Chapter Twenty-Three: The Favorite to Win the Championship

Paris, France.

Pierret, editor of the Paris Journal newspaper, is preparing to write a predictive analysis about the 100-meter flyer at the Olympic Games.

For sports journalists, in addition to their own analysis, there is another important way to predict the outcome of the game, that is, the odds offered by major spinach companies. No matter how powerful a sports reporter is, he only has one head, and the spinach company has a group of professional intelligence personnel and data analysts, and there is also a professional computer system to calculate the odds, so the spinach company's odds can intuitively reflect the prediction of the results.

Many of the professional predictions of so-called senior sports reporters are based on the odds of the spinach company, and they make a detailed set of predictions and analyses based on the odds set by the spinach company. This kind of reverse analysis is always much easier than positive analysis.

"I remember that a Chinese ran into the semifinals, it's incredible, it's hard to imagine that a yellow person can compete with a black man!" Pieret thought as she clicked lightly.

"Let me see the odds set by Spinach for the 100-meter flyer. The first odds are ......" Pierret's eyes widened sharply, and he exclaimed incredulously: "Guan-Zhang? That Chinese! ”

The computer screen shows that Zhang Guan's odds to win the championship are 2 to 1, the defending champion Morris Green is 2.5 to 1, and the rest of the people such as Gatlin, Crawford, Powell and others are all priced between 2.5 to 3.5 to 1. If you look at this odds, Spinach is obviously the most optimistic about Zhang Guan winning the championship.

Pierret's first reaction was that the spinach company came out of the oolong, although a Chinese played very well in the previous competition, a dark horse posture, but how can he become the biggest favorite to win the championship! Pierret immediately entered the website of a British spinach company, and after checking the odds, he found that Zhang Guan's odds to win the championship were still 1 to 2, ranking first among all athletes.

"Oh my God? What's going on? Are all spinach companies optimistic that Chinese will win the 100-meter championship? Pierrett was taken aback, but immediately realized that this was a good news point.

A country with track and field sprint strength at the bottom of the world, a Chinese athlete who has never been favored before the game, is actually regarded by Spinach as the biggest favorite to win the 100-meter dash, what Morris Green, Justin Gatlin, Asafa Powell, etc., the odds are higher than Zhang Guan! This is simply the plot of the scum at the bottom of the society suddenly reversing the rich and handsome overnight! Exciting enough, bloody enough! The key is to have a selling point!

Pierrett immediately deleted the original title, and instead knocked down another title: "Chinese Players Fight the Biggest Favorites in the 100-meter Flyer!" 》

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Almost no one of the U.S. Olympic delegation lives in the Olympic Village, and although the star hotels in Athens are very expensive during the Olympics, they are nothing for Americans with deep pockets. For example, the American basketball team is full of NBA superstars, with an annual salary of one or two million US dollars, and naturally they have to live in the most luxurious hotels to show their status.

And the U.S. track and field team also doesn't have to crowd into the Olympic Village. Track and field has always been a major gold medal event for the United States, and the U.S. track and field team has the world's top sponsors, so the U.S. track and field team is not short of money. Since you have money, you naturally want to live in a star-rated hotel and enjoy the best service.

At the moment, Maurice Green is in the hotel's restaurant, occupying a table by himself, enjoying the best lunch in Athens. At a table not far from him was his teammate Justin Gatling, who obviously couldn't stand Green's stinky fart personality and didn't want to eat at the same table with Green.

Sean Crawford came from a distance, still holding a newspaper in his hand. When Gatlin saw Crawford, he immediately waved at him and motioned for Crawford to sit down, but Crawford smiled at Gatlin, shook his head slightly, and then walked to Green's table.

"How could Sean be over there, Morris! Nine times out of ten, Morris will make a fuss about yesterday's loss to the Chinese! Gatlin secretly sweated for Crawford.

"Sean, you have to eat more today, or you will lose to the Chinese in a while!" Hahaha...... "Green didn't forget to sarcastically mock Crawford at breakfast.

"You still have the heart to laugh!" Crawford tossed the newspaper to Green.

"What is this?" Green asked impatiently.

"See for yourself. The second edition of the Olympic Edition. With that, Crawford turned away and sat down with Gatling.

Reluctantly, Green picked up the newspaper and flipped to the second page of the Olympic section, where a headline instantly caught Green's attention.

"The Chinese are the biggest favorites to win the 100-meter championship!" An angry expression suddenly appeared on Green's face, and the content that followed was even more like adding fuel to the fire.

