Chapter 279: The Olympic Journey (2)
Wu Jie secretly watched the women's basketball game and was about to go to dinner with his teammates, when a bright red message suddenly popped up on his unsightly holographic panel: Chinese players Xu Haifeng and Wang Yifu won the championship and runner-up respectively in the men's 50-meter pistol slow-fire competition.
When he received this news, he didn't react much in his heart, because this was what happened in the original plane, even if he didn't use cards for these two people, the Chinese team's two carefully set double insurances should not miss.
The honor of the first gold medal of the Chinese Olympic Games was not won by him and the tool people, and Wu Jie did not have any negative emotions in his heart, because he and the tool people were difficult to withdraw gold on the first day, and this honor was impossible to get.
Besides, they don't have to take this honor, as long as it is an honor won by Chinese athletes, it can all be turned into his gain.
Of course, those teams and players who perform hip pulling will naturally be deducted some points according to their performance.
It sounds painful, but the punishment is not unacceptable, because no matter what event, as long as you can win a medal, you will definitely get something. And as long as the performance of events like the three balls is not particularly bad, basically if you can qualify from the group, you will at least not be deducted points.
But the embarrassing thing is that the Americans did not prepare the five-star red flag, so that the first gold medal born in this Olympic Games almost became second at the medal ceremony.
This naturally made the Chinese audience speechless, and Wu Jie also felt that although this was a rare event that China had not been troubled in, the contempt in the hearts of Americans still flinched.
In the end, it took almost an hour before the Americans brought a five-star red flag from the weightlifting venue.
But no matter how embarrassing the process was, the majestic national anthem of the People's Republic of China finally sounded for the first time on the Olympic shooting range!
China's record of 'zero' in the Olympic gold medal table has finally been broken, which is also the first gold medal decided in this Olympic Games.
Wu Jie was having dinner with his teammates at this time, and by the way, discussing the game with the Italian team in two hours, a yellow message popped up on the holographic information board in front of him!
This color means that it is not particularly important news, Wu Jie glanced at it, it turned out to be the result of the first game of the forgotten Chinese men's volleyball team in the group stage, they actually defeated the Brazilian team with a score of 3:2 and successfully won the first victory of the Olympic Games.
The women's volleyball game was one hour later than the men's volleyball team, but it ended half an hour earlier than the men's volleyball team, which also shows that the men's volleyball game should be very anxious and must be very hard.
"Played five rounds? No wonder it hit from 3 p.m. to now! ”
Wu Jie saw that the men's volleyball team defeated the not weak Brazilian team in five games, and naturally felt a little embarrassed in his heart, because he did accidentally forget the men's volleyball team, and he didn't even use any cards for them, but he didn't expect the men's volleyball team to be quite competitive.
But even if he wins this game, he will not use cards for the men's volleyball team in the next game against West Germany.
If the second game can still be won, then the men's volleyball team will qualify early, and the last game of the group stage against the United States will not need his help.
Wu Jie knew that this was too doggy, but he was not biased against the men's volleyball team, but this kind of multi-sport competition, there were too many cards to be consumed in each game.
So not only will the men's volleyball team not be favored by him, but he will not use cards for weak sports such as hockey, handball, and water polo.
The only multi-person sports that can be blessed by him in this Olympics are men's football, men's basketball, women's basketball, and women's volleyball, and they must not be shot until the knockout stage.
"Ding" sound!
Wu Jie had just finished eating with his teammates, and there was good news from the Chinese weightlifting team!
Zeng Guoqiang, the star of the Chinese weightlifting team, helped China win the gold medal in the 52kg weightlifting competition, but the most interesting thing is that the silver medal is actually a Chinese, and Zhou Peishun stood next to Zeng Guoqiang when he presented the award, with a clear sense of loss on his face.
Zeng Guoqiang and Zhou Peishun were the favourites themselves, and they lived up to expectations to help the Chinese team win the second gold and silver medals of the Games.
Wu Jie is very concerned about the weightlifting team, because this kind of project that challenges the limits of the human body is greatly affected by the state and performance, especially the weightlifting event basically needs to break out once in the small universe in the trial lifting, then it is likely to be directly promoted from the top three to the champion position.
