It’s 6 pm Paris time.
Inside the dormitory.
Chen Shu and Zhang Zhan Shuo, along with a few other teammates, finished their dinner and waited for the rest of the team to gather, playing with their phones.
They had to leave for the La Défense Stadium again in half an hour.
The 4 * 100-meter men’s freestyle relay final was about to begin.
The morning’s freestyle preliminaries had already made headlines in China.
But what also appeared on the trending list were various criticisms of the opening ceremony.
And it ruthlessly overshadowed Pan Zhan Le's world record-breaking performance... ranking number one.
【The Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony, really amazing!】
Chen Shu was stunned for three seconds when he saw this top trending topic.
Just... out of the blue?
No, are they just being so obsequious? Directly going there?
Not even being subtle?
He clicked on the link out of curiosity. The top comments were from a bunch of mentally colonized little fairies who were groveling and praising the artistic sense, the ‘chillness’ … Of course, the comments below were all criticism.
“Chillness, are you referring to sphincter control?”
“Art, the eye-gouging LGBT art?”
“Those who said it was beautiful are all jumping on the bandwagon, pretending to be romantic, free, and artistic. They actually don't know anything!”
“……”
“I really don't understand, why are there still people in China licking it up when the opening ceremony is so bad?”
Zhang Zhan Shuo was also browsing social media, using Douyin.
There were fewer ‘colonized individuals’… But there were some.
Weibo is a stronghold of colonizers.
Xiaohongshu and Douban are heavily colonized communities.
Only Bilibili is slightly better.
“Because deep down, they think China is inferior.”
“I even saw people bashing our Beijing Olympics!”
“5,000 years of artistic heritage, surpassed by 200 years of Western civilization? How could they surpass us?!”
“I really want to laugh!”
“Forget it, it's bad luck… I shouldn't have opened the comments!”
Zhang Zhan Shuo quickly checked the second trending topic.
【46.78 seconds! Pan Zhan Le Breaks World Record Again in 100-Meter Men’s Freestyle!】
This one was much more pleasant to look at.
Basically everyone in China was praising him.
After all, he was their own athlete, and he was so impressive.
“I saw foreigners getting triggered... on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram, they're all saying Pan's on drugs!”
“It seems like Phelps is also whining about it!”
“Hahaha, he should take a look at what they are like... The Americans are definitely using advanced technology under the table again!”
Chen Shu thought back to the first round of the preliminaries that afternoon, when the American swimmer touched the wall and his face was like a purple eggplant possessed by Thanos, and he felt a bit suspicious.
But there was no evidence.
Because they had a few ‘exempt’ products… They were competing with illnesses!
Asthma, ADHD, neurosis… these were the ancestral ailments of American athletes.
They were born athletic saint bodies. Who could withstand that?
WADA wouldn’t dare to investigate!
After all, America is the daddy!
“Phelps is really on the decline in his later years.”
“He had asthma during his athletic career, but he was fine after he retired.”
“Now look at him, he doesn't look like an athlete at all, just like a bio-human who overdosed on drugs!”
“Hard to say, after all, he's a swimming legend. We shouldn't say anything casually…”
Zhang Zhan Shuo looked around.
Although they were on Chinese soil, there might be traitors lurking.
Yuan, the deputy team leader in the last East Olympic Games, was a two-faced person!
However, Chen Shu was only 13 years old, a “child's innocent words”.
The younger generation was becoming increasingly bold and confident.
After venting his frustrations, Chen Shu clicked on the third trending topic.
This one was about him. This was the first time in his life he had been on the trending list. The previous one about his 13th birthday was together with the entire national team, so it didn't really count.
【Chen Shu, China's Youngest Swimming Prodigy, Big Heart!】
【13-Year-Old Prodigy Chen Shu, Super Strong!】
【Chen Shu, The God of the Future of Swimming!】
…...
The praise made Chen Shu feel a little embarrassed.
These were the trending topics that Chen Shu had found.
Actually, besides training, athletes also occasionally play with their phones and check the news about themselves.
After all, they have achieved such good results, so it's only natural to let people know how others praise them?
Everyone loves to hear good things.
