Quanzhou, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, referred to as "Li", alias Licheng, Thorn Tong City - well- this name!

Eh, Thorn tree is a tree name, native to India and Malaysia, Tang and Song dynasties, many places in Fujian Province have introduced this tree, among which Quanzhou is the most. This tree is tall and luxuriant, the safflower is like fire, when the five dynasties Quanzhou expanded the city, this tree was planted all over the city and the alleys, so it got this elegant name.

During the Song and Yuan dynasties, Quanzhou was the largest port in the country and one of the two largest foreign trade ports in the world at that time. A large number of merchants gathered here, among which the Arab merchants were the most numerous, and the direct transliteration of the thorn tree was called, and at that time this nickname was more widely used than the original name.

In addition, under the gun of Marco Polo, the king of cowhides, no, it is the "travelogue" written by the pen is also called Quanzhou by the thorn tree.

After the Yuan, the thorn trees in the thorn tree city gradually became fewer, and even fewer in modern times, there must still be some, but it is basically difficult for Meng Fan to see the flourishing thorn trees at the end of April, after all, the flowering period has passed, and even the thorn trees are rare, but they have passed through a thorn tree.

The Kyoto Olympics Weightlifting Continental Qualifying Tournament Asian Station was held in the Quanzhou Sports Center in China, and the main venue was in the Heavy Athletic Gymnasium.

There are very few Chinese players who come to participate in the weightlifting qualification tournament this time, in fact, it can't be said that it is very few, strictly speaking, Meng Fan is alone, because before this, the qualifying tournaments for men and women at other levels of weightlifting have been obtained, and Meng Fan's level has not been obtained.

Although the Chinese team is not good under the weight lifting rule, it is only relative to taking cards, and there is no problem in winning the qualification.

It is only above 109 kg that the class has not been qualified, and if Meng Fan gets it, it will be a full competition in all levels of men and women. If it weren't for Meng Fan, at the level of more than 109 kg, there would be someone in Huaxia who would fight for a top sixteen, and no matter how bad it is, he would be able to win a place in the continental qualifying tournament.

Weightlifting is indeed a traditional event in China, but the big level is relatively weak, and it is more difficult to win medals, but it is still no problem to get qualifications.

In addition to the team sent by the wrestling side, including team leaders and technical consultants, Dean Zhan naturally accompanied the team with Meng Fan's coach.

"As long as you finish in the top six, you can get a ticket. ”

Dean Zhan was very relaxed, at least it seemed to be easier than Meng Fan, waited for the game to start after weighing, watched Meng Fan warm up, and said: "According to what you said, the total score is not high." As long as you lock in the top six, you can play freely. ”

Meng Fan said with a smile: "Didn't you say that you want to suppress the results to ensure the success rate? According to what you said, the first one should be lowered, and it is enough to make sure that it is the last one to appear." “

When Dean Zhan heard this, he knew that Meng Fan had listened to his opinion, so he couldn't help but laugh and said: "The intercontinental qualifying tournament is still too easy for you, the level is not much pressure on you, and it is impossible to treat it as a main competition by looking at your appearance, just ensure the admission ticket, there is no need to compete." However, there is one thing to keep in mind, you have to make sure you make it to Group A of the Olympic finals. ”

Dean Zhan gave a guaranteed total score to ensure that this total score can be qualified to enter Group A when the total score is reported, and the total score can be reported higher, but it cannot be reported unfoundedly.

Olympic weightlifting, if the number of people is large, according to the results of the report is divided into two groups of AB separate comparison, and finally with the comprehensive ranking of the two groups of results, the overall strength of Group B is all worse than Group A, so even if Group B gets the first place, it is basically not with the medals, or even with the top six, the group is the real finals, the live broadcast and broadcast of the event are also the game pictures of Group A, and most of the audience only think that there is only one group of weightlifting finals.

In the end, Meng Fan's snatch score was 208 kg, clean and jerk 251 kg, and the total score was 455 kg, which was much worse than his results in the domestic trials, but it was a new domestic record in the continental arena, and it was no problem for this result to win the first place in the qualifying round.

Dean Zhan's strategic guidance to Meng Fan is simple, first to secure a ticket to Group A, and then to lay out for the Olympic finals.

Meng Fan broke the world record in the domestic trials before and spread the public opinion abroad, of course, Dean Zhan knew that there was no need to be angry or anything, and competitive sports always looked at the performance on the field.

