On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, in a certain studio hall of the imperial court station, Li Xiangping was looking around curiously.

rushed back to the capital so early, so Li Xiangping had no choice, mainly because of today's incident----

"2002 National Top Ten Athletes Award Ceremony".

Originally, in previous years, there were not so many tricks in the domestic sports world, and the selection of the top ten athletes was first published in the "China Sports News", and the votes were directly announced after the votes were counted, and a certificate was issued to the winners after the announcement, and then the leader gave a speech, which was over.

However, this year is different, perhaps inspired by the international "Laureus Award", the Imperial Court Sports Channel has also kept pace with the times, and they decided to come up with something new, so there is today's so-called "annual ceremony".

The face of the imperial court, of course, the General Administration of Sports wants to give it, take Li Xiangping as an example, when he was still on the third day of the Lunar New Year, he received a call from the Chess Academy, informing him that he must attend this ceremony today.

There is no other reason, because this year's selection has added some new awards, in addition to the normal "top ten", there are also "best male and female newcomers", "most popular", "best special award of the year" and so on.

At that time, it was Team Leader Hua who called Li Xiangping, Li Xiangping remembered that he was happy at the time, and he asked Team Leader Hua what award he was shortlisted for? Is there any hope of winning the award in the end?

"The finalist is the Most Popular Athlete Award.... Well, I don't know the specific situation, in short, you don't talk nonsense, remember that you must be there on time for me, Xiangping, do you hear clearly. ”

After Team Leader Hua hung up the phone, Li Xiangping was even happier in his heart. He knows that if there are other awards, it is difficult to say, but if this "most popular" is the "most popular", then he has a more than ninety percent probability of running with him.

You must know that last year was in 2002, Yao Ming became the champion of the NBA, and there is no doubt that this was definitely the most influential thing in the domestic sports world last year.

Compared with Yao's big man's popularity? Li Xiangping still has this self-knowledge, he knows that even if he doubles the championship, he will definitely not be able to compare with others in popularity.

Li Xiangping estimated that since basketball is a collective sport, of course Yao Da can't win it now, so he basically doesn't have much hope for other awards, and the most likely and most expected award is this "most popular" award.

It's just that the NBA is still in the regular season, and Yao Dazi will definitely not be able to return to China now, so Team Leader Hua is in a hurry to rush to the -----

The main owner will definitely not be able to show up, if he doesn't even show up as a "spare tire", will this make the court lose face?

To be honest, considering that he is just a spare tire, Li Xiangping is still a little resistant.

However, his resistance was ineffective, after all, it was impossible for Team Leader Hua to call him alone, after learning that he was going to be on TV, his family was active one by one, his grandparents couldn't even close their mouths all day long, and the old man Li Yuanhu made arrangements early, and sent him back to the capital on the sixth day of the new year. No, by the time he came to this studio hall, he had already recuperated for dozens of hours.

Li Xiangping is sitting with other award-winning athletes, if you want to say that the domestic sports world in this year, it is definitely a yin and yang decline, take this "top ten" as an example, in addition to Li Xiangping and Yao Dazi, who was not present, the other male athlete is Li Xiaopeng, who practices gymnastics, and the other 7 selected are all women.

Li Xiangping looked over one by one, don't look at everyone as "sports peers", but to be honest, Li Xiangping is not familiar with other people at all, and there are not even a few "nodding friends".

“... Well, this knows, Guo Jingjing, who practices diving, is also familiar with this, Zhang Yining, the big demon of table tennis, well, this is the most familiar, last year's women's national elephant world champion Zhu Chen, but unfortunately later married to the broken place in the bay, this time there are two chess players in the top ten, presumably Dean Wang must be proud now...... By the way, this one looks familiar, and I know that she is engaged in ice and snow sports, but the name ......"

Li Xiangping's eyes wandered around and found that among the 7 female athletes, he only knew 3 and a half, he was ashamed of this, and he was ashamed of being so lonely.

Li Xiangping is observing others, and of course others are also forgiving him, in fact, among so many athletes, he can be regarded as the most interesting existence for others.

There are several reasons for this, first, Li Xiangping is the youngest. Second, this is the first time he's been selected, and many others may already be regulars in the "top ten".

The third and most important point is because of the nature of his project, because of his dominance, because of his talent.

Especially this last point, if you talk about dominance in various fields, of course, there are people present who can compare with him, such as Guo Jingjing and Zhang Yining, whose dominance is not much better than him.

