Yao Ming's brother Liu Xiang is also difficult to ride a tiger now, his mobile phone, Weibo, and all external communication equipment are all controlled, and he can't express his stance at will.

Nike is Liu Xiang's sponsor, and hundreds of millions of funds are smashed on Liu Xiang, how can he easily withdraw from the competition?

The track and field team that has divided the money is also under great pressure, the national honor is above all else, Liu Xiang is a top athlete trained by the country, his body is the national wealth, it is impossible to say that if you don't want to run, you can not run.

That's the case.

Yang Lei took the time to visit Liu Xiang at the Shanghai track and field team training center, X-Sports and Nike are competitors, and the leaders are very vigilant, thinking that Yang Lei is here to disturb the morale of the military.

Accompanied by supervisors, Yang Lei met Liu Xiang, who was practicing the runway.

The coach allowed him to rest for ten minutes, Liu Xiang wiped his sweat and came to the sidelines, took a bottle of sports supplement handed to him by Yang Lei, and drank it in a big gulp.

Yang Lei patted the stool next to him and motioned for him to sit down: "Do you want to work so hard?"

"It's going to be Olympics soon, how can you do it if you don't work hard?"

Liu Xiang said with a smile, looked at the supervisors, and glanced at the other party curiously: "What's wrong with you?

The supervisor was also an acquaintance, and his face was a little embarrassed.

Yang Lei said: "People are afraid that I will disturb your pre-game training, it's okay, I'll come and see you." Did Nike give you new shoes?"

"Out, look, handsome or not?"

Liu Xiang raised his foot and showed it to Yang Lei.

"Handsome, very handsome. ”

Professional spikes should be used for sprinting, just like football boots.

Yang Lei has not entered the spikes market in recent years, mainly because the audience of this category is relatively small, although the demand for football shoes is relatively large, but compared with casual shoes, it is pitiful.

In addition, the vast majority of people who love to play football in China are teenagers, and the economic conditions do not allow it, sometimes a pair of "double stars", or "Huili", or Anta Li Ning's ordinary football boots, can buy a pair of spikes for less than 50 yuan.

From the perspective of the market, Yang Lei mainly focuses on casual sneakers, and there is nothing wrong with it.

But from a professional point of view, a professional sports brand, if it doesn't even have good spikes, is completely unreasonable.

There are outsiders present to supervise, and Yang Lei is not good at saying anything.

He could only praise: "It looks good, you just need to be comfortable." Oh yes, Yao Ming will be back in a few days, do you have time to come out and get together?"

Liu Xiang spread his hands: "It is estimated that it is difficult, I can't go out of the closed training camp here, and he probably has to go to the capital for training, and I'll see you in London then." ”

The two laughed and didn't touch on any sensitive topics.

Yang Lei sat for a while and then left the training base, turned around, and his smile froze.

This brother is also finished.

Liu Xiang's mentality, it is estimated that he really intends to go up and run.

Brother, you are 29 years old, past the golden age of track and field athletes, this run, you are not running alone, you are carrying the hearts of more than a billion people, if you lose, or release pigeons, your reputation is estimated to be ruined.

Yang Lei is embarrassed, it doesn't matter if he doesn't know Liu Xiang, but he has such a good relationship with Liu Xiang in this life, seeing that his friend is in trouble, if he doesn't pull a hand, it can't be said.

Yang Lei is a good person, he thinks about his friends, and he also wants to help Yao Ming and Liu Xiang, but he didn't expect that he would also fall into public opinion controversy.

The problem is May 1, Labor Day.

Lao Yang got his wish this year and won the honorary title of "National Model Worker".

This is a super bull, the highest level of reward, is awarded by the central government, and enjoys the treatment of national model workers, which is one level higher than the ministerial-level model worker "National May Day Labor Medal" issued by the China Federation of Trade Unions.

In other words, Lao Yang has risen to the top, and it is over.

X-Sports was also rated as an excellent model enterprise, and Lao Yang was received by the top leaders in the Beijing City Hall, shook hands, and encouraged him to continue to create wealth for the people and continue to contribute to the society, and he was excited to tears.

It was originally a trivial matter, but when I turned around, there were good things to do.

A sports commentator posted on Weibo: "X-Sports' sports equipment is so professional, and its technology is better than Adidas, isn't this a key Olympic competition soon, Li Ning and Antaji, who have sponsored so many national team sports equipment, are not as good as others, should we let Xian and X-Sports be the best?"

This question is very sharp.

It also aroused heated discussions among the people of the country and sports professionals.

The argument that the capable come first, rather than the interests come first, is just in line with "medals are national honors", which just rubbed off on the heat of the London Olympics.

Zhengfang gave many examples, the most typical one is the Chinese volleyball national team.

The men's and women's volleyball teams were in a sluggish state in the past few years, and they were beaten by the world's major teams and didn't even know their mothers.

In 2010, the men's volleyball team ranked twelfth in the world and the women's volleyball team ranked sixth in the world.

Only Li Ning was reluctant to sponsor at the lowest price for the sake of face, but before the contract expired before the 2010 Asian Games, he refused to sponsor again, so he threw away the men's and women's volleyball teams.

Then, the Row Management Center really had no choice, so he found X-Sports for help, and Yang Lei waved his hand and agreed to sponsor.

