Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 216 What's the Problem?
Seeing relevant reports appeared in the newspapers on this side of the Atlantic, Tang Huan knew that the hype he planned had entered the intended track, and he couldn't help but curl his lips.

People in this era are also smart, but because there is no big-bang information dissemination in the Internet era, their horizons are inevitably not wide enough. Otherwise, this grandstanding method would have been sprayed into a brain damage.

However, the reason why this operation can be so smooth mainly depends on the combination of weather, location, people and various factors.

The Bulgarians hired by themselves, in addition to being able to get cash, roses, which are the leading products of the country, can appear in the Olympic Games in this way, so that they can be widely advertised. Naturally, they are willing to cooperate from top to bottom.

The boycotted Moscow Olympics is inevitably a bit dull, and it is understandable that the media has made every effort to pursue and dig out this news in order to pursue freshness.What's more, if this kind of news is sent back, it will definitely not be hidden for political reasons, and it will be directly published in the newspaper.

As for the Soviet Union, although they were a little dissatisfied with the journalists' inaction, they found that their women's gymnastics team was the main target to be sought after, and after meeting their propaganda needs, they pinched their noses and acquiesced.

Then the next drama is that the media has fulfilled its wish to unearth the instigator of this trick and make it public.

While Tang Huan entertained everyone, he also created a sense of presence for himself and even the product.

Rubbing his nose, Tang Huan gave a dry laugh, "It seems that I have to hurry over to check and accept the results of the advertisement."

"It really is your bad taste." Deng Lijun rolled her eyes at Tang Huan, "Then let's go, pay attention to your diet, don't be hungry like the night of the concert."

"Of order." Tang Huan threw a kiss frivolously and left gracefully.

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As Tang Huan expected, when he arrived in Moscow on the afternoon of July 7, he was surrounded by a large group of reporters as soon as he stepped off the gangway of Silicon Valley One. Regal, flying a Boeing 23 alone is extremely extravagant."

This complaint, Tang Huan, who has good ears and is proficient in multiple languages, of course heard it clearly, and he laughed in his heart.Brother Li was on the plane in the previous life, so of course he couldn't treat himself badly.What's more, this is the biggest testimony of Christina's flattery. Sitting on it and flying around the world, I have a man's sense of accomplishment in my heart.Why are you jealous.

"Don, may I ask, is it your order to send roses flown in from Bulgaria to all the female gymnasts in the Olympic Village?" The reporters first brought up this topic.

"Is there any problem?" Tang Huan, who had the time to spare, walked steadily forward in the face of the reporters' pursuit and interception.

Everyone is playing word games. Although Tang Huan didn't answer directly, he gave the answer to this rhetorical question. All the reporters were shocked. Thankfully, they finally found the right owner.

"But when sending flowers, you are particularly partial to the Soviet women's gymnastics team. Why?" Several reporters were squeezed to and fro, but they still asked.

"Is there any problem?" Although Tang Huan had a gentle smile on his face that was harmless to humans and animals, he did not relax his tone, nor did he slacken his efforts to squeeze his way out of the crowd.

Seeing that Tang Huan and the airport security gathered together, the reporters at the outermost corner became anxious. They jumped up and down and shouted, "What is the purpose of your mobilizing people and spending so much time? Is it to cover up the pursuit of a certain athlete?" ?”

"Is there any problem?" Tang Huan, who was full of anger, could still be heard clearly and clearly in the noisy scene.

Tang Huan responded with three identical rhetorical questions one after another, not only did not disappoint the reporters, but made them even more excited, because without it, since there was no denial, it was tacit acquiescence in disguise, and there was too much room for imagination in it.

This is all right, the Moscow Olympics, which has been a bit dull due to politics, finally has a touch of lightness, and everyone can play happily.

After entering the protective circle of the airport security guards, Tang Huan waved his hands, "Don't work so hard, everyone. I still have to watch the women's gymnastics team competition today. Goodbye."

If this is the Internet age, there must be someone who will piss on Tang Huan's face, and you can go wherever you want, and explain why you are so clear.

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Originally, the legal seat of the Chinese Olympic Committee was restored at the Nagoya meeting of the International Olympic Committee in October 1979. Starting from this Olympic Games, Chinese athletes can officially participate in the Olympic Games.

It can be said that formally and completely participating in the Olympic Games has been the long-cherished wish of Chinese athletes for many years since the founding of the country, but for the sake of the national interest, they can only obey the announcement of the Chinese Olympic Committee and give up participating in the Moscow Olympic Games.

In this way, when Tang Huan watched the game, he didn't have to think about which side his butt was sitting on, and he just had to enjoy himself.

In this Olympic Games, football matches will be held in Leningrad, Kiev, and Minsk, sailing competitions will be held in Tallinn, other events will be held in Moscow, and gymnastics events will be held at the Lenin Central Stadium.

