Chapter 59: A good start
Because of this emergency, the end of the sacrificial activities is equivalent to the priests of the Olympic Organizing Committee to deal with it, and the athletes, from the opening ceremony to the closing ceremony, live in a fixed place for five days.
Yan Luo also didn't know Wang Dongwei, Zhu Xiaoyong, and more than 10 Athenian sages outside, whether the movement succeeded or failed, and what the final result was.
The athletes from each city-state lived together, but Yan Luo was given a separate room - he didn't understand why he had the privilege. In fact, the reason for this was the fact that the clothes were hacked and the priests gave compensation. In addition, living here is not without a price.
Under the pretext that "shoes are not allowed during the Olympic Games", a pair of sneakers was also taken.
Steal it!
The storage of heartless dolls is once again full of value.
This time, the emotion is 50 points of confusion and 50 points of shock, such emotions, if you create a personality mask I don't know what it is, the probability of success of emotional fusion of similar nature is very high, and there are only 2 kinds, but unfortunately it still failed.
It is comforting to know that this time there are 25% of the mask fragments, which is equivalent to getting 1/4 of the Heroic Soul Mask.
The next day, the sun rose.
A referee brought two things.
A small wooden box containing olive oil and a long strip of white linen.
Seeing these Yanluo, he understood that the movement to emancipate women was successful, linen was used as a crotch cloth, and olive oil was applied to the skin before the competition, which enhanced the reflection on the surface and made the muscle lines obvious, and even created some shadow effects to enhance the three-dimensional effect.
Taking off his robe, he smeared olive oil on his body, and his whole body was like that of a bodybuilder in some of the world's competitions, his skin greasy and shining, and then wrapped in linen.
Olympic Stadium.
The site is located near the Temple of Zeus, below the foothills of Knis, a natural grandstand on the slopes. When Yanluo walked into the stadium and looked up, he saw a dense crowd of people—and at a glance, he spotted Socrates and other Athenian sages.
Wang Dongwei and Zhu Xiaoyong are also there.
These people are sitting in VIP seats.
The grandstand can accommodate about 20,000 people and has 160 VIP seats, but now, the wall outside the hill has collapsed and it can accommodate even more people, and according to preliminary estimates, at least 40,000! Moreover, a large part of the northern part of the stands is all female spectators.
Last night, because of the procession, the occupation of the competition grounds, the political pressure of Athenian scholars such as Socrates, and the fear that the women in the city-state would cause a complete riot, the priesthood of the Temple of Zeus agreed to the women's request to watch the Olympics after difficult negotiations.
One slice of the stands is given to female spectators and can accommodate 10,000 people.
In order to prevent male dissatisfaction, tearing down the wall is equivalent to expanding the stands, so that what could only accommodate 20,000 people can now accommodate 40,000.
10,000 women, 30,000 men, a total of 40,000 viewers.
With so many female spectators, the athletes naturally wore crotch cloths, which can be regarded as a restoration of the characteristics of the original 14 Olympic Games.
No matter what happens, at least the Olympics are a grand festival once every four years, and the priesthood is to keep smiling on the surface, and the chief priests explain that the Olympics will restore the ancient rules, and then the ceremony will be held from the altar of Zeus, lighting the Olympic flame on the sports field.
Then, the first competition.
Strictly speaking, there are seven events in the current Olympic Games, but the horse and chariot races are show-like and held on the fourth day, and the only things that really attract the athletes are running, boxing, wrestling, dogfights and pentathlon.
Today is the second day of the Olympic Games, and the events are:
Pentathlon.
This category includes sprinting, long jump, discus throwing, javelin throwing, and wrestling, and after each event is completed, the winners move on to the next event, and only when each event is in the forefront, it is possible to win the final championship in the last event.
It is worth mentioning the discus throw and javelin, which often cause accidents due to the lack of safety precautions.
For example, throwing a discus to kill someone, and throwing a javelin to kill someone.
However, the Greeks believed that the athletes participating in the competition were the best warriors of each city-state, and if they could not even dodge the discus and javelins thrown by others, they deserved to die, so there was no trouble in smashing and inserting people to death in the competition.
In other sports, whether it is melee, boxing, horse racing and chariot racing, there are often fatalities, and it is "reasonable" to kill someone else during a match, which is somewhat similar to the future Roman gladiatorial sports.
