Chapter 6 Preparations Before the Opening Ceremony!
"Xiao Lei, it's really a good thing to make money, but you can't delay studying!" Wang Weihong said earnestly.
I have hired my classmate's mother and neighbors to help me sell tea eggs at the stall, and I have something important to tell you. Jia Lei said.
"What's the big deal?" asked Wang Weihong curiously.
"I'm going to study in the Soviet Union soon, and I'm going through the formalities!" Jia Lei said.
"Why didn't I know about this big thing? Is it safe for you to go abroad as a child of this young age?" Wang Weihong said in a raised voice.
"Don't worry, I didn't go out by myself! I went with Su Renfeng, the second cousin, who married a wife in Russia, so I could go to study abroad. After I got there, I lived with my second cousin, don't you know my second cousin Su Renfeng?" Jia Lei asked.
"That's okay! Studying abroad is a good thing!" Wang Weihong was happy.
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"Grandpa's clothes are ready, have you brought water, have you brought an umbrella?" Early in the morning of September 22, Jia Lei surrounded Grandpa Wang and began to ask questions.
"Bring it, bring it all! Don't be like an old lady like a mother-in-law, you are grinding around me? I am dizzy when I turn around. Grandpa Wang said with disgust that he felt that Jia Lei had too many things.
"You don't know, these things are all necessities for watching the game, and they are all useful! By the way, I remembered it! Save the Heart Pill! Save the Heart Pill must not be forgotten! I am afraid that you will be too excited by then, and you will have a heart attack. Jia Lei patted his head and took out the Heart-Saving Pill he specially bought yesterday from the drawer, a small yellow ceramic gourd bottle the size of two knuckles.
"I don't have a heart attack, what do I want to save my heart!" said Grandpa Wang with a dark face.
"Be prepared! Your face changed when you were excited yesterday, maybe your heart is not good?" Jia Lei hurriedly said. Grandpa Wang died of a heart attack in his last life, and now he may have a precursor to heart disease.
"Hmph!" the old man snorted twice, and reluctantly took the small porcelain vase and stuffed it into his pocket.
"There's nothing to do this time, I'm gone without me! Grandpa Wang said.
"It's just a little bit, why are you in such a hurry?" Jia Lei couldn't help but say.
"It's all one o'clock, aren't you in a hurry! The place where the Asian Games venue is in the suburbs, and it takes more than half an hour to take a car ride! You still have to queue up to enter the venue, and it doesn't have to take long!" Grandpa Wang said.
"By the way, I have a secret weapon that you should bring with you. After Jia Lei finished speaking, he hurriedly ran back to the upstairs room and took out a big red star sign with a gold background.
"What is this? Take it away, and lose the dead!" Grandpa Wang's face immediately darkened when he looked at the square sign that was one square meter in size.
"Don't, what are you going to do with it? Look at how meaningful the word "come on" is! And don't you want to be on TV? You also know that the camera of the TV station swept to the audience, and the audience on it was only the size of an ant! It was impossible to tell who was who? If you held up this sign at that time, we would be able to recognize where you were at a glance, and you would be able to show off with your old colleagues to watch the opening ceremony of the Asian Games in the future! If someone doesn't believe it, how obvious you are going with the sign! This is evidence! By the way, don't forget to take pictures before you go in!" Jia Lei said with wide eyes.
"I went to the Friendship Store to buy a video recorder, and I plan to buy a video tape of the opening ceremony after the game, so that I can keep it for you as a souvenir!
"Frivolous, vanity, I took things out, and threw them in the trash. After Grandpa Wang finished speaking, he took his things and turned around and left.
"Umbrella! You haven't brought an umbrella yet!" Jia Lei ran out and stuffed the umbrella into the old man's arms.
"What do I need an umbrella for?" muttered Grandpa Wang.
"What if it rains? Besides, how poisonous the sun is in September, if it doesn't rain, can an umbrella cover the sun?" Jia Lei hurriedly said.
"Why are you such a mother-in-law, who is grandpa and who is grandson!" said Grandpa Wang impatiently.
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"How can it rain on this sunny day?" In the headquarters of the Asian Games, several people were discussing anxiously.
"I don't know, but that's what the weather forecast for last night said!" said one of the leaders anxiously.
"What should I do then? If it really rains, what will happen to the tens of thousands of people present? There is no roof in the arena! And the group performances, singing and dancing ceremonies will all be affected! The most important thing is the torch, what if the torch is extinguished when it rains heavily?" said someone nervously.
"Don't be afraid of that, this is a new type of fuel that has been prevented for a long time, and it will never be easily extinguished! Now the most important thing is to find out if it will rain or not. You should immediately send someone to the Meteorological Bureau and ask them to send weather balloons, and they will send them every half an hour, so you must find out if it will rain or not!" said the man in the house.
Compared with the enthusiasm of the audience, the Asian Games preparation team is very busy!
Although the specific steps of various affairs have been arranged for a long time, there will always be unexpected situations!
