Almighty Coach

The notice to train in Los Angeles has been posted on the bulletin board.

"Going to train in Los Angeles, and keep training until the Olympic Games? Nearly 20 days, so long training?" An athlete frowned.

A person next to him immediately comforted: "You don't have to worry, didn't the notice say that going to Los Angeles this time is not mandatory, we can participate voluntarily. Don't go if you don't want to go."

"What I want to know is, if you have been training in Los Angeles until the Olympics, what about the fourth training camp?" another athlete asked.

"The fourth training camp is included in this Los Angeles training camp. If you don't go to Los Angeles this time, it will be regarded as voluntarily giving up the fourth national team training camp. Anyway, the fourth training camp is relatively short and of little significance. "A voice suddenly sounded from behind.

It was Chris Payton who spoke. He followed Dai Li to the U.S. track and field team, and was responsible for the training of middle-distance running and marathon.

"Coach Payton, if we go to Los Angeles for training, what benefits will it have?" An athlete asked directly.

"The good thing...you can receive the best training in the world." Peyton continued: "Our training center has the best hardware equipment in the world, and Coach Li will personally formulate training plans for you. I can guarantee that, Although the training time will not be very long, you will make rapid progress."

Several people looked at Payton suspiciously, obviously thinking that Payton was bragging.

"Why, do you think I'm talking big?" Peyton was not angry because of this, he continued: "How are the training effects these days? You should have an evaluation in your own mind? This is our training level. If you come to Los Angeles, you can use better and more advanced training equipment, and the training effect will only be better than it is now."

Few people spoke to each other. As the training party, these athletes could feel that although the third training camp in recent days was relatively short and not enough to make significant progress, the training effect was still very good.

Payton went on to say; "You probably don't know how high our fees are. It is no exaggeration to say that our fees are the highest among all physical training centers in Los Angeles. Of course, the training services we provide are also better. If If you go to Los Angeles for training, you can enjoy about 20 days of training for free, which in itself is earned, isn't it?"

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Payton turned away, leaving behind a group of unsure athletes.

One of them took out his mobile phone and searched the situation of Coach Li's physical training center on the Internet.

Then the athlete said: "I found some information about Coach Li's training center on the Internet. Coach Payton didn't lie to us. What he said is true."

"Is there really the best training in the world there?" Someone next to him asked.

"No, I'm talking about the charging standard. The charging standard there is really high. Take a look..." The man passed the phone to everyone.

"My God, the fee is so expensive! I can't afford such a high training fee."

"This charging standard is indeed much higher than other physical training centers I know."

"Living in California is relatively expensive. Maybe other physical training centers in Los Angeles will not be much cheaper."

"No other fitness center in Los Angeles is as expensive. The price is comparable to our top-notch fitness center in New York."

"From this point of view, I think what Coach Payton said is very reasonable. I can't usually afford such an expensive training fee. Now I can get this kind of training without spending a penny. This must be a profit." ah!"

"And the food and lodging are all free, and even the air ticket to Los Angeles can be reimbursed. It is quite cost-effective to travel to Los Angeles. There are many nightclubs in Los Angeles, and you may even meet Hollywood stars! I am now to sign up.

"Let's sign up together, and I'll go to Los Angeles too!"

The word "free" is indeed a very attractive thing, even if it is not worth the loss. For example, someone drives a car to receive free Chinese cabbage, and the money earned for the cabbage is not enough for the round-trip gas money.

For these not-so-big-name athletes, it is naturally a very good thing to be able to experience expensive training for free and use those high-tech training equipment that are not used at all.

Of course, people are lazy. Since it is not mandatory, even if it can bring benefits to themselves, some people will choose not to do it. So not every athlete will choose to train in Los Angeles.

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"Coach Li, the deadline for registration is over. A total of 122 athletes have signed up to continue training in Los Angeles."

"I see. Pass the list of registered athletes to Manager Blake and ask him to book a hotel room." Dai Li said.

