Chapter 278: The Olympic Journey (1)
After the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympics, the Chinese delegation naturally became the focus of global media coverage the next day, and even stole the limelight from the host team of the United States to a large extent.
Wu Jie feels that this kind of limelight is worth it, because the publicity effect is very strong.
The two Luo siblings were promoting their film in Hong Kong, and on the night after the opening ceremony, they actually saw some citizens holding five-star red flags on the streets of Hong Kong.
This is not the first time this has happened, as when Chinese football reached the quarterfinals of the World Cup two years ago, many Hong Kongers took to the streets to celebrate with red flags.
Wu Jie no longer intends to forcibly reverse the various evils of Hong Kong after its return with his tool men, but through the sports and entertainment industries, including electronic technology, automobiles and other fields, if some Hong Kong people, and even Taiwanese people, can have a greater sense of identity and pride in the motherland, this is what he can do.
After the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the first day of competition officially arrived.
There will be 17 major events and countless smaller events on this day, including two gold medals in shooting and judo, one each in fencing, weightlifting and road cycling, for a total of seven gold medals on this day.
Wu Jie and his tools all have competitions on this day, but basketball, football, and boxing will not be decided until the end of the schedule, and only swimming events will be produced from tomorrow.
He was undoubtedly the busiest man in the Chinese delegation, as he had to give half of the Chinese athletes who participated in the competition cards to improve their form and recovery speed.
The reason why half of the points here is that in addition to Wu Jie's lack of enough points to release all the points, the main reason is that some Chinese athletes participate in the event that they are too disadvantaged.
In this case, even if he gives them the legendary cards that he is reluctant to use, he will not be able to win the championship in the end, after all, the cards of the system can only play the icing on the cake.
Just like the fencing, judo, and road cycling events that will give birth to gold medals today, the level of Chinese athletes is too poor, unless you use legendary cards, maybe you can fight for medals, then of course there is no need.
However, in these two events, such as shooting and weightlifting, the level of Chinese athletes is generally very high.
At this time, even if he can only help them improve their competitive state, but in the case of very similar standards, this improvement may be the result of the bronze medal turning into a silver medal and the silver medal becoming a gold medal.
On July 29, Los Angeles time, the first day of competition at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics officially began.
This morning, we will mainly hold some preliminaries for individual events, and some team sports competitions will also start in the afternoon, and the prime time in the evening is naturally reserved for the most watched sports such as football and basketball.
Wu Jie's biggest concern during the day is naturally Shen Lang, because there are too many projects reported, there will be a preliminaries this morning and one in the afternoon, if all of them advance, there will even be two finals and two preliminaries tomorrow.
This is why no one has reported so many events at this stage, so the competitions of different swimming styles have been separated to a certain extent, and the 100m, 200m, and 400m races of the same swimming style are also separated as much as possible.
But Wu Jie can imagine that if Shen Lang really wins a few gold medals, then the next Olympics will become extremely unfriendly in terms of schedule.
Of course, they have already prepared, Shen Lang now gives the outside world the impression that he is not good at breaststroke and backstroke, so the next Olympics really has someone who schedules the freestyle and butterfly stroke very closely, so Shen Lang will turn to breaststroke and backstroke.
The first day of competition consisted of the 50m and 100m heats for the four strokes, the medley was moved to the second day, and the long distance was only started on the third day.
The Chinese swimming delegation sent a total of 9 team members to participate in the competition this time, but unfortunately there was no one who could play except Shen Lang.
And at this time, Shen Lang seems to be too capable of fighting!
Shen Lang, who was born in 1966, is 18 years old this year.
This age is not yet the time to produce results in events such as track and field, but it is the age when it is about to enter the peak of swimming events, and the same is true for the data displayed by the system.
Shen Lang, age: 18 years old.
Height: 192cm, weight 80 kg ↑, arm span 205cm, palm length 24.3cm, palm width 24.8cm, shoe size 49, shoulder width 53 cm ↑.
