In addition to Kikujiro Ishii, the ambassador to France, there are also Prince Albert of the United Kingdom and Prince Gustav Adolf, the crown prince of Sweden, sitting in the VIP seats in the pool audience.

The semi-finals of the 1,500-meter freestyle will be held in two groups, with the top two in each group and the best third place, and a total of five people will be selected to enter the final on the second day.

Chen Muwu played a double match in one day for the next few days, so he had already formulated a battle plan, that is, to save his strength and follow the first place swim, as long as he could enter the final with the second place in the group.

In the end, just as he had envisioned, he advanced with a time of 21 minutes and 49 seconds, finishing fourth out of five finalists.

For Chen Muwu, this speed is basically the same as not swimming.

After all, no matter how bad his previous level was, there was no problem in swimming in the 1500-meter freestyle for less than 20 minutes.

Except for Chen Muwu and the athlete Katsuo Takaishi, the other three finalists, the first and fifth places are Australians, and the second place is from Sweden.

So in addition to Chen Muwu, the remaining four finalists, in the audience, all had officials from their respective countries cheering for them.

Chen Zheng, the minister of the People's Republic of China in France, also received an invitation from the organizers before the start of this competition.

When he first heard that the British student had made it to the final, he was really happy for a moment.

But I heard that there were five people in the finals, and this Chen Hanchen ranked fourth, so Chen Zheng suddenly lost interest.

Anyway, he can't win the championship, and he has to go to the audience in the open-air swimming pool to bask in the sun for an afternoon, isn't it stupid?

Therefore, the reply given by the Legation of the People's Republic of China in France was that Mr. Minister was busy with affairs and could not go to watch the swimming final live.

But this does not mean that there is no one in the audience cheering for Chen Muwu.

In addition to De Broglie and Best, Zhang Xiuyou also organized many work-study students in Paris to watch the game.

Of course, their tickets were all solved with the help of Chen Muwuto de Broglie.

Although he has participated in the competition for two days, when Chen Muwu appeared again this afternoon, there was still a certain amount of boos from the audience.

However, this boo was not to mock Chen Muwu's race, but because when he appeared, he was naked with his upper body.

Today's Europeans are also very old-fashioned, and they think that Chen Muwu's dress is really immoral.

From the Cambridge River, the first time he wore this swimming trunk out, to the Olympic competition two days ago, Chen Muwu has long been accustomed to this kind of incomprehensible voice.

The enemy army is besieged by thousands of people, and I will not move.

He neither blushed nor cramped, but took the sound from the audience as a disguised encouragement, and generously waved his hand towards the source of the sound, like a star in a concert.

Because he ranked fourth out of the five finalists, Chen Muwu was assigned to the fourth lane in the final.

Since this is the first time that a standard pool has been used in the Olympic Games, no one except Chen Muwu knows that the two fastest pools in the pool are the four and five lanes in the middle.

This is also a blessing in disguise, so the results of the competition may be even better.

There is no jumping platform at the starting point of the pool, so the five athletes stand on the shore in turn, ready to enter the water, and quietly wait for the referee to fire the gun.

After the gunshot, the other four athletes all chose to enter the water nearby, and only Chen Muwu threw his body out of the distance for a meter and a half as much as possible.

Instead of staring at the number one in front of him, he now began to paddle and beat his legs at a familiar pace.

The 1,500-meter self-swimming is probably the least spectacular event in the entire swimming competition.

After all, because of the long schedule and long time, no athlete will give their best at the beginning, so the intensity and spectacle of the competition are much worse than that of the 100-meter freestyle.

At first, everyone in the audience talked and laughed, and no one took the game in front of them too seriously.

Because the results from the qualifiers to the semifinals have been clearly laid out in front of everyone.

That is, the final result between the first and fourth places is not less than ten seconds, and they only need to watch the race carefully in the last 50 meters or 100 meters to be able to tell what the result is.

In the first 50 meters, Kikujiro Ishii was still a little complacent, because his own athlete Katsuo Takaishi on the field was always in the lead.

If he can continue to do so, doesn't that mean that Ben's first Olympic gold medal will be within reach?

Will you be able to witness it yourself?

But as the match progressed, the smile on Ambassador Ishii's face stiffened.

How is it that every time he crosses fifty meters, every time he turns, the branch * person of the four lanes, his speed can be increased a little?

Only a third of the way through the game, the team was already in the leading position of the field.

But on the other hand, his compatriot Katsuo Takaishi has gradually fallen behind the other four players in the water and is in the last place.

This Katsuo Takaishi did create coolness, but it was not the surrounding air that became cooler, but Kikujiro Ishii's heart.

Didn't the embassy staff who sent the letter to him pat his chest and swear that Gao Shi was expected to compete for gold with a medal?

How is this situation completely opposite to what he boasted about?

Whether it's this athlete or that staff, it's all red deer! They should all be sent to seppuku!

In the audience, except for Kikujiro Ishii and a few of his followers, the rest of the people seemed very happy.

The group of people brought by Zhang Xiuyou shouted the name of "Chen Hanchen" in unison.

De Broglie didn't know what these three syllables meant, but he shouted the most.

