Chapter 29: Exam for National Second-Class Athlete (1/2)
Chapter 29: Exam for National Second-Class Athlete
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Only undergraduate students who were in their third year were qualified to take the exam for independent recruitment. Students who were not in their third year could not take the exam. The sports school was a technical secondary school, so their students had no opportunity to take the independent exams for universities. However, the top students of sports in each high school had already taken the qualification exam to be national second-class athletes, which was why they were considered top students by high schools. For this reason, they didn't need to take the exam.
Overall, the students who were taking the exam this time would be those who focused on their studies. Nine out of ten had been trained by these kinds of summer classes, so their abilities weren't that high. The student resources of the sports school's summer class were better than other training classes. And because their training ability was higher as well, the students there had a bigger chance of passing the exam.
The sports school had their own student resources for recruitment for summer classes, but Dai Li didn't. He didn't know that there was an independent recruitment quota of students. But he had heard of Yuejin Chen. He was among the top coaches in the province. Many of his students had been chosen by the national sports team. Even Yuejin Chen himself was recruited as an intensive coach by the national sports team.
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The day of the exam finally arrived. Dai Li now had an opportunity to measure his training results. Early that morning, Dai Li went to the gate of the municipal sports field and gathered his eight students together, where they entered the examination field.
”Haiyang Chen, you are on the 13th team, kind of late. Qingliang Xu, you are on the 7th. And Congyan Lu, you are on the 1st. Go warm yourself up, it will be your turn soon. Don't be nervous. Just treat it like an ordinary training session. There should be no problem, your daily training record already reached the standard of a second-class athlete…”
Dai Li tried to help his students relax to relieve their nervousness. Congyan Lu was the first among the eight students. His ability was somewhere in between them, but after Dai Li's training he should have been able to pass the exam. What Dai Li was worried about was that he might be too nervous, which might have a negative effect on his performance. If he failed, it would be like a domino effect, and the rest of the students might fail too.
”Dai Li!” a voice echoed. He turned around and saw a familiar face. It was Dabing Sun, a colleague of his when he had worked in the sports school. They had both been assistants. Dabing Sun had stayed while Dai Li was fired because he had offended Shouren Zhao.
”Sun, my bro, you are here too!” Dai Li walked to him.
”Your skin has gotten brighter in the two months since I last saw you. Which big company are you working at now?” Dabing Sun asked.
”There is no big company. I started a training class by myself and enrolled a few students. I brought them here to take the exam,” Dai Li said.
”Super cool!” Dabing Sun gave a thumbs-up. ”So you work for yourself now! That's way better than me and everyone else who wasted our time in the sports school.”
”You came with the sports school today?” Dai Li asked.
”I came here to bring the training class of the 100m sprint to take the exam. They paid a lot of attention to the exam this time. Director Zhao lead the team by himself!” Dabing Sun said.
”Shouren Zhao is here too?” Dai Li heard the name of his enemy. However, he didn't even know what he looked like. He asked in low voice, ”Which one is Shouren Zhao?”