Chapter 296: Going Down the Mountain
Li Tian's return is undoubtedly the best news for the Chinese track and field team that is in a downturn. After calming down his excitement, Lou and Duan began to talk with Li Tianxi excitedly about the situation in the past six months. Li Tian also learned about the current situation in Tiantan. In the past six months, Li Tian has been focusing on treatment and training in the mountains. In addition to contacting his family regularly, he knows very little about external news.
"Xiaotian, how are you in now? You have probably returned to your original level?" Li Tian's recovery is indeed great news, but the Olympics are imminent. Li Tian has not conducted running training for more than a year. In just a few months, whether he can recover to the competitive level that everyone expected for him is not sure about this. Moreover, Li Tian participated in sprint events, and the outcome is often between a slight margin. Even if he returns to 90%, he will find it difficult to make a difference on the field, so he cannot play with all his strength.
"My current condition is very good. It is no problem to restore to the level he was not before the start of the game. Don't worry." Li Tian's extremely confident answer made Lou and Duan and others overjoyed, but what they didn't know was how much hardship Li Tian had put into the Olympics to recover. It can be said that this was his second "hell-style training." Although he could not go on the track to train normally, his physical exercise was even more difficult than when he received coach Hart's special training in Germany. Such hard work would naturally be quite extraordinary. Taking advantage of the special environment in the plateau area here, Li Tian kept trying to stimulate his physical potential, and then the medical master Liu and the team doctor jointly "maintained that he would not be injured due to excessive training, which made Li Tian's already outstanding physical fitness have made a new breakthrough in the past six months, so he is very confident that he will recover before the start of the Olympics, and even surpass his previous level.
Duan and the others smiled very happily, as if the gloomy mood over the past year had completely disappeared at this moment, but now is not the time to spread it to the outside world. Li Tian had specially explained before that the news of his comeback should be kept as much as possible to avoid unnecessary interference. He was in a good mood. The two naturally ignored the big gifts that Li Tian said before. In their opinion, there was any gift that could be more heavy than Li Tian returning to the arena. It was not until the day of the last Olympic qualifying match that the two knew how precious this gift was.
"Brother Tian, are you going to run with all your strength? I'll give you the order." On the track in the Taoist temple, Li Tian was warming up seriously. After this month of running training, he had regained his feelings when he was fighting in the field. What he is doing now is to test the achievements over the past six months.
"Okay!" Li Tian replied readily, and he walked towards the 100-meter starting line, and other members of the coaching team gathered at the finish line. After taking a deep breath and stabilizing his emotions, Li Tian stepped on the starting machine, and Gu Feng also adjusted the starting gun.
"Bang!" After a crisp gunshot, Li Tian flew out like a long-dormant cheetah, and everyone's eyes moved quickly with his figure.
"Wow...! Brother Tian, are you still human? You are so powerful!" The moment Li Tian's body crossed the finish line, a very amazing result appeared on the electronic timer next to the runway. Gu Feng jumped onto his back and shouted excitedly with tightening Li Tian's neck.
"...Well. It seems that it's time to go down the mountain!" Looking at the results on the timer, Li Tian couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction.
"Brother Tian, you said to go down the mountain? Are we really going down the mountain? That's great!" Although Li Tian's voice was small, Gu Feng could still hear it clearly. For him, a young man who had been living in the mountains, the outside world was extremely attractive to him.
"Yes! There are only more than ten days left before the qualifying competition, and you have never been down the mountain. I am worried that you will not adapt to the low-altitude plains at once, so I am a little time in advance so that you can adapt to it. Make sure you can participate in the qualifying competition in the best condition." Everyone started collecting things the day after the decision was made. In the past six months, Li Tian has added a lot of things to this training base one after another. It is nothing to stay in the mountain, but some expensive precision instruments have to be taken down the mountain together, because no one can take care of them here.
"Xiaotian, Afeng has never left here. I don't know how complicated the world outside is. I have to rely on you to watch him in the future!" On the day when Li Tian and others left, everyone in the Taoist temple came to see him off, and Old Master Liu gave him a special explanation.
"Don't worry, old man and everyone. I will take good care of him in the future. We will come back here for a while every year, so don't worry too much." According to Li Tian's personal plan, every summer, he and Afeng will return here for two months of plateau closed training. The venue and equipment here are ready-made and can be free from external interference. It is a very ideal place.
