Chapter 204: The Reason I Can’t Lose (1/2)
Chapter 204: The Reason I Can’t Lose
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The result of Haiquan Fang's first trial jump had ranked 1st; he had gotten injured in his second trial jump, and forfeited his next three trial jumps. In the end, however, he had still managed to win the championship with a ”buzzer beater” on his last trial jump. It had been quite phenomenal for Haiquan Fang to win the gold medal.
After the award ceremony, Haiquan Fang was sent to hospital for a diagnosis immediately. The final examination result reassured the national team. Haiquan Fang only had a muscle strain; after 3 -4 days of rest, he would be fully recovered.
The matches of the Asian Games were still ongoing. The next big event in the track and field category would be the men's 100m sprint.
As the last match the next day, the final competition, the 100m sprint, was also the highest-profile match. Two players from the national team, Jun Xie and Sijie Yang, had entered the final match.
”Zitao Wei was not lucky. He was knocked out in the 'group of death' during the semi-final; otherwise he definitely would have been good enough to get into the final match,” Li Xue exclaimed indignantly.
The national team was not strong enough to dominate Asia in the 100m sprinting event. In East Asia, Sunshine Oda, the sprinting star of the Japanese team, was quite strong. His performance in the second-round match and semi-final had been very impressive.
Of the west Asian ”immigrant legion,” besides Clark, who held the Asian record, Oneida, another immigrant athlete of Qatar, also competed well and entered the final match successfully. As an immigrant athlete from Africa, the UAE athlete Sarafa had also qualified for the final match.
Thus, among the eight athletes in the final match, three of them were black immigrant athletes from Africa.
”Sijie Yang, you are in lane 2. On your left will be Xianlong Chen from Singapore, and on your right will be Sunshine Oda, the star from Japan!” Dai Li looked at the list of athletes and said, ”Lane 2 is not the best, but it's still a good one.
”Xianlong Chen is a veteran; he once reached the standard B-level of the Olympic Games, and attended the last Olympic Games. As for Sunshine Oda, he is regarded as a once-every-century sprinting talent by the Japanese. He is close in age to you. He is currently a student at Tokyo University, which is very much like you, for you are also a brilliant student from Tsinghua University!” Dai Li continued.
Sijie Yang suddenly frowned, and a flash of disgust could be seen in his eyes.
Dai Li noticed Sijie Yang's mood change. He smiled and said, ”Why? You don't like Japan? You are a man of national integrity.”
”My father's laboratory was almost ruined by the Japanese!” Sijie Yang explained, ”For the research project my father was awarded a Nobel Prize for, when the first stage research results came out, Tokyo University said they would provide research funding of three million USD, but they wanted to share the final research results.
”That was more than twenty years ago, yet they wanted to trade Nobel Prize-level research results for only three million USD. Tokyo University was so cheap!” Dai Li couldn't help complaining.
”But back then a lot of people wanted that three million USD; I'm talking about some administration departments. They asked my father to accept Tokyo University's request so that they could get a share from the fund. Moreover, the foreign exchange earnings of three million USD could also be considered an administrative achievement by some officials.”