Chapter 245: One-year-old hanging!
The "World University Games" will be known as the "Little Olympics" in the future, but the participants are limited to college students and college students who have graduated no more than two years ago, and the age limit is 17-28 years old.
Of course, this title was only acquired in the 21st century.
In the 80s, the Universiade was far from the Olympics in terms of competition and the number of participants.
There are only 10 basic events in this Universiade, and the host country can join three on its own, but there are only 13 sports in total, and only 3,500 people participate in the entire event.
This time, due to the lack of Canadian football, football that is not in the ten basic sports has not become an official competition.
New China participated in the first Universiade held in 1959, and China did not send a delegation to participate in the second to eighth sessions thereafter.
Since 1977, China has re-participated in the University Games, but its results have been so-so, and it can only rely on gymnastics and diving to win gold medals.
This time it was different, the Chinese team sent a delegation of 120 athletes, who participated in a total of 12 events, and only the "equestrian" event did not participate. After all, this competition is more like a competition for the quality of "horses" than for human ability, and China cannot afford to play this aristocratic sport now.
Naturally, the Chinese people are most concerned about basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, diving, and swimming, because only these five events have a chance to win gold medals.
This time, China sent a mixed lineup of the national first team and the second team led by Ruda in the basketball project, which was basically dominated by young people under the age of 24, and the veterans did not participate.
It is worth mentioning that the newly formed women's basketball team also participated in this competition, but it is a pity that Wang Xiaoqian is still a member of U19 for the time being, and her age does not meet the requirements for participation, so she cannot participate in this event.
As for Xia Lin, he has just joined the U14, and he is not old enough to participate in the next Universiade.
The women's volleyball team also sent a mixed lineup composed of the first team and the second team, and Lang Ping's main team did not participate.
The swim team is also full of young members, including Shen Lang, who has just broken four Asian records in a row, although the great cartoonist is not very well-known outside of Asia.
So the question is, are these people all college students?
Of course they are, even Wu Jie has a name at Tsinghua University, which is the kind that can graduate with only one or two classes a year.
Basically, all well-known domestic athletes have college student status, including Shen Lang, who is still underage, is a student of Beijing Sports University.
Wu Jie still attaches great importance to this event, because there are not many rewards, many projects with great influence will have a reward of 10,000 points for winning the championship, even if some projects with insufficient influence have a benefit of 5,000 points after winning the championship.
If you can finish in the top three in the medal table, there will be a high additional reward.
However, there should be little chance of reaching the top three in the medal table, and a total of 168 gold medals will be born in this event, but the medalists in track and field, fencing, and swimming are not among the three events that the Chinese team can compete with.
Shen Lang, the only one who can show his hand in these three events, is not sure that he will win all the gold medals in the four events even if he plays with all his might, and he still needs time to grow.
Therefore, Wu Jie's expectations are not high, as long as he can fight for the top five in the medal list, get more than ten gold medals, and help him earn 100,000 Olympic coins to return a wave of blood.
This is not difficult to do, but the first to help him get benefits is not a few tool people, but the "Prince of Gymnastics" Li Ning.
This future big capitalist doesn't blame him for getting rich, he alone helped the Chinese gymnastics team win three gold medals, and Wu Jie now looks at him more and more pleasing to the eye.
However, the influence of the Chinese gymnastics team in this plane is much lower, who makes the three major balls in this plane so competitive.
Gymnastics is not comparable to the three major balls in terms of influence and spectacle, and boxing in the future is also far superior, including swimming, track and field, and tennis, as long as they can produce results, they are also not comparable to gymnastics.
But no one will know that the gymnastics team of this plane is actually better in terms of performance, because Wu Jie has been secretly using cards to accelerate injury recovery for gymnasts behind the scenes.
Although most of these cards are gold-level, they are not so cheating in terms of effect.
But as we all know, the training methods of the Chinese gymnastics team are very hurtful, not only the training time is much longer than that of European and American athletes, but also some difficult movements are not used by European and American athletes except for the players contacted by Su.
Although these have raised the level of the Chinese gymnastics team to the first echelon, it comes at the cost of a large number of overloaded operations and high-risk movements, so that athletes often have to retire in their early 20s.
Many of the best gymnasts retire from injury before they are even 20 years old, and more often than not, they fall to injury before they have time to show themselves on the field.
Gold cards can't change this phenomenon, but they can delay the injuries of star players and recover faster from injuries, which is actually equivalent to indirectly offsetting some of the damage caused by overtraining.
The final result is that the results of the Chinese gymnastics team are better than the original plane, and this Universiade has changed from 3 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze in the original plane to 5 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze.
Of course, Wu Jie made a lot of money, although a gold medal in gymnastics was only 5,000 points, and a silver medal was only 2,000 points, but these medals still brought him 30,000 Olympic coins.
And the 10 gold-level cards he used only cost 15,000 points, and the net profit reached 100%.
Diving has always been the national team's gold medalist, the most rare thing is that this event is much less damaging to the body, China's national system is simply inexplicable in this kind of project, and the final results of 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze made the Chinese diving team also contribute 18,000 points to Wu Jie.
Shen Lang is very low-key, he advanced in the preliminaries and semifinals with intermediate results, and it can be said that he has never had a sense of existence.
But it wasn't until he swam all four events to the finals that many people found out that the Chinese player had actually signed up for four singles events?
Wu Jie is very confident in Shen Lang, after all, this is only the University Games, and less than half of the first-line players participated in this competition, and the champions of the last Olympic Games and the world championships did not participate.
