30 August 2008, Hong Kong.

Early in the morning, thousands of Xiangjiang citizens gathered outside the Sha Tin City Hall to welcome the arrival of the mainland gold medal athletes of the Yenching Olympics with warm applause.

"Wow, there are so many people!"

As soon as he arrived at the door of the Sha Tin Town Hall, a small man beside Ye Qin couldn't help but sigh loudly.

"That's a lot of people!"

Ye Qin looked at the many spectators outside the door of the Great Hall, and for a while he didn't expect that so many people would arrive today.

"Ye Qin, I will estimate that you are the most popular one." The little man wearing the national team uniform standing next to Ye Qin said with a smile again.

"Brother Zhou, you are the same, there should be no one on stage and a boxing competition later."

Ye Qin replied with a smile that the little man standing next to him was none other than Zhou Shimin, the men's 48kg boxing champion at this year's Yenching Olympics, who was China's first boxing Olympic champion.

"Definitely not." Zhou Shimin smiled and looked at Ye Qin again, "Ye Qin, you are also coming to Xiangjiang for the first time. ”

"Well, it's the first time." Ye Qin nodded.

Zhou Shimin smiled, "I thought you had been here in the last Olympics, and in my impression I feel that you have been famous for a long time." ”

"Brother Zhou, I'm a few years younger than you."

Ye Qin listened to Zhou Shimin's interesting words, and shook his head again and again, as one of the members of the Yanjing Olympics in Hong Kong these days, the others are not very familiar, but they are familiar with Zhou Shimin, a cheerful boxer.

He is a little unfamiliar with Xiangjiang, this is the first time he has come, he has heard a lot of things about Xiangjiang, and he watched some Hong Kong films on TV in his hometown when he was a teenager, and his memory seems to have stayed there.

After I really came to Xiangjiang, I found that many of the film and television pictures I had watched could still be compared with the Hong Kong films in my memory.

It's just that the metropolis that felt particularly tall at the time will inevitably feel cramped now.

For example, although there are many high-rise buildings, the streets are still relatively compact, and the same is true for hotel rooms.

Ye Qin can also understand what Zhou Shimin means when he feels that he has been famous for a long time, and he finished sixth in the 200m after the last Olympics, although his results were already outstanding enough at that time, but as a gold medal team, he was not part of it.

The outstanding performance of the following World Championships has not been closely related to Xiangjiang, plus training and competitions, the time has been very tight, and I have not been able to come to Xiangjiang once.

"By the way, I heard the head of the regiment say, won't you go back to China with us then?" Zhou Shimin remembered this exchange trip and asked Ye Qin.

"Well, the day after tomorrow, I will fly directly from Xiangjiang to Lausanne." Ye Qin nodded, "Actually, if it weren't for this exchange group, I would have gone to compete after the Olympics." ”

"You're really, just finished the Olympics, so anxious to compete again."

"There are actually relatively few competitions this year."

Ye Qin said with a smile that this year, apart from the Olympics, he has not participated in many track and field events, and now that the Olympics are over, he can also relax and participate in other competitions.

Not to mention, he missed the Zurich Golden League and the Gateshead Grand Prix in the United Kingdom after the Olympics.

The only thing we can wait for now is the Grand Prix in Lausanne at the beginning of September.

The track and field competition is in August and September, in fact, it is relatively over, and there are not many competitions to participate in, but athletes including Yusse Both, Asafarville and Jason Gaby are already competing, and if he doesn't want to fall too much in the IAAF rankings, during this time, he still has to seize some opportunities to participate in the competition and brush up his points.

As for the present......

After each Olympic Games, the Olympic delegation will go to Hong Kong and Macao for exchange visits, which Ye Qin did not know much before, but he also knows some information in the delegation these days.