He even came up with other meanings of the name, "chen" naturally refers to Chen Muwu, and "han" seems to be the Mongol name for their son of heaven, such as the famous Genghis Khan.

Therefore, the meaning of "chen han chen" should be that everyone Chen Muwu cheered, describing him as great as the king Khan.

De Broglie was a scholar of history, and he could always think of an explanation that was completely incompatible with the correct answer.

Although Prince Albert was also excited, the royal etiquette that had been ingrained in his mind firmly pressed him to the chair.

His eldest brother, Prince Edward, left France and returned to England after attending the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and seeing Britain's Abrahams win the 100-meter dash on the 7th.

And Prince Albert, because he was in the Thames, he had seen how fast Chen Muwu swam.

That's why he deliberately stayed in France for a few more days to see if Chen could continue to create miracles at the Olympics.

The situation in front of him is really worthy of the few extra nights he stayed in Paris, and when he returns home, he can go to his eldest brother to brag about it.

Since his eldest brother is not there, Prince Albert can only extend his braggaking claws to the Swedish crown prince beside him, and use all kinds of praise and praise words to blow Chen Muwu to the sky.

Prince Gustav Adolf also silently sighed in his heart: Orientals are geniuses in art and physics, and now when it comes to sports, this person is still a genius!

He originally thought that such a person with a well-developed brain and body could only exist in the fantasy of the perfect human being described by the ancient Greek philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, but he did not expect to see it with his own eyes today.

Could it be that this is a mysterious power from the East?

In the end, Chen Muwu won the 1,500-meter freestyle championship at the 1924 Paris Olympics with a time of 19:40.6 and an absolute crushing attitude of 26 seconds ahead of the second place.

What is the concept of this time difference?

Probably Chen Muwu had already climbed ashore, put on the velvet bathrobe handed by Best, and was about to tie the belt around his waist, when the silver medalist, Charlton from Australia, had just arrived on the shore.

On the other side of the spectator stand, a five-color flag was raised at the top of a display board that used movable type to display athletes' information and time, like an old-fashioned airport screen.

The swimming events of this Olympic Games are announced in such a way that the country to which the champion belongs.

In fact, at the beginning, the organizers of the swimming competition did not prepare this flag at all.

But seeing that the Chinese athlete in Sidao had left the other four far behind, they went to the audience to ask around, and finally borrowed the national flag.

The audience basically applauded and cheered for Chen Muwu, who won the first place, and only the shortest ones led by Kikutaro Ishii were blushing.

However, what made them feel even more humiliating than the Chinese was that not long before Chen Muwu reached the finish line, the Gao Shi player from Ben had just swam his penultimate lap.

In other words, this first place from China almost fell two laps behind this player.

Everyone has already climbed ashore to celebrate, and the athletes of their own country are still swimming slowly and quietly in the water, this scene is really ironic.

After seeing Chen Muwu put on the bathrobe that kept his body warm, Best happily walked in the direction of the athletes' preparation room.

But after walking a few steps, he found that his athlete was not following him, and when he looked back, he found that Chen Muwu was still in place.

So Best turned back again and called Chen Muwu softly: "Chen, Chen!" Why are you still standing there stupidly? Is it after winning the championship that it doesn't feel real? ”

"That's the end of it?"

Chen Muwu asked a sentence without beginning or end.

"Of course, you're already a champion, what else do you want?"

"What about the awards ceremony? What about my gold medal? ”

He asked Best at this point: "Chen, you're not mistaken, right?" At the end of the competition, there is no award ceremony, and all the medals are distributed at the closing ceremony! Let's go, wait for the next race here! ”

Best's words are another place that is different from the cognition in Chen Muwu's memory.

He was still waiting for the ceremony of raising the national flag and playing the national anthem after changing his clothes, but it turned out that there was no such link at all.

But that's fine, after all, Chen Muwu doesn't even know what the current national anthem is.

On the 16th, the day after the end of the 1,500-meter final, Le Figaro, the largest newspaper in France, wrote the headline "Fourth in the semifinals, champion in the final, and Chen Hanchen won the championship by luck" in a special section of the Olympic results.

It is only in the small print below the headline that the news that the first place has dropped the second place by more than 20 seconds.

The staff of the Chinese People's Republic of China in France read the newspaper to Minister Chen Zheng and said that the Olympic Organizing Committee had invited him to watch the 200-meter breaststroke final tomorrow.

This time, in order to save his physical strength, Chen Muwu still adopted the method of relying on the second place in the group to advance.

Even in the qualifiers and semifinals, he did not use butterfly, but only used breaststroke to pass easily.

Chen Zheng once again asked the staff to refuse the invitation of the Labor Organizing Committee, and he also pointed to the headline of the newspaper and said to the staff: "Look, this newspaper has written it all, and he was lucky to get by." If I go tomorrow and this Chen Hanchen loses very humiliatingly, won't I be embarrassed with me? Don't go! ”

Thanks to Chen Zheng, the broom star, did not come, in the 200-meter breaststroke competition on the 17th, Chen Muwu used the killer feature of "butterfly swimmer + breaststroke leg", once again led the second place by 15 seconds, and won the championship with a time of 2 minutes and 44 seconds.