“F%@%@%@%@!” A barrage of American scolding erupted from Green's mouth: "What are these spinach companies doing?" I am the biggest favorite to win the 100-meter championship, when is it the turn of a Chinese! Are they all blind? Still blocked in the head by poop! These bullshit newspapers! No, it's bullshit spinach company ......"

Gatlin looked at Green in confusion and whispered to Crawford on the other side, "What did you show him?" ”

"Some spinach odds are just that." Crawford whispered: "The major spinach companies in Europe have quietly changed the odds yesterday, and the current odds of winning the 100-meter sprint are the lowest for the Chinese, which means that the Chinese have become the first favorite to win the 100-meter championship in the eyes of the spinach company!" ”

Gatlin instantly understood that Crawford was looking for an opportunity to get revenge on Green. According to Morris Green's stinky and impulsive personality, it is definitely going to be furious to see this kind of news.

According to the schedule of the competition, the Olympic 100-meter sprint event, the semi-finals and the final are only separated by more than two hours, if it is only a general-intensity competition, the two-hour interval between the two games has almost no impact, but to say that the competition intensity is very high, two hours, it is obviously not enough for athletes to recover their strength.

All three athletes from the U.S. came to say that they were all aiming to win the title, so they were all looking to conserve as much energy as possible in the semi-finals and then go all out in the final two hours later!

The next semi-finals are divided into two groups, Gatlin and Crawford are in Group A, while Green is in Group B, and Zhang Guan is in the same group as Green!

Green is an extremely conceited person, he has a strong sense of self-esteem, so when he knows that Zhang Guan has become the first favorite for the 100-meter championship, the 100-meter semi-finals in the evening will inevitably fight to the end with Zhang Guan, and he will use this way to tell the world who is the biggest favorite to win the championship, and he has to defend his face. And once Green does this, whether he can defeat Zhang Guan in the semifinals or not, he will inevitably consume more physical strength, which will directly affect his performance in the final.

Green, Gatlin and Crawford, while teammates, are also rivals. The three Americans came to the Olympics for gold, and in fact these three are also the three most powerful and most likely to win the championship, and if the strongest Green consumes too much in the semifinals, the biggest beneficiaries will undoubtedly be Gatlin and Crawford.

Gatling understood Crawford's intentions, but Gatlin was not a decent man, since it was beneficial to him, why bother! I saw Gatlin and Crawford smile at each other, although they did not communicate verbally, they had formed a tacit understanding.

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In the cafeteria of the Olympic Village, Director Guo sat in a position near the door, with a serious face, while Director Liu sat next to him, staring at every Chinese athlete entering and leaving the restaurant.

"Director Guo, the track and field team is here!" Director Liu suddenly spoke. Then I saw several athletes and coaches led by Coach Sun in the hurdle event walking into the restaurant with a tired face, they had just finished their daily training.

"Great, finally waiting for them." Director Guo lowered his head and reconfirmed the document in his hand, with a smug smile on his face.

The title of the document was "Decision on the Punishment of Comrade Zhang Guan for Violating Discipline," and the red official seal was very conspicuous on a thin piece of official paper.

Director Guo is not a big official, and he does not have that much power to directly punish an athlete, but he can write a report that distorts the facts and exaggerates, and then attaches a punishment recommendation and hands it to his superiors. Naturally, the superiors do not have time to personally investigate this kind of thing, so nine times out of ten, they will decide on the punishment of the athletes based on Director Guo's report.

As for the report's distortion of facts and exaggeration, Director Guo is not worried, anyway, after returning to Beijing, the Olympic delegation will be disbanded, and according to the unspoken rules of domestic affairs, such as transfer, promotion, group dissolution or retirement, even if it is a wrong decision, he will no longer be held personally responsible.

And the facts are as Director Guo expected, a few days after the report was reported, the superior leader gave instructions, and gave Zhang Guan a demerit punishment according to Director Guo's suggestion, but did not agree to Director Guo's ban suggestion, after all, once the ban is made, it will be worse in nature, and the matter will be more serious.

After Director Guo got this punishment decision, he immediately became elated, he couldn't wait to run to Zhang Guan to read this punishment decision in front of him, he really wanted to see Zhang Guan's expression after getting the punishment, he wanted Zhang Guan to know the consequences!

As the time to take a back seat is approaching, Director Guo cherishes the power in his hands more and more, so he wants to show his authority.

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