Chapter 20: The Fermentation of Turmoil

In Japan's newspaper system, Japan's five major newspapers, Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, and Nihon Keizai Shimbun, all have their own evening newspapers, as well as national specialized evening newspapers such as Hyundai Evening News and Fuji Evening News.

A large part of Japan's evening newspaper system is used to report the news of Asian countries, because Japan's location is relatively eastward, so Japan's morning newspaper has no way to report or reprint the media content of other Asian countries, but when the Japanese evening newspaper is typeset, the morning newspaper of other Asian countries has just been sold, so the Japanese evening newspaper can reprint and publish some of the latest news of other Asian countries on the same day, and it is precisely like this, the evening newspaper sells very well in Japan, and many office workers will buy a copy of the evening newspaper of the day when they get off work.

At this time, the online media in many Asian countries were just getting started, and foreign newspapers were still a very important way for Japanese media to obtain information. Among Asian countries, English-speaking Philippine newspapers, Singaporean newspapers, and Indian newspapers have become very important sources of information for Japanese evening newspapers, especially the Philippine media, whose consistent anti-China and pro-Japanese stance is even more popular with the Japanese media.

At this moment, in Tokyo, Japan, Nakayuki Tamai, deputy editor-in-chief of the Yomiuri Shimbun, is leaning back in his chair, carefully reading the newspaper of the day that has just been flown in from the Philippines.

"Is it arrogance or strength - China's 100-meter warrior will issue a declaration of victory", "Chinese athletes' fantasy: breaking the 100-meter Asian record", "Chinese athletes' threats: breaking the 100-meter Asian record in the Asian Athletics Championships! Several media outlets in the Philippines have reported on the Chinese athlete. Tamai Nakayuki put several reports side by side, lowered his head and thought for a moment, then picked up the phone.

"I'm Tamai Nakayuki, let Murayama-kun from the sports reporting team come to my office immediately, there are a few very interesting reports here, I think we can reprint them appropriately and add some comments."

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Today is not a very special day, but it is a very quiet day for most sports journalists in China, because there are no major competitions worth covering at home and abroad.

The US Open has just ended, and the China Open and Shanghai Masters will not be held until the end of the month; It's still early in the NBA game, and Da Yao is also on vacation; The Women's Volleyball World Championship is still two days away; Originally, there was a qualifier for the Football Asian Cup, but next year's Asian Cup will be held in China, and the national football team is the host and does not need to participate in the qualifiers. So recently entered a window period of the game, leaving the domestic sports media editors with nothing to do.

Wu Liang, as the editor in charge of the sports section of a well-known online media in China, naturally can't be idle, like his editors, so he focuses on the Asian Athletics Championships, which are not too eye-catching.

Wu Liang leaned lazily on the computer chair, looked at the results of the first day of the Asian Athletics Championships, and muttered to himself: "Liu Feiren did not participate in the 110-meter hurdles, and several other Olympic-level athletes of the national team did not participate. See what the foreign media has to say. ”

Wu Liang immediately searched for relevant reports from foreign media.

"Huh? Zhang Guan? I've never heard of this person! Running 100 meters? Want to break the Asian record? Wu Liang immediately noticed the local media in the Philippines and the media in Japan reporting on Zhang Guan.

"Foreign media are all negative reports, who is this Zhang Guan? I know that there is a Chen Jian in the 100-meter sprint in China, but where did this Zhang Guan come from. Wu Liang suddenly felt curious.

As a senior sports editor, Wu Liang still has a certain understanding of various sports, but as a track and field sprint event that is the weakness of the national team, there are not many highlights in ordinary times, and naturally there is no media attention, so Wu Liang does not understand the changes in the domestic track and field pattern.

"I'll have to find out who this Zhang Guan is." Wu Liang picked up the phone and prepared to use his personal network to find Zhang Guan's relevant information.

Wu Liang first thought of the query system for national-level athletes, which contains the basic information of national-level athletes, which is the first choice for checking athletes, so Wu Liang immediately called a member of his network, a network data officer of the General Administration of Sports.

A few minutes later, the other party sent back the email, and the information found surprised Wu Liang.

"National second-class athletes? This Zhang Guan is just a national second-class athlete! Wu Liang rubbed his eyes vigorously to confirm that he was not mistaken.

In this era, the athlete information database has just been established, and the qualification assessment of high-level athletes is not immediate, but is counted and updated every six months.

