Seeing that relevant reports appeared in the newspapers on this side of the Atlantic, Tang Huan knew that the hype he planned had entered the predetermined track, and he couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.

People in this era are also smart, but because there is no explosive information dissemination in the Internet era, it is inevitable that the horizon is not broad enough, otherwise, this kind of grandstanding method would have been sprayed into brain-dead long ago.

However, the reason why this operation was able to go so smoothly mainly depended on the results of the combined effect of time, place, people, and various factors.

In addition to having cash to get their own hired Bulgarians, roses, which are the country's flagship products, can appear at the Olympics in this way, so as to publicize it, and naturally cooperate happily from top to bottom.

The boycott of the Moscow Olympics is inevitably a bit dull, and it is understandable that the media has gone all out to chase and dig up this news in pursuit of freshness. What's more, if this kind of news is sent back, it will definitely not be hidden for political reasons, and it can be directly reported in the newspaper.

As for the Soviet side, although they were somewhat dissatisfied with the journalists' lack of work, they pinched their noses and acquiesced when they found that their women's gymnastics team was the main target of the pursuit and met their propaganda needs.

Then the next drama is that the media will dig out the initiator of this trick as they wish and publicize it to the world.

While Tang Huan entertained everyone, he also brushed up his presence for himself and even the product.

Rubbing his nose, Tang Huan laughed dryly, "It seems that I have to hurry over and check the results of the advertisement." ”

"Sure enough, it's your bad taste." Deng Lijun gave Tang Huan a roll of her eyes, "Then let's go, pay attention to your diet." Don't go hungry like concert night anymore. ”

"Yes." Tang Huan threw a flying kiss lightly. Departed in style.

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As Tang Huan expected. When he arrived in Moscow on the afternoon of July 22, as soon as he stepped down the ramp of Silicon Valley One, he was surrounded by a large group of reporters, and some people exclaimed, "Sure enough, he is a rich man, and he is extremely luxurious to ride a Boeing 747 alone." ”

This complaint, Tang Huan, who has good ears and is proficient in many Chinese. Of course, he heard it clearly, and he was stunned. In his previous life, Brother Li was hung on the plane, of course he couldn't treat himself badly. What's more, this is the biggest testimony of Christina's flattery, sitting on it and flying all over the world, my brother has a man's sense of accomplishment in his heart. You're so red-eyed.

"Don, may I ask if you were the one who sent the roses that were flown in from Bulgaria to all the female gymnasts in the Olympic Village?" Journalists first threw out the topic.

"What's wrong with that?" Tang Huan, who has kung fu, faced the encirclement and interception of reporters and walked forward steadily.

Everybody plays with words. Although Tang Huan did not answer positively, this rhetorical question gave an answer. All the reporters were shocked, and thankfully, they finally found the right owner.

"But when it comes to giving flowers, you have a special preference for the Soviet women's gymnastics team, why is that?" A few reporters were scrambled around, but still pressed questions.

"What's wrong with that?" Although Tang Huan had a gentle smile on his face that was harmless to humans and animals, his tone did not relax, and he did not slack off his strength to squeeze a way out of the crowd.

Seeing that Tang Huan and the airport security were in one place, the outermost reporter was in a hurry, jumped to his feet, and shouted at the top of his voice: "What is the purpose of you being so enthusiastic and moving the crowd, and you have spent a lot of time?" Is it a cover for the pursuit of a certain athlete? ”

"What's wrong with that?" Tang Huan, who is full of energy, can still be heard clearly and clearly in the noisy scene.

Tang Huan answered with three identical rhetorical questions one after another, which not only did not disappoint the reporters, but made them even more excited, because without it, since there was no outright denial, it was a disguised acquiescence, there was too much room for imagination.

Well, the Moscow Olympics, which had been made a little dull by political governance, finally had a light-hearted color, and everyone could play happily.

After entering the protective circle of the airport security guards, Tang Huan waved his hand, "Don't work so hard, everyone, I still have to watch today's women's gymnastics team competition, goodbye." ”

If this is the Internet era, there must be someone who will spit at Tang Huan's face, you can go wherever you want, and explain what you want to do.

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Originally, the legal seat of the Chinese Olympic Committee was restored at the International Olympic Committee meeting in Nagoya in October 1979, and from this Olympic Games, Chinese athletes can officially participate in the Olympic Games.

It can be said that it has been the long-cherished wish of Chinese athletes for many years since the founding of the People's Republic of China to participate in the Olympic Games officially and completely, but for the sake of national interests, they can only obey the announcement of the Chinese Olympic Committee and give up participating in the Moscow Olympic Games.

In this way, when Tang Huan watches the game, he doesn't have to think about which side his ass is sitting on, just have fun.

In this Olympic Games, football competitions are arranged in Leningrad, Kiev and Minsk, sailing competitions are arranged in Tallinn, competitions in other events are arranged in Moscow, and gymnastics events are held at the Lenin Central Stadium.

