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

Chapter 20 - Can you also be my coach?

Translator: dapotaturs
Release Date: 09/02/2023

After this round of testing, the decision regarding Qiu Wen's change of event to the 400 meters was set. However, what nobody anticipated was that, in addition to Qiu Wen's change, the 400-meter event gained an additional part-time specialized coach.

The efficiency of the administrative staff in the team was impressive. On the same day, this news was posted on the bulletin board of the team. Above the bulletin, there was still a notice about Su Bai retiring and joining the athletics team's logistical department.

Soon enough, on the anonymous forum of the physical training team, a piece of juicy gossip appeared.

Topic: [Has anyone seen this? Qiu Wen switched to train for the 400 meters, and Su Bai went along as his 400 meters coach!!]

This news could be considered the biggest gossip in the team apart from the visit of the national team coaches for guidance these past days. After all, such a peculiar thing, not only recently, but even looking back decades in the provincial team, no one had ever witnessed.

Comment 1: [Friend, you're not being fair. When the 3rd floor was managed solely by Old Sun, didn't you all have a good time?]

Comment 3: [Hahaha, looks like the original poster enjoys the perks of the 3rd-floor chef. But seeing that the 3rd-floor chef comes and goes, I feel a sense of balance now... After all, every time I reach the stairs to the 2nd floor, I can't help but envy it!]

Comment 6: [No, none of you cared at all. Su Bai, a retired 100-meter athlete, switched to being a chef in the kitchen, fine. But how can he transfer to the coaching staff, and that too as a 400 meters coach?!]

Comment 9: [Isn't Qiu Wen switching events strange too? Wasn't he a key player in the 100 meters and 200 meters? I thought he was aiming to break through to the national elite level this year. Why did he suddenly switch to the 400 meters? Doesn't he have to start from scratch? The technical complexity of the 400 meters is higher than that of the 100 meters and 200 meters, right? Isn't this a setback?]

Comment 15: [Since I've seen this post, let me say a few words... coincidentally, I watched Qiu Wen's 400 meters test race these past two days. You might not believe it when I say this, but his first-round test result was 47.58 seconds.]

Comment 17: [??? Friend from the 15th floor, what did you say? What was Qiu Wen's first-round test result???]

Comment 19: [...I don't want to believe this result rationally, but Qiu Wen indeed got transferred to the 400 meters event, so... is it really possible?!]

Comment 27: [This matter is indeed true. Hu Li personally told me. He and Zhang Wei ran the test race with Qiu Wen. After the first round, they were stunned. It was only in the second round that they managed to surpass Qiu Wen because his rhythm got disrupted. Moreover, Hu Li said that in Qiu Wen's test races, all the results that ran under 48 seconds were guided on-site by Su Bai, without exception. Even in today's first round, Wu Shengping from the national team personally guided Qiu Wen before the race, but it wasn't as effective as Su Bai's guidance in the second round later on.]

If it was only about Qiu Wen switching to the 400 meters event, the athletes in the track and field team might have been merely curious and watched from the sidelines. However, the revelation from the 27th floor really surprised everyone in the track and field team.

Could it be that Su Bai is actually more skilled in coaching the 400 meters event than the coaches from the national team?

This thread in the forum gained momentum as athletes chimed in after their training sessions. Eventually, it became one of the few posts in the anonymous forum with over a hundred replies. The post's click count was continuously soaring in the forum's thread list, indicating that many athletes who were quietly reading the post hadn't spoken up yet.