Of course, this title of his caused quite a bit of controversy, and at one point even used the match to pause for a while.

Organizing committee staff and FINA officials got together for a meeting to discuss whether the new breaststroke used by Chen Muwu was up to standard.

The final result of the discussion was that Chen Muwu's strokes were no problem, his leg movements were no problem, and his breathing style was completely in line with the regulations, so although it looked awkward, this swimming style was still "breaststroke", and Chen Muwu had no problem winning the gold medal.

Chen Muwu was very grateful to Best in his heart, if he hadn't drilled the tip of the horn and pointed out the butterfly leg violation, maybe this gold medal might not have fallen into his hands.

The headline of the swimming news on the 18th of Le Figaro was, "From frogs to butterflies, Chinese athlete Chen Hanchen continues to lead the pool".

Then the title of No. 19 was changed to "Chinese genius Chen Hanchen, who led the second place by more than ten seconds three times, broke the world record three times, and won the third swimming gold medal".

The three news headlines changed Chen Muwu to three different names, which is really something that only a French newspaper can do.

The newspaper was published in the morning, and for the 100-meter semi-finals that afternoon, the seats at the Turielje Natatorium were filled for the first time in the final days of the swimming competition.

Now, everyone agrees that this Olympics will be a miracle.

First, there was Finn Paavo Numir who won five gold medals in middle-distance running and cross-country running, and now there is Chinese athlete Chen Hanchen who is aiming for his fourth gold medal in swimming.

Some people even think that this young Chinese Chen Hanchen is even greater than that Numi, because there are only five individual swimming events, and Chen alone signed up for four of them.

If he wins another gold medal in the 100m freestyle, he will become a double champion in the long distance and the sprint, but Numir will not win the gold medal in the 100m race anyway.

Chen Muwu advanced to the 100-meter freestyle final without any danger, so on the afternoon of July 20, the last day of the swimming competition, tickets for the entire swimming pool were hard to find.

Everyone wanted to see for themselves if China's athletic genius could create a new miracle.

This time, Chen Zheng finally arrived at the scene, and he was even arranged in a position closer to the center in the VIP seat, sitting next to the president of the International Olympic Committee Coubertin.

With Marie Curie's consent, de Broglie took it upon himself to pick up her youngest daughter, Eve, from the Institut de Sévigné, intending to surprise Chen Muwu, who was struggling in the water.

And Prince Gustav Adolf, the crown prince of Sweden, was also annoyed by children, so he had to bring his daughter, Princess Ingrid.

Ingrid is now the hottest and most sought-after princess in Europe, countless countries want to be engaged to this princess, and Prince Albert, who is sitting next to the Crown Prince of Sweden, has been rejected by her three times.

Of course, the most depressed person in the VIP table was not Prince Albert, but Kikujiro Ishii, the ambassador to France.

Because of the unlucky guy Katsuo Takaishi, who was trapped by Chen Muwu for nearly two laps, once again entered the 100-meter final.

This was supposed to be a joyous thing, but for some reason, Ambassador Ishii just couldn't be happy, he always felt that this time his team was going to be bullied by the support * people in the pool again.

Chen Muwu's opponents in the final were the 100m world record holder Johnny Wesmuller of the United States, and his teammate, Duke Kahanamoku, a double 100m freestyle champion at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.

But he was still confident, and when the starting gun went off, he jumped into the water with the others.

The shouts from the audience were deafening, and in the VIP seats, there were also two sopranos screaming.

One is from Eve next to de Broglie, and the other is from the little Swedish princess, Ingrid.

Although the crown prince of Sweden also hopes that Chen, a Chinese genius in the water, will win the championship, he still has some bad feelings in his heart when he sees his daughter so crazy.

Especially when he thought that Albert, the second prince of England, had told him that this athlete who swam fast in the water was still a physicist, Gustavus Adolf's heart was even more uncomfortable.

Although he was not related to Gustav II, the only emperor in Swedish history, he now found a common ground between the two.

That is, their daughters seem to like high-IQ people, and Queen Christina, the daughter of Gustav II, once had an affair with the mathematician Descartes.

Why is it that three hundred years later, does his daughter also fall in love with a physicist?

Although this Chinese Chen is very good-looking, has a great figure, and has an excellent brain, he is not a European after all, and the Swedish royal family still has a rule, that is, the princess cannot marry a commoner, and if she is not the first-order heir to the throne, she must marry other countries.

Just when the Swedish crown prince was thinking crankily in the VIP seat, the cheers that suddenly echoed in the stadium also revealed the final result of the game.

Chen Muwu had no suspense and finally won the championship with a time of 55.8 seconds, more than three seconds ahead of Wes Muller behind him.

Although starting from the 1,500-meter freestyle final, Chen Muwu's competition in the water, Prince Gustave Adolf is not behind.

But today's game still makes him excited.

The Swedish crown prince was thinking in his heart that he must invite this Chen Muwu to the Swedish embassy for a meal, meet him, and have a good chat about him and the Chinese culture behind him.

But before that, what reason can I think of to give my daughter away in advance?

(End of chapter)