Haixi Province, Zuohai City Sports Team Stadium.

A series of rapid footsteps sounded quickly on the sidelines from time to time.

Liao Changming stood at the finish line of the 100-meter plastic runway, looked at the figure flying across the finish line, and pressed the stopwatch in his hand at the moment when the other party crossed the finish line.

Zhang Jiehua trotted a few steps, sprinted forward with the inertia of his body, slowly stopped, took a few big breaths, turned around and walked back to the finish line.

"How's it going, coach?"

"It's still a lot worse." Liao Changming glanced at the stopwatch in his hand, couldn't help but sigh, and handed the stopwatch in his hand to Zhang Jiehua, "It's not long before the National Games, if you want to get a good ranking, you have to work harder." ”

Zhang Jiehua glanced at the stopwatch, and the value on the stopwatch was 10.55 seconds, which was the result of his group of men's 100m tests.

This result has been a big improvement compared to when he first entered the Haixi Provincial Athletics Team, and the athletes representing Haixi Province to participate in the National Games are also up to standard, but if you want to enter the finals and get the rankings, this is not enough.

According to the results of the men's 100 meters in the 2001 National Games, the top three are basically between 10.2-10.3 seconds, and the traces of advancing to the final are almost 10 seconds and 10.6 seconds.

And his current results, the memorization is still some distance away from 10.5 seconds, and if it is replaced by an electric memory, it will probably be 10.7 seconds away.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jiehua couldn't help but feel a little discouraged, he had a lot of ideas for the National Games in October this year, from Xiushui No. 2 Middle School to the Provincial Sports Team, the biggest reason is to be able to devote himself to training, but now the results seem to be good, it is estimated that he can run through the first round of preliminaries.

The track and field in Haixi Province is not strong, especially in the men's sprint event, except for Ye Qin, an athlete who is not directly trained by the sports system, there has been no outstanding talent in recent years, but in the women's event, there have been many outstanding athletes.

At present, the leader of the track and field world in Haixi Province is the women's triple jumper Xie Limei, the runner-up in the women's triple jump at the 2002 World Youth Championships in Kingston, and the national team in 04. In addition, there is a newcomer Zheng Xinjuan in the women's high jump, who has been able to jump to about 1.9 meters and is one of the main forces of this National Games.

"Don't be discouraged, there's still four months to go."

Liao Changming saw that because of Fang Cai's own words, it seemed to make Zhang Jiehua a little discouraged, and said softly and comfortingly, "Besides, you are still young, and you still have a long way to go on the road of professional sports." There are very few athletes in the country who can reach such a level at your age, so don't put too much pressure on yourself. ”

From Liao Changming's point of view, in fact, Zhang Jiehua's talent is already the only good he has seen in his life, before entering high school, except for physical education classes, he has not carried out professional sports training, and now his grades have grown, and he is not able to say how far he can go, but there will be about another two or three years, and it should be the best batch in China.

"Coach, don't comfort me, I will work harder in the next four months."

When Zhang Jiehua heard Liao Changming's words, he shook his head, and still said with some unconvinced, "By the way, coach, do I have enough points to participate in the National Games now?" ”

2005 is the year of the national track and field restructuring, in terms of track and field, if domestic athletes want to participate in the National Games, in addition to individual results, they also need to have a good performance in all levels of competition, the points meet the standard, and then there is a provincial team to declare to be eligible.

"Points?" Liao Changming thought slightly when he heard this, and then said: "You participated in the National Track and Field Franchise Championship in Yichun City before, and there are two Grand Prix, which is almost the same. After participating in this month's National Track and Field Championships, as long as you get the top eight places, you will definitely have no problem participating in the National Games. ”

Zhang Jiehua has participated in several domestic competitions this year, although the ranking is not particularly good, but as a young athlete, it is already a good performance.

In fact, since entering the provincial team, Zhang Jiehua has been taken care of by many parties. Liao Changming is a well-known coach in the provincial track and field team, and he spares no effort to teach Zhang Jiehua, and the provincial team may be more or less influenced by Ye Qin, and the resource investment in Zhang Jiehua is not small.

