In the athletes' lounge.
Zhang Guan originally thought that there would be many reporters coming to interview, but in fact there was only one person. After all, the domestic media in this era were not wealthy. It was expensive for reporters to travel to Athens, and it was not easy to get access to the stadium for interviews.
The female reporter in front of her was not very familiar with Zhang Guan, but Zhang Guan recognized her. This female reporter is a special track and field reporter for the official media, and she is famous for reporting on Liu Feiren. She can be regarded as Liu Feiren's queen reporter.
Official media reporters will naturally not ask too exaggerated questions, and the female reporter is not familiar with Zhang Guan, so the questions asked are quite standard, and Zhang Guan's answers are as formulaic as possible.
"Of course I'm very satisfied with the result of 9.83 seconds. In fact, I didn't think much about it on the field at the time. I just opened my legs and ran fast!"
"As the defending champion, Maurice Green is indeed very capable, but before the game I must have thought about the possibility of defeating him. I believe that every athlete will work hard to sprint towards the highest level in the world."
"Preparations for the next finals? Now that we have reached this point, we must be working hard!"
"The ultimate goal... of course is to be the Olympic champion! I am here just for this gold medal! And I will try my best to break the world record!"
The female reporter looked at Zhang Guan with a surprised look on her face. Zhang Guan answered several questions in succession. At first, the answers were quite decent, but as time went on, they seemed to become less and less reliable, and he even said something about breaking a world record.
"I dare to say this, but fortunately, this segment will not be broadcast until tomorrow. If you count down later, I will cut out the rest of the interview." The female reporter thought to herself.
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The 100-meter semi-finals ended at 9:10 pm Athens time, but Director Hou had just finished dinner at this time. As the leader of the entire delegation, he had been busy all day long, and it was not until an hour ago that he temporarily ended the work at hand and started eating dinner.
Years of irregular work caused Director Hou to suffer from chronic stomach problems, and the food in Greece was not to his taste. Coupled with eating so late, Director Hou's old stomach problems recurred, and he had to take several stomach medicines. , and then the stomach discomfort slowly stopped.
"Director! Good news!" A staff member of the delegation hurried over.
"Winning another medal?" Director Hou asked subconsciously.
"That's not true. But it is also a historic breakthrough. In the men's 100-meter dash event, our country's athletes entered the finals!"
"What! The 100-meter final?" Director Hou stood up suddenly.
Track and field, as the most high-profile event at the Olympics, has always been a weakness of the national team, and the men's 100-meter flying event, the most high-profile event at the Olympics, is exactly the weakest event of the national team. The national team can make a breakthrough in this event and enter the Olympic finals, which is even more meaningful than winning a gold medal in those strong events.
"When will the finals start?" Director Hou asked immediately.
"11 o'clock."
"There are less than two hours left. It's still too late to go now. Prepare a car for me and let's go now." Director Hou said.
"Director, is it too late? You have a lot of things to do tomorrow, and your stomach problem also requires you to go to bed early. This round trip will take more than an hour, and if there is a traffic jam, you may not be able to come back until after one in the morning. Moreover, The American team has absolute strength in the 100-meter dash event. It’s already amazing that our country’s athletes can reach the finals. I’m afraid it’s unlikely to make another breakthrough. How about going back and watching the TV broadcast?”
"No, I must go! Our athlete finally made it to the finals. Even if he finished in last place, I must go to the scene to cheer him on! At this time, I must stand with our athletes. !" Director Hou said firmly.
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In the lounge, Green has been drinking water. He hopes to speed up the circulation of body fluids and break down the lactic acid in the muscles as soon as possible.
"You have to recover your strength as soon as possible and eat something." Green found a special food, something similar to a sports energy bar, but in fact the taste was far worse than those sports energy bars sold on the market. However, this is the latest scientific research product of an American company. The production cost is very good, but it is sponsored food, so there is no need to spend money.
"I have to rest immediately. It will take more than an hour. I should be able to recover a lot of physical strength." Green simply lay down.
On the other side, Director Yu simply knelt beside Zhang Guan and kept massaging his leg muscles.
"How are you? Do you still feel your muscles?" Director Yu asked.
"Basically it's normal. I was really tired just now, but I'm relieved now." Zhang Guan said.
"Okay, take the time to rest and recover as much strength as possible. You will be eating and drinking next to you, and I will be there too. If you need anything, call me..." Director Yu said.
