Almighty Athlete Chapter 5: Arrival in Athens
Fivety-three track and field athletes who participated in the Athens Olympic Games gathered here in the large meeting room of the Tianguan Center.
On the rostrum, Director Luo, the team leader of the national team’s Olympic track and field delegation, is introducing some of the on-site arrangements for the Olympics to the players.
"Due to the large number of participants, the athletes in our country mainly arrived in Greece in three batches. The first batch is currently the sailing team, rowing boat, kayaking team, women’s football team and gymnastics team. Among them, the sailing windsurfing team, rowing, and kayaking athletes have arrived in Athens. After all, water sports are greatly affected by wind and waves, so they need to arrive early to adapt to training."
"The second batch is a large force, and will arrive in Athens on August 8 by special plane. The table tennis feather, weightlifting, diving, swimming, archery, boxing, etc. are all in this batch. The male basketball players are due to their size Taller and will take another flight to Athens. The first two batches of athletes will arrive in Athens before the opening of the Olympic Games on August 13."
"As for our track and field delegation, we are scheduled to go to Athens in the last batch. We don’t have a special plane, we need to take a flight by ourselves. Specifically, we will be divided into three teams based on the principle of proximity. Transfer via Frankfurt to Athens; Coach Huang from Huangpu leads to Athens via the Netherlands; Coach Sha from Huacheng leads to Athens via Hong Kong. Depending on the flight, it will be from August 17 to August Arrived in Athens between the 19th."
"Another thing I want to say is to participate in the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games. At the opening ceremony, our delegation is to form a square matrix, some of the athletes are recommended by the organization, if other athletes want to participate, you can also Self-registration, so does anyone of us want to register?"
Participating in the Olympic Opening phalanx is a very glorious thing, but it is also a very tiring thing. The Olympic Opening will go through many rehearsals in advance, which will take a lot of time. The opening ceremony is scheduled from 9 pm to 12 pm on the 13th of Athens time. If the return time is counted, it is estimated that it will be tossed to three or four in the morning.
The opening ceremony consumes a lot of energy from athletes, so many athletes will not choose to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in order to avoid affecting the competition state.
In addition, Director Luo has just mentioned the transportation plan of the track and field delegation. If you sign up for the opening ceremony, it means that you have to go to Athens several days in advance. In concept, acting alone without the collective is obviously a not-so-good performance.
And without leaving the organization to arrive in Athens in advance, not to mention clothing, food, housing, transportation, training alone is also a big problem. As a professional athlete, not training for a day may affect the state, let alone several days in a row.
Therefore, when Director Luo asked if anyone wanted to sign up for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the athletes in the stadium did not raise their hands. Even if some people wanted to participate, but they saw that they did not make it, they endured it. .
Seeing that no one raised his hand, Director Luo nodded in satisfaction, and he didn’t want an alternative in his team.
At this moment, an athlete sitting in the back row suddenly raised his right hand and shouted, "I want to sign up for the opening ceremony!"
The dozens of people in the meeting room were all stunned. Then they looked back collectively and found that it was Zhang Guan who raised their hands.
"Eh..." Director Luo was speechless. He didn't expect that there was such an ignorant athlete, and this ignorant athlete was one of the benchmarking figures in the track and field delegation.
But then Director Luo thought, Zhang Guan is still only 18 years old this year, even if he is a big child, and only played one international game, it is normal for this age to be curious about things.
"Zhang Guan, I'm afraid you don't know yet. It takes a lot of time to participate in the opening ceremony. You have to get up early, get rehearsed in advance, rehearse in advance, and walk around the stadium several times." A front row coach reminded.
"Yeah, our track and field delegation will arrive in Athens several days after the opening ceremony. During this time, you will have to stay in the Olympic Village..." Another coach also said.
"It’s okay, it’s just a matter of getting familiar with the venue and local environment in advance. And I think it’s a glorious thing to be able to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympics. It's a great honor for me." Zhang Guan replied.
People who originally wanted to dissuade Zhang Guan shut up suddenly. They did not expect Zhang Guan to set the tone so high at once, even speaking on behalf of the motherland, which rose to the height of ideological consciousness. How can others persuade .
When I first started Zhang Guan registration, everyone thought it was Zhang Guan young curiosity who was not familiar with the world, so some of the more senior coaches sitting in the front row would advise, but listening to Zhang Guan said this is obviously early. There are premeditated people who want to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
Director Luo sighed very helplessly. As Director Luo, he could not naturally change his words. Since Zhang Guan raised his hand to register in public, Director Luo can only agree to let Zhang Guan fill out an application form. Reported to the Olympic delegation team.
The official responsible for the propaganda of the Youth League Department quickly gave a reply, agreeing that Zhang Guan will participate in the athletes’ team at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
The opening ceremony of the athletes’ phalanx prioritizes famous and good-looking athletes, the name of an Asian first trapeze, so that Zhang Guan registration will not be rejected, not to mention that Zhang Guan itself is also a big man more than one meter nine, in The overall image also has an advantage when queued.