First of all, the delegation was invited by the two SAR governments and the Olympic Committee to visit Hong Kong and Macao. Secondly, after each visit of the Hong Kong and Macao delegations, the head of the delegation would mention that the purpose of the visit was to "report on the concern and support of Hong Kong and Macao compatriots for the sports undertakings and athletes in the Mainland, and share the glory and joy of the Olympic Games with Hong Kong and Macao compatriots." ”

The reason for the latter statement is that the main Hong Kong and Macao compatriots have given extremely important support to the mainland's sports undertakings.

In January, Hong Kong tycoon Fok Ying-tung donated HK$100 million to set up the "Fok Ying-tung Sports Fund". The "Fok Ying Tung Sports Fund" awards a 1,000-gram pure gold medal and US$80,000 to the Chinese gold medalist at each Olympic Games, a 250-gram gold medal and US$40,000 to the Chinese silver medalist at the Olympic Games, and a 150-gram gold medal and US$20,000 to the Chinese bronze medalist at the Olympic Games.

In fact, Fok Yingdong will also increase the prize money for Chinese athletes according to the different circumstances of each Olympic Games. For example, in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the "Fok Yingdong Sports Fund" awarded 2.4 million US dollars to Chinese athletes, but in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the "Fok Yingdong Sports Fund" awarded 32.59 million Hong Kong dollars, and even the substitute players of the Chinese women's volleyball team also received a reward of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars.

The prize money is nothing for athletes in top popular sports, such as Ye Qin and Liu Yangyu. However, for some unpopular athletes, in addition to the national team and provincial and municipal teams at all levels, it is the most important bonus, which plays a very important role in improving everyone's life. Moreover, it can also play an incentive role for latecomers.

Moreover, in addition to Mr. Fok's sports fund, another Mr. Tsang Hin-chi is also planning to set up a sports foundation to support China's sports undertakings.

The amount of donations is 100 million Hong Kong dollars, which will be used to reward the Yenching Olympics, the London Olympics and the Rio Olympics eight years later, and the amount of this Yenching Olympics alone will exceed 25.16 million Hong Kong dollars.

This money is not a particularly large amount for the development of China's sports industry, but the heart of boxing to support China's sports is beyond words.

On the other hand, the exchange of Olympic delegations to Hong Kong also has united front significance, enhancing the sense of identity and pride of the Hong Kong and Macao people in the motherland and enhancing cohesion.

For Ye Qin, these inner meanings are not what he needs to care about at this time, but when he appeared at the Sha Tin Town Hall and caused the shouts and applause of all the Xiangjiang citizens in the audience, it still made him feel that his trip to Xiangjiang was still very meaningful.

Four years ago, Liu Yangyu was the core figure of the exchange delegation to Hong Kong, and four years later Ye Qin, the two track and field athletes in the two delegations also made people see China's sudden rise in track and field.

At the Sha Tin Town Hall, several heavyweight athletes first shared their feelings with the audience, and soon started today's important exchange project - performing to the audience and playing games with the audience.

The 25-year-old Chongman, who won gold in the men's sabre individual competition at the Yenching Olympics this year, demonstrated his heroic posture of fencing tactics, and the audience applauded again and again. Then, Chen Ying, the women's shooting 25m sports pistol champion, and Guo Wenjun, the women's 10m air pistol champion, held prop pistols in their hands, revealing the secret of aiming, and posing as glamorous sharpshooters to take photos with the audience, which was even more exciting.

After that, the gold medal team, composed of three weightlifting champions, competed in a tug-of-war competition against eight spectators. The gold medal team lost to eight spectators with great effort, and finally, Lu Yong, the champion of the men's weightlifting 85 kg class, lifted a male spectator weighing 90 kg to show the strength of the strong man and save the face of the gold medal group.

The climax of the whole scene was the final sprint race, Zhou Shimin finally did not go on the court to have a boxing "friendly match" with the audience, but Ye Qin and several male and female spectators on the scene, engaged in an indoor 40-meter sprint race.

It's just that the way the game is played is that Yechin jumps on one foot, while several spectators run with all their might.

The final result was still an eye-opener for the citizens at the scene, and Ye Qin still won several spectators who played together despite having one foot.

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