Needless to say, everyone in the national team already knew that he was a rare all-rounder, and Shang Fei, his explosiveness in the 1500-meter race was not weak, and he was a long-distance player, although he may not be able to compete with Chu Rui in the starting stage, but in the second half of the 1000 meters, it is not yet known who he and Chu Rui will win or lose.

Thinking of this, Chu Rui glanced at Su Liang again, and there was a lot of emotion in his eyes.

"Brother Chu, what's wrong?"

Su Liang noticed Chu Rui's gaze and asked.

Chu Rui smiled and patted Su Liang on the shoulder: "I, I'm thinking, if I can't even enter the semifinals for a while, it will be a shame." ”

When Su Liang heard this, he said seriously: "No." ”

Chu Rui listened to Su Liang's answer and laughed: "What won't be, sports competition, infinite possibilities - who knows what will happen until the last moment on the field?" For example, if I accidentally fail to qualify, of course, it is completely possible. ”

"But Brother Chu, you ......"

Su Liang was still quite serious and wanted to explain and comfort Chu Rui, but when he saw a sly smile on Chu Rui's face, he couldn't help but laugh lightly.

Yes, Chu Rui is not really panicking.

During the summer training cycle, Su Liang saw Chu Rui following his coach in the middle and long distance training, as a top talent player in the short distance, Chu Rui didn't mind how basic and trivial the training programs he provided in the summer training cycle at that time were.

The basic training program provided by Su Liang is derived from the latest training content of his former Chinese national team, which also incorporates the essence of coaches from different countries such as South Korea, Canada, and Russia.

It can be said that it is a training program that allows athletes to reinvent themselves from the basics.

However, for famous players who have been training for many years, it is actually not easy to break their basic habits and improve from scratch, especially during the summer training period, everyone was still changing the starting method from point ice to sideways at the same time.

It can be said that some athletes of the national team were a little sluggish about Su Liang's training plan at that time, and everyone's training was more focused on their own technical adjustments.

As for the adjustment of the basic training content plan, it is difficult to achieve results in the short term, so there are not too many people who really pay attention to it at that time.

However, Chu Rui, as a top player, still insisted on training and adjusting according to Su Liang's training plan from scratch when he had a solid foundation.

That alone is admirable enough.

And according to Su Liang's observation, Chu Rui's training has achieved very good results - at the same time, because the basic training has improved his personal gliding ability and some route control ability, so in the 1000-meter event, Chu Rui now has not only his super explosive power in the early stage, but also some personal ability improvement on the route.

That's why Chu Rui just showed such a sly smile on his face.

Thinking of this, Su Liang also smiled, he looked at Chu Rui who was humming, and said, "Brother Chu, I'll see you on the field in a while."

Chapter 263

Su Liang guessed well, Chu Rui's current strength in the 1000-meter single event has indeed been greatly improved compared with the past, but to say how much it has improved, Chu Rui himself has no bottom in his heart.

Since the beginning of this season, this Beijing station is the third sub-race of the World Cup, the first Canadian station and the second stop of the United States station he did not participate, although he played a few rounds of championship in China, but the overall level of domestic short track speed skating is bound to be impossible to compare with the level of international competitions.

Therefore, for Chu Rui, this race is also a touchstone to verify how much progress he has made in the 1000-meter single event.

In fact, for Chu Rui, he has been famous for a long time in the short track speed skating project, as the first person in the men's 500 meters in China, when Qi Wenjun had not retired, Chu Rui had already become famous, and now in the national team, he can be regarded as a veteran.

In terms of his current strength and status, including the awards he has won, Chu Rui is the first active athlete - after all, he holds the men's 500m gold medal at the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, which is also Huaguo's first men's individual gold medal at the World Championships so far.

If ordinary players can have Chu Rui's actual performance, he should have been relieved to retire at the age of twenty-seven or eighteen, but Chu Rui, with his current status in the team, is still willing to break the routine and make basic training adjustments to himself according to the new training plan from scratch - this alone - is stronger than many young players in the team.

And he has never given up on improving his strength in other individual events.

It is because of such a famous general who loves the project wholeheartedly, and at the same time has solid achievements and the right to speak, that in the world before Su Liang crossed, Jiang Bo was able to have the opportunity to shoulder the burden of the national team and move forward again with the team that was complacent because of various things at that time.

For the former Su Liang, 'Uncle Chu Rui' is a good friend of his father who he often sees.

As for being in the same arena as the former 'Uncle Chu Rui' now, to be honest, this feeling is quite amazing.

***

Of course, Chu Rui didn't know that he could still be an 'uncle' in Su Liang's eyes, although he is not young among short track speed skaters now, he has a young mentality, and he never feels that he has really reached the age where he needs to consider retirement or something.

