His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had already arrived at the scene a few minutes ago. He was supposed to witness in person Britain's first gold medal at the London Olympics, but instead he witnessed Zhang Guan crossing the finish line first!
Seeing Zhang Guan raising his arms and cheering, the smile on His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's face had disappeared. However, he was a well-educated person after all. Even though he was a little unhappy in his heart, there was no expression on his face. Instead, he was very calm.
But the attendant next to him could feel that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was not satisfied with the result.
"Sebastian, what are you doing? Didn't you say that winning the gold medal in road cycling is a sure thing? Why is it that Zhang Guan will be the first to cross the finish line! If we had been told earlier that we were not sure of winning the gold medal, the Crown Prince His Highness doesn’t have to come here in person! This is great. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came to congratulate us in person, but we didn’t win the championship. Do we need His Highness the Crown Prince to celebrate the silver medal? If this spreads out, wouldn’t the royal family be very embarrassed." The attendant He was already cursing Sebastian in his heart.
Ten seconds after Zhang Guan crossed the finish line, two British players, Wiggins and Fromm, also crossed the finish line. At this time, both of them were panting. It was obvious that they were sprinting with all their strength in that section.
After crossing the finish line, the two of them looked at Zhang Guan in unison.
"Cavendish did not hesitate to help us lead the horse in order to let us catch up to Zhang Guan, but even so, I was still more than ten seconds slow!" Wiggins took a big breath, but his face showed an extremely disappointed look. expression.
Wiggins certainly knows that if he can win, he will win Britain's first gold medal at the London Olympics and he will become a hero for the entire United Kingdom.
But now, he has only won a silver medal. Although Britain also won its first medal at the London Olympics, it is far behind in significance compared with the gold medal.
What's more, Zhang Guan and Wiggins are both Tour de France champions, one was last year's Tour de France champion, and the other is this year's Tour de France champion, so this is a battle between Tour de France champions.
But Wiggins has the home court advantage, the team advantage, and his teammates to provide him with protection, while Zhang Guan is alone. Not to mention teamwork, he even has to carry a water bottle on his back. Wiggins still lost the game when he had such a huge advantage. It was a real complete defeat!
Wiggins doesn't know yet that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already arrived at the scene. If he knew, he might burst into tears. Because he only won one silver medal, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince obviously would not come to condolences the silver medalist.
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"Ding ring ring ring..." The phone rang, and Sebastian stretched out his hand and grabbed the phone.
"Mr. Chairman, the men's cycling road race is over and we won two medals!" said the other side of the phone.
"Winning both the gold and silver medals! It's a little worse than the best situation, but it's not bad. After all, it's our first gold medal!" Sebastian thought to himself, he thought Britain won it Among the top two, he asked: "Which country won the bronze medal?"
The person on the other end of the phone was stunned for a second and then said: "The one who won the bronze medal is Fromm from our country."
"It turned out to be one gold and one bronze. I thought it was one gold and one silver!" Thinking of this, Sebastian felt a little disappointed. He then asked: "Where is the silver medal? Which country took it from us? Winning the silver medal? Is it Belgium?”
"Mr. Chairman, you may have misunderstood. No one robbed us of the silver medal. The silver medal was won by Wiggins." The other party said.
"You mean, our two medals are silver and bronze? We didn't get the gold medal!" Sebastian yelled directly: "Who! Who took our gold medal! Who took our gold medal?" First gold!”
"The person who won the championship is Zhang Guan. Chinese athlete Zhang Guan!" The other side of the phone told a name that Sebastian least wanted to hear.
"Zhang Guan! Impossible! How can he have the ability to defeat our players? Wiggins is the champion of the Tour de France!" Sebastian repeated Zhang Guan's name through gritted teeth.
"Uh, Mr. Xi, Zhang Guan also won the Tour de France, just last year..." the other party reminded in a low voice on the phone.
Sebastian then remembered that Zhang Guanke won the 2011 Tour de France championship, and he also won the unprecedented four championships!
"Why didn't I expect that Zhang Guanhui would participate in cycling!" Sebastian suddenly realized that he had really made an omission. He had previously focused on Zhang Guanhui's track and field events, but ignored the other events that Zhang Guanhui participated in. Several projects.
The next moment, Sebastian ignored the phone in his hand. He didn't even say "goodbye" and hung up the phone. Then he turned on the TV in the room and found the live footage coming back from the boulevard. .
At this time, the camera was looking at Zhang Guan for a post-game interview.
