During dinner, the coaches and athletes rushed to the hotel's buffet restaurant one after another.

The relay team entered the National Games with the first place in the qualifying round. You should know that several players of the relay team can only be considered second-rate athletes in the sprint group, and their qualifying is also regarded as a huge upset, so many people are discussing this matter at the dining table.

"I really didn't expect that the relay team actually won the first place in the qualifying round."

"That's right, I didn't expect it. But then again, the coach Li who came back from the national team is really amazing. He can get such results with a group of athletes of average level."

"And I also heard that during the competition, our relay team had a huge advantage. We led all the way and almost crushed the second place. The coaches from the national team were extraordinary. If I had known this, I would have signed up for the relay team."

"I regret it? It's too late now! I remember that when the relay team was not established, more than a dozen athletes ran to coach Chu Weidong and clamored that they were unwilling to run the relay race. Later, when the relay team registered independently, few people were willing to register. What's the result? Now the relay team has qualified for the National Games main competition. If they want to go to the relay team, they may not want it!"

"What I said is true. What's the point? Today you ignore me and tomorrow I can't help you!"

These sounds came into Chen Tingshan's ears, making him extremely irritable. He wanted to find a place where no one was to stay, but in the entire restaurant, there seemed to be always people who were talking about the relay team, leaving Chen Tingshan nowhere to hide.

"Wu Yihao is here!" Someone suddenly said, Chen Tingshan raised his head and saw Wu Yihao walking into the restaurant with a smile.

"Xiao Wu, congratulations, I entered the National Games' main competition!" someone immediately spoke.

When Wu Yihao heard the words "National Games Main Competition", he couldn't stop laughing.

"Xiao Wu is only 18 years old this year. It's amazing to be able to enter the National Games at the age of 18. When I was 18, I was still in the youth team." Someone praised him.

Chen Tingshan's face turned red without realizing it. He was one year older than Wu Yihao, and the two of them were considered peers. Now Wu Yihao has entered the National Games main competition, but he can only stop in the qualifying round.

"I don't accept it, I'm unwilling to accept it! Why can Wu Yihao go to the National Games, but I can't! My strength is obviously stronger than Wu Yihao's." Chen Tingshan held the chopsticks in his hand tightly, and anger appeared in his eyes.

"The relay race is all based on the relay race, so Wu Yihao can participate in the National Games. If I can participate in the relay team, I can also enter the National Games main competition." Chen Tingshan took a deep breath, and at this moment he thought of Li Dai.

"By the way, go find Coach Li. With my strength, it is better than the four people in the relay team. If I go find Coach Li, he will definitely let me join the relay team!" Chen Tingshan made up his mind and planned to go find Li Dai to recommend himself.

...

That night, Chen Tingshan did not go to find Li Dai, and this day was the return time of the track and field team, so Chen Tingshan still did not find a suitable opportunity.

After returning to Qingcheng, the track and field teams were on a day off, and Li Dai directly bought a ticket and returned to Yuzhou. Chen Tingshan still couldn't see Li Dai. He waited until he came back from the holiday and the track and field team resumed normal training, and Chen Tingshan waited for the opportunity.

Chen Tingshan found out which dormitory Li Dai lived in, so he went there alone.

"Dormitory Building A, 407 on the 4th floor should be in front of it." Chen Tingshan counted the dormitory door numbers and finally found the door of 407.

Chen Tingshan tidied up his clothes and walked forward. Before he could get close to the door of 407, the door suddenly opened.

A person walked out of the room, carrying a packaging bag in his hand. It looked like there were two square boxes inside, and the icon of a certain brand of liquor was printed on the packaging bag.

Chen Tingshan looked closely and saw that this person was Chen Kun.

"Brother Chen?" Chen Tingshan looked surprised. He didn't expect Chen Kun would come out of the 407 dormitory and hold two bottles of white wine in his hand.

The next moment, Chen Tingshan suddenly realized that Chen Kun was here to find Li Dai, and he was still carrying wine, obviously planning to give gifts, but looking at the posture, Li Dai did not accept it.

"Chen Kun is here to give gifts to Li Dai!" No matter how stupid Chen Tingshan is, he knows why Chen Kun is here to give gifts to Li Dai.