This number is better than what Li Dai estimated. After all, it is not mandatory. Li Dai thought it would be good if half of the athletes were willing to go to Los Angeles for training. Unexpectedly, the number of people who signed up was as high as three quarters.

The board and lodging problem for more than 100 people is not a financial burden for Dai Li. The price of American food is very cheap, and Dai Li doesn't even have to worry about it himself. He can hire the back kitchen of a restaurant and let the restaurant provide all kinds of food directly.

As for accommodation, as long as you don't stay in a five-star hotel, the price will not be very high. Dai Li can even book a medium-sized hotel directly.

What Dai Li paid the most was the cost of training.

The training of more than 100 athletes will occupy a large amount of training resources, including coaches, training venues, training equipment, etc. If all these training resources are used on the athletes of the US Track and Field Team, it will inevitably reduce the training resources of other customers, Li Dai had to stop accepting new clients for a while. Of course, this would affect Dai Li's business, making him lose a lot of money, and even lose money during this period of time.

But in the long run, this can also bring an advertising benefit to Li Dai. The training venue of the US National Track and Field Team, this kind of advertising can attract some customers, but the premise is that the performance of this national team is sufficient Well, this is convincing.

If the performance of the American Track and Field Team this year is very bad, it will also have a great impact on the business of Dai Li Training Center. No one will follow or identify with the losers. In the eyes of many people, everything the losers do is wrong, so if the performance of the US track and field team in the Olympics is a failure, Dai Li's training must be blamed. Athletes who originally wanted to train with Dai Li will be deterred by this, and he will lose many potential customers.

The doping scandal has caused the level of the U.S. track and field team to drop a lot this year. Many ordinary people in the United States also have a premonition that the performance of the U.S. team in this Olympic Games will decline, but most people are still relatively optimistic. They think Even though many top athletes were involved in doping scandals and could not participate, the US team still achieved good results.

In fact, many Americans have a relatively naive perception of things. They have become accustomed to being immersed in the concept of "America is number one in the world" and live a life centered on the United States. Products dominated by American culture, such as Hollywood movies, various American pop music, American fast food, the four major professional sports leagues, American talk shows, and so on.

It can be said that in many fields, the United States is ahead of the world, so the vast majority of Americans do not understand things outside the United States, and they are unwilling to understand things outside the United States, and even resist them. Many foreign-born New things will even be regarded as heterogeneous and not accepted by the American people.

However, other countries are not optimistic about this session of the US track and field team.

The U.S. track and field team is the number one in the world. Since you are sitting on the number one throne, you must be prepared to be challenged or overtaken by others, because the whole world will aim at you.

At the same time, the whole world will regard the U.S. team as an object of research and learning. This is like a class. Teachers and parents hope that students who are not good at learning can learn from the first place. Whenever the parents meet, the first place Many parents will come to the podium to introduce how their children learn, and their introduction will be regarded as the bible by many parents of students in the audience.

The U.S. track and field team is such a "number one". Track and field teams from all over the world will study the U.S. team, imitate the U.S. team, learn the strengths of the U.S. team, and find the weaknesses of the U.S. team. In many cases, foreign coaches are even more familiar with the US team than the Americans themselves.

As far as track and field is concerned, the biggest competitor of the US team is undoubtedly the Russian team.

The former Soviet Union was well-deserved as the world's number one sports power, and it was able to crush the US team in every Olympic Games. For example, in the 1972 Munich Olympics, the Soviet Union won 50 gold medals, while the United States won 33 gold medals; in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, the Soviet Union won 49 gold medals, while the United States won 34 gold medals. In the subsequent Moscow Olympics, the United States boycotted the Olympics due to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and did not participate. In the Los Angeles Olympics, the Soviet Union did not participate in the Olympics to avenge its revenge. In the subsequent Seoul Olympics in 1988, the Soviet Union and the United States competed at the same time again. The Soviet Union won 55 gold medals and the United States won 36 gold medals. In the Barcelona Olympics after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet Union countries participated in the form of a joint team. As a result, the joint team won 45 gold medals, still more than the 37 gold medals won by the United States.

