Run Out of My Life

    "Coach Li, long time no see!" Yu Liwei reached out to Li Zhizhong with a smile on his face.

    "Yu Liwei?"

    In the rest area where he watched the game in Hedao City, Li Zhizhong called out the other person's name in surprise after seeing the person who came to greet him suddenly. He immediately greeted him, shook hands, and said with a smile, "It's been a long time since I saw you. It's been six or seven years. Remember last time I was in the national high-level coaches training class."

     "That's right, I still remember your report on 'Physical Training Program for Youth Athletes' by Coach Li at that time." Yu Liwei said with a hearty smile.

    "Coach Yu, you hold me too high." Li Zhizhong shook his head again and again, and then asked, "I heard that you are now transferred to the national track and field team?"

    "What happened last year, now I am the deputy head coach of the track and field team, focusing on the youth training."

    But even so, when Li Zhizhong heard that the other party had become the deputy head coach of the national track and field team, a bit of bitterness flashed on his face.

    The two had a brief encounter in the past. At that time, everyone almost returned from overseas studies and wanted to show their ambitions. After the reform, after the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984, China realized the gap with the world-class level, coupled with the large-scale study abroad wave in those years, a group of people in the sports system really went abroad to learn a lot. There have been good and bad, and massive scandals have erupted, but there are real lessons learned.

    It's just a personal accident. After Li Zhizhong came back, he ran into a wall again and again, and he hardly had much opportunity to use what he had learned. After several turns, he was finally seconded to the Hedao City Badminton Team in the name of a physical coach and stayed for many years. Although there were some achievements during the period, it still deviated from the original intention of track and field at the beginning. It was not until this time that Shen Guoying recommended Su Zu to the Hedao City team that he really tried to take a step.

    Yu Liwei's journey is almost smooth, starting from the assistant track and field coach of the People's Liberation Army, step by step, and now he has reached the position of deputy head coach of the national track and field team.

    "It's not easy, Yu Liwei, you can get to where you are today. It's not like us, you've wasted all these years." Li Zhizhong sighed and cleared his mind.

    "Coach Li, you are too modest. You have cultivated excellent talents."

    Lao Li had been hanging out in the sports system for so long, he immediately understood the meaning of the other party's words, he typed a haha, he didn't pick up the words for a while, and turned to look behind Yu Liwei, "I don't know. Who is this?"

    "Let me introduce. One of the leaders of the competition organizing committee, the director of the anniversary of Fengzhou, is also the leader of our Athletics Association." Yu Liwei introduced.

    "I said you Lao Yu, I'm a leader, I'll just run errands." Zhoujifeng gestured to Yu Liwei, turned his head to Li Zhizhong and said politely, "Coach Li, who has been famous for a long time. Ah, I have always heard that you have unique insights in physical strength training, and you are the master of this field in China."

    "Director Zhou, hello." Li Zhizhong smiled lightly, and reached out and shook his hand with Juvenile Feng.

     "Deputy, deputy, Coach Li, please don't be polite, just call me Lao Zhou."

    Several people gossip and chat again.

    Yu Liwei looked at Li Zhizhong and Gu Zuoyan. He didn't answer the question several times, and simply went straight to the topic, "Coach Li, you may have guessed the purpose of my visit this time. You Hedao City Track and Field Team. The sprinter, Su Zu, I am very optimistic about him personally and would like to invite him to the national team for further training."

    Li Zhizhong looked a little complicated. On the one hand, he wanted the athletes he trained to be favored by the national team. On the other hand, he did not want to let Su Zu enter the national team so early.

    There has always been such a contradiction between the national team and the local team. The national team wants to attract local talents to the national team for training, and the local team often poach people for the national team. The move was quite repulsive. After finally cultivating an athlete, he also expected to get some more honors for the place, but he was crossed by the national team.

      To be able to go to the international competition arena, this kind of attraction is not something that a local team can give.

    However, in this case, the results achieved by the athletes again are separated from the local teams, and the coaches in the original places will not enjoy much benefit. But sometimes there is no way, this is a higher-level unit, and the local team itself has the obligation to train talents for the country.

    Li Zhizhong has been ups and downs for many years, and some things have actually been overlooked, but it was hard to cultivate an excellent athlete, and suddenly someone came to grab it. It is impossible to say that it is not awkward.

