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Chapter 108 Olympic Style (Part 2)(2/2)

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The Japanese national team has not achieved nothing.

After the second lieutenant Inoue Naruto, who is already an immigrant and applying for naturalization, won the rowing gold medal with the Chinese Navy Fleet team, the Japanese baseball team defeated the heroes and won the baseball championship.

All members of this team made the front page headlines of newspapers and magazines such as Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, and New Japan, becoming Japan's national heroes.

Japan, which was defeated in the national war and gradually became a vassal, was rarely proud.

However, in the face of China's overwhelming advantage, the Japanese still firmly positioned themselves as "members of East Asia".

The glory of China is the glory of East Asia and Japan.

The Japanese said so.

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The Taekwondo that North Korea has been applying for has been only allowed as a performance event since only the North Koreans themselves can do it.

The same is true for the "Tang Hand" declared by Ryukyu and Japan.

Finally, Japan and North Korea jointly applied and added a project: confrontational performance, taekwondo against Tang Shou.

But seeing the representative players of the two countries fighting to the death, being pulled apart by the referee and trying to make up for two punches and three kicks, no one would believe that this was just a "performance".

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In the boxing field, Britain, which fell straight from the world's No. 1 sports power, finally regained its face.

On all magnitude courts, British boxers who were ruthless were relying on themselves as the birthplace of modern boxing and the first to formulate modern boxing rules. The advantages of boxing were highly popular and fully demonstrated their level. Not only did the Chinese and Siamese boxers who were relatively unfamiliar with their fighting skills were willing to give up the disadvantage, but the Germanic people with high and strong Americans and well-nutrition could only retreat.

In five orders, the British won all gold medals.

As Mori Xun, chief Chinese reporter of The Times, said, "It seems that if the rules of England are followed, gentlemen can still win."

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Equestrian competitions still belong to the world of British and French riders without any suspense.

Modern equestrian movement originated in Britain after the bourgeois revolution, and with the intervention of the gambling industry, it developed into an industry in Britain and even received public support from the British royal family. From the second half of the 19th century, horse racing developed in the direction of science, and even epoch-making professional publications such as the British Horse Racing Yearbook appeared, which directly conducted centralized assessments of well-known horse racing, horse farms, riders, etc.

Although China established the China Equestrian Association through joint efforts with the UK to stimulate the development of cavalry twenty years ago, in terms of professional equestrianism, due to various factors such as horse breeding and technology, China still finds it difficult to match the UK.

The British gentleman won the individual gold medals and team gold medals in the dressage competition, the individual gold medals in the obstacle course and the three-day tournament, but the team gold medals in the three-day tournament were won by the Germans and the obstacle course team was won by the French.

Another player who had failed before but was already well-known won the bronze medal in the obstacle course.

His name is George Smith Patton, the second lieutenant of the American Cavalry, and he also won fourth place in the fencing competition.

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In the polo field, the competition is extremely fierce.

Modern polo is in line with the polo in Persia and ancient China. It was later passed to China through the Mongolian Yuan, and was introduced to India from the ** in the 18th century. Later, it was traveled across the ocean to Europe with the help of the British and Indian bond, and then passed to America.

Since the time of the town**, Zheng Ying has vigorously promoted polo competitions in the cavalry. In the Asian War, the cavalry had special achievements. After the war, the horses were released to the south mountain. The cavalry who were still unsatisfied could only spread their blood on the polo field. The polo league was in full swing within the cavalry corps.

The Chinese polo team, which was born in cavalry, and the Russian polo team, which was highly morale and determined to take revenge, reached the final. The game was ups and downs, and the two sides were full of exciting events, and there were even several dangerous incidents of riders falling off the horse, but both sides were unmoved and fought desperately for the honor of their own country to the end.

In the last minute of the eighth bar, as the game was about to draw, the Chinese rider made a desperate attempt in the fierce confrontation and finally won with one point advantage.

He was thrown into the air by his fanatical teammates.

The rider is twenty-three years old this year and is named Ma Zhanshan.

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The sacred fire that burned for forty-six days and nights was extinguished after the grand closing ceremony.