Athletics has always been the strength of the Soviet Union. Before the 1980s, the world's three major athletics powers were the Soviet Union, the Democratic Republic of Germany and the United States. At that time, the track and field of the Democratic Germany was even stronger than that of the United States. It wasn't until after the black American civil rights movement that there were more and more black track and field athletes that the United States surpassed the GDR and became the world's second track and field power.

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia inherited most of the legacy of the Soviet Union. Although today's Russian sports are far less powerful than the Soviet Union, it is still the only country that can compete with the United States in track and field events. In particular, the rise of countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean has taken away many medals from the US team in sprint events, which is tantamount to weakening the US team, which also makes Russia equal to the United States in track and field events.

The former Soviet Union sports was a national system. When the Soviet Union just disintegrated, Russia almost denied everything in the Soviet Union, including politics, economy, culture, and sports. It began to imitate the West in all aspects, including completely denying the national system of sports. However, the result But it made Russia worse and worse. Throughout the 1990s, Russian sports were based on the old Soviet Union.

It wasn't until a strongman president was elected that Russia regained its national sports system, which made Russian sports gradually stronger. In fact, Russia is not a complete national system like the Soviet era, but more like a national sports with Russian characteristics.

In terms of policy, Russia encourages athletes to go out, participate in foreign competitions, or join foreign professional clubs, such as the famous CSKA Moscow. This is definitely a team with a Russian military background, and it is definitely a product of the national system, but The team not only improves its own level by introducing foreign aid, once its own players have the opportunity to go to a higher level league, CSKA definitely encourages their players to go.

In addition to national investment, many rich Russians have also begun to invest in sports, which has caused some Russian coaches who have worked hard abroad to return to Russia.

Today's head coach of the Russian national track and field team Melklov is such a person. He used to be a long-distance running world champion, and won many honors in the Soviet era. When the Soviet Union disintegrated, he retired. At that time, he knew nothing but long-distance running, so he had to leave Russia and go to European gold rush. Later, as the economic situation in Russia improved, he returned to Russia and became the head coach of the Russian track and field team.

Russia's dominant sports in track and field are women's middle and long distance running, marathon, race walking, high jump, and throwing events. As a long-distance runner, Melklov is relatively good at coaching middle and long-distance running, marathon and race walking. He is good at it, so after he took over the Russian national track and field team, he achieved good results. In the last World Championships, Russia won 9 gold medals, second only to the 12 gold medals of the United States, ranking second.

In this Olympic Games, Melcroft's original goal is still the second place. It's just that the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. The sudden doping scandal greatly weakened the strength of the US team, and Melcroft also saw the hope of surpassing the US again.

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A middle-aged man with a beard walked into Melcroft's office with a list.

"Coach, the final entry list submitted by the U.S. Track and Field Team to the International Olympic Committee has been confirmed. As you might expect, compared with the qualifying round, the personnel changes are very large. Less than a quarter of the athletes confirmed in the qualifying round One is still in the current U.S. track and field team. The rest are all newcomers to the U.S. team." The bearded man said.

The bearded man is named Igor Nagav, Melkerov's deputy and the deputy head coach of the Russian track and field team.

Melcroft took over the list of participating athletes and carefully read the names of all participating athletes.

"There are indeed a lot of personnel changes. There are many athletes whose names I have never heard of. I think such athletes are not very famous even in the United States." Melcroft said.

"However, the 400-meter king Jimmy Irvine is still on the list. Judging from his performance in the trials, he is still very likely to win the Olympic 400-meter championship. There is also Justin Alexander, who has been suspended for so long. He also came back this year, and I heard that his time is still close to 9.80 seconds, after Gitel retired, this is a very competitive result." Ignagav said.

"Although the U.S. team has Irwin, I still feel that this is the weakest U.S. track and field team in history. It's a pity that the U.S. team's superiority events are just different from ours, otherwise it will be a trade-off. Situation. If we can snatch one gold medal from the US team, then there will be a difference of two gold medals inside and out." Melcroft put down the list with a relaxed face, and continued; "We can only look forward to the British team now. People are working harder, and hopefully they can snatch a few gold medals from the Americans."

