Chapter 209

In the past few years, in addition to international events hosted by China, events such as challenge competitions and national leagues are often free of charge.

Since last year, because the 2001-2002 season is the Olympic season, there was the Winter Olympics publicity, and then there was the rise of Su Liang in the 02-03 season, and the popularity of the domestic short track speed skating competition has been much higher than in previous years.

Although the game will not be unable to grab tickets, some positions with better viewing angles do need to buy tickets in advance.

Originally, ice fans heard that the new venue was opened, and they thought that there were many locations in the new venue, and there were many places to watch the game up close, so they could buy tickets a little more calmly, but they didn't expect that the guys in the figure skating section next door were actually born.

The ice fans here in the short track speed skating section looked at the guys who came to post tickets next door, and they were confused.

How?

Good seats were snatched away first?

Immediately, a short track speed skating fan who hadn't bought a ticket wailed: [Next door, what do you mean? Did you buy the wrong ticket? This is a ticket for a short track speed skating competition, not figure skating! 】

The figure skating enthusiast next door smiled: "What's wrong? We bought tickets for the Short Track Speed Skating Challenge! 】

Speaking of which, these figure skating enthusiasts are also full of grief and indignation, Su Liang is a good figure skating genius, and he doesn't play figure skating to play short track speed skating!

What a heartache they have!

Although they already knew Su Liang's talent and achievements in short track speed skating, they still wanted to go to the scene to 'judge' Su Liang's competition.

Of course, wouldn't it be better if you could mix up in front of Su Liang, and then secretly rub and hook up with him, and ask him if he can turn figure skating?

They also admit that such careful thinking is not very moral, but what is the use of morality? Continue to be moral, and then thoroughly watch Su Liang on the road to short track speed skating...... Ah no, is it because you can't come back from the wrong path?

In short, regardless of the intentions, the first competition of the 2002-2003 short track speed skating season in China hit a small peak in ticket sales, and even the leaders of the Winter Games Center received this rather surprising news.

Winter Project Management Center Office

"Tickets sold out of 60%?"

In the office, several team members looked at each other, and the word surprise was written on their faces.

Don't look at other people's football games or concert tickets, they can easily sell eighty or ninety percent of the seats or even full seats, but that's people's business, as far as the winter event is concerned, if it is a domestic event, even the most popular figure skating event, it is difficult to sell tickets at this level.

In the early years, many ice fans were accustomed to the tradition of various associations and organizers giving away tickets to watch the games, and the enthusiasm for paying for tickets was very low.

If you want to promote the competition and improve the competition strength of domestic athletes, first of all, you have to hold more competitions, but if you don't sell tickets, their funds are also difficult, and as for recruiting investors...... The popularity of ice and snow projects is here, the heat is limited, and the enthusiasm of the management is also limited.

This is like the current situation of short track speed skating popularity in China, including the popularity of the public and other issues are restricting the development and improvement of the entire project.

As the organizers, they have all been mentally prepared, and even prepared a series of free tickets early, ready to distribute some free tickets to the sports university and other related colleges and universities in Beijing according to the ticket sales at that time, to help fill the scene.

As a result, before they could distribute the free tickets, they actually received the news of the gratifying results of ticket sales.

The clerk who came to report the good news said with a smile: "We asked the staff at the ticket office to do a small survey, and it was said that the audience who bought back the tickets was quite interesting, and some of them were figure skating enthusiasts, and there were no tickets for short track speed skating in the past." ”

"Oh?" Wang Jianping, the deputy director of the office, lifted his glasses curiously: "What's going on?" ”

The clerk surnamed Lin laughed: "I also inquired about this, saying that it was because they wanted to see Su Liang." ”

"All the leaders of the forum in the Ice and Snow Kingdom know that recently, the two sections of figure skating and short track speed skating on this forum are fighting spirits, and the ice fans in the figure skating section can't see Su Liang's figure skating competition, so they all come to buy tickets for the short track speed skating competition."

After figuring out the causes and consequences of this, the leaders of these winter sports centers couldn't laugh or cry, they didn't know that Su Liang could still have this effect.

"What should this say? This is called high commercial value, right? ”

In the past, athletes were just a special profession, and in the eyes of people, athletes who represented the glory of the country had a unique halo.

Most of the athletes are thinking about training and competing, and nothing else.

However, with the advent of the new century, the strong strength of athletes and the aura on their bodies have made them the idols of many people, which also derives economic and commercial values related to individual athletes.

In the early years, the Federation of Sports did not deal with such cases, but with the emergence of some players with high commercial value, with the emergence of cases of some advertisers appointing individual athletes to sign advertising agreements and spokesperson agreements, and referring to the commercial value and income of foreign star athletes, the commercial value of sports athletes has also been taken seriously.

Due to China's unique national cultivation system, issues such as whether athletes' commercial income should belong to athletes or sports teams have also repeatedly caused contradictions and discussions in the industry.

