Exercise is a constant thing, not a day or night, and the real highlight today is the annual cake sharing meeting.
There are slightly more people in the conference room today than usual. Although Qin Huachang is missing, there are more Sun Tianlong, Xiao Fei, Wang Shou and Wang Chao.
"Our task this year is relatively easy. First of all, International Table Tennis Federation has only scheduled 11 open events, 5 Platinum leg, and 6 ordinary events. On average, one event per month is not enough points."
"In addition, there are no World Table Tennis Championships, Olympic Games and National Games this year. There is only one World Cup individual competition."
Having said this, Cai Guodong glanced at Wang Chao subconsciously.
Last year Wang Chao was known as Grand Slam and Grand Slam, but in fact, strictly speaking, this name is not valid because he participated in the World Cup team competition instead of the individual competition. The most important thing is that even in the team competition, he was a substitute and never played from the beginning to the end.
Although the rule of the team competition is "Everyone in the group counts World Champion", for individuals, this nominal championship has no gold content after all and is just a waste.
Last year, the world table tennis circles were hyping Wang Chao's "shortest time Grand Slam", mainly because Wang Chao was better than World Table Tennis Championships and Olympic Games showed too much strength in the two finals. With this level of strength, all industry insiders around the world agree that he is the undisputed number one in the world in all aspects.
At the same time, among the three competitions, the one with the lowest gold content is World Cup, while the one with the highest gold content is Olympic Games. Wang Chao is equivalent to winning the first and second gold medals in one go. Under this situation, everyone feels that the remaining championship with the lowest gold content is just a matter of grabbing it. Why bother worrying about this completely unimportant championship? Anyway, there is a title of team competition champion as a superficial explanation, so let's just accept it in a daze.
With this mentality of "people carrying people in sedan chairs", everyone chose to directly put the crown of "Grand Slam with the shortest time in history" on the head of Wang Chao in advance.
But Wang Chao still needs someone with a legitimate name.
Therefore, in this year's World Cup individual competition, he must win the championship, otherwise, even the crown that he wore in advance last year will be forcibly taken off by the reckoning after the fall.
"Don't worry, I can do it." Wang Chao naturally understood what Cai Guodong meant, and smiled and raised his hand to assure him.
Cai Guodong nodded without saying much, and continued, "In addition, this year there are also the annual Asian Cup and the biennial Asian Championships. These two events are actually about the same importance as the open Platinum leg, but because our country has been a consecutive champion, what I mean is that we still have to pay a little more attention to ensure that we continue to win consecutive championships."
He lowered his head and flipped through the documents in front of him and said, "That's pretty much it. There are also some small competitions, youth competitions and commercial invitational competitions. There will be time for more impromptu discussions at that time. The most important thing today is to set down the names for the World Series I mentioned. Okay, let's do it one by one."
Nowadays, the main force of Huaping is being replaced. The older generation will replace Sun Tianlong Xiao Fei. One is a disciple of the Qin sect and the other is a disciple of the Zhu sect. The younger generation will replace them. Wang Chao Fan Xiaodong People, one is in the Zhumen and the other is in the Qinmen, and Bai Feng, who is left with the Wang Clan, is unstoppable. It seems that the situation is still Qin, Zhu, and Wang factions dividing the main spots, but if you look carefully, the pattern has changed a lot.
Wang Chao, a new player from the Zhu family, topped the list, but Fan Xiaodong, a new player from the Qin family, fell at the bottom.
So when Cai Guodong finished saying this, there was a subtle atmosphere in the conference room. The ordinary coaches were looking at the documents in front of them carefully. They couldn't see the general trend for the time being, and they couldn't figure out the head coach's tendency. They needed to observe again.
Cai Guodong naturally felt the atmosphere, but was too lazy to care. He said directly, "Then the first battle is the first battle, New Zealand Open, the ordinary station. According to convention, this station must be won. In the past seven years, except last year, Sun Tianlong has been responsible for taking the lead every year. So what do you think this year?"
Everyone remained silent, but looked at He Jingping.
In fact, the situation of China Table Tennis Team this year is very gratifying. In previous years, the ace Sun Tianlong had to take the lead to be safe. However, this year, only one player from Wang Chao and Luo Jiu can be guaranteed to take the lead. Even if you are bolder, let Fan Xiaodong play, and it may not be out of the question.
After all, at the end of last year, Fan Xiaodong single-handedly entered the Open Championship and won two gold medals in three Open Championships. Even Bayer lost his temper after being beaten by him.
