Chapter 108 Olympic Style (Part 2)

In the swimming competition, despite facing powerful challenges initiated by active professional swimmers of the Chinese Navy, British player Hen Taylor won the gold medal in the 400-meter and 150-meter freestyle, while the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle was won by Cha Daniels of the United States.

However, although Chinese players find it difficult to compete with European and American whites in freestyle events due to their innate muscle groups and motor nerves, they have gained an overwhelming advantage in breaststroke. The innate side kicking advantage of Asians supports them to leave their competitors far behind.

In the shooting field, many sharpshooters from various countries came from the army. The amateur shooter and professional artist of the United States won the championship in the "Running Deer" double-shot shooting, while the 60-year-old Swedish Oscar Swann beat the heroes to win the gold medal in the "Running Deer" single-shot shooting, which made all the audience amazed.

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Slave-hand competition.

The seats are full.

Although Europeans and Americans are generally tall and big and muscular, it does not prevent Chinese audiences from hiding confidence in their contestants.

In their hearts, the boxing techniques, palm techniques, internal martial arts handed down by our ancestors, use softness to overcome hardness, and point acupoints... Even if most of them cannot be made due to the rules, as long as we take a little, foreigners will make a fool of themselves.

But the boxers who truly represent the Chinese side dare not take it lightly at all.

They have already experienced the horror of foreign fists.

More than a year ago, military athletes who were mainly selected by the army and received strict fighting training had many casual confrontations with the "martial arts people" who only received simple rules training, but the "martial arts people" were defeated miserably.

Although many long-standing martial arts masters did not play, those who represented them were all disciples who were young and experienced in their studies.

These masters are very clear that although they have a deep martial arts foundation, when it comes to actual melee fighting, these disciples may not be inferior to themselves. After all, they are "fist afraid of being strong". More importantly, because they have to wear boxing gloves and have limited various techniques and parts, most of their "unique skills" and "heavy hands" cannot be used.

The result of the confrontation made the representative team and the martial arts masters full of confidence.

Then they suffered a head-on blow.

When competing with North Korea, which mainly taekwondo and Japan and Ryukyu, which mainly use "Tangshou" as the team, China has gained the upper hand, and even as the routine becomes more and more familiar, its advantages are expanding.

But when the match against the Siam team, the Chinese players almost lost all.

In this era, the popular Siam was the so-called "Ancient Muay Thai" in later generations, which is the most brutal, practical and harsh lethal boxing. The training of Muay Thai players is extremely harsh and can almost be considered to hurt themselves first and then others. However, they are used to assisting training with drugs and gradually lose a lot of nerve feeling. Siam boxers with muscles as iron also have amazing resistance to the blows of the Chinese.

Despite many restrictive rules, the fierce and fierce attacks of the Siamese people, their brutal power and extraordinary ability to resist strikes all made the Chinese side suffer.

After the competition, China urgently concluded behind closed doors and finally decided to "cooperate with Siam to comprehensively improve techniques, reform training methods, and improve training intensity."

On the other hand, the "National Art Institute" in China also gathered a large number of national art experts to openly discuss how to improve the techniques of freehand skills, remove the drought from various martial arts schools, extract the simplest, practical and lethal techniques, as well as special training methods, and gradually form a relatively complete system of freehand skills.

Now, China's confrontation with Siam can finally achieve great success at the same level, and even gain the upper hand in many games.

But Siam is already like this. What about these Westerners who are tall and big as wild animals?

However, when it comes to the game, this worry gradually disappears.

In this era, Europe and the United States did not have the various free fighting techniques and competitions developed after the introduction of karate and judo in later generations. Fighting competitions or boxing. Faced with Chinese freehand hands that can use fists, feet, knees, elbows, and even heads and shoulders, it is obviously difficult for European and American boxers to adapt to temporary exercise. Faced with the combination techniques of China, elbows and knee attacks developed by Muay Thai in close combat, Western boxers cannot attack from afar, and suffer losses in close combat. These are obviously also after large exercise, scientific diet training and anti-strike training. The strong Chinese are not inferior to those of whites under the same magnitude.

Some European and American boxers who were caught off guard were even "ko" directly under the attack of the other party's strange combination.

The finals basically became a confrontation between China and Siam, or a confrontation between the two countries.

In the end, China had a slightly superior position: three of the five levels were won, and two of Siam.

Despite this, this is also an unprecedented glory achieved by the small Siam country. After the news came, Bangkok was in full swing.

In China, fierce confrontation and exciting victory later pushed the competitive craze across the country. Martial arts, which originally aimed at "strengthening the body" and other things, began to divide into a genre that emphasizes competitive practical combat and takes simplicity and efficiency as the principle.

These participants abandoned the gorgeous and unrealistic performance routines of traditional martial arts, pursued more practical techniques, adopted scientific training and diet, and gradually developed various techniques and schools, derived local and national competition systems, and had more and more commercial value. Amateur drills and competitions became club-based leagues more than ten years later, and professional clubs and professional boxers, and even more complex boxer ranking systems appeared.

Later, the first international permanent fighting competition appeared in East Asia: the World Free Fighting Competition, and it was gradually recognized as the highest-level and most intense fighting event in the world.

This is a later story.

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This time, a new comprehensive competition was added according to China's advice, and it aroused the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts around the world from the beginning: triathlon.

