After a pause, in the little guy's expectant gaze, he also said to the Transformers in the little guy's arms, 'Thank you just and Nuan Nuan'.

After hearing this, Xiao Budian was so happy that his big eyes sparkled, and while holding the Transformers in his arms, he said to Wu Gang: "Brother didn't need to thank you just now!" ”

Su Liang: "......"

After watching how Wu Gang coaxed the little guy throughout the whole process, Su Liang knew why his little little guy had such a good relationship with Wu Gang.

It was also the first time that the surrounding national team people watched Wu Gang's scene at close range, and many people who were originally a little scared of Wu Gang's stinky face also felt that Wu Gang seemed to have become much more kind and cute than before.

How so?

Seeing that he is such a guy who can scare children into crying, he still has such an 'iron man tenderness' side, it is true that anyone will put a new filter on Wu Gang's stinky face, right?

It was also from this day that Wu Gang, a famous stinky face in the national team, found that when he entered the national team for training every day, there were more and more people who greeted him, and those who usually frowned and couldn't help but retreat gradually seemed to be no longer afraid of him.

It was only when he was on the ring that the eyes of his opponents that he looked like a shark man could remind him of his past treatment in the crowd.

And in the corner that Wu Gang didn't know, the legend of the national team about him gradually changed from 'the guy who looked like a bandit leader' to 'the guy with a stinky face but a great way to coax children'.

Is this really—congratulations?

Chapter 281

After the first schedule of the World Youth Championships, Su Liang and other players did not watch the game again in the next two days.

It's not that they don't pay attention to the World Youth Championships, but people such as Su Liang and others are also players of the national team, and they also have schedules for the rest of the season.

In such a situation, whether it was Su Liang, Mu Yuansheng, Shang Fei, or Chu Rui, it was impossible for them to let themselves rest for a long time.

In competitive sports, the emphasis on training is the same, and there are many top athletes who come to the team for a simple basic training to keep themselves in shape, even on Sundays, when all teams are on rest.

For example, the Spring Festival is a very important winter training cycle for summer athletes, and there is a lot of training adjustment related work waiting for athletes in this cycle.

For winter athletes, the Spring Festival is perfect for their important schedules, such as the Winter Olympics, which are held in February, which usually coincides with the Lunar New Year in China, which is a time for family reunions for ordinary people and the highlight of each season for winter athletes.

Even if it is a non-Olympic year, such as the 2003-2004 season, which is not an Olympic year or a pre-Olympic quota period, this year's Chinese New Year falls on 22 January, followed by the next two World Cup matches in the Czech Republic and Italy on 6 February and 12 February respectively.

No matter which World Cup sub-tournament Su Liang will participate in at that time, it means that it is impossible for him to have time and leisure to spend this Lunar New Year.

Of course, the same is true for the rest of the national team.

While some of them have not qualified for the next World Cup, there are also continental tournaments in China – such as championships, Challenger tournaments or Asian – that are waiting for them to participate.

Therefore, any player who still has a little expectation for his career will not be able to spare three days to watch the full World Junior Championships.

Therefore, starting from the second day of the Short Track Speed Skating World Youth Championships on January 10, there are many fewer members of the national team in the audience on the seats of the Chinese national team, such as Su Liang, Mu Yuansheng, Shang Fei and others have returned to the national team to continue their regular training, of course, such as Lin Yongsheng and Zhou Qiqi, the players of the national youth team, still came to the scene.

After all, for Lin Yongsheng and others, although they did not have the opportunity to play, it was also a very important learning experience for them to be able to watch the World Junior Championships compete with each other among the world's top young players.

Maybe it's really because Erxiang, Wu Gang, and Zhao Zimo were viciously trained by Su Liang for a few days in the previous training stage, and the next 500m on the second day of the competition and the 1000m on the third day of the race, as well as the men's 2000m relay on the two schedule days, the Huaguo team has achieved very good results.

Especially in the 500-meter event in the second schedule, many ice fans were worried that Liu Qiutong and Li Binyang, who were the best at 500 meters, failed to become the main selection of the World Youth Championships because of their comprehensive strength, which may be very unfavorable for the 500-meter battle of the Chinese team.

Ice fans on the Ice and Snow Kingdom Forum were even anxious for a long time, but on the second day of the race, Sun Ruixiang, Wu Gang and Zhao Zimo, who competed in the men's 500m, still had two of them successfully enter the final - one is still Erxiang and Wu Gang.

Among them, Wu Gang successfully entered the finals, which has something to do with his stinky face, in the men's 500m semifinals, he and Zhao Zimo were in the same semi-final group, Zhao Zimo dared to discuss with Wu Gang before the start of the game The strategy of the two in the semi-finals.

