Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 149 Bolt also wants to run meters? !

"Hey! Vin!"

Just when Wen Hao and others finished their exercise and were about to go back to the room to wash up and have lunch, a tall black figure rushed over, opened his arms and gave Wen Hao a bear hug.

There was a muffled "bang" sound, and Wen Hao's face suddenly turned blue. Being hugged by a big man who was 196 centimeters tall and weighed nearly 90 kilograms was quite sour.

"Let me go, Usain. I'm going to sue you for intentional murder!"

Bolt released Wen Hao with a smile and waved behind him. A mixed-race black man, who was about the same height and build as Wen Hao, but several shades whiter than Bolt, walked over.

"Hey Vin, nice to see you again."

"Me too, Wallace." Wen Hao smiled and shook hands with Wallace Spearmon, "How about you, do you still want to run 200 meters this time? Or come and compete with me in 100 meters?"

Spearmon shook his head and said with a smile: "I am no match for you if you compare with 100. Why don't you come and have fun with 200? I promise to entertain you well!"

"Next time, definitely next time!"

There will be many opportunities to play against Spearmon in the future, but it is definitely not now.

Not to mention that he received an appearance fee of US$4 from the organizer, and the event he was required to participate in was the 100 meters. Even if the organizer was willing to let Wen Hao change events, he would not be Spearmon's opponent now.

This guy is the 200m silver medalist at the World Championships in Helsinki. His technical characteristics are slow start and long acceleration, but high top speed and good speed endurance. He is a bit like a weakened version of Tyson Gay.

With technical characteristics like these, unless he can perfectly utilize his advantages of extreme speed and speed endurance, he will have no chance of entering the finals in the World Series of the 100-meter event.

In other words, there is no chance of qualifying for the US Championships (selection competition).

But in the 200-meter event, Spearmon can be said to be the top player in the world. His personal best time is 19 seconds (+87m/s), and he has run within 0.1 seconds many times.

The runner-up of the 2005 Helsinki World Championships, the runner-up of the 2006 Stuttgart Track and Field Finals, and the 2006 Athens Track and Field World Cup Champion have achievements and honors.

Given Wenhao's current state of "retirement" where he has suspended high-intensity training, the 100-meter race is fine, but the 200-meter race is pure abuse.

"Although Wallace can't compete with you normally, it doesn't matter, I'm here!" After the two greeted each other, Bolt patted his chest and said with a grin.

"What?" Wen Hao was stunned for a moment, and suddenly had an ominous premonition, "What do you mean, Usain?"

Bolt spread his hands: "Literally speaking, when I came to Daegu this time, the organizer originally asked me to run 200 meters with Wallace, but the season has come to an end, and I just want to take it easy. , so I quoted 100 meters.”

"Then what? The organizer agrees?"

"Why not?" Bolt shrugged, "I'm not a well-known star player. Anyway, no matter what event I run, the appearance fee they give me is a fixed $5. In that case, why not run? What about 100?”

What he said makes sense.

But Wen Hao was still in a daze for a while.

In the original time and space, Bolt's first 2007-meter race in his career was the Valdinonia Track and Field Meet in Crete, Greece.

Prior to that game, at the Jamaican National Championships in Kingston on June 6, Bolt broke the Jamaican national record with a time of 24 seconds in the 200m final.

Based on his excellent performance in several games, Bolt's team believes that his scoliosis and a series of other physical diseases have been perfectly resolved.

So after careful consideration, Bolt's coach Glenn Mills decided to let him officially start playing part-time in the 2008 season.

The main event is the 200-meter Bolt, and there are two concurrent events: 100 meters and 400 meters.

The 100 meters requires athletes to have good starting acceleration capabilities, and the 400 meters requires athletes to have the ability to maintain speed in a long-distance anaerobic environment.

Glenn Mills believes that the 400 meters will be more suitable for Bolt, because at 196 centimeters tall, he will inevitably have a natural disadvantage in terms of acceleration ability.

但听到教练准备让自己进行400米兼项，博尔特想也不想就直接拒绝了，因为在02~03年间他就是200兼400，体会过400米的训练和比赛有多么艰苦。

Although his idol at the time was Michael Johnson and he dreamed of becoming a legend like Michael Johnson who could dominate the world in both events, the 400 meters was really too tiring.

So Bolt and Glenn Mills said: "Let me run 100 meters once, coach. If the result is not good, then I will follow your arrangements."