Everyone looks at He Jingping because both the No. 1 in the world and the No. 2 in the world are his disciples. Their palms and backs are all flesh. Whoever he wants to go must go. There is no reason for a disciple to disobey the teacher.
But the problem is that the fewer open tournaments this year, the less points there will be. Everyone wants to compete for points and maintain the world ranking. So for the main players, the number of open tournaments they can participate in this year is actually limited. Everyone has an account of how many tournaments each person can score.
It is relatively easy to talk about the main players of Bai Feng and Lin Li, because strictly speaking they no longer belong to the top echelon, so they do not need to strictly follow "Kings do not meet kings" According to the principle, they can sign up for many competitions at the same time. Who can win the championship will all depend on on-the-spot performance. It is normal for whoever loses to whom, and it is also normal for an upset loss in foreign competitions. Especially when they meet Hook, it is actually difficult for them to win.
But Wang Chao and Luo Jiu must be strictly separated. I will never go to the competitions that you can go to, and you will definitely not be able to sign up for the games that I signed up for.
In this way, the difference between ordinary stations and Platinum leg is huge. After all, everyone has won the same championship, but the points they received are much different.
The gap in points has a clear impact on the direct competition between the two in the world rankings.
New Zealand Open is the first battle of the year. There are bound to be many applicants, the chance of accidents is high, the difficulty is high, and the schedule is tight. However, there are few points and the responsibility is heavy. You must win, otherwise there will be no good start.
This is a thankless stop.
Everyone wants to see whose name He Jingping clicks.
Although Old He is a solid person, after all, he has had many meetings, so he can still figure out the twists and turns. As the conference room became quiet, he became very embarrassed. Take a look Wang Chao, then looked at Zhu Zeshi, then looked at Cai Guodong, as if asking for help, but also as if observing the words and expressions, but couldn't see anything, so I could only lower my head and think about it, not knowing what I was weighing.
No one rushed him, they just waited for half a minute.
He Jingping finally figured it out, he raised his head and said, "Then..."
But he didn't finish his sentence, because Wang Chao and Sun Tianlong spoke at the same time before him.
Wang Chao said "Let me go", while Sun Tianlong said "Wang Chao go".
He Jingping was a little stunned. He was stunned for a few seconds before he smiled and said, "That's what I mean too."
Now, the atmosphere in the conference room became even weirder.
Wang Chao opened his mouth, it could be said that he did not want to embarrass the teacher, which was understandable.
But when Sun Tianlong opened his mouth, it was too sensitive.
You must know that the cake-sharing meetings in the past many years were mainly about the Qin sect and the Zhu sect fighting for power. Now, although the strength of Qin and Zhu factions has alternated, from a macro perspective within the entire Huaping, it is still a situation of confrontation between the two heroes. Sun Tianlong As the new leader of the Qin Clan, when faced with this kind of domestic affairs within the powerful clan, shouldn't the most important thing he should do is to keep silent, be cautious in his words and deeds, believe that silence is golden, and never give the rich clan any possible suspicion?
But luckily for him, he actually took the initiative to speak up, assigned directly, and called the roll call on the spot.
Is this a blatant provocation?
In fact, it is not that no one has thought that Sun Tianlong is just a matter-of-fact person with a public mind. After all, Sun Tianlong has shown his selfless mind in many places throughout last year.
But sharing the cake is too important. Everyone still feels that we can all understand if Sun Tianlong is selfless and tolerant in other places, including when you gave up your quota to Wang Chao last year, because it was your personal behavior and did not involve a small group.
But the cake sharing meeting represents the collective interests of the small groups within Huaping. At this time, of course you still have to remember your identity, put the interests of the small group first, and seek the welfare of your disciples and classmates.
So the crowd couldn't help but look at Zhu Zeshi's face.
Although He Jingping's disciple is now popular, Zhu Zeshi is the leader of the powerful clan after all, and at this moment, he has to take a stand.
However, Zhu Zeshi sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, motionless, but Wang Lu, who was sitting next to him, smiled and said, "I agree with you."
Everyone was completely confused.
Is this still Wang Lu?
In the past, Wang Lu was famous for his absolute composure and discipline that never made mistakes. Before he joined Huaping, Huaping did not have Wang Clan. After he joined Huaping, he seemed calm on the surface, but in fact he was good at dancing and took a curved road to save the country. He started from Zhu Zeshi's son Zhu Ding and forcibly moved him. The general trend within Huaping has won the friendship of the giants, and he has demonstrated his strong business capabilities through training Bai Feng. When Bai Feng entered the main force, it was logical that he established a foothold in Huaping and became a new mountaintop. Huaping has since changed from a confrontation between two heroes to a three-legged confrontation. Although his foot is slightly weaker, it is really firm.
