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With the high popularity of Carl Lewis at the Los Angeles Olympics, the brand of Fangyuan Computer has been further strengthened, and the sales of Fangyuan personal computers have increased by a significant leap.

Seeing the success of this round of marketing, the subordinates sent the boss's wise and martial arts to the sycophants. The reason for this is not because his side bet on the right treasure, after all, many businesses have benefited a lot from the Los Angeles Olympics, and Tang Huan is not the only one; It's about avoiding a possible financial loss.

Originally, seeing McDonald's promotional plan for free delivery, his subordinates intended to follow suit, and also came up with a radical plan, but Tang Huan rejected it.

Fortunately, this plan did not pass, otherwise it would be in the same dilemma as McDonald's.

Due to the boycott of the Soviet Union, a sports powerhouse, the medal table of this Olympic Games was clearly polarized, similar to the third Summer Olympic Games hosted by St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 1904.

At that time, the general international situation was not relaxed, and it was during the Russo-Japanese War -- the little devil and the old Maozi fought on China's turf in order to compete for influence on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast China, causing many world powers to have no time to care about anything else.

In addition, although the Olympic Games were the first time to come to the North American continent, which was of great significance, the transportation conditions at that time were far less than those like Tang Huan now, as long as you have money, you can take a private jet around the earth, and the world's major international cities can reach it in one day; Coupled with the fact that St. Louis is landlocked, there is a lack of interest in European countries, and other countries are reluctant to travel long distances to participate.

As a result, the third Summer Olympics became a showcase for the Americans, with an unprecedented delegation of 523 people. You know, Canada has the second largest number of people at 56.

Therefore. In many events, the United States won almost without a fight, winning an unprecedented monopoly, winning 76 gold medals alone.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the water polo competition, in which no other country participates except the United States. In the end, the gold medal was decided between the teams of the three cities in the United States.

At this year's Los Angeles Olympics, the advantage of the United States is also extremely obvious. Halfway through the competition, some media swore that the number of gold medals that the U.S. delegation could win should be around 80.

In fact, Carl Lewis alone won four track and field gold medals in the men's 100m, men's 200m, men's long jump and men's 4x100m relay.

According to McDonald's method of "giving a Big Mac for a gold medal, a French fries for a silver medal, and a Coca-Cola for a bronze medal", it is conservatively estimated that it will throw out tens of millions of dollars for nothing, which can definitely be regarded as a disaster that the whole world celebrates.

Now McDonald's is cocooned. How many burgers do you have to sell to make money?

But it doesn't dare to give up halfway, the American people are in high spirits, if you remove the ladder halfway at this time, then it is not only the consumer who falls from the air, but also its own signboard.

It can be said that McDonald's dilemma has poured cold water on all American manufacturers who sharpen their heads and drill how to make a lot of Olympic money. The management of Fangyuan Computer Company was even more cold in a cold sweat, and naturally wanted to send compliments to the boss. to show their own introspection.

Tang Huan didn't say much about this, the current management of Fangyuan Computer Company, he was still very satisfied.

If we want to fight our way out of the thousands of troops in the computer industry, technology alone cannot do it, and management is inseparable. The level shown by these subordinates has always been remarkable, and they can't pass this beating.

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Fangyuan Computer used Carl Lewis for its propaganda. EA is playing the gymnastics card.

As a member of the Warsaw Pact, the Romanian delegation received a special attention in the United States over China and Yugoslavia, and its second place in the gold medal table seemed to indicate that it had the capital to replace the Soviet Union in the Olympic Games.

However, the story behind this is even more intriguing.

Back in 1981. The Romanian gymnastics national team came to the United States to compete on the tour.

But after that, coaches Béla Károlyi and Márta Károlyi defected to the United States. Of course, in the Western media, they have defected to the United States.

Bella Caroli and Marta Caroli are extraordinary, with Nadia Comaneci being their protégé.

Due to the departure of the two, the sports star has also been affected, unofficially retired in the year of the incident, officially announced his retirement this year, although he also came to the Los Angeles Olympics, but travel was restricted, only allowed to visit Cuba, the Soviet Union and other limited places.

After settling in the United States, Bella Caroli and Marta Caroli trained a dark horse for the United States - Marie Lou Layton, who is only 16 years old this year.