It's just that such a problem has not appeared in ice and snow projects for the time being.

It is really that the popularity of ice and snow sports is too low, and the public awareness of athletes is limited, unlike basketball, football, and table tennis, which have high national awareness, and advertisers are more confident and enthusiastic about them.

Ice and snow events here, even at the beginning of the Winter Olympics in 02, several medalists of the Chinese team have not been able to receive a few commercial offers, let alone this ordinary small competition year.

Several leaders were chatting, and suddenly Xiao Xu, a staff member of the new business and market development department in the center the year before last, knocked on the door and entered the office in a hurry.

"What's wrong?"

Xiao Xu calmed down his light breath, and said with surprise in his voice: "Director, Feiyang Group has promised the title investment, and 100% accepted the funding plan we submitted, and we have invested all in this season's competition!" ”

When Wang Jianping heard this, he was immediately overjoyed: "Okay! Great, Feiyang Group is worthy of being our domestic sports brand, and is willing to support domestic unpopular projects, good, great! ”

After Wang Jianping said a few words in a row, he remembered to ask: "In addition to the title, does Feiyang Group have any other conditions?" ”

Xiao Xu said with a smile: "Yes, but I don't think it's a big problem if I think of this condition - Feiyang people seem to want to invite Su Liang, a player in the short track speed skating event, as their brand spokesperson, saying that the cost of this piece will be negotiated separately." ”

Hearing this, Wang Jianping, who was still chatting about other athletes' commercial endorsements and other topics just now, was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

"It seems that what we just said is really right, on this Su Liang's body, the value of the merchant may be higher than we thought!"

***

On Friday, September 19, 2003, the first domestic event of the 03-04 season in China, the Feiyang Cup Short Track Speed Skating National Challenge Beijing Station, officially kicked off.

Because of the title of Feiyang Group, the prize money of the challengers in this challenge has also reached the highest in the history of domestic events, and everyone in the ice and snow circle knows that Feiyang Group seems to be optimistic about Su Liang, so it agreed to title a whole season of short track speed skating events in one go.

This matter has generated some controversy in the ice and snow circle, some people think that the addition of capital will make the whole athlete circle float, and some people think that this is a good time for the ice and snow sports to be vigorously developed.

Some people feel that it is inappropriate for Feiyang Group to put all the heavy bets on Su Liang's body, Su Liang is only 16 years old this year, the results of players in this age group are not stable enough, and the good results of last season do not mean that the results of this season can be maintained, and the words are quite derogatory to Su Liang.

But no matter how he intended to belittle Su Liang, when Su Liang and his opponent in the same group appeared in the chase race, the sudden cheers at the scene had proved the audience's enthusiasm for Su Liang.

In the same group as Su Liang was a player from the Beijing team, but after seeing the audience's enthusiastic performance towards Su Liang, he was obviously a little unhappy.

Theoretically speaking, today is a domestic competition, and Su Liang and this player from the Beijing team should belong to the 'teammates', but unfortunately, this 'teammate' doesn't seem to like Su Liang very much.

Su Liang doesn't care about the attitude of this 'teammate', from the past to the present, there are too many people who don't like him, as an athlete, in the process of continuous climbing, he will always knock down some opponents.

These opponents are unlikely to have much in their affection for him, and if their emotions can only be indulged in disgust with him, then these athletes, who can now be called 'rivals', will soon not have the opportunity to compete at the same level as him.

When Su Liang and his 'teammates' of the Beijing team stood at the diagonal starting line of the arena, as the starter's command sounded, Su Liang had already lowered his upper body, his arms were high, he looked forward with a cold gaze, and calmly waited for the starting gun to sound after the preparation-

Almost just a short breath, the 'bang' starting gun resounded through the brand-new short track speed skating venue, and all the ice fans who came with the name 'Su Liang' in the audience focused their eyes on the teenager in a white and red competition suit.

And this young man, at the moment when the starting gun sounded, started to sprint forward lightly and quickly, and then quickly and smoothly connected to the rapid glide, the whole process was smooth, and in the blink of an eye he had entered the bend along the inner road, without wasting a trace of distance on the route.

His skating was fast and light, and each kick seemed smooth and smooth, as if it were effortless, but suddenly he was closing the distance between him and his opponent again.

Ice fans who used to pay attention to Su Liang earlier still remember the first chase match between Su Liang and Zhou Haibo in the last season.

If Su Liang's performance in that chase race was amazing enough, then in this 7-lap chase race, Su Liang's absolute speed ability was completely crushed.

"It's a chase race with no suspense."

From the end of the first lap of the race, Zhang Jianxin, the coach of the Beijing team sitting in the audience, had already sighed.

The player on the field, his head coach used to be one of the youth team coaches who disagreed with Jiang Yibo, and he also secretly slandered Su Liang and Jiang Yibo because his players failed to be selected for the national team.