Especially in this season's summer training cycle, the adjustment of the series of basic training programs provided by Su Liang in their team made his eyes bright, and after discussing with his head coach, he gritted his teeth and began to start training according to that new training plan.

- Throughout the summer training cycle, it was not that he didn't think about what would happen if this plan didn't work, but he still gritted his teeth and persevered.

And the results after the training can be said to be surprising to him.

Now, he's going to come to the arena to see what the results of this training can take him!

***

Ice Kingdom Forum Short Track Speed Skating Section

Although the key topics discussed by the ice fans in the forum are Su Liang, of course, the ice fans are also extremely concerned about a veteran like Chu Rui, and there are actually many discussion posts about him.

33L: [Anyway, Brother Chu also went up 1000 meters this time.] 】

37L: [Chu Rui - you want to break through yourself, right? Especially after the previous defeat in Salt Lake City, Chu Rui's desire to break through became more obvious. 】

Yes, although Huaguo's short track speed skating 500m is strong enough to be world-renowned, the competition in the Winter Olympics has not been smooth.

It's not the women's team, it's the men's team.

Perhaps because when the national team was formed earlier, there were more women in the first generation of athletes, so that the short track speed skating national team has always been a form of strong women and weak men in the early stage, and so far, the women's team has actually achieved stronger results in the world championships than the men's team.

At the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, everyone thought that with Chu Rui's results and state at that time, it would not be a problem to win a men's 500m Olympic gold medal, but the final result was extremely regrettable.

Perhaps it is also because of the feeling of regret in his heart, so Chu Rui has always been trying to break through himself, and he is constantly pursuing better and better performance.

Even when there are top juniors like Mu Yuansheng and Su Liang in the men's 500m young generation, Chu Rui is also persevering, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that Chu Rui hopes that he can persist until he gets a ticket to the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, washing away his regrets.

For Chu Rui's persistence, ice fans have support and disfavor, but no matter what kind of view they hold, they also maintain admiration for Chu Rui's insistence and belief.

55L: [No matter what Chu Rui thinks, anyway, I support him as an ice fan, don't look at the young generation of Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng now, but the popularity of our Huaguo team's short-distance invincibility earlier is also Chu Rui and his predecessors - Jiang Shanyi who played a little bit - and now his status in the circle is still challenging himself, I admire him for this alone! ] 】

66L: [Speaking of which, I went to see the domestic challenge once this season, and I always feel that Chu Rui's skating method this season is a little different from the past...... And it still looks a little familiar......]

68L: [Familiar +1, I thought it was my own delusion, since it's not me—I personally think so, then it's true that Chu Rui's gliding method has changed, does anyone know what's going on?] 】

72L: [What else could be—what?] How many of you haven't followed Liu Ji's blog? Liu Ji visited the winter training center several times during the summer training cycle, and found out at that time that in addition to the abolition of the ice point in the national team, there are also some players who are conducting additional basic training. 】

A group of ice fans who are reading the post: !!

Good guy, it turns out that Su Liang is again?!

Speaking of which, the ice fans on the Ice and Snow Kingdom Forum have long been accustomed to one thing - that is, some things that can make waves in the short track speed skating circle today are more or less related to Su Liang.

It's like such a thing in front of Fang Cai, which originally seemed to have nothing to do with Su Liang, but it turned out to be Su Liang who provided training help to Chu Rui.

Some ice fans laughed and complained about 'the ubiquitous Su Liang', and immediately got everyone's nods in agreement.

In the midst of everyone's laughter, the women's 1000m and men's 1000m preliminaries and quarterfinals in the morning have come to an end.

A total of 6 players from the Huaguo team, including the women's team and the men's team, all successfully advanced to the semi-finals - in the semi-final group list on the spot, the neat 6 names from the Huaguo team once again made the ice fans laugh at the scene and in front of the TV.

In addition to the Chinese team, the teams of other countries couldn't help but fall silent after seeing the six names of the Chinese team.

Some overseas reporters who came to China to cover the news couldn't help but exclaim, even though the semi-finals and finals had not yet started in the afternoon, but the topic of "the rise of the Chinese team" was still sent back to their media headquarters by them.

Not only these overseas media who came to the scene, but also some foreign TV stations that were broadcasting the Beijing Station of the Short Track Speed Skating World Cup, their live broadcast host also exclaimed 'terrible' at the semi-final list of the Chinese team.