At this stage, gymnastics at the Olympics only includes competitive gymnastics, while rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline will be added in the future Olympic Games in 1984 and 2000 respectively.

Competitive gymnastics requires athletes to complete a set of movements in about 30 seconds to 90 seconds, which is divided into six events for men: floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, horizontal bar; The women's four events: floor exercise, balance beam, vault, and uneven bars. Men's competitive gymnastics focuses on strength, while women's competitive gymnastics focuses more on artistry, balance, and coordination.

Competitive gymnastics is one of the most popular sports in the Summer Olympics, but it is not a very popular sport, because even entry-level movements require good physical fitness and high skill, just think about how many pull-ups the average person can do to understand the difficulty. And in many economically underdeveloped countries, gymnastics is an expensive sport compared to other sports.

But as an audience, the pleasing feeling is obvious.

Looking at the graceful and vigorous posture of the female athletes on the field, the beautiful legs of the white flowers. Tang Huan couldn't wait to move a small bench. Get closer. Admire while eating melon seeds.

The schedule of the entire gymnastics event is from July 21 to July 24.

Among them, the 21st, that is, yesterday, is the men's group; Today it's the women's team; Tomorrow is the men's and women's individual all-around; The day after tomorrow is the men's and women's individual events.

Therefore, as long as Tang Huan is willing, he can watch it for three days in a row.

Can the national gymnastics team compete in the Olympic team competition. Determined by the results of the World Gymnastics Championships in the previous year, if there is no group of athletes with a high enough level, then at most athletes can only be selected to participate in individual competitions, so this event does represent comprehensive national strength to a certain extent and has political significance.

The current gymnastics teams include the Soviet Union, Romania, Japan, East Germany, and especially the Japanese men's gymnastics team, which was a gymnastics super team in the 1960s and 1970s, winning gold medals in five consecutive Olympic Games from 1960 to 1976.

It's a pity that they didn't come this time, and yesterday the USSR won the championship.

And this gymnastics competition. It will also be monopolized by the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries.

Fortunately, it didn't have much impact, especially women's gymnastics. The Soviet Union, Romania, and East Germany were all world-class. Moreover, the two stars of the last 1976 Montreal Olympics, Nadia? Comaneci and Nelicin, who will also appear this year, are very interesting. Tang Huan's choice of vision has not gone wrong until now.

However, it is a pity that Nelicin, who is 23 years old this year, is obviously no longer in peak condition, but those young girls who are younger than her have performed better.

In the early days, most female competitive gymnasts were trained in ballet.

Soviet gymnast Larissa? Ratina won her first Olympic gold medal in the women's all-around at the age of 22, went on to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the event at the age of 26 and 30, and won the World Gymnastics Championships in 1957 when she was pregnant.

Czech gymnast Vera? Chaslavska won two Olympic gold medals in the all-around after Larissa. She also won her first gold medal at the age of 22.

But as the difficulty of the gymnastics movement increases, these older athletes gradually lose their living space.

For example, the balance beam, in its early days, was more about dancing than somersaults, and a set of movements usually consisted of jumps, dance shapes, handstands, rolls, and walks. In the 1960s, the most difficult movement for gymnasts competing in the Olympics was the backflip. But in the 1970s, the difficulty of the balance beam began to increase significantly. Kobut and Nadia? Comaneci introduced somersaults on the balance beam, and other athletes followed suit.

At that time, the gymnastics scoring rules also tended to be of high difficulty.

Therefore, only small girls are more suitable for doing some difficult movements, so the age of the athletes participating in the big competitions, most of them are 14 or 15 years old, and the age of Olympic gymnasts is also greatly reduced, Lyudmila? Torisheva was only 16 years old when she first competed in the Olympics. Comaneci was only 14 years old when he first competed at the Olympics.

This situation will change in the future, but this is the case now, and female gymnasts can only retire once they are past the age of 20.

Therefore, the current Neligin is quite not easy. However, as a leading figure, he has a non-negligible role in boosting morale and stabilizing the morale of the military.

Another heavyweight, Romania's Nadia? Comaneci's performance was not satisfactory, in addition to her own injuries, Tang Huan also knew that she should also be affected by some cruel social reality factors.

In 1976, at the age of 14, Comaneci won three gold medals in the individual all-around, balance beam and uneven bars, a team silver medal, and a bronze medal in floor exercise, becoming the star of the Montreal Summer Olympics, and in the same week in August 1976, he appeared on the cover of the most famous international magazines, Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated, becoming the only person in the world to have won such an honor.

Such a beautiful flower bone is said to have been destroyed by those in power.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that during the Cold War, sports were often used to serve politics and decorate the façade, and in some places, athletes won Olympic gold medals. This does not necessarily mean that its status will rise in all directions.

And in Tang Huan's opinion. Athletic achievements in this period. You can't get rid of the influence of stimulants.

