In this way, the tragic trio of the national team coaching staff began to take their selected talents and began to prepare for the doubles competition of the National Games.

Kong Zhendong returned from Europe in mid-June 93, and before the end of June, the list and combination of all provincial teams will be reported to the National Sports Federation.

Since the first National Games of China, the scale has been expanding.

By the 1993 National Games, it had already included 43 major events, equal to the Olympic Games. With more than 8,000 athletes, it has become the largest number of participants and the most complete set of large-scale sports events in the world after the Olympic Games.

The National Games is China's highest national-level event recognized by the International Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee and other countries have recognized the attainment of the standard results, various continental and world records in this event.

In July, the scorching summer, the climate of the capital is different from the humid heat of the south, or extremely dry and hot, and the people are in a sluggish state.

The climate was harsh, but Yin Xiao did not relax the training of Kong Zhendong and Liu Guobang.

In this National Games, Ye Ying is not yet qualified, and Guo Bing was also arrested and became the logistics staff of Kong Zhendong and Liu Guobang's training.

Although Yin Xiao trained Kong Zhendong and Liu Guobang fiercely, he saw Guo Bing watching the battle around him sweat like rain.

During the break, Guo Bing handed the two wet towels and water cups, and couldn't help complaining: "Is Coach Yin Xiao so ruthless?" Zhendong is the existence of sweeping Europe, and the national baseball is also a competition abroad, people who have seen the world, a National Games, don't be nervous to train you to death. ”

Liu Guobang has an active personality, so although he met Guo Bing late, the two have the same smell, but they seem to be closer than Kong Zhendong and Guo Bing.

Liu Guobang smiled: "What, can't hold on?" Did our training delay your appointment with Xiao Lanlan? ”

Guo Bing said with a smile: "How can there be such a thing, just seeing that you are working so hard, I will also think about it, Lan Lan and their female team members may not be much easier to practice than you." ”

Liu Guobang shook his head and said: "No way, you can't underestimate our country's National Games." Our country's athlete system is a system that trains provincial teams and sends them to national teams. The highest goal of an athlete is, of course, to compete abroad and win glory for the country. However, in the process of athletes going from ignorance to fighting for the country, the most important stage of training and laying the foundation is the training of the provincial team. It can be said that the provincial team is the food and clothing parents of athletes. Then the National Games, which represents the provincial team once every four years, is more important than the international competition of athletes. On the one hand, it reflects that the athletes do not forget their roots, and on the other hand, it is also the return of the entire sports career and the support of the provincial team. In order to repay the provincial team with a gold medal, all the players will work hard. ”

Guo Bing was puzzled: "I can understand the ambition to fight for the provincial team, but is it interesting to be in such a nest?" How high is the gold content of such a championship? ”

Kong Zhendong took a sip of water and explained: "Among them, honor is the first, but not all. The results of the National Games of the provincial teams are often the first consideration indicators for the provincial government to consider sports investment and the provincial sports departments to consider the investment in various projects. If any province has outstanding sports performance and makes a name for itself in the whole country, then even if this province is not an economically strong province, it will not be much worse than an economically strong province in terms of sports funding. Similarly, in the case that the cake of sports funding in a province is only so big, which project can win the championship in the country and which project can make the provincial team grow in front of the national audience, the project will naturally get more funds. Then the investment in athletes' medical security, training and competition, and echelon construction will be more sufficient, so every athlete is not fighting for himself, but for the team and the project to obtain better sports resources. ”

Ye Ying was curious: "What about table tennis?" This is also a national sport, do we also need to fight for resources and funds? Is the competition in table tennis crueler than the World Series? ”

Kong Zhendong nodded and said, "You may not have been impressed a few years ago. After our table tennis began to enter the bottom in 88, after the fiasco of the World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba in 91, many provincial teams were withdrawn, and the athletes either chose to leave their hometowns or choose to change careers. So which provincial teams in the country have been retained? Of course, it is a good foundation and a lot of resources have been accumulated, and the provincial teams that have achieved good results in domestic competitions in the past few years have been retained, which is the competition for table tennis resources. Because of the abundance of talent, the capital team is responsible for almost half of the national team's indicators in many cases, so you don't feel the despair of other provincial teams in the capital. ”

Liu Guobang continued: "As for the cruelty of the competition in the table tennis National Games. That's definitely more than any other World Series. As I said earlier, losing the championship in the World Series is just losing an honor, but losing the National Games is losing your food, clothing, and parents, and losing your resources. The cruelty of this kind of competition, the more it is in the strong national project, the more the bayonet is red. Table tennis, badminton, gymnastics, weightlifting, diving, in every competition, there are athletes who overdraft their sports lives and retire early because of excessive fierce fighting, or at least affect their competitive status in the next year or two. ”

Ye Ying nodded and said, "I've heard of this. The reason why this year's National Games is a once-in-a-six year event is that I heard that it has been held since the National Games were held, and it has always been the year before the Olympic Games. Originally, this setting was to select and prepare for the competition in advance before the Olympics, and play a role in training. I heard that there are many team members who go beyond the limit of the desperate victory, resulting in serious injuries or not being able to compete for a year or two, so that the dominant events will be finished in the second year of the Olympic Games, so the country has reformed and put the National Games in the second year of the Olympic Games, so that the athletes will be held after the Olympic cycle, after a year's rest, and then through the National Games, everyone's motor nerves will be re-tightened and the training of the next Olympic cycle will be opened, which will determine the National Games to be held one year after the Olympic Games. ”

Liu Guobang shook his head and said: "The original intention of the country is to reduce the tragedy of the National Games. However, as long as the results of the National Games determine the direction of sports resource allocation, the tragedy of the National Games will only be greater than before. It is even possible that the competition will extend from the field to the field in the future, becoming a big melee between the sports resources and sports networks of the two provinces. ”

This topic is a little heavy, Kong Zhendong drank his saliva and changed the topic: "Xiaoya, Guo Bing, do you know which is the most intense table tennis game in the National Games?" ”

This question is indeed novel, Ye Xiaoya and Guo Bing recovered from the sluggish mood, Ye Ying asked curiously: "Which one?" Zhuang Shen vs. Mi Xingbang? Or Jiang Jialiang fiercely fighting Ma Wenhua? ”