Between 1968 and 1988, East Germany won 519 Olympic medals at the Olympics in just two decades, 10 times as many medals as the Soviet Union and 13 times as many as the United States in terms of population average!

The cow fork is bursting!

At Munich 1972, East Germany won 20 gold medals, ranking third behind the United States and the Soviet Union, and West Germany, the host country, had 13 gold medals.

At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, East Germany broke out, winning 40 gold medals, trampling the United States under its feet, and ranking second in the gold medal table after its big brother the Soviet Union, while West Germany only won 10 gold medals in the same Olympics.

The 1980 Moscow Olympics were boycotted by Western countries because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and East Germany reached its peak in the absence of competitors, winning 47 gold medals, while the Soviet Union won 80 gold medals, while West Germany did not participate in the Olympics.

At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, East Germany and other socialist countries of Eastern Europe boycotted along with their big brother, the Soviet Union.

Four years later, in Seoul, East Germany, which was already in a political decline, still won 37 gold medals, still beating the United States by one and ranking second in the gold medal table, while West Germany won 11 gold medals.

In this Barcelona Olympics, Germany sent a team with East German athletes as the main body, but there is no way, West Germany is a second-rate commodity in the Olympic medals, and it is not comparable to East Germany at all.

Even if the East German sports are suppressed, the Germans are also good-looking, and this trip to the Federal Republic of Germany also wants to have a fork in the Olympics: as long as a group of men and women in East Germany come out, although the competitive state may not be at the peak, but taking the third place should be like a play.

The entire East Germany has a population of 17 million, but it can stand in the first echelon of the Olympic competition list, and who will compete with the Soviet Union and the United States?

Tough, unbelievably tough!

Some people say that East Germany relies on doping to win the world, but this is obviously incomplete, and even deliberately smeared: the East German authorities have systematically made at least 10,000 athletes take all kinds of banned drugs for a long time, but not all sports can rely on doping to win the world.

For example, in Zhang Nan's memory, in several Winter Olympics after the merger of the two Germanys, Germany won either the first or second gold medal, and the second place was still "occasional", and most of these athletes came from eastern Germany.

It's all doping?

Obviously unrealistic.

The reason for the good results is that the training system, traditions, and concepts also play a big role, just as the East Germany not only researched doping that could not be detected by drugs, but also spent huge sums of money every year to train elite athletes, and selected young people with athletic talent for closed training with the strength of the whole country.

Not only are there many gold medals, but also eighty percent of East German athletes have difficulty making a living after retirement because they do not have enough education and skills other than their original sports, and many of them have fallen ill or even become disabled due to oversports.

But who cares, the trinity of star athletes, coaches and sports bureaucrats is a huge interest group, and gold medals can bring great fame and fortune to athletes and coaches, and can also bring sports bureaucrats prosperous political achievements.

The East Germans just did something as good as possible, more single-minded, harder, and then succeeded.

As for the price that is acceptable, if you want to reach the top, you have to pay the price, especially for the country.

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Tom Jackson, one of the butlers, was extremely efficient, thanks to an emergency response mechanism that had matured over the years, and he could drive to his airport after everyone had dinner and picked up a few changes of clothes.

As soon as they arrived at the airport, the two Gulfstream 4s were already preparing for a night flight - the airport personnel were notified by the manor and moved as fast as they could, but the pilots on the shift were still in their respective homes.

Fortunately, Zhang Nan, the rich boss and several proprietresses, are all masters who will fly all over the United States and the world at any time, and the pilots' homes are arranged on Long Island, and the distance from the airport is closer than the manor.

Brother-in-law Xiang Weirong was not interested in Las Vegas, so he didn't go this time, but even so, the 24 seats on the two planes were all full.

It's not that everyone wants to get rich and can't miss any opportunity, but the boss and the boss lady at least have this pomp every time they travel, and these people are really indispensable.

For example, on this temporary trip, this bodyguard must be brought, a private chef must also go with him, and a housekeeper, these are all necessary.

Fortunately, the children went to Canada, otherwise if the children were to go out, the pomp would be bigger, and there would be several nannies. In addition, Las Vegas already has a branch of "United Forces", otherwise it would have to use a transport plane, and the speed of transferring charter flights from airlines is not so fast.

When the pilot arrived, the two flight attendants had just arrived, and Zhang Nan felt a little awkward on the plane: he was used to the 767, and the Gulfstream business jet felt too small for him, and even a little depressing.

After sitting down, Zhang Nan asked Tom Jackson, the butler sitting at the other end of the cabin: "What did Boeing say, when will they be able to deliver?"

