Banksy was in a mood.

With only a week to go until the start of the Chilean Snowboard Cross Championships, he locked himself in his room and sulked despite consecutive sick days.

Tang Huai was very anxious: "This guy is too childish, right?" Throw your face at the leader, don't harm us! ”

This race belongs to the FIS points competition, and the level is not high, but the leadership takes it seriously.

Because this is the first overseas battle of the Chinese snowboard slalom team to start the 2019-2020 season, it will test the results of more than a year of training and make plans for this year's World Cup and other major competitions.

Also because when Banks first registered, he only let Gao Entropy and Fan Qingwan participate, Tang Huai and other athletes were dissatisfied, and later the leaders of the Ice and Snow Center contacted the relevant departments of Chile and won four more places, which raised the competition to the height of friendship between the two countries.

Shao Zhendong and Gu Qiantong discussed with him that the result of the game should not be too bad, but it should not be too good, and they had to take care of the face of the two countries.

Banks had already snooped on Chilean athletes two weeks ago and made tactical arrangements, but these were classified and he did not disclose the details to Tang Huai.

Now he suddenly picks a son, making the whole team very passive.

Tang Huai went to his room twice under the pretense of visiting the sick, and the old fox looked sick, and repeatedly said words of thanks, but did not mention the team's training and competition arrangements at all.

Tang Huai resisted the urge to pull him out of bed and beat him violently, so he could only mobilize his friends to help and get a new piece of information, including who the top players in Chile are, technical characteristics and personality, etc.

Tang Huai sorted out the materials for the afternoon, printed them out and sandwiched them in his small notebook, feeling a little irritable.

After all, friends are just enthusiasts, it is difficult to be professional and meticulous, a lot of the content in the information is outdated, looking at a large paragraph of text, in fact, the only useful may be the name, approximate age and FIS points, and these are clear on the official website of the International Ski Federation.

Another thing that disturbed him was that the information about the site was also blank.

The race takes place in the small town of Pucon in southern Chile, where a unique ski resort is built on the slopes of the Biarrica volcano.

The volcano is about 2,900 meters above sea level, and the Nevado Ski Center, where you are now, is more than 4,000 meters above sea level.

The temperature, snow temperature, humidity and snow conditions are completely different between the two places, and it would be troublesome to do without this detailed information.

He decided to set off early and take 6 contestants including Gao Entropy, Fan Qingwan, and Wu Ying to adapt to the venue, while Li Changyi, Wu Lihan and other athletes stayed in Nevado to continue their daily training.

Before leaving, Tang Huai went to "visit" Banks, hoping that the foreigner could cheer up and perform his duties as head coach seriously and responsibly.

However, Banksy shook his head wrapped in the quilt, indicating that he was too "sick" to leave the room, and asked Tang Huai to hand him a glass of water and serve him to take medicine.

But in fact, not long after Tang Huai left, Banks was neatly dressed and appeared in the training ground like a dog.

Li Changyi, as the temporary captain, was guiding the novice training, and seriously talked about his experience, and suddenly felt like a man on his back, and then looked at everyone's eyes wrong, and immediately turned around.

Banksy wrapped his face tightly with a long scarf, only revealing his unkind eyes, and walked over and deliberately mocked: "Why are you still here?" ”

Li Changyi roughly understood, and responded with two words: "We, training!" ”

Banksy shook his head, "No, you shouldn't be standing here, I want you to go back to the line!" ”

He took over the command of the training, but without Gao Entropy, Tang Huai and others as translators, the morning training was a state of "the donkey's lips are not the horse's mouth".

He was very angry, and he picked his nose and eyes at Li Changyi, and belittled the athletes who stayed here as useless, and it was foreseeable that in the next week, Li Changyi and others would have a very bad time.

Gu Qiantong watched from a distance and didn't walk over to help.

This foreigner is too much, the athlete's career is very short, every game may be the last, he expressed his dissatisfaction to Shao Zhendong and other Chinese officials, and it should not affect everyone's game.

Besides, Tang Huai's side, this time there are frequent appearances, and it seems that the game will not be too smooth.

The distance between Pucon and Vallenevado is nearly 700 kilometers in a straight line, and the only means of transportation suitable for the seven of them is to rent a minibus.

The car looked quite new, but it broke down not long after getting on the highway, and the car rental company transferred another car over, and it was delayed for another two hours.

By the time they arrived in Pucon, it was already midnight, and the journey was very tiring.

The next day, I went to the Biarrica Volcano and found that it was far away from Pukonbi's imagination, and drove dozens of kilometers into the Biarrica National Park to reach the foot of the mountain, and then took the cable car halfway up the mountain, which took a lot of time.

Finally stepped on the ski slope, looking at the noodle snow that had just been compacted and pleasing to the eye, Tang Huai's face suddenly changed: "Oh no, what about the suitcase with ski wax?" ”

The box of ski wax was expensive, and he put it on the first minibus, and when he changed buses halfway, everyone patronized a pair of snowboard bags and personal luggage, but no one paid attention to the small box.

Tang Huai hurriedly called the car rental company and asked them to quickly find the box and send it over, and at the same time arranged for Gao Entropy to check the local snow quality first and find a way to make an emergency plan.

Chile's climate is sunny all year round, with rain and snow in winter, but the weather is dry in the month before the race, and there is not enough snow on the mountains. So the "noodle snow" here is very different from the powder snow in Nevado.

High Entropy judged from experience that the wax on their skis was completely wrong, which not only did not help, but would affect the performance by adding too much resistance.

Now we can only hope to find the ski wax that I left behind.

Tang Huai was uneasy, and he had to look down at his phone every minute, for fear of missing the call, and for fear that the car rental company would be a scoundrel and say that he hadn't seen the box.

Fortunately, the character of the locals is not bad, half a day later, the customer service of the car rental company finally called, saying that the driver has found the lost suitcase, but the car has been leased for the second time after repair, and now it is pulling a car of guests to the north, and it is impossible to deliver it within two days.

Tang Huai had no choice, and called Gu Qiantong for help again, hoping that she could get a batch of ski wax from the team and send someone to Pukong overnight.

After this toss, the ski wax was delivered before the competition, but there was no time for them to wax and then go to the slope for inspection.

These small troubles, stacked together, formed a domino effect, which soon spread to the course of the game.