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Chapter 174 Qualifiers

The Urban Games of the People's Republic of China, a comprehensive sports event aimed at promoting the development of urban sports, discovering and cultivating outstanding sports reserve talents.

The original intention of the Urban Games is to encourage the enthusiasm of the city to run teams and promote the city to discover and cultivate more sports reserve talents for the country. However, the initial development of anything is inevitably contrary to the original intention.

For a long time, most outstanding athletes have been discovered by all parties since they were very young, and in the end they were mostly concentrated in sports organizations at the provincial level or above. Therefore, national sports competitions are generally participated in provincial units.

Now that the Urban Games have appeared, no matter how you care about the segmentation, the administrative agency has decided that athletes who can be active in the Urban Games are only athletes from various provinces and cities. It is difficult to truly reflect the original intention of "discovering" through multiple directions and multiple channels!

In 1988, 1991, and 1995, after three competitions, in order to further standardize the Urban Games, the rules were constantly being optimized. The number of events was increased, the number of participants was expanded, and the age of participating athletes was strictly limited. After a series of measures, the Urban Games gradually got on track.

Because the targets of the competition are young athletes, they have the characteristics of rapid progress and insufficient stability. In order to provide more young athletes with the opportunity to show themselves again, in addition to meeting the results in any specified competition in recent years, another promotion channel other than the special selection competition, the qualification qualifiers have also emerged.

The fifth city games are no exception. A qualifying qualifying event was held two months ago, and on October 10, the city games hosted by Nanhu Tanzhou will hold the last qualifying event. Nearly 1,000 young athletes who have not qualified for the standards in recent years but have barely reached the basic line will launch their last qualifying event on the city games.

Lin Mu and his temporary team also embarked on the journey at this time!

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"Coach, this stadium is pretty good. It's not worse than the one from Beihe last time. I heard that this is not the main venue yet?..."

A small team of more than 10 people rushed to Tanzhou, Nanhu, the afternoon before the qualifying round. Under the leadership of Lin Mu and three coaches, all the other athletes who would represent Luzhou in the qualifying round came to Tanzhou Stadium by bus. This will be the home venue for the track and field events competition in this qualifying round.

The qualifiers lasted for two days, with a total of 29 major events and 289 minor events final promotion places. In this stadium, all track and field events except marathons and race walks will be held one after another, and will also end within two days.

The competition is tight, the competition events are intensive, and the number of participants is no less than that of a formal young athlete. After the arrangement, the rounds of the competition are very few, and the number of places will be determined in one round in long-distance events and individual field events. For the sprint events that the athletes led by Lin Mu at this time, the individual events and team events are only two shots.

In the 200m, more than 70 athletes competed in groups, and 8 people with the best results entered the next round. On average, less than one person could enter the final final battle in each group, and only the top 4 could enter the main competition in the second round.

4*100m relay, 57 cities have a total of 78 teams. In addition to the 20 teams that have entered the main competition, 24 of the remaining 58 teams have qualified for the qualifiers. They will also compete for the last 4 qualifications to advance to the main competition through two rounds.

With fewer games and more participants, it is undoubtedly much more accidental. Some factors that can affect the competition are particularly important. For young athletes, strength, venue, competition atmosphere and environment are all great decisive factors!

"Don't just watch the stadium. What we need to pay attention to is the track... While there are not many people now, we will go up and run twice, and the preliminary round will start tomorrow..." Coach Long scolded and instantly yelled back to reality when he was still admiring the stadium.

Coach Huang and Coach Long also moved, catching the five athletes on the track like ducks.

Lin Mu looked at the athletes and smiled softly. Maybe he was still nervous. I remember the first time I took a few students to Jiangzhen to compete, they were the same. I intentionally or unintentionally found some visual things to make myself try my best to distract myself. It is a way to spontaneously relieve tension and stress. Compared to those students, they may be even more nervous because they only have this opportunity to participate in the City Games.

The 4th City Games limited to the youth in January 1979, and the current year is limited to January 1983, and the next one will only be 1987. Jiang Shaobin, the youngest of these athletes, is also in 1985, and obviously has no chance to participate again. The City Games are very few, and the threshold is low, so young athletes can show off their events, especially those who are not top-notch. To a certain extent, for ordinary athletes, it also determines their future.