You know, for a long time in the early days, it was not a shame for athletes to compete with drugs, but it was seen as a new "scientific" method, which can be called a day of pride in the use of stimulants.

The first great development of Xing Fen appeared during World War II.

In 1934, the analogue of ephedrine anbutamide. It was commercially synthesized under the trade name Benzedrine, which means "benze".

This central nervous system stimulant immediately became a treasure of the military, because it can make people forget fatigue and continue to be excited, and Britain during World War II alone provided 72 million tablets of benzene giant forest to soldiers.

The second great development of the exuberant appeared during the Cold War.

In 1954, during a weightlifting competition in Vietnam, a Soviet physiologist drunkenly asked the American sports medicine expert John Brown. Ziegler reveals the secret. They give testosterone to athletes.

The two superpowers of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union, competed head-to-head in various fields. Sports are one of the most straightforward ways to do it.

When sport is linked not only to individual honor, but also to national interests and even ideology, the development of doping is inevitable.

Immediately after Ziegler returned home, he began administering small doses of testosterone to himself and two weightlifters, and the results were encouraging: the test subjects were more muscular and stronger.

Since testosterone has a large side effect, Ziegler found a drug that he thought had fewer side effects - dehydromethyltestosterone, which also has a resounding brand name - "Dianabol".

Anabolic preparations represented by Dianabol are mostly androgen analogues, which can significantly increase the proportion of muscle in the body. Schwarzenegger, the famous bodybuilder, used to take such drugs.

The biggest incident of excitement during the Cold War was the mass use of banned drugs by East German athletes decades later, and tens of thousands of East German athletes participated in a program called "Komplex08" in the seventies and eighties. They were asked to take a blue pill purportedly a vitamin, which was an anabolic steroid of the "Dianabol" class.

This phenomenon was not until the 1988 Seoul Olympics, when the International Olympic Committee made up its mind to use heavy punches, and it was slightly reined in.

It can be seen that the athletes at that time could be said to be a political tool.

In 1981, Comanech's two coaches, Bella? Caroli and his wife, Marta, absconded to the United States and became coaches for many famous American gymnasts, and she herself fled to the United States in the last year of the 1980s.

Due to Comaneci's huge fame and the great changes in Eastern Europe at that time, she was labeled, scandalized, and beautified by all parties in public opinion.

But in reality, after leaving the maelstrom, Comaneci had a decent life after the difficult first years in the United States and took up positions in international sports institutions.

And after the collapse of the Soviet Union, these women's gymnastics Olympic champions in front of Tang Huan basically went to the United States or Canada.

It is precisely because he saw it thoroughly that after Tang Huan saw the difficult movements made by some athletes, he did not shout like other audiences, but behaved indifferently, and his brother appreciated the perfect combination of sports and art.

In the end, in the women's team competition, the Soviet Union won the gold medal, Romania won the silver medal, and the East Germany won the bronze medal.

Tang Huan didn't wait for the final end and left, because Samaranch invited him to a banquet tonight, so he naturally had to prepare in advance.

When he was about to walk out of the hotel room, the person in charge of the Bulgarian flower delivery team hired by Tang Huan came to ask for instructions in person.

"Send it as usual." Tang Huan pondered slightly, "Give Neligin and Comanech respectively a bouquet of orange-red roses representing friendship and youth. ”

Seeing that the other party had carefully recorded it in his notebook, Tang Huan patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction, "The work has been done well in the past few days, and after the event is over, I will give you a bonus." ”

This person was overjoyed when he heard this, and after some thanks, he happily went to do the work of delivering flowers.

Tang Huan shook his head, the hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, the words of the ancestors are applicable everywhere.

The dinner that Samaranch asked him to attend was actually a regular public relations party, attended by some Soviet officials, members of the Olympic Committee, leaders of Olympic sports delegations from various countries, and so on, eating and drinking together, and at the same time contacting each other.

Because Samaranch deliberately introduced some important people to Tang Huan on several occasions, he couldn't help but attract some attention, and when he talked with the head of the Kuwaiti delegation, the other party was a little enthusiastic.

Before World War I, Kuwait was an autonomous province of Iraq under the Ottoman Turkish Empire, but during World War I, the British occupied Kuwait and promoted its independence in 1961.

However, Iraq never recognized Kuwait's independence, which was one of the pretexts for Saddam Hussein to order an invasion of Kuwait in the future.

It is precisely because of this historical background that although the official language of Kuwait is Arabic, English is spoken, which makes Tang Huan, who is proficient in several foreign languages, but not good at Arabic, still maintain the advantage of direct language communication.

Seeing this important member of the Kuwaiti royal family, Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah aka Fahd? Ahmed? Jaber? At Sabah's first glance, Tang Huan's first thought was naturally the large amount of dollars that the other party earned through oil, which was really rich. (To be continued......)