Yang Sijie, Zhao Yue and Niu Guohong stood on the podium, they were the champion, runner-up and third runner-up. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Tsinghua University won the gold medal and bronze medal, as if it was a college student sprinting overlord, and it attracted the envy of the surrounding eyes.

However, Li Dai's mood was very heavy, he thought of Zhao Yue's experience, and felt both sympathy and regret.

After Zhao Yue was diagnosed with bone cancer, it was the time when he needed the most care from others, but the national team gave up on him mercilessly.

Twenty-three-year-old Zhao Yue should have started to enter the peak of athletes, but because of a misdiagnosis, he delayed his youth for three years in vain, and when he returned to the arena, he had already begun to enter the downhill period of an athlete.

"It's cruel!" Li Dai lowered his eyes silently, he was a little afraid to look at Zhao Yue on the podium.

After all, Li Dai has been studying in the national team for so long, and the collective honor in his heart makes Li Dai a little unable to believe Zhao Yue's experience.

In reality, there are many examples of the same. The former champions set up stalls, the former champions sold lo-mei, and the former champions served as doormen, and this kind of similar reports searched a large number of pieces on the Internet, and were even promoted by the media as a model of self-improvement and self-reliance.

However, in Li Dai's view, these reports are more like moaning without illness. For the vast majority of athletes, retirement is more of a disaster. Domestic athletes are trained from an early age, except for being an athlete, there is no skill, retirement for athletes, is equivalent to losing the means to make a living.

Especially the kind of athletes who are self-employed after retirement, they have no education, no skills, and are nothing but well-developed limbs. With tens of thousands of retirement funds in their hands, it is only enough to set up a stall, what can they do besides setting up a stall?

Compared to this, Zhao Yue was obviously more unlucky, he lost everything as an athlete, and he was also burdened with debts.

Zhao Yue is sick himself, and this responsibility cannot be counted on the head of the national team, but Li Dai can understand Zhao Yue's feelings. A helpless person needs the most care and encouragement from others, but Zhao Yue was forced to retire at this time, and he will naturally vent all the negative emotions in his heart to the national team.

Li Dai felt that Xue Li had to be told about this matter.

……

Li Dai dialed Xue Li's mobile phone.

"Xiao Li, how is the Universiade compared? Did you win the championship? Xue Li's voice rang from his phone.

"I won the championship, and I won a third place." Li Dai replied.

"Yes, no disgrace to me! Didn't disgrace the national team either, keep trying! Xue Li continued: "You called specifically to tell Tsinghua University about winning the championship, right? ”

"There is an athlete named Zhao Yue, do you still have an impression?" Li Dai asked.

"Zhao Yue!" Xue Li on the other end of the phone sighed: "He is an excellent and good seedling, he has a good talent, he originally hoped to become a top sprinter, but unfortunately, he got bone cancer and had to have his leg amputated." Why, did you meet Zhao Yue in Wanzhou? ”

"Yes." Li Dai said immediately.

"How is he? Is it in a wheelchair or with a prosthetic? The cancer cells haven't spread again, have they? Xue Li asked eagerly.

Li Dai felt a little surprised, in Zhao Yue's description, the national team was so ruthless, but from Xue Li's tone, Li Dai heard a kind of heartfelt care.

"Zhao Yue didn't have a wheelchair and didn't have a prosthetic leg." Li Dai continued: "Just now I said that I won the championship and the third place, and the runner-up winner is Zhao Yue!" ”

"What? Will his legs hold on until now? Xue Li couldn't believe it.

"That bone cancer is a misdiagnosis ......" Li Dai repeated what Zhao Yue said. Including after he was injured, his application for treatment funds was not approved, and he was required by the national team to retire and go to the United States for medical treatment.

"It's hard for this child." Xue Li let out a long sigh, and then fell into silence.

Li Dai said: "Coach, I think Zhao Yue's situation at that time should be to help him, the national team let him retire forcefully, it's a bit too much!" ”

"I guessed you'd ask about it." Xue Li opened his mouth to explain: "At that time, after Zhao Yue was diagnosed with bone cancer, I also helped him apply for the injury treatment fund, but the application was not approved. ”

"Because bone cancer isn't an injury caused by training and competition, right?" Li Dai asked.

This is also a reason for refusal, mainly because the above are unwilling to pay the money, they may think that it is a wrongful amount of money. The cost of treating cancer itself is a huge bottomless pit, and the doctor gave Zhao Yue's diagnosis at that time, using conservative treatment, there is almost no possibility of cure, and if you want to save your life, you must amputate your leg. Xue Li spoke.

"That's not because, even if Zhao Yue is cured, he can't continue to be an athlete and has no value, so he won't treat him!" Li Dai said with some annoyance.

"After all, our funds are limited, and good steel should be used on the edge. Every year, there are many athletes who are injured because of training or competition, and they also need money to treat their diseases. Spending 1.8 million yuan to treat Zhao Yue for bone cancer still needs to face an unknown result. And for the same sum of money, more than a dozen injured athletes can return to the field. ”

Xue Li took a deep breath: "What we need for sports is results, and only when we have results can we have more financial support, so that this project can continue to survive." And there is only one champion, so there will always be people who need to sacrifice. I have been a coach for so many years, I have seen a lot of things, I have had a lot of helplessness, and sometimes I even feel that this line of work is more cruel than the jungle of the African savannah. ”

Li Dai opened his mouth, but he didn't speak, competitive sports are like this, the winner is king, and the loser may not even have a chance to "the loser is the loser"! This is true for individual athletes, but also for the sport as a whole.

Xue Li continued: "The application for the injury treatment fund was not approved, so Zhao Yue's mother came to the team and found the head coach and me, and Zhao Yue's mother asked us to retire Zhao Yue. ”

"Didn't the national team force Zhao Yue to retire?" Li Dai didn't expect things to turn around.

"Are we so unkind? Zhao Yue is a member of the national team, even if he has bone cancer, we will not let him be forced to retire! Xue Li continued: "His mother strongly requested to retire, and his mother didn't want him to continue to be an athlete. ”

"Zhao Yue doesn't know about this?" Li Dai asked.

"Zhao Yue didn't know about his mother's visit, because Zhao Yue's mother pleaded with our national team and helped her keep it secret, and didn't tell Zhao Yue that she had been to the national team. Zhao Yue's mother knew that he would definitely not want to retire. And we also went through the retirement procedures for Zhao Yue at the request of Zhao Yue's family. Xue Li said.

"It seems that the matter of forced retirement, the national team is carrying the black pot for Zhao Yue's parents!" Li Dai thought of this, and then asked, "Why?" Why did Zhao Yue's mother do this? ”

"Maybe his mother thinks he's working too hard!" Xue Li sighed: "Pity the hearts of parents all over the world!" ”