Chapter 138: Box Office Guarantee
On October 24, 2007, the team of Qianyang City, Qianzhou Province, the 6th National Urban Games arrived in Wuhan by plane. At the exit www.biquge.info of the airport, the Qianyang team was blocked by dozens of media and hundreds of fans.
However, it was Zhang Huasong who was blocked, and the rest of the Qianyang team walked out of the crowd safely and waited for Zhang Huasong outside.
Because this is a city games, the level is relatively low, and many Olympic champion-level sports stars, including Liu Xiang, did not participate, resulting in Zhang Huasong, who needs to rely on this city games to get 200-meter and 400-meter Olympic tickets, has become the biggest star in the Wuhan City Games.
Therefore, Zhang Huasong was blocked by reporters and fans as soon as he got off the plane.
Under the protection of Leng Guanglin and airport security, Zhang Huasong was interviewed by reporters while signing autographs for some fans close to him.
The question interviewed by the reporter is nothing more than how much Zhang Huasong is in condition and how many results can he run in the 200 meters and 400 meters of the City Games. Zhang Huasong only said that he was in good shape and was sure to win the championship, and the specific results would be known only in the competition.
After a few minutes of delay, signing more than a dozen signatures, and feeling that it was not good to make his teammates wait too long, Zhang Huasong apologized to other fans who did not get autographs, and then got on the bus arranged by the organizer under the escort of the airport security guard, and drove to the accommodation arranged by the organizer of the City Games for the Qianyang team.
On the same day, a small part of the news about the City Games was Zhang Huasong's name.
"World flyer Zhang Huasong arrived in Wuhan and said that winning the 200-meter and 400-meter championships is not a problem!"
After Zhang Huasong became the world's No. 1 flyer in the men's 100m, he began to march into the 200m and 400m, and the Wuhan City Games was Zhang Huasong's 200m and 400m debut. ”
"Zhang Huasong arrived in Wuhan and was greeted by more than 100 fans at the airport!"
"Zhang Huasong has always been kind to fans, stayed at the exit of the airport for a few minutes, and signed more than ten signatures for fans before leaving the airport with the team!"
"Zhang Huasong's tickets for the track and field of Wuhan Sports Center are selling well, and half of the tickets for the 200-meter and 400-meter finals have been sold in advance!"
"The guy from the Northeast chased Wu Khan all the way to Wu Khan, and said that he wanted to watch the game of Zhang Huasong, the world's flying man!"
A middle-aged couple from Xiangjiang was buying tickets, and when the reporter interviewed them, they said they were watching Zhang Huasong's game. ”
"The reporter interviewed a foreign student who bought a ticket with a Chinese classmate, saying that he admired Zhang Huasong, so he followed his classmates to buy tickets to watch Zhang Huasong's flying man performance!"
Zhang Huasong seems to have become the box office guarantee of the Wuhan City Games.
Tickets for the 200-meter, 400-meter preliminaries, semi-finals, and finals in which Zhang Huasong participated were all sold. Ticket sales for other events and competition venues that did not include Zhang Huasong were not satisfactory.
After all, the level of the City Games is low and there are few participating stars, so I am afraid it is difficult to see a full house!
However, Zhang Huasong's participating events and competition venues are excluded. Not only the local citizens of Wuhan, but also many Zhang Huasong fans and sports fans from all over the country, and even foreign friends, have come all the way to Wu Khan to see Zhang Huasong's 200-meter and 400-meter debut.
Moreover, in order to make the opening ceremony more attractive, the organizers even communicated with the Pine Team early and asked Zhang Huasong to take the oath as an athlete representative at the opening ceremony.
Otherwise, Zhang Huasong's track and field competition will not start until October 29 at the earliest, and he doesn't need to arrive so early, he can come back two or three days late.
It is to participate in the opening ceremony and read the oath as a representative of the athletes.
Under the attention of the national media and sports fans, at 20 o'clock in the evening of October 25, 2007, the 6th National Urban Games of Huaguo was grandly opened at the Sports Center of Wuhan City, Hubei Province.
After the entry of the teams and the announcement of the opening of the City Games by the Secretary-General of the Organizing Committee of the City Games, Zhang Huasong took the oath on behalf of the athletes in the attention of the audience and the live TV footage:
"Distinguished leaders, referees, and all spectators at the scene, on behalf of all the athletes participating in the 6th National Urban Games, I solemnly swear: strictly abide by the rules of the game, resolutely obey the referees, respect the opponents, and respect the audience. Compete seriously with full enthusiasm, carry forward the tenacious fighting spirit, win without arrogance, defeat without discouragement, play out the style, the level of the game, and play the best level of the individual. Oath-taker: Zhang Huasong. 25 October 2007. ”
In the applause of the audience, Zhang Huasong finished taking the oath, which was regarded as a limelight, and let some ordinary people who might not have known Zhang Huasong know him before.
Then, light the flame and start the song and dance performance. After 2 hours, the opening ceremony ended.
On October 26, the 6th City Games officially entered the competition day and began the competition of some events.
However, Zhang's competition will not start until October 29. Therefore, Zhang Huasong can only read and study in the apartment building arranged by the organizers.
Three days later, on the morning of October 29, the first round of the men's 400m preliminaries of the 6th National Urban Games officially opened at the Wuhan Sports Center.
In the previous competition, the attendance rate of the entire track and field field of the Wuhan Sports Center was less than half.
But on the morning of October 29, before the first round of the 400m heats began, at least 50,000 people poured into the athletic field of the sports center, which can accommodate 60,000 people.
This attendance rate is absolutely amazing for the preliminaries of a city games. It is estimated that by the time the finals come, the seats of these 60,000 people may have to be filled.
Among them, there are not only Wu Khan citizens who want to see the world trapeze performance, but also Zhang Huasong's fans and some track and field professionals, and everyone is curious about how much Zhang Huasong can run in the 400 meters.
Although it was previously reported that Zhang Huasong was able to run steadily for 45 seconds in training, there was no video after all, and it was just training.
In the first official competition of the 400 meters that Zhang Huasong participated, how much he could run is still very concerned.
The Asian record for the 400m was 44.56 seconds set by Oman's Al-Malki on August 12, 1988, 19 years ago, almost 20 years ago.
Nowadays, it is difficult for Asian runners to run even 45 seconds, and since 2007, no Asian runner has run 45 seconds, and Huaguo's national record is only 45.25 seconds.
If Zhang Huasong can really run into 45 seconds, he will not only break the national record and win the Olympic A standard, but also the best result in the Asian 400m this year.
Therefore, many people are more concerned about Zhang Huasong's 400-meter debut.
In the first round of preliminaries, the first few groups of runners appeared one after another, and the best results were not more than 46 seconds, let alone the Olympic A standard, the national record, and the 45 seconds run.
Time passed slowly, and at about 9 o'clock, it was time for Zhang Huasong's group to play.
Zhang Huasong handed over everything to Leng Guanglin for safekeeping, and followed the staff out of the lounge with several other players in the same group and entered the athletes' passage.
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