Glenn Mills agreed and made an agreement with him that as long as Bolt can run under 10 seconds, he will let him compete in the 3 meters.

Then, Bolt ran 10 seconds in the first 03-meter race of his career in Crete.

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Seeing Wen Hao fall into silence, Bolt joked to Spearmon: "Look, the Asian trapeze artist is scared by me, which means I was born to run 100 meters!"

Spearmon had no scruples in disparaging his friend: "The day after tomorrow, you have to work hard. As long as you can win, I will give you the World Championship silver medal."

"No, no, no, you can keep that thing for yourself. I don't need it." Bolt said disdainfully: "In the future, I will definitely win the highest honor on the stage of the World Championships and even the Olympic Games!"

On the afternoon of September 9, Daegu Park Plaza.

"Wow! Wen. Are you sure this is a press conference?"

It’s not that Bolt has never participated in press conferences, but in his impression, press conferences for track and field events should be in hotels, not like now.

A stage was set up in a wide park square. In the front row under the stage were representatives from the organizer and the IAAF, and in the back rows were media reporters from South Korea and other countries.

Behind them was a group of spectators holding support signs and shouting support slogans, most of whom were girls.

On the stage, a boy group named SS501 was performing a Korean pop song and dance performance.

"The melody is okay, but I can't understand what they are singing." Bolt complained again.

Wen Hao, who was standing next to him, crossed his arms and smiled lightly: "Just get used to it. This is a South Korean characteristic."

The current scene is actually quite normal.

In the original time and space, when Wen Hao first arrived in South Korea in 2014, he had witnessed the "ghost scene" of the Winter Olympics handover ceremony.

(If you are interested, you can search [Girl's Day Winter Olympics], it is very shocking)

The current performance of this boy band is just for fun.

However, arranging a boy band to perform to increase popularity is also a helpless move by the Daegu government.

The Daegu track and field competition is scheduled on a working day, and the South Korean people are obviously not as interested in track and field events as football and other sports, so how to win over the audience has become a big problem.

Office workers will definitely not cooperate. After all, they have to make money to support their families. Therefore, if they want to fill the 6.5-seat Daegu Stadium, they can only rely on the power of students.

As a result, the Daegu government finally came up with the ingenious plan of "on-site learning", that is, allowing students to watch the track and field event on site instead of physical education classes, and invited some idol groups to perform to increase the attraction. As for the ticket fees, since students have been arranged to watch the game for free, there is no reason to charge ticket fees to ordinary citizens. Therefore, there are a total of 6.5 tickets for the Daegu Athletics International Invitational Tournament, all of which will be distributed free of charge.

No money was collected from the tickets. On the other hand, so many top international and first-class athletes were invited, and 18 billion won (approximately US$200 million) was spent on appearance fees alone.

However, Wen Hao suspected that the money was pocketed by middlemen, because there were a total of 16 competition events in this competition, so the total number of international athletes invited to Daegu was just over 30.

The appearance fee for a world-class athlete like Usain Bolt is only US$5. Spearmon said he received US$1.5, Wen Hao himself received US$4, and the highest paid player, Liu Xiang, only received US$6.

No matter how you calculate it, the total appearance fees of these 30 athletes are just over 100 million, which is far from 200 million!

But this kind of thing is naturally not something that Wenhao needs to worry about. Anyway, to host such an international invitational tournament, the Daegu government will pay for it, which is a completely loss-making business.

Being taken advantage of belongs to yes.

"Mr. Wen Hao." While waiting, a middle-aged man with a good appearance came to them and said kindly: "After the performance on the stage is over, after Mr. Wen Hao comes on stage, if the reporters or fans in the audience have any requests, , I hope you can try your best to satisfy me, please!”

South Korea is no weaker than Neon when it comes to bowing. Before Wen Hao could say anything, the middle-aged man in front of him took the initiative to bow.

Wen Hao nodded and smiled: "Even if it's not for the fans who come to support me, but just for the US$4 appearance fee, I will try my best to meet the requirements."

"4." When he heard the number popping out of Wen Hao's mouth, the middle-aged man suddenly turned aside and forced a forced smile back: "Okay, thank you, Mr. Wen Hao."

After saying thank you, the middle-aged man turned around and strode away. It seemed that he vaguely heard him curse "西八".

Wen Hao couldn't help laughing.

Bolt looked confused, because the middle-aged man communicated with Wen Hao in Korean, and he couldn't understand what the two said at all.

