Chapter 290: The Olympic Journey (13)

Arsenal have already made several deals after the season, such as bringing the Gunners from the original position to Arsenal and bringing the Gunners from the League One pseudo-powerhouse all the way to George Graham, who is a top team in League One, and a year ahead of schedule to Highbury.

Georges Graeux, of course, was one of the top coaches of the eighties and nineties, and he coached a team known for his airtightness and toughness in defence, as well as his ability to develop young players, which is in the same vein as Arsene Wenger, who of course belongs to Grae's successor.

But unlike Arsene Wenger, Georges Grae's style of coaching is known for being strict and demanding of discipline, both on the pitch and in the dressing room.

Therefore, it is conceivable that this kind of coach who is good at discovering and cultivating young players, advocating discipline and strict coaching, as long as the team delegates the rights in place, he can cultivate a group of players who can be used, thus opening a period of success for the team.

In fact, Arsenal did become a force to be reckoned with in League One in the late 80s and early 90s, which was the first stage of Arsenal's promotion to the top team in Europe.

Wu Jie naturally wants to shorten that time, and he intends to help Arsenal become the first treble team in League One history in four years' time.

This task is not easy to achieve, because the current Gunners are not enough, and they are in a period similar to Bayern's transition between the old and the new, and the original plane is about to enter a period of crotch pulling.

The list he provided Isabella was to clean up the veterans of the team as quickly as possible, and at the same time find some qualified helpers for himself.

Arsenal's restructured management is also actively and quietly operating in the transfer market, with Ajax's Van Basten and Rijkaard targeting first.

The two Dutch musketeers who are about to make a name for themselves in Europe, Wu Jie would prefer Arsenal to buy Rijkaard and Van Basten, because Gullit has a bit of a conflict with his position.

But unfortunately, Ajax, who are planning to form a frontcourt twin with Van Basten in the new season after Ren Zhihui joins the team, does not want to sell their chief striker, nor does he want to sell Rijkaard, one of the best young defenders in Europe.

Feyenoord, for their part, were also reluctant to sell their number one striker, and made a very insincere offer, which was $2 million as soon as they opened their mouths.

Arsenal don't intend to be the big deal because they are talking about their own country's Lineker and Germany's young centre-forward Jurgen Klinsmann as an alternative.

Wu Jie doesn't plan to buy more people in the forward position, probably two people are enough, because there is also Neil Quinn in the Arsenal academy who is a very good tactical center forward, and the only problem is to train for two or three years before he can take on a big role.

At this time, I have to mention the strengths of George Grae, who is mediocre in guiding the team's attack, and is basically the same as England's long pass.

But for the adjustment of the backline, George Grae has a very good set, Arsenal's future famous defensive four, which will just be pulled out of the youth echelon.

No one would have thought that this group of youngsters, who are only seventeen or eighteen years old, would be the backbone of Arsenal's defense until the mid-nineties, and they will still be a reassuring backfield defense until then.

So what this Arsenal team needs most is actually the stars in the midfield and forward, but I don't know if luck finally came, Arsenal secretly negotiated a deal that made Wu Jie overjoyed on the first match day of the Olympic Games.

They bought Michelle Laudrup, a young star of the Danish Brondby club, for $500,000, which can be said to be a very bloody deal when the player's value has increased year by year in the past two years.

Wu Jie certainly knows the name of Laudrup, who is the idol of the future Iniesta and the spokesperson of "croquettes", who was voted the best foreign aid in Spain in 25 years (1974-1999).

It's a pity that these honors have now been preemptively registered by Chen Haonan, although Laudrup claims that his "croquettes" were not learned from Chen Haonan, but there is no video to prove that he used this trick in the competition with Chen Haonan first.

Wu Jie is very satisfied with this skilled and talented striker, although this person is not as good as Chen Haonan in defense, but it is not a big colander in defense, after all, he can play at Juventus for four seasons.

But on the offensive end, Laudrup has top-level breakthrough and passing skills, including good organization and scoring ability, which is enough to be used as a shrunken Chen Haonan in defense.

The news has not yet been announced, and all Arsenal actions have been going on quietly lately.

And just as the fourth day of the Olympics entered the game, Arsenal negotiated another £300,000 deal on home soil, buying England veteran Terry Butcher from Ipswich FC, who were relegated from last season.

The deal was not easy to talk about, starting with Terry Butcher's dislike of leaving Ipswich after eight years.

But Ipswich thinks Terry Butcher is getting old and has a couple of promising youngsters who can replace the top defender who is likely to be out of action in another two years. Since Arsenal is willing to buy at a high level, it will be difficult to produce results in the next two years, and Ipswich, who is ready to focus on cultivating newcomers, is of course willing to shoot at a high level.

