Chapter 282 Olympic Journey (5)(1/2)
China's football victory over Italy was not the end of the first day of the Chinese delegation's match. Almost at the same time as the football match ended, Li Yuwei, who not many people paid attention to, had some lonely help in the "Men's 50-meter Moving Target" event.
The Chinese team won another gold medal.
But we can’t blame China for not paying attention to these unpopular projects. At this stage, CCTV only has comprehensive channels and sports channels. Even if different games are broadcast separately, some conflicting events will still be missed.
Li Yuwei's gold medal is an unexpected gain, but it also means that the two gold medals born in today's "shooting" event were all won by the Chinese team.
In addition, this gold medal also allowed the Chinese delegation to unexpectedly lead the pack with 4 gold medals and 3 silver medals after the first day of competition.
Now China not only ranks first in both the gold medal list and the medal list, but it has also won great victories in the three most influential major ball games including football, basketball, and volleyball.
Such results naturally attracted worldwide attention, but this attention was inevitably accompanied by emotions of "uneasiness" and "panic". Who made the Chinese team's start too strong?
Wu Jie also didn’t know whether achieving such outstanding results at this time would affect the low-key development strategy of the first thirty years of reform and opening up.
But when I think about it carefully, I feel that this is unfounded worry, because even if he and his tool men do a lot of things on and off the field, they won't really scare the world.
After all, even the "packaging bag technology" of Chen Haonan's "Uni-President Food" is imported from Japan. The production technology of cans and plastic bottles is still being introduced. At this time, they can only use the glass bottle filling technology before World War II.
to produce beverages.
This kind of China is naturally far from being worried by the West. At least it would be beneficial for them to keep a high profile before Mao Xiong died.
In fact, the Western media at this time, including the Chinese media, missed a key point, that is, China's strong projects were concentrated in the first half.
In a few days, when track and field and outdoor events begin to produce a large number of gold medals, the Chinese team will usher in a period of weakness, and the number of medals for the American team will skyrocket.
Of course there will be some differences in this dimension, but in the 1980s it was impossible for them to really surpass the number of medals of the United States and the Soviet Union.
On the second competition day, there will be four swimming gold medals, two gold medals in judo, shooting, and weightlifting. In addition, there will be one gold medal each in road cycling, archery, diving, and fencing.
A total of 10 gold medals will be awarded on this day, and there are still many strong events for the Chinese team.
In the morning, Shen Lang first finished fourth in the preliminaries in the 200-meter freestyle.
This ranking gave some relief to the Western media. They believed that Shen Lang was best at the short distances of 50 meters and 100 meters. It seemed that he would not be able to achieve very good results in the 200-meter race.
But they didn't know that Shen Lang was starting to hide his weakness, mainly because there were two finals and two preliminaries today, and he had to save some energy.
As soon as Shen Lang walked out of the swimming pool, the focus of the Chinese and Western media was no longer on him, because the Chinese team won another gold medal in the morning.
A beautiful athlete of the Chinese shooting team, Wu Xiaoxuan from Hangzhou, won the gold medal in the "10-meter air rifle" competition with a score of 392 rings, and broke the world record and Olympic record.
Wu Xiaoxuan also became China's first female Olympic champion. Coupled with her beautiful appearance, she naturally attracted as much attention as Xu Haifeng won China's first gold medal yesterday. Especially the Asian media paid close attention to this round-faced beauty. Athletes are very concerned.
Wu Jie naturally helped her behind the scenes, and Wu Xiaoxuan from the original plane also applied for two projects, namely "10-meter air rifle" and "50-meter rifle".
However, due to her eagerness for success and failure to adjust the pace of the competition, she only won a bronze medal in her strength, the "10-meter air rifle."
Wu Jie specially used a platinum-level card for her to adjust her condition before the final. In the end, she not only helped her successfully win the gold medal, but also broke the Olympic record with 40 shots and 392 rings.
This gold medal made the Chinese shooting team famous all over the world, because all the shooting gold medals born so far have been won by Chinese players.
