Chapter 1079: 100-meter freestyle competition

"If you don't speak, I'll take it as if you agreed." When Wang Liang saw the girl's appearance, he couldn't help but laugh, didn't he make a mistake?

So what, since you meet someone you like, you can't stop any restraints.

Su Xiao nodded silently, she didn't have the courage to refuse, because it was love at first sight.

When Wang Liang talked about love in an interview later, he couldn't help but sigh: "At that time, we looked at each other, and I knew that she would definitely be the one who accompanied me through the second half of my life. ”

This is just a beginning, a beautiful beginning, what two people don't know is that there will be more difficulties waiting for them, after countless twists and turns and suffering, love really blossoms.

Wang Liang promised that he didn't do anything at that time, and then sent Su Xiao back to school, after all, he was only fifteen years old, although his parents are no longer alive, but Wang Liang is not a bad person!

However, after Wang Liang returned that night, he contacted the Olympic Committee and asked to sign up for the boxing event.

The people of the Olympic Committee definitely didn't want to agree, you guy himself has participated in so much, and now you have to sign up for a project, it's just a hanging bomb! What are you going to do?!

In the end, they had no choice but to agree, because Wang Liang anonymously contributed 500,000 pounds to host the London Olympics, which is definitely the majority shareholder behind the scenes, so the Olympic Committee has no other choice.

However, no one is optimistic about Wang Liang, because physiologically Asians are indeed much worse than Europeans and Africans.

The explosiveness of the yellow race is good, but the endurance is not good, so it has always been hard in track and field.

Until later generations, it was the same, there were few leading figures in track and field, although the hope brought by the flying man Liu Xiang to China, but it was only a flash in the pan, and no one has been able to take over his class so far.

Therefore, in the eyes of most people in the organizing committee, Wang Liang is just grandstanding, and when he arrives on the field, he will definitely have a loose stomach and lose a mess.

The athletes are all top players selected from China, and it is not to play soy sauce when they travel thousands of miles to London, but to win glory for the country.

Although the slogan is friendship first and competition second, there is no one who comes to participate in the competition without a winning mentality.

Following.

In the morning, the 100m, 200m, 800m, and 2000m freestyle preliminaries were held, and Wang Liang was busy again, but he participated in three of the events, which meant that he had to swim three times, which was quite physically demanding.

Probably due to the end of the war, people were in a relaxed mood, and the spectators of this Olympic Games were very enthusiastic, all the tickets for the first day of the swimming competition were sold out, and there were still many spectators who did not buy tickets, and the organizers had to add seats, and nearly 10,000 people entered the swimming pool.

Of course, others who didn't have tickets could watch the broadcast on TV at home.

Invented in 1925 by British engineer John Logie Baird, the television set continued to evolve until 1927-1929 Baird conducted its first electromechanical television trial via telephone cable; The first shortwave TV trial; The BBC began to broadcast television continuously for a long time, and by 1930 it was already broadcasting television images and sound simultaneously.

Today, in 1948, the technology is getting more sophisticated, and in addition to having a high definition, it also has a color system, which is absolutely cool.

"Here are the athletes of the 100-meter freestyle, a total of 29 teams participated in the swimming competition, and a total of 34 athletes signed up for the 100-meter preliminaries, which will be divided into two groups for competition, and the top 10 will enter the final." The narration begins with an introduction to the audience.

The Olympic Games in this era are not as fine as they have been in the 21st century, and there are 17 tracks in the pool.

"On track six, the youngster Otima from the United States has a time of 49.6 seconds, and he has absolute strength."

"Track 12 is the national athlete Tom, who has a time of 48.4 seconds, and his goal is not just to hit the medal, he cares about the color of the medal!" When introducing players from their own country, the commentator naturally has to say something to encourage the players. In any case, the players of the host country always have a great advantage, occupying the right time and place, and the excitement is the easiest to mobilize.

Hearing Tom's introduction, the British audience naturally cheered for him frantically, and Tom also smiled and waved.

It is worth adding that the players have a physical examination after registration, but the doping test that cannot be avoided is obviously not in the ranks of this era, so countries like those shameless countries naturally have to make small moves.

Because of the limited time, the commentary focuses on the seeded players, and the other ones that are not famous are mentioned in one stroke, and they are not even mentioned.

The grouping is also very particular, it is divided according to the registration results, the first group is naturally the fastest swimming, although Wang Liang's results are reported very high, but because he is an individual and was assigned to the second group.

Bang!

The referee fired the command gun, and the athletes jumped in almost at the same time and began to swim desperately.

The reaction time is naturally not calculable, this year electronic timing has not been applied to the game, all are hand-written, three referees at the same time staring at a player, the results take the average of the three, it is also fair.

Not surprisingly, Britain's Tom swam the first place in the group in 48.5 seconds, and the second place was the American Ottima, 49.8 seconds, and the other competitors were mediocre, not swimming for 50 seconds, and even took more than a minute, which shows the uneven level.

Soon, the second group of players entered, and Wang Liang was in the ranks.

Among them, there is also a Chinese player, named Wu Chuanyu, 21-year-old player, Wang Liang has a little impression of this person, born in an overseas Chinese family in Indonesia, this Olympic Games did not win, but in the participation is more frequent, in 1952 on behalf of New China to Helsinki to participate in the 15th Olympic Games swimming competition. In 1953, he won the gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke in the swimming competition of the first International Youth Friendship Games held in Bucharest, Romania. He became the first Chinese athlete to win the championship in a major international competition.

In 1954, he won two runners-up in the 100-meter backstroke and 100-meter butterfly in the swimming competition of the 12th World University Games, and was subsequently elected as a deputy to the first National People's Congress.

While waiting, Wang Liang also communicated with Wu Chuanyu, a good young man, very talkative and friendly.

However, according to Wang Liang's memory, he should have been on his way to Hungary to study around October 1954 and unfortunately died in a plane crash.

Four years after his death, when he met with swimmers in Wuhan, he asked, "Do you know Wu Chuanyu?" Has anyone surpassed him now? ”

Then he said: "For more than four years, why hasn't anyone surpassed him?" To learn Wu Chuanyu and surpass Wu Chuanyu! ”

Wang Liang was very sorry, and wanted to make friends with Wu Chuanyu, so that he could inadvertently call him in the future to avoid tragedy.

Just when Wang Liang was thinking about it, the narrator introduced himself.

"This is a yellow-skinned Chinese, but he is participating in his personal capacity, but as far as I know, China has no territorial waters, I don't know what his swimming skills are?" See. ”