In the large conference room of the Athletics Management Center, 53 track and field athletes from the Athens Olympics gathered here.

On the rostrum, Director Luo, the leader of the national team's Olympic track and field delegation, was introducing some on-site arrangements for the Olympic Games to the athletes.

"Due to the large number of participants, the athletes of our country mainly arrived in Greece in three batches, and the first batch is the sailing and windsurfing team, rowing, kayaking team, women's football and gymnastics team, among which the athletes of the sailing and windsurfing team, rowing, and kayaking have arrived in Athens, after all, water sports are greatly affected by wind and waves, so they must arrive early to adapt to training."

"The second group is a large group, which will arrive in Athens on August 8 by special plane, and will be in this batch of table tennis and badminton, weightlifting, diving, swimming, archery, boxing and so on. Men's basketball players are taller and take another flight to Athens. The first two batches of athletes will arrive in Athens before the start of the Games on 13 August. ”

"As for our athletics team, we were scheduled to go to Athens in the last batch. We don't have a special plane, we need to take a plane by ourselves, and we will be divided into three teams according to the principle of proximity. I will lead the team from the capital and transfer to Athens via Frankfurt; The team departing from Huangpu was led by Coach Sun and transferred to Athens via the Netherlands; The team departing from Huacheng was led by Coach Sha and transferred to Athens via Hong Kong. Depending on the flight, it will arrive in Athens between August 17 and August 19. ”

"The other thing I would like to say is to attend the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympics. At the opening ceremony, our delegation is going to form a phalanx, some of the athletes are recommended by the organization, and other athletes can also sign up independently if they want to participate, so do any of us want to register? ”

It is a very honorable thing to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, but at the same time, it is also a very tiring thing, and the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games has to go through many rehearsals in advance, which will consume a lot of time. The opening ceremony is scheduled for 9 pm to 12 pm on the 13th Athens time, and if you count the return time, it is estimated that it will be tossed until three or four o'clock in the morning.

The opening ceremony consumes a lot of energy from athletes, so many athletes will not choose to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in order to avoid affecting the state of the competition.

In addition, Director Luo has just said the transportation plan of the track and field delegation, if you sign up for the opening ceremony, it means that you have to go to Athens several days in advance, which is equivalent to breaking away from the collective of the track and field delegation.

And arriving in Athens ahead of the organization, not to mention food, clothing, housing and transportation, training alone is also a big problem, as a professional athlete, not training for a day may affect the state, let alone for several days in a row.

Therefore, when Director Luo asked if anyone wanted to sign up for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, none of the athletes in the stadium raised their hands.

Seeing that no one raised his hand, Director Luo nodded with satisfaction, and he didn't want an alternative in his team.

At this moment, an athlete sitting in the back row suddenly raised his right hand and shouted, "I want to sign up for the opening ceremony!" ”

Dozens of people in the conference room were all stunned, and then collectively looked back and found that it was Zhang Guan who raised his hand.

"Huh......" Director Luo was speechless, he didn't expect that there was such an ignorant athlete at all, and this ignorant athlete was also one of the benchmark figures in the track and field delegation.

But then Director Luo thought about it, Zhang Guan is only eighteen years old this year, even if he is a big child, and he has only played one international competition, it is normal to be full of curiosity about things at this age.

"Zhang Guan, I'm afraid you don't know yet, it takes a lot of time to participate in the opening ceremony, you have to get up early and be greedy for darkness, rehearse in advance, and just walk around the stadium several times." A coach in the front row reminded.

"Yes, our athletics team won't arrive in Athens until a few days after the opening ceremony, and you'll have to stay in the Olympic Village by yourself...... another coach said.

"It's okay, it's just time to familiarize yourself with the playing field and the local environment. And I think it's a great honor to be able to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, especially to participate in the athletes' team and represent the motherland in front of the world, which is a great honor for me. Zhang Guan replied.

The people who originally wanted to dissuade Zhang Guan suddenly shut up, but they didn't expect Zhang Guan to set the tone so high all of a sudden, and even said that he represented the motherland, which rose to the height of ideological consciousness, how could others persuade him.

When Zhang Guan first signed up, everyone thought that Zhang Guan was young and curious and not familiar with the world, so a few more senior coaches sitting in the front row would persuade him, but when he heard Zhang Guan say this, it was obvious that he had premeditated his desire to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Director Luo sighed helplessly, as Director Luo, he naturally couldn't change his words, since Zhang Guan raised his hand in public to register, then Director Luo could only agree, and asked Zhang Guan to fill out a registration form and report to the Olympic delegation.