"what are you laughing at?"

"Nothing, I just thought of something funny."

"What's so funny?"

"That's right, Usain, don't ask. If you ask again, I'm afraid I won't stop laughing."

Bolt black question mark.

As the performance on the stage ended, the staff quickly set up long tables and seats, and the interview session of the press conference officially arrived.

The first few middle-distance runners to appear.

Not many young men and women in the square left. Even if they did, they only went to use the toilet or buy water and snacks. After all, after the interview session, there was an encore performance.

In order to maintain the popularity of this conference, the organizers have indeed taken great pains.

Men's 5000 meters, women's 3000 meters, men's long jump, women's pole vault

After the interviews with the athletes in each event were completed, the next group was the men's 100 meters and the women's 100 meters. In addition to Bolt, Wen Hao was also interviewed by the American women's sprinters Tori Edwards, Men's sprinter Leonard Scott.

"Miss Edwards, Mr. Wen, Mr. Scott, and Mr. Bolt are getting ready to play soon. Please follow me later."

He was so focused on the field that he didn't notice someone standing next to him. Hearing this greeting with an American accent, Wen Hao naturally turned his head and glanced.

Hey, isn’t this Lin Yoona’s little sister and future member of Girls’ Generation Jessica Jung Soo-yeon?

Facing Wen Hao's slightly appraising gaze, Jessica smiled sweetly, glanced at the interview on the stage that was not yet over, and said in a low voice: "Wen Hao, oppa, I'm your fan. You can sign your autograph for me after the interview." ?"

Bolt next to him rolled his eyes. After Wen Hao's fool-like teaching, he could understand the word "Oppa". It was precisely because of this that he felt speechless.

Why is it that such a beautiful South Korean girl, even though Wenhao calls her "Oppa", ignores the charming me?

I'm so angry, this is obviously blatant racial discrimination!

Wen Hao smiled brightly: "Is it just an autograph? If you have a camera, you can take a photo together."

"Thank you Oppa, but" Jessica suddenly showed a pitiful expression, "I'm a volunteer, so I can't bring a camera with me. What a pity."

"Don't feel sorry. If you really want to take a group photo, you can come to our hotel after the press conference and ask the front desk to call me."

Jessica's sadness immediately turned into joy: "Won't you trouble Oppa?"

"What's the trouble? Are you a volunteer serving us or a fan of mine? I should take photos and sign autographs for you."

"Well" Jessica was quite touched. If it weren't for the overly distracted people around her, she felt like she was so excited that she wanted to hug him, "Wenhao Oppa, you are such a kind person, I have decided to be your loyal fan for the rest of my life!"

"Thank you, Miss Edwards, for the interview. Next, it's the turn that everyone is looking forward to."

As the host guided the topic, a burst of cheers immediately erupted in the square:

"Oppa! Wenhao Oppa!"

"Oppa, hey!"

"Can Moon Ho and Oppa sing a few lines?"

To be honest, although this momentum is not as enthusiastic as the previous men's group performances, it can still be regarded as the best among athletes.

According to the instructions of the previous person in charge, Wen Hao naturally did not refuse. After the host also started to cheer, he sang a few lines loudly.

Unexpectedly, this opening turned into a chorus of thousands of people, and they had to sing the main chorus of "We Are Young" before they stopped.

Seeing Wenhao, who was responding so well and whose popularity was no less than those of South Korean idols, Bolt, who was sitting next to him, had eyes full of envy and longing.

At the Athens Olympics two years ago, he was stopped in the preliminaries due to injury. In the end, he could only watch from the spectator seats as Crawford became the king in one battle and won the cheers of thousands of people.

At the World Championships in Helsinki a year ago, although he made it to the finals, he again only ran a poor time of 26 seconds due to an injury.

Justin Gatlin was crowned the Triple Crown champion in Helsinki and was unparalleled in his career. However, when he returned to his motherland in despair, he could only face the scorn and abuse of the Jamaican people.

Although the voices of thousands of foreign young men and women in front of him were not given to him, they still made Bolt's mind sway, filled with envy and longing.

He knew that he did not have Wen Hao's good skin that could charm thousands of girls, nor did he have the outstanding talent that could infect people's hearts like him.

But what he has is the determination and will to keep running on the track until the finish line no matter what difficulties and setbacks he faces.

One day, people will chant my name too, and more than that!

(End of this chapter)