Murray looked at the game with a hint of despair in his eyes.
In the fourth set of the match between the two sides, the score is now 4-0, with Zhang Guan taking the lead, which means that in the fourth set, Murray did not win a game, but was broken twice by Zhang Guan.
Being broken in two games in a set basically means that the set has been lost. Considering the current total score of 2-1, if Murray loses this set, he will lose the entire game.
"Are we really going to lose?" Murray gasped for air. He looked to the opposite side, only to find that Zhang Guan was still moving quickly.
"Don't he feel tired?" Murray's eyes showed confusion.
In the stands, the audience still looked at Murray eagerly. Even though Murray lost two break games in this set, they still supported Murray and still hoped that Murray could complete the reversal.
However, Federer, who was also in the stands, knew that the moment Zhang Guan got his first break of serve, the game was over.
"Zhang Guan won for sure! I didn't expect that he was not affected by this devilish home atmosphere!" Federer glanced at Murray: "As for Murray, he is already tired. His footsteps, movements, and strength have all stopped. If we don’t follow Zhang Guan’s pace, defeat is only a matter of time.”
Federer sighed. Although Murray was very capable, Federer did not regard Murray, a rising star, as his equal. He felt that as long as he could overcome Britain's devilish home court, he would not lose to Murray in the semifinals.
"Zhang Guan is indeed better than me in this aspect. His psychological quality is really good. Facing the atmosphere of Wimbledon, he can still maintain such a good state, as if he is not affected at all! It's amazing! Really. Amazing! Based on this, I, Federer, am convinced..."
Federer's mind was no longer in the game, and on the field, in the fourth set of the contest between the two sides, Murray lost his third break of serve. In the end, the score of the fourth set was fixed at 6-0. Zhang Guan won the fourth set and also defeated Murray with a total score of 3-1 to defend the Olympic tennis gold medal.
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At the North Greenwich Stadium, Chen Dabing looked frustrated. His entire set of moves was clearly better than Zanetti's, and there were minor flaws when Zanetti landed. However, when the referee awarded the points, it was better than Zanetti's. Nettie lost 0.1 points!
Appeals are not allowed in the gymnastics events of the London Olympics, so the result given by the referee is the final result. Chen Dabing can only accept the disappointing result of the silver medal.
"Don't be discouraged. In my eyes, you will always be the best!" The coach stepped forward and patted Chen Dabing on the shoulder to comfort him.
At this moment, the team leader suddenly rushed over. He walked up to the coach and Chen Dabing and said: "If a reporter interviews and asks about the Olympic Organizing Committee's internal decision on the championship, or the Olympic Organizing Committee's control of the results of the competition, Don’t say anything, remember don’t say anything! We cannot express our position on this matter without authorization, we must wait for the leaders to discuss it before making a decision.”
The coach and Chen Dabing were stunned at the same time, but the coach was the first to ask: "What happened?"
The team leader nodded: "Some media broke the news that the London Olympic Organizing Committee manipulated the results of the competition and appointed Zanetti as the champion of the ring event."
"Manipulating the results of the game? And deciding the championship? Some people dare to say such a thing! If there is no actual evidence, the media who say such things will have to bear serious consequences, and may be sued!" The coach is also a sensible person, and some Said in disbelief.
"The key is that there is actual evidence in the news. They listed the players' default scores. Dabing was 15.800 points and Zanetti was 15.900 points. They are exactly the same as the results of the competition." The team leader continued: "And this news still appeared. In this morning's newspaper, at that moment, the ring competition never even started!"
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In the European media circle in the past two days, the sales of several small newspapers have skyrocketed. The reason is because these small newspapers published some breaking news about the Olympic Games, such as bicycle diving, such as rowing boats deliberately breaking seats, and then The competition process also confirmed that these revelations are true!
With these revelations, the sales of these small newspapers have also increased, but after all, they are not mainstream newspapers, and the attention is still too low. For example, even though the sales volume of "Observer" has increased, it is only more than 20,000 copies. However, some large newspapers, such as The Times, usually have a daily circulation of more than 500,000 copies, and during the Olympic Games, it increased to 620,000 copies. Daily circulation.
