The Chinese women's cycling team has 12 members, of which 10 are track runners and 2 are mountain runners. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The men's team has 9 players except for Duke, of which 8 are track competitors and 1 mountain competitor.

It can be seen that the vast majority of the members of the national cycling team are track runners, a few are mountain racers, and there is no road runner.

It's not that there can't be a road racer in China, but road racers don't have much effect when they train with the national team, and they are mixed with professional teams.

China also has local teams, but the overall level is far from the world's top teams such as Sky and AG2R, for example, if the level of China's professional teams is equivalent to the Chinese Super League, the Tour de France is equivalent to the Champions League.

It can be seen from the way to obtain tickets for Olympic cycling events that track races and mountain races depend on national points. The Olympic ticket for the road race does not depend on the national points, but only the individual UCI points of the drivers.

The riders who play road races are all following the professional teams to score points, while the athletes of the Chinese road racing team go to compete with the athletes of the Tour de France for the Olympic tickets, but they can't compete with others.

It is very difficult for Chinese road racers to find a position in the Tour de France, which is equivalent to Chinese football players going to Real Madrid to play as a striker, you want to go to Real Madrid, but people don't necessarily want you to go, the key is that our own level is not high, this is the core problem. As long as a Chinese player has the strength of Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid will spend a lot of money to buy him, and playing road races is a similar reason.

So far, only one Chinese road racer has ever competed in the Tour de France, Ji Cheng was selected by the Dutch Giant team in 2014 as one of the team's nine finalists, and represented the team in the 2014 Tour de France.

Ji Cheng went to participate in the Tour de France, his employer is a foreign professional team, in fact, he has no centralized management relationship with the Zijian Center and the Chinese national cycling team, of course, he is happy to represent China to participate in the Rio Olympic road cycling competition. It's just that Ji Cheng was injured at the end of 2014, and he is still recovering from his injury, and his personal points ranking has fallen to the top 200 in the world, and it seems that he will continue to fall.

The Chinese cycling team really couldn't find anyone to participate in the Rio Olympics road cycling race, and the leaders and coaches of the team could only hope that Du Ke could go to Japan to win the Asian Road Cycling Championships and grab a ticket to Rio.

Of course, this will not be on the official agenda until after Duke has competed in the Asian Mountain Bike Championships.

It can be seen from the characteristics of road races, track races, and mountain races that the strongest road race team is not the national team, but the professional team.

The road race is the core event of the road race, and the team is the most particular about team cooperation, there are wind breaking teams, following the riding team, each team of 9 riders to put a good formation in the wind, downwind, upwind, crosswind, each wind direction of the tactics are different, the attack is attacking, when the code guards, play is organized, disciplined large-scale team battles. It is precisely because of the difficulty and variety of ways to play that the 100-year-old Tour de France is the brightest star of all cycling events.

Compared to the big group races, the road time trial is purely a heads-up race based on individual strength. However, the road time trial must rely on qualification for the big group to participate in the Olympics, which is why Duke wants to go to Japan to compete for the Asian title in the big group.

The Olympic mountain race is also a heads-up nature, and the so-called women's team sprint event in the track race is actually only two people, and the men's team is three people. This is also one of the reasons why China listed the women's cycling track sprint event as a breakthrough in the Olympic Games in the early 80s.

Therefore, there are no road racers in the Chinese national cycling team, and the team configuration of this national team is: 90% track racers + 10% mountain racers.

After the morning meeting, Du Ke followed Zhu to the garage, and then he will do the most important thing, pick a mountain bike that suits him.

Before picking up the car, Zhu asked Du Ke to go to the measuring table to measure the length of his legs.

Duke obediently stood on the measuring table and waited to be measured.

Bikes can be modified, but for the perfect riding position, the frame must be right from the start, as the frame cannot be modified.

The frame of the bicycle is equivalent to the skeleton of a human being, we can augment the breast, pad the nose, cut the double eyelids, and even change sex, but we can't modify our own skeleton, who is okay to cut their ribs a few centimeters shorter?

The right frame size depends on the rider's inside leg length, which is the height from the crotch to the floor when the rider is standing barefoot.

The cycling team's measuring table took a light-sensitive measurement with an accuracy of 0.001 cm, and Duke stuck the ball on the clamp of the measuring table, and after 1 second, the data on the length of his inner leg came out: 93.239 cm.

"Oh my God, such long legs! You're 184 centimeters tall and your legs are more than half your height. After seeing Du Ke's leg length data, Director Zhu was amazed.

"No way, my father gave birth to it." Duke walked off the measuring table, spread his hands and made a "blame me" expression, in fact, he was a little nervous in his heart, he knew that his legs were long, but it was also the first time he saw his leg length data accurate to three decimal places.

"Wizard, wizard, with such long legs, Duke you are a natural cyclist!" Director Zhu was full of praise, "The swimming Phelps, if I remember correctly, he is more than 1.9 meters tall and his legs are only more than 80 centimeters long, you and Phelps are two kinds of geniuses who are diametrically opposed." ”

Director Zhu pointed to a row of racing cars in the corner of the garage and said, "So, you can only choose the mountain bike with the XL frame, the largest frame in the XL, 21 inches." ”

Each leg length corresponds to a frame size, Phelps' leg length is 81 cm, if he wants to play mountain bike, he can only choose the M frame, that is, a 16~17 inch frame. Duke is a long-legged man, and his leg length reaches 93 centimeters, so the best frame model for him is the largest number of inches in the XL, a 21-inch frame.

Scientific studies have shown that people with a higher proportion of their legs are suitable for competitive cycling, that women have a higher proportion of their legs than men, and that women's hip bone structure is different from that of men, which explains why women are more physically suitable for cycling.

In the early 80s, when China's economic strength and training level were not high, the country made the decision to "gather the strength of the whole country to develop women's cycling", which may have something to do with the fact that female cyclists are easier to achieve.

At this time, Duke walked to the corner of the garage, looked at the row of cars of different shapes, and began to choose his little friend. (To be continued.) )