When Ye Lidong walked into the track and field training ground inside the track and field management center, seven or eight girls were running around the track in the track and field field.

Today is the day of the internal selection of the World Junior Championships, and the provincial teams approved by the National Sports Commission and some units have selected and sent several young athletes to participate in the trials.

The overall number of people is not much, only thirty or forty people, and they are all concentrated on a few projects, which is more than enough time for a day.

Many provincial teams or units have not selected athletes to participate, and there are not many young athletes who meet the conditions, and there are only a few projects that can be internationally competitive at this stage.

After all, the other World Junior Championships has been since 1999, although it is also a subsidiary of the IAAF, but compared with the World Youth Athletics Championships that began in 1986, it is far from the scale and influence. Even if there are some good seedlings in various local units, there is a lack of interest in facing this year's World Championships, let alone the World Junior Championships, which have several levels of influence at the same level.

In addition, this year is a special period, and many local teams have dispelled their thoughts at this point in time, even if they originally wanted to select and send players, and more is better than less. In the World Junior Championships, if you really choose to send players up to participate in the competition, it is difficult to say what ranking you will get.

In this case, it is said that it is a selection competition, and it is almost the same as going through the motions in the real sense.

"How's it going, is it almost over?"

After Ye Lidong entered the track and field, he happened to see Zhou Bin near the track, and walked straight over to him and asked.

"It's over soon, the last women's 3000m is already the seventh lap, and now it seems that there will be no particularly outstanding results." Zhou Bin pointed to the track in the track and field with a little worry, and seven or eight girls were fighting for the first place.

"After all, it's not a few years ago, and there are few young athletes in women's middle-distance running, and if a few of them have results, the local teams will be tightly covered one by one, and it is still very difficult to count on them to ask for people." Ye Lidong nodded, with a little helplessness in his expression.

"This time, except for a few players selected by Southern Jiangsu Province, I am afraid that there is little hope for other projects." Zhou Bin said with a little emotion, "For several consecutive years, we can only get our hands on the throwing project in southern Jiangsu Province." ”

Although the domestic track and field events are relatively weak, but in his position, he still hopes to make some achievements.

The original intention of the selection competition was to select some competitive events for the World Junior Championships, but not much attention was paid to it locally, or the gap between the level of many young athletes was still relatively large.

After all, it is not more than ten years later, and the National Junior Championships are held nationwide to participate in the World Junior Championships.

Moreover, the number of places to participate in the World Junior Championships this time is also limited, and now whether it is the General Administration or the field management, the funds in all aspects are not particularly abundant.

Those who can be screened are currently internationally competitive projects, such as a few throwing players brought out by Coach Wang Shouyang of Southern Jiangsu Province are very good, and the female team member under him won the shot put championship in the first World Junior Championships.

In addition, there are traditional middle-distance running and race walking events, which have been accumulated for a long time and can be regarded as able to produce results, but the results of the selected personnel this time are not particularly ideal.

In the race line, the women's 3000m trials have come to an end, and after the last five or six girls crossed the finish line, Ye Lidong and Zhou Bin were ready to leave the track and field.

The list of members participating in the World Junior Championships this time has already been somewhat bottomed up in their hearts before, and this selection is just to see if there are still potential athletes who have been missed.

The focus is still on the throwing event, and the level of several athletes in this event has far exceeded the level of their peers, and compared with several players in the national team, there is not much difference, which is considered a very promising kind.

"Okay, then let's settle it like this, and the list should be reported as soon as possible."

Seeing the end of the women's 3000-meter race, Ye Lidong glanced at the two female team members running in front and said to Zhou Bin next to him.

"Wait a minute! Two leaders, please stay! ”

Just as the two were about to turn around and leave, they suddenly heard a voice coming.

"May I ask who you are?"

Ye Lidong looked at the short and fat old man who stopped in front of him, frowned, and asked with some doubts.

"Two leaders, we've been waiting on the side for a day, why are you suddenly letting us go back now?"

Nie Fangping looked at Ye Lidong and Zhou Bin in front of him, and asked anxiously, "We came to Yanjing from Haixi Province to participate in this selection competition, why are we not even qualified for the selection competition at the end of the day?" ”

Ye Lidong and Zhou Bin were stunned for a moment, not knowing what Nie Fangping meant.

