Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Pool
The FINA World Championships are in full swing, and there are people who have won gold medals in all events of diving, swimming and water polo, all of whom are the best in the competition.
Xiaoqi took advantage of the good time of the summer vacation to watch the World Championships and find her seat with a ticket. He came early, and there was no one in the audience at this time, but there were still more than ten minutes before the start of the game, and it was normal for there to be fewer people, but the following participants, including the athletes and the coaching staff, had already arrived. A group of people surrounded two or three of their own participants, and some coaches held a tablet to talk to the athletes, which was probably some words of encouragement and some matters for the athletes to pay attention to.
As time slowly approached, the whole stadium became lively, and people spoke loudly. As the referee blew the whistle for the start of the match, the first athlete to appear was already standing on the 10-meter high platform.
This morning's competition is the men's 10-meter diving qualifiers, the difficulty of the first jump selection of the first few is very high, and the quality of the diving is also uneven, even if it is the same difficulty and the same diving action, some people can get high scores, and some people will make obvious mistakes, and they will fall behind in the rankings.
More than ten minutes passed, and basically every minute there would be a person diving. One of the people made a joke that after turning in the air, his body fell into the water before he could unfold, like a fish, splashing more than three meters high.
Xiao Qi smiled, isn't this the same way I danced?
Before you know it, the twenty-third athlete is on the field. The athlete was slender, fair-skinned, and had a good posture in the air at the height of the jump, but the entry into the water was not good, and the splash was not suppressed.
However, a strange thing happened, and after the jump, he did not come up for a long time. The coach, who had been standing on the sidelines, suddenly panicked, and the closest to the edge of the pool was a cameraman, who put the camera on the ground and jumped into the pool. After a while, the athlete surfaced with his arms in his arms. The athlete was bleeding from his nose and had fainted. The doctor in the stadium ran over with a stretcher, first did some simple treatment for the athlete, and after making sure that he was breathing well, he was carried out, and the coach followed him.
This incident has caused a lot of turmoil, and some media have posted photos and short videos on the Internet, which is known as first-hand news.
After the pool was cleaned by official professionals, the game went on as usual, and some television stations broadcast more than 20 minutes of advertisements during the nearly half-hour pause. When the game resumed, the TV commentary only gave a glimpse of what had just happened.
The rest of the competition went well, and at the end of the first round, an athlete actually danced on the diving platform, which attracted bursts of applause from the audience. However, after working on the stage for several years, and a few seconds off the stage, the take-off height was not enough, resulting in the body not being vertical when falling into the water, and falling diagonally into the water, and finally only scored 55 points. After the athlete came out of the water, he bowed to the front of the pool, and after seeing his score, he smiled miserably at the camera, but when he walked over, his feet slipped and fell to the edge of the pool with a pop, and he could clearly hear a bang, and his head hit the ground. The cameraman next to him looked down and found that the water had turned red, so he quickly put the camera on the ground and ran over to help him up.
Another athlete had an accident and slipped on the spot!
All the sports media presented the qualifiers with catchy and eye-catching titles.
The fight was suspended again, and the doctors reappeared, once again carrying the hapless athlete away on the same stretcher. The organizers sent someone to bring a skid board and put it on the edge of the pool, and when the water became clear, the race resumed.
The audience at the scene felt that today's tickets were really worth it, it took more than an hour to end the first round, and there are five more rounds, so wouldn't it be possible to watch for three or four hours?
After the first round, some people played exceptionally and came in first place, surpassing the defending champions, and several athletes played a little abnormally, temporarily behind some newcomers, but the game has just begun, and there is still a chance to overtake.
After a short advertisement, the second round of the men's 10m platform qualifiers began. As in the previous round, except for the athlete in the middle and the athlete in the back, the order of the others moved forward one or two in turn.
By the time the tenth athlete came out, a hilarious thing happened. When the athlete threw the towel down, it fell on the three-meter board below, and then it fell again, right on the head of the cameraman below.