"Chen Kun also wants to join the relay team!" Chen Tingshan looked at the two bottles of wine, then looked at the frustrated expression on Chen Kun's face, and then he knew that Chen Kun was decisive.

Chen Kun didn't expect to meet Chen Tingshan here, and when Chen Tingshan saw his appearance, he immediately showed a very embarrassed expression.

"Brother Chen, are you here to find Coach Li?" Chen Tingshan paused and then asked, "Is it to join the relay team?"

Chen Kun did not hide it from Chen Tingshan. He nodded and said, "Coach Li did not agree. Alas, I guessed that Coach Li would not agree. After all, before that, Coach Li had rejected many athletes, and I just wanted to try it. Xiao Chen, where are you? Are you here to find Coach Li?"

"Me? I'm just passing by!" Chen Tingshan was embarrassed to tell the truth.

"Oh, then I'll go back first, you can walk slowly." Chen Kun did not expose Chen Tingshan, and turned around and left with two bottles of wine.

Looking at Chen Kun's leaving back, Chen Tingshan felt as if he had found a five-flavor bottle in his heart.

"Chen Kun also came to find Coach Li and gave him a gift, but Coach Li did not agree to him. Will Coach Li agree to me if I come here empty-handedly?" Chen Tingshan sighed unconfidently, and finally knocked on Li Dai's door.

...

A few minutes later, Chen Tingshan walked out of the room, and while looking disappointed, there was a little bit of anger between his eyebrows and eyes.

Li Dai indeed rejected him.

Chen Tingshan felt even more that he had been insulted. Li Dai would rather choose the young Wu Yihao, rather choose the old Chen Chong, rather than choose Qian Dong and Zhang Jialiang, who were not strong enough, than choose himself.

"Damn it!" Chen Tingshan cursed inwardly, and couldn't help but resent Li Dai in his heart.

Chen Tingshan walked to the door of the dormitory building, but saw Chen Kun standing there, still holding the two bottles of wine in his hand, looking at him with a smile.

"Brother Chen..." Chen Tingshan walked forward.

"You have been rejected by Li Dai!" Chen Kun seemed to have expected this result, and he continued: "If you think about it carefully, it is no surprise. When we collectively ran to Coach Chu and said we didn't want to participate in the relay team, which left Li Dai unavailable. Now that the relay team has entered the National Games main competition, he must teach us a lesson! It's strange that we did it so well at that time!"

"At that time, we went to find Coach Chu, our coach asked us to do this!" Chen Tingshan pouted, as if he had no responsibility for him.

"Xiao Chen, if you really didn't resist joining the relay team at that time, you wouldn't have gone to Coach Chu to complain, right? After all, it was because we didn't want to give up our personal projects at that time." Chen Kun said.

"That's why Li Dai's conditions are too harsh. If you participate in the relay team, you must give up the personal event competition. Few people are willing to agree to this." Chen Tingshan shirked responsibility again.

"The conditions for giving up individual competitions are indeed a bit harsh, but now I think about it, if I had not focused all my energy on relay competition training, I would probably not have entered the National Games main competition. As a coach from the national team, Li Dai must have known this very well, so he proposed to give up his personal events and focus on practicing relay competitions from the beginning." Chen Kun said.

"Brother Chen, why are you talking to Li Dai instead?" Chen Tingshan complained: "Are you willing to give up like this? The next National Games will have to wait at least four years!"

"Of course I'm not willing to give up! Chen Keming is already 30 years old and still has a place in the National Games! And Zhang Jialiang, who is so mediocre, has not improved his grades in recent years. And I am at the peak of 24 years old. If I wait for another four years, I might have retired!" Chen Kun said, sighing helplessly: "But what can I do? It's not that I don't want to go to the relay race now, but Li Dai doesn't want us!"

"Brother Chen, I have an idea." Chen Tingshan said.

"What's the idea? Let's talk about it." Chen Kun asked immediately.

"Let's go find Coach Chu again, just like last time, call Zhu Yueyang, and call a few other people with good grades to make a fuss." Chen Tingshan continued: "Will we succeed when we went to find Coach Chu together last time? We forced Li Dai to sign up for the relay team independently. This time we unite again and force the relay team to accept us, and we will definitely succeed!"