The general idea is to see who is better at the start, and then to make sure that the other individual will fully cooperate with the front one, and in short, at least one of them will qualify for the final.

Speaking of which, if it was the day before yesterday, Zhao Zimo might not dare to discuss this matter with Wu Gang, but Wu Gang's stinky face was really an indiscriminate attack, and he really made him tremble.

But in the bus on the return trip of the national team the day before yesterday, he saw with his own eyes Wu Gang, a stinky guy, squatting in front of the seat to coax Su Liang's soft younger brother.

Seeing that the relationship between Xiao Budian and Wu Gang was so good, Zhao Zimo suddenly remembered - one by one, children are the smartest, they know who is good to him and who is not good to him, so even if Wu Gang always has a stinky face, Su Liang's little little bit can also see the essence through the phenomenon and feel that Wu Gang is actually a good person with a soft heart!

It was with this kind of blind confidence that Zhao Zimo was able to muster up the courage to find Wu Gang and discuss with him the combat countermeasures in the game.

After communicating with Wu Gang, after seeing Wu Gang agree to him with his own eyes, and after not saying a word, Zhao Zimo finally sighed in secret—I never expected that Wu Gang was really such a good person!

Of course, the teammates here in the Huaguo team know that Wu Gang is a 'good person', but the players outside the Huaguo team don't have this special 'warm filter' for Wu Gang.

In the last World Youth Championships, many players had already seen Wu Gang, and these players were frightened by Wu Gang's face.

In the words of some of the players, one ah, the Chinese player, has a face that looks like a foul! It's really horrible!

I don't know if it's the role of Wu Gang's face or the Huaguo team's point ice start to change to a sideways start is too successful, in short, in the starting stage, Wu Gang and Zhao Zimo actually briefly occupied the leading position and the second place, but Zhao Zimo's talent in the 500-meter distance is indeed not as good as his talent in the 1000-meter distance, and when he entered the final lap of the sprint, he was overtaken by Eliezer LePage behind him and missed the final qualification.

But the successful promotion of Sun Ruixiang and Wu Gang is already an additional surprise!

When the competition reached the final stage of the 500-meter finals, many ice fans were speculating that in the final competition, Sun Ruixiang and Eliezer LePage were both high-explosive players with strong physical strength, commonly known as bulldozers on the ice, with these two people, maybe Erxiang would win another gold medal in today's competition!

However, what people didn't expect was that when starting the run in this race, Er Xiang and EliezellePage made some mistakes and failed to win the leading position in the first time, but Wu Gang, who was originally in the second lane, seized the opportunity of the two mistakes and successfully occupied the leading position!

Another athlete from Germany also took advantage of the mistakes of EliezellePage and Erxiang to successfully occupy the second position, so that the two who originally looked like they were going to compete for the 500m gold medal finally fell to the extent of competing for the 500m bronze medal.

The changes in the field of play can be seen here.

In the end, Wu Gang maintained his stable form, and under the strong offensive of the second German player, he successfully held his leading position and successfully won the first heavyweight gold medal of his career!

When Ochs, an official of the International Ice Association, presented him with a gold medal in the men's 500m on the ice, the young athlete, who had always had a stinky face and even made people feel intimidated, silently bowed his head and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes when people could not check it, and then regained his stinky face, which always seemed unkind, and bowed to the spectators on all sides.

When he waved towards one of the stands, he saw a little guy standing behind the railing on the edge of the stand, and then when he held a transformer high in his hand and waved it at him, a very faint smile flashed on his face as if he had never smiled, and then he waved his hand seriously in the direction where the little guy was, and said 'thank you' softly.

The results of the first two schedule days have already made ice fans overjoyed, and on the third schedule day, Zhao Zimo, who failed to advance to the finals in the first two days of competition, finally 'turned over'.

In the men's 1000m event, he always maintained the first ranking in the group and advanced directly, and in the end, he was the only one who successfully advanced to the finals, under the siege and interception of two Japanese team players, he successfully surpassed all his opponents with his outstanding strength, and finally successfully won his short track speed skating World Youth Championships men's 1000m gold medal!

From the last World Youth Championships in the 500m individual event frustrated and almost collapsed, to this year's World Youth Championships, in the men's 1000m final, when he was the only one in the Chinese team to advance to the final, he steadily maintained his mentality, kept a calm attitude under the opponent's encirclement and interception, looked for opportunities and accurately seized the opportunity ......!