Arcadia's No. 1 warrior, Corneru, kept Yanluo waiting in the wrestling match, and that's why.
Pentathlon, the order of competition is:
Discus, long jump, javelin, sprint, wrestling.
Wrestling is the most important thing, and only when you win in this event can you win the pentathlon.
The Greeks believe that the champion of the pentathlon must not only have the ability to run and jump as a warrior, but also have the ability to fight and a toned body, and only wrestling can best reflect the training results and competitive ability of an athlete.
There are not many athletes participating in this event, because five consecutive competitions are too physically exhausting, which will affect tomorrow, and more important races, boxing, wrestling, and melee.
Yan Luo signed up for all the events, and when he, as one of the pentathlon athletes, walked to the competition field under the guidance of the referee, in an instant, the praise and cheers of the entire stand almost converged into a huge wave.
"You've reached a milestone: participation in the Olympic Games."
"You've earned the title: Athlete."
This title, after wearing, you can specify a good "sport", such as running, long jump, etc., and the corresponding attributes during exercise become 1.1 times the original. If you choose to run, you will wear the title and your running speed will be permanently increased by 10%.
It's a pity that Yan Luo already has the title of bronze-level fierce general, and if he chooses one of the two, he can only give up.
The first thing that the spectators appreciate is the athlete's toned body, Yanluo's figure has made many women crazy in Athens, and now, the body surface is smeared with olive oil, and the sun shines on it to look extremely sexy and oily.
"It's Yanluo!"
Wang Dongwei and Zhu Xiaoyong, as well as the Athenian sages, discovered him, after all, among the more than 30 athletes participating in the pentathlon, he stood out too much.
"Come on!" The two shouted in the language of ancient Greece.
Hearing the voice, Yanluo put his hair on his hair, and set the mask of joy and sorrow to "joy", and then showed a smile in the direction of the stands, and suddenly ...... Many women's hearts seem to have melted.
"It's like a goblin."
Ancient Greece, there are legends of goblins, such as the beautiful sea goblin siren, according to legend, the siren has a bewitching face and a charming singing voice, Yanluo only wears a crotch cloth, and the streamlined muscles are smeared with olive oil, shining in the sun, just like a goblin out of the forest as fresh, elegant, beautiful and charming.
Forest Fairy!
In the sound of cheers and this frenzied atmosphere, Yan Luo stood quietly on the field, waiting for the referee to summon, and soon it was his turn.
There is not much difference between the discus throw here and the future, and the famous statue of the discus thrower is the work of the sculptor Milon of this period.
Milon is a very characteristic person, in addition to being a sculptor, he has also won six Olympic titles!
He once carried a calf to the stadium and ate it all in one day, and died about 10 years ago, the cause of death was that he saw a gap in the middle of a tree, and he was idle, and he stuck his hands in the crack of the tree, trying to break the tree in half, but his hand got stuck.
That night, a wolf came, his hand jammed and could not move, so the Olympic champion, sculptor, and even a politician: the general of the city-state of West Barris, this legendary figure was eaten by the wolf......
Yan Luo took the discus from the referee, made of copper, weighing only about 2kg, and it felt very light in his hand, after all, the dragon stick he fought was 62 pounds!
Thinking of the action of throwing the discus that he had seen on TV, Yanluo held the discus in his right hand and swung it back and forth on the side of his body to gather strength. After swinging back and forth a few times, the right leg kicks the ground violently, and the upper body is turned to the left, with the heel of the left foot as the axis, and the force drives himself to rotate three times.
Whether it is the priest of the Olympic Games, or the referee, or the spectators in the stands, no one has ever seen such a discus throwing action in this era! Yan Luo's graceful and handsome posture caused a burst of exclamations, and the spinning figure seemed to be dancing in the sun!
With this swirling centrifugal force, Yanluo's right hand swung forward, and the discus flew out!
"Oh......"
A large area of amazement in the stands, the trajectory of the discus flying out, both in arc and height, is perfect to the extreme! Obviously, it was a powerful throw!
However, the direction in which the discus is thrown ......
"Ahh
With a scream, the audience's eyes were fixed on the place where the discus fell, and suddenly a toothache-like inhalation sound sounded. I saw a muscular man wearing only underwear and a red cloak, holding the king's scepter, with his eyes wide open, lying motionless on the ground, with a discus in his head.