At this stage, gymnastics in the Olympic Games only includes competitive gymnastics. As for rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline, they will be added in the future 1984 and 2000 Olympic Games respectively.

Competitive gymnastics requires athletes to complete a set of movements within about 30 seconds to 90 seconds, which is divided into six events for men: floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bar; four events for women: floor exercise, Balance beam, vault, uneven bars.Men's competitive gymnastics focuses on strength, while women's competitive gymnastics focuses more on artistry, balance and coordination.

Competitive gymnastics is one of the most popular sports in the summer olympics, but it is not a very popular sport, because even entry-level movements require good physical fitness and high skill, think about what ordinary people can do How many pull-ups can understand the difficulty.And in many economically underdeveloped countries, gymnastics is an expensive sport relative to other sports.

But as an audience, the kind of pleasing to the eye is obvious.

Looking at the graceful and vigorous postures of the female athletes on the field and their beautiful white legs, Tang Huan wished he could move a small bench and get closer to enjoy them while eating melon seeds.

The schedule of the entire gymnastics event starts on July 7 and ends on July 21.

Among them, the 22nd, that is, yesterday, is the men's team; today is the women's team; tomorrow is the men's and women's individual all-around; the day after tomorrow is the men's and women's individual events.

Therefore, as long as Tang Huan is willing, he can watch it for three days in a row.

Whether the national gymnastics team can participate in the Olympic team competition is determined by the results of the previous year's World Gymnastics Championships. If there is no group of athletes with a high enough level, at most they can only send athletes to participate in individual competitions, so this event is indeed to some extent It represents the comprehensive national strength and has political significance.

The current strong gymnastics teams include the Soviet Union, Romania, Japan, and East Germany, especially the Japanese men's gymnastics team. It was a super gymnastics team in the 1960s and 1970s. It won the gold medals of the men's team in the five Olympic Games from 1960 to 1976. .

It's a pity that they didn't come this time. The Soviet Union won the championship yesterday.

And this gymnastics competition will also be monopolized by the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries.

Fortunately, the impact is not great, especially women's gymnastics, the Soviet Union, Romania, and East Germany are all world-class.Furthermore, the two stars of the last 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, Nadia Comaneci and Nelligin, will also appear this year, which is very interesting.Tang Huan's vision of selection has not made a mistake so far.

But it's a pity that Nelligin, who is 23 years old this year, is obviously no longer in her peak state. On the contrary, those girls who are younger than her have performed even better.

Early on, most female competitive gymnasts were trained in ballet.

Soviet gymnast Larry Saratynina won the first Olympic women's gymnastics all-around gold medal at the age of 22, and then won consecutive Olympic gold medals in this event at the age of 26 and 30. She was pregnant in 1957. Won the World Gymnastics Championship.

Czech gymnast Wilačaslavska has won two all-around Olympic gold medals after Larisa.She also won her first gold medal at the age of 22.

But as the difficulty of gymnastics moves increases, these older athletes gradually lose their living space.

For example, the balance beam, in its early days, was more about dancing than somersaults. A set of movements usually consists of jumping, dancing, handstand, rolling and walking.In the 1960s, the most difficult move for gymnasts competing in the Olympics was the back handspring.But after entering the 1970s, the difficulty of balance beam movements began to increase significantly. Olga Corbut and Nadia Comaneci introduced somersaults on the balance beam, and other athletes followed suit.

The gymnastics scoring rules at that time also tended to be difficult.

Therefore, only petite girls are more suitable for doing some difficult movements. Therefore, most of the athletes participating in large-scale competitions are 14 or 15 years old. The age of Olympic gymnasts has also been greatly reduced. Lyudmila Tory Sheva was only 16 years old when she first participated in the Olympics, and Nadia Comaneci was only 14 years old when she first participated in the Olympics.

This situation will change in the future, but this is the case now. Once a female gymnast is over 20 years old, she can only retire.

Therefore, it is quite difficult for Nelligin now.However, as a leader, he plays a role that cannot be ignored in boosting morale and stabilizing the morale of the army.

Another heavyweight player, Romania's Nadia Comaneci, did not perform as expected. In addition to her own injuries, Tang Huan also knew that she should be affected by some cruel social reality factors. affected by.

In 1976, Comaneci, who was only 14 years old, won three gold medals in individual all-around, balance beam and uneven bars, one team silver medal, and one bronze medal in floor exercise. He became a star in the Montreal Summer Olympics. In the same week of the month, he appeared on the covers of the world's most famous magazines, "Time", "Newsweek" and "Sports Illustrated", becoming the only person in the world who has received such honors so far.

Such a beautiful flower bone is said to have been destroyed by those in power.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that during the Cold War period, sports were often used to serve politics and to decorate appearances. In some places, athletes winning Olympic gold medals did not necessarily mean that their status would rise in an all-round way.