Today's weightlifting event will give birth to a total of two gold medals, this 52 kg gold medal is also an honor that China has won in the original plane, so Wu Jie only used a gold-level low-end card for Zeng Guoqiang and Zhou Peishun as insurance.
But I didn't expect such a card to have an extraordinary effect, in addition to letting Zeng Guoqiang's championship not fall behind, this card also allowed him to successfully lift 110 kg in the snatch competition, and then successfully grabbed 113 kg in the last attempt (the world record at this time was 112.5 kg), successfully breaking the Olympic and world snatch record of 52 kg.
In the end, Zeng Guoqiang successfully lifted 130 kg in the clean and jerk competition, winning the championship with a total score of 243 kg, and this result also broke the 52 kg world and Olympic records.
The production of this gold medal naturally made the Chinese delegation in the limelight, because the results of two gold medals + two silver medals made the Chinese team not only temporarily ranked first in the gold medal list on the first day, but also ranked first in the overall medal table.
But the surprise that the Chinese team brought to the world is not only that, just as the men's basketball team and Australia are about to start, Wu Shude also helped China win the gold medal in the 56kg weightlifting event, and broke the 56kg snatch and clean and jerk world records with 130.5kg and 140.5kg, and the total score was 271kg, which also broke the world record and Olympic record.
At this time, the most painful thing for the Western media was that the silver medal in the 56kg class was still won by Chinese player Lai Runming, whose total score was only 3.5 kg worse than Wu Shude, and the final snatch only lifted 130 kg, and the clean and jerk was 137.5 kg.
These two medals caused an uproar in the Western media, and only a total of 7 gold medals were born on the first day of competition today, and the Chinese team took away three of them, and also took three silver medals, this result is too exaggerated, right?
But Wu Jie was still not surprised, because the Chinese team from the original plane was the gold medalist in these three events.
After participating in the Olympic Games, China has always made efforts in the first half of the competition, because most of the gold medals born at this stage are indoor singles events, and most of China's strong events are also at this stage.
Now what he has changed is just one more silver medal, and the results of the Chinese players are also better.
Zeng Guoqiang and Wu Shude, who were originally in the plane, did not break the world record, and the media of the Soviet camp ridiculed the Chinese team for having such a good start afterwards, which was completely the reason why a large number of top players did not participate.
But now this voice doesn't make sense, because Zeng Guoqiang and Wu Shude both won the championship by breaking world records and Olympic records, which is very golden.
An hour and a half later, the American media, as well as a large number of American fans who follow the Chinese men's basketball team, all watched the basketball game that entered garbage time in advance with mixed feelings.
There was no suspense at all in the game between the Chinese team and the Australian men's basketball team, with 8 minutes left in the second half, the score on the court was already an exaggerated 96:54, and the leading team was of course the Chinese team that made the audience almost speechless.
It's not the opening ceremony, and audiences in the U.S. and the West won't support the Chinese team because they're politically correct.
At this moment, seeing that the Australian men's basketball team was pressed to the ground by the Chinese team from the first minute of the game, they all had a feeling of sadness for the Australian team, which was also white-skinned.
The American media naturally knew that the strength of the Chinese men's basketball team was above Australia, but they didn't expect the gap to be so big, and what they couldn't imagine was how to crack the unreasonable fast attack of the Chinese team and how to deal with Ruda, who did whatever he wanted?
If the Chinese women's basketball team relies on its internal strength, in addition to being good at using fast breaks, they are also willing to settle down and play positional battles.
Then the Chinese men's basketball team is simply fast, simple accurate, and simply unreasonable.
This Chinese team has almost created a new world in basketball in terms of fast attack, counterattack, and shooting, but in fact, they are not unable to play position.
If the opponent is forced to switch to a small lineup to defend, as the Australian men's basketball team did in the second half, the Chinese team is very good at opening up the space, and then scoring through quick transfer and accurate shooting, or using the inside needle to still play a pleasing offense.
In this game, Australia's defense was almost ineffective, and the Chinese team scored more than 30 points in the first half just through fast breaks and counterattacks.