Chen Kun sighed: "Xiao Chen, you are still too young. The reason why we were able to succeed last time was because Li Dai did not achieve results, and the team was counting on us to get results. At that time, Li Dai begged us to join the relay team and the initiative was in our hands. Now we have all been eliminated, but Li Dai achieved results and entered the National Games. This time we begged him, and the initiative was in our hands."

"Brother Chen, no matter who takes the initiative, we must try it! This track and field team is not his Li Dai's one-man show! If we don't even dare to try, there will definitely be no chance to participate in the National Games! If we try it, there may be a glimmer of hope." Chen Tingshan continued to persuade.

Chen Kun frowned and thought for a while, and the sentence "There is still a glimmer of vitality when you try it" really touched Chen Kun.

"That's right. If you don't participate in this session, I won't have any chance after four years. Even if you take risks, you have to fight once!" Chen Kun nodded and continued, "Let's go and find Zhu Yueyang and discuss together!"

...

Chu Weidong is a little busy today.

More than 20 athletes in the entire track and field team qualified for the National Games, and the next training for these more than 20 athletes has become the top priority of the track and field team's next work.

Now, the training plans of these more than 20 athletes have been reported to Chu Weidong. Chu Weidong has to approve them one by one to see if there is anything unreasonable or that needs improvement.

Chu Weidong is also a businessman. Although he cannot be said to be very proficient in training in various track and field events, he is quite familiar with it. Moreover, as a coach of a provincial team, Chu Weidong is more knowledgeable than an ordinary coach.

I saw him holding a red pen and in just a few minutes he marked more than a dozen question marks on a training plan.

"This training plan is not good. I have to gather the coaching staff to have a meeting to discuss and discuss." Chu Weidong put the training plan aside, and then picked up the next training plan.

"The training plan of the relay team was written by Li Dai." When Chu Weidong saw the words "4 by 100 meters relay team", he immediately smiled.

"He has qualified for the first place in the qualifying competition and has led the second place a lot. This Li Dai is amazing. He has achieved such results with a group of average athletes. No wonder Coach Xue Li has to accept him as a closed disciple when he retires. Xue Li has been a coach in the national team for the rest of his life, and his vision is really accurate! Li Dai will not take ten years and may become the top coach in the national team."

Chu Weidong sighed while examining Li Dai's training plan with an appreciation and learning perspective.

This is the change in mentality. Judging from other people's training plans, Chu Weidong is always trying to find faults, while looking at Li Dai's training plans, it is different. Chu Weidong is like a painter to see a high-level art exhibition, and his mind is full of ideas of learning from his strengths and weaknesses.

Just as he was thinking, the phone ringing rang, and Chu Weidong immediately answered it.

"Hey, it's me, is there anything wrong? I'm here again? I didn't want to join the relay team last time, but why did they want to join the relay team again? Li Dai doesn't want it? I deserve it! Okay, I know, arrange it in the conference room first, I'll go there later."

Chu Weidong put down the phone and his face turned gloomy.

"These guys come if you want to come. Do I think this is a convenience store in Chu Weidong?"

...

In the conference room, Chu Weidong did not give Chen Tingshan and others a good look this time.

"Three months ago, here, in this conference room." Chu Weidong tapped the table with his finger and continued: "You said you don't want to participate in the relay team and don't want to run the relay competition. Now you are talking about going to the relay team! What do you want to do?"

Chen Tingshan was about to explain, but Chu Weidong did not give them a chance to speak. He continued: "Our relay team, in the National Games qualifiers not long ago, qualifying with the first place, I am very satisfied. I think it is very important for a team that can win the first place, maintaining the integrity of the lineup, so I can answer your request now, that the relay team's lineup will not change."

"But my speed is faster!" Chen Tingshan said hurriedly.

"I just said that we must maintain the integrity of the lineup." Chu Weidong glared at Chen Tingshan and continued: "Whether you are faster or slower, it is impossible for the team to break up a team that won the first place!"

"Okay, the time is almost over. I'll have a meeting next. Let's talk about it here today." Chu Weidong looked at his watch, got up, turned around and left, and left a group of athletes in the conference room.
Chapter completed!