And in Tang Huan's view, the sports performance during this period cannot escape the influence of doping.

You must know that for a long time in the early days, athletes used drugs to participate in competitions, which was not a disgraceful thing, but was regarded as a new "scientific" method, which can be called a pride in the use of doping day.

The first major development of stimulants appeared during World War II.

In 1934, amphetamine, an analogue of ephedrine, was commercially synthesized under the trade name Benzedrine, or "Benzedrine".

This central nervous system stimulant immediately became the treasure of the military, because it can make people forget about fatigue and keep excited. During World War II, Britain alone provided soldiers with 7200 million tablets of benzodiazepines.

The second major development of doping occurred during the Cold War.

During a weightlifting competition in Vietnam in 1954, a drunken Soviet physiologist confided in American sports medicine specialist John Ziegler that they were giving athletes testosterone.

The two superpowers of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union, competed head-to-head in every field, and sports was one of the most straightforward ways.

When sports are not only linked to personal honor, but also to national interests and even ideology, the development of doping is naturally inevitable.

Immediately after Ziegler returned home, he began administering small doses of testosterone to himself and two weightlifters, and the results were encouraging: The subjects developed more muscle and strength.

Because testosterone has a lot of side effects, Ziegler found a drug that he thought had less side effects--dehydromethyltestosterone, and this drug also has a famous trade name-"Dianabol".

The anabolic preparations represented by "Dianabol" are mostly androgen analogues, which can significantly increase the proportion of muscle in the body.The famous bodybuilder Schwarzenegger once took such drugs.

The largest doping incident during the Cold War was the large-scale use of doping by East German athletes that was exposed decades later. Tens of thousands of East German athletes participated in a program called "Komplex80" in the 08s and [-]s.They were asked to take a blue pill that was said to be a vitamin, which was an anabolic steroid in the Dianabol category.

It was not until the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games that the International Olympic Committee made up its mind and used heavy punches to restrain this phenomenon.

It can be seen that the athletes at that time could be said to be a political tool.

In the original time and space in 1981, two coaches of Comaneci, Bella Caroli and his wife Marta, fled to the United States and became the coach of many famous American gymnasts. A year later, he fled to the United States.

Due to Comaneci's great fame and the great changes in Eastern Europe at that time, she was subsequently labeled, vilified, and beautified by various parties in public opinion.

But in reality, Comaneci, who left the Maelstrom, managed to do just fine after a difficult first few years in the United States and took a position in the international sports body.

Moreover, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the women's gymnastics Olympic champions in front of Tang Huan basically went to the United States or Canada.

Because of his thorough observation, Tang Huan did not yell like other spectators after seeing the difficult movements performed by some athletes, but acted calmly. What he admired was the perfect combination of sports and art.

Finally, in this women's team competition, the Soviet Union won the gold medal, Romania won the silver medal, and East Germany won the bronze medal. Although the whole process of the competition was exciting, the result inevitably made people feel a little weird.

Tang Huan left without waiting for the end, because Samaranch invited him to a banquet tonight, so naturally he had to make some preparations in advance.

When he was about to leave the hotel room, the head of the Bulgarian flower delivery team hired by Tang Huan came to ask for instructions in person.

"Send it as usual." Tang Huan pondered for a moment, "Send a bouquet of orange roses representing friendship, youth and beauty to Nelligin and Comaneci respectively."

After seeing the other party earnestly recorded in the notebook, Tang Huan patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction, "The work has been done well in the past few days. After the event is over, I will give you a bonus."

The man was overjoyed when he heard the words, and after thanking him, he happily went to do the work of sending flowers.

Tang Huan shook his head. The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. The words of our ancestors are applicable everywhere.

The dinner that Samaranch asked him to attend was actually a regular public relations gathering, attended by officials from the Soviet Union, members of the Olympic Committee, leaders of Olympic sports delegations from various countries, etc. Everyone eats and drinks together, and at the same time connects with each other.

Because Samaranch deliberately introduced some important people to Tang Huan on several occasions, he inevitably attracted some attention. When talking with the head of the Kuwaiti delegation, the other party was a little enthusiastic.

Before World War I, Kuwait was an autonomous province of Iraq under the Ottoman Empire, but during World War I, Britain occupied Kuwait, prompting its independence in 1961.

However, Iraq has never recognized Kuwait's independence, which is one of the excuses for Saddam to order the invasion of Kuwait in the future.

Because of this historical background, although the official language of Kuwait is Arabic, but English is widely used, which makes him proficient in several foreign languages. Only Tang Huan, who is not good at Arabic, still maintains the advantage of direct language communication.

When he saw this important member of the Kuwaiti royal family, Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the first thing Tang Huan thought of was that the other party earned money through oil. A lot of dollars, that's really rich.

(End of this chapter)