On one of the occasions, when Australia's attack failed, Rueda grabbed a rebound under the basket and barely paused, making a long pass directly to Li Yaguang who rushed to the frontcourt.
After receiving a pass from Ruda on the left side, Li Yaguang slapped directly to Song Tao on the right side, who took the ball and scored with both hands.
According to a rough estimate by the American media, the fast attack launched by the Chinese team this time took up to 3 seconds and only used 2 passes, which was really devastating.
This kind of "three-line fast attack" and "three-second attack" invented by the Chinese team have also become the symbol of the Chinese men's basketball team, of course, no matter how good the tactics are, they also need people to execute, and the Chinese men's basketball team in the original plane cannot use this fast attack to defeat the real strong team.
But now the Chinese men's basketball team is terrible in terms of personal ability, the Chinese team's fast-break scoring rate in this game has reached an astonishing 60%, and the most painful thing is that even if some of the Chinese team's fast-break failures, the insiders led by Ruda can also have a high chance of grabbing the frontcourt rebound.
This is where the Australian men's basketball team collapses, and the most explosive thing in basketball is that you finally prevent the opponent's shot, but the rebound is taken back by someone else's backhand, and then watch the opponent score an easy rebound under the basket.
This Chinese men's basketball team is such a mentality, Ruda uses his height, arm span and monster version of physical fitness, so that every time the Chinese team's shot misses, Australian players and fans will enter the most worrying stage, because they are too afraid that the rebound will be picked up by Ruda, but in the end, he can always get it.
In this game, Ruda only played 25 minutes, and his rebounding statistics reached 20, of which 9 were frontcourt rebounds.
In addition, under the leadership of Ruda, Huang Yunlong, Wang Libin, and Song Tao can always grab rebounds in the front court from time to time.
In the end, the Australian team, which exploded in mentality, was beaten by the Chinese men's basketball team with a humiliating 111:65, and the fiasco of up to 46 points made the Australian audience experience a nightmare that could not wake up, and the American and European audiences also had a chill of rabbit death.
Although Ruda, the villain, only played 25 minutes, he was still the monster who rampaged on the court and did whatever he wanted, and finally gave a 28 points, 20 rebounds, 6 assists, 5 blocks and 3 steals to Chinese fans, and finally was not compared to his girlfriend.
Of course, what made the men's basketball team a little unhappy afterwards was China's live broadcast, which actually moved to another venue after the first half, because the national football team was going to start the first game with Italy, an old rival in the World Cup, at another venue.
By the way, a total of 12 teams participated in the men's basketball competition in this Olympic Games, and the group stage was divided into two groups, and the top four of each qualified for the quarterfinals to form a knockout round.
The U.S. team and the Chinese team are in a group, in addition to being the starters to improve the ratings, it should also keep the two teams from meeting before the final.
Everyone knows that there is no suspense for these two teams to qualify from the group, but if they are divided into two different groups, then it is likely that they will meet in the semi-finals in advance, which is not the result that most people want to see.
Now that the two teams are in the same group, the format of the first and second teams in the same group will not meet before the final is actually an attempt to create a final of the confrontation between China and the United States.
There are 16 teams participating in football, so it is natural to divide into four groups to play the group stage, and then the top two teams in each group will qualify for the knockout round, and if you want to win the championship, you have to play a total of 6 games in 16 days, which is as unfriendly as basketball.
Group C of the Chinese men's football team is naturally another group of death, in addition to the bitter host Italy team in the World Cup, there are also two strong teams: Uruguay and Scotland.
Such an abominable grouping, such a terrible schedule.
The tactics of the Chinese team should be based on defensive counterattacks, and they would rather draw than lose points on Italy, but they obviously did not choose this seemingly rational arrangement.
The Italian team is determined to defend and counterattack, but it is not only the old tradition, but also because they really do not have the confidence to play against this Chinese team, and the last thing any team in this Olympic Games wants to encounter is the damn Chinese team.
Two years ago, the Italian elite did their best, and in the end they almost overturned on the Chinese team.
Almost all of Italy's top defenders are now out of action, and the proud backline can only play with a lot of spare tires at the moment.
But can this set-up of the second team be able to compete with a significantly stronger Chinese team than it was two years ago?