"Wow! Brother Tian, look..." Gu Feng, who was on the helicopter, kept giving such amazement during the two hours of flying to Xining. He watched the mountains and rivers pass by his feet. The feeling of looking at the small mountains at a glance was even Li Tian and others, not to mention Gu Feng, the Chu brother.
The second time he took a helicopter, the second time he took a car, the second time he entered the military camp, and the second time he saw the city... Gu Feng experienced countless times on this day, and it was not until the third day that his sense of freshness about the city was not so strong.
When everyone walked out of Bailian Airport in L City, Li Tian’s parents, Director Wu and others were already waiting here. Zhao Qingguo had long registered Gu Feng as an athlete of the Sports Bureau of L City. With Li Tian and him, two tiger generals, not only Li Tian, but also G Province’s status in the domestic sports industry will be greatly improved. Director Wu was happy for this time. Moreover, this time, Gu Feng was a special recommended player for G Province. As the top leader of the Sports Committee of G Province, Director Wu must first meet his subordinates.
Everyone was their own people and they were even more neat and did things. The next day, Director Wu ordered the entire lung stadium to be closed and the right to use was handed over to Li Tian and others. From the plateau area with an altitude of more than 3,500 meters, he suddenly came to the lungs with an average altitude of only more than ten meters. Gu Feng did not feel any adverse reactions. At most, he felt that the air in the city was not good, but the training conditions here were much better than on the mountain. He quickly adapted to the new training environment, and all he lacked was the experience of competition.
On June 14, Gu Feng and Li Tian and others, who had been training in City 1 for ten days, accompanied by Zhao Qingguo and Director Wu, "killed" to Beijing. This time, the domestic Olympic qualifiers will be held at the completed National Stadium, gathering almost all outstanding players in the domestic track and field industry. Even top players like Liu Xiang who have already obtained Olympic qualifications are ready to take advantage of this opportunity to find the feeling of the competition and test the results of recent training, so they have attracted much attention in the domestic sports world.
The person who came to pick up the plane was Li Tian's agent Xu Hongtao. He is also Gu Feng's agent. Although Gu Feng is not well-known at all, everyone around him knows that after this qualifying match, Gu Feng's sharpness will definitely shock everyone. If he performs well in the Olympics, he will definitely become the target of major businesses and media like Li Tian at the time. Based on the principle of not flowing out of the country, Li Tian introduced Xu Hongtao to Gu Feng. With the help of him, an expert in the industry, I believe that Gu Feng's future interests will be guaranteed to the greatest extent.
After the group stayed in the hotel arranged by Xu Hongtao, Li Tian called Chairman Duan Shijie and Secretary-General Lou Xiaopeng, reminding them that they must go to the competition site tomorrow. His gift was ready. After receiving the other party's reply, Li Tian put down the phone with satisfaction.
Early in the morning on June 15, the Beijing National Stadium suddenly became lively, and all domestic sports media sent reporters to come. After all, the list of Olympic contestants will be finalized after this competition. The competition will be held at 9 o'clock in the morning, but before 8 o'clock, no less than 200 reporters gathered in the stands on the side of the rostrum, and some athletes and coaches also arrived in advance to warm up.
"Let's go, let's go in!" At 8:30, Li Tian and others rushed outside the National Stadium in a mini-Park rented from the hotel. Looking at the majestic steel building in front of them, the ancient style was extremely shocked. Only after Li Tian's voice sounded did he come to his senses.
"Hey! Isn't that Li Tian? He is here too!" When the group walked into the stadium under the leadership of Li Tian, many reporters in the stands were surprised because Li Tian had disappeared from their sight for a whole year. During this period, no one knew about his situation. Some media even speculated that he had gone abroad to live in seclusion after he withdrew from the national team. Unexpectedly, he suddenly appeared at this time.
"It's really Li Tian. Has his injury healed? Is he here to participate in the competition this time? Who are the people around him?" A series of questions flashed through the minds of many reporters, and the media's attention suddenly became concentrated.
"Brother Tian, look at those people watching us." Gu Feng walked beside Li Tian. When he walked into the stadium, he felt that everyone's eyes were all focused on them, making him feel uncomfortable, who had never experienced this situation.
Chapter completed!