Wu Jie knew Ipswich had made the right choice, and although Terry Butcher played in the national team until the '90 World Cup, his performance at the club was indeed on the verge of a decline.

Arsenal were the right choice, they were willing to pay a big price for a centre-back who would start to decline in two years' time, not only because of Terry Butcher's tough, ferocious defensive ability, but also because of his rich game experience and commanding qualities.

Arsenal's famous defensive four will still be in a tender state, so the next two years will have to rely on a veteran like Terry Butcher to lead it.

Otherwise, the back line is full of seventeen or eighteen-year-old players, and it is estimated that Arsenal's defense will become a disaster.

After the completion of these two transactions, coupled with the advent of Wu Jie, Arsenal's combat effectiveness has actually been greatly improved.

Last season, the Gunners were also ranked 7th in the league, but there are 20 teams in League One, and the original combat power of this team is not too bad, but there are fewer players who want to fight online, and there are more veterans who have lost their desire for glory.

Next, as long as they can purge the veterans who have become bastards and bring in one or two young stars, then there will be a bigger improvement in strength.

Wu Jie doesn't plan to bring the younger brother of the national team to Arsenal immediately, firstly, there is no suitable candidate, and secondly, the League One here has a rejection of European foreign aid outside the British Isles.

Arsenal is now going to bring in Wu Jie and Laudrup in a row, and also intends to poach people from the future Dutch Three Musketeers, which is already very unusual, and one more Chinese player will inevitably cause a collective boycott of British public opinion, including Gunners fans.

There is no game for the national football team today, he has been observing the game of the Chinese delegation all day long, in addition to observing the game of the Chinese delegation behind the scenes, he is thinking about how to bring in reinforcements, and now Arsenal is in the transfer market Isabella takes the list he gave and lets his subordinates to execute.

But with the addition of Laudrup and John Terry, he has to make some changes to the order on this list.

In Los Angeles, the Chinese shooting team failed to continue the magic again on the fourth day of competition, failing to enter the top three in the "men's 50m rifle" and "men's 50m rifle prone shooting" in the morning, both of which were taken away by the Americans.

Wu Jie used gold-level cards for Chinese players, but unfortunately the level of players in these two events is much worse, and the gold-level cards are limited.

The situation was similar for other projects, and the Chinese delegation did not produce anything all morning, which gave many Chinese people a bad feeling.

It wasn't until the afternoon that the Chinese archery team finally helped China shoot the first gold medal of the day.

After three days of fierce fighting, Li Lingjuan finally continued her stable performance in the final, defeating two difficult South Korean players in one fell swoop, which filled the entire South Baseball Country with a heart-rending and sad atmosphere.

This gold medal that had been booked in Nanba's heart for a long time was taken away by the Chinese, which really made the entire Nanbanons feel like a mourner, because they no longer have any sports that can be superior in front of China.

Now even the traditional strong event "archery", especially the dominant "women's archery", has failed to win gold, which is a disaster for Nanba!

Archery competitions are all protracted battles, Li Lingjuan shot 335 rings, 322 rings, 310 rings, and 315 rings in the four groups of preliminaries two days ago, and advanced to the final with a score of 1280 rings.

Xu Xiangshun, who finished second in the preliminaries that day, shot 341 rings, 311 rings, 315 rings, and 308 rings in the four groups of competitions, and advanced to the final with a second place score of 1275 rings, and her compatriot Kim Jin-ho also shot a score of 1270 rings, and the difference between the three was very small.

In today's final, Li Lingjuan made persistent efforts and shot 334 rings, 321 rings, 320 rings and 322 rings with a calm and stable performance, with a total of 1297 rings.

Xu Xiangshun's performance was as good as ever, shooting a total of 1,293 rings in the four groups: 349, 320, 321 and 303.

The gap between the two of them is mainly in the first and fourth groups, Xu Xiangshun can always lead in the first group, but Li Lingjuan can always stage a reversal in the last group.

In the end, Li Lingjuan defeated Xu Xiangshun's 2568 rings and Jin Zhenhao's 2555 rings in one fell swoop with a total score of 2579 in two rounds and eight groups, and won the gold medal in women's archery with a record-breaking score (the original record was 2576).

Soon after Li Lingjuan won the championship, the much-anticipated men's 200m butterfly final also began.

Shen Lang has swam the 400-meter medley preliminaries this morning, with a time of 4:19.05, although he is still ranked first among the 24 athletes, but it is still a lot worse than the world record of 4:17.65.

