Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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With the help of the high popularity gathered by Carl Lewis at the Los Angeles Olympics, the brand of Fangyuan Computer has been further strengthened, and the sales of Fangyuan PC have also experienced a significant leap-forward growth.

Seeing that this round of marketing was a great success, the subordinates have offered the boss's wise and powerful flattery one after another. The reason is not that he made the right bet. After all, many businesses have benefited a lot from the Los Angeles Olympics, and Tang Huan is not the only one; it is that everyone avoided a possible financial loss.

Originally, seeing McDonald's free distribution promotion plan in such a powerful manner, the subordinates intended to follow suit and came up with a radical plan, but Tang Huan rejected it.

Fortunately, this plan did not pass, otherwise it would be in a dilemma like McDonald's.

Due to the boycott of the Soviet Union, a sports powerhouse, the pattern of the Olympic medal table is clearly polarized, similar to the third Summer Olympic Games hosted by St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 1904.

At that time, the international situation was not relaxed, and it coincided with the Russo-Japanese War-the little devil and the old Maozi fought on the territory of China in order to compete for the influence of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast China, which made many world powers at that time have no time. He cares.

In addition, although the Olympic Games came to the North American continent for the first time, the traffic conditions at that time were far inferior to Tang Huan's now. As long as he has money, he can fly around the earth in a private jet. In addition, St. Louis is located inland, which directly led to the lack of interest of European countries, and other countries were unwilling to travel long distances to participate.

Ever since, the third Summer Olympics became a show for the Americans, who sent an unprecedented delegation—up to 523 people, you know. Canada, with the second largest number, has only 56 people.

Therefore, in many projects, the United States has almost won without a fight. Gained an unprecedented monopoly, and won 76 gold medals alone.

Nowhere is this more evident than in water polo. In addition to the United States, no other countries participated in the competition, and the final gold medal was decided among the representative teams of the three cities in the United States.

In this year's Los Angeles Olympics, the advantage of the United States is also extremely obvious. After halfway through the competition, some media have vowed to predict that the number of gold medals that the US delegation can win should be around 80.

The same is true of the facts. Carl Lewis alone won four track and field gold medals in the men's 100 meters, men's 200 meters, men's long jump and men's 4x100 meter relay.

According to McDonald's a gold medal gives a Big Mac, a silver medal gives a French fries.

A bronze medal for a Coca-Cola gift, conservatively estimated that tens of millions of dollars will be thrown away, definitely a disaster celebrated by the whole world.

Now McDonald's is in a cocoon, how many burgers will it have to sell to earn back? But it does not dare to give up halfway. The American people are in high spirits. If you remove the ladder halfway at this time, then not only consumers will fall from the mid-air, but also your own signboard.

It can be said that the dilemma of McDonald's is for all American manufacturers who have sharpened their heads to find out how to make a fortune in the Olympics. After pouring cold water on the head, the management of Fangyuan Computer Company was even more sweaty, and naturally wanted to send compliments to the boss to show their self-reflection.

Tang Huan didn't say much about it. He is still very satisfied with the current management of Fangyuan Computer Company. He can fight his way through the thousands of troops in the computer industry. Technology alone cannot do it, and management is inseparable. The level shown by these subordinates has always been They are all remarkable, and there is no need to beat them through this matter.

The promotion of Fangyuan Computer relied on Carl Lewis, and EA played the card of gymnastics.

As a member of the Warsaw Pact, the Romanian delegation has received more attention than China and Yugoslavia in the United States, and its second place in the gold medal list seems to indicate that it has the capital to replace the Soviet Union in the Olympic Games status.

However, the story behind this is even more intriguing.

Back in 1981. The Romanian gymnastics national team came to the United States to participate in the tour. But after that, the coaches - Bella Karoli and - Marta Karoli defected to the United States. Of course, in the description of the Western media, he defected to the United States.

The coaching ability of Bella Caroli and Marta Caroli is extraordinary. Nadia Comaneci was their disciple. Due to the departure of the two, the famous sports player was also implicated. He retired unofficially in the year of the incident and officially announced his retirement this year. Although he also came to the Los Angeles Olympics, his travel was restricted and he was only allowed to visit limited places such as Cuba and the Soviet Union. .

After settling down in the United States, Bella Caroli and Marta Caroli trained a dark horse for the United States—the 16-year-old Mary Lou Layton.