Zhao Zimo's growth is enough to make everyone who knows him proud and proud of him!

And this short track speed skating World Youth Championships hosted by China for the first time, at Huaguo's own doorstep, under the eager attention of all Chinese spectators and ice fans, the men's team and the women's team successfully won 4 individual gold medals and 1 team gold medal, as well as a number of silver and bronze medals, and Wu Gang of the men's team relied on the strong points advantage of the men's 500-meter gold medal and the 1500-meter bronze medal, and together with his outstanding performance in the final men's all-around king battle, let the Chinese team in this competition. The title of the men's all-round king was once again left in Huaguo!

When the three-day World Youth Championships ended, the world's ice and snow-related media reported the results of the World Youth Championships, and most of the relevant sports media exclaimed - the Chinese Army is coming!

In the short track speed skating section of the Ice and Snow Kingdom Forum, there are even ice fans who are sighing - [This time in the Short Track Speed Skating World Youth Championships, the Huaguo team told everyone with real results that the young generation of short track speed skating in China has really grown up!] Next, I believe that not only the World Junior Championships, but also the subsequent World Championships and even the Olympic Games...... Huaguo's athletes will make a louder voice to announce the strength of Huaguo's short track speed skating to the world! 】

I can't help but look forward to that day!

Chapter 282

After the end of the two competitions of the World Cup Beijing Station and the Short Track Speed Skating World Youth Championships, the popularity of short track speed skating in China ended with the hit broadcast of the TV series "Running to the Top of the World", and it was finally over.

This time, the combination of TV series and competitive sports is definitely an unprecedented classic case in China, and some domestic projects originally felt that the popularity of short track speed skating was not really rising, but after the World Youth Championships, the live ratings of the World Youth Championships once again on the sports channel once again told everyone that the domestic short track speed skating boom is not virtual, it is really a lot of viewers who have been because of the previous series of hot topics, and also because of the more and more outstanding results of short track speed skating in China. So I really got to know and love the project!

Nowadays, when you ask a TV reporter to go out and do an interview, such as 'What are your favorite winter sports?', most of the audience interviewed can talk about short track speed skating in addition to figure skating.

Especially in the southern region, where there was a serious lack of understanding of winter sports in the past, with the popularity of TV dramas and the spread of entertainment gossip, many people now have a new understanding of short track speed skating.

Because of the successful effect of the 'vanguard' of short track speed skating, now the various projects are more or less in action, and they are counting on the linkage of culture and sports, and the publicity offices of each project are no longer sticking to the traditional local methods of the past, and gradually starting to exert their efforts in the direction of some new trends.

The content that began to spread outward from the short track speed skating project is still gradually exuding its influence, and within the short track speed skating project, the biggest impact now is that the athletes have become more curled one by one!

In the early years, the domestic short track speed skating results were just like that, the attention to the event was not high, the opportunities for athletes to participate were few, and the overall athlete income was not good.

For some players who are not too ambitious in their professional pursuits, all they have to do is to go through the usual days of mingling, and only when there are some key national events related to their career earnings or ratings, they will grit their teeth and fight for it.

If you have to say it, you can't blame the athletes for this kind of thing, there are few domestic players who can participate in the event, and even fewer players who can enter the national team and participate in international competitions.

However, the level of domestic competitions is low, the prize money is small, the points are small, and even because of the low popularity of short track speed skating, there is a serious lack of sponsors, so even low-level domestic events are rare.

In such a situation, even if athletes want to exert more force in domestic competitions, they cannot find a direction to exert their strength.

However, stimulated by the various heats of this season, not to mention the various cities, at least the three eastern provinces, as well as Beijing, Hebei Province and other provinces that had developed relatively well in short track speed skating, began to exert their efforts in the middle of the season, especially now after the end of the World Youth Championships, these provinces have successively held provincial events in the U20 group and adult group.

At the same time, the companies willing to sponsor the short track speed skating event are no longer limited to the Feiyang Group, and local companies in some provinces are also willing to invest in the short track speed skating competition.

Not only the event, but also some provincial and municipal teams have ushered in new sponsors, especially teams such as the Beijing team with popular players such as Su Liang and Mu Yuansheng, or teams such as the provincial team of Ji Province with players such as Northeast Sanbao, and the number of sponsorship inquiries received has skyrocketed.

Perhaps compared with popular sports such as football and table tennis, there are still very few sponsors for short track speed skating, but compared with the past, the short track speed skating teams in each province this year can be regarded as having a prosperous year!