      I'm afraid I have to sum it up, and I also have to report to the leaders of the city's competition management center."

    "Of course." Yu Liwei nodded, and he didn't even think about sending someone over in a sentence. Which team is an athlete who can produce results is not a treasure. After a little bit of explanation, he explained, "Coach Li, it's not that I can't trust the training level of the local teams, it's mainly the youth training project I'm focusing on now. The Athletics Association has opened a new high-level reserve talent base in the southwest, which is urgently needed in this regard. I am also delighted to see a high-level talent pool, and I hope your local team comrades don’t scold me behind my back.”

    Speaking of the latter, Yu Liwei also laughed.

    "If this is the case, it is also a recognition of our work that athletes can enter the national team." Li Zhizhong answered very seriously.

    While several people were talking, Su Zu returned to the rest area to watch the match after finishing the men's 100m final.

    As soon as he came over, he saw Li Zhizhong beckoning to him, "Su Zu, come here and introduce these two guests to you."

    Li Zhizhong opened a bottle of water for Su Zu, and he introduced, "This is the deputy head coach of the national track and field team, Yu Liwei, and this is the leader of the track and field, Director Zhou."

    "Coach Yu, Director Zhou." Su Zu greeted the two of them.

    "Su Zu, um, let's call you Xiao Su, you ran very well." Yu Liwei looked up and down with a bit of scrutiny, but his face was smiling like a spring breeze.

    "In this way, Coach Li, Zhou and I still have something to do, so let's take a step first and come back to visit."

    Seeing Su Zu appearing, Yu Liwei got up and said goodbye. There are some things that can be said to the coaches and athletes, but it is not good to speak directly in front of the two of them.

    We are also coaches, and sometimes we still have to respect each other.

    Just after Yu Liwei and Juvenile Feng left, Su Zu took a sip of water to moisten his dry throat, and saw Li Zhizhong stunned.

    "Coach, it's not easy, I didn't expect you to know people from the national track and field team."

    Su Zu didn't think that the visit of the two was related to him. He just thought that Li Zhizhong had a relationship network, and sighed secretly, Lao Li's relationship in the sports system is not easy.

    "You wipe off the sweat first and get dressed." Li Zhizhong came back to his senses, and threw another towel for Su Zu, waiting for Su Zu to wipe off the sweat indiscriminately, then changed to a dry one Short sleeves, he said solemnly: "Did you hear the name of the person who came just now? The deputy head coach of the national track and field team, they didn't come for me, they came to invite you to the national team."

    Li Zhizhong didn't intend to hide or shirk this invitation message. Besides, Su Zu had already met people just now, so he just said it directly, lest the athletes have any thoughts in the future.

    "En." Zu Zu nodded, and after listening to the second half of the sentence, he was suddenly stunned.

    "Invite me to the national team? So soon!"

    Su Zu never dared to think about the temptation to join the national team and become an athlete with a national brand name? !

    But the news came too suddenly!

    Su Zu also thought that he would definitely enter the national team one day, but he never expected to be invited so soon. According to the information he has learned before, athletes generally do not emerge in the domestic arena, and only by winning various awards, championships, national games and the like can they attract the attention of the national team. Send out invitations to training camps, observe further, and finally measure the level of athletes and whether they can stay in the national team.

    Where did you expect to send an invitation to join the team so soon?

    How difficult it is to enter the national team, I have heard this topic many times.

    Athletes who can be selected are the best among the best, with extraordinary talent, and they are the best among hundreds of millions of people in China. How many athletes have practiced for a lifetime is nothing more than this.

    But this matter suddenly fell to him, Su Zu was still a little surprised.

    "Why, don't believe it?" Li Zhizhong looked at Su Zu's reaction, but laughed, "Do you still consider yourself an ordinary athlete? Oh, the sub-station of the National Athletics Grand Prix The champion is already the group of people with the highest level of sprinting in China."

    It's not that Su Zu's reaction is slow, but that he doesn't know enough about the current level of domestic 100-meter sprinters. At this point in time, it is far from five or six years or ten years later.

    At this time, there are very few people in China who can run 10.25 seconds at the international level. Almost no one even got the Olympic B standard. In the 2,000-year-old Sydney Olympics, no one has qualified for the men's short track event.

    His age and his performance are enough to attract attention.