Since Montreal 1976, Romania's Nadia Comaneci and the Soviet Union's Neligin have become the world's superstars in gymnastics, and there is no shortage of admirers even in the West, and Marie Lou Layton was inspired by Nadia Comaneci's performances to learn women's gymnastics.

Thanks to the skilful guidance of two world-class gymnastics coaches, Bella Caroli and Marta Caroli, Marie Lou Layton has made rapid progress and has been on the cutting edge of the gymnastics world since 1983, at the age of 15.

At that year's AmericanCup, Marie Lou Layton, who participated for the first time, squeezed Dianne Durham, the national champion at the time, Diana Delen, to become the rookie champion of the super-dark horse.

At the Chunichi Cup and American Classic, Mary Lou Layton also won awards at the Chunichi Cup, Japan's China-Japan Cup Gymnastics Competition, and the American Classic.

However, after winning her second USA Cup gymnastics title this year, as well as the U.S. Olympic Qualification Championship, Mary Lou Layton sprained her knee while performing in the floor exercise at the local gymnastics gym in Houston and subsequently underwent surgery.

Although Marie Lou Layton recovered quickly. She was able to represent the United States at her first Olympic Games, but her performance was fraught with uncertainties.

At this stage, women's competitive gymnastics is dominated by Eastern European athletes, and the results of the United States are lackluster.

In the case of personal and overall unfavorable circumstances, the value of Marie Lou Leighton's commercial endorsement is really difficult to say, and the only companies signed are EA and Wyeth.

Everyone knows that Tang Huan has always had a strong interest in gymnastics. Therefore, the subordinates thought that the boss was picking the big one among the American team shorts to give a friendly sponsorship support, and he basically thought so.

You know, although the Soviet Union was absent from the Olympics due to the boycott, Romania, which was no less strong in gymnastics, participated. Ecaterina Szab, known as Nadia Comaneci's successor, won several gold medals at the European and World Championships last year, far from Marie Lou Layton.

But that's the beauty of sports. With the power of the home field, many of the results of the games were unexpected.

In the men's gymnastics team competition, the United States won the championship with a score of 591.400, while the Chinese team was runner-up with a score of 590.800. This made Li Jingwei, as well as Han Sining and other large and small off-court audiences sigh.

In the women's gymnastics team competition, without the Soviet Union, Romania finally won the first team championship in history, with the United States and China finishing second and third respectively.

August 2nd. The gold medal in the men's gymnastics individual all-around was won by 28-year-old Japanese veteran Koji Koshi, while Peter Widmar of the United States and Li Ning of China won silver and bronze respectively.

It's August 3rd. The women's gymnastics individual all-around that EA focuses on made it to the final.

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Pointing to Mary Lou Layton, who is only 145 centimeters tall, Tripp Hawkins said: "This little girl has a sweet smile and energetic enthusiasm, and she is very relatable on camera, and if she wins the championship, she has the potential to become an 'American sweetheart'." And driven by this round of Olympic star idols, the collapsed American home game console market will further recover. ”

Tang Huan smiled slightly, "It seems." You're optimistic about Marie Lou Layton's victory. Let's not forget that Romania's Ecatrina Saab is not to be underestimated. ”

"In the previous women's gymnastics team event, although Romania won, the United States was only the runner-up. However, in the individual results, Marie Lou Layton is in first place with a score of 79.050, while Ecatrina Saab is second with a score of 78.750. According to the rules of the women's gymnastics competition, half of each competitor's individual results in the team competition will be carried into the individual all-around total. Therefore, in today's individual all-around, Marie Lou Layton had the advantage from the start. ”

With that, Tripp Hawkins waved his hand around, "Did you notice any difference in the atmosphere here?" ”

At this time, the Poly Pavilion of the University of California, Los Angeles, where the Olympic gymnastics competition was held, was packed, and the 13,000 spectators had a strong home field advantage.

Tang Huan, who noticed this, snorted, "It seems to be a bit of a devil's home field." ”

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Once the competition began, Marie Lou Layton and Ecatrina Saab were placed in different groups, so they could compete on different devices at the same time.

It seems that Ecatrina Saab, who is a year older than Marie Lou Leighton, really has a lot of experience in the competition, and he directly got a perfect score of 10 points in the first event of the balance beam; Marie Lou Layton's first event was the uneven bars with a score of 9.850.

The duo brought in 39.375 and 39.525 points respectively from their individual results in the team competition, and they were instantly drawn after the first round.

