Chapter Twenty-Nine: The First Competition

The relationship with Xu Chen Aifen has changed from the principal and the student to Aunt Chen and her nephew, but the most important interest relationship is still missing.

However, as long as this investment is successful, she will presumably pay more attention to the relationship between the two.

In school, Zhao Shanhe didn't tell anyone about it, he still followed his own attitude, communicated with his classmates friendly, and trained hard.

On December 8, Zhao Shanhe's new passport was engraved with Dongying's visa for the first time, and he entered the world's most developed country, which is now clamoring to buy the world.

At this time, Dongying's economy was really strong, and from the mid-80s to the mid-90s, the average GDP of Dongying, a small country in the region, reached more than 60 percent of the United States.

In the highest 95 years, Dongying's GDP was 71% of the GDP of the United States.

The number of people in Dongying is only one-third of that of the United States, and its per capita GDP is much higher than that of the United States.

Of course, because I don't know the big and small kings, everyone knows the final result.

When I left from the warm and spring-like Xiangjiang, everyone was still wearing short sleeves, but before they got off the plane, they saw snowflakes fluttering in the sky.

Zhao Shanhe also bought a sweater and thick pants, and as for the jacket, there are winter sportswear sponsored by Adidas.

The sports federation in Hong Kong has always been sponsored by Adidas, and there is no endorsement fee, only sportswear, and the requirements are relatively harsh.

Only athletes who meet international athlete standards will be allowed to wear their free clothing and other sports products such as shoes.

Therefore, there are few people in Xiangjiang who can enjoy this treatment.

The only exception is the Football Association, where all their players enjoy free clothes.

Zhao Shanhe still relied on his outstanding results to get sponsorship, and he didn't have a penny of endorsement fees.

But Zhao Shanhe didn't care, after all, he didn't have any achievements yet.

Zhao Shanhe was accompanied by only coach Wilson, and a liaison with the National Sports Association, Meng Yufei, who could speak Japanese and was responsible for arranging the trip.

The formation is very shabby, because except for Zhao Shanhe, there is no swimmer in the entire Xiangjiang who can reach the national level.

The scale of this invitational race is not large, and when Zhao Shanhe and they arrived at Osaka International Airport, they were picked up by a Honda Accord arranged by the organizing committee.

In the 80s, the Accord was more popular than Camry, and it was the best-selling B-segment car in the American market for more than ten consecutive years.

Everyone didn't care about the car, and they sat in the car as if they were running for their lives, it was too cold.

Wilson was very worried, because Zhao Shanhe was born in the subtropics, and it was the first time in his life that he left Xiangjiang to go to the northern temperate zone and saw snow for the first time.

In such cold weather, I don't know how much strength he can play.

Zhao Shanhe is not used to it at all, according to the dimension, the dimension here is just about the same as his hometown.

The airport is more than 60 kilometers away from Kyoto, but because of the snow and congested roads, I drove for two hours to arrive at the hotel arranged by the organizing committee.

The hotel is located in Nishikyogaku, less than a kilometer from the Yak Stadium where the competition is held.

The athletes who came to participate in the competition were mainly athletes from Dongying, accounting for 60 percent of the number of athletes, and the rest were only athletes from some countries in Southeast Asia and West Asia, and none from Central Asia.

However, no matter how small the team is, there are more than the Xiangjiang he represents.

Athletes from other countries couldn't help but laugh when they saw that Zhao Shanhe only had one single.

Because it was only an invitational tournament and had nothing to do with points and qualifications, the athletes from Huaxia did not come.

At this time, the economy is still relatively backward, and it is not a regular competition, so basically I will not attend.

On the first day of his arrival, Zhao Shanhe bought an extended down jacket worth nearly 4,000 Hong Kong dollars, bought a Kyoto-specific Nishijin silk for his mother and Xiao Stammer, and Grandma Su, and consumed all the 5,000 Hong Kong dollars he brought.

He was too embarrassed to borrow money from Wilson, so he simply didn't go out. Anyway, the hotel serves a buffet for athletes, and it doesn't cost anything to eat and stay.

The Ark Gymnasium is a very advanced gymnasium in this era, with complete facilities in the swimming pool, heated swimming pool, springboard, and jumping platform.

Two days before the competition, the sports hall has been opened, and the athletes are familiar with the venue, the air temperature, and the water temperature, and adjust their bodies through exercise to adapt to the drop here.

The gymnasium is well heated, but the athletes still wear thick coats to keep their muscles hot and not stiff from the cold.

Not to mention winter, even summer races, you have to wear a jacket and take it off when you go into the water.

Because the training time was too short, Zhao Shanhe only had time to sign up for the freestyle competition this time, but his breaststroke now has a national-level athlete level.

Especially before coming this time, he gained another skill point, and after he used it to enhance his physique, his speed will definitely increase a little more.

The freestyle competition was the first event to start, and Zhao Shanhe signed up for 50 meters, 100 meters and 200 meters.

