Youth Training Manual

Chapter 37 See you at the National Games

The National Games are held every four years, and this year it will be held in Chengdu, Sichuan.

Rongcheng is not Wu Huai's hometown, but he is at least more familiar with this city than his teammates.During his time at the city sports school, he went to Chengdu to play competitions more than once, especially during the one-year summer vacation, he spent two months training at the provincial school in Chengdu. Will go back there again.

Wu Huai finally chose Guangdong.

In short, the time is enough for him to have a general understanding of Chengdu, especially the Happy Valley in Jinniu District that impressed him the most.That fun was his only indulgence so far. Not only did he spend all his money on the spinning chair and the big pendulum clock, but he also borrowed an amount he never thought of from his friends.

His teammate asked: Wu Qi, I didn't realize that such an honest person like you would like to play such crazy things and borrow so much money, don't you feel dizzy?

Wu Huai shook his head in a daze at the time: It was so much fun, I couldn't stop!

It was the first time, and the only time, that Wu Huai did not live in a well-regulated manner. He still remembers it very clearly until today. The feeling of recklessness and wanton indulgence is simply addictive.

In mid-June, the long-awaited National Games finally came.

All three team members have grown up successfully, especially after Wang Haitao passed the punishment period, Wu Heng's responsibility suddenly became heavier.He has learned a lot from a pit, and he has been admonishing the three team members since before the game. In addition to the food problem that has been talked about this year, there are also various rules and regulations of the competition, as well as various accidents that have occurred in recent years. Old lady.

Facing Wu Heng, who the team members didn't care about and often looked at him with long-winded eyes, he also had a mouthful of old blood stuck in his throat.How much drool do you save on snacks and how much drool I save!It's just that he didn't say a word, so he was suspended!Fuck, labor and management's bonuses for this year have all been deducted!The most expensive ham sausage ever!

I forgot to mention, the final investigation result of the investigation team found that the problem was not in the instant noodles, but in the ham sausage.

Yes, that's right.

In the ham sausage, there is the legendary lean meat goblin who has brought disaster to the country and the people.

This time, no one came to remind him what to prepare. Fortunately, Wu Huai already had experience, not to mention that he was going to a city he was familiar with. Thin and thick clothes, plus some daily necessities and swimming gear, were packed in In the big suitcase he bought, he took a box away.

The train arranged by the team this time.

There are too many players to participate in the competition, not only the swimming team, but also track and field, big ball, and small ball. In short, the National Games is a prosperous event in the Chinese sports world. All training events must be compared in the competition. name comes.More than 300 players from the Guangdong team went there, and there were even more coaches. The travel expenses had to be paid by the Sports Bureau.

Fortunately, the speed of the train is now increasing, and it only takes more than ten hours from Guangzhou to Chengdu. The train at [-]:[-] in the evening arrives at Chengdu South Railway Station at about [-]:[-], which is just right.

Wu Huai was both disappointed and relieved that he didn't go with the navy army.

The current self is not enough to make Zhanyan look at him differently, and it's not yet time to meet.

Just like traveling together on the road, when we arrived in Sichuan, we didn't arrange accommodation together.In this National Games, the Guangdong Team and the Navy are two representative teams, one is called the Guangdong Provincial Team, and the other is called the People's Liberation Army Team.

There was nothing wrong with the accommodation this time, Xie Yuenian and Wu Huai were arranged together, brother Sanshui and a well-connected team member spontaneously formed a team, and everyone was happy.

Arranging accommodation, participating in the opening ceremony, adapting to the venue, and warming up for training, until the first day of the competition, Wu Huai did not meet Zhanyan.

Wu Huai's theme has been completely changed.After more than a year of training, both he and Wu Heng agreed that medley swimming is more suitable to be his main event, and it is also more developmental.

China's current Frog King is a player from Shandong. He is not yet 20 years old. When he was 19 years old, he won No.3 in the World Championships, and his results were much better than Wu Huai.It is too difficult for Wu Huai to surpass him, but to wait for him to go down, Wu Huai has also passed the best golden age.There has been no obvious leader in medley swimming in China. This year the champion is in Beijing, next year it may be in Hangzhou, and the year after that it will go to Liaoning.Moreover, these three contestants fought fiercely in the room, and they misfired in the international arena. They could still compete for medals in Asia, but they couldn't even make it to the finals in the World Series.

Both Wu Huai and Wu Heng had ambitions, and they both set their sights on the big cake of medley swimming.

First become No.1 in China.

Then go to the world arena to compete for the championship.

It's a long process, but not impossible.

Wu Huai performed very well in the medley.

The entire National Games will last about half a month, and the swimming competition is arranged in front, with two days of preliminaries, one and a half days of semi-finals, and one day of finals.During this period, other water events will be interspersed, such as the preliminaries and finals of synchronized swimming and diving, so they will almost stay in Chengdu for more than a week.

