16 July 1996.

The third day after the opening of the Atlanta Olympics is also the day when the first gold medal in swimming will be produced at the Games.

Early in the morning, Gu Kunlingtai woke up from the presidential suite of the Hilton Atlanta Hotel.

After washing up and stretching a little, after eating the meal prepared for him by the special nutritionist, he sat down for a while to eliminate his appetite, and then he was refreshed and ready to go out to warm up.

On the first day of the competition, there was no swimming event. There were only a few on the second day, and they were all preliminaries and semi-finals, and the gold medal in the men's swimming event will be produced today.

However, up to now, Gu Kun has not gained nothing, because in yesterday's two preliminaries and one semi-final, Gu Kun has broken three world records without suspense, which has really attracted media reports from some countries around the world.

Although he had broken 24 world records before, the races themselves were not well received.

Breaking a world record at the World Universiade is completely different from breaking a world record at the Olympic Games, and the response from the audience and the media is definitely not the same.

To put it mildly, even if you win a gold medal at the World Championships and break a world record, the depth and breadth of media coverage you receive is far less powerful than breaking a world record in the preliminaries at the Olympics.

Except for the World Cup of football, which can crush the Olympics, the World Championships in any other sport are just a feast for professionals, and the public does not want to eat you at all.

10 a.m., Georgia Tech Swimming Center.

Gu Kun changed into swimming trunks, tied a close-fitting rubber belt around his waist, hung Sony's latest mini DIS on it, connected a pair of headphones worth 1 million yen, and listened to music that adjusted his physiological rhythm.

The music was played and recorded by himself, and it was originally the theme song "He's a pirate" from the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" that would not air until 2003.

For Gu Kun, this kind of music can best stimulate his fighting spirit and rhythm of the game.

As for why he can play, it is not surprising, because life at sea is very boring, and during the long time of his 20 years of running at sea in his last life, he could only play musical instruments instead of reading books and movies on the ship. In that isolated environment, it is normal to practice a half-instrument playing skills.

It's just that Gu Kun doesn't need to rely on music to play these purely technical things in his life, so he just entertains himself and never shows off. He estimated his level, about seven or eight amateurs. Some of the most familiar tunes look like level 10.

"Lao Mei is really very aggressive, and he refuses to spend money to rebuild new venues for the Olympic Games, and directly uses the swimming pool in the local university to hold a competition, so the bathroom conditions are not as good as the World Universiade in Fukuoka last year, or I have a good service attitude. ”

Standing in the preparation area, Gu Kun couldn't help but spit out Lao Mei's in pieces.

The Atlanta Olympics is notoriously picky, and no one in Asian countries is rushing to make money, regardless of China, Japan and South Korea. Which is not to do your best to build a good hospitality.

And what about Atlanta? According to the last statistics in history, it actually made a profit of 3 billion US dollars, and most of the venues used old local facilities, and they didn't do any supporting construction......

He decided that after winning the gold medal for a while, if a reporter came to interview him, he must compare the hardware here with the hardware he said last year, and complain about it.

This is also out of politeness, and it is not good to spray openly.

......

At the same moment, at an intersection not far from Georgia Tech, Miss Pabrie was looking for a car to go to the stadium to watch the game.

Although the Hilton family is a giant in the hotel industry, Pabrie is only an ordinary third generation of the family after all, and she is still a middle school student.

There are as many as twenty or thirty third-generation people in the family like her, and it was also a personal decision for her to come to Atlanta to watch the Olympics, so the family will not send a car over, at most it will just manage the money and solve everything locally.

As a spectator, of course, there is no need to arrive too early, otherwise it will be boring to look at the empty swimming pool in a daze, and there are no competitions.

Swimming competitions are more competitive than spectatorial.

Pabrie had just called to ask for a car, but before the car arrived, she came across a Ferrari luxury car parked in front of her, and the window rolled down, revealing a face that was quite handsome among white people.

"Pabli, you're here to see the game, I'll take you, how about this surprise?"

Speechless, Pabli scratched her hair with both hands, then shrugged her shoulders and raised her hand, "Nash, what are you doing here, you're following me?"

"Not to talk about tracking, I know the ticket you booked. The young man, known as Nash, said lightly.

As for the hotel information, there is no need to check, Pabrie must be staying in her own family's hotel, so it is easy to find.

Pabrie was a little speechless.

