Chapter 163: Shocked Again? 【First Order 100+】
The news of Samaranch's personal participation in the Olympic Torch Relay made headlines in the mainstream media in Europe and the United States the next day.
The photo of him holding the flame high with his left hand and patting Kong Zhendong on the shoulder with his right hand is also popular in Europe and the United States.
Of course, European and American journalists write about the chicken soup for the soul of a 72-year-old man who cares for young athletes.
As for Kong Zhendong, he appeared as an ordinary unknown sparring partner, and became a background board for the elderly to pay attention to grassroots athletes.
shook a wave of coaches and brushed a wave of headlines, Kong Zhendong turned to keep a low profile within the team.
On July 25, the opening ceremony of the Barcelona Olympic Games kicked off at the Olympic Stadium.
As a sparring partner, Kong Zhendong is not qualified to enter with the athletes, but as a spectator, he is also fortunate to enjoy this grand event more comprehensively.
The most emotional scene of the whole opening ceremony took place in the lighting of the Olympic flame.
Lighting the flame is the finishing touch to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and it is a link that audiences around the world will remember and will compare for many years to come.
Kong Zhendong also wants to see how the most artistic Spaniards, the high-tech Europeans, will present this grand scene.
The light gradually dimmed, there was no sound or light, only a soft white light, slowly following a figure in the darkness.
It was a middle-aged man who was holding on to a wheelchair and moving forward alone.
In such a burning link, but the person who appeared was a disabled person?
The stadium screen begins to introduce the identity of this man: Antonio Repollo. Two-time Paralympic archery champion in '84 and '88.
Kong Zhendong was in awe, the para archery competition was not completed in a wheelchair, and Lei Polo was able to win the Olympic gold medal for two consecutive years, supported by prosthetic limbs, which is indeed worthy of admiration.
But what does he have to do with the lighting of the flame?
When all the audience members were confused, Repolo slapped the armrest of the wheelchair and stood up from the wheelchair. He took out his bow and arrow from the backpack in the back of his wheelchair, and walked hobbly but with unusual tenacity towards the tinder area.
At this time, the fire collection area was still using an open flame, a huge brazier.
Repolo walked to the brazier, raised the arrow in a dashing manner, threw it into the brazier and quickly picked it up, becoming a rocket.
Looking back, the rhinoceros looked at the moon and pointed at the Holy Fire Tower.
The Flame Tower is 21 meters high, seventy or eighty meters from Repolo.
Could it be that this disabled archer wants to use a rocket to ignite a torch tower more than 20 meters high 100 meters away?
In a movie special effects blockbuster, this is of course an easy task, but this is the lighting of the Olympic flame, and there can be no one in 10,000 mistakes.
Moreover, the Flame Tower looks huge, but the flames inside must be lit in turn.
Therefore, Repolo's rocket must not only shoot at the tower, but also the most correct small area to start the fire.
No matter how difficult it was, Repolo was still straight, his prosthetic leg trembling slightly, but his arm not moving.
With a swipe, the rocket slashed through the bright light, leaving a faint trail in the sky.
Boom! The flame lit up along the perimeter of the tower.
The applause at the Olympic stadium shook the sky. Kong Zhendong also applauded warmly. He was amazed by the creativity, the courage and the virtuosity.
The torch relay is a great inheritance, archery skills are also a great inheritance, the care for disabled athletes is a great feeling, and the practice of sports skills to the extreme is also feelings.
has been piercing the clouds and arrows, and thousands of troops have come to meet each other.
This rocket also ignited the competition for hegemony in the Olympic arena.
In this legendary land, the first legend was actually born in the Chinese team.
Zhuang Min, the queen of Chinese women's swimming and the first of the four golden flowers, actually won the gold medal in the women's 100-meter freestyle.
This is the first Olympic gold medal in the Chinese women's swimming sprint race, which is of domestic significance, and it cannot be overstated.
What shocked the world was the 100-meter freestyle, which is equivalent to the heaviest swimming gold medal in the 100-meter trapeze battle in the track and field competition.
The European and American media were silent, and for a while, they could not accept that the position of the strongest 100-meter swimming queen would be taken away by a Chinese.
But the miracle girls of the Chinese team obviously did not give European and American reporters a chance to breathe.
The next day, Qian Hong won the gold medal in the women's 100-meter butterfly and was crowned the latest butterfly queen.
On the third day, Lin Li won the gold medal in the women's 200-meter medley, and the women's medley needs to be breaststroke, butterfly, backstroke, and freestyle.
On the fourth day, Yang Wenyi won the gold medal in the women's 50-meter freestyle and became the fastest female flying fish in the world.
In four days, the strongest gymnastics, diving, and table tennis of the Chinese team have not yet started, and the swimming team, which has always had a total of zero gold medals, completely shocked the world.
Looking at the enthusiastic news releases that China has been happily transmitting to China in the past few days, Kong Zhendong realized that the encirclement and suppression of the foreign media will come soon.
The breakthrough of the Chinese women's team is exactly the same as the shocking results of the Asian Games in the capital two years ago.
But back then, China was the home field, not to mention the self-aggrandizing and self-centered problems of Europeans and Americans made them ignore the results of the Asian Games.
But this time it was different, it was in Barcelona, in the heart of Europe, on the highest stage in the world.
On the stage of the world's strongest swimmers, the four Chinese golden flowers actually crushed all the European and American masters? Can Europeans and Americans be willing?
On the fifth day, the Europeans and Americans came in a flood of open guns and hidden arrows.
The Japanese media also turned up the old accounts of the 90 Asian Games and added fuel to the fire.
The athletes of the Chinese team in various events are under tremendous pressure, and several important gold points are under excessive pressure and their performance is abnormal.
At this time, the veteran Wang Yifu showed the invincible spirit of a man and finally won the championship of the men's pistol.
All Chinese remember that the first Olympic gold medal was shot by shooting champion Xu Haifeng in 84. Who remembers who won the second Olympic gold medal?
If you don't check the information, 99.9% of people can't answer.
That's the charm of the first gold.
Wang Yifu's accidental failure in 88 postponed his inheritance of the Gun King for four years. Under the internal and external troubles, winning this gold medal, Wang Yifu also sat firmly on the throne of the new generation of gun kings.
It's a pity that Wang Yifu's gold medal is difficult to block the mouth of the European and American media, and the Chinese team still needs strong projects to determine the future.
On the fifth day of the Olympic Games, the table tennis women's doubles preliminaries took the lead, kicking off the entire table tennis competition.
Hyun Jeong-hak, the women's doubles gold medalist at the '88 Hanseong Olympics, will join her stronger partner Hong Ci-ok on the road to a strong title defense.
Xuan Jinghe, won the World Championships team championship, women's doubles championship, mixed doubles championship in this Olympic cycle, if she successfully defends her title in this Olympic Games, she will truly become the first person to break the Chinese team's women's table tennis hegemony.