Since the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Romania's Nadia Comaneci and the Soviet Union's Nelligin have become superstars in the field of gymnastics in the world. Even in Western countries, there is no shortage of admirers. Mary Lou Layton is Inspired by Nadia Comaneci's performances, she started studying women's competitive gymnastics.

Thanks to the excellent guidance of two world-class gymnastics coaches, Bella Caroli and Marta Caroli, Mary Lou Leighton made rapid progress and began gymnastics at the age of 15 in 1983. The world shines.

In that year's Up-America Cup gymnastics competition, Mary Lou Leighton, who participated for the first time, squeezed out the then national champion Durham-Diana Durham and became the rookie champion of the super dark horse.

Mary Lou Leighton also won awards in the Japan China-Japan Cup Gymnastics Competition and the American Classic Cup Gymnastics Competition that year.

However, after winning her second America's Cup gymnastics title this year, as well as the U.S. Olympic qualifier, Mary Lou Leighton sprained her knee while performing floor exercises at a local gym in Houston and Surgery was performed subsequently.

Although Mary Lou Retton recovered quickly, she was able to represent the United States in her first Olympic Games. But her performance is inevitably full of uncertainties.

At this stage, women's competitive gymnastics is dominated by athletes from Eastern Europe, and the results of the United States are lackluster.

When the personal and overall situation is not favorable. The value of Mary Lou Leighton's commercial endorsement is really hard to say, the only signing companies are EA and Wyeth.

Everyone knows that Tang Huan has always had a strong interest in gymnastics. Therefore, the subordinates thought that the boss was giving a friendly sponsorship support among the short men of the US team, and he basically thought so.

You know, although the Soviet Union missed the Olympics due to the boycott, Romania, which is equally strong in gymnastics, participated. His team - Ekaterina Szabo, known as Nadia Comaneci's successor, withstood the baptism of European Championships and World Championships with a higher level of competition last year, and harvested several gold medals , far from being comparable to Mary Lou Retton.

but. This is the charm of sports. With the prestige of the home court, the results of many games are beyond people's expectations.

In the first men's gymnastics team competition, the US team won the championship with a score of 591.400, while the Chinese team finished second with a score of 590.800. This made Li Jingwei, Han Sining and other large and small off-site audiences sigh endlessly.

In the next women's gymnastics team competition, the Romanian team finally won the first team championship in history without the Soviet Union as its rival. The US team and the Chinese team won the second and third place respectively.

On August 2, the men's gymnastics individual all-around gold medal was won by the 28-year-old Japanese veteran Koshi Ken Koji. Peter Wiedema of the US team and Li Ning of the Chinese team won the silver and bronze medals respectively.

On August 3, the women's gymnastics individual all-around that EA focused on entered the final.

Trip Hawkins pointed to Mary Lou Retton, who is only 145 centimeters tall, and said: This little girl has a sweet smile and energetic enthusiasm, and the effect in the camera is very friendly. As long as she wins the championship , it has the potential to become 'America's Sweetheart'. Driven by this round of Olympic stars and idols, the collapsed American home game console market will further recover.

Tang Huan smiled slightly, It seems that you are quite optimistic about Mary Lou Leighton winning the championship. Don't forget, Romania's Ekaterina Szabo is not to be underestimated.

In the previous women's gymnastics team competition, although the Romanian team won, the US team was only the runner-up. But in the individual results, Mary Lou Layton scored 79.050 points, ranking first, while Ekaterina Szabo was 78.750 Ranked second. According to the rules of women's gymnastics competitions, half of each player's individual score in the team competition will be brought into the total score of the individual all-around. Therefore, in today's individual all-around, Mary Lou Leighton It was dominant from the start.”

Having said that, Trip Hawkins waved his hands around, Have you noticed any difference in the atmosphere here?

At this time, the Pauley Hall of the University of California, Los Angeles, where the Olympic gymnastics competition was held, was full of seats, and 13,000 spectators had a strong home court advantage.

Noticing this, Tang Huan let out a haha, It seems like the devil is at home.

Mary Lou Retton and Ekaterina Sabo were placed in separate groups when the competition started, so they could compete on different machines at the same time.

It seems that Ekatrina Szabo, who is one year older than Mary Lou Leighton, has rich experience in the competition. The first event, balance beam, directly got a full score of 10 points; while Mary Lou Leighton Dayton's first event was uneven bars, scoring 9.850.

The scores brought by the two from the individual results of the team competition were 39.375 points and 39.525 points respectively. As a result, after the first round of competition, they directly drew.

