"Wayne, you can do it. I went to Singapore and hooked up with an Orosi girl. Don't tell me, she's pretty good-looking!"

On the airport expressway from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport to Ersha Island, Su Bingtian held the passenger's backrest and smiled at Wei En in the back seat.

On September 1, Wai En returned to China after completing her journey to the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.

Although the Guangzhou Asian Games won't start until mid-November, he came back early in order to conduct relay training early.

There was nothing to stay in if he didn't come back. After the game on the 21st, he asked for Kulkina's contact information, but in the final analysis, they were just ordinary friends.

Not to mention that there is a coach Jiabyan watching, can he still kidnap Kulkina back to the country?

Kulkina said that she will go to college after returning to China, but she will still stick to her favorite high jump event. With her current level, if she works hard next year, she will be able to participate in competitions like the IAAF Challenge.

Hope to have the opportunity to see Wei En again then.

There was no strange agreement or any childish gift given.

Although the shocking leap that night was still deeply etched in his heart the next day, he knew how naive the idea that emerged in his mind was.

How difficult is transnational love? Through the interpretations of actors in some TV dramas and the stories of people who came here on forums, we still have a preliminary understanding.

Ordinary people are still like this. Athletes like them who are destined to compete in track and field for their country and nation will only find it more difficult, as difficult as the sky.

Not to mention anything else, just four or five months of winter training is enough tormenting people. Even if the winter training is over and they start participating in competitions, how many chances are there for them to meet?

Sensing that something was not right about Wei En's mood, Su Bingtian, who originally just wanted to liven up the atmosphere, immediately understood something. Who didn't have a crush on a girl when they were young?

Su Bingtian also had a crush on a girl. At that time, he was still in junior high school and had not yet entered the Zhongshan Sports School for training.

Now that girl has become his girlfriend, but there are really not many times throughout the year that we can meet each other, and every time we meet is precious.

Not to mention that Wei En fell in love with a foreign girl far away, and that girl, like him, was also an extremely talented athlete.

Emotions are really... fucked up!

In the car driving to Ersha Island, Liang Jiahong drove without saying a word. Su Bingtian was thinking about how to comfort the little brother behind him. Wei En tilted his head and looked out of the car window, his thoughts already drifting to the ends of the world.

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In the next few days, Zhang Peimeng of the Yanjing team, Lu Bin of the Jiangsu team, and Zheng Dongsheng of the Hubei team came to Ersha Island in Guangzhou.

Lao Yi is still competing in the Continental Cup in Croatia. They are conducting their own training while paying attention to the progress of the IAAF Croatia Continental Cup.

The predecessor of the IAAF Continental Cup was the Athletics World Cup. It was originally intended to be a world competition modeled on the Football World Cup. However, the one-shot World Cup was really unable to compete with the four-shot World Championships at that time, let alone the Olympic Games. .

In 2006, Liu Xiang participated in the last IAAF World Cup. Later, the event was changed to the Continental Cup. Each continent and region sent two athletes for each event, and a points system was used to determine the final continent and regional rankings.

This situation has resulted in the American team always ranking first with a huge points advantage.

Why? Because they have the United States and Jamaica.

The European team, the Asian and Pacific team, and the African team all send top players from their respective regions, while the United States and Jamaica only need to send first-class players, which is enough.

Seniors like Usain Bolt and Tyson Gayin have no need to participate in such events. Wouldn't it be nice to go to the Diamond League to get bonuses?

On September 4, Lao Yi ran a time of 10.154 seconds in the 100-meter final of the Continental Cup. He beat England's Mark Lewis Francis by 3 thousandths of a second in the final and won the third place in the Continental Cup.

The champion is a handsome white French guy. In the future, he will be nicknamed "Giraffe" in China because of his super line-pressing skills - Christophe Lemaitre.

The runner-up is also an old face, Daniel Bailey of Trinidad and Tobago. The first and second place times were 10.06 and 10.10 respectively.

In addition to the men's 100-meter event, Li Jinzhe also performed well in the long jump. Although he did not set a new PB, he still won the third place with a score of 8.05 meters.

The IAAF Continental Cup event lasted for two days. Originally, Lao Yi could return on September 6, but Chen Wenzhong felt that his competitive form was on the rise, and it would be a pity not to practice during the event in Europe.

So Chen Wenzhong signed up Lao Yi for a "dé track and field competition" held in Annecy, a city in western France.

Regarding this matter, Wei En observed the reactions of the coaches in charge of the members of the national men's relay team and found that they did not care, and even took it for granted.

Only then did Wei En realize that although everyone was a member of the relay team, it was not the time for Yuan Guoqiang to take charge of the relay team yet.

Before 2012, during relay team training, athletes were still coached by their own head coaches.

Su Bingtian and Liang Jiahong are managed by Yuan Guoqiang, Zhang Peimeng is managed by Li Qing, Lu Bin and Zheng Dongsheng also have their own coaches. When Chen Wenzhong comes back, the entire relay team will have five athlete coaches.

