The World University Games, referred to as the World Universiade or Universiade, is an international comprehensive sports event exclusively for college students to participate in, sponsored by the International University Sports Federation, and held every two years. It used to be known as the "Little Olympics" in the world.

However, in the past two years, as various commercial competitions have begun to flourish, many high-level athletes have become less interested in this kind of sports games, which do not have participation bonuses. In particular, competitions such as the Universiade or the World Youth Championships have borne the brunt, and their influence has begun to show a clear downward trend in the past two years. Of course, there are no high-impact competitions such as the Olympics or the World Championships.

The Chinese team has officially sent delegations to participate in the 9th Bulgarian Universiade in 1977. The results have always been quite good, especially in the Universiade after entering the 90s, they can rank in the top 5 in the world in the gold medal table, which is basically the same as the ranking in the Olympic Games.

The 20th Universiade will be held in Parma, Spain on July 3~13, and more than 5,000 athletes from more than 100 countries will participate. Guo Zizhao also flew directly to Spain after the competition in Eugene, waiting to meet with the athletes of the national team.

This time, the Chinese team sent a team of nearly 200 people, and the track and field team was still led by Coach Feng Shuyong this time.

As soon as Feng Shuyong saw Guo Zizhao, he happily took Guo Zizhao's hand and said excitedly, "Xiao Guo, I saw your results in this month's competition, it's really good!" Ha ha...... In a total of four competitions, I won three championships, which is amazing! The grades are also very stable, and I don't think it's much worse than those foreigners. ”

"Where, where, Director Feng has won the award." Guo Zizhao also said modestly, "Compared with those world-class athletes, there is still a bit of a gap, and I just picked up a leak when they were not in good shape." My goal this year is to compete more, gain more knowledge, and compete with those masters when my strength rises next year. ”

"Okay, ambitious! If you can pick up the leaks, it's also your level that has reached that point. If the level is not enough, you will not even have the qualifications to pick up the leaks. Feng Shuyong also affirmed Guo Zizhao's achievements, and then said arrogantly, "It's good for you to make your own decisions about going out to compete, if there are any difficulties, let Lao Song tell us, and our center will try to help you solve what it can solve." You don't have to be polite if there is anything you need us to come forward, after all, you are playing abroad, so you must pay attention to your own safety. ”

"Well, okay, thank you for your concern. I'll be careful. ”

"That's good, Lao Song has a lot of experience in this area, and I want to listen to his opinions more if I have something. By the way, this Universiade has reported 4 events for you, can your current physical strength keep up? Feng Shuyong also asked with concern.

"No problem, don't worry. The physical strength is good, hehe......" Guo Zizhao immediately patted his chest and assured that the most important thing that buddy lacks now is physical strength.

"That's good! I'm waiting for you to win the championship for me! You guy who has won several international championships in athletics, don't give me a chain, haha......"

"How can it!" Guo Zizhao immediately raised his hand and promised, "At least bring you two championships back, if there are less than two, I won't have the face to see you......"

"Good! Ha ha...... I'll wait. ”

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This time, in addition to Guo Zizhao's participation in the 100-meter and 110-meter hurdles, the 200-meter and 400-meter events were also on the schedule. Since Guo Zizhao competed in the Modu Station in May, he has been the first choice for all sprinting events in China. Your sister, all the national records in sprinting events were set by Guo Zizhao, don't be too cruel......

In this way, even if Guo Zizhao did not participate in the national Grand Prix finals in June, it still caused dissatisfaction among some people in China.

There are athletes, coaches and, of course, provincial leaders. Because there are three important large-scale track and field events in the second half of the year, namely the World Universiade in July, the World Championships in August and the National Track and Field Championships in September. If it is calculated according to the results, then Guo Zizhao has to participate in the competition? Especially in the National Track and Field Championships in September, as long as Guo Zizhao participates, isn't it all the championships in all sprint events? What about the political performance of your own province? And Guo Zizhao is not an athlete in the system, why?

In fact, Guo Zizhao's identity as an athlete outside the system has long been no secret within the General Administration of Sports and among the competent leaders of the provinces. It doesn't matter who you are in the General Bureau, so as long as you pay attention and ask, you will understand. It's just that it's not honorable to say it, and everyone knows it. Therefore, before Guo Zizhao came out to Europe to compete this time, when passing by the capital, head coach Zhang Peng also came to talk to Guo Zizhao.

The main thing is to coordinate the relationship between the provinces, after all, there are so many track and field events in China, if you rely on Guo Zizhao to eat all of them, it will not look good on the faces of other provinces. Even if it's an international competition, you have to give the other members of the national team a chance to practice, right? You can't take all the opportunities, right......

In this way, Guo Zizhao also discussed with Uncle Li and Song Ping, and finally reached a verbal agreement with Zhang Peng.

In the domestic competition, Guo Zizhao will not participate in this year. In the future, in addition to participating in the National Games, Guo Zizhao will only selectively participate in one or two competitions at most every year, and the specific number of games will be determined at that time. In the two international events in the second half of this year, Guo Zizhao chose to participate in all four events of the Universiade, while the World Championships only participated in the 100m and 110m hurdles, and the 200m and 400m were participated by other athletes of the national team.

After all, at the Universiade, Guo Zizhao has the strength to win medals and even hit gold medals in these four events, and this cannot be given up. At the World Championships, it was different, Guo Zizhao and Zhou Wei reached the A standard in the 100 meters, and the 110-meter hurdles are currently the only ones who have reached the A standard, and Guo Zizhao still has the strength to win medals in these two events, so Guo Zizhao can only go. However, in the 200 meters and 400 meters, Guo Zizhao has only reached the B standard, and at most he has entered the semi-finals. In this case, it is better to let other athletes who also meet the B standard exercise it.

Therefore, Guo Zizhao also had to compromise this time. Well, anyway, I will get the gold medal of the World Universiade first, and then I will talk about the rest, and I will talk about it when my results improve next year! Alas...... Or is your strength still not strong enough......

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After a brief chat with Coach Feng, when Song Ping and his father came back after completing the formalities, everyone said goodbye for the time being, and the group went to the room to clean up first.

Looking at Guo Zizhao who left, Feng Shuyong was also full of emotion. Since the first meeting after the National Games two years ago, Guo Zizhao has left a deep impression on himself. Guo Zizhao, who was only 18 years old at the time, did not have stage fright when facing his national team coaches. not only spoke sharply and eloquently, but also secretly talked about it, and almost fought with Zhu Ling's girl. Although I didn't agree with Guo Zizhao's ideas at the time, I appreciated his boldness.

Later, with several times of getting along with each other at the National Training Center and several exchanges during the period of leading the team to compete abroad, Feng Shuyong's impression of Guo Zizhao became better and better.

First of all, Guo Zizhao's professionalism in training and competition is worth learning from. No matter how good the results are, Guo Zizhao's attitude of training hard and his dedication to the competition have not changed in the past two years. This is an essential quality for an elite athlete.

Secondly, Guo Zizhao's attitude towards people has always been relatively modest and sincere. Whether it is the players of the national team or the coaches around them, they have great respect. Unlike some athletes in China, they have just won a few championships in domestic competitions and become arrogant and unsightly. Not only was he dismissive of his teammates, but he also began to yell at his coaches. The quality of this person is really worrying......

However, it is Coach Zhang Peng's attitude towards Guo Zizhao in the past six months that is a little unpredictable...... Feng Shuyong also scratched his head, hoping that he didn't think much about it, forget it, let's finish this competition first......