Athletic Talent (✦✦✦✦✧): Core Strength (86) ↑, Flexibility (93), Balance (90), Underwater Speed (87) ↑, Explosiveness (86) ↑, Physical Strength (89) ↑, Recovery (90) ↑, Constitution (91) ↑
【Perpetual motion machine】✦✦✦✦✧
【Soul of the Sailfish】✦✦✦✦✧
【Iron lung】✦✦✦✦
【Fish out of the water】✦✦✦✦
This is Shen Lang's current competitive state, his four-and-a-half-star physical talent has almost developed ninety percent, and he can make a little progress in the next two years, but those innate attributes are already difficult to reach more than 90, and his strengths are basically fixed.
The reason why Wu Jie has not promoted him is, of course, that even if his physical talent is not full, this level can still rank in the top three in this era.
If you count the blessing of technology, even if a five-star monster appears under the butterfly effect, it is actually very difficult to win against Shen Lang.
In the 100-meter butterfly preliminaries in the morning, Shen Lang only showed eight or seven points of strength and easily swam 53.54 seconds, which is very close to the world record of 53.41 seconds.
There was no suspense about the result, and Pablo Morales, the second-best swim in the three preliminaries, only swam 53.57 seconds without asthma.
As soon as this result came out, Shen Lang, who had already attracted much attention, suddenly became one of the biggest favorites to win the championship.
In the afternoon, Shen Lang's performance in the 100m freestyle made all the media reports have to be rewritten, because he swam 49.49 seconds in the preliminaries, once again narrowly breaking the world record.
This time he was not one of the favourites, as he was only 0.04 seconds away from the world record, and Jurgo Voith, who was the strongest player in the 100m freestyle at the event, did not participate because he was an East German athlete.
Shen Lang, who can see that he has not gone all out yet, is likely to be enough to lock the gold medal in this event, of course, provided that the players from the United States, West Germany, and Australia do not have asthma.
Also in the afternoon, Qin Jian also brought the attention of a Chinese boxer to the American media in the ring for the first time.
Olympic boxing competition has always only set up men's events, this year set up a total of 12 weight classes, each weight class is 16 fighters to participate, Chinese players plus Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan a total of three people, Qin Jian is the only seedling in Chinese mainland.
The American media still pays attention to Shen Lang, but almost no attention to Qin Jian, who makes Chinese fighters not to mention that they have won honors in the ring, and even the number of times they have been in the ring is only a handful.
Qin Jian also had bad luck, as he faced the 75-81kg champion of the last Olympic Games in the first round of elimination, Slavodan Kachar of Yugoslavia.
Slavodan Kachar is not the favourite to win the title this year, but he is also one of the favourites.
Such an experienced, 26-year-old fighter at the peak of his prime, facing a fledgling 19-year-old rookie, is it still a hand-to-hand catch?
At this time, Qin Jian was also 19 years old, and his ability had improved a lot compared to the Asian qualifiers.
Qin Jian: height 189cm, weight 80kg↑, arm span 200cm, physical talent (✦✦✦✦✦)
Overall capacity: 90
Attack: 82
Defense: 85
Pace: 99
Technique: 99
Tactics: 99
Special Abilities –
[Speed of the Fly's Peak]: ✦✦✦✦✦
[Body of Steel]: ✦✦✦✦✧
[King Kong is not bad]: ✦✦✦✦
Qin Jian's current level is much stronger than these opponents, but he will not be careless, after all, when it comes to the competition stage of the Olympic Games, even if these are still amateur players, their strength is already much higher than that of the Asian Qualifiers, at least the ability to resist beating has definitely improved to a higher level, and it would be too contemptuous to end the fight in another round.
This kind of caution is naturally correct, but he forgets that his opponent has the possibility of "underestimating the enemy".
Qin Jian thinks that as long as he does not underestimate the enemy, he should be able to win the championship steadily, but in the eyes of Slavodan Kachar, he is a problem that can be solved with a touch of his fingers, maybe he doesn't think it's a trouble, and drawing this Chinese is almost guaranteed to advance to the next round!