In this regard, Mr. Butler said: "Boss, the plane was delivered at the beginning of this month, but your three groups of pilots still need a period of running-in training, and they can be transferred to your airport within half a month." ”

Zhang Nan is talking about the 747-400 ordered by his family, which is super luxurious and big enough, but those pilots who are used to flying 767 and Gulfstream before have to be retrained, and they can't buy a new model of aircraft to recruit new pilots, right?

For those crews who have been serving themselves for several years, rest assured, they are not familiar with the 747, the training is that the training is not only after the aircraft is delivered, and three groups of people began to receive the training of the 747 after Zhang Nan placed the order.

Not only the flight attendants, but also the ground staff, and a few maintenance personnel from other airlines who are familiar with the 747 are a large four-engine airliner.

As soon as the new aircraft is delivered, those ground and air crews are on the Boeing side to familiarize themselves with the new aircraft at hand, so as to ensure that they can provide the best quality and safe service to the boss.

It's good to be fast, and the plane is big enough to be convenient.

After nearly five hours of flight, it was two o'clock in the middle of the night, and the two Gulfstreams arrived in Las Vegas. Instead of landing at McCarran International Airport, and certainly not at the air base north of the city, but at a small airfield about 6 kilometers south of the airport.

In addition to the airports in the military base, there are several large and small airports in Las Vegas, and Zhang Nan will arrive at this place that is not only for flight schools, but also for the private business jets of the wealthy to take off and land and rent.

Some wealthy people arrive on business jets instead of cars, but instead transfer to helicopters to go directly to the huge casinos and hotels in the downtown area.

If Zhang Nan was going to stay in one of the hotels near the Las Vegas Strip, he would also choose a helicopter. But this trip was not, and the branch temporarily chartered a resort estate five kilometers east of the airport, on a hillside, near the luxury villas favored by the real rich.

It is said that living there offers spectacular views of the sunrise and sunset over Las Vegas, as well as security and helicopters landing directly inside the estate.

There was no helicopter at night, and the branch pick-up staff prepared a luxury convoy, and Hula pulled the boss and his party to the resort manor.

Originally, everyone was still interested in betting on the plane, but when it really arrived at the place, the interest in betting was greatly reduced.

It's the middle of the night, and even if a group of people take a nap for a few hours on the plane, they should rest rather than gamble.

Don't bet anymore?

Down, of course, if you have money, you don't want to make the king-eggs, just let the people from the major spinach companies come to the estate and wait.

There are door-to-door delivery in this world, and there are also door-to-door delivery bets for sports competitions, as long as you have enough money.

Well, guys are waiting to make a little money, but it's hard for the boss not to lose money: it's not cheap to fly two Gulfstreams to Nevada, and you can't make much money by betting, there's a cap, and it's like that for all companies.

But who cares?

Anyway, Zhang Nan doesn't care, it's just a matter of coming out and going around when he suddenly thinks of it, otherwise he feels a little abandoned by his wife and children in New York.

But he will even leave his own bets to the butler, and he will have to sleep first: it will be almost three o'clock in the middle of the night after settling down, or it will not be long before the day will be light.

Why don't you find a bed and sleep well, and think about being a god!

But again, except for Zhang Nan, the "old man" who tries to make his work and rest time as stable as possible, who cares?

This is Las Vegas, where you can shop, travel, gamble, and get excited, and those guys who come here to get married and get a quick divorce don't care what time they go to bed at night, anyway, most hotels in Las Vegas don't have breakfast in them, and you have to be hungry when you wake up early.

It's not about the cost of the room, it's that the hotels here don't offer breakfast at all, but there are late-night snacks, and at least many casinos have all kinds of free food.

The room does not include breakfast, because this is in the casino, few tourists will get up before 10 o'clock in the morning, and those hotels near the Las Vegas Strip will naturally not provide breakfast service.

But I really became a fairy, I slept for about three hours on the plane, and I couldn't sleep again when I got here, so I simply moved a chair in the yard to watch the sunrise in the desert at four o'clock.

It's a little cool in the early morning, I can't reach 20 degrees, plus a little breeze in the early morning, and it's even a little cool in short sleeves.

The sunrise in the desert is also quite spectacular, even when the sun comes out, I feel hungry, but fortunately this is a holiday estate for the real rich, there is still breakfast, or 24-hour catering service.

After eating, I went to bed, and Nicole, who didn't dare to sleep deeply, was a little sneaky.

When I woke up, it was already past 12 noon, the curtains were too good, and Nicole on the other side of the bed was gone.

After washing up, I went out of the house...

"Damn, why is it so hot!"