Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 107 Problems with the relay team
  8 month 11 day.

On the fourth day of preparations for the Chinese track and field youth team in Yanjing, Li Yong officially withdrew from the men's 4×100-meter relay team due to injury.

In fact, in the first three days, Li Yong's injuries made it difficult to complete training with his teammates.

But there is only one chance to be selected for the national team. Who doesn’t want to work hard and get a chance to stand out?
  In the early morning of August 8, Li Yong got into a taxi with the support of his coach and embarked on the journey back to Hubei.

Because of the closed training, Wen Hao and others could not send him to the airport, so they could only say a simple goodbye downstairs in the hotel.

After bidding farewell to Li Yong, everyone in the relay team was still at the training ground of the General Administration of Sports, conducting preparation training as usual.

On the way to the Training General Administration by bus, you can see that the streets of Chaoyang District are full of promotional advertisements for the World Youth Championship, among which Wen Hao has a very high appearance rate.

This is reasonable. After all, among so many Chinese track and field athletes, he is the only one who has national records, Asian records, and world youth records. He is the favorite to win the men's 100-meter and 200-meter events.

The commercial value of track and field sports has always been far lower than that of ball sports, but when an athlete begins to be gradually bound to national honor or even "racial limits", then his influence will far exceed this The sport itself.

Just like Liu Xiang in the 110-meter hurdles.

Alan Johnson, who has greater achievements and honors, has an Olympic gold medal and three World Championship gold medals, but his influence in the United States is far less than Liu Xiang's influence in China.

Without enough influence, there will naturally be insufficient commercial value.

The emergence of Wen Hao was like a shot in the arm for Chinese sprinters and even Asian sprinters, and the blood began to flow.

In the past few days, reports on him have sprung up from major TV stations, newspapers, and Internet portals, and netizens are also discussing him enthusiastically in forums, post bars and other online social gathering areas.

In addition to predicting what kind of results and honors Wenhao will achieve in the World Youth Championship, several of the most discussed topics
  What type of girls does #文豪 like? #
  #bigreveal! Wen Hao has been dating the goddess of Beijing University of Science and Technology for more than half a year! #
  When will #文豪 release a new song? #
  When will #文豪 accept the endorsement? #
  As his popularity grew, some information about Wen Hao was finally dug out.

Among them, someone who claimed to be a student from Beijing University of Science and Technology broke the news in the post bar, saying that Wen Hao had actually dated Zhang Jielin, a graduate of the Department of Economics and Management, for a long time, and compiled some gossip circulating in the school.

For example, on a certain day in a certain month, a suitor of Zhang Sisterlin saw his goddess on a bicycle at Beidamen. The boy riding the bicycle was very handsome and wore the uniform of Tsinghua University High School.

For example, on a certain day in a certain month, someone saw the goddess of the University of Peking University of Science and Technology eating at the same table with a handsome boy at the Xiangronghe Restaurant opposite the Dongdaemun Gate. They behaved intimately and seemed to be in love.

There is a lot of written information collected from the mouths of Beida students, but in the end there is no picture and no truth.

The only photo that has been circulated of the two of them in the same frame, in addition to Wen Hao and Zhang Sisterlin, there are also her roommates Tan Siqi, Tang Jingyi and Lin Yuanfang. It is a scene of making hot pot at Wen Hao's house.

Although I don’t know how it spread, it can only be regarded as a clue, not a solid fact.

However, because of this, Zhang Jielin, who was already well-known in the modeling circle, suddenly became popular again.

While talking on the phone last night, Zhang Sisterlin also mentioned to Wen Hao that a reporter went to interview her during the day and asked whether the relationship between her and Wen Hao was true.

Of course, Zhang Sisterlin did not make any response. Whether it is her own career or Wen Hao's career, they are still in a stage of rapid growth. The most important thing to avoid at this time is to expose the true relationship between the couple.

It doesn't matter to her. After all, there are plenty of industries for her to develop even if she doesn't work as a model. But Wen Hao is still young and has attracted so many fans with his outstanding ability and appearance. He can't just throw it away, right?

Naturally, Wen Hao didn't know Zhang Sisterlin's thoughts.

If he really knew, he would probably slap himself suddenly when he was lying in bed preparing to sleep at night.

Damn me!
  In addition to the scandalous relationship that is unclear to the outside world, fans are also very concerned about when Wenhao will release new songs and when he will accept endorsements.

At first, everyone thought that Wenhao would accept several commercial endorsements and run commercial activities like Liu Xiang did after he returned to China after breaking the world record.

As a result, as soon as he returned to China, he participated in the National Championships. After the National Championships, he went to Yanjing almost non-stop for closed training before the World Youth Championship.

Regarding this issue, EMI Records also asked Wen Hao’s manager Anne to explain:
  "In fact, since "Chasing Dreams" became a hit, many brands have come to negotiate, hoping to let Wen Hao endorse. However, EMI Records adheres to the attitude of cooperating with the national track and field team, and at the same time respects Wen Hao's priority as athletes. Regarding the idea of ​​identity, we are not ready to accept commercial endorsement requests from various brands yet.”

"I hope everyone will pay more attention to Wen Hao on the court. If you really like him and support him, then please buy the genuine records and genuine peripherals of "Chasing Dreams"."