A relay team has four main players and two substitutes, but a total of five coaches from different provinces and cities, which will inevitably lead to various problems during relay training.

If it is like this year, the Asian Games will be held in November, and when the training begins in September, the athletes will basically have participated in all the games that they can participate in, then naturally there will not be too many gaps in communication between coaches.

But if it happens to coincide with the National Games year like in earlier years, it would be hard to say.

At that time, everyone knew that even if you went to foreign competitions, you wouldn't be able to get any rankings. There would be rewards for meeting the targets set by the General Administration of Sports, and there would be no penalties for failing to meet them.

But the National Games is different. The Provincial Sports Bureau will give you many rewards if you complete the task. If you fail to complete the task, the funds for those sports projects that have not completed the target next year are likely to be cut.

Under such circumstances, many coaches have asked their athletes to preserve their strength. When it comes to international and intercontinental competitions, they only seek to have no faults, not meritorious deeds, and then try harder in the National Games.

So fortunately there is no National Games this year, and the Asian Games will be held in November. Even though the relay team has a large number of people, team management is complicated, and it is difficult to coordinate the status of the team members, the training is still progressing steadily.

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This is Wei En's first relay training since the district youth championship in 2009, and the span is also huge. Last year, his teammates were still high school students at the municipal level, and this year they directly joined the national team!

Due to his lack of experience, although he trained very actively, his progress in mastering relay skills was the slowest. Zheng Dongsheng, who was in the same year as him, was much better than him.

During the training process, apart from Wei En, Zheng Dongsheng was the most motivated. This is easy to understand. Zheng Dongsheng's personal ability is relatively weak, and his coaching level is not too high. He always entered the national team with a certain attitude.

Put a learning mentality into training.

You can often see Zheng Dongsheng catching his big brothers on the track and asking him questions, and his coach often asks Yuan Guoqiang, Li Qing and others for advice.

Compared to Wei En, who is self-disciplined, and Zheng Dongsheng, who is eager to improve, Lu Bin, the National Games champion at the next level, is the least motivated.

In just one year, he fell from the domestic king to the first-class level. He was able to enter the national team only because he had the National Games championship title.

This gap is huge. It's not that he has regressed a lot, but that his opponents have made too much progress.

Not to mention Wei En, Lao Yi, Zhang Peimeng, and Su Bingtian, even Liang Jiahong and Zheng Dongsheng slightly suppressed him. In this situation, whose mentality will not be affected?

During the training camp, Wei En devoted most of his energy to relay training, and only maintained the most basic training for the 100 meters and long jump.

With his ability and the strength of the opponents he will encounter in the Asian Games, even if he does not improve during this period, he will still be able to cope with it.

But if he loses the men's 4x100m relay gold medal that originally belongs to China on the field because the relay training is just coping, then he will definitely feel extremely guilty.

On September 14, Lao Yi and Chen Wenzhong finally returned to China. After a short rest for a day, they also joined the training camp.

With Chen Wenzhong, a coach who knew him very well, Wei En's relay training progress improved a lot, and he soon caught up with Zheng Dongsheng in terms of relay technical proficiency.

With the addition of Lao Yi, under the instructions of Feng Shuyong and Yu Weili, the main candidates for the men's 4x100m relay team were also decided: Wei En, Lao Yi, Su Bingtian, and Zhang Peimeng.

Although the main candidates have been decided, which team they will be assigned to is a question worthy of discussion.

However, whether it is the head coaches of the national track and field team such as Feng Shuyong and Yu Weili, or the provincial team coaches such as Yuan Guoqiang and Li Qing, they all believe that Wei En is the most suitable candidate for the fourth team.

Whether considering Wei En's own strength or the public's expectations, the fourth leg position cannot fall into the hands of anyone else. This is the consensus of the athletes and coaches in the relay team.

As for the other three sticks, everyone has different ideas.

The first is Lu Bin and Zheng Dongsheng as substitutes. Lu Bin is a typical promising player, so he is assigned to the first substitute. Zheng Dongsheng seems to be more balanced, so he will be arranged according to the "situation" of the main players.

The main force is injured and out of shape. Zheng Dongsheng may have a chance to step up, but even he feels uncertain about this situation. Fortunately, Zheng Dongsheng has a good understanding of himself. Even if he cannot compete, he can study on the national relay team for two months.

That is also earned.

Due to Yuan Guoqiang's arrangement, Liang Jiahong did not appear on the relay team's roster. Although he trained with the relay team, his main focus was the 200 meters.

As for the three main and secondary positions, the coaches discussed it for a week but failed to come up with a satisfactory result. Finally, Wei En couldn't stand it anymore and gave a well-founded proposal:

First bat: Su Bingtian;

Second baton: Lao Yi;

The third baton: Zhang Peimeng.

After Wei En's arguments based on the data, the coaches finally accepted the plan. As a result, the training camp for the Guangzhou Asian Games men's 4x100-meter relay team was finally fully on track.
Chapter completed!