It turned out that in order to give Pabrie an "aristocratic education", the family transferred her to a high-end private school in New York after she entered high school, and did not let her receive education in California.

Because of the family's arrangement, it is hoped that after graduating from high school, she will immediately debut to a famous top modeling agency in New York as a supermodel and gain exposure for the family.

Historically, it is true that after graduating from high school in '99, when she turned 18, she went to the agency of a New York real estate developer/magazine publisher who likes to spew chicken soup about entrepreneurship on talk shows.

Pabrie still coincidentally joined the company as a supermodel at the same age as the troll's eldest daughter in the same class. This arrangement of the family, of course, requires a transfer from high school to New York.

And this guy named Nash, who is two years older than her, will be in his third year of high school after the start of school, and will also study in the same high school, and the two are considered alumni.

Nash is a member of the Shining Gold family, and his family is a well-known large real estate developer in New York, so he has always had a relationship with the Hilton family, which started in the hotel industry, and Hilton's hotels in New York were developed and built with the help of the Nash family. After hearing that Pabrie was about to become his schoolgirl, he started hooking up this summer.

Nash is not a good thing in the first place, don't look at him as he is only 17 years old, but his family also has a relationship with a family of trolls who run a supermodel agency, and he himself has already hunted a lot of beauty in that supermodel company. Generally, if he knows that there are any new students in his school, and he has arranged to go to that supermodel company in the future, he will also find a way to make a friend first.

(Note: There are a lot of unreliable real estate developers in New York, so this Nash is not the future son-in-law of some troll real estate developer, not any celebrity, and there is no indescribable woman among the women he plays with in that supermodel company.) ）

But everyone doesn't think there's anything wrong with this, anyway, your circle is very messy.

The supermodels played by Nash are not exclusive to him, and others are also played by others.

It can only be said that everyone is a cloud call, you think you are exclusive, but in fact, you just temporarily apply for a call when there is a need, just like when the computing power of an Internet company can't keep up, you temporarily rent a little sharing economy from Ahri Cloud and Yama Cloud.

At this moment, since he had been approached, Pabrie said to him directly: "I'm going to watch the swimming competition, women's gymnastics, you can go and see it yourself, who doesn't know that you want to see those white flowers with long legs turning around." ”

"Swimming, what's so nice about swimming, it's not artistic at all. Nash read in pieces.

Pably: "Then go your own way, I've already booked a car by phone." ”

Nash was helpless: "Okay, okay, just swim!"

After settling Pabrie into the car, Nash couldn't help but complain while driving: "Swimming doesn't seem to be outstanding in our Ocean team this year, I don't know what you watch." I seem to have heard that some Asian athletes are very fierce in the media recently. ”

Pabrie said proudly: "That can only say that you don't care about the news too much, that's not some 'some Asian athletes', it's Gu Kun, he is a friend of my family." I just went to see him win the gold medal. ”

In the tone, it is inevitable that "I have a personal relationship with the Olympic champion, but you don't." That's why I'm the celebrity, and you're just a couple of stinky money."

Although everyone just has stinky money, they also have to compare the breadth of their connections.

Nash thought in a broken way: "Oh damn it, the names of the Huaxia people are the same in my opinion! Anyway, anything can happen before the game is finished, you might as well wait for that guy to actually win the gold medal before going." I've heard that many swimmers apply for more than one event. If you can't get the gold medal in front, it means that you have a false name, and you can't let us condescend to see it in person. ”

"Oh, then I'm really going to doubt your EQ and IQ - Nash, don't you all teach you to be a human being? Do you know the difference between icing on the cake and giving charcoal in the snow?

Nash has a secret hatred in his heart, but it is not easy to break it.

In fact, of course he understands this truth, he is just betting that Pabrie doesn't understand, so he can fool the other party.

After all, he is a big man, and he knows too much about the so-called "celebrity" style in the cultural tourism and luxury industry circle, and knows that they are all very chaotic people.

He also hopes to lead the elementary school girl to know life and get a blood.

Unexpectedly, the emotional intelligence education of these big families is ahead of their time, and the little girls who are just about to enter high school at the beginning of school already understand so many people's feelings.

He had no choice but to sulk and rush to the swimming pool at Georgia Tech with one foot on the accelerator. Thankfully, he drove a top-of-the-line Ferrari, and no one in the local traffic police along the way cared about him speeding.

When the two of them sat down on the stands with gloomy expressions, Gu Kun had already stood on the jumping platform.