glory sports empire

Chapter 313

When the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games is over, all countries must make a summary, even the United States is no exception.

The main theme is civil protests, media criticism, official self-reflection, and athlete apologies.

It's a mess from top to bottom, and it's not easy.

No, ESPN invited a group of sports celebrities to comment.

The hosts are retired basketball superstars Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith. These two guys have worked for a year and have achieved very good results. They already have the reputation of gold medal hosts.

First, the two introduced the guests participating in the discussion.

Jesse Owens, a track and field star known as Black Lightning, Matt Biondi, a famous swimmer who won five gold medals in the Seoul Olympics, Paul Anderson, an Olympic weightlifting champion, and Mary Lou Layton, a women's all-around gymnastics champion.

These long-retired athletes all have very good records. In the case of a complete defeat in this Olympic Games, their reputation has risen instead of falling, and the audience is willing to listen to their opinions.

As for the current contestants, they were all sprayed with blood and did not dare to appear on the show.

Even if the medals are won, the reputation will be greatly reduced by the overall performance, and the audience will not like it at all.

Smith first raised the topic: "Five, what do you think of the results of the Olympic gold medal list?"

"No. 199 gold medals, really amazing." Barkley praised loudly.

"So what do you think of the performance of the U.S. delegation?" Smith asked.

"Hey, is there a U.S. delegation on the gold medal list?" Barkley grinned and exclaimed, pretending to open his notebook and flipping through it for a while, then said, "Oh, there really is one, 2 golds, 11 silvers, and 17 bronzes, ranking 31st... So far behind, I thought there was no delegation sent."

The other four covered their eyes, looking as if they couldn't see.

It's too miserable, it's really too miserable, so miserable that the people besieged the White House, and they didn't see it at all.

“Since the beginning of the Olympics, the number of gold medals and medals won by the U.S. delegation has never been lower than No. 3.

In the last Olympic Games, we fell below the top ten, and this year we fell directly below the top [-].

It was terrible and everyone was dissatisfied. "Jesse Owens said.

"Yes." Biondi continued: "In the last Olympics, Gao Shen participated in all swimming events and most track and field events, so it is understandable that we lost.

In this Olympics, he only participated in six track and field events, and because of the limited number of events, the Chinese did not form a monopoly, but we had nothing to gain.

This cannot be attributed to the fact that the opponent is too strong, but that there is something wrong with our system. "

"Yes." Anderson said: "For example, weightlifting, we have many fans and actual participants, but there is no medal for both men and women.

The commercialization of weightlifting in China is very low. It is difficult for athletes to support their families, not to mention getting big contracts.

And our Olympic Committee or other organizations just provide the best athletes with an official car, nothing more.

I train by myself, and go to the competition by myself. There has never been systematic and detailed help, so I don’t blame everyone for not being able to achieve results. It is really the government’s lack of support. "

As the three people complained, Smith looked at the female guest and asked, "Mary, what do you want to say?"

"I'm wondering why the Chinese are so good." Mary said, "Even when we were at our peak, we couldn't win half of the medals we had.

But the Chinese did all of this under the premise of limiting the number of entries and the number of participants. "

"I have studied this." Barkley raised his hand and said, "Everyone knows that Miracle School has the best training, but I'm afraid you don't know that they also poached many excellent coaches.

For example, the kayak coach who won the title of Meritorious Coach of the former Soviet Union in 1984 and was nominated for the best coach of the year in the United States in 1996
Eagle Grinko is now the chief training consultant of the Miracle School.

In addition, everyone has seen that the rapid progress of Chinese football has focused on the players, but they have not seen that they have sent many young coaches to Europe to study, and hired many youth training coaches to coach in China. "

"Oh, really?" Mary asked in surprise.

"Of course, I have been teammates with Gao, and we have talked about this topic." Barkley said triumphantly: "The price they pay in this regard is more than 1 million U.S. dollars per year."

Everyone was stunned.

It's not petty money.

"But, they didn't lose money..."

"Impossible?" Owens interrupted Barkley's show off.

"How is it impossible? You don't know how popular China's world champions are. No matter which event the world champions are, they have a lot of endorsement fees.

You can see that 80 members of the Chinese team won 99 gold medals this time, so their total endorsement expenses will not be less than 15 billion.

According to Miracle's commission rules, the investment was basically recovered.

In addition, you should know that Miracle also provides training for foreign players, and the tuition is also expensive.

You see, we didn't send the athletes there, so the results were miserable. said Barkley.

"Yes, for example, track and field middle-distance running and women's race walking were all won by African athletes.

The 4×100m silver medal is from Jamaica, and the bronze medal is from Namibia, both of which were trained by miracles.

And our relay team cannot be said to have no strength, it just lost because it did not receive miracle training.

To be honest, we have the most advanced technology in the world and a good sports atmosphere, but why can't even Miracle School compare? Owens wondered.

"Maybe because of their nationwide system, they concentrate on strengthening weak sports, such as cycling, sailing, rowing, and kayaking. They will naturally become stronger when they invest in it, but we have nothing to do." Anderson said.

"Maybe we can learn from the Chinese. Our men's volleyball team was very strong back then, and there have been excellent players in other sports." Mary said.

"It's hard." Owens shook his head and said, "The commercial value of volleyball is not even as good as weightlifting. Besides, anyone who can become a volleyball superstar must have good physical fitness, so why not play football or basketball, which are more profitable?"

"The most important thing is that the Olympic Committee does not have so much money to invest in these projects, unlike the Chinese who can take care of all projects.

Their football and basketball will hand over part of their income every year to subsidize unprofitable rowing and other projects, which we cannot do. said Biondi.

"But no matter what, we must learn from the Chinese, otherwise the next Olympic Games may be even worse." Mary said.

"I think that if Gao Shen can be naturalized, all problems can be solved once and for all." Smith interjected.

The other five nodded at the same time.

With a high god, no matter what project can be supported, there is no need to worry.

However, it’s better to go to sleep, there is everything in your dreams.

(End of this chapter)