Chapter 84: London, I'm Coming
After returning to the training base of the provincial team, Feng Quan found Yue Wenjun and handed over the Apple 4S mobile phone he had purchased to him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the evening, Feng Quan went to the nearest Internet café to the training base and downloaded a software for Internet calls.
After completing the download, Feng Quan entered a phone number in the Internet phone software, which he had known for a long time, but had never dialed.
"Hello, are you Miss Wang Sinan?" Feng Quan wore a headset and pinched his nose with his right hand and said.
"Yes, I'm Wang Sinan, who are you?" Wang Sinan's puzzled voice came from the headset.
"Oh, I'm here on the Lucky 365 website, congratulations on winning the first prize ...... in the big draw on our website"
Before the weird Feng Quan could finish speaking, he was interrupted viciously by Wang Sinan: "Okay, okay, do you want me to pay any personal income tax, or handling fees or the like to send me the prize?" If so, I can tell you, my aunt has no money! ”
Feng Quan smiled helplessly, and said in his heart: "What kind of sin have I created...... I wanted to give someone a gift, but I was misunderstood as an Internet fraudster. Hey, no way, who says they like people......"
"Hehe, Miss Wang, you misunderstood. There is no cost to participate in the sweepstakes on our website. All you need to do is reply to 10086 with the word 'satisfied' after receiving a prize from our website. Feng Quanqiang said with a smile.
After "making the call", Feng Quan came to a nearby express outlet. put the Apple mobile phone in an express package, and after writing down Wang Sinan's address, it was handed over to the courier brother.
After glancing at the address on the package, the courier brother glanced at Feng Quan with a surprised expression, scratched the back of his head and said, "Dude, this place you want to send, walk from us, at most, it will take less than half an hour." You ......"
Feng Quan smiled helplessly and said, "Hey, let me tell you the truth, this recipient is the goddess in my heart, but she hasn't accepted my confession yet." So if I had sent it to him myself, she wouldn't have accepted it. ”
Listening to Feng Quan's words, there seemed to be tears flashing in the eyes of the courier brother.
"Dude, it's all men, I know. This piece, brother will help you deliver it tonight. ”
The courier brother thought that Feng Quan would be grateful for his "righteous act", but he never thought that Feng Quan would say eagerly: "Don't, don't!" I almost forgot about it, and you'd better send it to her in three days. ”
The courier brother's eyes looked up and down at Feng Quan, a guy who "behaved abnormally", and a trace of doubt appeared in his heart: "This guy won't send a time bomb because the other party doesn't accept him, right?" No, if it's a time bomb, the sooner you send it, the better......"
After looking at it for a while, the courier brother suddenly shouted: "You are Fengquan, right!?"
Feng Quan hurriedly covered the courier brother's mouth, and at the same time put his index finger to his mouth and made a silent gesture.
"No wonder, I just saw that you looked familiar. Hey, why am I so stupid, the provincial team's training base is near here, and your mailing address is there, how can I react. The courier brother said in a low voice. Brother, you sign for me, and I'll give you this order for free. Moreover, whatever day you say, I will deliver it to ...... when you say it."
After signing for the courier brother, Feng Quan walked out of the courier outlet with joy on his face.
"Hey, it's a good feeling to be a celebrity. Even the courier fee was saved ......"
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On the second day after returning to the provincial team's training base, Feng Quan threw himself into hard training.
A week later, Feng Quan received an invitation from the IAAF Diamond League Organizing Committee in Oslo, Norway, hoping that he could go to the 100-meter trapeze again to compete. However, since participation has already been confirmed, the National Athletics Grand Prix Finals will be held two weeks later.
Therefore, although Feng Quan himself wanted to go over to "make some extra money", but under the promise of the Provincial Sports Bureau to "reward 100,000 yuan as long as he breaks the Asian record in the finals", Feng Quan finally "declined" the invitation of the Diamond League Oslo Organizing Committee.
Sure enough, stimulated by the 100,000 prize money, Feng Quan defeated all domestic masters in the finals of the National Track and Field Grand Prix held in late June without suspense and won the championship. And with a time of 9.97 seconds, he broke the Asian record of 9.99 seconds set by Qatari naturalized athlete Francis in 2007.
Soon after the finals of the National Track and Field Grand Prix, major domestic TV stations, as well as major domestic portals and post bars, carried out overwhelming positive reports on the incident of Feng Quan breaking the Asian record in the 100-meter sprint.
Previously, when Feng Quan's match at the SH station of the Diamond League ended, the reporters who had labeled Feng Quan as "arrogant and arrogant" also switched sides and joined the torrent of "singing praises to virtue".
After being torn off the label of "arrogant and arrogant", Feng Quan was relabeled as "Asia's No. 1 Flying Man" and "Yellow Miracle" for a while.
Not only that, but some good things that Feng couldn't think of before also found the door by himself......