The schedule is not tight, the medley and short-distance freestyle preliminaries are on the first day and the second day respectively.Wu Huai took part in the 200-meter medley preliminaries on the first morning, and entered the semi-finals with first place in the group and fifth in the preliminaries.In the 400-meter medley in the afternoon competition, I was second in the group and seventh in the preliminaries. At the age of 17, this is a very good result.

Wu Heng and Zhang Nan were very happy, and Zhang Nan even boasted a few words.

Later, when I met Tang Han in the car, I said specifically: "Medley swimming is indeed a good direction, let's go, it's no problem."

Both Wu Heng and Wu Huai's confidence doubled!

This evening, Xie Yuenian was a little nervous. Tomorrow morning is his preliminaries. He has made a lot of progress over the past year, but it is not as great as Wu Huai's.

Wu Huai's leap put a lot of pressure on him... To put it bluntly, Wu Huai has already proved through today's preliminaries that his medley has the qualifications to enter the national top ten.

But what about himself?There are too many freestyle swimmers, many veterans who have been famous for a long time are still struggling, not to mention Zhanyan, who is only two years older than him, is now competing in the world competition... No one has mentioned anything What about him, but he is very clear that there are too many obstacles in front of him, and it is too difficult to kill those people.

After the years when newborn calves were not afraid of tigers, Xie Yuenian also realized the difficulties.

"Bad boy, do you know what is the best result of showing your face now?"

Wu Huai was flipping through the webpage with his mobile phone, when those two words fell into his ears suddenly, his fingers trembled, and he said expressionlessly: "Have you forgotten? We haven't contacted for a long time."

"Tsk, do you think he forgot the old friendship after he made a grade? It swelled up?"

"He must have his own reasons. Zhanyan is not that kind of person." Wu Huai raised his head and smiled at Xie Yuenian.

Xie Yuenian stopped talking, he always felt that the bad guy who laughed like this was scary.

"Brother, I'll cheer you on tomorrow, you have to swim well."

"Nonsense!" Xie Yuenian patted his chest, and then said a little dejectedly, "I just want to surpass Zhanyan, and I'm still a little short."

"It's a lot."

"Hey! Do you want to be so ruthless?"

"As a human being, the most important thing is to have self-knowledge."

"Fuck!"

Xie Yuenian got angry and rushed forward to beat Wu Huai. Wu Huai laughed haha ​​and threw Xie Yuenian onto the bed with all his strength.

Xie Yuenian was lying on the bed in a daze: "Bad boy, are you stronger than me?"

"It's weird, haven't I always been stronger than you?"

"It shouldn't be, you are thinner than me."

"You are a freestyle swimmer, what is the comparison with me who practice medley swimming?"

Xie Yuenian blinked his eyes: "It won't be thrown off by you, no, let's check our wrists."

Wu Huai turned over and sat up, he was also quite curious about his current strength.

Facts have proved that Wu Huai's arm strength is really stronger than that of Xie Yuenian.Xie Yuenian's yelling in disbelief was the reason why he worked out every day.

Wu Huai didn't think so.

Butterfly stroke requires a lot of strength in the back and arms, and breaststroke also requires strength in the upper and lower limbs. Swimming so much back and forth in the pool every day, imperceptibly, the strength of the upper limbs must be strong.In comparison, freestyle and backstroke do not require so much upper body strength, at least a little worse than butterfly and breaststroke.Over time, Xie Yuenian was indeed almost half a year younger than Wu Huai, and it was normal that he was not as strong as Wu Huai now.

Perhaps it was because of the obvious difference in strength. When they stood up, Xie Yuenian suddenly realized that it was not only the difference in strength, the bad boy had grown so tall before he knew it, and he was still unable to break through 1.9 meters As a professional swimmer, this recognition made him, who has always been carefree, a little flustered.

Wu Huai understood Xie Yuenian's silence. He smiled and said, "Isn't it normal that you are smaller than me and I am stronger than you? If you give me half a year to develop, I might be able to jump two meters .”

"Why don't you rush to the moon." Xie Yuenian is not a character suitable for deep thinking about something. He is a natural optimist, and he is relieved when he is interrupted by Wu Huai. Yes, I can live for half a year, not to mention chasing It's okay to break through 1.9 meters.

The two chatted for a while, Xie Yuenian finally calmed down and said that I was sleepy and wanted to sleep.

Wu Huai picked up the phone again, the slightly lowered eyelids blocked the light in the bottom of the eyes, the dark clouds flowed, his fingers tapped on the screen, and a video that had been dusty for a long time was rediscovered, there was no sound, the young man in the video smiled What are you talking about? In Wu Huai's mind, those voices seemed to be automatically generated and played in his head.

The sudden miss hit my heart like a sledgehammer...

We can meet tomorrow.

But when we meet, what can we say?

Let you see that I am fine now, or tell you how confused and angry I am now.

Why are you ignoring me all of a sudden?What am I doing wrong?Am I annoying you?You told me that I was willing to change it, but you chose to leave directly, like boiling lava flowing into the cold deep sea, solidified into a hard stone from the inside to the outside in an instant.