This mentality was naturally the main reason why Slavodan Kachar couldn't hold on for even a round, and the Yugoslav player, who had never looked at Qin Jian at all, was beaten by Qin Jian's ferocious aggressive attack as soon as the bell rang.
Qin Jian's low-profile rapid pressing attack is extremely aggressive, Slavodan Kachar has never seen this kind of play at all, and without a response plan, coupled with the fatal mistake of "underestimating the enemy", he ate Qin Jian's two heavy punches in the first ten seconds, becoming the fastest unlucky guy to be knocked down in the boxing match of this Olympic Games.
If it weren't for the fact that this guy's ability to resist strikes is really good, and the thick gloves of the Olympic boxing match reduce the lethality, these two punches are enough to make Tyson unable to stand up.
Although Slavodan Kachar stood up, his state had obviously dropped significantly, and after that, in the face of Qin Jian's ferocious attack, he could only blindly defend passively, but he was still frequently hit by Qin Jian's fists.
Qin Jian's lethality may be a little worse than that of Tyson at the peak in terms of all-out attack, but he is definitely better in terms of effective hits, and Slavodan Kachar is like a clumsy sandbag that has been violently beaten by Qin Jian on the stage for two minutes.
In the end, when all the eyebrows were opened, the two nostrils were stuffed with hemostatic cotton, his face was covered with blood, and his body began to tremble, and after being knocked down by Qin Jian's heavy punch for the fourth time, Slavodan Kachar finally fell to the ground completely.
There were 56 seconds left in the first round, but considering that Slavodan Kachar was underdogged and held out for two minutes before being knocked out, it shows that the former champion has what it takes to fight Qin Jian for a full round, which is also in line with the Olympic competition.
But in the eyes of the outside world, Qin Jian won the previous champion by KO in less than a round, which is simply a big upset!
"China has already produced a swimming genius today, won't there be another boxing genius?"
"The comprehensive strength of Chinese sports is not very high, but the quality of a few geniuses is very high!"
"This is because of the Chinese demographic advantage, a billion people out of a few gifted geniuses, it doesn't seem to be an incomprehensible thing."
“……”
The Western media and the public have come up with a reasonable explanation on their own, which is actually the answer to the broad explanation of the abundance of talent in Chinese football and basketball.
China is about the same as Europe + North America in terms of population, so it is not an outrageous thing to compare a few geniuses.
After the afternoon competition, the results of the Chinese delegation were not bad, except for swimming and boxing, which attracted wide attention, weightlifting, shooting, competitive gymnastics, and other events that were promoted by preliminaries, and most of the athletes successfully fought their way out of the encirclement.
Badminton, archery, fencing, judo, which are not strong single and double knockout events for the Chinese team, have also advanced to the next round at the moment, but it remains to be seen how far they can go.
So far today, only rowing, beach volleyball, handball, equestrian, and road cycling have performed badly, and almost all the Chinese athletes on the stage today have been wiped out!
Wu Jie is also not optimistic about these sports, because these are sports that are difficult to carry out in China at present, so even if there are many Chinese players who have not appeared in these major sports, they are basically the end of the first round.
But there was one event that surprised both the Eastern and Western media, and that was the women's basketball game that started at sunset in the afternoon.
There was no women's football competition at the Olympics, but there was already a women's basketball competition.
The Chinese women's basketball team was not favored by the outside world before the game, because the real establishment of this national team has only been more than two years, and the competition experience is very small.
But in the group stage, against the strong Canadian team, the women's basketball girls defeated the Canadian team 75-65 in the first game in an unfavorable environment equivalent to playing away.
This result once again surprised the Western media, but if they knew that in the past year, the Chinese women's basketball team has been training next door to the men's basketball team.
Rueda is almost an assistant coach of the women's basketball team, so he should know that this result is not unexpected.