The official in charge of propaganda at the Youth League headquarters quickly gave an approval and agreed to Zhang Guan's participation in the athletes' team at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

The opening ceremony athlete phalanx gives priority to the selection of famous and good image athletes, the name of Asia's No. 1 flyer, so that Zhang Guan's registration will not be rejected, not to mention that Zhang Guan himself is also a big man of more than 1.9 meters, and he also has an advantage in the overall image when he is in the queue.

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The next day, Zhang Guan went to the bank to change some euros, and took out all the euros in the bank card, and now Zhang Guan's euros add up to more than 160,000.

The maximum face value of the euro is 500 yuan, so 160,000 euros is a little more than three yuan, and a larger envelope is also loaded, and it can be easily stuffed into the mezzanine of the carry-on bag.

According to customs regulations, there is a limit on carrying foreign currency abroad, but the Olympic team took an Air China Boeing 747 special plane, and the customs released it all the way, so Zhang Guan successfully brought so many euros in cash into the plane.

At that time, the handling fee for cross-border withdrawals was much higher than ten years later, and the international credit card giants were also trying their best to contain UnionPay, resulting in the international credit cards handled by domestic UnionPay at that time could not be used in many places, and at this time, the limit of cross-border withdrawals by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange was 5,000 yuan per day, not the US dollar, but the national currency, which can be said to be pitiful, and it was changed to 10,000 per day in 2008. The cross-border withdrawal limit has also been gradually increased to 100,000 yuan per day.

It is precisely because of various restrictions that Zhang Guan chose to carry euro cash directly, in fact, at that time, the vast majority of people also carried foreign currency cash when they went abroad, and the entire Olympic delegation, except for those big-name athletes who often go abroad, basically carried cash.

There is no direct flight from the capital to Athens, if you take a civil airliner, you need to transfer, this time the Olympic delegation is a chartered plane is a direct flight, so it only took more than six hours to arrive in Athens.

The time difference between Athens and the capital is five hours, with flights departing at 2 p.m. capital time and arriving in Greece at 3 p.m. Athens time. The Athens Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games has provided a special "Olympic family" channel for the participating countries to go through customs procedures there, and the University of the Olympic Village has already stayed in the closed parking lot of the airport, and the athletes will go to the University of Barcelona and go straight to the Olympic Village after leaving the airport.

The delegation did not hold any ceremonies at the airport, nor did it contact the media, an arrangement that undoubtedly disappointed the waiting reporters, who had more than 200 reporters waiting at the airport that day, and could only take pictures of some athletes pulling suitcases across the road.

Located at the foot of a mountain, the Olympic Village at the Athens Olympics is divided into accommodation and international areas, both of which have access restrictions, with only athletes, officials and Olympic Village staff allowed access.

Most of the buildings in the accommodation area are three-storey, with an apartment-like layout, in addition to the living room, each apartment has four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a balcony, which is actually a four-bedroom, two-bathroom and one-living room layout. There are two beds in each of the bedrooms, which means that one apartment can accommodate eight athletes.

There are also facilities such as a hospital, a religious service centre and a library, all of which are free of charge.

Next, Zhang Guan will participate in the rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Before the arrival of the athletes, the Athens Olympic Organizing Committee has held a number of rehearsals for the opening ceremony, including the rehearsal of the opening performance, the rehearsal of lighting and sound, the rehearsal of the torch relay, the rehearsal of the ignition, etc., the Olympic Organizing Committee requires that only some athletes can be sent to participate in the rehearsal of the athletes' entrance ceremony, but the flag bearer of the square team must participate in the rehearsal.

Since the boss of the men's basketball team is going to participate in the rehearsal, all the members of the men's basketball team will naturally follow the boss to participate in the rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

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Rehearsal day at the Olympic Stadium in Athens.

As soon as he got out of the car, Zhang Guanyi grabbed the interpreter of the team and said, "My stomach hurts, I have to go to the bathroom to squat for a while, you can help me ask for a leave!" ”

"It's okay, go back and let the team doctor show you?" The interpreter asked.

"It's okay, it's just a little uncomfortable." Zhang Guan said.

The translator nodded, it is normal to have diarrhea symptoms two days before going abroad because of water and soil adaptation, and Zhang Guan is not the only one who has diarrhea. He pointed to a sign in the distance and said, "Don't get lost, we'll gather there after the rehearsal in a while, it's that sign, if you can't find us, just wait there, don't run around." ”

"No problem, don't worry, you can't lose it." Zhang Guan said as he grabbed his stomach and rushed into the bathroom not far away.

A few minutes later, seeing that the rehearsal teams had entered the stadium, Zhang Guanyou quietly slipped out, took out a tourist map of Athens, looked at it carefully, and then quickly disappeared into the crowd.

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