Ordinary people, such as referees, coaches, and participating athletes, would never deliberately buy a tabloid. They may not even have heard of the name of the tabloid. But reporters who are good at gathering intelligence are quite fond of these tabloids, especially those that can break news.
The reporter had already seen the latest news in the newspaper in the morning. No one took this matter seriously. How could gymnastics, a sport with such great uncertainty, determine the champion in advance? Moreover, this time even the scores of the players were posted, which seemed false!
However, the final result of the game confirmed the news in the newspaper. The scores obtained by the two players who made no mistakes were exactly the same as the news! Chen Dabing, who completed the entire set of movements more perfectly, lost to Zanetti, who had minor flaws, in terms of scores. This had to make people suspect that there was a shady story. At this time, when the reporter looked back at the "false" revelations, But it feels extremely real!
So the ring competition is over, but the people surrounded by reporters are not the champion Zanetti, the runner-up Chen Dabing, nor other athletes or coaches, but the referee team!
The referee looked up and was startled when he saw a group of reporters rushing towards him. Ordinarily, the game is over and there is nothing left for the referee to do. At this time, reporters should surround the athletes and coaches of each team. They should never rush to the referee immediately.
"What's going on?" The members of the referee team looked at me and I looked at you, all looking at a loss.
"Mr. Referee, there is news that the London Olympic Organizing Committee manipulated the final result of this game. What do you think of this?" a reporter asked.
The referee's heart suddenly tightened. The referee team was not blind. Of course they could see that Chen Dabing's entire set of movements was much more perfect than Zanetti's. If I speak honestly, Chen Dabing was more worthy of a gold medal.
However, the London Olympic Organizing Committee did have instructions, hoping to suppress the Chinese team and not let the Chinese team win so many gold medals. There have been similar suppression behaviors in other sports before. However, the referees understand this kind of thing, but You will never admit it verbally.
So when the reporter asked this question, the referee suddenly felt a little nervous. The so-called thief has a guilty conscience, and people who have done something wrong will naturally worry about ghosts knocking on the door at night.
However, there was no uneasiness on the referee's face. He said: "I don't know where you saw these rumors. The Olympic Organizing Committee controls the outcome of the game? This is completely nonsense."
"There is also news that the organizing committee of the event has already determined the scores of the players before the game, and the referees only score the athletes based on the scores determined before the game!" Another reporter said.
When the referee heard this, his heart suddenly settled down. The Olympic Organizing Committee did not give any default score, and the referee team did not score according to the so-called default score. He knew that this must be a rumor, so he was confident.
Gymnastics is full of uncertainty and there are too many variables, and the judges' scores are still divided into two groups, one group scores the difficulty score, and the other group scores the completion score. The two are added together to get the final score. Therefore, asking the referee to score according to a certain default score is difficult to implement.
The referee's expression suddenly became much calmer, and he smiled slightly: "I think anyone with a little knowledge of gymnastics knows that what you just said is impossible in actual implementation. Our referee's scoring is completely based on It depends on the player's on-the-spot performance. We cannot predict how the player's on-the-spot performance will be. If the player makes a mistake, points will be deducted. This is an uncontrollable factor. Therefore, there is no default score."
"What if there are no mistakes? The news broke that the pre-match scores are the results of the players without making mistakes. If the contestants make mistakes, points will be deducted from the pre-set results." The previous one A reporter said immediately.
The referee glared at the opponent with some annoyance. He felt that the opponent was being unreasonable, so he said, "Do you have any evidence for what you said? We have to compete in the next event, and I don't want you to make groundless guesses. It will affect the progress of subsequent games.”
"Of course I have evidence." The reporter took out a German newspaper and said, "What we just asked are not groundless speculations, but revelations in the newspaper. This is the newspaper published this morning. , it was pointed out above that in the finals of the rings event, the London Olympic Organizing Committee has already pre-determined the athletes’ scores, and if the athletes do not make any mistakes during the competition, the referee will award points based on the pre-determined scores.”
"Absurd!" the referee snorted coldly.
