturally after seeing a lot in the future. Set your mind at ease, don’t be proud of breaking the national record, and train steadily after you go back. You are only seventeen years old, as long as you train well, you will not be overwhelmed. I don’t have a chance to compete.”

Although Chen Lao said very vaguely, Zhang Guan suddenly understood after a little thought.

The domestic athlete selection system is doomed to be complicated by the interests of all parties. When selecting athletes to participate in international competitions, not only internal factions, but also local interests must be considered. From a certain point of view, the local team's demands for interests are more clear. The local team has worked hard to train an athlete, and naturally needs the athlete to bring them benefits. For the benefit, they can prevent outstanding athletes from going to higher levels. On the road to the arena, some excuses can be found to suspend athletes, and even force athletes to retire early.

The local team has been digging and training excellent athletes for years, and then send them to the national team, so the national team must also give some rewards to the local area. This is not an exchange of interests, but more like a mutual dependence. It must exist for the development of sports. relying on.

This reward is not only financial compensation, but also honor.

For some weak sports, qualifying for the Olympics is an honor! is an honor that can be assigned by means.

As a latecomer, Zhang Guan will understand this kind of thing even if he doesn't need to explain it too clearly. The incident of B-standard athletes replacing A-standard athletes also happened in the later Olympic Games. In the women's weightlifting 54 kg event in the London Olympics, the national weightlifting team did not send the A-standard athlete with the highest score to participate, but sent B-standard athletes to participate. Later, this event did not even win a medal in the Olympic Games.

Weightlifting is not like table tennis, where you can send anyone to win gold, but it is undeniable that weightlifting is the strength of the national team. In the women's 54kg category, Chinese athletes have won Olympic gold medals and broken world records. The strength is not as good as before, and it also has the strength to hit medals. However, in the process of selecting athletes, they were able to resist the temptation of Olympic medals, unswervingly bowed to factional interests and local interests, and selected an athlete with a strong background and poor ability to participate in the Olympics, which fully reflected the first place in the competition. Two sportsmanship. And in the face of doubts from the media after the game, he also looked like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water.

Compared with the women's event, the track and field men's 100-meter sprint is undoubtedly a perennial "showcase", and its qualification to participate in the Olympics is more suitable as an honor, given to a certain local team, as a reward for its support of the national sports cause for many years .

Thinking of this, Zhang Guan clenched his fists unwillingly. If he had the fame of Dayao or Liu Feiren, he would never worry that the center would deprive him of his eligibility for the competition, and the center would even beg him to participate, let alone one The qualifications for the Olympics may not be kept!

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A record in the national men's 100-meter event has brought condolences to the provincial track and field team, a special commendation meeting, and the pursuit of the media. The most affordable thing is that Zhang Guan has been included in a provincial excellent talent plan. Allowances are available.

As for Zhang Guan himself, apart from the obvious improvement in his status in the team, he is still an ordinary person. Needless to say, when he walks on the street, no one will recognize him even if he leaves the training ground of the track and field team. In the era when the Internet has not completely exploded, a national record is far from enough to make an athlete a household star, let alone a long-standing weak event like the men's 100-meter sprint, which is far inferior to football, which has also been extremely weak for a long time. A kind of frequent media attention and unlimited topics.

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Field management center meeting room.

The scene of Zhang Guan surpassing Chen Jian in the final was playing on the big screen. At the end, the camera zoomed in and was fixed on the scoreboard, showing a close-up of the 10.16-second score above.

Director Yu pressed the pause button on the remote control, and said: "This is the process of yesterday's race. Everyone has seen that although Zhang Guan's reaction time at the start is very slow, his explosive power is very good and his speed is also very fast. Ten That level of speed and explosiveness at the age of seven is rare, even among black athletes in America."

After Director Yu finished speaking, he turned his gaze to a middle-aged man with a crew cut sitting in the middle. This crew-cut man, surnamed Ma, is the head coach of the national track and field team and also the assistant to the director of the center. His promotion to the deputy director in the future is also a certainty. He is the person with the highest administrative level among all the participants present.

Director Ma pointed to the screen and said, "I have sent the situation of Zhang Guan to everyone in writing before the meeting. I think everyone knows about him. The Asian Athletics Championships will be held in Athens next year. A practice match before the Olympic Games, the General Administration of Sports still pays more attention to it. According to the previous plan of our Athletic Association, the participants of the men's sprint event have already confirmed the personnel, and Zhang Guan is naturally not among the original candidates. This time Zhang Guan broke through The national record is also an emergency for us, whether to follow the original list of players or change to Zhang Guan, this is also the main topic of discussion I convened this meeting today."

After Director Ma finished speaking, he looked at an older comrade on the opposite side and said, "Old He, tell me first."

Lao He nodded, and said, "I was born in pole vaulting, and I have a little understanding of sprint events. Since Director Ma asked me to talk, I'll talk about it. This Zhang Guan is a good seed, with explosive power. He and his speed are both top-notch. As long as they can guarantee normal training, they will become big players in the future. This kid is only 17 years old this year, and he is still relatively young. From the perspective of talent echelon training, these young people with potential should be given more opportunities; But I think he has just had two months of formal training, and there is a gap in skills and experience compared to older athletes, and it would not be good if he overthrew his talent.”

After Lao He finished speaking, he sat back, Director Yu glared at him, and thought that this old fried dough stick, after talking for a long time, was equivalent to not saying anything, and it was all nonsense.

Director Ma also knew that he didn't need to expect this old man to say anything, and his original intention was to find someone to pick a head, so that others could speak freely. Lao He is an old man, and he doesn't usually take any ideas, so he is naturally a suitable candidate.

Sure enough, before Director Ma called his name again, someone took the initiative to say: "I oppose Zhang Guan's participation in this Asian Athletics Championships!"

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