The tactical play of the Chinese women's basketball team is almost carved out of the same mold as the Chinese men's basketball team, and it also adopts a fast-break style of play, emphasizing basic skills, execution, team defense, and emphasizing discipline, ball transfer, shooting, and rebounding.
But unlike the Chinese men's basketball team that has no advantage in height, it must play more extreme bombardment, and the positional battle depends on Luda's personal ability.
This is also the reason why the women's basketball team was originally able to finish third in this Olympic Games, so when facing Canada, which is considered to be the top five in the world, the Chinese girls not only did not fall behind in the positional battle, but their fast attack made it difficult for Canadian players to resist.
The biggest impression of this game is that the Chinese women's basketball team not only has an advantage under the basket, but once they use the fast break to launch an offensive that is almost unstoppable, their counterattack and fast attack make the Canadian players often not fully settled, and an attack has ended.
Wu Jie also watched this game, and he knew very well that the lineup of the women's basketball team was actually better than that of the men's basketball team, after all, the original plane was the third place, but the men's basketball team couldn't get into the top eight.
The starting lineup sent by the Chinese women's basketball team in this battle is 1.66 meters captain Cong Xuedi as a point guard, 1.80 meters bent little traitor Wang Xiaoqian as a scoring guard, 1.83 meters all-round and stable Xiu Lijuan as a small forward, 1.90 meters Li Xiaoqin, who was born in a basketball family, as a big forward, and Zheng Haixia, nicknamed "The Great Wall of China" at 2.06 meters, as a center.
In addition, on the bench are Chen Yuefang, the first height of the Chinese women's basketball team at 2.08 meters, Liu Qing, a small forward with outstanding running and jumping ability at 1.88 meters, Qiu Chen, a left-handed knife beauty who is also from a basketball family at 1.73 meters, and Song Xiaobo, a big forward who was selected for the best team in the Olympic preliminaries.
These 9 players are the main fighting power of this year's women's basketball team, and it is estimated that some people will have an impression of several of them in 40 years.
The original Chinese women's basketball team lost to the United States team in the semifinals, mainly because of the away game and lack of experience, and of course, there are also tactical shortcomings.
But with Luda, the "Friend of Women", as the behind-the-scenes military advisor, the Chinese women's basketball team is not only not weaker than the American team in terms of technology and tactics, but even has an additional backcourt star to make up for the scoring ability at critical moments.
Although Wang Xiaoqian is only 17 years old, she is already in the Kerry position in the team, and has won the trust of her teammates with her performance of averaging 18.5 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game in the nine qualifiers at the beginning of the year.
Now on the Olympic stage, her four-star physical talent and a few special talents to strengthen are still the most physically gifted of all the women's basketball players.
In this game, the defense of the Canadian team was completely unable to prevent Wang Xiaoqian's breakthrough and shooting, and was actually cut by the youngest beautiful guard in the game to score 28 points.
The fans at the scene were also deeply impressed by this Chinese beautiful basketball player with strong skills, strong action and gorgeous ball style.
Wang Xiaoqian is really different in this regard, because she is not like most female basketball players who are always a little reluctant when she makes movements, or has a sense of weakness and weakness in the mud and water.
This is due to the fact that her athleticism is significantly stronger than the other nine players on the court, so she uses the standard of male players for many technical movements, but even so, she is still very crisp and gorgeous when doing movements, although it is still incomparable with male players, but the style of painting in the field of women's basketball has already stood out from the crowd.
The Chinese women's basketball team has such an outside core, with Zheng Haixia, who can not fall behind in the face of the American team on the inside, and a number of role players who are level online, it is definitely a luxury lineup that is the champion!
Wu Jie has long regarded the gold medal of the women's basketball team as one of the key public relations objects, and now the first victory in the group stage is undoubtedly a good start.
But the women's basketball team is still not a real highlight, because there are three more blockbuster games in the evening - the Chinese men's football team, the Chinese men's basketball team, and the Chinese women's volleyball team will appear one by one.
These three games are not only the focus of attention of the Chinese people, but also the focus of attention of the Western media and Asian media.