All-round Athlete

Chapter 14

General Administration.

In the director's office, Director Hou adjusted the reading glasses on his nose and carefully read the documents in his hand.

Director Hou was born as an athlete. After retiring, he took charge of the women's volleyball team and led the women's volleyball team to its most glorious moment. Later, he joined the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, which was also called the Sports Commission at the time. Starting from Xu Haifeng's first Olympic gold medal, he witnessed the growth and glory of national sports step by step. It can be said that he dedicated his life to the national sports cause.

Director Hou is 64 years old this year. After the Athens Olympic Games next year, he will retire and leave his lifelong sports post. But at this moment, he does not have the slightest slack in retiring. He wants to stand on the last post not only for that duty, but also for the career he loves and strives for all his life.

Many people think that next year's Athens Olympics is a preparation for the Beijing Olympics, so they don't need to be too demanding on the results. But Director Hou didn't think so. He very much hoped that the national team could achieve excellent results in the Athens Olympics, and even hoped to make breakthroughs in certain events. Although patriotic sentiment dominated this, for a soon-to-retire For the elderly, it is a perfect end to decades of work.

At this moment, what Director Hou is holding in his hand is the current list of track and field personnel who have reached the Olympic competition standards.

Liu Feiren in the 110-meter hurdles is obviously the most dazzling star on this list, and he is also the player most favored by Director Hou. According to the current level of Liu Feiren, it is enough to hit a medal in the Olympics, thus achieving a breakthrough of zero medals in the men's track and field short event of the national team.

"Huh?" Director Hou glanced at the men's 100-meter sprint event, but found that there were two names, both of which were marked with the Olympic A standard.

"Two people!" Director Hou took a closer look to confirm that he was right, and then his eyes shone with excitement.

"In the men's 100-meter sprint, it is usually so difficult to qualify for the Olympic B mark. This time, two people have reached the A mark. They may be able to run into the second round. Chen Jian? I have heard of this name. It seems that the last Asian Games won Zhang Guan? Who is this?" Director Hou thought about it carefully and found that he had no impression at all, so he asked the secretary to come in, pointed to the list and said, "Go and get the names of the two men's 100-meter athletes. Get the information."

The secretary immediately notified the Athletic Association, and within 20 minutes, the information of Chen Jian and Zhang Guan was sent to the secretary's e-mail.

"Chen Jian, 2001 East Asian Games 100-meter runner-up; 2002 Busan Asian Games 100-meter runner-up, 4x 100-meter runner-up; 2002 National Athletics Grand Prix Finals 100-meter champion..." Director Hou looked at Chen Jian's information Ranking honors, I have been seeing the "National Athletics Championships Huangpu Station 100-meter Champion" just won.

Director Hou showed a satisfied smile on his face, and said to himself: "National Athletics Championship Huangpu Station, personal best time of 10.17 seconds. This event seems to be finished the day before yesterday, which means that Chen Jian's current He is in good condition, and he might be able to make a breakthrough when he is sent to the Olympics, which is great."

Director Hou opened Zhang Guan's information again.

"Zhang Guan, he's only seventeen years old, so young!" Director Hou looked down, and there was only one "Asian Athletics Championship Trials Champion" honor in the honor column.

Director Hou's face suddenly became gloomy. He called his secretary, pointed to Zhang Guan's poor materials, and asked, "What's going on? Why is there only this line?"

The secretary knew that Director Hou felt that Zhang Guan's information was too little, and he thought it was because he was not doing his job well. He immediately opened his mouth to defend: "I was just about to report to you. Regarding this Zhang Guan, the Athletics Association gave these materials. When I first received this information, I thought it was the Athletics Association who missed it, so I called I specifically confirmed with the Athletics Association. The Athletics Association said that Zhang Guan was only seventeen years old and had not participated in any competitions before. The Asian Athletics Championships qualifiers were the first official competitions that Zhang Guan participated in, so there is only this record .”

Director Hou's expression eased a lot, and he asked: "Since there is no record of the game, there should be training information too! For example, which sports school did he train in, which sports school selected him, and which coach did he follow before?" .Here there are only household registration and team registration.”

"According to the Athletics Federation, this Zhang Guan only had two months of formal training when he participated in the Asian Athletics Championships, and he was not selected for training in a sports school. He is an ordinary high school student and has never experienced sports training." Secretary After a pause, he whispered: "It is said that this Zhang Guan was unintentionally excavated by Mr. Chen."

"Old Chen excavated it?" Director Hou nodded. Director Hou still recognized Chen's ability very much.

"So this athlete was not selected from the system." Chief Hou tapped the table lightly, the word "genius" constantly flashing in his mind.

