Chenggong training base is located in Yunnan Province in southwest China, the training base is 25 kilometers away from the provincial capital Kunming City, covering nearly 1,000 acres of ground, with an average altitude of 1,900 meters. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is an important plateau training base in our country, known as the "champion take-off place", once the world-famous Ma Jiajun, race walking "devil coach" Wang Kui, they will pull a team to Chenggong every year for plateau training, long-distance running and race walking world champions/Olympic champions Wang Junxia, Chen Yueling is from here, and finally dominate the world.

The training base is equipped with training venues for track and field, wrestling, cycling, motorcycles, shooting, gliding, parachuting, model airplanes and other projects, and the training venues for track and field, wrestling, cycling, motorcycles, shooting and other projects fully meet the requirements of hosting domestic professional events, among which the facilities of track and field and wrestling training grounds are the most perfect, and they can directly host international competitions in track and field and wrestling.

Du Ke arrived at the Chenggong training base on the night of April 11, and the main leaders of the training base, all the coaches/players/staff of the Chinese cycling national team, and the special coaching staff of the Chinese track and field national team gathered together to warmly welcome Du Ke's arrival.

In the next period of time, Duke will conduct altitude training at the training base, and the training program is cycling + track and field.

Anyway, there is a bicycle training ground and a track and field training ground inside the training base.

Duke first sat down with the cycling team, and the time was pressed and the meeting was held overnight.

The leader of the Chinese cycling team is Director Wang, who is the deputy director of the cycling fencing center and is in charge of cycling events.

In addition to the bicycle project, Director Wei, the leader of the Zijian Center, also has to take care of his old fencing project and triathlon, and he can't squat at the training base every day, so he entrusts the Chinese cycling team to Director Wang, the deputy director of the Zijian Center.

In a conference room at the training base, there are several people, five Chinese and one foreigner: Du Ke, Director Wang, road race coach Zhu Gui, mountain race and BMX (BMX) coach Zheng Gui, track race coach Benoit and his interpreter. Benoit is a foreign coach from France who has been coaching the Chinese cycling team for several years.

Director Wang personally operated the computer and projector, and put out a PPT to introduce the current situation of Chinese cycling to Du Ke, as well as the specific plan for Du Ke's preparation for the Rio Olympics.

"Du Ke, in fact, you should know that the overall level of men's cycling in China is not high, and there is still a big gap from the world's high level." Director Wang's opening remarks were quite low-key, but what he said was also the truth.

"We're always going to take a solid step." Du Ke said that of course he knows that the Chinese men's cycling event is relatively weak, and if it is as domineering as table tennis, then we will not play bicycles.

"I've been working at the Sword Center for 20 years, and my biggest regret is that I haven't been able to fulfill my promise to Mr. Samaranch." Director Wang said with a sigh.

China is known as the kingdom of bicycles, at present, there are more than 600 million people riding bicycles in China, and the annual output of bicycles reaches more than 30 million.

Samaranch, former president of the International Olympic Games and an old friend of the Chinese, has repeatedly said in public that he sincerely hopes that Chinese cyclists can have a high level and wants to see Chinese cyclists win an Olympic gold medal.

Unfortunately, until Mr. Samaranch passed away, he was not able to see Chinese cyclists achieve a breakthrough of zero gold medals at the Olympic Games.

Everyone, including Du Ke, sighed: "Hey......" is a little speechless, everyone has a good impression of Lao Sa, Samaranch helped China a lot when he was in office, after he died of illness in Spain in 2010, China's No. 1 leader at that time immediately sent a message of condolence, saying that Chinese people will never forget the friendship between Mr. Samaranch and China.

Director Wang adjusted his emotions and continued: "Although China is a big country in the use and production of bicycles, we are still apprentices in the field of bicycle competition. After 30 years of exploration and learning, some breakthroughs have been made in some individual events in the women's track race, but the men's event still depends on Du Ke......