The reporter laughed dryly and continued: "In today's final, there were two players who made no obvious mistakes. They were the champion Zanetti and the runner-up Chen Dabing. We compared the results of these two players with the newspaper. The results reported in the newspaper corresponded to each other. Zanetti’s score was 15.900 points, and Chen Dabing’s score was 15.800 points. The final scores of the players were exactly the same as what was reported in the newspaper! But those who have watched the game know that Chen Dabing’s moves were completed better than Zanetti’s. It is more perfect, but his score is lower, which makes us have to doubt that there is really a so-called default score."
"What!" The referee was shocked. He stared at the newspaper in the reporter's hand in disbelief.
"I also have a newspaper here with the same revelations!" Another reporter took out a French newspaper.
"I have some here too." The third reporter took out another Spanish newspaper.
The referee was immediately shocked. He felt a big net being rolled out towards him.
"Can I see what you have in your hand?" the referee asked one of the reporters. He knew that at this time, he could no longer let reporters lead him by the nose. He had to understand in detail what was written in these newspapers. It was best to find one or two obvious loopholes in them, which would break the situation. The essential.
"Of course." The reporter readily handed the newspaper to the referee.
The referee took the newspaper and read it carefully, feeling even more frightened.
"The results of Zanetti and Chen Dabing are indeed the same as what was said in the newspaper! Damn it, how could there be such a coincidence? Did some divination wizard break the news!" The referee couldn't help complaining in his heart.
Although the referee team received instructions from the London Olympic Organizing Committee to suppress the Chinese team, there was really no predetermined result, and the results that appeared in the newspaper actually matched the results of the players, and they were still the champion and runner-up. Of course the referee would feel that Terrified.
"If only one person's results match, I can say it's a coincidence, but if two people's results match, if it's explained by coincidence, even I would find it strange, and reporters would definitely not believe it. The key is really Only these two people made no mistakes, and the results of these two people are consistent with what is written on it! No, I have to find a reasonable explanation." The referee's mind started to spin rapidly.
As the head referee of the Olympic gymnastics event, he also has real talent and knowledge. In just a few dozen seconds, he had already thought of a rhetoric.
The referee smiled slightly and said calmly: "Everyone, I think I should first explain the scoring standards for gymnastics events. The scoring for gymnastics events is divided into two parts: difficulty points and completion points. The two parts are added together. It is the final score. If the athlete makes no mistakes, then the completion score will be high, but what difficulty level the athlete chooses is something that the referee team does not know before the game!"
The referee paused and then said: "If the completion score is predetermined by default, this is theoretically feasible, but it is definitely impossible to predetermine the total score, because the referee does not know what difficulty level the athletes will choose. Therefore, the difficulty score cannot be determined in advance, let alone the total score of the players.”
Several reporters began to nod, feeling that what the referee said made sense.
However, at this moment, an inappropriate voice suddenly sounded: "Since we are athletes aiming for gold medals, are there any other choices in terms of difficulty level?"
One sentence immediately reminded everyone. If they are ordinary athletes, they may choose a relatively low difficulty coefficient, but as long as they are aiming for gold medals, they have no choice but to score 6.8.
"That's right. Zanetti, Chen Dabing and Morandi are the players who are hopeful of competing for the gold medal. They all chose a difficulty coefficient of 6.8 points. This is the highest difficulty coefficient in the ring competition!"
"Athletes whose goal is to win gold medals will definitely not be able to choose a lower difficulty coefficient. They will definitely choose the highest difficulty level of 6.8 points!"
"No wonder in this revelation, except for Zanetti, Chen Dabing and Morandi, the default scores of everyone else are much lower. You must know that this default score is the score of the player without making mistakes. It turns out that the whistleblower It’s a matter of considering the degree of difficulty! The whistleblower must be an insider of the London Olympic Organizing Committee, that’s why he knows so much!”
"Yes, except for those who are truly informed, it is impossible to know such details. It seems that the contents of this revelation are true!"
The reporters started talking one after another, as if they were worried that the world would not be in chaos.
"No, it's not like that!" The referee immediately panicked. He thought he had found a comeback point, but he didn't expect that it was self-defeating. Instead, the reporter felt that the content of the revelation was accurate.
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