Chapter 178: Old Friends (1/2)

Chapter 178: Old Friends

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The National University Games were a comprehensive sporting event. The competition scale was no less than any of the other games, but had competitions less often. It worked the same way for the World University Games and the National University Games.

The National University Games, for example, although the competitions were slightly tweaked each year, the total number of events was always around ten.

Excluding performances, the Olympics Games had about thirty official competitions and over 300 small programs all together. The Asian Games had more events than Olympics. Compared to them, the University Games had less than one-third of the competitions than the Asian Games.

There were no events that required expensive equipment such as shooting or archery, nor difficult sports like gymnastics or diving. For the average undergraduate, there weren't many opportunities to use firearms and arrows, nor practice gymnastics and diving.

The competitions in the University Games were popular sports such as track and field, swimming, basketball, ping pong, etc. These games involved many university students. Meanwhile, there were also some non-Olympic events, such as martial arts, aerobics, and orienteering. There were also activities like Contract Bridge.

There were about eleven competitions in the University Games, and events like martial arts, aerobics, and orienteering made up about half of them. There were only six or seven real sports-related programs.

Although there weren't many programs, there were still many candidates. There were over 6,000 students signed up. In comparison, the Olympics only had around 10,000 candidates. It was truly a large amount of people considering it was only a university competition.

A smaller program with more people meant that every sport would have more participants. This was why the University Games didn't restrict enrollment.

In the Olympic Games, the maximum number of group members for each team was three. However, in the University Games, more athletes were allowed for each competition. Take sprinting, for example; the Tsinghua University sprinting team could send three athletes to take part in the contest.

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A few days prior, Dai Li had gone to several big track and field competitions with Li Xue. As a result, Dai Li had gained some experience in guiding teams.

Dai Li didn't have to worry about food and accommodations since the sponsor was in charge of planning everything. All he needed to do was make sure the games went well.

”The stadium in Wanzhou is so spacious. I bet it's top ten in our country. No wonder it's confident it can hold the national games!”

Dai Li looked around and saw that a lot of people were already sitting on the bench. Some of them were holding signs with slogans saying, ”Go for it,”followed by the name of a university. There were also cheerleaders in the stands.

So this is the University Games. I have attended some national track and field games, but I have never seen an audience like this. Young people are truly full of passion!”

Someone familiar suddenly walked entered Dai Li's line of sight as he was thinking.

It's Yuejin Chen! So Hanbei Sports College has also joined the game. Dai Li stepped forward. It was the same Yuejin Chen who had brought Dai Li from Yuzhou to Hanbei Sports College, where Dai Li had met Feifei Yu and Zhongyi Xu. It had been two or three years since the last time Dai Li had seen Yuejin Chen.

Dai Li sighed. He had once seen Yuejin Chen as a legend, since Chen had gone to the training camp as a coach. Dai Li used to think it was something that he could never be doing, but now he was on the national team, and was favored by Li Xue.

”Coach Chen!” Dai Li yelled from a distance.