"That...... What do you call this coach? Ye Lidong coughed lightly and said with a little puzzlement, "We have allowed athletes selected by various units to participate in the competition, and there is absolutely no such thing as not allowing them to participate." ”

Although most of the internal trials this time went through the motions, the players who were really recommended by each unit still organized the competition, so like what Nie Fangping said, the two of them didn't quite understand the situation.

"My surname is Nie, Nie Fangping."

Nie Fangping introduced himself, and forced the anger in his heart to say, "Two leaders, we were selected and recommended by Haixi Province to participate in this trial, but we have been waiting here for a day, and seeing that the selection competition is about to end, why is there no competition for us?" ”

He and Ye Qin arrived in Yanjing yesterday, how big Yanjing is, I believe that people who know know it, and then each unit went door-to-door, and after a lot of tossing, they found the field management center, asked people, and looked for units, and finally found the place for the selection competition.

Needless to say, the key is that I went to the venue of the internal selection competition of the Athletics Management Center today, and I didn't find out that there was a competition called Ye Qin after waiting for a day, Nie Fangping went to inquire several times, and several referees or coaches who knew about it said that the track race selected today was only women's long-distance running, and the field competition was long jump, shot put, javelin, and discus.

"Athletes selected by Haixi Province?" Ye Lidong glanced at Zhou Bin next to him suspiciously, "Old Zhou, do you have it on the list over there?" ”

"I'll see." Zhou Bin took out the list of participants in today's competition, swiped his fingers over the names one by one, and said after a while, "No, this ...... Coach Nie, your Haixi Province did not select athletes to come up. ”

"Impossible!" Nie Fangping was stunned when he heard this, and then said, "This leader, please take a look at it again, Haixi Province, Ye Qin, men's 400 meters and men's 200 meters events." ”

"Huh? What the? Ye Lidong and Zhou Bin were both stunned when they heard this.

Zhou Bin asked with some uncertainty: "This ...... Coach Nie, can you make it clear, are your athletes participating in the men's 400m and 200m events? ”

"Yes, yes!" Nie Fangping nodded again and again, "We were selected by the Haixi Provincial Youth Stadium, and there must be a quota for the competition, which I have confirmed with the people from the Youth Sports Department." ”

After coming to the site of the selection competition, Nie Fangping found that there was no quota for Ye Qin's competition, and he made a special call to Yang Anjun in the province to ask, and the other party clearly replied that he had already reported the quota, so Nie Fangping chased after the two of them and asked.

"Coach Nie, is there a misunderstanding between you, there is no men's sprint event in this trials." After listening to what Nie Fangping said, Zhou Bin opened his mouth to explain.

"Huh?" Nie Fangping's mouth grew up, and he was a little confused for a while. He was a coach of a former prefecture-level city sports school, and the most he could deal with was to the provincial team, and the status of Tian Guan was very different, and he didn't know about it from this information at all, and he thought that the provincial team would be eligible to participate in the competition, but he was a little embarrassed by the other party's answer.

"Lao Zhou, didn't we do the selection of these sprint events?" As the head of this World Junior Championships, Ye Lidong has some confidence in his heart about the candidates, but when he heard Nie Fangping mention it, he also had some doubts in his heart.

Zhou Bin shook his head and said: "At the beginning of this World Junior Championships, there are about fifteen or sixteen athletes participating in the quota, and the focus is on a few throwing and long-distance running events that can produce results, these are the events in which we have relative advantages, and there is not much difference compared to athletes from other countries. The other events have not been carried out, the level is too different, and the various units have basically not selected male and female athletes to participate in the sprint events. ”

Having said that, Ye Lidong naturally understands that after all, this World Junior Championships is going to Canada, the distance is long, the quota itself is limited, and people will definitely choose the best of the best, and only bring the best young athletes in the most advantageous events to participate.

As for other events, several units selected and sent did not sign up for other events at all, and today's selection competition did not set this at all.

But Nie Fangping and Yang Anjun of the provincial team didn't know about this situation, they just submitted the registration for the selection qualification, and the field management center confirmed the time and place, and then Nie Fangping rushed over with Ye Qin all the way.

This may seem a little funny to future generations, but at this time, it is a real situation.

In the 2003 World Junior Championships, the only events that were really decided to participate in the trials were shot put, discus, javelin, long jump and long-distance running.

"That'...... Can the two leaders give us a chance? Nie Fangping understood the ins and outs, and pleaded again.