In the center of the bar, Kapitsa has been "drunk and open", no basketball, no rap, can only sing and dance, he once again enlivened the atmosphere in the stadium and became the focus of the audience.

Chen Muwu was happy to see Kapitsa to help him share his attention.

And after he made such a fuss, the environment in the field became even more noisy, and even if he wanted to talk about how to calculate the orbit of the electron spin using the theory of relativity, Dirac and Fowler might not be able to hear it clearly.

As soon as Chen Muwu put down the pen in his hand, Best entered the Eagle Bar.

He arrived as promised, with a group of Cambridge blue suits behind him.

There is no need to speak, just by the skin on their bodies, people can recognize that these are noble athletes at Cambridge University.

"Chen," after entering the door, Best glanced around the interior of the Eagle Bar and went straight to Chen Muwu's table, "Do you know how fast you have achieved swimming results in the United Games?" ”

The usually polite and polite Best was gone, and now he was so excited that his voice even drowned out that of Capitsa, who was singing and dancing in the middle of the bar.

“…… I was afraid that it would affect your dissertation defense, so I kept not telling you, but today that you finally got your Ph.D., I have no scruples. In this combined sports meeting, your 100-yard freestyle score is ......"

Chen Muwu hurriedly got up, pulled Best and walked out.

At the table where he had just sat was left with a group of professors looking confused.

Although the environment in the bar is noisy and Capitsa's singing voice is loud, Best's voice is also not small.

After Chen Muwu left, everyone's eyes fell on his taciturn roommate Dirac.

"Paul, who is this man? What about the sports meeting he just talked about? ”

Eventually, Fowler asked the question that everyone was concerned about.

As one of the few people in the know, Dirac could only briefly tell Chen Muwu about Chen Muwu's participation in the Cambridge-Oxford Joint Games with a few professors.

Last summer, in order to cool off, the Cavendish laboratory also organized several swimming activities by the Cam River, so no one was surprised that Chen Muwu could swim.

But the strange thing is that why did this person go to London to participate in the Games quietly, and listening to the meaning of the person's words, Chen Muwu also achieved a good result?

Best, who was pulled aside by Chen Muwu, finally finished his last half of the sentence.

"Chen, your 100-yard score is fifty-four seconds! If it weren't for everyone in the audience who saw you throw the proud New Zealander from Oxford University last year behind you by a few metres, I would have wondered if there was something wrong with the timekeeper of the race. ”

Knowing his achievement, Chen Muwu was stunned.

He did his best to win the championship without fail, and he did his best in the 100-yard race that day.

But the final result is only 54 seconds?

It seems that after more than a year of neglect of training, the results are still against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat.

Before crossing by himself, he was able to swim this in the 100-meter race.

Thinking of this, Chen Muwu was a little sullen.

Best keenly captures this mood swing. "Chen, what do you mean by that expression? Are you still not satisfied with this result? ”

He nodded subconsciously and whispered to himself, "I should be able to swim faster......

Chen Muwu's unintentional words, but in Best's ears, he thought that he was pretending to be a big force.

"Chen, you just said a joke, isn't it fast to swim fifty-four seconds in one hundred yards?

"Not only did you break the record of the Games, but when I got back to school, I went to the library and found a copy of the results book of the Antwerp Olympics in Belgium four years ago, and guess what? The American who won first place in the 100-meter freestyle competition only swam a minute and a second.

"The final finish of the 400m race is even longer, and at the last Olympics, the first place finish was five and a half minutes, while you were only four minutes and 27 seconds in the 400 yards.

"I think you can register for the Olympics in Paris in July this year, and if you want to win the 100-meter freestyle, you can try to win the championship, but the 400-meter freestyle championship should be as easy for you as it is to find your bag!"

When Chen Muwu heard the name of the Olympic Games, his heart was shocked.

In the future, I may not be able to win the first place in the university competition in the capital, how can I hit the Olympic championship a hundred years ago?

And the 400-yard freestyle competition also swam for 4 minutes and 27 seconds?

No, I'm not only in 400 meters in 4 minutes and 15 seconds?

Obviously, when I was swimming, I didn't feel that my physical fitness had dropped much compared to more than a year ago, but why was this result so much worse?

Chen Muwu's brain was racing, and the question he hadn't figured out when he was a hundred yards old had finally found the answer.

In the Thames race, although the units are more than the metric length unit meter, it is shorter than the imperial length unit yard.

However, whether it is on the Cam or the Thames, whether it is a hundred yards or a 400 yard, the course of the race is a road in the river to the end, with no jumping platform and no 50-meter turn and kick.

The two items that are missing are the key to a significant improvement in performance.

There is only one jump, so ignore it for the time being, but you can kick the wall and turn around, but it can play a big role in improving your performance.

Otherwise, why is the swimming record of the 25-meter short pool so much faster than the 50-meter standard pool?

In other words, it is not that his Chen Muwu's speed has dropped a lot, but that the mechanism of the game is different.

So if you go to the Olympics as Best said, maybe you can really come back with a few gold medals.

Thinking of this, Chen Muwu was of course excited.

If he could really win the Olympic gold medal for China at the 1924 Olympics, what would that be?

Not to mention participating in the Olympic Games eight years earlier than the original time and space, it was able to win the first gold medal for China 60 years earlier.

It's just that I don't know if China has established an Olympic Committee now? Is it a member of the IOC?