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On the second day after returning to the provincial team training base, Feng Quan and Yue Wenjun were called to the conference room of the base.
It turned out that as early as after Feng Quan won the championship of the 100-meter race at the SH station of the Diamond League, a number of large domestic companies have approached the Provincial Sports Bureau, hoping that Feng Quan can sign a contract with them and become their brand spokesperson.
However, because of the fear that it would affect Fengquan's Olympic preparations, the Provincial Sports Bureau temporarily suppressed the signing of the contract.
But who would have thought that Feng Quan would break the Asian record in the National Track and Field Grand Prix Finals. Now, not only have many large domestic companies wanted to sign a contract with Fengquan, but even some internationally renowned sports brands have also joined the team that signed a contract with Fengquan.
Because once Fengquan becomes the spokesperson of some companies or brands, then both the Provincial Sports Bureau and the Athletics Management Center will become a link in the entire chain of interests. Therefore, under the "urging" of the field management center, the provincial track and field team decided to have a simple communication with Fengquan first, and then select a few from many candidate companies to sign a contract.
At the beginning, when Feng Quan heard that there were many large domestic and foreign companies vying to sign contracts with them, he was still very excited. Although after signing contracts with these companies, except for the part that needs to be handed over to the field management center and the provincial team, he can only get 50% of the money at most. But even so, it is still a lot of income for Feng Quan.
However, after a short period of excitement, Feng Quan thought of a person, Liu Xiang, who was once the first person in the world's 110-meter hurdles event.
The most fundamental reason why Liu Xiang fell into injury trouble after the peak was that he signed too many companies, so he had to frequently participate in various business activities, which led to his long-term inability to train systematically. Eventually, it led to frequent injuries.
Thinking of this, Feng Quan put forward his own requirements to the leaders of the Provincial Sports Bureau.
"For the time being, I would like to sign a maximum of five contracts, one of which must be an internationally renowned sports brand, so that my training and competition equipment will be guaranteed. The other four contracts, I hope and preferably some large companies that are internationally renowned. And, regarding these signings, I only want to sign a one-year contract at the moment, and only two years at most. After a pause, Feng Quan continued: "Finally, there is a requirement that each company can only participate in their business activities at most twice a year. If these requirements cannot be met, then nothing is to be said. ”
As soon as Feng Quan's words fell, the faces of the leaders of the Provincial Sports Bureau showed a look of displeasure. The heart said: "A little hairy child, still talk to me about the conditions here?" I really don't know how many pounds and taels I have. However, when I thought that after Feng Quan signed the contract, the Provincial Sports Bureau could also get a lot of economic benefits, and now that "this kid" is in the limelight, it is better not to tear his face with him. So the leader nodded and agreed to Feng Quan's request.
"Well, the province will find professionals to negotiate with these companies, and in a week we will select some candidate companies from them, and we will contact you then......"
In fact, the reason why Feng Quan only wants to sign a contract for the next year is completely for his future. He knows very well that with the help of the system, even if he can't win gold again in London, he can at least hit the podium. For a country like China, where track and field events are not well developed, even if it only wins a bronze medal, its weight is almost equivalent to winning the championship in other events.
Once Feng Quan performs well in the Olympic Games, its commercial value will inevitably be greatly improved. When the time comes, if you sign a contract with other companies, you will definitely be able to obtain greater economic benefits.
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Because Feng Quan put forward the requirement of "only signing for one year", more than half of the companies that wanted to sign a contract with him before chose to give up. Even so, the "professionals" of the Provincial Sports Bureau effortlessly selected 10 companies as candidates for Fengquan.
Although these 10 companies accepted Fengquan's request to "sign for only one year", at the same time, they also wanted to add a clause to the contract that "the company has the right of first refusal to renew the contract if the contract conditions are equal". Feng Quan also has no objection to this clause.
Since these companies are candidates who have been carefully screened by "professionals", there is no problem with the company's brand influence and reputation, so when selecting 4 non-sports brand companies, Fengquan selected the 4 companies with the largest contract amount.
In terms of the selection of sports brand companies, Adi and Naike withdrew from the bid after learning of Fengquan's requirement of "only signing for one year". As a result, only one domestic brand and one RB brand were left to participate in the bidding. In the end, when the quotations of the two companies were almost the same, Fengquan chose RB Company, which has the reputation of "King of Running Shoes", to provide him with equipment for the London Olympics.
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In July, Feng Quan, along with a number of other provincial track and field athletes, traveled to the capital for the final preparations before the start of the Olympic Games.
At the end of the month, nearly 80 athletes and coaches of the Chinese track and field team, led by Director Du, the leader of the athletics management center, boarded a flight to London. At this point, Feng Quan is about to start his first Olympic journey in his life......
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Thanks to the book friend for the tip of the mouse on the fence.