However, the dominance of other people seems to have been trained by others, although if they can reach the top in a project, that person's talent will definitely not be bad. However, the outside world will not talk about this, and the media will not promote this, for example, the outside world will not say how good Zhang Yining's table tennis talent is, so she is now the big devil.

Of course, only Li Xiangping is an exception, since his debut, the outside world's coverage of him has mainly highlighted his talent, and rarely talked about his efforts.

Although Li Xiangping thinks that his efforts are actually no worse than any chess player, there is no way, and now when the outside world talks about the "Li Xiangping who plays Go", he will only talk about how outstanding his talent is, how many years and how many years he is a genius, and rarely talk about anything else.

Then there is no doubt that attributes like him are actually very envied by other athletes, which is why he attracts attention.

"Xiangping, why are you looking around, what do you want to see?"

Fortunately, at this time, someone finally accosted Li Xiangping, and it was no one else who spoke, it was Zhu Chen who went down to the national elephant, after all, both of them are chess projects, and they can often meet in the Chinese Chess Academy, so although they are not too familiar, they at least have a nodding friend.

"Hehe, I didn't look at anything, I don't want to find a pen and notebook."

"Pens, notebooks? What are you looking for this? ”

"I want to sign it, all of us here today are my idols, and it's rare to get together like this, so don't sign at this time, when will it be."

"Hee-hee-hee-hee....."

"Hehehe......"

Everyone present naturally knew that Li Xiangping was joking, but as soon as he said this, it also enlivened the whole atmosphere, and everyone did not sit with their heads bowed as they did at the beginning, but turned to talk to each other.

took advantage of the youngest, Li Xiangping naturally became the most popular one again, but it was a pity, even if the staff of the imperial court came to inform everyone to get ready, and the award ceremony started immediately, Li Xiangping still only remembered 3 and a half female athletes.

“.... The next player we are going to invite is very special, what is special about him? Among all the guests present today, he is the youngest, but although he is young, his achievements are extremely high, how high is it? As high as he is still less than 16 years old, he is already considered by many people to be the king of his field, and I believe that after hearing such an introduction, many people have already guessed who the next person is......"

“...... That's right, next we have to please, my country's famous Go player, won his first world championship at the age of 13, and was known as the contemporary chess king before the age of 16. ..... That's right, he is Li Xiangping, and now we use the warmest applause to invite Li Xiangping to appear in the ninth stage......"

Such a sensational opening remarks certainly need a soundtrack, and it is in the soundtrack that Li Xiangping appeared in what he thought was the most personable style.

In the process of Li Xiangping's debut, the live TV broadcast is accompanied by narration, which is actually a promotional video introducing the athletes.

Li Xiangping didn't know about these himself, but Li Yuanhu, who was watching TV at home, found that the TV station had put a little thought into Li Xiangping's explanation today.

This is mainly because of the particularity of the Go project, for example, if Guo Jingjing is introduced, then of course the TV station doesn't have to think too much, just mix and edit some very beautiful diving shots together.

However, Go is not good, if you want to mix the footage of Li Xiangping's game together, it will not be interesting at all.

So the court station is ingenious this time, this short film introducing Li Xiangping is actually mainly the evaluation of him by other chess players.

For example, how the four generations of domestic chess players evaluate Li Xiangping, the four kings of South Korea evaluate Li Xiangping, and how the Japanese Six Super Leagues and Fujisawa Lao Shenzhu and others evaluate Li Xiangping, mixing these evaluations together, supplemented by some shots of Li Xiangping winning the championship and winning the cup, which constitutes the entire promotional video.

In this way, Li Xiangping's name of "genius" has been confirmed again, and I believe that after the broadcast of this award ceremony, there will definitely be more people who did not know Go at all to know that he is a 16-year-old "contemporary chess king".

Li Xiangping didn't feel much for no other reason, because after this award ceremony was over, it was not far from his next professional match.

The next match is the quarterfinals of the "Chunlan Cup", and his opponent is Japan's Wang Licheng Jiudan.

It was the first race of the new season, especially when he won the LG Cup, and when he was determined to win a title that was entirely his own, he already saw it as a new beginning.

Since it is a new starting point and a new beginning, of course Li Xiangping will attach great importance to it.

Especially considering the ensuing "SARS", considering that it will be close to half a year later, many schedules may be disrupted, so Li Xiangping naturally attaches more importance to it.

Since he attaches importance to it, of course, he must be prepared, so he quickly threw himself into preparation.

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