Of course, strategy and tactics are also an aspect of on-field performance.

Meng Fan's qualifying results this time were neither high nor low, breaking the original domestic record, but it was not so high that it was outrageous, but Meng Fan's performance on the field was very easy.

Didn't you say grade water?

Then muddy the waters!

There are world record-breaking results hanging, and there are this results to support the bottom, but there is no real strength to show, let you figure it out for yourself!

In this way, Dean Zhan can take the lead and take the initiative in reporting weight in the finals.

Meng Fan naturally has no objection, anyway, he only needs to get the championship honor point of the first place in the qualifying round, anyway, this event is indeed impossible for Meng Fan to brush up on any competition experience, in terms of specifications, it is better than the simulated training match arranged by Dean Zhan for himself.

After winning the weightlifting qualification, Meng Fan's Olympic sprint is over.

......

Lifting and wrestling center.

After the leader surnamed Xiong learned that Meng Fan had confirmed that he had obtained the ticket for the weightlifting Olympics, he immediately ran to the office of the leader surnamed Zhou.

"Lao Zhou, take it!"

"I see. ”

"Hurry up!"

The leader surnamed Zhou smiled and waved a registration form in his hand and said, "It's all filled, let's go!"

"Let's go!"

The two were very happy, and with full excitement, they took this registration form with Meng Fan's name written on it and went to the Sports Department of the Sports Federation.

This kind of registration form is received by all sports centers and associations under the general regulations, but very few centers or associations will actually submit it.

This registration form is nothing else, it is the registration form for the flagbearer of the Chinese delegation to the Olympic Games.

Each center and association is qualified to recommend the flag bearer of the Olympic Games, but generally speaking, the flag bearer of the opening ceremony of the Chinese Olympic Games has always had a tradition of being served by national men's basketball players. Since the first participation in the Olympic Games in 84, the flag bearer is a basketball player, and two of them have served for two consecutive years, such as Da Yao is the flag bearer in 04 and 08, and the UAE in 12 years, and it was not until 16 years that the Olympic flag bearer of non-men's basketball appeared for the first time, that is, the fencer Thunder.

There is an opening ceremony, and naturally there is also a closing ceremony flag bearer. In the past, the same person served as the flag bearer for the opening and closing ceremonies, and later it was served separately by the athletes who performed well or made historical breakthroughs in this Olympic Games, such as the 110-meter hurdles champion in 04 was the first non-opening ceremony flag bearer of the closing ceremony, and then 08, 12 and 16 years were all served by female athletes.

The Olympic flag bearer can be said to be the face of a country's delegation, which is a special honor!

"Another one!"

The Competition Division received the registration form from the two directors of the Weightlifting and Wrestling Center, and said with a smile: "Since 16 years of playing and breaking the 'monopoly' of the men's basketball team, there are really a lot of people who have submitted registration forms this year. Who are you submitting....... Eh, it must be him!"

At a glance, it was indeed Meng Fan.

"Who are the many people who signed up this time?"

As soon as they heard this, Zhou Xiong and the others immediately became vigilant.

"Don't ask me, it's confidential. However, I can reveal one thing, judging from the results, your family is enough to choke! Except for the men's basketball team, all of them are Olympic champions. ”

"In terms of significance, our family is the first competitor in the history of the Olympic Games to cross the three major events! In terms of strength, our family has no opponents in the two major events of wrestling and softness, and has broken three world records in weightlifting! In terms of popularity, who is as popular as my family at present! In terms of appearance, not to mention it!"

"Yes, yes, you're right! But it's useless to tell us, we're only responsible for handing it over, and we can't do anything else. “

"Whether it's useful or not, I'll say that!"

The two thought about it, but they still felt that they had to find the person above in advance. Although there are still two months before the Olympic roster is released, although the Olympic flag bearer is not determined until the end, although it is ...... In short, this kind of thing should be done sooner rather than later. If it weren't for Meng Fan to win the weightlifting qualification, he would have said it a long time ago!

As for Meng Fan, he naturally didn't know about it, if he really wanted to wait until he knew, it would definitely be very late, at least after the list was announced, and even after he arrived in Kyoto.