At this time, Wu Jie also discovered that his cards were very significant in improving sports such as "shooting". Because there is no confrontation, the players' levels will not be too different, and the game rounds are long. Just one mistake will lead to the whole game being lost. , but if you are in good condition, there may be a dark horse counterattack in the game. It is really suitable to use cards to improve your performance.
In addition, Chinese shooters have a big advantage in this event, that is, their training time and intensity exceed that of Western players. After all, Chinese athletes in this era can really sacrifice everything for the honor of the country.
In addition, the Chinese shooting team also has advantages in selecting materials. Its huge army is an advantage that most countries cannot match.
This can ensure that many of the players selected by the Chinese shooting team are geniuses who stand out from hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
These players who have outstanding shooting talents and abuse themselves in training, the only thing that makes them fail is their psychology and state.
If these two negative factors can be compensated for by cards in a short period of time, or even strengthened to a certain extent, then the Chinese shooting team will be almost invincible.
Of course, this is not something truly honorable.
Nowadays, many athletes in China will sacrifice time to study, time to spend time with their families, time to fall in love, and then use overload training intensity that harms the body to improve performance.
These are things that are impossible for developed countries to do and actually violate the true Olympic spirit.
But in this era, Wu Jie would not be in a hurry to correct these mistakes, because it would be like a young master from a landlord's family seeing his tenant farmer getting older and kindly stopping him from doing heavy farm work.
After the Chinese delegation once again won the first gold medal on the second competition day, the Japanese team also won the first gold medal in this Olympic Games. Naturally, this championship was won through "judo".
This sport is a manifestation of soft power, and it is also something Wu Jie is quite envious of.
Japan now has judo as its national business card, and Bangkok will soon have taekwondo as its business card. Unfortunately, China failed to enter a fighting event that could represent China into the Olympic Games in 2008.
If it weren't for Bruce Lee, he wouldn't dare to imagine that China's presence in this field would still be at the level of the "sick man of East Asia".
Wu Jie has always hoped that the two Luo brothers and sisters could follow Bruce Lee's example and use their influence to create a mixed martial arts event and allow it to enter the Olympics in the future.
The Japanese here were not happy for long, but soon became embarrassed, because the South Korean athletes defeated Japanese players in the 65-71 kg judo event an hour later and won the championship in this weight class.
The Japanese media and audience are naturally very angry. It is estimated that the whole of Japan is yelling at Bangzi again, and the latter must also be mocking Japan nationwide. Naturally, China can also bring melon seeds on the bench to watch the fun.
However, Japan will definitely be at a disadvantage this time, because it would be extremely embarrassing for this kind of national labeling movement to be killed head-on by the most hated country.
Many Japanese people feel that even if a Chinese player wins the championship, it would be much better than letting Bangzi win the championship.
Europeans definitely don’t think so. If judo is Japan’s sports label, then the number one sports label in Europe is “fencing.”
This is the traditional strength of the European continent. Basically, the fencing champions in various events are from Europe, and even the United States rarely can get involved.
But something unexpected happened in the afternoon. In the Olympic fencing event, for the first time, an Asian appeared on the championship podium, and it was a Chinese.
The Chinese media is very calm, because Luan Jujie won the championship in the 6th International Women's Foil Competition held in West Germany last year, becoming the first Asian athlete to win a championship in the world of fencing.
Now she just became the first Asian to win the fencing championship at the Olympics, so the Chinese media is already prepared for this.
Although the Western media also knew that Luan Jujie was a seeded player, they were still extremely unhappy when someone took away a fencing championship!
Especially when China participated in the Olympics for the first time and won championships one after another, this fencing championship has undoubtedly made Western sports look even more ugly.
But no matter how unhappy the Western media is, they are still destined to enjoy the performance of the Chinese delegation on the match days of the past few days.
In the afternoon, another shooting range made the Western media look ugly. Tao Weiping, a player who failed to reach the podium in his original position, now scored an impressive 588 rings in the "Men's 10-meter Air Rifle", once again helping
The Chinese shooting team helped the Chinese team win a gold medal.