At the end of the explanation, Annie also clearly mentioned that Wenhao will start a certain business schedule after finishing the World Youth Championship, including record signings and fan meetings. At the same time, a new single is already in preparation. Fans and fans Please look forward to it.

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Closed training is not always smooth sailing.

After a few days of working together, the relationship between the teammates has improved a lot, but in training, some unsatisfactory things will inevitably happen.

The root of this dissatisfaction is not actually the players, but the coach behind them.

"Why do you look so sad when you go to training these days?"

After a periodic relay training, when he saw Wen Hao squatting alone and resting on the sidelines unhappy, Li Qing also put down his work and came to express his concern. “It’s nothing, it’s just that after working together in the past few days, I found that there are quite a few problems within the relay team.”

Wen Hao truthfully expressed his thoughts. It was not easy for him to tell his teammates and their coach about this kind of thing, but there was no need to keep it in his heart in front of Li Qing.

Upon hearing this, Li Qing was delighted: "Hey, you can still find problems for the national team. Why don't you tell me about it?"

Li Qing was happy, but Wen Hao couldn't.

"You've been busy looking for problems for Brother Xiang these past few days. You have nothing to do with the relay team, so why are you so embarrassed to have fun here?"

Li Qing shook his head: "I am a scientific research coach. In addition to supervising the training of your three brothers, I also take time to do mechanical analysis and prepare papers. How can I manage the relay team?"

"Besides, I have no experience coaching a relay team. If you ask me to take care of it, what if it worsens your performance?"

Wen Hao was silent.

Li Qing does have his reasons for not participating in the specific training of the relay team, which is understandable.

But at the moment, Wen Hao does feel that there are problems in the relay team. This problem was also faced by the Chinese relay team in previous lives.

Whether it is the national team or the national youth team, the situation of the relay team is basically the same:

The 6 players belong to 6 coaches and supervisors. The management of the team is quite complex, and it is also difficult to coordinate the status of the players.

Such a system also greatly restricts the room for improvement of the Chinese relay team.

Take the World Series in recent years as an example:
  At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, the Neon team finished fourth in 38 seconds, but the Chinese team did not qualify.

2003年巴黎世锦赛，霓虹队39秒05获得第六名，中国队预赛39秒28排在第18名。

In the 2004 Athens Olympics, the Neon team finished fourth in 38 seconds, but the Chinese team failed to qualify.

At the 2005 Helsinki World Championships, the Neon team ranked eighth in 38 seconds, and the Chinese team failed to qualify.

The neon relay team is already a regular participant in the World Series finals, but the Chinese relay team often fails to even qualify.

Is this because the personal strength of Chinese sprinters is weaker than Neon?
  If the reason is entirely attributed to the personal strength of the athletes, then the Thai team has something to say.

At the 2002 Busan Asian Games, the champion of the men's 4X100-meter relay event was neither the Neon team, whose individual players were strong, nor the Chinese team, whose overall strength was second only to Neon.

而是在100米、200米项目上都没有拿到奖牌，队员的100米平均水平在10秒35开外的泰国队！
  Relying on superb baton handover skills and team tacit understanding, the Thai relay team defeated the Chinese team, which had two of Asia's top sprinters, Cheng Haijian and Yang Yaozu, as well as two of Asia's top sprinters, Suetsugu Shingo and Asahara Nobuharu. Neon team.

The 4×100 meter relay is a team event that emphasizes cooperation. The individual strength of the players determines the upper limit of the performance, while the tacit understanding between the team members determines the lower limit of the performance.

The current problem with the Chinese relay team is not the lack of individual strength of the athletes.

This can be concluded just by looking at the results of the National Championships between China and Japan.

With Wen Hao's presence, whether it is the youth team or the national team, the overall strength of the Chinese relay team will never be weaker than the Neon Relay team.

However, Wen Hao feels that if he continues to follow the current system, although he will be able to do it without fear of the end of the Doha Asian Games at the end of the year, the Chinese relay team will still lose to the Neon Relay team with a high probability.

Just as the national track and field team needs a head coach and person in charge like Feng Shuyong, team events like the relay team should also have a specific person in charge.

In the previous life, this problem of the Chinese relay team was not solved until 2012:

In 2012, Yuan Guoqiang, the sprint coach of the Guangdong Track and Field Team, was officially appointed as the head coach of the Chinese men's 4×100 meter relay team. With the cooperation of assistant coach Li Qing, he carefully cultivated the entire team.

Compared with Li Qing, Yuan Guoqiang's theoretical knowledge is weaker, but he has rich coaching experience and seniority, and can transcend geographical limitations to discover and select outstanding talents for the national team.

After Yuan Guoqiang took office, he implemented the "relay-driven individual events" strategy formulated by the Track and Field Management Center, helping the Chinese relay team gradually break out of the previous framework and achieve a series of fruitful results.

After thinking clearly about the problems existing in the relay team, Wen Hao communicated and discussed with Li Qing.

Li Qing's answer was: "The problems you mentioned do need to be solved, but the system and framework of the relay team cannot be changed just by changing it."

Wen Hao does not believe in evil. Since he has been reborn and has chosen to stick to the path of sprinting, he cannot ignore things that are closely related to him.

"Whether it can be changed or not, you have to try it before you know. I will go to Director Feng now and tell the problem!"

Looking at Wen Hao's groan as he walked away quickly, Li Qing shook his head and sighed.

Silly boy, how can things within the system be changed so easily?
  (End of this chapter)