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The next day, Zhang Guan went to the bank and exchanged a part of the euro, and all the euros in the bank card were taken out. Now the euros on Zhang Guan add up to more than 160,000.
The maximum face value of the euro is 500 yuan, so 160,000 euros is a little more than three bucks. A large envelope is also installed, and it can be easily inserted into the mezzanine of the bag.
According to the customs regulations, there is a limit to carry foreign currency out of the country, but the Olympic team takes an Air China Boeing 747 special plane, and the customs is released all the way, so the Zhang Guan successfully brought so much euro cash into the aircraft .
The handling fees for cross-border withdrawals at that time were much higher than ten years later, and international credit card giants were also trying various methods to block UnionPay. As a result, the international credit cards handled by domestic UnionPay were not available in many places. In addition, At this time, the foreign exchange administration's limit for cross-border withdrawals is 5,000 yuan per day, not US dollars, but national currency. It can be said that it is pitiful. It was changed to 10,000 per day in 2008. Afterwards, Chinese tourists gradually moved in. In the world, and the country's foreign exchange is relatively sufficient, the cross-border withdrawal limit has gradually increased to 100,000 yuan per day.
It is precisely because of various restrictions that Zhang Guan chose to carry euro cash directly. In fact, at that time, the vast majority of people also carried foreign currency cash when they went abroad. The entire Olympic delegation, except for those big athletes who often go abroad, have foreign banks. Outside the card, basically carry cash.
There are no direct flights from the capital to Athens. If you take a civil airliner, you need to transfer. This time, the Olympic delegation was chartered by direct flights, so it took more than six hours to arrive in Athens.
The time difference between Athens and the capital is five hours. The flight departs at 2 pm in capital time and arrives in Greece at 3 pm in Athens time. The Athens Olympic Organizing Committee has provided a special “Olympic Family” channel for the participating countries in the Olympic Games, which can be used for customs clearance, and the Olympic Village’s Pakistan University has already stayed in the closed parking lot of the airport. After going to the University of Pakistan, I went straight to the Olympic Village.
The delegation did not hold any ceremonies at the airport, nor did they contact the media. This arrangement is undoubtedly disappointing the reporters waiting. There were more than 200 reporters waiting at the airport that day, and they could only shoot through a road Photo of some athletes pulling suitcases.
The Olympic Village of the Athens Olympic Games is located at the foot of a mountain. The Olympic Village is divided into accommodation areas and international areas. Both areas have access restrictions. The accommodation areas only allow athletes, officials and Olympic Village staff to enter.
Most of the buildings in the accommodation area are three-storey buildings, which adopt an apartment-style layout. In addition to the living room, each apartment has four bedrooms, two bath rooms and a balcony, which is actually four rooms and two bathrooms. The pattern of one hall. There are two beds in each bedroom, that is, an apartment can accommodate eight athletes.
At the same time, there are hospitals, religious service centers and libraries in the Olympic Village, all of which are free of charge.
Next, Zhang Guan will participate in the rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
Before the athletes arrived, the Athens Olympics Organizing Committee had held several opening rehearsals, including rehearsals for the opening performances, lighting and sound rehearsals, torch relay rehearsals, ignition rehearsals, etc. The rehearsal of the ceremony can only send some athletes to participate, but the flag bearer of the side team must participate in the rehearsal.
The flag bearer of the Chinese delegation is a giant. Since the men’s basketball team is going to participate in the rehearsal, all the men’s basketball team members will naturally follow the boss to participate in the rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games~IndoMTL.com~ and Zhang Guan has long wanted to leave the Olympic Village So in the name of participating in the rehearsal, they also followed.
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Rehearsal day at the Athens Olympic Stadium.
just got out of the car, Zhang Guan grabbed the interpreter of the team and said, "Tummy hurts, I have to squat in the bathroom for a while, please help me take a leave!"
"Are you all right, let the team doctor show you?" the translator asked.
"It's okay, it's just a little bit unacceptable." Zhang Guan said.
The translator nodded. It is normal for diarrhea symptoms to occur two days before going abroad because of water and soil disobedience. It is not Zhang Guan alone. He pointed to a sign in the distance and said, "Don’t lose it. We will gather there after the rehearsal for a while. That is the sign. If you can’t find us, just wait there. Don’t. Run around."
"No problem, you can rest assured that you can never lose it." Zhang Guan said while rushing into the bathroom not far away while covering her stomach.
After a few minutes, he saw that the teams participating in the rehearsal entered the stadium. Zhang Guan slipped out quietly. He pulled out a tourist map of Athens, looked at it carefully, and then quickly disappeared into the crowd. among.
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