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

Chapter 179-180

Translator: dapotaturs

Release Date: 10/02/2023

Chapter 179: Return to China & Brief Online Appearance by Cui Luoheng & Su Bai's Plan

On the second day after the World Athletics Relays concluded, the Chinese team packed their bags and prepared for their journey back home. However, during the preparations for the team's return, Lin Ping, the translator responsible for liaising with the Japanese Athletics Association, received an invitation. It was stated that a Japanese television station wanted to interview the coach and team members of the Chinese team.

Lin Ping conveyed that, based on the hints from the Japanese Athletics Association, the person they wanted to interview was likely Su Bai. After all, the Chinese team's athletes had already undergone group interviews after the two days of competition. At that time, the journalists who needed to conduct interviews with the athletes had most likely already done so.

Furthermore, over the past two days, during the live broadcasts on Yokohama Television, there was no sight of Su Bai. It was reported that some Japanese viewers even called in to inquire why the Chinese team's coach, Su, was not present.

However, Su Bai didn't pay much attention to these trivial matters. After confirming with Jiang Wentao that refusing interviews was not a problem, he directly declined the corresponding invitation and embarked on the journey back to China along with the rest of the Chinese team.

Upon their return to China, it was already 3:00 PM local time. As the national team members exited the airport, they realized that not only had there been reporters conducting farewell interviews when they left for Japan, but there were also many journalists present to conduct welcome-back interviews upon their return.

"Wow, have we become so famous all of a sudden?" Qiu Wen scratched his head, and his comment elicited laughter from the surrounding journalists.

After a brief round of interviews at the airport, reporters asked Su Bai about the upcoming competition schedules and goals for Zhang Ziyi, Qiu Wen, Li Junhao, and others.

"Our next target is tentatively set for the Netherlands station of the World Athletics Challenge, which should take place in early June," Su Bai replied. He didn't elaborate further on the final performance goals for Zhang Ziyi and the others. Over the past two days, he realized that he had shared quite a bit of information during the Yokohama Television broadcast, and now, expressing specific performance goals for his athletes could lead to excessive interpretations.

It would be more appropriate for Zhang Ziyi and the others to state their own goals.

Zhang Ziyi expressed his sincere hope to run within the 44.90-second qualification range for the 400 meters before the deadline of June 30th next year. Although Qiu Wen's 400 meters personal best was currently only 45.27 seconds, he also confidently stated the same goal as Zhang Ziyi.

Among the four members of the men's 4x400 meters relay team, Guo Dun aimed to break the 46-second barrier in the next one to two years, while Li Junhao frowned and indicated that he would make a full effort to qualify for the World Championships in September this year.

The reporters present knew that the qualification standard for the World Championships in September this year was 45.30 seconds in the 400 meters, which meant that Li Junhao needed to run under 45.30 seconds in a 400-meter individual race before August 31st to achieve his goal.

Reporters discreetly searched their memories - what was Li Junhao's previous personal best? It was 45.98 seconds, which he achieved at the beginning of the year at the Asian Six Nations Athletics Challenge.