"Zhang Guan, congratulations on winning the bicycle road race championship. How do you feel now?"
"Ah, very excited, very excited!" Zhang Guan smiled slightly and then said: "First of all, I would like to thank, um..."
Zhang Guan's voice paused, and then he took a breath, as if he had not yet recovered from the fatigue of the game.
At this time, everyone thought that Zhang Guan would say a set of conventional speeches, such as thanking the country, thanking the leaders, thanking parents, thanking the audience, etc.
Just listen to Zhang Guan continue to say: "First of all, I want to thank the Chairman of the IAAF and the Chairman of the British Olympic Organizing Committee, Mr. Sebastian."
"Huh? Thank me? What the hell is Zhang Guan doing?" Sebastian's eyes widened in front of the TV. He and Zhang Guan were enemies, and they wanted to kill each other. How could it be possible? grateful.
The reporters at the scene were also surprised. They all looked at Zhang Guan with puzzled faces.
"Sebastian, as the chairman of the British Olympic Organizing Committee, has indeed made a great contribution to the smooth holding of the British Olympic Games, but you don't need to express your gratitude, right?"
"Even if the Olympics were not held in the UK, if it were another place, would you Zhang Guan not come to compete? Besides, you won the championship and had nothing to do with Sebastian. You deserve to thank Sebastian. What?"
“Is Zhang Guan’s internationalist spirit overflowing?”
The reporters had different thoughts, and everyone fell silent to listen to Zhang Guan's next words.
"Actually, I was not planning to participate in cycling. After all, I am a track and field athlete, so I should be in the track and field competition. However, the IAAF restricted my participation in track and field competitions, so I can only participate in cycling. This is also what I am grateful for. Because of IAAF President Mr. Sebastian, if he had not restricted my participation in track and field events, I would not have participated in the cycling competition and would not have won this gold medal," Zhang Guan said.
"Oh..." The reporters suddenly went into a commotion, and everyone could tell that Zhang Guan was not thanking him at all, but slapping Sebastian in the face. Zhang Guan's subtext was obviously: Didn't you restrict me from participating in track and field? I'll change the project and it will be the same champion!
However, Zhang Guan's words did not end. He continued: "In addition, I also congratulate the two British players for winning the silver and bronze medals, especially Wiggins. He deserves to be this year's Tour de France champion. He is really strong. It's me." One of the strongest cyclists I’ve ever seen and a great opponent. I think if I hadn’t played so well today, the gold medal would have definitely gone to him!”
The reporters all rolled their eyes after hearing this. What Zhang Guan said was nonsense. You have a gold medal, and they have a silver medal. If you were not the gold medal, their silver medal would definitely be upgraded to a gold medal!
However, to Sebastian's ears, Zhang Guan's words stabbed him in the heart.
If someone wants to make a big fuss and connect Zhang Guan's words, he can come up with the following logic: This cycling gold medal originally belonged to the United Kingdom, but because Sebastian restricted Zhang Guan from participating in track and field competition, so Zhang Guan could only come and ride his bicycle, and in the end he snatched the gold medal from the British.
Once this set of logic is achieved, Sebastian will become the main culprit for Britain's lost gold!
"Damn it! Damn it!" Sebastian obviously thought of this, and he angrily threw the remote control at the TV.
However, at this moment, the phone rang again, and Sebastian tried hard to suppress the anger in his heart and answered the phone.
"Mr. Chairman, did you get disconnected just now?" The person who spoke was the person who just reported the situation to Sebastian.
Just now, Sebastian hung up the other party's phone without even saying "goodbye", so the other party thought that the call suddenly dropped in the middle of the conversation.
Sebastian is also a leader after all, but the call suddenly dropped when he was talking to the leader. As a subordinate, he must call back quickly, so the other party called Sebastian again.
"Oh, it's been disconnected!" Sebastian also realized that it was rude to hang up someone else's phone directly, so he pretended to be disconnected suddenly.
Immediately afterwards, Sebastian said: "If there is nothing wrong with you, then so be it."
"Mr. Chairman, there is one more thing I want to report to you." The other party said.
"What's going on?" Sebastian asked impatiently.
Sebastian had already learned about the situation at the scene through TV, and he guessed that there could be nothing else going on.
"Before the end of the game, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came to the scene in person!" said the other end of the phone: "And he just left!"
"What!" Sebastian was shocked. Thinking of the phone call from Buckingham Palace in the morning, Sebastian immediately guessed why His Royal Highness went to the game in person.
"It's over! I might be in trouble!"
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(End of chapter)