The final result is no surprise: China won 85 gold medals alone, with a total of 165 medals, both of which ranked first.

According to Coubertin, "the Chinese have become the world's most powerful sports country in one fell swoop", which proves that "the East also has the Olympic spirit, and the Olympics have no borders."

The European and American newspapers have made a fuss, saying, "In the face of this well-organized and well-equipped army, we are just militias at best." And they called on the government to "attention to the preparations for the Olympic Games."

It is also the first time that the Olympic Games are hosted in accordance with business principles.

China's developed advertising industry has turned the Olympics into a business feast. Various designated partners, authorization, naming rights, venue advertising space, outdoor advertising space, mobile advertising vehicles, and airship advertising are dazzling. Although advertising revenue is still a drop in the bucket compared to Beijing's overall investment, it is already astronomical compared to before.

According to statistics afterwards, from March to October, Beijing received a total of 800,000 European and American personnel, and the total consumption of European and American personnel exceeded 100 million Chinese yuan. The export contract amount of the East Asia Industrial Expo was as high as 1.2 billion US dollars, and the other potential benefits were immeasurable.

The failure of the traditional sports power Britain has filled the British Empire with a sense of "humiliation" and "frustration". Many people even believe that this is the Chinese "challenging the British Empire" and the empire "must fight back."

Stimulated by chauvinism, the two houses of the British Empire decided to officially bid for the 1916 Olympics, "to truly show the strength of the British Empire to the world", and the British royal family announced the establishment of the "Wang Family Sports Development Association" and comprehensively expanded the British Empire Games that began in 1891 and revitalized British sports.

In China, all the award-winning athletes have been awarded national honors, among which the gold medal winners are personally received and presented by the emperor himself.

The newspapers have long-form reports on the life stories of these athletes, radio interviews, and countless honors have set off a "sports fever" in China.

As the slogan put forward by China's political fu before, "Sports competition is a war in peacetime." The national war has passed, and if you still want to defend national honor and strive for glory for yourself, sports competition is a good way.

The Olympics has been thriving, and schools, trade unions, and farmers' associations at all levels have also increased their investment in sports, with regular sports meetings strengthened, and those that are not held. Taking this opportunity, the "Outline for the Development of the National Sports Industry" and the "Outline for the Support of National Sports" have been issued one after another, and the government coordinates and fundes the construction of local public sports venues, sponsors various sports associations, and encourages the establishment of sports organizations among the people to develop competitive sports competitions.

More importantly, the Royal Industry's affiliated companies responded quickly and provided high sponsorships for various sports events, especially the winning prizes were quite attractive, and directly stimulated a large number of outstanding amateur or semi-amateur athletes to devote themselves to their careers in professional athletes. Other professional fields related to sports - sports education, sports industry research, sports physiology, sports psychology, sports injury rehabilitation... have also gradually begun to take off.

Other consortiums also quickly caught sight of the business opportunities and increased their investment in the sports industry.

Economic leverage is always the most effective stimulus method.

Gyeonggi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Liaodong and Guangdong successively announced the establishment of regional football leagues, basketball leagues and baseball leagues. On this basis, the national finals system was established in the second year.

With the development of these regular competitions, various newspapers have also opened sports columns, and even professional newspapers mainly in sports and literature have begun to appear.

Since the Song Dynasty, Chinese, who have always shown themselves as "weakness in culture" after the enlightenment of nationalist ideas and the baptism of victory in foreign wars, have personally felt the shock of the Olympic spirit. Under the unified organization and coordination of the country, they have finally gradually abandoned the bad customs of "those who work hard govern people, and those who work hard govern people" and other bad customs that despise physical fitness. Various folk sports clubs were established like mushrooms after a rain, and the "Haotian Church" also announced in accordance with Zheng Yu's instructions that "raising funds to establish Haotian Sports Associations in various places" to achieve Haotian's will: As the darling of Haotian's favor, the Chinese nation must temper itself from both physical and mental aspects.

My love for sports has finally come out of a few elite schools and spread to the entire society.
Chapter completed!
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