It was not until the early 80s that China's Sports Commission (the predecessor of the Sports Federation) made up its mind to seriously engage in cycling projects, and determined that the women's track short distance event was the breakthrough point for cycling in the Olympic Games, and the whole country gathered the strength of the whole country to grasp the women's bicycle track race short distance individual event.

Finally, at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, China's female cyclist Jiang Cuihua won the bronze medal in the 500-meter time trial at the cycling venue, achieving a breakthrough of zero Olympic medals for China's cycling.

In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, another female rider in China, Jiang Yonghua, went one step further, also in the women's 500-meter time trial, Jiang Yonghua won a silver medal, only one step away from China's first Olympic gold medal in cycling.

Guo Shuang then won a bronze medal in the women's track sprint at the '08 Olympics and again in the event at the London Olympics, as well as a silver medal in the women's keirin. She was the strongest female cyclist in China in those years, and she made a name for herself in the world, and she can be called a generation of famous generals and heroines.

The most unforgettable thing for Chinese is probably that at the London Olympics, Guo Shuang and Gong Jinjie won the gold medal in the women's team sprint, but after the game, they were judged to have fouled by the referee team and canceled the gold medal of the Chinese team. It's acceptable to lose if the strength is not good, but we are gold medal strength, Guo Shuang and Gong Jinjie were the top masters ranked No. 1 in the world at that time.

Gong Jinjie's eyes were swollen from crying and went to appeal, and the referee team said that the award was going to be presented soon, and there was no time to accept the appeal and watch any video playback, so that's it, don't make trouble. The appeal was invalid, and in the end, the gold medal of Guo Shuang and Gong Jinjie's women's track sprint became a silver medal.

"His grandmother's! It's infuriating to think about! When the PPT recalled, everyone in the conference room was indignant.

Even Benoit, the French foreign coach, is the coach in charge of the track race, and he knows the most about the track race.

Duke asked Benoit's translator, "What is he talking about?" ”

Translation: "Old Ben said that the British are like this, they are very gentlemanly on the surface, and their stomachs are full of male thieves and female prostitutes. Your Chinese delegation has won too many Olympic gold medals in London, and it has suppressed the British delegation, which is third in the gold medal table. Britain is the host, and they don't want you to win too many Olympic gold medals, otherwise it will be very shameful. To add, the French and the British have always looked down on each other for historical reasons, and what Ben said may be a bit extreme, so you can only listen to half of it. ”

"Not extreme, what Ben said is very objective!" The coaches and Duke gave a thumbs up to Coach Benoit, "Justice is at ease, you see, what happened to us in London, French friends can't stand it." ”

"Huh." Benoit smiled faintly, and then said a lot of French in a serious manner.

The translator immediately translated into Chinese: "Old Ben said that although history is painful, it has also been turned over, and we still have to focus on the future and grasp the present. From the historical record, it can be seen that although it did not win an Olympic gold medal, the Chinese women's cycling project has been improving. As for the Chinese men's cycling event, with all due respect, let's not think about any Olympic gold medals or anything like that, and then talk about qualifying for the Olympics. ”

"Chinese male cyclists, as long as they can appear in the Rio Olympics, they are considered ...... Well, I didn't hear the last few sentences clearly, but what the old Ben meant was that as long as the Chinese male cyclists could qualify for the Olympics and see the Chinese male cyclists in the Rio Olympics, it would be already singing and crying. ”

"From the 80s to the present, in the past 30 years, the number of Chinese male cyclists participating in the Olympic cycling competition has been 6 people, and an average of 1 person can be sent to participate in the Olympic Games every 5 years, and the Olympic men's cycling event has 9 golds, and a country can reach more than a dozen people in an Olympic Games...... Therefore, being able to ride in Rio, no matter what ranking and results are achieved in the end, is a major victory for Chinese male cyclists. ”

"What Lao Ben means is that our Chinese bicyclers are weak." Duke asked the translator with a smile.

The translator explained: "He's not belittling us, he's worrying. ”

Du Ke nodded: "I appreciate the straightforward character of the old man, you tell him, our Chinese masters will definitely rise, and please ask this high-level foreign teacher for more guidance." (To be continued.) )