After Leaving the Sports Circle, I Became a Cooking God (Completed BL)

Chapter 72: Youth Olympic Games Backup Members

Translator: dapotaturs
Release Date: 09/04/2023

After the Asian Games ended, theoretically, Su Bai shouldn't have been too busy with the 400-meter project. However, in reality, after returning to the national team, he formally took over all the main responsibilities of the 400 meters. For a while, even though there was a specialized team leader handling administrative matters, there was a mountain of tasks that needed his attention in terms of coaching.

As for the women's team, after hosting the dinner for the female athletes, these girls became affiliated users under his system name. To ensure his previous judgments were accurate, he reexamined the information of the female athletes based on the data provided by the system. Only then did he truly relax.

However, the situation with the women's team was different from the men's team. These girls were already pushing themselves hard, and Su Bai didn't need to find some top team to stimulate them further. What he needed to do was maintain their fighting spirit while transitioning their training from relying on intensity and volume to focusing on efficiency and quality.

Otherwise, with their current training method, even though they had accumulated powerful strength within them, they couldn't utilize it effectively. This would be quite wasteful, and furthermore, Coach Zheng's coaching style, while good for the female athletes, did place too much physical burden on them...

While massaging his forehead, Su Bai looked at the list in his hand.

This list contained the names of athletes selected for the Youth Olympics preparatory team. These athletes were currently training at the national athletics training base as part of the Youth Olympics preparatory squad.

Although they were called the preparatory team, the scale of the Youth Olympics was not large, and in athletics, the total number of participants was just over six hundred. Therefore, when selecting participants domestically, they had to be cautious. These preparatory youth Olympic athletes had already passed the domestic youth Olympics selection, but not all of them would necessarily make the final cut.

According to the information Su Bai received from Pei Jin'an, the focus of this Youth Olympics was on men's and women's race walking, women's shot put, women's hammer throw, women's javelin, men's triple jump, men's long jump, men's high jump, etc. The focus was mainly on the field events. Due to the low likelihood of winning medals in track events, whether or not to select athletes and how many to select was still under discussion.

Although the best solution was to send more athletes to allow these young athletes to experience the intensity and level of international competitions early on, there were other considerations involved. This wasn't something coaches like Su Bai needed to worry about.

What Su Bai could do was to look at the data of these Youth Olympics athletes and select those he considered to have potential. The team would then use his selections to determine whether to send them as part of the Youth Olympics team or consider them for national team trials later on.

This time, the list of Youth Olympics athletes had only two male and two female athletes from the 400 meters project. Relay teams were not being considered, so there were a total of six athletes in Su Bai's hands. The other two athletes weren't from the 400 meters project; they were 110 meters hurdles athletes chosen by Lü Shengbin for Su Bai to observe.

Based solely on paper data, these 16-17-year-old Youth Olympics backup athletes' personal best times were already quite good. The two boys in the 400 meters project had personal bests of 47.50 seconds or less, and the two girls had personal bests around 53.70 seconds. However, these were just their personal bests. Looking at their average times, there was still some fluctuation.