21. News of the National Games

For three days in a row, Fu Jun brushed the horses at the club and recorded the health of the horses at the same time.

Han Tianlin obviously did not fulfill his original promise to the personnel department, not only did he not come to help Fu Jun check the health of the horses, but also did not let Ma Kun help.

As for Robert, it is obvious that Han Tianlin can't command him, if he can, Han Tianlin can be a professor and become a full-time horse doctor in the club.

Therefore, Fu Jun is both medical and caring, tired and happy to take care of those horses.

Fortunately, because he can communicate with horses, Fu Jun can know a lot of insider things about the Wenhuai Lake Equestrian Club from the mouths of those horses.

Many times, because people in the club are not worried about the leakage of horses, they discuss the affairs of the club in private, gossip, insiders, and romance...... Anyway, these horses know a lot of things, although it is not complete, but it also opens Fu Jun's eyes.

Sure enough, the longer the company, the more internal things will be and the deeper the water.

On this day, the club received a notice from the Sports Bureau in the city that the selection of equestrian athletes in the National Games in Suzhou Province began, requiring the clubs in the city to submit the list of athletes and horses who signed up for the competition as required, and then carry out the elimination competition.

As soon as the news came out, Fu Jun clearly felt that the atmosphere of the entire Wenhuai Lake Equestrian Club became very excited, accompanied by some nervousness.

Of course, Fu Jun also understood why they were like this.

After all, because of the gambling nature of modern horse racing, after the founding of New China, although the state has been supporting sports horse racing, but there is no war against the Western model of commercial horse racing, gambling activities are expressly prohibited, coupled with the high cost of practicing equestrianism, so that many people stay away from horse racing, and some unspeakable reasons, so that domestic horse racing and foreign faults, once made people who love horse racing despair about the domestic horse racing industry.

It was not until after the reform and opening up that Western ideas and lifestyles once again profoundly influenced Chinese society, and the introduction and absorption of foreign advanced technologies and ideas in order to seek its own development as soon as possible became the main theme of the country, and the social, political and economic environment became more and more relaxed.

In this situation, wealthy horse racing enthusiasts across the country have built horse farms and equestrian clubs for their ideals, and many regional private sponsors have been launched to hold horse racing competitions to attract more people to participate in horse racing.

It's just that sports are always inseparable from gambling, and horse racing, an ancient sports gambling activity, once it begins to develop, will inevitably bring a thriving gambling industry.

The good thing is that in many areas, the horse racing industry has a reasonable allocation of funds, such as paying taxes, charity, prize distribution, etc., and has increased the number of jobs in many areas.

However, China is so big, some regions are on the right track to control horse racing, allowing more and more people to participate in the horse racing industry, while others are getting out of control, leaving many people bankrupt and their families ruined.

As gambling on private horse races has intensified in various places, even if it has had a positive impact on some regions, overall there are more negative aspects of horse racing gambling.

Not surprisingly, the state has chosen a one-size-fits-all approach, severely curbing horse racing gambling, but not the development of competitive horse racing.

However, judging from the mature modern horse racing experience abroad, people who like and participate in the horse racing industry are rarely those who love horses from the beginning, and they are more likely to love horse racing after betting on the champion and winning the prize.

It is those who love horses from the beginning, let them have more fun with horse racing on the basis of their love, and it is also in the blood of the horse racing competition, to bet on the horse race they support to win the championship, in the race to experience the thrill, to become a love for horse racing.

But at that time, the state banned horse racing and gambling, which naturally cooled down the horse racing fever that had just emerged in China, which also led to the collective closure of the equestrian clubs and racetracks that were established in those years, and only a few clubs survived in the struggle, and Tang Zhenshan's Wenhuai Lake Equestrian Club was a part of that period.

For many horse racers, it was another cold winter for the domestic horse racing industry, and the only thing that could make the horse racing industry attract Chinese people to participate was the National Games and the Olympic Games.

Even in 1982, China applied to join the International Equestrian Federation, and since that year has held a national equestrian championships every year, horse racing has been included in the official competition program of the national championships, but this kind of competition, which only has influence on people in the equestrian circle, is obviously not comparable to the influence of the National Games and the Olympic Games.

It's just that the tickets for equestrian athletes in the Olympic Games are not easy to get, and only in the Beijing Olympics can China have equestrian athletes get tickets to the Olympic Games.

In 2008, at the age of 18, Hua Tian qualified for the Beijing Olympics, becoming the youngest rider in history, but Hua Tian is not the first Chinese Olympic equestrian person, at the Beijing Olympics, Liu Lina from Xinjiang is the first Chinese rider to win an Olympic equestrian ticket.

In addition, the knights who represented China in the Beijing Olympics also included former government official Huang Zuping, as well as Li Zhenqiang, Zhang Bin, Zhao Zhiwen and others who also launched an attack on the Olympics.

Perhaps, this can be said to be a benefit for the hosts, so many Chinese equestrians at one time, the first time to enter the Olympic Games.

It's just that as a large country with a long history of horse breeding, the number of all horses in the world is the second, but the popularity of equestrianism is pitiful, which is so sad.

Before the Beijing Olympics, the only thing that the horse racers who had worked hard to persevere could feel that there was light in horse racing was the National Games.

Because, equestrian competitions began in the 6th National Games in 1987 and were included in the main events of the National Games, and before that, only in the 3rd National Games in 1975, equestrian appeared as a performance event.

However, there is obviously a big gap between the official competition and the performance project in terms of influence.

As for the reason why the 6th National Games belatedly listed equestrian as an official event, it was naturally that at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, for well-known reasons, China, which had been absent from the Olympics for a long time, once again stepped on the stage of the Olympic Games, but found that they did not have suitable equestrian athletes and horses that met the Olympic quarantine system to participate in the equestrian events.

The National Games is the highest-level and largest comprehensive sports meeting in China, which can naturally attract the attention of many Chinese people in China.

For the hard-working horse racers, during that time, only the National Games could give them great attention and attract more people to pay attention to horse racing, and only by letting more and more people pay attention to horse racing can the horse racing industry rise.

Therefore, in the hearts of many horse racers, even though many equestrian athletes and horses in China have been registered in the International Equestrian Federation, and more and more athletes are participating in the Olympic equestrian competitions, the National Games, in the hearts of many horse racers, is still very important because of the times, especially those horse racing practitioners who have come step by step in the Wenhuai Lake Equestrian Club.

That's why they were very excited when they heard the news, after all, the club has a chance to participate in the National Games.

Of course, for any ordinary Chinese athlete, the opportunity to participate in the National Games, the highest level of competition in China, will be very exciting.

However, there is only one quota for each purpose of Shanyang City to go to the province, and there are only three people to compete in the province, and in the end, there are only three people to go to each event, which is also very difficult, which is probably why they are nervous.