The Winter Olympics are far inferior to the Summer Olympics in terms of participating countries, the number of participants and the level of attention. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Winter Olympics are all ice and snow events, so these countries close to the equator are basically impossible to participate in the Winter Olympics, such as the vast majority of African countries, Caribbean countries, and those Pacific island countries in Oceania, who have never seen snow in their lives, so it can be said that they have no chance of winter sports at all.

In the Summer Olympics, almost all countries in the world will participate, even if it is the effect of tens of thousands of people, one or two athletes will be sent over, and in the Winter Olympics, it will be very good to have 80 or 90 countries participate. At the end of the last century, there were about two or three thousand athletes competing in the Winter Olympics, and now there are about three or four thousand athletes, and although the number has increased, it is still only a fraction of the number of participants in the Summer Olympics.

Qualification for the Winter Olympics is also easier to obtain than for the Summer Games, where tickets are valuable for many events, many of which may only require a few months of training, and many of the athletes participating in the Winter Olympics are amateurs. There are some sports that your country is willing to help you register for, and you have the opportunity to participate in the Winter Olympics.

There was once an Olympic Games, the Pacific island country Tonga wanted to participate, but Tonga is located near the equator, and there is no snow all year round, and the king of Tonga even offered a reward nationwide to solicit people who can ski, but no one was found, and finally Tonga chose a person to be sent to a foreign country for training for half a year, and the dream of Tongans to participate in the Winter Olympics was fulfilled. Anyone who was born in Tonga and has only been training for half a year can participate in the Winter Olympics, which is enough to show that the threshold for the Winter Olympics is not too high.

Amateur and quasi-professional athletes compete at the Winter Olympics with the intention of participating, and the athletes who are truly capable of competing for medals are also professional athletes. Therefore, it is often seen that the Winter Olympics are divided into two groups, Group A is a relatively high-level professional class, which is to compete for medals, while Group B is a relatively low-level non-professional class, even if it wins the first place in Group B, it will not have a chance to win a medal.

Qualifications for short track speed skating events are calculated on a country-by-country basis, with three people from the qualifying country and five people from the relay race. It's just that the short track speed skating event is played by those countries, so basically the countries participating in each session are relatively fixed. And short track speed skating only has four events, 500m, 1000m, 1500m plus a relay race, so many competitors have to compete in three events at the same time, even if all four events are participated, it is normal.

The national team has already qualified for the relay event in short track speed skating at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, so it can send five athletes to compete. There are five men and five women, and a total of 10 athletes participate in the short track speed skating event. As for who to send to the competition, of course, it is up to the Winter Sports Center to decide.

The reason why Zhang Guan proposed to participate in the short track speed skating event is also because there is no need for additional qualifications for this event, and now there are still two months left before the opening of the Winter Olympics, and it is difficult to win the right to participate in other events. If you want to skate on short tracks, you can participate in the Winter Sports Center, knowing that the Winter Sports Center is willing to nod and agree.

At the same time, Zhang Guan's doing so also put the winter sports center in a dilemma.

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Director Wang of the Winter Sports Center never expected that Zhang Guan's counterattack would come so quickly, he had just returned from the sports federation on the front foot, and the sports federation on the back foot came to ask Zhang Guan's opinion on the competition.

Conference room. Director Wang summoned several key leaders.

"Zhang Guan asked us for a place in short track speed skating, so let's share your opinions." Director Wang's eyes swept over everyone in the conference room.

"I can't give it to him! If you want me to say, this Zhang Guan is here to make trouble for us, the incident he made a few days ago has made our work fall into a lot of passivity, and now we still need a quota for short track speed skating? Isn't that a matter of inches? Could it be that he thinks our winter sports center is easy to bully? A very angry guy was the first to say.

"But if we don't give Zhang Guan this place, will we be honest? Zhang Guanke said that if he went, he would definitely be able to get the gold medal, and he would dare to make a 'military order'. ”

"Zhang Guan bragging, do you really believe it? He's not an ice skater, I'm afraid he can't even wear skates, so he can go to short track speed skating? He was a fast runner on flat ground, but when he got to the ice, I didn't believe he could break the world record! ”

"I don't know if I brag or not, but Lao Li, don't forget, in the plan we just gave to the Sports Federation, the original goal of the three gold medals was erased. That crown said that he wants to help the national team earn these three gold medals back, can we not let him go? ”

"He said that if he can earn the gold medal back, he can really earn it back? It's a gold medal at the Winter Olympics, not a cabbage on the street. Lao Li said.

"Okay, then if we don't give him this quota, when it comes to the Winter Olympics, if the results are not satisfactory, who should bear this responsibility?"

"Didn't I discuss this issue before, the results were not satisfactory, so I pushed it to this personnel change, the personnel change was caused by Zhang Guan's trouble in the Anti-Corruption Bureau, he was so able to make trouble, let him be this black pot!" Lao Li continued.

"That was before, and now we can't make such excuses. Zhang Guan has already offered to go to the Winter Olympics to win gold, and if he wants to help us solve the difficulties, it depends on whether we give him a chance. Don't you see that he is anti-guest-oriented? If our Winter Olympics results are not satisfactory, Zhang Guan can say that he proposed to help us win gold at the Winter Sports Center before the competition, but we don't give him a chance, don't let him participate, and we can't rely on him if he loses. At that point, it will be our own responsibility. ”

"Then give him a place, I don't believe he really has the ability to win the gold medal!" also set up a military order, I'll see how he steps down! ”

"That's not good, we only have five places in total, how can we waste one place on him. Zhang Guan is obviously bragging, short track speed skating is a sport that depends on technology, how can you get on the field without a few years of hard work? Director Wang, in the quadrennial Winter Olympics, we can't make such a hasty decision! Someone objected immediately.

The person who objected was the leader of the Skating Association, and short track speed skating was a project for which the Skating Association was responsible, so of course he did not want Zhang Guan to take away a valuable spot. And short track speed skating is the strength of the national team, so many outstanding athletes are crowded to participate in the quadrennial Winter Olympics, how can the leaders of the Ice Association be willing to give Zhang Guan a place.

"I see, Zhang Guan guessed that we wouldn't give him this place, so he was so fearless."

"You can't give, you can't give, so what can you do? Zhang Guan, it really makes us in a dilemma! ”

"Director Wang, I have a suggestion." Suddenly, someone said: "Let's hold a selection tournament and let Zhang Guan participate, didn't he say that he could win gold in the Winter Olympics?" If even the athletes of our national team can't win, I see what kind of face he has to fight us! ”

"This is a good idea, it is the mule and the horse that lead it out to slip away, and let the boys of our national team teach this boy a lesson that does not know the height of the sky!"

"I don't think I need to go to the men's team, the women's team can win him, hahaha......"

However, that Lao Li suddenly poured cold water: "You say, what if Yiguan wins in the selection competition?" After all, it is five places, and he doesn't need to take the first place, but he will be qualified to represent the national team if he wins the third or fourth place. ”

"Win? How is it possible to win! Lao Li, I think you are confused. It's short track speed skating, you think it's 100 meters, as long as you run fast! Short track speed skating is very technically demanding, and even if Zhang Guan can skate twice, he will never have the ability to fight. Besides, Zhang Guan is not from the Northeast, and there is no skating in their province, so Zhang Guan has no chance of getting in touch with short track speed skating. As long as he dares to come to the qualifying round, he will lose! (To be continued.) )