This competition, as the Chinese side says, is "new, young and energetic" and is also "hard, harsh and exhausted".

For the white European and American elites who are eager to challenge themselves, this game is destined to have infinite charm.

The United States, Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria... elites from all over the country gathered, ready to "take the medals from the Olympic medals" and become the "world's number one iron man".

According to later regulations, this time the triathlon included swimming 15 kilometers, bicycle 40 kilometers and running 10 kilometers. The competition was arranged in the picturesque Beidaihe, and many spectators took the train to watch the game.

The game was extremely intense.

In swimming, European and American athletes still have clear advantages. Douglas MacArthur, a young American officer, and Edwards, a British Marine Corps officer, took the lead.

But when it comes to cycling competitions, the most eye-catching protagonists are those racing cars with smooth and simple shapes and strong sense of speed - all made in China.

As the world's most widely used bicycles, China's leading advantage in the field of bicycle development and manufacturing has lasted for a full twenty-five years, and there is still no sign of decline. After the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee creatively introduced "standardization of sports competition equipment" into the Olympics, the special bicycles for triathlons, the so-called "iron car", have also become a stage for major bicycle companies to fight.

Delegations from various countries also enjoyed the benefits of sponsors providing free sports equipment for the first time, and had never worried that China would tamper with these competition equipment - any sports goods company would dig its own grave in front of the world if it dared to do this.

In this way, all Chinese-made bicycles rushed by the highway, becoming the most beautiful scenery.

The leading first group is still the Chinese players who have the absolute advantage - mainly composed of active-duty soldiers from the Marine Corps.

However, at this time, the Iron Man Kohler Mehnin from Finland showed his outstanding strength. Although the athlete had just participated in the 5,000-meter long-distance running and won the gold medal, the Finnish Iron Man, who won three championships in 1912 Olympics in another time and space, undoubtedly had a superhuman talent in endurance.

The new Finnish national consciousness is high. The nineteen-year-old Finnish Iron Man exerted 120% of his strength under such passion and gradually caught up with the China National Congress.

In the last 10,000-meter long-distance race, although all the Chinese players were carefully selected winners by the Marine Corps, they had undergone harsh training and death training, and had a cruel training camp for this competition, Kohler Mehnin, who was later called the "Baltic Monster", still bravely moved forward like a never-ending machine.

In accordance with the military's consistent style, China has already collected information from its main competitors extensively before the game, paid special attention to the Baltic monster, and formulated relevant plans. However, the monster's on-site performance was still beyond everyone's imagination.

China has to use its trump card - rotation leading tactics to save physical strength.

China's real killer is Li Zhanao, the strongest in the team.

Li Zhanao was born into a military family and was subjected to strict family education since he was a child. From the age of nine, he had to work part-time newspapers to earn pocket money in the morning and evening, plus subsidize his family. At the age of twelve, Li Zhanao changed into new equipment - a bicycle purchased with his savings to undertake more tasks.

After entering the military academy, Li Zhanao quickly joined the military's sports team and became a semi-full-time military athlete. For this Olympics, he and his teammates underwent a special training camp for nine months.

He has always been full of confidence.

Until that person, that feeling appears.

A sense of oppression.

Like a shadow.

Li Zhanao is no longer in the state of 120, but 150.

He was sure that at this moment he was not just himself, he represented the Marine Corps, the Chinese Navy, the country and the nation.

He cannot accept failure.

In this last ten thousand meters of running, he was already running wildly, crossing the track like a flash of lightning.

Like a shadow.

That figure was like a perpetual motion machine, with a desperate stability, like a shadow.

In the end, Li Zhanao of the Chinese Marine Corps and Kohler Mehning almost ran across the finish line together.

Who is the champion?

The whole audience was silent.

"After the referee team ruled, the champion is... Finnish player Kohler Mehnin!"

A huge sigh.

Li Zhanao's body trembled violently, he slowly sat down, hugged his head with both hands, and tears flowed out.

After repeated selection and cruel training, I hope to win this "war without gunpowder" for the country on the field. The people have high hopes for themselves...

Nothing makes sense.

The loser in the war.

loser!

Li Zhanao, who was immersed in pain and regret, felt his hands stroking his shoulders. When he looked up, he was the young and strong Finnish opponent.

"You are good," Kohlermehening said in stuttering English, "Chinese, Finnish friends. We are friends."

Li Zhanao looked at the tenacious opponent and finally smiled calmly after a long time. The two stood up, hugged each other tightly, and waved their arms at the audience together.

Sports competitions are wars, but the losers only lose one chance.

Four years later, see you on the court!

The audience burst into applause.

This is sportsmanship-.

In this fierce battle, another loser caused cheers.

A twenty-three-year-old US Army officer arrived at the ninth and almost climbed over the last journey: he fell again and again, and used both hands and feet tenaciously.

After arriving at the finish line, the tenacious young man had only time to say "I won", and then fainted and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.

His name is George Smith Patton. In order to prove his "samurai spirit", he asked for leave and participated at his own expense.

Colonel Pershing, a military officer in the US Army in the stands, visited the young officer who was very interested in him the next day. What was even more shocking was that after hearing about this deed, the Chinese Emperor Zheng Yu personally summoned Patton after the Olympics and had a great conversation.

This made Patton famous in the United States.
To be continued...