Without the Olympic Committee, would I still be able to participate in this Olympic Games?

Seeing the change in the expression on Chen Muwu's face, Best had already guessed that he had moved his mind, so he continued: "Chen, this is really a good opportunity, although our Cambridge athletes, although they started to win gold medals in the second Olympic Games as early as 1900, those are the traditional advantages of Britain, such as tennis and rowing.

"In more than 20 years, no Cambridge athlete has ever been able to enter the main competition of swimming events dominated by Americans and Australians, let alone win any results.

"So you achieved this result in the combined sports meeting, not only for our swimming club, but also for the sports department of the school.

"Let me introduce you to the members of the Eagle Club that I told you about, which is responsible for all the athletes who have won the Blue Honours at Cambridge University.

"They are here to help our swimming club and you do well in the upcoming Olympics and to bring glory to the University of Cambridge.

"If you have any difficulties in training and life now, you can tell them whatever it is, and they will try their best to help you solve them."

Chen Muwu didn't expect that he could be so valued just by swimming.

So he expressed his doubts, that is, it is already mid-May, is it too late to register for the Olympic Games in July?

And is China a member of the International Olympic Committee, and is it eligible to register for this competition?

In Chen Muwu's memory, the selection conditions for the Olympic Games seem to be very harsh, and only those who can achieve the Olympic A standard can get a ticket.

Here he is guilty of self-righteousness again, a hundred years later, can the intensity of competition be compared with now?

It is worthy of the people who have already done the preparatory work, and several people from the Eagle Club have answered these questions one by one.

Now the Olympic Games have just entered the stage of formal development, and the President of the International Olympic Committee, Coubertin, hopes that the influence of the Olympic Games can be further expanded, so the registration conditions for the event are very relaxed.

Even though China has not yet established an Olympic Committee and has not become a member of the International Olympic Committee, Chen Muwu can still participate in this Olympic Games by registering on his own.

It's just that the registration matter, due to the nationality issue involved, Cambridge University has no way to do it for you, and it is likely that Chen Muwu will need to go to Paris again.

However, there is still more than a month to go before the official competition, and it is still too late to make another trip from Cambridge to Paris.

In addition, Best also told Chen Muwu one thing.

He has already found out the news from various sources, compared with Belgium, which had just finished fighting a poor match in the last Antwerp Olympic Games, in this Paris Olympic Games, in order to show the demeanor of the victorious country, the French spent a lot of money to repair several competition venues.

Therefore, instead of pouring river water into the abandoned trenches left over from the war, as in the previous year, the standard 50-meter swimming pool was built as a competition venue - in fact, this is the first time that the standard pool has appeared in the world championships.

In order to "get used to" Chen Muwu in the Kham River and adapt to the Olympic Games in advance, Best plans to mobilize the members of the swimming club to temporarily dig a 50-meter pool on the edge of the Kham River within a few days, and then introduce the water of the Kham River to Chen Muwu as his training ground.

This is exactly what Chen Muwu wants, he has long wanted to revisit what it is like to swim in a 50-meter standard pool, so Chen Muwu also put forward a lot of constructive opinions on the size of this pool.

And the Paris Olympics has a standard swimming pool, which is also a happy thing for Chen Muwu.

After all, the turning technique was only developed in the fifties, and it is now the leading version of the dimensionality reduction strike.

Best's words made Chen Muwu, who didn't drink a sip of wine in the Eagle Bar, a little uneasy.

Although he has not yet registered, he has already begun to look forward to the Olympics in a little more than a month.

The Sulian people, who are addicted to alcohol, plus the mascot of Cambridge University, Kapitsa, a good brother, can always block a lot of wine for himself at critical moments.

Therefore, this graduation party at the Eagle Club ended with Chen Muwu not drinking and Kapitsa getting drunk.

……

The University of Cambridge was quite efficient, and a few days later, Chen Muwu's doctoral diploma was sent to him.

Wearing a doctor's gown, he followed Ye Gongchao to the photo studio in Cambridgeshire to take photos to be sent home, and the two took the relevant procedures completed in Cambridge and took the train to London again.

Some time ago, Zhu Zhaoxin, chargé d'affaires ad interim of the Chinese Legation in Britain, made a big show at a banquet hosted by British Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary John Macdonald to entertain ministers from various countries.

During the banquet, the Prime Minister deliberately bypassed the envoys of many foreign powers and came to him to congratulate Zhu Zhaoxin, and the students of your country discovered the ninth planet of the solar system at the British Observatory......

If this minister to Britain is replaced by Fan Yuanlian, who is dedicated to education, then it is estimated that he will take the opportunity to ask the Prime Minister to speed up the negotiation of Gengzi's reparations.

But Zhu Zhaoxin just thought that Chen Muwu's discovery had made him look good in front of foreigners, so he was very satisfied with his genius compatriot.

He specially sent another telegram to China to ask for credit, indicating that Chen Muwu could achieve so much in Britain that the country's prime minister personally named and praised him, and he could not do without his support and cultivation.

One is a rising star in the British academic circles, and the other is the son of the former Minister of Transportation, Chen Muwu and Ye Gongchao came to the Legation to go through the graduation procedures this time, and Zhu Zhaoxin did not dare to slack off.

He not only met the two in person in his office, arranged for the staff to give the two of them a green light throughout the whole process, and also brought Chen Muwu a "good news" from China.

(End of chapter)