Chapter 117: Tokyo Olympics
The regular season is officially over, and the offseason has arrived......
Under normal circumstances, Meng Xiaohao should enjoy his offseason, after all, the first salary has been paid, and with the endorsement fees of Gatorade and other brands, although Meng Xiaohao has not earned as much as those big names this year, he still earns a lot.
But Meng Xiaohao didn't have the heart to enjoy the offseason, there was one thing that bothered him for a long time.
In 2020, it was the Tokyo Olympics......
Meng Xiaohao is eager to represent China in the Olympic Games, become a member of the Chinese team, and help the national team achieve excellent results in the Olympic Games.
But the Chinese national team did not recruit him, which made Meng Xiaohao very incomprehensible, Meng Xiaohao reacted to the Chinese Basketball Association more than once, saying that he loved the country and hoped to participate in the Olympic Games, but the Basketball Association refused.
Meng Xiaohao asked the reason, and the reasons given by the Basketball Association made Meng Xiaohao very speechless, first, Meng Xiaohao is still a little young, and the country wants Meng Xiaohao to exercise again in the North American League.
This, Meng Xiaohao is understandable, Meng Xiaohao admits that he is very young, although the North American league is a little higher than the level of the Chinese professional league, but the current Chinese team has no shortage of powerful players, so that Meng Xiaohao is exercising in the international arena, it is indeed a good decision.
But the second reason is unacceptable to Meng Xiaohao, the second reason given by the Basketball Association is because Meng Xiaohao had a great impact on the intra-team contradictions of the Fortune Team, and the Basketball Association hopes that Meng Xiaohao will reflect on it.
This made Meng Xiaohao not understand very much, and it was not that he wanted to contradict him, but that he was short-sighted and arrogant, so it caused this consequence.
But now that the Basketball Association has said the reason, Meng Xiaohao is not saying anything, in the next time, exercise hard in the North American League, and then collect his own temperament, the 2024 Paris Olympics, the list of the Chinese national team, should have its own name.
But Meng Xiaohao is still very disappointed that he did not enter the national team, after all, he especially wants to play for the Chinese national team and win an Olympic medal for the country, but he did not enter the squad, which also made Meng Xiaohao lost for a while.
Although he can't enter the national team, he must not miss the national team's games, so Meng Xiaohao decided that he would take his mother to Tokyo to watch the game in person in this year's Olympic Games.
So from the beginning of the offseason to the opening of the Olympic Games, Meng Xiaohao did not stay in China for too long, and most of his time was spent in the United States, where he conducted physical training.
Meng Xiaohao's friends, Brooke, Sarid and Siwell, all received a call-up from the U.S. national team to participate in the Tokyo Olympics, and Meng Xiaohao, who heard the news, couldn't help but feel a little envious and jealous.
And Eddick did not receive a call-up from the U.S. national team, sure enough, among these people, those who entered the playoffs were called up by the national team, and those who did not enter the playoffs became pitiful.
But Edik didn't have a sad face like Meng Xiaohao, he was very indifferent when he heard the news, and there was no expression on his face, as if everything was in his expectations.
So, naturally, Meng Xiaohao's American special training is with Edik. Andry, of course, was also trained with Edric.
Adrick also did not receive an invitation from the U.S. team, so Meng Xiaohao appeared in this physical strengthening training in the United States.
On the other hand, on the European side, Lucas undoubtedly received a call-up from the French team and became a member of the French national team, because of his outstanding performance in international competitions and the North American League, Lucas has a very high status in the French national team and speaks very weightily.
Meng Xiaohao's physical training this offseason is mainly based on physical strength, Meng Xiaohao has played for a season, and he has also seen where his shortcomings are, weight, is his defect, so gaining weight is what Meng Xiaohao must do.
But Meng Xiaohao also wants to ensure that after he gains weight, it will not affect his speed, after all, in the first season, Meng Xiaohao's speed has surprised too many people, so Meng Xiaohao has a big advantage now, and he must not lose it.
Meng Xiaohao and Adrick began physical enhancement training a week after the end of the regular season, and before the Olympics, it was more than a month.
In the past month or so, Meng Xiaohao has mainly gained weight, although it is only a month, Meng Xiaohao's changes are not obvious, but Meng Xiaohao himself can feel that his body is changing.
As time passed, on July 24, 2020, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, began......
Meng Xiaohao took his mother to Japan on July 10, Meng Xiaohao first took his mother around some cities in Japan, went to Osaka, went to Nagoya, and finally arrived in Tokyo on July 20, and then went to Akihabara, Tokyo, where Meng Xiaohao had dreamed for a long time
There are a lot of people in Tokyo, not only Japanese people and people from neighboring China and South Korea, but also people from European countries and American countries who come to Tokyo, and they definitely can't focus on the same sport, but this is enough to show the charm of the Olympic Games.
Meng Xiaohao doesn't have to worry about the problem of living, because Meng Xiaohao booked a very good hotel in Tokyo for a long time in advance, of course, it is very good, it means that there is a lot of money, although Meng Xiaohao has earned a lot, but when he spends money, there is still a little pain in his heart.
Of course, the money in the hotel is also a small amount of money, but the ticket money is a lot of money, just the tickets for the opening ceremony of Meng Xiaohao and his mother on the 24th cost Meng Xiaohao nearly 20,000 yuan, because Meng Xiaohao bought a relatively high position, a ticket is 1.6 million yen, equivalent to nearly 10,000 yuan.
Of course, Meng Xiaohao also bought a lot of tickets for basketball games, and the Chinese team and the American team, all in all, cost Meng Xiaohao a lot of money.
Although Meng Xiaohao was distressed, Meng Xiaohao was willing to spend it, after all, he brought his mother here, so Meng Xiaohao felt that it was worth spending this money.
Of course, Edric and Eddick also brought their families to Tokyo to watch the games, after all, the Olympics is also a grand event for people who love sports around the world, how can people like them not come?
The three of them also met in Tokyo, and it would be a very happy thing to meet friends in a foreign country.
Although Japanese basketball is not very good, the Japanese still like basketball very much, so many Japanese fans will be very excited to take a group photo when they see the three of them.
Of course, in Tokyo, in addition to the Japanese, there are also people from various countries, many of them love basketball and sports, so they are very excited to see Meng Xiaohao and the three of them, and it is normal for them to take photos and sign autographs.
Seeing this momentum, the media that came to cover the Olympics also interviewed Meng Xiaohao and the three of them, and even asked the three of them to guess which team could become the basketball champion of this Olympic Games, but the answers of the three were very unified......
United States.
Although many countries are now very strong in basketball, they have the strength to win the championship, but to really calculate, the United States is still the most powerful, as the birthplace of basketball, the basketball culture and history of the United States are unshakable, in fact, although the United States basketball is a hodgepodge of basketball on all continents of the world, it is better to say that basketball on all continents of the world is the various branches of American basketball.
The Tokyo Olympics are about to begin, and this is the one thing Meng Xiaohao is most looking forward to in the off-season, and now the Olympics are about to begin......
The curtain opens, and the heroes compete for supremacy!
(End of chapter)