The audience on the side all laughed when they saw it. The videographer also looked up and gave the athlete a close-up. The athlete didn't know what was going on and went about the game. When the athlete dived into the water, his head peeked out of the water and found the cameraman squatting on the edge of the pool, looking at him with a camera, and then he noticed the towel on the cameraman's head, smiled and pinched his orchid finger to carefully remove the towel from the cameraman's head. The cameraman was also very naughty, and deliberately gave this towel a close-up, but just about to lift the camera, he accidentally touched the athlete who walked by, and the key is that he also touched his chin.
The athlete didn't expect the cameraman to hit someone, and just as he was about to shout, he fell into the pool one by one.
Oops I'll go, what's going on today?
The cameraman saw it, put the camera on the ground again, and jumped into the pool. The athlete accidentally took a big sip of water underwater, choked, and a lot of bubbles appeared in front of him, and he was a little disoriented for a while. He tried to swim at the bottom of the pool, but he couldn't swim no matter how much he swam. At this time, he saw a dark figure fall into the water. The shadow of his childhood suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. He panicked and whimpered with his mouth open, but it made him drink more water. In his eyes, the black shadow was like a large octopus with eight arms spread out towards him. He yelled not to come near me, but he was caught by the big octopus. In fright, he became incontinent, his eyes turned white, and he fainted.
After the cameraman entered the water, the referee was not idle, and gave a score of 35, which caused the audience to laugh. The cameraman was not so happy, he finally caught the athlete, but he didn't expect him to struggle so hard that he broke away from his hands several times. The cameraman is not like an athlete who can hold his breath in the water for a minute or two, he is at most thirty or forty seconds is the limit. After the disobedient athlete fainted, he finally fell silent, which gave the cameraman a chance to grab him and drag him to the surface.
After coming out, several doctors had been waiting for a long time, pulled a cameraman, and then put the fainting athlete on a stretcher and walked away.
The official staff ran over and asked the cameraman if he was okay and if he wanted to take a break. The videographer shook his head and said he was okay and could continue.
This time the game started after less than five minutes of pause.
This time, the videographer learned his lesson and moved away from the diving board above.
Time passed quickly, and in a short time the second round was over, and three athletes had already withdrawn from the competition. Other athletes also began to be cautious, and some difficult movements were all abandoned, and they chose medium difficulty. But that's it, there are still people who make some ridiculous things.
There is an athlete who fell into the water in advance without finishing the aerial action, take the action of the forward tumbling for three and a half weeks, for example, he has just finished three and a half weeks of turning has fallen to a place one or two meters above the water surface, and then the body has not been straightened, and he fell into the water with a snap, the water splash is really, like a big stone falling into the water, the water splashes everywhere, beautiful and shocking.
There's an athlete who came here to be funny. His jump was in an upside-down position, I don't know if his hand slipped or he was physically exhausted, his body just tilted upside down, and the sudden fall made the athlete panic, and he didn't even have time to do the diving action before he lay down and fell into the water, causing a burst of boos from the audience.
What a shame! That's definitely what the athlete thinks at this time. It was as if he was looking for a place to get into, or never surfaced, not wanting others to see his ugliness. Just as he hesitated, a trace of pain came from his hand. When I looked down, I saw that my right hand was bleeding, and a cut was made in the palm of my hand. He couldn't remember anything on the diving board that could cut through his palm.
The cameraman on the edge of the pool was also embarrassed, this was the worst athlete he had ever seen, and it simply broke the record for the worst diving of an athlete. After waiting for more than ten seconds, the athlete did not come out for a long time.
Holy, isn't it, come again?
Just as the cameraman was about to jump into the pool again, the athlete floated up, shook the water from his hair, wiped his face, walked to the edge of the pool, picked up the towel on the ground, and left with his head down, no one noticing that the blood oozing from his right hand had stained the towel red. His coach quickly called a doctor, bandaged him, and asked him if he could play in the next round, but the athlete hesitated and decided not to play, always feeling that the palm of his hand was scratched was a little too strange.
After that, some media reported that an athlete had left the field early.