In this case, Shen Lang did not live up to his expectations, successfully won the gold medal in the 200m freestyle and butterfly, but unfortunately only won the silver medal in the two 100m events, and none of the four events broke the world record.
There is no way, Shen Lang is still a four-and-a-half-star physical talent, and he is a little younger, and being able to win two golds and two silvers has already shocked the whole world, and it has made the Chinese swimming team cry with joy!
Because it is really not easy, Shen Lang has never had a Chinese swimmer achieve results in the world competitions before, and he has never even gone up to the podium.
However, the women's volleyball team has suffered some setbacks, and the Chinese women's volleyball team, which is in the adjustment period this year, did not send Lang Ping to the main force, but gave the newcomers the opportunity to exercise, but unfortunately lost to the United States team in the semifinals and stopped in the semifinals.
The men's basketball team is as reliable as ever, because they have an invincible locomotive that can drag the whole team up and charge.
As soon as the players from many countries heard that Ruda was leading the team, they simply made excuses not to participate, and the reason was basically "I don't want to play against college players".
The implication of this is that professional players disdain to bully college amateur players, and by the way, it is ironic that the Chinese team, the newly released world champion, actually went to participate in the University Games, which is really embarrassing.
Ruda didn't care so much, facing most of the opponents who were really college students, he led the Chinese team all the way to the finals.
This time, China's opponent is still the United States, but it is not the real NCAA star team that will participate in the Olympics next year, and it is basically the same group of people it met at the last World Championships.
Jordan and others did not participate in this University Games, of course, only some Americans know the power of this gang, and fans outside North America really think that this is the strongest team that the United States can send outside the NBA.
The Chinese players also think so, and they don't really look down on these defeated players.
Wu Jie was secretly amused in his heart, he saw a lot of information from the lineup of the American team.
This time, it seems that the American basketball community is really serious about the fiasco last time, otherwise it would not have even used this strategy of showing weakness to the enemy.
He even knew that Jordan, Ewing, Barkley and others had passed the selection for the Olympic men's basketball team, but none of them showed up this time, obviously deliberately.
But this also means that the Americans are still not sure to beat the Chinese team, otherwise there is no need to deliberately hide their strength, which is obviously to attack the Chinese team in the Olympic Games!
However, the performance of the Chinese team this time surprised the American team even more, because no one in this tournament played more than 30 minutes in the Chinese team, including Ruda's average playing time of only 25 minutes per game.
However, the Chinese team has 12 players who play more than 10 minutes per game, which means that almost everyone can play the ball, and the whole team does not even have a single bastard.
Especially Song Tao, Zhang Jixian, and Song Yingjie, who were selected for the national team for the first time, under the leadership of Ruda, look no worse than the players of the American team.
But you must know that all three of them are 18 years old, basically three or four years younger than the American players opposite.
The Americans naturally know what this means, which means that the Chinese team is not lucky to produce a group of talents, but is constantly blowing out talents.
This is the scariest thing, because the Chinese team is likely to get stronger year by year!
In the final final, under the leadership of Ruda, the Chinese team once again bloodied the defeated player with 125:98.
In the whole game, 10 members of the Chinese team scored double-doubles, and Song Tao staged a full five dunks under Wu Jie's feeding, and the whole world exclaimed: China has another inside flyer!
Wu Jie also watched the game, but he was not so surprised.
Song Tao's athletic talent is actually only three and a half stars, and his current bounce looks great because of his light weight, and his confrontation ability is actually very weak, too thin.
If Rueda hadn't attracted the defense under the basket to make the ball for him, this 18-year-old guy wouldn't have been able to even hold the ball, let alone get a chance to fly.
However, these three guys are still worth cultivating, and if they want to upgrade their talents to four-star, they need a total of 90,000 Olympic Coins.
He can afford this money, and in fact he must pay it.
If it's just a three-and-a-half-star talent, then waiting until next year to face those future NBA superstars is basically a food delivery.
But if you can get to four stars, it can help a little.
Wu Jie is most looking forward to the showdown between Ruda and Jordan, although he knows that this kind of duel is basically a 20-year-old James's body + 30-year-old Olajuwon's technology + 25-year-old Griffin's dunk + 25-year-old Stoudemire's breakthrough + 30-year-old Nowitzki's shooting + 30-year-old Gasol's strategy, and then go together to deal with 21-year-old Jordan.
In this case, no matter how strong the talent of the old rascal is, he will definitely be beaten in the face of Ruda, even if he adds the young Barkley and Ewing, it is difficult to gain the upper hand.
However, it was not only the men's basketball team that surprised Wu Jie, the women's basketball team, which had just been established for two years, actually won the championship.
This is also an institutional advantage, strong sports in Europe and the United States must have commercial prospects, or have aristocratic elements, and those niche and unprofitable projects do not perform very well.
Women's basketball and women's football, including women's volleyball, are actually sports with insufficient commercial value, so they have not had any advantage in the face of China's national system.
But the Western media did not see this as a systemic problem, and after the Chinese team finally rushed to third place in the medal table, they began to throw out en masse: the view that the Chinese are not decent.
This is mainly to criticize the Chinese for sending the professional mobilization of the national team to bully amateur college athletes in order to save face in the University Games, which they think is a very unseemly thing.
Wu Jie didn't think there was anything unseemly about this, because the average age of the more than 100 athletes sent by the Chinese team was only 22 years old.
This average age is in the middle of all the participating countries, and if even this is considered to be bullying the small, then half of the countries are equally undignified, including the average age of the United States team is 21 years old.