“Setting Out! We’re Going to the Paris Olympics!”
“On July 20th, the final number of members for the China Olympic team for the Paris Olympics was confirmed, with a total of 717 members!”
“Among them, there are 406 athletes…... with an average age of 25!”
“The oldest athlete is Liu Hong, a 37-year-old track and field athlete!”
“The two youngest athletes are 11-year-old skateboarder Zheng Haohao and 13-year-old skateboard and swimming dual-athlete Chen Shu.”
“Chen Shu???”
Zhang Jingyu, who was finally able to relax after finishing his homework and was scrolling through short videos on his phone, sat up from the sofa, unable to ignore the name that appeared at the end of the news.
He had been about to swipe up, but now he froze.
He had a classmate with the same name.
Two identical characters!
And the two of them had been in the same class, from kindergarten, to elementary school, to the first year of middle school.
“Holy crap!”
Zhang Jingyu’s eyes widened as he looked at the photo in the video.
“Isn’t this my Shu-ge?”
“No way, it can’t be, right?”
“Is this real?”
Zhang Jingyu’s expression was one of pure shock.
Chen Shu!
His best friend, the guy who was always absent from school for exams but always did well, was going to the Olympics?
Zhang Jingyu looked at the video again, unable to believe it.
Yes, the handsome and sunny boy in the photo was exactly the same as his best friend!
The video may have been edited and beautified!
But the overall features and the feeling he got from the photo, Zhang Jingyu wouldn’t be mistaken.
“This guy is an Olympian???”
“The Olympics!”
“Why have I never heard him talk about this!!!!”
“A prank video?”
Zhang Jingyu still couldn’t believe it, and he started searching for Chen Shu on Baidu.
He found a Baidu Encyclopedia entry for Chen Shu, and it was very detailed!!
Chen Shu: Chinese Men’s Skateboarding and Swimming Athlete
Started practicing swimming at age 7, started practicing skateboarding at age 10.
On June 24th, at the Budapest leg of the Paris Olympics qualifying series, 13-year-old Chinese athlete Chen Shu won a ticket to the Olympics in the skateboarding street competition.
On July 1st, he was selected to the Chinese national skateboarding team to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics!
On April 19th, the National Swimming Championships, 50m freestyle…...
“No, it’s really you!”
“Grass!!!”
“How come I didn’t know about this at all?”
Zhang Jingyu was completely dumbfounded as he looked at the photo of Chen Shu on Baidu Encyclopedia.
This photo was much clearer than the one in the video, and if he didn’t know Chen Shu, Zhang Jingyu would have eaten the photo.
He frantically opened Douyin and searched for Chen Shu’s videos.
Wow, there were even more videos about Chen Shu on there!
There were countless highlights of him before the Olympic trials, and a compilation of his swimming championship performances.
But they were all from 2024, and there were no videos from before that.
Shaking!
Zhang Jingyu’s hands began to shake!
He realized that his classmate, Chen Shu, might be the Olympic athlete.
Thinking about this, Zhang Jingyu quickly sent a message to a guy whose nickname was “Toilet Time”.
“No way, Shu-ge, you went to the Olympics??”
But he waited for a long time and didn’t receive a reply.
“He’s an Olympic athlete now, probably too busy to bother with a little shrimp like me, right?”
Up until now, Zhang Jingyu still didn’t quite believe that his best friend was an Olympic athlete!
He stared at the avatar, which was still silent, but then saw a message pop up in the class group.
“Damn, have you guys been on Douyin? Our class’s Chen Shu seems to have gone to the Olympics, I swear I checked it so many times before I believed it was him, seriously!”
“What? Are you crazy from doing too many problems?”
“The Olympics?? Chen Shu??”
“There must be someone with the same name, right?? Chen Shu was still online a few days ago? @Toilet Time!”
“That’s right!”
“No, he’s 13 years old, and the photo is exactly the same as Chen Shu!”
“Chen Shu, say something, @Toilet Time……….”
Zhang Jiajia, a student in Class 1 of the first year of middle school, directly posted a screenshot of a video in the group.
The next second, the entire group exploded, with many silent members suddenly popping up.
“Damn, it really seems to be him, they look so alike!”
“It definitely is, there’s really only one 13-year-old named Chen Shu who looks like this!”
“Ask Zhang Jingyu, he’s best friends with Chen Shu!”
Zhang Jingyu immediately said, “I checked, it’s him, I sent him a message but he didn’t reply!”
Seeing that many classmates thought it was Chen Shu, Zhang Jingyu was already starting to believe it.
Many people had immediately @ Toilet Time, but he didn’t reply; this nickname was Chen Shu’s online name.
“……….”
The students were sending emojis and exclamation marks.
Class monitor Li Yuexi said, “Zhang Jingyu, you didn’t know he was an Olympic athlete?”
“Yeah, I only found out from the news!”
“I knew he liked skateboarding and swimming, he told me that he goes to some club every week.”
“My god, what a secret!”
“Zhang Jingyu didn’t know he was an Olympic athlete?”
“This guy’s been holding back big time!”
“He’s also the study committee, how did he manage that?!”
“……….”
The Class 1 group chat was buzzing.
Many people had gone online to look for information.
The more they searched, the more they were convinced that this youngest male athlete in the Paris Olympics was indeed their classmate.
“I think the teacher must know!”
“Why don’t you ask the teacher, Li Yuexi?”
“Yes, Li Yuexi, you should ask!”
“Why don’t you ask? I feel like it must be him!”
“Didn’t Zhang Jingyu say that he takes extra classes in those two sports? He’s an athlete in those two sports too!”
“No, no, I just said he takes extra classes, he also plays basketball, soccer, and stuff, you guys don’t know how athletic he is?”
Zhang Jingyu was saying this, everyone in Class 1 knew that Chen Shu was incredibly athletic.
But they wouldn’t connect that with being an Olympic athlete.
The gap between being athletic and being an Olympic athlete, let’s just say, it’s the difference between the school sports meet and the Olympics.
“Alright, I asked the teacher, Chen Shu…...went to the Olympics!”
Soon, Li Yuexi sent a message in the group.
She couldn’t resist her curiosity and called their teacher, Li Damming.
Silence!
The entire class group fell silent for 5 seconds!
No one could believe it was true.
Even though many people were already convinced, when Li Yuexi said those words, everyone gasped!
Wow, one of our classmates is actually an Olympian?
Boom!
The next second, countless messages popped up. It was clear that this news had sent the entire Class 1 into a frenzy.
While everyone was chatting away,
Whoosh!
A screenshot of a WeChat Moment appeared in the group.
The screenshot was posted by Fan Zixuan, the sports commissioner, and the name on it was 【Toilet Time】. He had posted a moment—Arrived in Paris! Yay, heart emojis, peace sign!
“!!!”
“……….”
Everyone in the Class 1 group chat was dumbfounded!