Chapter 246 The Olympics 2 (1/2)

Jake was very nervous as the opening took place, nor could his Jake's Emotion Control skill take away the excitement and pride he felt as he watched the opening of the Olympics that was held in his country.

Seeing this only increased the desire to win a gold medal in the marathon, Jake remembered seeing the opening of these Olympics on television, he thought it was very beautiful and just complained about taking too long.

But being in the stadium personally watching everything happening, he understood that it was a much more wonderful spectacle than watching it on television, the other athletes also seemed to be feeling the same emotion as him.

After a while, it was time for the parade of the countries to participate in these Olympics, as the host country the United States would be the last country to parade and so Jake would have to expect all over 10,000 athletes from 196 countries competing in 26 sports pass before your turn came.

Of course, probably not everyone was present at this opening ceremony, Jake personally would never think of missing such an event, when he paraded with the American athletes Jake felt much more proud.

After Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic cauldron and the opening ceremony was over, even if Jake could participate in other Olympics he could not forget that moment.

Then in the next few weeks, Jake followed the swimming and gymnastics events that he enjoyed most, and then also followed the events he knew the United States would win a medal.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Later when the athletic events started Jake never left Centennial Olympic Stadium where he had competitions where he was most interested and could learn many things as well.

Jake didn't even watch the television and just follow everything he could personally, he knew that the United States would be first in the medal table with 101 medals including 44 gold medals.

So the Olympics passed quickly, on the day of the accident Jake couldn't even sleep thinking he could have prevented this accident, as the system knew it was his fault that helped Jake erase that feeling from him.

Jake was a little afraid after learning that the system could only erase his memories and feelings at will but soon calmed down thinking that if the system wanted to do him any harm he didn't even have to give him a second chance to live.

Jake felt very good to see the American athletes and their idols from other countries winning the medals, he managed to gain some friendship from Amy Van Dyken and Isabell Werth from Germany.

They both found Jake very kind and charismatic when he said they were great athletes, Jake told Amy that she would win several medals at this Olympics and next after she won when he was watching she was quite happy about it.

For Isabell Werth, Jake said this was just the beginning and she would still be one of the great athletes in Germany and the world for the next 20 years, which made her happy after winning the medals.

Everyone liked compliments and Jake was speaking with sincerity and calm, not to mention that not many athletes respected them at these Olympics before Jake, in a few more years they would be recognized for being great athletes, but not yet.

So finally came the day when Jake would compete, it was the end of these Olympics and some athletes even left the Olympic Village at that point, Jake was happy that his mother and friends were watching and cheering for him.

The friends he made at this Olympics were also rooting for him, Amy would be happy that Jake won another medal for the United States and Isabell had no hope that the German athletes would win and was also rooting for Jake.

The marathon was on Sunday, August 4, 1996. The race started at 07.55 local times to avoid excessively hot and humid conditions, Jake didn't care much about the temperature or the weather.

After training for over a year and training over 3 months running 60 km a day just to be fully prepared Jake was not worried about anything else that day, he knew that only he himself could hinder the victory of this Olympics.

Many did not think so, but American commentators felt that Jake was certainly a favorite for this marathon, after all, he had three great results in the marathons he has completed so far.

It showed that if he was in good shape Jake could end up winning the marathon and winning the forty-fifth gold medal for his country, who knew Jake during the Olympics and his old friends knew that Jake was very confident of winning this marathon.

This was known as the most disputed marathon in the history of the Olympics, but that didn't make Jake afraid it was even better for him, for the first 30 kilometers he could keep up a slower pace and in the final kilometers leave everyone behind.

Jake was just worried about getting knocked out by other athletes, so he would have to run carefully so that didn't happen as in training he could run 60 km he was not afraid of not finishing the race.