Such a person actually began to take the initiative to express his position today and give his thumbs up on the household affairs of the wealthy family.
This makes everyone have to wonder whether Qinmen and Wang Clan are joining forces for this meeting.
Could it be that they feel that the potential of the powerful clan is too great, so Wang Lu and Sun Tianlong want to join forces vertically and horizontally to make distant friends and close enemies?
Thinking more deeply, could it be that Qin Huachang is behind this matter?
Cai Guodong asked, "What about others? Do you have any other opinions?"
Everyone remained silent, looking at their eyes, nose, nose and heart. They all felt that there was a turbulence under the calm at this moment, and if they were not careful, they would be washed away to pieces.
Wang Chao himself spoke up and said with a smile, "It's appropriate for me to go. After all, my current total points in the world ranking are quite high, more than a hundred points higher than my senior brother. Even if I let him become the Platinum leg champion, he can't catch up with me."
Sun Tianlong continued, "Also, Luo Jiu won't be able to fight for a few more years, but Wang Chao still has a long way to go. I think that on the premise of ensuring basic fairness, it is appropriate to favor Luo Jiu a little bit."
Wang Lu couldn't come up with anything new, but he was unwilling to remain silent and said with a smile, "I have exactly the same idea as you."
Cai Guodong looked at He Jingping, and He Jingping nodded. "That's it."
"Okay, let's settle it. Last year, Wang Chao went to the first battle of the year. This year, Wang Chao will go." Cai Guodong tapped the pen in his hand on the table. "The second stop, Dubai Platinum leg, what do you say?"
The meeting entered the second topic, but the meeting room was still unusually quiet, because many ordinary coaches were still buzzing.
They had just thought that they would see a storm that was "still as still as water and as moving as thunder", and thought that this would be the first big show of intrigue and intrigue between the three major sects of Huaping in the new year. However, in the end, the few people who spoke had settled the matter in a friendly manner. Now that the head coach has finalized the decision, the decision has taken effect and cannot be changed, which completely eliminates the possibility of someone harboring evil intentions and trying to cause trouble.
This...
This...
This...
In other words, the three families of Qin, Zhu and Wang sincerely and unanimously recommended Wang Chao?
It turns out there is no such thing as vertical and horizontal alliances?
Are these three major portals now as close as one family?
But this style of painting is really different from previous years.
We are all smart people. Although we think this conclusion is outrageous, since it is a conclusion reached through rigorous logical reasoning, everyone accepted it as quickly as possible.
But they were still a little shocked, so even though it was clearly the stage where they needed to rush to ask for a spot, no one spoke.
Zhu Zeshi coughed and said, "Although the Dubai station is not the first stop of the year, it is the first Platinum leg of this year, and the prize money of this station is significantly higher than that of other stations, so the competition will probably be fierce..."
Wang Lu smiled and said, "That's true. I think I'll let Luo Jiu take care of it."
Zhu Zeshi quickly said, "No, no, no, that's not what I meant. I mean, if the three main players Lin Li, Bai Feng, and Fan Xiaodong compete together, the championship of this station should be quite stable."
"Is it stable? I don't think it is stable at all." Sun Tianlong shook his head. "Of these three people, any one of them has a winning rate of less than 40% when meeting Hook. This stop must be Luo Jiu's best."
Zhu Zeshi remained silent and just glanced at Cai Guodong.
As the leader of the powerful clan, he naturally hopes that Luo Jiu can participate, but Wang Chao has already decided on the first stop. If Luo Jiu goes to the second stop, it will be too domineering. After all, no matter who competes between the two, they will basically win the gold medal, which is equivalent to depriving others of the opportunity to compete for the championship.
"Why don't you, the rich clan, just take away all the championships?"
Zhu Zeshi is thin-skinned and has a good reputation. He doesn't want to be gossiped about behind his back.
It was still Cai Guodong who made the final decision. "Luo Jiu still has to go, otherwise no one will be able to deal with Hook."
So Sun Tianlong and Wang Lu smiled and nodded together, "That's true."
The second stop has been decided, and the subtle and weird atmosphere in the conference room has finally dissipated. The other coaches have watched the final decisions of the two open tournaments in succession. Now they can finally confirm that these three major sects are not fighting each other, let alone being shady. To put it bluntly, they are really in harmony and are still being humble to each other.
If that's the case, then we won't be polite!