"Guide Lin, I'll leave it to you here. There are still many people this time. I have to go to other places to watch. Don't worry if you take us here!"

As a team participating in the qualifiers, it is obviously not much attention, whether it is the Provincial Sports Bureau or the Municipal Sports Bureau. The team led this time was only a deputy director of the Competition Department of the Provincial Sports Bureau and a deputy director of the Luzhou Sports Bureau. As for who is the leader and who is the second, Lin Mu couldn't tell the difference, and of course he didn't care.

At this time, the person who spoke very politely with respect was the deputy director of Luzhou Sports Bureau. He was just a sentence, and he left after seeing Lin Mu nodding, and he didn't even say hello to others!

Lin Mu shook his head with a smile. He said that when he went to any province's sports department, he might be treated as a guest of honor. He didn't expect that this would be the case in his hometown, and he didn't know how to say it!

"Guide Lin, the people in these places are just stupid and can't tell the difference between the primary and secondary. I said..." The deputy director, who is also one of the team leaders, felt strongly disrespectful. As soon as he saw Lin Mu shook his head, he scolded him.

Lin Mu was also smiling. He was not interested in participating in the many things he said and implied. The lack of attention led to unclear rights and responsibilities. Because Fengfu, another city in Huizhou Province, also participated, some arrangements for athletes in the province and various interests in private openly, there are too many things to surround.

After all, I am a coach, and competitive sports are my foundation.

Finally, after talking for a long time, Lin Mu didn't react much. The deputy director also felt boring and left!

There was no one beside Lin Mu except Chen Guobin who had been following him, and finally became quiet!

"Coach Lin, I don't know if there will be spectators entering the qualifiers. If there are athletes..." Everyone left, and then Chen Guobin spoke.

I was a little worried about what I said. There may be good or bad for many audiences, but there may be good or bad for few audiences. He was also concerned and confused! After working as an assistant coach for several years, he got to the position of coach in charge and took athletes out of competitions. However, this is his first time with this scale.

"Coach Chen, it is actually much easier to lead athletes to compete than training! You just need to be sure, have your athletes improved?" It was obvious that Chen Guobin was a little nervous. Lin Mu smiled and said, "There are many competitions, and there are many in China in a year. Every time we coaches finish the game and make up for it. We need to test the results through the next game. As for the results, it is not the final podium, and the others are secondary."

"The competition is a process of testing. Even if it is forced, we must keep enough attention, because many things that cannot be found in training are often discovered inadvertently during the competition. The job of our coach is to discover problems, analyze problems, and solve problems!"

Whether it is imparting experience or relieving it, Lin Mu doesn’t have much to do. After all, he still has to experience it himself to grow.

Maybe like athletes, to a certain extent, this qualifier also concerns many things about Chen Guobin. He has more reasons than other coaches.

This small team has only been established for 6 days. Lin Mu, the supervisor, is a member of the national team. Regardless of the performance, he will eventually return to the national team. As for the rewards and his future status in Huizhou Province, it will be a matter of the future.

Coach Long, seeing that he will not work for a few more years, it is of course the best to have a grade to enrich his career, and it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t. Coach Huang, Zhu Kun still wanted him to lead him in the end, and he could see Zhu Kun’s progress and future direction. His expectations have been completed this time. Not to mention those staff members, at this time, the city games are over, and they will still go back to their respective places. The quality of the results has little impact on them.

Chen Guobin, because he is young, because he cares, because he hopes to prove Lin Mu's training results. Only in this way can he, the interim assistant coach who is most familiar with this process, have better development opportunities.

"Coach Lin, thank you!" Chen Guobin thanked.

"I thank me for anything. I just say it myself. In fact, it doesn't make much sense. It's true that every coach is different." Lin Mu waved his hand indifferently.

Chen Guobin shook his head. He was not thanking Lin Mu for what he said to him. He wanted to thank Lin Mu for sharing his training experience with him for the past few days without any hiding his own personal experience. However, he did not explain. Some things can be kept in his heart. It is meaningless to say words. There are opportunities in the future!

"Okay, let's clean up and let them take a break after a little activity today. Their quiz will begin tomorrow!"

