All-round Athlete

Chapter 136: The King of Track and Field

In the meeting room of the Athletics Association, another meeting was held, this time the theme of the meeting was to discuss Zhang Guan's love affair.

The president glanced at the participants, and said, "The bureau asked our association to come up with a solution to Zhang Guan's love affair, and then report it to the bureau. The bureau's leaders will discuss it later."

"Solution!" Director Luo breathed a sigh of relief. These four words can represent the attitude of the higher-ups towards Zhang Guan's relationship, which is neither the best nor the worst.

The Chinese language and culture can be described as extensive and profound, and the higher the level, the more carefully the meaning of each word conveyed needs to be carefully considered, because different words will represent different attitudes.

If the bureau asks the association to give a "handling opinion", then it is tantamount to giving a qualitative definition of Zhang Guan's love affairs, and if punishment is required, the association will also give corresponding punishment opinions; if the bureau asks the association to give a "handling opinion" If the word "solution" is used, it is obviously to keep Zhang Guan, and at least a tacit attitude towards Zhang Guan's love affair; and now the four words "solution" given by the bureau mean that as long as it can be resolved satisfactorily, This matter, whether it is punishment or acquiescence, it can also be seen that the bureau has no clear attitude towards Zhang Guan's love affair.

President Qu took the lead again and said: "We have clear regulations that young athletes are not allowed to fall in love. Zhang Guan is only 19 years old this year. Falling in love is obviously a violation of the rules, so he should be punished according to the regulations! Let him stop immediately Falling in love, breaking up with that foreigner! I didn’t support the athlete’s agent team before. If the athlete has too much autonomy, he will definitely be disobedient and disobedient to the management. Now Zhang Guancai started talking at such a young age Falling in love, if we let it go, we will have no way to manage it in the future. So I think, we should take back the right to operate Zhang Guan's commercial activities immediately!"

Director Luo immediately said: "We asked the athletes not to fall in love. The main purpose was to worry that the athletes would affect the state of the game because of falling in love. But Zhang Guan's results this year are obvious to all. He broke the 60-meter indoor race twice. He broke the world record in the 100-meter sprint three times, won all six races in the Athletics Golden League, and won more than a dozen championships. Obviously, Zhang Guan's game status has not been affected in any way, and it is getting better and better."

"So what about high grades? Zhang Guan has indeed violated the regulations!" President Qu said.

"It was in the 1970s and 1980s that we formulated the rule that athletes are not allowed to fall in love. It has been 20 or 30 years, so we should keep pace with the times. And 20 or 30 years ago, we had no athletes. It can break the world record in the 100-meter sprint. Rules are dead, but people are alive. If they cannot adapt to the rules of the times, they should be changed." Director Luo said immediately.

"Whether the regulations should be changed, I don't express my opinion on this. But Zhang Guan's behavior, this kind of behavior that regards the regulations as correct and blatantly violates them, obviously has a bad impact. Zhang Guan's grades are very good, so he It is even more important to assume the role of an example! If everyone follows Zhang Guan and blatantly violates the rules, it will be a mess! Therefore, Zhang Guan must be punished this time. Punishment is not the purpose, but it can serve as a warning to other athletes Let them know that even the biggest players in the country will be punished if they violate our regulations. This is very meaningful for us to strengthen our management work in the future!" President Qu said.

Director Luo shook his head: "Now it's different from before. More and more athletes are only children. They are self-willed and individual. Sometimes, if they manage too much, it may backfire. So our management should also Rationalization and humanization. Moreover, I have also collected some social opinions on Zhang Guan’s love affairs. Both the media and ordinary people are in favor of Zhang Guan’s love affairs. The society generally believes that Zhang Guan has caught up with Zhang Guan. It is a very face-saving thing to be the number one beauty in tennis, and some media say that this is an alternative way to win glory for the country."

President Qu sneered: "This is exactly another point I want to say. Sharapova is a foreigner after all! How can Zhang Guan find a foreigner as his wife! Look at Yao, who went to the United States to play. In the end, I didn’t find a Chinese. An athlete in our country, and such a well-known athlete, found a foreign girlfriend. This influence is too bad, it’s too disgraceful!”

Director Luo frowned helplessly. He really had no way to refute such a traditional ideological matter. Say you are conservative in thinking? But in fact, many people have this kind of thinking, and it is not a wrong thing to abide by tradition.

At this moment, the director of the office knocked on the door and walked in, ran to the president and whispered a few words, the president motioned for everyone to discuss first, and then walked out.

A few minutes later, the president walked in and said, "I just answered a call from the leader of the foreign affairs department. They hoped that we would deal with the matter of Zhang Guan and Sharapova's relationship. Factors of international influence must be taken into account.”