Saying that, Liao Changming paused slightly, and then said to Zhang Jiehua, "As an athlete, you must have a correct mentality. I know that you regard Ye Qin as your goal, and it is right for a young man to have such ambitions, and he is a year older than you. But it's one thing to have a goal, it's another thing to train and compete on your own.

Besides, he seems to be different from you now, he is an athlete in the men's 400m and 200m, and if you really want to talk about it, you may not be weaker than him in the 100m now. ”

"Coach, you're kidding again."

Zhang Jiehua was a little amused by Liao Changming's words, he knew that although Ye Qin didn't run much 100 meters, he should be able to run 10.50 seconds now.

This is not speculation, but the conclusion drawn from his watching Ye Qin's game video, as well as the approximate results, think about the game between the two when they were in Xiushui No. 2 Middle School, when the gap between him and the other party was obvious, and now he has been greatly improved, but the same others are not standing still, and they are still making great strides.

"Anyway, you can run with him yourself and see." Liao Changming smiled, "The province will definitely invite him to participate in the National Games this year, and when the sprint event is mainly up to the two of you, and then you will have to form a team, you should need to run a 4×100-meter relay race together, not to mention the championship, the top three should be promising." ”

"Ye Qin will also participate in the National Games as a member of Haixi Province?" Zhang Jiehua was a little surprised when he heard the news.

"Of course, although he is not a member of the provincial team, he will naturally participate in the National Games. I'm not worried about that now, but he still has a lot of games before the National Games, especially the World Championships, so it's good to be able to stay in shape and not get injured. ”

Speaking of this, Liao Changming couldn't help frowning slightly, he is the coach of a local team, for him, or for many leaders of the sports system in Haixi Province, the most important game is the National Games.

Ye Qin is a candidate who has been booked early, if he participates, the men's 200 meters and men's 400 meters will basically be stable, and if the relay race, with Ye Qin's joining, plus several other people who are about the same level as Zhang Jiehua, they will also be very competitive in the 4× 100 meters event.

What he is worried about now is that Yechin will participate in the World Championships in Helsinki in August, and although he has not been in contact with Yechin, there is still more or less news in the national team.

Ye Qin changed to a foreign coach for training this year, and the current focus is to prepare for the World Championships, training with competitions, and practicing while competing, and is the second athlete fully supported by the Athletics Management Center after Liu Yangyu.

The news just came back a few days ago that Ye Qin won the men's 400m championship in the Eugene Grand Prix after the Osaka Grand Prix. As far as Liao Changming knows, there are not many athletes who can win two consecutive races in the IAAF Grand Prix. Even if you can be invited to participate, it can be said that there are only a few people.

In Liao Changming's opinion, he may be in a good state after the World Championships, but if he is injured or in poor condition afterwards, it will really be worth the loss. That's the view, at least from his point of view.

"Okay, coach, then I'll go back to training."

When Zhang Jiehua heard the news that Ye Qin would represent Haixi Province in the National Games, he might even become teammates to participate in the relay race together, and instantly felt like he had been beaten with chicken blood.

Once he really had a bit of Lao Tzu in his heart as the best in the world, he didn't care about anyone, his heart was higher than the sky, and he always felt that it was not just running training or something, as long as he practiced seriously, he would definitely be better than anyone else.

But gradually I began to get in touch with more things, especially after entering the provincial team, my vision opened up all of a sudden, and I really understood the difficulty behind every honor.

The sixth place in the men's 200m at the Athens Olympics does not sound like a champion at first glance, just sixth, but after actually becoming an athlete, I realized how difficult it is to do it.

Some things are probably too far away from oneself, but lose the awe, and when you really have to touch and dabble step by step, you can understand the meaning inside.

Today's Zhang Jiehua is still high-spirited, but he no longer holds the mentality of "Lao Tzu is the best in the world", he knows that he is a talented athlete, but in this world, there are so many talented people.

If he wants to stand on the podium, if he wants to win the glory and exceed the goals he has set for himself, he needs to keep working hard and work hard!