Although Zhang Jianxin has dismissed the coach in order to rectify the atmosphere of the Beijing team, there are still some players in the Beijing team who are prejudiced against Jiang Yibo and Su Liang's father and son.

Zhang Jianxin does not expect these players to abandon their prejudices, but he hopes that at least the players in his team can face up to the strength of their opponents after facing strong opponents, instead of still using various reasons to excuse themselves.

The rest of the audience at the scene naturally didn't know the other relationships in this, they only knew that Su Liang slid out of the ring in this 7-lap chase battle-

"Why do I think that after Xia Xun, Su Liang's strength has become stronger?"

"This sheer speed, this ability to corner...... This kind of high-speed endurance is also ...... for the overall skating course, physical fitness and rhythm! ”

"Delete the word 'feel', Su Liang's strength has definitely been improved!"

"I can't wait to see what Su Liang looks like when he enters the international arena!"

On the ice, the boy who crossed the finish line slowly stopped his slide, and when he skipped past the audience on one side, he raised his hand in the direction of the audience seat as if waving his hand to the ice fan, and in the direction of his wave, there was an old couple holding a cute little dot, and they were also waving the Ultraman Tiga in his hand in the direction of Su Liang.

This little little dot looked at his brother who was waving to him, his face was full of pride and happiness - ang! Nuan Nuan's brother is the best!

Chapter 210

The domestic players participating in this challenge have already seen or heard of Su Liang's strength, but after seeing Su Liang easily complete this seven-lap chase race on the field, and win the crushing ring - even if there are reasons such as the poor performance of the player from the Beijing team, Su Liang's strength has long been beyond doubt.

"That's a lot of speed."

"When he's kicking on the ice, I always don't feel like he's pushing hard...... As a result, the distance and speed of each skating pedal are outrageous, and I really don't understand the efficiency of this pedaling......"

"This is probably the ice sense, I heard our old grandson say many times, Su Liang is the best ice sense he has ever seen, there is no one, before the old grandson also showed me a video of Su Liang's figure skating - good guy, you see him pedaling on the ice in our short track speed skating arena at this time, it seems that he is not strong, if you watch the video of his figure skating, then you know what it means to drag you on the ice surface ...... skating"

"Is that really that exaggerated?"

"Harm, it's not easy for ice fans to get that video, your coach will definitely be able to get it, or ask your brother team figure skating friends from the provincial team, Lao Sun told me, now all provincial teams are also analyzing according to Su Liang's skating course video, and many provincial teams should also apply with the national team, and want Su Liang to go back to the coach of the provincial team to teach lessons."

"Anyway, you'll know if you've seen it, really, absolutely silky. To tell you the truth, the first time I watched it, everyone looked stupid, just this ......"

The short track speed skater who spoke silently gave a thumbs up: "This ice feeling is definitely this, God appreciates the food and eats it." ”

Another short track speed skater on the side was stunned for a moment, but looked up and saw that many spectators were still coming with dolls.

"Eh, did you find out? The attendance rate of this venue today is awesome! ”

The player who spoke first nodded: "Haven't you heard?" A group of figure skating fans all came to Su Liang, crying and shouting to let Su Liang go figure skating - do you see the dolls in their hands? Figure skating has an old tradition there, it is used by supporting athletes, and figure skating is a tradition there, but after all, we are competing in short track speed skating today, and these ice fans are also abiding by the rules and dare not throw it casually. ”

At the competition scene, there were many conversations like this, and Su Liang left the field after easily completing the seven-lap pursuit race, and waited for the AB group to be arranged.

In the follow-up pursuit match, there were not too many surprises on the whole, all members of the national team successfully advanced to Group A, and at 10:20 a.m., the men's 1500m preliminaries in Group A will also be grouped.

For Su Bai, the preliminaries of the challenge, as well as the quarterfinals and semifinals, will not be too difficult for him.

In today's challenge, what he has to do is more to help him regain his rhythm and form after a long summer training period, and whether he skates his best result is not the point.

When Su Liang left the field, he saw the senior brother and coach Pei Jing waiting for him to leave on the sidelines.

During the entire summer training period, Pei Jing, as his head coach, accompanied him throughout the training, and Pei Jing had a clear understanding of Su Liang's overall state.

At this time, seeing that Su Liang's chase was over, he didn't say anything, just patted him on the shoulder and asked him to continue to cheer in the next 1500 meters.

After he got off the field, his senior brother hugged him shallowly, and praised him for 'being in good shape'.

When they returned to the backcourt lounge, Sun Ruixiang saw Mu Yuansheng and Su Liang returning to the backcourt together, and shouted in surprise: "Eh, Brother Mu, why did you come back with my boss?" ”

"Didn't you have a dozen groups of people between you and my boss in the chase just now?"