This gold medal also enabled the Chinese team to complete the victory in the shooting event in the previous two days. The four gold medals in the shooting event so far have all been won by Chinese athletes.
The American media is the most bitter at this moment, and at the same time the most unwilling.
As the host country, they haven't won a gold medal yet. There is really no place to show off their pride.
The worst part was that half an hour later, the Chinese women's handball team defeated the American team in the same group 36-29, which made the American media and audience want to vomit blood!
At this time, Wu Jie also discovered that he had paid less attention to "handball", especially the women's team, which seemed to always strive for success and actually defeated the American team.
This naturally surprised and delighted him, and he hurriedly checked the information of the Chinese women's handball team.
Only then did he realize that although the overall strength of Chinese women's handball is not as good as that of South Korea, the gap between the two sides is not that big, and the gap in this dimension is even smaller.
The Chinese women's handball team won the bronze medal in this Olympics in its original position, South Korea won the silver medal, and the champion was the Yugoslav team.
Now that the gap is smaller, Wu Jie will of course help the Chinese women's handball team win the championship, especially if they encounter South Korea in the knockout round, he will have to spend his money next time.
But just when the Chinese delegation was gaining momentum and Americans began to be laughed at by the whole world, the Chinese players were finally defeated head-on by American players.
Tan Liangde, a tragic hero in the history of the Chinese Olympic Games, originally participated in the "three-meter springboard" event of three Olympic Games, but he could only get second place three times in a row. In the end, he was named the "second child of a thousand years".
Ya nickname.
Wu Jie wanted to help him delete this nickname this time, and even used a platinum-level card for him before the game.
But it was obvious that the assistance was not enough, and Tan Liangde still lost to the "Diving Emperor" Louganis by 2 points.
Wu Jie was very sorry about the news at first, but when he reviewed the two people's diving actions through the system, even a layman like him could tell that at least three of Tan Liangde's six actions were taking off, aerial posture, and entering the water.
Actions and splash suppression are better, and the other two actions are equally good.
The most irritating thing is that Louganis's last jump obviously made a major mistake under pressure. The splash when entering the water was several times larger than that of Tan Liangde.
In this case, Tan Liangde should win the championship with an absolute advantage.
However, due to the obvious favoritism of the seven judges, Tan Liangde finally lost to Louganis.
This gold medal also made the US team finally no longer have zero duck eggs, but it is a pity that the gold medal that Tan Liangde received still flew away.
The Chinese diving team was naturally dissatisfied with this result, but they did not lodge a protest with the Olympic Organizing Committee for political reasons.
Wu Jie was feeling really bad at this moment. He wanted to say a few words, but when he thought of himself as a dealer dealing out cards one by one, he was really embarrassed to speak.
However, the 6 gold medals won by the Chinese team so far, except for Wu Xiaoxuan's, are all obtained in the original position. The Chinese team did have a very strong start to this Olympic Games.
So his cheating is not too outrageous. Next, Shen Lang's 100-meter freestyle final will be the real big show.
The "McDonald Outdoor Swimming Pool" is already filled with 40,000 spectators. This number sounds incredible. How can an indoor swimming pool seat so many people?
But there were really so many people this time, because in order to make use of existing facilities, the United States had to break past precedent and arrange the swimming venue for the first time at the McDonald Outdoor Swimming Pool on the University of California campus.
Shen Lang is already one of the most watched athletes in the competition today. In addition to his amazing performance yesterday, it is also because he is the competitor with the most entries for this swimming competition.
The most amazing thing is that he has now reached the finals in three events.
This afternoon was the 100-meter freestyle final. Before the game, there were already a large group of reporters who couldn't stop taking pictures as soon as they saw him.
However, Shen Lang did not cooperate with the media. He had been keeping a low profile since yesterday. All reporters who wanted to interview him were declined by him because they did not speak English.
But there were still some reporters who wanted to stalk him, and in the end the team leader had to step in to help him block these harassments.
At this moment, in the rest area before the game, Shen Lang's style still looks so different.
To be continued...