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Britain is also a country with strong track and field strength, but the strong items of Britain in track and field basically coincide with those of the United States.

Back then, the British Empire had colonies all over the world. Even in modern times, the scale of the Commonwealth Games is no less than that of the Asian Games, and the level of competition is even better.

Therefore, many athletes from Commonwealth countries with backward economic levels hope to be naturalized to the United Kingdom. Most of them are African black athletes, such as Kenya, Cameroon, Uganda, and Jamaica. These countries were once British colonies , are also rich in strong black athletes. These strong black athletes also brought many Olympic medals to Great Britain.

Black Americans and British blacks are good at similar sports. They are all sports that require high explosive power, such as sprinting and long jump. However, compared with native-born African-American athletes, these black athletes born in Africa and then naturalized in the United Kingdom still need a little inferior.

Moreover, the British sports culture has many similarities with the United States, and the public has a high degree of participation in sports. Therefore, in the two events of the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon, the strength of the United Kingdom is not inferior to that of the United States.

The head coach of the British national track and field team is named Alex. He is a legend in British track and field. He used to be an athlete in charge of training disabled athletes. Later, he was promoted to the Head coach of Great Britain Athletics.

At this time, Coach Alex also got the list of athletes from the US track and field team.

"There are a lot of people on this list of participating athletes. I don't know them, and I haven't even heard of them. There are rumors that this time the U.S. track and field team is the weakest in history. It seems that it is not groundless." Eric As he spoke, he kept a gentlemanly smile on his face.

"Coach, I just watched it. In this Olympic Games, we may kill the US team and win gold medals in several events." The assistant said excitedly.

"Of course we want to win gold medals, and the more the better, but I am also very interested in the new head coach of the US team. This is the first non-American track and field head coach in the history of the United States!" Alex said .

"You mean the Chinese coach? I don't think he has the ability to lead the US track and field team. After all, track and field is not the strong point of the Chinese." The assistant said.

Alex still maintained that gentlemanly smile, and he said: "I pay attention to this Chinese coach because his experience is somewhat similar to mine. You know, four years ago, I was still training people with disabilities. Athletes who participated in the Paralympic Games. And the first work of this Chinese coach is also a disabled person. You must have heard the name of 'Blade Warrior' Philip, right? He is the only one in the world who can be with normal people The coach’s disabled athlete, he was personally excavated and trained by this Chinese coach.”

"So, this Chinese coach is very good at sprint training. Sprint has always been the strength of the American team!" The assistant's expression became a little dignified.

Alex immediately comforted: "Don't worry, our sprinters are still not capable enough to win the Olympic Games. We just need to run the relay well. But the Jamaicans should have different ideas! Tell has retired, Jamaica sprint needs a new leader, they hope to keep the title of 'No.

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Jamaica National Athletics Team.

At this time, head coach Fraser was giving a speech to his athletes, and his expression seemed very excited. He clenched his fists and said:

"This session of the U.S. track and field team is the weakest in history. This is also an opportunity for our Jamaican team. Although we have lost Gitel, I believe that among you, there will be a place to replace Gittle and become the leader of the Jamaica team. The new No. 1 flying man in the world! 100 meters, 200 meters, and 4 x 100 meters relay, a total of six gold medals, this time, we want to get them all!"

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The bowl of soybean juice in front of Xue Li had already bottomed out, he patted his stomach and burped.

"In the past, the U.S. track and field team was full of big names, but the U.S. track and field team in this Olympic Games is undoubtedly the weakest in history...Old Xue, the official account I just followed just posted an article saying that The U.S. track and field team was very weak in one session, and it will definitely be over in the Olympics. Your apprentice, the position of the head coach of the U.S. team is not secure, will he be fired by the Americans!" a good-natured person asked road.

"Don't listen to those official account nonsense, they know nothing!" Xue Li curled his lips: "That's my apprentice, even the weakest American team can bring out the best results!"