You'll never know how I feel, Zhan Yan.

At 06:30 the next morning, Wu Huai opened his eyes on time.

It was his biological clock that woke up. After the brain resumed work, before the first command to open his eyes could be issued, Zhanyan's smiling face suddenly appeared in his mind.

Zhanyan in his mind was smiling at himself, with a bright smile, his eyes were shining, and he could clearly see himself in them.He stood on the boat, his figure was ups and downs, with the blue sea behind him, the sun fell on his shoulders, and the orange light warmly illuminated his cheeks.

However, an inexplicable sadness struck.This was the last impression of Zhanyan in his mind.

So beautiful, so beautiful that it is even a little fragile.

Then, Wu Huai opened his eyes, looked at the ceiling, and let out a long sigh.

No matter how many reasons there are, they can't match the urgent thoughts deep in my heart.

The second day of the National Games swimming competition preliminaries was a fine day, the wind was sunny and cloudless, and the sun was so bright that I couldn't even open my eyes. I had the urge to go back to the house to cool off.

Wu Huai and Xie Yuenian arrived at the arena early, and after simply warming up, Xie Yuenian went to the registration office to sign in.Wu Huai followed silently, and he could see the sign-in desk in front of him surrounded by people from a distance.This kind of short-distance competition has always had a lot of players signing up, so there are many more people signing up than other events.Xie Yuenian was at the back of the line, and Wu Huai was standing beside him, observing quietly.

There is no one in front.

Behind... Well, the one in the blue tracksuit is him.

The moment he confirmed the person, Wu Huai's heart skipped a beat, he was even more nervous than he was in the preliminaries yesterday.

He watched the person approaching slowly, but his appearance didn't change, it seemed to have changed a little bit, he was too far away to see clearly, all he knew was that person was like the brightest star, attracting countless eyes, he wasn't The only one who cares about him.

Bad Mood.

Someone beside him said: "Zhanyan is here."

"Where?"

"behind."

"I still have to queue up for this result? Seed players go directly to the semi-finals!"

"What's the semi-finals? Just win the championship. I can hear his name everywhere. It's annoying."

Wu Huai looked over.

The person who was talking was disturbed by the sharp gaze, and looked at Wu Huai inexplicably.

Wu Huai smiled slightly at the man.

Zhanyan came to the back of the team, even the world champions had to line up to sign in.

Wu Huai withdrew his gaze and stopped looking at the people behind him.

In fact, Zhanyan has been a little nervous these days.

He knew that he would definitely meet Wu Huai in the National Games, especially when he was competing, Xie Yuenian would also participate in this event, Wu Huai would most likely accompany Xie Yuenian to the locker room.

For so many years, the only thing he has done most unscrupulously is to alienate Wu Huai. He is a person he likes so much, and even almost turned into another kind of liking. Finally chose to stay away.

This is too abnormal. Excessive intimacy has actually led to emotional derailment. Friends and lovers, if it is a man and a woman, it is easier to accept the transformation, but they are obviously two men, and there are certain boundaries that must not be stepped forward. Then It's an abyss!

But Wu Huai is innocent, a pure and lovely child who adores himself so much and has no time in his heart, but is inexplicably angered by his disgusting and dirty self. Just thinking about it like this, he feels that he can no longer face Wu Huai.

How do you explain it when you see someone?

Said that I suspect that I like you, so I dare not contact you again.

It is said that men and men cannot be together, so you stay away from me.

Say forgive me, I was just too busy at the time, so I didn't have time to contact.

Say... say what?

Thousands of words can't be said, because the truth is so embarrassing, any reason is an excuse.

Some emotions have been suppressed in the heart for a long time, and they become a knot. Usually it doesn’t matter. Once the thoughts turn there, all kinds of emotions come one after another, stuffed in the heart, and there is a sour pain spreading.

Almost at the first sight, he saw Wu Huai.

The figure has obviously grown taller, and the shoulders have also broadened. From this angle, the lines of the side face have become deeper and more angular, and the eyes have become sharper.

In less than a year, so much has changed.

Zhanyan felt inexplicably sad that he actually missed Wu Huai's growth at the last moment, it was a lost time that could never be regained.

Why would you like someone of the same gender?Even if your relationship is very good, this is not a reason to have a heart-to-heart relationship.

suddenly!

Wu Huai glanced over and met his own gaze.

Showing his face and holding his breath, his heart almost stopped beating at this moment.

Saw.

coming soon.

Is he coming?

Are you going to question yourself?

How do I answer myself?

however.

next second.

That gaze moved away lightly again, without stopping for a moment, swept across his face, and looked at Xie Yuenian beside him.

With a bright smile and focused and happy eyes, it is almost enviable.

Did you not see me?

Still don't want to talk to me?

Or, do you not recognize me?

In an instant, chaotic thoughts rushed over, and a chill passed through his fingertips, freezing him in place.