Chapter 13 Disputes

Although there were many reporters who came to cover the shooting events in Beijing, the news reported did not receive much attention. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoEven though, some reporters used the Asian record as the headline. There is no way, the shooting event is too unpopular in China.

If you're not a professional athlete, no one will pay attention to the news. As for breaking Asian records, uh, there are plenty of talented athletes in China, and there are dozens of similar news stories every year, which is not surprising for a long time. Are you the big three? What's more, volleyball has long been in decline among the three major balls, and only basketball and football will receive high attention.

If Lu Ming broke the world record, he might still be recommended by the editor under the focus of the sports channel category. But the Asian record of an unpopular project, and there is no explosion, is destined to hit the streets, and the editor will naturally not be stupid enough to recommend this kind of news.

But on the contrary, another piece of news about the shooting team began to ferment. On social networks and in the media, there was a great deal of controversy.

"The National Shooting Team Participates in Club Events Privately to Make Gold"!

As soon as this news came out, it quickly dominated the headlines of major media websites. There are hundreds of thousands of netizens who participated in the comments on Weibo, and they dominated the headlines of the thousand-degree hot search list.

The main point of contention is whether the national team should participate in private competitions to make money?

Some people believe that national team athletes, as talents cultivated by the whole country, are already a high-income group and should no longer participate in non-governmental events for small profits. And the Olympics are about to start, so it should be based on training. There is also a view that the shooting team, as an unpopular project, is a good thing to be able to change if it is poor. For a time, there were different opinions. Lu Ming's trip to the club event became a hot spot in this way.

The shooting team originally intended to train Lu Ming and other young teammates to gain experience in the competition, so they did not respond to this incident. Usually, if the news is not rhythmic, it will only be hot for three days at most, and it will be quickly forgotten by the public. However, the shooting team's cold treatment this time underestimated the power of social networks and made a big mistake.

The discussion on the Internet has not weakened over time, but has become more and more popular. As a consequence of this incident, the shooting team was criticized by a certain leader of the Sports Bureau. In the end, he was forced to explain to the news media that he was only participating in private events to train athletes, not to make money. Moreover, the athlete will pay most of the prize money as the Olympic fund, so that the matter comes to an end.

Lu Ming's two million bonus seemed like a lot, but when he finally got it, he only had more than 600,000 left. In addition to paying personal income tax, 40% of the prize money obtained by domestic athletes in the competition must be donated to the unit fund. In particular, the latter is not exempt even for Olympic champions. In this event, due to public opinion, in order to calm the public controversy, the shooting team increased the bonus fee paid by Lu Ming to 60%. The 20 per cent increase in revenue is included in the Development Fund. However, due to the maneuvering of the old coach, all the extra expenses were used to support Lu Ming's additional training expenses.

Tan Wei, who also received a high bonus, will work in the system after retiring. On the other hand, the bonus is classified as a contribution, which can play an important role in the future promotion within the system. Although there were a lot of extra troubles for the shooting team due to public opinion, the final solution was a happy thing for everyone.

There was a time when a similar tax payment incident had caused a heated discussion in the media. However, Lu Ming and the others, after all, did not fly solo. Taking shooting as an example, if European and American family training is adopted, it is estimated that the annual training cost of several hundred thousand yuan is enough to make ordinary civilian families stop. The cost is so high, and paying a certain bonus will not make people angry. Therefore, it is difficult to say the pros and cons of the national system to train athletes.

Lu Ming, who returned to the shooting team, obviously felt that the eyes of the people around him had changed a lot. However, just like when he first joined the national team, he continued to train day and night.

In view of Lu Ming's amazing performance in the 50-meter rifle competition, the old coach specially reformulated a more detailed training plan for Lu Ming. With the blessing of the new talents, Lu Ming's proficiency in rifles and body coordination are improving every day.

"Old coach, August is the World Shooting Championships in Munich. Do you think Lu Ming will be able to participate? This event can be related to the number of people participating in the London Olympics for the national team. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) issues a ticket to the London Olympic Games, and the list of participants must be submitted to the Sports Bureau in advance. A middle-aged chubby man stood beside the old coach and asked.

The middle-aged man, surnamed Xu, used to be a disciple of the old coach and is now the head coach of the shooting team. With the prestige and contribution of a veteran coach, it is easy to become a leader of the Sports Bureau if you enter the system. It's just that the old coach prefers to be a coach and train the players at close range.

The old coach said, "With Lu Ming's current strength, even if he participates in the Olympics, it is more than enough." This World Championships, if he can participate, there will only be more tickets. ”

"Okay, listen to you. When I got back, I drew up a new list of participants and submitted it to the Sports Bureau. The middle-aged man surnamed Xu did not say anything against it. If Lu Ming hadn't participated in the event, maybe he would have had some doubts. But Lu Ming has broken the Asian record to prove his strength, and he has the strength of the old coach. Lu Ming's participation in the World Championships in Munich was decided in this way and submitted to the Sports Bureau.

At the shooting range, Lu Ming was still concentrating on training. He didn't know that the old coach behind him had already decided the qualification for the World Championships when the two were talking and laughing. One month seems to be a very short time, but with the blessing of jet lag, his strength has changed qualitatively.

During the Beijing Club event, he realized that his wife Xiaowen was very fond of shooting. If you can break with tradition and become a sports star similar to a popular sport. Perhaps, it will be of great help to find a wife in advance. And the emergence of the talent of "hand to hand" made him see a certain possibility. Even if it is an unpopular project, if it can become the king of unstoppable, the exposure rate must not be underestimated. What's more, shooting is not a popular hit, it's just not that popular.

During this time, he had already proposed to his old coach to practice 50-meter rifle prone shooting. Because he is also a rifle event, and Lu Ming has undergone earth-shaking changes in the 10-meter air-rifle and 50-meter three-position rifle in the past month, the old coach is more convinced of his talent in rifle shooting. On the contrary, he was very happy with Lu Ming's request, and soon formulated a detailed training plan for prone shooting.

As the name suggests, the 50-meter rifle prone is actually a shooting competition in a lying position. Unlike the 50m rifle 3-position race, even in the final, the lying position is still used instead of the standing position. Other than that, the rules are broadly similar. In international competitions, many celebrities will choose both the 50m rifle 3 positions and the 50m rifle lying position.