Tripp Hawkins, who was originally smiling, suddenly turned serious.

In the second round, Ecatrina Saab scored 9.950 points in the floor exercise, an almost flawless performance, while Marie Lou Leighton scored 9.800 points in the balance beam.

Now, the Romanian girl has a 0.150-point lead, and the atmosphere in the stadium is becoming more and more tense and depressed.

In the third round, Ecatrina Saab was the vault. She scored 9.900 points, and Marie Lou Layton gave her a perfect score of 10 for floor exercise.

Suddenly, the audience cheered excitedly. However, the Romanian girl still leads by 0.050 points.

In the final round, Ecatrina Saab scored another 9.900 on the uneven bars, while Marie Lou Layton had to sprint on the vault.

The situation is very clear: Mary Lou Layton can get a perfect score of 10 on the jump. Then the gold medal is hers; If she gets 9.950 points, she will share the gold medal with the Romanian girl, and if she scores less, she will not win the gold medal.

After Bella Caroli's last-minute lecture to her disciples, Marie Lou Layton calmly walked into the ring.

At this time, the Poly Pavilion was extremely quiet, and Tang Huan could hear the heavy breathing of the people beside him, including Tripp Hawkins, who had become heavy due to nervousness.

Marie Lou Layton looked at the "horse" and began to run, then touched the horse with both hands and spun deftly in the air. Finally, it landed like a nail.

Amid the frantic shouts of the audience, Bella Caroli can still be heard screaming, "10 points, 10 points,...... 10 points! ”

The coach who came from Romania to the United States clearly needs the highest Olympic sports results to prove his worth.

Thirty seconds later, the stadium scoreboard showed 10 points, as Bella Caroli had hoped. Marie Lou Layton overtook her opponent in the closing stages. She won the Olympic championship in the women's gymnastics individual all-around.

Most importantly, Marie Lou Layton broke the pattern of only an Eastern European athlete to win the individual all-around gymnastics gold medal in history. Becoming the first U.S. gymnast to win the individual all-around title is significant.

In the earth-shattering cheers, Tang Huan smiled playfully. He clearly remembers that when he went to the Moscow Olympics four years ago, he witnessed the same women's gymnastics individual all-around final. The Soviet Union's Yelena Davydova came out on top over the underperforming Nadia Comaneci, prompting a splattery of protests in Romania.

Now, Mary Lou Layton, who was already behind, scored two 10 points in a row in the final two events. Reversed and won the championship, why didn't you make trouble?

However, the next performance of Marie Lou Layton made Tang Huan impressed with this little girl.

According to the rules of the gymnastics competition, each competitor has two chances in the vault competition, and the result is counted as the higher one.

Mary Lou Layton had already won and didn't need to jump a second time, but she still jumped a second time and got a perfect score of 10!

This doesn't seem to make much sense, but in Tang Huan's view, it is just a self-proof of his own strength, and Marie Lou Leighton's fighting spirit is not ordinarily strong.

In the women's individual event, Marie Lou Layton won silver in vault, bronze in uneven bars and floor exercise, and silver in the team event to a total of five medals, making her the most decorated American athlete at the Games.

It can be said that in the context of today's era when sports are clearly a continuation of politics, Mary Lou Layton accomplished a feat that was enthusiastically praised by the American press, whose hometown of Fairmont, West Virginia, renamed a road and a park in the city after her.

In addition, President Ronald Reagan personally met with Mary Lou Layton and took a photo with her. And this "American sweetheart" has also become a well-known figure in the Republican Party of the United States, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Reagan administration. It also appeared in various television commercials supporting Reagan's re-election to the presidency this year.

Wyeth printed Mary Lou Layton's photo on every box of breakfast cereals and made her the face of Cyrill's Nutrition Cereals.

However, another contractor, EA, moved faster, and a series of ads created with the emerging idol Marie Lou Layton were quickly launched, including a creative proposed by Tang Huan, that is, "one time is a perfect score, and another time is also a perfect score".

The driving role of idols is really unfathomable, and the second-generation Xiaobawang game console alone sold more than 300,000 units in the month before and after the Los Angeles Olympics.

While people marvel at the Olympic economy, the gaming industry is ecstatic and shouting that the home video game console market in the United States is starting to recover! And EA's stock price, which has been dormant for more than a year, is also climbing corroborately. (To be continued.) )