- [Oh my God, in yesterday's competition, the Huaguo team has unceremoniously taken all three medals in the men's 500m, but in today's 1000m race, their women's team and men's team actually advanced to the semifinals at the same time! Oh my God, these terrible Chinese people don't want to win gold, silver and bronze in today's 1000m race, right? 】

- [Audience friends in front of the TV, I heard that there is an old saying in China, called 'friends come from afar', which means that there are good friends from far away to visit, and Chinese people are very happy...... Perhaps, is it possible that the way for Chinese people to express their 'happiness' is to show all their strength and win completely? Uh, if that's the case...... I still hope that the Chinese people will not need to be so happy and enthusiastic next time. 】

——[The 500m single event is indeed the advantage of the Chinese national team, and I can understand that the Chinese national team has won incomparably brilliant results in this single event - but who can tell me which individual event our country's athletes are good at? Hey, let's count, 1500 meters? The gold medal went to the Chinese national team, 500 meters? The gold, silver and bronze are all ...... of the Huaguo team

Now it is 1000 meters, and there are a total of 8 competitors in 2 groups in the semi-finals, 3 of which are from the Chinese national team...... Oh my God, if I'm not mistaken, our Canadian team should also be very good at the 1000m distance, or rather, our twin stars of Samuel Adams and Benjamin Williams, should not be silent on the field.

So where are our players?

Oh, and they also managed to advance to the semi-finals, but one less than the Chinese team.

Okay, that's fine, at least our 'double star' didn't disappoint us! 】

In short, the live commentators from all over the world are talking about the difference in the current performance of the Chinese national team - the luckier ones such as Canada and South Korea have at least two of them each advanced to the semi-finals, while the less fortunate ones such as Russia, Great Britain and Germany have all been wiped out in the quarter-finals.

As for the U.S. team, the stubborn Harrick Blasi once again managed to advance to the semifinals, becoming the only U.S. player other than three Chinese players, two Canadian players, and two South Korean players.

When they saw the only name of the U.S. team to advance, Lin Fangzheng and Liao Yuwei, who were in the live broadcast commentary seats, both laughed.

The young athlete of the American team, you have to say that he is good, but he made a lot of mistakes in the 1500m and 500m races.

But you have to say that his strength is not good, in the case of the 1000 meters, which can be called the hegemony of the group, he still broke through the encirclement and advanced to the semifinals.

For a moment, his strength was difficult to weigh.

As for Samuel Adams and Benjamin Williams, who successfully advanced to the semi-finals stage of the Canadian team, the two of them looked at each other's group lists at this time.

Samuel Adams did not need to meet Su Liang in the same group of semi-finals, but Chu Rui and Shang Fei of the Huaguo team were both in the same group as him, and Choi Sang-yong of South Korea was also in the same group as him.

With the four of them playing in the same group, it's not an exaggeration to say 'Group of Death'.

Of course, this is by no means to say that Su Liang and their group do not die.

After all, the grouping of four players, Su Liang, Benjamin Williams, Lee Jae-hyung and Harrick Blasi, was gathered...... No matter how you look at it, it's not an easy group to advance.

Samuel Adams had to pat his teammates on the shoulder and reluctantly comfort each other.

To be honest, they can be called the double stars of Canadian short track speed skating side by side, and they have participated in a lot of different competitions, even the Winter Olympics and World Championships.

But the recent successive meetings with the Chinese team still gave Samuel Adams a headache.

It's really the new friend Su Liang in the Huaguo team, the ghostly gliding and route selection on the ice and the way of transcendence that you can't even think of - it's hard to describe the elusive route he has on the ice.

"That's a great genius!"

This is the most common phrase mentioned by Samuel Adams and Benjamin Williams in their chat in the last two days, and it almost makes Benjamin's ears calloused.

He glared at his good teammates speechlessly, and complained, "Yes, and I'm going to play with this amazing talent in the afternoon!" Good luck with me! ”

Samuel Adams spread his hands.

"Hey, Ben, to be honest, do you smell that feeling?"

"What does it feel?" Benjamin Williams glanced back at his friend, not quite understanding what he was talking about.

Samuel Adams sighed: "Of course it's the feeling of the Great Demon King who rules us!" ”

In this world, there will always be some geniuses who are above ordinary geniuses - when such a genius appears in a certain sport, the athletes of his generation will become dim, as if the light of the whole world will be absorbed by that sun-like image.

In this day and age, there is such a genius in tennis and such a genius in sprinting...... So short track speed skating, why can't there be such a genius?

Benjamin was stunned by Samuel Adams's words, and then smiled indifferently: "What if there is?" What if you don't? Even if he is really the Great Demon King, he hasn't fully grown yet, has he? Besides, isn't the existence of the Demon King just for us 'warriors' to constantly challenge him? ”

Hearing his friend's words, Samuel Adams also laughed: "Aha, I admit it, you're right - the existence of the Demon King, in addition to bringing us shadows, also brings us new challenges and goals. ”