Yang Lei contributed money, equipment, organized commercial competitions, actively promoted stars such as Wei Yunyue, and supported the domestic men's and women's volleyball leagues, and spent money to feed the national team.

From the leaders of the National Volleyball Management Center to the provincial teams, professional or amateur volleyball players, all of them are saying: "If there is no X-Sports, without Yang Lei, our country's volleyball strength will definitely decline." ”

In 2011, after a year of competition, the men's volleyball team soared to eighth in the world, and the women's volleyball team reached fourth place.

This year 2012, at the Olympic oath meeting, more than a dozen boys of the men's volleyball team had red eyes, patted their chests and roared, wanting to compete for the top five in the world.

The girls of the women's volleyball team wiped their tears and said that they would be ashamed of themselves, and they would enter the top three to win medals and win glory for the country.

The progress of Chinese volleyball strength is obvious to all.

Sports and money are inseparable from the relationship, the results are smashed with money, Yang Lei has a way to make volleyball money, and with some black technology sneakers and equipment, of course the strength can be improved.

The opposing side is sharper.

Some people say, "If you let X-Sports sponsor the national team, you will definitely win the championship?"

Someone else said: "What did Li Ning and Anta do wrong? Are you treating contract law as child's play?"

"It's as if this company is very good, it doesn't even produce a pair of spikes, it can't help a track and field project, and you still have the face to say that the technology is good?"

The remarks attacking X-Sports are very professional, and grabbing Yang Lei's weakness is a beating.

Zhengfang ridiculed again: "Look at your appearance, those who can win the championship will sponsor it, ignore the unpopular, Li Ning and Anta are really utilitarian." ”

The opponent shot back: "X-Sports doesn't sponsor judo, equestrian, and fencing?

was originally an ordinary noisy, or an idle third party provoked an incident, Yang Lei and Li Ninganta didn't speak at all, and they were caught up in the whirlpool of quarrels.

Soon, twenty boards were played on each top.

Inexplicably, a person in charge with a title came out and said a few words.

said that Li Ning and Anta are indeed utilitarian, dislike the poor and love the rich, and do not do it properly, and many team leaders and coaches of unpopular projects have complained.

He also said that X-Sports could not replace Li Ning and Anta, everything was done according to the contract, and it was an exaggeration to say on the Internet that the substantial improvement in the performance of the volleyball national team was all due to X-Sports.

was criticized by the leader, Li Ning and Anta immediately paid for it, and all the things that should be sponsored and made up were all made up.

But Yang Lei was angry.

It doesn't matter if you don't sponsor the popular national team, but you can erase his efforts, and a basin of dirty water will be poured on his and the volleyball team's head, and he can't bear it.

Soon, some netizens ridiculed: "Some people really don't have a backache when they stand and talk, the leaders of the volleyball management center are low-voiced, asking for corporate sponsorship everywhere, and when the whole country is connected, why don't you see anyone caring about the life or death of the volleyball team?"

"Haha, the word game is slippery, and the leader's words can't be refuted. ”

"I see, I understand that the achievements of the volleyball team are all created by the leaders and the care of the players, and they have nothing to do with the sponsors. ”

"I don't want to say anything, my heart is cold. ”

After the person in charge with the title finished speaking, the original words were quoted by major media and displayed to the national audience.

After more netizens saw it, they were angry, sneered, pessimistic, sighed helplessly, or sneered and said: "It's too common." ”

What else can be said?

The improvement of performance is not 1+1 equals 2, and it is impossible to be quantified, so what people say, it is what it is, and it has nothing to do with Yang Lei, but it really has nothing to do with it.

Fuck it, it's shameless.

Many people feel worthless for Yang Lei, Wei Yunyue of the women's volleyball team, He Qiang of the men's volleyball team, and Director Zhang of the platoon management center all took the initiative to call Yang Lei to comfort him.

Wei Yunyue was still crying: "Mr. Yang, woo...... When I saw those words, I really felt aggrieved...... They don't usually look at us, but now they come when they talk about the wind and ......."

Yang Lei persuaded her in turn: "Don't cry, practice hard, strive to enter the top three, and win glory for the country." The country is the country of all of us, not the country of a small rubbing people, don't pay attention to those trolls, the more you ignore them, the more arrogant they are, especially disgusting. I will cheer for you on the spot, the Chinese women's volleyball team is the best!"

Wei Yunyue has been working for a long time, and everyone has a goal, which is to slap those people in the face with their achievements.

Yang Lei has never refused to suffer dumb losses, not to mention Xu Shiwei, who is extremely protective of her shortcomings.

Soon, Xu Shiwei called: "You go to London now." ”

"What?"

"If someone at home is jealous of you and suppresses you, we will go abroad to attract people's attention. Let the news come in from the outside, and I will see who dares to suppress you and say bad things about you!"

Xu Shiwei is domineering, and Yang Lei is happy.

He hurriedly packed his bags and flew to London.

In mid-May, the relay will begin.

Because the 08 Olympics is in Beijing, the first torchbearer of the relay in Greece this time is Li Ning, a well-known Chinese athlete.

This huge honor belongs to Lao Li, and Yang Lei has no idea.

He didn't make it to the '08 Olympics, which was doomed, but at London 2012, he had to make the world remember his name.

As for the two companies Li Ning and Anta?

It doesn't matter, the war is the battle, Yang Lei is afraid of who is coming.

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