Just now, when the Kuwaiti delegation went downstairs to gather to attend the opening ceremony at the Workers' Stadium, the liaison officer found that they were all wearing black veils on their arms and dressed as mourners, so they hurriedly contacted the preparatory team.
Not long ago, Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, and they actually destroyed the headquarters of the Olympic Council of Asia and killed the president.
This has brought some shadows to the theme of "unity, friendship, and progress" of the Asian Games, and has also brought some trouble to the work of the preparatory group for the Asian Games.
The day before yesterday, September 20, 1990.
The Olympic Council of Asia has decided to suspend Iraq's membership and prevent Iraq from participating in the current Asian Games until the Kuwait Olympic Committee can exercise its powers and carry out its work normally.
At the beginning, the preparatory team was worried that not allowing Iraq to participate would have a knock-on effect and whether it would take away some West Asian countries that supported Iraq, such as Palestine, Yemen, and Jordan. As a result of the work of the preparatory team and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, these countries have also stayed.
Jordan said it had economic problems, so it did not send athletes to the capital, but in order to show its support for China's hosting of the Asian Games, it had to come in with the national flag at the opening ceremony and hang the Jordanian flag at the competition venue.
The Asian Games just pressed the gourd of Iraq down, and the scoop on the Kuwaiti side rose again!
After arduous and patient negotiations with the preparatory group, the Kuwaiti athletes finally decided to remove the black veil and did not bring the clouds of war to all the spectators in Asia on this day of universal celebration.
September 22, 1990, 11:02 minutes
"Smack!" a very sloped glass bottle on the edge of the table suddenly shook and fell to the ground with a clatter.
"What's wrong, what's going on!" shouted people in some parts of the capital, shaking their bodies.
"It's an earthquake, run away!" suddenly an old man shouted, the shadow of the Sugar Mountain earthquake was still in the hearts of the people in the capital, and everyone hurriedly ran out.
"Report! Something big happened, at 11:02 there was an earthquake in the Pinggu area, the epicenter was near the Shahe River, and the magnitude was 4.5!" the correspondent squeezed the telegram in his hand and read it with a pale face.
"How could there be an earthquake?" said the others nervously, as the leaders of the preparatory group had already gone to the Asian Games venue to attend the opening ceremony.
However, there was already a plan for this situation, and after urgently contacting and discussing with the leaders of the opening ceremony, everyone decided not to talk about the earthquake in advance.
After all, a 4.5 magnitude earthquake is only slightly felt by those who are not at the epicenter. If no one specifically mentions it, they won't pay attention to it at all!
By this time, all the difficulties seemed to have come to an end! Everyone could wait for the opening of the Asian Games with peace of mind and watch the TV broadcast!
"Something has happened to the leader again!" the liaison officer said as he pushed open the door sweatingly, and all the leaders in the room were anxious to stand up.
"Tell me, what's going on?" asked the leader of the preparatory group.
"Which country is in trouble?" the attentive leader asked nervously as he looked at the exclusive liaison officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Iran, this time it's Iran!" said the liaison.
"What do they want? Tell me what is going on! This opening ceremony is about to begin!" said the leader, looking at the clock on the wall.
"The Iranian delegation temporarily proposed that when the athletes entered the opening ceremony, they should not be dressed in front of them to hold up the national name tags, but should be changed to men. The correspondent put forward the request of the Iranian delegation in one breath.
"Whew! That's it, it's easy to do! Just change it for them. The people in the preparatory team were relieved, and some agreed.
"It's okay to change people, but we don't have clothes ready! All the ladies who hold the cards are wearing uniform clothes, and suddenly a man appears, where did the clothes come from!" Some people say that this is the most troublesome part of this matter.
"There's no time to think about it, just go find someone who looks similar, and you immediately find a man who looks very good to hold up the card. The leader said.
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The opening ceremony of the Asian Games was both successful and wonderful!
The behind-the-scenes personnel have no moment to relax on this day, and dozens or hundreds of people work intensively behind the scenes to ensure the smooth progress of the Asian Games.
The 11th Asian Games in Beijing in 1990 saw the participation of 37 countries and regions, including Jordan.
In addition to Iraq, whose membership was suspended, other members of the Olympic Council of Asia have come, which can also be said to be a rare situation for Asian countries to see a "family photo".
North and South Korea participated in the Asian Games at the same time!
The Wanwan authorities have accepted the Olympic model, that is, instead of the so-called "country name" of the "Republic of China" and the flag of "blue sky and white sun and red ground," they will use the flag instead! The Taiwan Olympic Committee will participate in the Asian Games as a local organization.
This time, the hardest part is Vietnam!
The Vietnam War of '90 has just ended!
Our country made an exception to allow the Vietnamese delegation to come in from the friendship barrier and participate in the Asian Games!
In the past, the Friendship Pass was the front line, but this time it was road construction and mine clearance, and Vo Nguyen Giap, vice chairman of the Vietnamese Council of Ministers, attended the opening ceremony, and he was very happy to sit on the rostrum.
Vietnam has finally gained international recognition in his hands!