Everyone's expressions suddenly became strange, and it was obvious that this matter began to become complicated.

I only heard the chairman continue to say: "Tennis is still very popular in developed countries such as Europe and the United States, so Sharapova has a high reputation in Europe and the United States. Regarding the relationship between the two, our domestic media reports mainly focus on On Zhang Guan, the main focus of foreign media reports is mostly on Sharapova. According to the public opinion monitoring of the foreign affairs department, foreign media have carried out relatively extensive reports on this matter, so we are now somewhat passive."

The president looked at everyone, and then said: "In this situation, it is not appropriate to punish Zhang Guan. Freedom of love and freedom of marriage are the principles we have always adhered to, and they must be reflected in actual cases. We and the West The world has adopted different systems, and our system is obviously more advanced, but Westerners have been using their values ​​to discredit and criticize us, such as the United States, which clearly has problems in terms of rights, but it still has problems every year What "Country Rights Report" is released. I don't need to say more about this, everyone will understand."

Everyone nodded. If Zhang Guan is really punished and a mandarin duck is beaten with a stick, those foreign media will criticize China for not even having freedom of love, and then it will be related to the issue of rights. This is the last thing the foreign affairs department wants to see .

President Qu said somewhat unwillingly: "Could it be that Zhang Guan blatantly violated the regulations, and we still have to support him!"

"No." The president shook his head, and continued: "Athletes, of course daily activities are centered on training and competitions, so we will not support and encourage current athletes to fall in love, and we do not advocate that athletes fall in love at such a young age. Love. However, we respect the freedom of love, so we do not object to Zhang Guan’s free love. Even if Sharapova is a foreigner, we should not prevent them from falling in love. However, it is wrong for athletes to violate the regulations Yes, this kind of behavior cannot be condoned, considering that Zhang Guan is relatively young and his ideological understanding is not in place, so we can properly do some ideological work for him, at least improve his understanding, let’s not be an example!"

"In addition, this matter also reflects that there are still deficiencies in our management work. Our management needs to be adapted to local conditions and time. We need to make changes to some outdated and unreasonable systems and regulations. Keeping pace with the times, with the development and progress of society, our system construction must also develop and progress, and we must establish a system that adapts to the current situation, so that athletes will consciously abide by the system."

"About the bureau asking us to come up with a solution, I think we can grasp a few key points: don't support, don't encourage, don't oppose, don't advocate, don't stop, don't condone!"

President Qu opened his mouth slightly, but he didn't speak. How did he sound familiar with these points? It seems that a certain unit often talks about it.

"Could it be that I went to the wrong place today and came to the Religious Affairs Bureau?"

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After the Athletic Association's plan was reported to the General Administration, the General Administration directly approved it. In fact, under normal circumstances, the General Administration will not intervene in the management of athletes of various associations. The institutional responsibilities of the General Administration are mainly to study and formulate policies and regulations and development plans. Therefore, each association makes its own decision regarding a certain athlete. Then report to the General Administration, which will basically not intervene in the specific management of various sports associations.

After Zhang Guan finished his vacation, he did not rush to the Xinzhuang training base, but returned to his home in the provincial capital, and then joined the provincial track and field team, preparing to participate in the 10th National Games on October 12.

In terms of scale, the 10th National Games is even larger than the Doha Asian Games, with 46 national delegations and 10,000 athletes participating. It can be said to be the largest high-level event before the 2008 Olympic Games.

In track and field events, the vast majority of athletes are not eligible to compete abroad, so the 10th National Games has become the highest stage for them to show themselves. As for Zhang Guan, an athlete with absolute strength in a certain event, he is more responsible for winning gold for the provincial team.

At the domestic level of the 100-meter sprint, Zhang Guan has a chance to win the championship even if it takes half a second, so Zhang Guan won the gold medal in the 10th National Games without any suspense.

And then, at the end of October, there will be another event, which is the East Asian Athletes held in Macau.

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On the track, Zhang Guan is training for the 400-meter sprint.

"Pay attention to your feet! Inside! Adjust to the inside of the track! Yes!"

"Swing your arms, how many times have I said, swing your arms wide!"

"The steps should be bigger, and the rhythm should not be chaotic! Why did the rhythm change again!"

Director Yu kept yelling at Zhang Guan, and his voice could be heard throughout the stadium.

In the distance, Liu Feiren looked at Zhang Guan who was training, and couldn't help shaking his head.

"Hey, I've been practicing for so long, but my skills are still very average. It seems that he has basically made no progress today! I think he's almost done practicing! With this talent, I really don't know how he became a world champion."

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