Trip Hawkins, who was originally smiling, suddenly became serious.

In the second round, Ekaterina Szabo performed almost flawlessly on the floor exercise, scoring 9.950 points; while Mary Lou Leighton scored only 9.800 points on the balance beam.

Now, the Romanian girl has led by 0.150 points, and the atmosphere in the arena became more and more tense and depressed.

In the third round, Ekaterina Szabo scored 9.900 points for her event on the vault; Mary Lou Layton's event was floor exercise, and the referee gave her a perfect score of 10 points.

immediately. The audience cheered excitedly, but the Romanian girl still led by 0.050 points.

Final round. Ekaterina Szabo scored another 9.900 on the uneven bars; Mary Lou Leighton's final sprint was the vault.

The situation was pretty clear: Mary Lou Retton could score a perfect 10 on the vault. Then the gold medal is hers; if she gets 9.950 points, then she will share the gold medal with the Romanian girl; if the score is lower, the gold medal will not be with her.

After Bella Caroli gave her students a last-minute face-to-face instruction, Mary Lou Leighton calmly walked to the arena.

At this moment, the Poly Hall was extremely quiet, and Tang Huan could hear a group of people beside him, including Trip Hawkins, breathing heavily due to nervousness.

Mary Lou Retton looked at horse, then began to approach the horse, followed by a strong touch with both hands. The body rotated deftly in the air, and finally landed firmly as if nailed.

Bella Caroli can still be heard screaming, 10 points, 10 points, ... 10 points!

The coach, who left Romania for the United States, clearly needed the highest level of Olympic sports performance to prove his worth.

Thirty seconds later, the scoreboard in the stadium showed 10 points as Bella Caroli wanted. Mary Lou Leighton overtook her opponent in the closing stages to win the Olympic title in the women's gymnastics individual all-around.

Most importantly. Mary Lou Leighton broke the record that only Eastern European athletes won the individual all-around gymnastics gold medal, and became the first American gymnast to win the individual all-around championship, which is of great significance.

In the cheers that shook the sky. Tang Huan smiled playfully. He clearly remembered that when he went to the Moscow Olympics four years ago, in the same women's gymnastics individual all-around final, the Soviet Union's Yelena Davydova defeated Nadia Comaneci, who performed poorly, and came out on top. As a result, Romania protested in all directions.

Now, Mary Lou Leighton, who was originally behind, scored two consecutive 10 points in the last two events and reversed to win the championship. Why don't you make trouble?

Next, though, is Mary Lou Retton's performance. Tang Huan had to look at this little girl with admiration.

According to the rules of gymnastics, each athlete has two chances in the vault. Grades are calculated according to the higher one.

Originally, Mary Lou Leighton had already won the game, so she didn't need to jump for the second time, but she still jumped for the second time, and finally got another perfect score-10 points!

Doing so seems to have little meaning, but in Tang Huan's view, it is just a kind of self-proof of his own strength. Mary Lou Leighton's fighting spirit is not usually strong.

In the subsequent women's single event, Mary Lou Leighton won the silver medal in the vault, and the bronze medal in the uneven bars and floor exercises. In addition to the previous silver medal in the team event, she has a total of 5 medals, becoming the most successful athlete in this Olympic Games. American athlete with the most medals.

It can be said that in the context of today's era in which sports are clearly a continuation of politics, Mary Lou Retton has accomplished a feat, and has thus been enthusiastically praised by the American media. Her hometown of West Virginia In Fairmont City, a road and a park in the city were renamed after her.

In addition, President Reagan personally received Mary Lou Retton and took a photo with her. And this America's Sweetheart also became a well-known figure in the American Republican Party and an outspoken supporter of the Reagan Administration. It also appeared in various TV commercials this year supporting Reagan's re-election bid for the presidency.

Wyeth put Mary Lou Retton's picture on every box of breakfast cereal and made her the face of Cerrell's nutritional cereals.

However, another contracting company, EA, moved faster, and a series of advertisements created by the emerging idol Mary Lou Leighton were quickly put out, including an idea proposed by Tang Huan, that is, Once is full marks, come again. One time is also a perfect score.

The leading role of idols is really unfathomable. The second-generation Xiaobawang game console alone sold more than 300,000 units in the month before and after the Los Angeles Olympics.

While people marveled at the Olympic economy, the game industry shouted ecstatically that the home video game console market in the United States has begun to recover! The share price of ea, which has been silent for more than a year, is also rising in evidence.

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