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The two-hour rest period only allowed Zhang Guan to recover 3 points of physical strength. At this time, Zhang Guan's physical strength was 59 points, still not reaching 60, and his status was 73 points. With Zhang Guan's current physical strength and condition, he could not recover at all. It's impossible to get good grades. So Zhang Guan used two bottles of medium physical recovery potions and three bottles of medium status recovery potions to increase both physical strength and status to 100 points.
"Mission accomplished!" The information given by the system only made Zhang Guan happy for a second, but the new system message made Zhang Guan's mood hit rock bottom.
“In addition to physical condition and sports status, sports equipment is also very important for an athlete. The various sports equipment provided for you in the mall can effectively improve training and competition performance by using these sports equipment. "
"What's going on? They've actually started selling equipment! They've really started selling equipment!" Zhang Guan began to curse in his heart, but while cursing, he opened the mall in the system and found that there was an additional "sports equipment" column.
Entering the sports equipment mall, Zhang Guan immediately saw a dazzling array of items, divided into different categories. For example, shoes include basketball shoes, football shoes, spike running shoes, tennis shoes, bicycle shoes, equestrian boots, various skates, and even roller skates; other categories of products include table tennis, badminton, tennis rackets, and golf clubs. , swimming goggles, boxing gloves, protective belts for weightlifting, various shooting firearms, archery bows, etc. There are all kinds of sports equipment for various sports, and the prices are also different.
Zhang Guan casually ordered a pair of running shoes for track and field use. The price of 10 skill points immediately made Zhang Guan's face look ugly. 10 skill points are enough for Zhang Guan to upgrade three skills, and this is only the cheapest of all sports equipment.
"The system still understands the true meaning of online games. All the equipment is on sale. Should we sell gems next, sell gem synthesis talismans, sell hole-opening talismans..." Zhang Guan shuddered slightly when he thought of this, and then he no longer dared to think about it anymore. .
Zhang Guan exited the mall, and at this moment, the system prompt popped up again.
"Having good equipment does not mean that you can dominate the sports world. As an athlete, competition experience is indispensable and an indispensable asset for an athlete. Therefore, the system brings you various The experience book allows you to learn from the experiences of your predecessors and quickly grow into an excellent athlete. You can buy it from the mall."
"Here it comes again? Senior experience? What is this?" Zhang Guan cursed again in his heart, and then entered the mall in the system.
""Michael Jordan's Basketball Career Experience", "Michael Tyson's Boxing Career Experience", "Michael Schumacher's Formula One Racing Career Experience", all three Michaels are here!" Zhang Guan continued to tell Looking down, it’s all about the competition experience of superstar athletes.
""Roger Federer's tennis career experience", "Tiger Woods' golf career experience", "Zinedine Zidane's football career experience", "Marin's table tennis career experience", "Elixir Badminton Career Competition Experience》… ”
The names of these superstar athletes represent the highest achievements in their respective fields, which looks very tempting. Zhang Guan felt that these things seemed very powerful, and then subconsciously looked at the price.
"Forget it, I can't afford it. I'm still upset after reading it. Let's look at something else!" Zhang Guan shrank his neck.
""Allen Iverson's Basketball Career Experience", this one is much cheaper than Jordan's! Huh? Kidd's seems to be quite expensive. O'Neal's is more expensive than Kidd's. This is to set the price according to the player's strength. What about other items... Beckham, Kahn, Ronaldo, Kaká, and even Messi! They look so awesome! It’s a pity that I can only look at them, and I can’t buy the cheapest ones. Get up. It’s okay to focus on the finals that are about to take place! The game is about to start!"
Zhang Guan's attention returned to the competition field, and to the upcoming 100-meter flying competition. This will be his last competition in this Olympic Games, and it will also become his battle to become a god!
"This is the first time that I have increased my physical strength and status to full. According to the system description, if the physical strength value exceeds 80, my strength and speed will increase; if the status value exceeds 80, I will perform beyond my level. Now I have these two values It’s all 100, it’s the best condition ever, it seems like I’m going to win this championship!”
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The first chapter has been sent, please support me by voting for it! It’s been exactly one month since I uploaded it on December 15th last year. I’m really grateful for everyone’s support and encouragement over the past month. A total of more than 210,000 words have been updated this month. I searched for new books with a similar number of words. Many of them were published in November, and a few were published in early December. At least in the newcomer list, I am the one who updated the fastest recently. Will continue to work hard next! Finally, I would like to thank the two new helmsmen Qing Yi and the scholar-YES for the 10,000-point starting coin reward.
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