According to the selection standards for high-level athletes, athletes at the first level and above in track and field sprint events need to make electronic timing results in the official competition before they can be recognized, Zhang Guan broke the national record in the Asian Athletics Qualifiers, far exceeding the level of 10.25 seconds for international athletes, so he will definitely be recognized as an "international athlete", but the Asian Athletics Qualifiers are carried out in the second half of the year, and Zhang Guan's information will not be updated until the end of the year, so at this time in the athlete information database, Zhang Guan is also a national second-class athlete.

But this national second-level athlete gave Wu Liang infinite reverie.

"So many athletes in China are not qualified to enter the national team, let alone participate in the Asian Athletics Championships, how can he, a national second-level athlete, enter the national team, and why can he go abroad to compete? It's definitely a backdoor relationship. If this is reported, it will also be a big scandal in the domestic sports industry! I'm going to be the hero who exposes the shady scenes of sports! And because of Zhang Guan's remarks, it has caused so many negative reports in foreign media, which is also a very exciting news point! Thinking of this, Wu Liang suddenly laughed, in this window period of the game, if you can dig out a scandal in the sports world, you will definitely be able to greatly attract the public's attention. Wu Liang can even see that the bonus at the end of the year has increased.

So, Wu Liang immediately opened the document and typed out the titles one by one on the keyboard:

Outstanding Ability or Black-Box Operation? Level 2 athletes enter the national team to participate in the Asian Athletics Championships! 》

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What is the strongest skill of domestic online media editors?

"Copy" and "paste", of course.

As soon as Wu Liang's article was published, it immediately attracted the attention of his peers.

In the article, it was first introduced that there was a newcomer named Zhang Guan among the athletes participating in the national team this time, and after inquiry, he was only a national second-level athlete, and then questioned why the national second-level athletes could enter the national team and why they could represent the country in international competitions, and then reprinted some reports from the Japanese media and Philippine media, which was nothing more than that Zhang Guan's poor performance abroad, which caused negative reports from foreign media and smeared the Chinese people. And the subtext is that the selection of the national team is shady and has a black box operation. The article also posted a profile picture of Zhang Guan's national second-level athlete, and specially enlarged the date when Zhang Guan passed the national second-level athlete test.

On this day when there was no competition, the editors of the online media who saw this report suddenly became excited, and they were worried that there was nothing to report, and Wu Liang's article came down like a timely rain.

All reports involving the shady scenes of government departments are obviously very in line with the public taste of not knowing the truth, and at the same time, it is easy to arouse the passion of Internet trolls, and there is no legal responsibility for reprinting in these years, as long as a statement such as "the article is not responsible for reprinting" at the end, so in just three hours, more than a dozen online media reprinted Wu Liang's article. There are also some big Vs who have started to post relevant comments on their blogs.

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According to the schedule, Zhang Guan will compete in the preliminaries of the 4x100m relay in the morning, and participate in the semifinals of the men's 100-meter dash in the afternoon.

A total of 16 countries (regions) signed up for the 4x100m relay race, and the top eight overall finishes entered the finals. In this Asian project, the Japanese team has an absolute advantage, the Chinese team, Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia are the second echelon of Asia, Thailand, Qatar and Bahrain are rising stars in this project, and the Indian team and the Philippine team are purely here to play soy sauce.

Although the Chinese team is not in a group with the Japanese team, it is in a group with the equally strong Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia, in addition to Singapore, India, Uzbekistan, South Korea and Taiwan, China, the latter five teams are more difficult to enter the final with their strength.

On the track, Zhang Guan looked around at the athletes of other teams, and suddenly found a small black athlete standing in the preparation area, looking closely at his tracksuit with the flag of Saudi Arabia.

Zhang Guan approached Jian Chen and asked in a low voice, "Brother Chen, isn't this the Asian Athletics Championships, why is there a black man?" ”

Jian Chen glanced up: "You are talking about Habebe in Saudi Arabia, he is originally from Nigeria and naturalized in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia's sprinting prowess is not weak, and their local players Abdullah and Mubarak are both well-known Asian athletes, and if they have this Habebe, it will be even more powerful. Then again, you probably haven't played with African athletes, right? ”

Zhang Guan shook his head and replied, "No, this Habebe is the first black player I have ever met. ”

Chen Jian immediately explained in a low voice: "The advantages of black athletes in sprinting events are very obvious, especially the rhythm of the leg kicks is very fast, and the force of the kicks is very strong, which is incomparable to our Asian athletes. But then again, when you add up your speed, the rhythm is a lot like that of a black competitor. ”

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