Chapter 206: Los Angeles Olympics
"Tony, look, the timing of this Olympics is Omega!" Natasha proudly shook the omega watch on her wrist and said to Monet.
Although Omega was already the largest watchmaking company in Switzerland at this time, it was still far from the glory of later generations, and this landing in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics was also the first time to appear in front of the world, so Monet nodded and agreed: "Well, this watch is still good!" ”
But what he didn't expect was that in the men's 100 finals, Omega dropped the chain. At that time, American Tolan and Metelf crossed the line at the same time. Two of the three watches that time Tolan are 10.3 seconds and the other is 10.4 seconds; The three watches that time the Metlf time all show 10 seconds and 3 ......
So Monet quipped to Natasha, "You Omega is not allowed!" ”
"Who can call it in those tenths of a second!" Natasha argued.
"But the Olympics are all about these tenths of a second!"
While the two were arguing, the referee ruled that Tolan was 2.5 centimetres ahead of Myrtlef, but such a verdict was unconvincing, and there were more disputes like this. (It wasn't until the 18th Tokyo Olympics that the timing method of combining a starting pistol and an electronic timer device was used, and high-speed photography or video recording equipment was installed at the finish line.) In this way, the disputes arising from "simultaneous collision of the line" have been fundamentally eliminated. )
In the 5,000 metres, the favourite was Finland's Lauri Lehtinen, who set a world record of 14 minutes and 17 seconds.
Unexpectedly, a group of American dark horses appeared this time--- Lar Hill, how could this not make the American audience present crazy, the most angry thing for the audience was that in the final stage, Hill wanted to surpass Lehtinen from the inside and outside, but was blocked by him.
In terms of rules, Lehtinen is a normal tactic, but in the eyes of the American audience present, he is maliciously blocking Hill, so for a while there was a lot of scolding in the stands!
"Finns get out of the way!"
"Damn the Finn, why don't you let Hill pass?!"
"What's the matter with the referee, this malicious obstruction doesn't matter? This Finn should be disqualified from the competition! ”
“......”
In the end, Lechtinen and Hill ran to the finish line at the same time, both with a time of 14 minutes and 30 seconds. But in the end, the referee actually ruled that Lehtinen was the champion, which instantly ignited the anger of the American audience, if it wasn't for the fact that they were not allowed to bring guns when watching the game, it is estimated that someone would have shot at this time......
Looking at the angry audience around her and the calm Monet, Natasha asked curiously, "Tony, why aren't you angry?" This referee is obviously bullying you Americans! ”
"But the problem is that I'm not American!" Monet replied with a shrug.
Natasha was stunned for a moment, then she reacted, and suddenly realized: "Oh yes, I almost forgot that you are actually British!" ”
But Monet secretly said in his heart, in fact, I am Chinese, but with my current blond hair and blue eyes, I guess you won't believe it......
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Perhaps out of uneasiness during the race, or to appease the crowd, Lehtinen asked Hill to stand with him on the podium when the prize was handed out, but the latter politely declined.
Seeing that the emotions of the audience were getting higher and higher, Monet was a little worried that there would be no more violence here for a while, so he said to Natasha: "Let's go, let's watch another game!" ”
"Okay, let's go see gymnastics!" Natasha suggested.
When she arrived at the gymnastics venue, Natasha pointed to the rings area and smiled at Monet and said, "Tony, you see those rings athletes bouncing around there so funny." ”
Following her instructions, Monet looked over, and indeed as she said, the first thing every contestant who had their turn to perform was to find a way to jump up and grab the ring, which looked really funny.
Although Monet rarely watched gymnastics competitions like rings in his previous life, but in his impression, there didn't seem to be such a situation, and after thinking about it for a long time, he remembered that the rings competition he saw in his previous life was at the beginning, and there was a coach to pick up the players to complete the first step of the ringing action, but now why is there no coach to help, but let the players jump around stupidly there?
So Monet was puzzled and asked, "Hey, why don't the coaches of the players help them?" ”
"Why should the coach help them? The ring competition was supposed to be for the contestants to jump up and grab the rings by themselves. Natasha explained. Originally, Monet thought that Natasha was joking with himself, but after asking a few people, he realized that what Natasha said was right.
Fortunately, although this kind of picture is very funny, professional players are professional players, and they usually succeed in grabbing the rings with a few jumps, but when it is the turn of Japanese players, a scene that makes everyone laugh wildly appears.
Although gymnasts don't choose too tall, this guy named Saburo Fujishima is too short, according to Monet's visual measurement, it should be only 1.6 meters, and the height of the standard rings is 2.5 meters, which is nearly a meter high, how can he jump up.
But even so, the persistent Fujishima Saburo is still changing various postures to jump up. Seeing this funny scene, many people couldn't help laughing, and finally the Japanese coach couldn't stand it anymore, and applied to the organizing committee, hoping to take into account the height of the Japanese players and reduce the height of the rings.
However, this request was unanimously opposed by the other participating countries, because it was believed that if the height of the ring was lowered, it would affect the characteristics of the ring competition and the action of the competition. In the end, the organizing committee gave a compromise opinion: "Do not reduce the height of the ring, but allow the coach to help the player jump on the equipment." ”
"Tony, I really don't understand why this Japanese athlete didn't notice that he couldn't catch the rings when he was training. So how did he usually get there? And why did such a short person choose to practice rings? Natasha asked, puzzled.
"That's what you don't know, in fact, Japanese men are generally short, as for why he has to practice rings, I don't know this. But I've heard a Japanese high jumper say that height is not distance, weight is not pressure! (This is the slogan of the protagonist of a Japanese High Jump manga, I remember him as a Humpty Dumpty, but I can't really remember the name because of so many years!) )
PS: I recommend a female frequency essay "Reborn as a Cheetah", although I appreciate the creativity and writing of female frequency, but I really can't stand Tanmei, so this kind of beast text can avoid the poison of Tanmei......