This is of course the result of retaining energy, as there is an equally difficult 200m butterfly final in the afternoon.

In addition, Shen Lang also hid his strength in the medley, and his results in the "breaststroke" and "backstroke" events ranked in the middle of all competitors.

This also caused Shen Lang to easily lead his opponent by two positions in the first butterfly stroke in the preliminaries of the 400-meter medley, but when it came to the second backstroke and the third breaststroke, he actually fell from first to fourth in his group preliminaries.

But in the last freestyle stroke, there was a picture that people talked about, Shen Lang regained the first place with a speed visible to the naked eye in the first 50 meters, and then looked back at his opponent again in the last 50 meters, and then slowed down to complete the game.

This also makes everyone understand that the gold medal in this event is still this hateful Chinese, and this is the third time that Shen Lang has looked back at the performance of his opponent and slowed down in this Olympic Games.

The only good news now is that he is not an all-round fairy, at least not in the "backstroke" and "breaststroke".

So at this time, some people are thinking about whether they want to line up the freestyle, butterfly, and medley events more closely at the next World Swimming Championships and the Olympic Games, so that no matter how good Shen Lang's physical fitness is, it should be difficult to win the gold medal in the 200-meter butterfly and 400-meter medley at the same time.

As we all know, the butterfly is the most tiring swimming style, and the 200-meter butterfly is tied with the 400-meter medley and the 1500-meter freestyle as the three most tiring events.

The "200-meter butterfly" here may not seem like a long distance, but just consider that an athlete has to use the wings to continuously crawl forward 200 meters in the water, which is a great load and test for the chest, abdomen and waist.

Most of the butterfly swimmers around the world suffer from back injuries, because although this style is picturesque, it also has a very high chance of injury to the body.

Shen Lang will also have a painful psychology when swimming in the 200-meter butterfly, because even if he uses his current athletic ability to cope with the training of the 200-meter butterfly, he must be careful and cautious, otherwise he may also be injured.

However, with the blessing of era-spanning technology and training methods, his training volume in this event, especially the training efficiency, still far exceeds that of his opponents of the same era.

So at the beginning of this final, the remaining 7 players, as well as the Western audience in front of the TV, despaired.

Shen Lang was more than one step ahead from the moment he jumped into the water, and after entering the water, his pair of big feet with powerful kicking movements can produce at least two percent higher propulsion than his opponent underwater.

The superposition of these two, combined with Shen Lang's excellent physical fitness and unique low-resistance coordination technique in various parts, made all opponents sigh.

The 200-meter distance is two rounds in the standard long pool in swimming, but Shen Lang has already locked up the championship after swimming the 100 meters, because all the opponents are at least three positions behind him.

By the end of the third 50m, the gap had widened to four positions.

The last time he turned around, Shen Lang still didn't sprint with all his strength, but the other players who were led out of rhythm had no room to accelerate.

In this game, the 7 players who followed Shen Lang from beginning to end were almost all disrupted by him, the leader.

In the final 50 meters of the sprint, not only did they not have the energy to accelerate, but their speed slowed down under physical constraints.

This makes Shen Lang the first to touch the wall, the second-place Joe Ximu is already six positions behind, such a huge gap is not like the final scene of the Olympic Games at all, but more like Shen Lang's usual wanton play in the Asian fishpond.

"1 minute 58 seconds 28 seconds!"

This result is 3 seconds faster than the original world record of 2:01.24, and Shen Lang once again greatly improved the world record to a level that makes others desperate (the original information was wrong, 2:01 to 2:02 seconds was the world's top level of the 200m butterfly in the early to mid-80s).

Shen Lang also became the first person to swim two minutes in the 200m butterfly, and in one fell swoop improved the original world record.

If today's live broadcast had not wittily doubled the camera, it is estimated that half of the contestants would not have appeared in the screen when Shen Lang touched the wall.

This is based on the fact that Joe Westwood in second place only had a time of 2:02.89 and Gross in third place was only 2:03.54, which shows how far the other five are behind.

The gold medal also brings the Chinese delegation's tally to 16, but the bad news is that the Chinese delegation's advantage over the United States is rapidly shrinking.

Today's two road cycling gold medals were contracted by the United States, and another track cycling gold medal was also won by the United States, plus two shooting and a judo gold medal, the United States team won a total of 6 gold medals in one day, which is likely to create the highest number of gold medals in a single day in this Olympic Games.

Wu Jie can only sigh now, China still lacks the foundation in this Olympic Games, and there is a lack of outstanding players in too many events, and his task of winning the half-course championship wants to be completed, and now it seems that it is really difficult!