Half an hour later, the third round was over, and everyone played well, most of them were above 60 points, and a few scored more than 5 points. At the end of this round, the athletes who were ahead were overtaken by those who were behind, and those who had been lagging behind were also struggling to catch up.
Before the start of the fourth round, the official referee issued a notice, which roughly said that there was; When the two athletes were cleaning in the background, there was a quarrel and a fight, for this kind of behavior that disrupted the order of the game, the referee gave the two disqualifications for the game, and the two could not play again in the next three rounds.
As soon as the notice was released, the whole stadium became lively again, and some media surrounded the referee to ask about the specific circumstances of the incident.
Damn, I feel that today's game is a little abnormal, why do some players quit every round?
Xiaoqi wanted to watch a good game, but she didn't expect so many suspicious things to happen, which seriously affected the mood of watching the game.
The game was intermittent, but no one left the stadium early, not only that, but there were many more people, and the entire audience was full.
The fourth round has begun, and after the first dozen or so athletes have finished jumping, people have discovered a strange thing, these athletes are diving under the difficulty of 30, and one athlete even just made a curved movement in the air and ended. The athletes seemed to have lost their enthusiasm for the game, which drew a burst of boos from the spectators on the sidelines, and the referees in the audience were also confused. The referee at the pool also warned the next athlete to dive in the microphone not to play negatively
However, everyone actively ignored the referee's warning, and even some athletes who had not yet come to the stage were about to leave the field early under the leadership of the coach. The referee noticed the anomaly and quickly stopped the athletes and warned them that if they gave up the game early, they would be disqualified from the competition and would not be able to participate in the semi-finals. However, as soon as the referee said this, those coaches turned around and replied in unison: Go to the game.
Although each coach spoke a different language, the referee could still guess what they meant from the tone of their voices, expressions and movements, and turned around in a fit of rage and left, and after a while issued an announcement, which caused an uproar in the audience.
The general idea is to criticize and disqualify athletes and coaches who ignore the rules of the competition and lack of sportsmanship.
This announcement caused a huge sensation among the media, and one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and immediately some media found out who left the scene early.
However, the competition continued, but it was clear that the next few athletes did not want to compete. Some of the audience members who couldn't stand it had already begun to leave, and some of them stood up, waving their arms and cursing something in their mouths that only those who were close could hear it.
Seeing that the audience was about to finish, the referee issued a notice again, which was the result given after careful discussion by the referee team, that is, in view of the small number of participants, the next semi-finals were canceled and the finals were directly held.
As soon as this announcement was issued, it made the athletes who stayed behind very happy, especially some athletes who had no hope of winning a medal.
After the fourth round was hastily over, the qualifiers came to an end in debate. In the end, the first place was more than a hundred points more than the second place. After all, the current second place was ranked in more than 20 at the end of the third round, because the people in front of him were gone, and his ranking jumped up to second, which made him very happy, and finally had the hope of competing for medals, for the next finals he did not seek to win a gold medal, it is also good to win a silver medal.
Before leaving, Xiaoqi was still a little unsatisfied. After all, what happened today is unprecedented, and it is very likely that it will never happen. Xiaoqi was left in the audience, the referees on the edge of the pool also left, and a few staff members were left cleaning the pool and the jumping platform. Xiao Qi came to the pool and tested the temperature of the water with her hands, it was a little cold, but it was bearable. The blue pool ripples, and there is no clutter in the clear bottom. Just as he was about to leave, the corner of his eye swept to a thin line in the pool.
Well? What is that?
Xiao Qi hurriedly squatted down and looked into the pool, he put his hand into the water, and the thin line suddenly swam towards this side. He quickly withdrew his hand and saw that the thin line had stopped and had not swam over.
Damn, it's terrible, is it this line that is causing trouble when those athletes leave the field?
Xiaoqi thought about it and was about to tell the staff at the scene, but when she stood up and looked around, there was no one.
Damn, everyone is gone?
Xiaoqi was so frightened that she quickly ran away.
The thin line poked out of the water, looked in the direction Xiao Qi left, and then disappeared into the water.
Finish.