Returning to Qinhuangdao with the team to participate in the weightlifting summary meeting, Meng Fan will be "liberated" next, and the weightlifting and wrestling center will naturally no longer arrange any competitions, and the training will still follow the best way before - let Meng Fan make his own decisions, and the follower group sent will mainly play an auxiliary role.

After returning to Hangzhou, it also ushered in the May Day holiday, for athletes preparing for the Olympics, how can there be any holiday without a holiday, even Meng Fan is the same, almost every day is still training, and the amount of training is never less than two, and sometimes even more. To be honest, Meng Fan's team and Dean Zhan were all shocked when they looked at it, worried that Meng Fan would be injured due to too much training.

It is said that Meng Fan has this strength, and it is not a big problem if he does not train, and even the team and Dean Zhan will not force it. But Meng Fan was obviously much more serious than they imagined, and sometimes they didn't understand what Meng Fan was doing so hard, and they would persuade Meng Fan to practice less.

also asked Meng Fan, but Meng Fan's answer always made them feel a little weird, Meng Fan said that he was a lucky person, so he had to work harder, at least to work hard to be worthy of his luck.

The reason why I think it's weird is that I guess these people have heard the meaning of "my talent is too envied by others, or try hard to appear mediocre".

Of course, compared with other athletes' closed training, Meng Fan still has a lot of freedom, such as going to class, shopping, watching movies, accompanying girlfriends, and petting big cats.

Well, during the May Day holiday, Meng Fan couldn't accompany his girlfriend if he wanted to, because Meng Caiwei, who had preliminarily completed her weight loss goal, "went out of the mountain", and took advantage of the May Day holiday when Wu Tong didn't have class to take her to play in neon.

In addition, from the WeChat sent by Wu Tong, Meng Fan also knew that in addition to the two of them, Bai Zhi and Su Qingcen were also there, in addition, Meng Caihe, the female tyrant of the Meng family, happened to be on a business trip in Kyoto, and then there was Meng Caiwei's good friend in Neon for ten yuan.

After Meng Fan won the weightlifting qualifying competition, the relevant invitations reached a peak during this time, and then sorted out a batch and screened only six and sent them to Meng Fan, but Meng Fan didn't reply for the time being, so let's wait for Meng Caiwei to come back and ask her to help discuss with Hu Yijing.

Wu Tong was not there, and Meng Fan, who was energetic at night, immediately increased the manuscripts of "Strange People in the Mountains and Seas".

After the May Day holiday, someone came to the wrestling center, and the men's large-level athletes who qualified for the two major events of the Olympic Games were brought to Meng Fan to complete his one-week special training by Meng Fan's side.

Compared with the previous special training, the specifications of the players who came this time are obviously the highest, which shows the recognition of Meng Fan as the "coach" at the training base.

On May 16, the special training was completed, and Meng Fan submitted a training application. Meng Fan's training autonomy is very high, and the reason why he submitted an application this time was because he needed the help of the Lifting and Wrestling Center.

"Xiao Meng, to be honest, I don't understand what this means, why are you training like this, is this really training?"

Meng Fan replied bluntly: "That's the case, I really don't have any opponents in the two major events of wrestling, and the only opponent is myself." In terms of strength, skill, and technique and tactics, I had reached a bottleneck, and it would be difficult to break through even if I had the right opponent, so I came up with this solution. Maybe from the bottom up, it will inspire me. ”

“...... I'd better call Director Zhou directly for you. ”

People who come can hear it in the clouds, how can it sound as if they have traveled to the north and south of the motherland to seek a breakthrough in epiphany, martial arts cultivation is a peerless miracle!

Not only was he stunned, but Director Zhou was also stunned, but in the end he agreed to Meng Fan's application, and after hanging up the phone, he began to call the leaders of the heavy competition departments of the provincial sports institutes across the country, and trouble them to prepare for Meng Fan's visit and exchange.

The heavy competition department of the provincial sports institutes is definitely not under the management of the weightlifting and wrestling center, or even a system, but the three events of lifting and wrestling account for half of the heavy competition department, and face will definitely be given.

It's just that the leaders of the heavy competition departments of the sports institutes are also confused, and Meng Fan, who has no rival in the international arena, came to their provincial sports institutes to visit and exchange what the hell, what kind of bad taste is this!

Of course, you are definitely welcome, aside from the "Meng's training method" that came out of the national team, who doesn't want to be raised and wrestled by Meng Fan!