Yes! It's indeed just a small test, but such a small test is not small for athletes, even for him! Chen Guobin sighed again!

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On October 10, Tanzhou, the weather is clear and there is a breeze!

Nanhu Tanzhou Stadium

Early in the morning, a large number of people flooded into the stadium. The busy staff, nearly a thousand young athletes and coaches from dozens of cities across the country, brought a rare scene to this stadium, which rarely carries tasks.

Today is an ordinary day, but for all the athletes and coaches on the field at this moment, perhaps two days later, their lives will usher in many twists and turns due to these two days. It is not surprising that tension, excitement, worry, expectation, and all kinds of emotions are intertwined!

At 10 a.m., at the age of 13, Zhu Kun bid farewell to his parents from a small county town in Huizhou Province. When he entered the provincial capital, he would face a test of his life. From a stunning talented boy to a person who was regretful and disappointed by countless coaches. Perhaps the disappointment continued, until he sank into the bottom, or perhaps it would be a turning point...

"Hurry up and warm up, there are 15 minutes left. Move your hips and knees, remember what Coach Lin told you..."

Hearing the shouts of his master Coach Huang, Zhu Kun nodded silently and began to warm up for him.

In fact, after coming here today, several coaches have taken them to warm up several times on the sidelines and their bodies have already started to move. Moreover, the temperature in Tanzhou today is about 20 degrees, which is also very suitable. Now there is no problem to run directly on the track.

But he still meticulously followed the warm-up exercise he did on weekdays and did it again, knees, joints, waist and abdomen, and simply stretched some muscles. He simulated the start several times, and after accelerating the sprint, a few minutes passed!

"The first round of the men's 200m qualifiers will be held below, please..."

The live broadcast once again reminded him that his game was coming. He had experienced many competitions and felt that he was even more nervous than when he was watched by tens of thousands of viewers at the National Championships.

Maybe it's gain and loss, but it's gain. At the age of 13, because his pace frequency is excellent, because his movements are stretched, because he has excellent results of one or two hundred meters. He came to the provincial team, but a few years later, as his physical development and his height is getting higher and higher, everything is lost.

In addition to his pace, his talent was lost, and his former one or two hundred meters were lost. If it weren't for a master who always regarded him as his own, he might have completely subsided. For himself and for his master, he persisted, practiced the competition, and continued to work hard, even if he felt that his future was far away. At the National Championships, he ran a 400-meter mark, and the rear of the car was lifted on the qualifiers at 200 meters. But he was not very happy. Perhaps the only thing he was relieved was that he did not disappoint his master!

Now, he is going to run the past two hundred meters again!

A staff member started the final call. After confirmation by the staff and the referee, Zhu Kun, who slowly suppressed his worries, followed the leading staff into the field.

Standing on the track, without observing the stands with only a few people, and without looking at the sidelines where the coach and teammates might be on, Zhu Kun silently adjusted the starting gear. Coach Lin explained that these are very important, because of the changes in quality, the starting gear problem must be adjusted to the most comfortable position of force according to his own situation.

Everything was ready, Zhu Kun took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. After moving his body for the last time, he slowly bent down.

"Everyone is here!"

Although it was only a qualifier, the organizational procedure was still a formal competition. The referee finally confirmed the athlete's information and shouted a command.

Coach, I won't let you down!

Not only Coach Huang, but also Coach Lin. Zhu Kun, who had already been in place, finally recited silently in his heart.

“Preparation ~”

Bow your body and step on the starting device with your feet. The waist, abdomen, legs, and strength instantly condensed!

"Bang~"

With a gunshot, Zhu Kun, who had already been fully focused, launched an instantly, and his body suddenly shot out like an arrow from the string!

This is a game, but as Coach Lin said, this may be just a journey to regain yourself and surpass yourself, you are just running alone.

Run out of your past self and towards the desired future.

If you don’t have an opponent, you are the biggest opponent now.

He took out all his strength and accelerated violently. Zhu Kun didn't know where he was running now. Whether it was the competition procedure or other things, it was meaningless to fall behind or lead. He only knew that what he needed was full speed, acceleration, and acceleration.

Without speed control and physical energy distribution, just to rush towards the straight and towards the finish line!
Chapter completed!
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