The 400 meters, 800 meters, and 1,500 meters are not bad results, but the competition is too tightly arranged, plus the diving competition and synchronized swimming, it is only four days, and there is no extra time to adjust.

And there are only two rounds in each game, one round of preliminaries, and then the final, and there is no rematch.

On the morning of the first day of the competition, Zhao Shanhe gave everyone a great shock, whether it was 50 meters, 100 meters, or 200 meters, Zhao Shanhe was far ahead.

His speed is simply crushing compared to other athletes.

In the preliminaries, he scored 22.05 seconds, 50.98 seconds, and 1 minute 46 seconds, all of which broke the Asian record.

As soon as the results came out, they immediately shocked the gymnasium, and this result was also notarized by the Asian Swimming Federation.

Unfortunately, because it is not an international competition, there is no prize money for breaking the record.

On the first night of the competition, Zhao Shanhe watched his favorite synchronized swimming competition.

Today's Dongying women's synchronized swimming team is one of the top three in the world, especially the girl named Tomikako Kotani in the team, which is very in line with his aesthetics.

It's just a pity that he doesn't know a word of Japanese.

And none of the other female athletes who took the initiative to send it to the door could make him tempted, and in the end he could only be honest.

Because of the high-intensity physical training, the athletes are far superior to ordinary people, and (Star Field) is also stronger than ordinary people.

For ordinary people, once a few days is the norm, but athletes are often the ones who do it several times a day.

It is not a sport that needs to be maintained at the limit, and the coaches of various countries will not be too restricted, as long as it is not (finally), the appropriate (star field) can also adjust the state of the human body.

Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of sets will be consumed every time the Olympics go, where does it go?

It's a pity that you don't have to think about this competition, the time is too short, and the beauty resources are too few.

On the afternoon of the second day of the race, Zhao Shanhe won the first place in the three finals without any danger, and broke his own record in the 100m, raising the Asian record to 50.06 seconds.

This is close to the world record, just one second slower than the world record set by Matt Biondi this year.

Of course, for most people, the last second may be a chasm that cannot be crossed in a lifetime.

He won three championships, but there were no gold medals, only trophies and certificates ordered by the organizing committee through the Asian Swimming Federation.

Although there was no material gain in this competition, it also allowed Zhao Shanhe to have a better understanding of the process of the swimming competition and the rhythm of the competition.

Of course, I also met a group of Asian athletes, and they were familiar.

It's impossible to have a good relationship, and every male athlete sees him as his biggest opponent.

It was a female athlete, and later found a few good ones.

Unfortunately, on the third day of the game, he went home.

After Meng Yufei arrived in Dongying, he caught a severe cold because of the cold, and at this time, he didn't dare to let him contact Zhao Shanhe, nor did he dare to let him contact other athletes, so he was arranged in another hotel.

I don't know the place here, I can't understand what I say, and I don't have any money, so as soon as I contact the Xiangjiang Sports Association, I will go home in advance.

When I came back, it was still quiet, these championships had no weight, and the outside world didn't know about it at all.

However, this has not been without its effect, and at least it has boosted the confidence of the National Sports Association.

After coming back, the Sports Association allocated another 100,000 Hong Kong dollars to Zhao Shanhe's team, and Zhao Shanhe will train in the future, and he will also have a training bonus of 5,000 per month.

At the same time, the National Sports Federation actively communicated with the organizing committee of the 86 Spanish World Swimming Championships and the 86 Asian Games to register Zhao Shanhe.

Xiangjiang's sports foundation is poor, which is also good. As long as the results are good and there is no competition at all, you can participate in various competitions.

Of course, if the results are really not good, the sports association will not let you go out and be embarrassed, let alone sponsor your food, clothing, housing and transportation.

After returning from Dongying, Zhao Shanhe had an unexpected joy.

Adidas' Xiangjiang Liaison Office learned of Zhao Shanhe's results, took him to the hospital for a check-up, and knew that he was indeed not taking any medicine, and immediately reached a sponsorship with him.

The day before Christmas, after a week of negotiations, Zhao Shanhe signed an all-sports series endorsement with Adidas.

The endorsement asked Zhao Shanhe to shoot a set of print commercials, a TV commercial, for the Asian region to broadcast and set up billboards.

However, this is still in the eighties, and the endorsement fee is not much, and the contract is two years and $50,000 a year.

In '83, the Hong Kong government fixed the exchange rate between the US dollar and the Hong Kong dollar at a range of 1 to 7.80, allowing only single-digit adjustments.

The $50,000 is nearly HK$380,000. According to the current prices, you can buy a 40-square-meter house in Xiangjiang.

But buying a house has not been included in Zhao Shanhe's plan, and if you want to buy it, you must buy a luxury house.

Zhao Shanhe is also not ready to file taxes directly, and will wait until the end of March to file taxes, preparing to invest all the money in the stock market.

According to Xiangjiang's tax rate, the maximum individual income tax is 15%, and then the cost of living, housing costs, and the cost of supporting his parents are deducted, and he has to pay 11.6% tax.

Today's Zhao Shanhe can be regarded as a rich man in Xiangjiang.