There is a complete system for the cultivation of domestic athletes. Sports teams and sports schools at all levels occupy a large amount of staffing and financial allocations, and at the same time bear the heavy responsibility of athlete selection and training. Those famous athletes basically spent their nine-year compulsory education on training. Athletes in sports such as gymnastics even started training from the age of three or four. And in this case, for an athlete not born in the system to achieve such a result, it can only show that he is a genius!

Director Hou suddenly shook his head and said, "No, we can't send such a person with no competition experience. This Zhang Guan has never participated in international competitions, so he must not go directly to the Olympics. This is too irresponsible. The Olympic Games is not only a sports meeting, but also an expression of the country's image, even if it is just one appearance, even if it is just a show, it represents the country! We can lose the game, but we must not lose face to the country."

Director Hou’s generation of sportsmen has experienced too much, the country’s wars in childhood, the passion of construction in youth, the country’s growing strength in middle age, and the resurgence of great powers in old age. When he was a coach, he led the team to go abroad many times. From the hostility and indifference of the Western world at the beginning, to the respect and admiration of the West later, no one can understand the importance of a country's image better than their generation of sportsmen. Moreover, the Athens Olympics is the last major event during his tenure. He hopes that every team member can achieve good results.

Director Hou took out a pen and wrote instructions under Zhang Guan's information: ensure that he participates in an international competition before the Athens Olympics, and strive to accumulate experience in international competitions! Try not to be nervous or stage fright during the Olympics.

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Field Management Center.

Director Ma called everyone into the meeting room again.

"Director Hou, Director of Tidi, personally gave instructions, and everyone has already circulated them! The leaders of our center have personally instructed me to strictly implement Director Hou's instructions and implement them into practice. The main purpose of today's meeting is to discuss this matter. Director Ma said, looking at Director Yu, and said, "Director Yu, you are mainly responsible for the sprint event, so please tell us your opinion first."

Director Yu let out a dry cough, cleared his throat, and said, "Let me talk about the domestic competitions first. This year's competition is only the year-end Grand Prix of the National Athletics Championships in November. This competition needs to be accumulated in the previous competitions." Enough points are required to participate, so Zhang Guan is not eligible to participate. As for next year’s competition plan, there will be the National Indoor Athletics Championships after the Spring Festival. In addition, the round-robin competition of the National Athletics Grand Prix will begin in April, but there should be one in the National Athletics Grand Prix. The station is the trials for the Athens Olympic Games. Zhang Guan’s performance has reached the Olympic A standard, and he has already qualified for the Athens Olympic Games, so he does not need to participate. In addition to the preparation time for the Olympic Games, I estimate that Zhang Guan can participate in one or two stations of the National Athletics Grand Prix at most. .”

"So few?" Director Ma frowned, and then asked, "What about international competitions?"

"Internationally, there will be the ninth Asian Athletics Championships later this month. The World Athletics Grand Prix Zhang Guan has no qualifications, and there are no other events this year. Next year's Golden League is too high-level, and it will mainly be held in Europe The level of athletes in our country cannot be invited by the organizing committee of the event; next year's World Athletics Grand Prix series must be 18 years old to participate. Zhang Guan will only be 18 years old in the second half of next year, and his age does not meet the registration requirements Request. After that, it will be the Olympic Games." Director Yu said.

"Isn't that only the 9th Asian Athletics Championships left at the end of this month?" Director Ma thought for a while, and then asked: "What about the youth competition?"

"There are relatively few youth competitions, but next year there will be a World Youth Athletics Championships. The competition time will be from the end of July to the beginning of August next year, and the venue will be in Italy, which is very close to Athens." Director Yu said.

Director Ma sighed in disappointment: "The time does not allow it. The Athens Olympic Games will open on August 13. Before that, the participating athletes still need to participate in training, especially for the first-time athletes. There will be more training courses. In addition, the deadline for registration for the Athens Olympics is early July."

Everyone here immediately understood that the registration materials of athletes for the Athens Olympic Games must be reviewed by the General Administration of Sports. To carry out the order of the General Administration, this kind of thing is absolutely not allowed to happen.

"It seems that only the ninth Asian Athletics Championships in the second half of the year is left. Prepare to send a letter to let Zhang Guan participate in the Asian Athletics Championships." Director Ma said helplessly.

"Is that to increase the number of participants or replace the original participants?" Director Yu immediately asked.

Director Ma thought for a while and said, "Replace the original participants! At this time, the number of participants has already been determined, and the financial allocation has been in place. There is no way to solve it, and the entire basic necessities of life are troublesome. It is not easy to explain to the audit side."

Director Yu then asked: "What about the 4x100m event? Zhang Guan never ran the relay!"

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