Pan Zhan Le liked to frantically check his phone every time he won a championship.
Then the coach would think he was diligently… reading.
【China’s 13-Year-Old Swimming Prodigy Chen Shu Overtakes Two Opponents in the Final Leg of the 4 * 100-Meter Freestyle Men’s Relay, Achieving a Peak Reversal and Securing China’s First Place in Asia, Qualifying for the Finals with First Place in the Preliminaries!】
So sweet, so sweet!
Chen Shu couldn’t contain his grin when he saw this news report about him.
Actually, several of his junior high school classmates also sent messages to greet him.
This time, Chen Shu politely replied to them.
Zhang Jing Yu, who played well with Chen Shu in class, went to the same university as Chen Shu in his previous life.
Chen Shu was a swimming special student, a national level two swimmer, and he had the privilege of participating in the provincial games.
However... his results weren’t ideal!
In this life, after being transformed by the system, he was already far beyond his previous swimming level.
Coupled with the system’s skill bonuses, he had created the miracle of breaking the Asian record at the age of 13.
“The female shooter who won the first gold medal at the Olympics looks pretty cute!”
“She’s quiet and composed...”
Apart from watching news related to himself, Chen Shu also liked to check out other events!
He would definitely watch the gold medal moments!
Especially the first gold medal event at this Paris Olympics!
Huang Yu Ting and Sheng Li Hao won a gold medal with their impressive performance.
Then there was the diving team.
This was a must-win gold medal for China.
So, it didn’t attract as much attention as the first gold medal.
“Hey, kid, watching beautiful girls?”
Zhang Zhan Shuo leaned over.
Chen Shu shut off his phone and grinned.
“Nah, what's so good about girls, we have plenty in our swimming pool!”
“Nonsense, we male swimmers have upper bodies like double-door refrigerators. It's okay if we have some muscles!”
“Look at the female team, each one is more muscular than the next. I'm scared to even look at their upper bodies!”
Some have pretty faces, but their figures are really bad.
Because… their upper bodies are extremely well-developed.
It’s only after retirement that their figures gradually return to normal.
They train together all the time, so they don’t think of each other as beautiful or handsome.
They are immune to it after seeing so much.
The girls see the guys with their eight-pack abs and double-door refrigerators... while the guys see the female athletes in their swimsuits every day.
They don’t have any thoughts about it at all.
But it’s different for another sport, especially shooting.
Their physical training is much less intense, so they look pretty normal.
“By the way, you have a skateboarding event, when is it?”
Chen Shu also had a street skateboarding event, it was just for fun.
Unexpectedly, after activating the ‘stay in the air’ skill, his skateboarding level went straight to Olympic level.
After all, this was a newly added Olympic sport, so not many athletes play it.
Unlike swimming, which is extremely competitive.
“The day after tomorrow, no rush!”
“You have it good. Your 50-meter event is later, so you can actually compete in another event!”
“You're also the first Olympian to do this.”
“This is the first time I've heard of someone doing two sports in different categories in the same Olympics?”
As Zhang Zhan Shuo spoke, the rest of the team arrived, just waiting for the coaching staff.
“There are precedents!”
“Several athletes have competed in two different events at the same Olympics.”
“There are also people who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympics!”
The reason why Chen Shu's two-sport participation didn’t cause a sensation was because there had been many such precedents in the Summer Olympics.
For example, track and field and football.
Historically, there have been footballers who also participated in track and field events.
The most outrageous thing is participating in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
The key is that there are several people like this.
Such people are called “Double Olympic Talents”.
And American athlete Eddie Eagan is even called a “Double Olympic Legend”.
Because this veteran won gold medals in both Olympics, he is considered the first person to win gold in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
“Alright, you guys are all rested up, right?”
“The evening’s event cannot be lost!”
“Apart from the men’s and women’s relays, the other events this morning weren’t ideal.”
“But don’t let this put too much pressure on you.”
“The testing and the pool depth have all had an impact.”
“Our individual events are all later!”
“Get used to the venue, get back in shape…”
Cui Deng Rong gave his usual pep talk.
After he finished, the team headed towards the La Défense Stadium.
The first day of swimming events’ gold medal battle was about to begin!
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