And it can be seen with the naked eye that as long as the popularity of short track speed skating continues to be maintained, then the number of sponsorships, advertisements and national-level events will further increase next season - and even because of the rising popularity now, the domestic ice association has even begun to imagine that short track speed skating can be like the table tennis super league, and also create a club commercial league!

Of course, it is too early to talk about such things as commercial leagues, but it is an indisputable fact that there are more short track speed skating events and more prize money in China.

Even those players who originally planned to play badly, now seeing these new national and provincial competitions, you say that you can't compete with the top players of the national team in the national competition, but what about the provincial competition?

Those people in the national team will only roll in national events or international events, you are also a provincial team player, in your provincial competition, can you not roll up the teams of various cities and sports colleges under your jurisdiction?

I'm afraid the players themselves will feel ashamed!

And even if you don't want to be bad, but in fact, how many players can get to this point and really want to be bad in their careers? Now there are more opportunities to compete, more bonuses, and so on, after the state is better, maybe you can also impact the national level competition, if you are lucky, maybe you can really be selected for the national team!

After this layer of reasons, the players who originally wanted to be bad took action!

At the same time, because there are more events and more publicity, viewers who originally watched the TV series and did not have the opportunity to go to Beijing to watch the competition can also watch it in their respective provinces - watch the short track speed skating competition - so even if it is a provincial event, there are few well-known players, but in fact, there are quite a few viewers who are willing to apply for free tickets or buy low-cost tickets directly!

Some of them brought their children to the scene to cultivate interest in watching the provincial players, and some of them were interested in watching the competition.

In short, the audience seats in the arena were not deserted, and the players could hear the cheers of the audience from time to time.

Even the provincial and municipal teams and the Winter Sports Management Center did not expect that once the positive cycle was started, it would be able to have such a good effect!

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In the national team, this time is not just Su Liang, such as Wu Gang, Er Xiang and Zhao Zimo, because the three of them each won a single World Youth Championship gold medal, although it is not enough to separate the three of them, but the three of them can be packaged in -, and some businesses have come to the door to invite the three of them to shoot advertisements.

This made Erxiang very happy, so he specially called home for this matter and bragged to his parents and grandparents one by one, and finally his mother hung up the phone directly for him, and he stopped.

As for Su Liang, after the end of the game in Beijing, the overall training entered a relatively flat stage, except for a short high-intensity training match before the World Youth Championships, the follow-up training was carried out in accordance with the plan tailored for him by the national team, step by step.

After the end of the World Youth Championships, because the training cycle was relatively flat, Su Liang had a rare good year at home this year, and it was not until February 7 that he went to Italy with his senior brother Chu Rui, You Jian, Ling Junyong and others under the reluctant gaze of the family to participate in the last station of this season's World Cup.

Before the departure of this sub-race, Lin Guobin also specially found Su Liang again, and once again emphasized that he should not put too much pressure on himself-Lin Guobin had talked to Su Liang before, mainly because he was afraid that Su Liang's burden would be too heavy, such as winning the 1500-meter gold medal in the short track speed skating World Cup sub-station several times in a row, Lin Guobin was afraid that Su Liang's burden in this matter was too heavy, and now when the number is less, ice fans will rejoice, and I am afraid that if Su Liang really wins more, then when the time comes— Once Su Liang loses the game, there may be ice fans who come out to accuse Su Liang's state of declining.

This is not uncommon in other events, just like in the case of national table tennis, for national table tennis players, victory seems to be a proper noun, and once you lose a foreign war, it looks like you have committed a felony - and looking at this event, which is also short track speed skating, look at the South Korean things that have to kneel and bow in front of the people to apologize after losing a game......

Lin Guobin didn't want Su Liang to be burdened with such pressure at a young age, which was not too beneficial for Su Liang's future career path.

However, Su Liang promised well in front of Lin Guobin, and after he really stood on the Italian branch competition, he once again crushed all the older and stronger players and successfully won the men's 1500m gold medal in the Italian branch of the World Cup!

This time, the official of the International Ice Association who presented him with the award was not the familiar Oakes, but the official of the Ice Association also expressed his admiration for Su Liang's achievements.

And when Lin Guobin called Su Liang with some worries, Su Liang just replied to him calmly: "Director Lin, this is a competition, as long as I can win, I don't want to lose." ”

Hearing his words, Lin Guobin, who was originally still a little worried, was silent for a moment, and finally said with a smile: "Xiao Liang, you are right, I am in love, what I said before is not counted, I believe that you have your own ideas, and the national team will continue to support your ideas!" ”

On the same day, in the short track speed skating module on the ISU official website, the photo of Su Liang waving to the audience when receiving the award in Italy became the front page headline of this section.