rebirth of change

The Standard Chartered Marathon started in 1997 as a marathon sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank to celebrate the return of Hong Kong.The competition that year spanned both China and Hong Kong.

Now, four years have passed, and this marathon has grown from small to large. In 97, less than 6000 long-distance runners signed up for the competition, but this year's marathon, before Chen Kangjie proposed to participate, the number of applicants has exceeded 5000, reaching [-].

Originally, according to the planning of the organizing committee, the registration for this competition had ended one and a half months ago. In other words, the quota was full and no registration was accepted.

However, when the organizing committee learned that Chen Kangjie was willing to participate in this marathon, they immediately became excited and expressed their willingness to do special things.

If a local marathon wants to improve its level, expand its scale and influence, in addition to the accumulation of time and organizational experience, it is also a good means to attract the participation of some celebrities.

Among the marathons in major cities around the world, the Standard Chartered Marathon in Hong Kong has little influence due to its late start, and it does not attract the attention of high-level marathon runners around the world.In terms of media reports, based on the social reality of Hong Kong, the media attention is not high.

However, everyone in the organizing committee of this marathon knows that if Chen Kangjie can appear in this competition, it will definitely be the biggest highlight of this competition. I believe that he alone will be enough to attract the attention of major media in the world. Attention is also a great encouragement and benefit for those athletes who sign up to participate in this competition.

As long as Chen Kangjie participates in this competition, the scale of participation in the next competition will definitely lead to explosive growth.Chen Kangjie's attractiveness and influence are unmatched by others. He is not only a world superstar, but also the world's top track and field athlete. He can participate in the Standard Chartered Marathon, which shows that the competition here has enough attraction.

The organizing committee only took two days to complete all the procedures for Chen Kangjie to participate in this competition.Since Chen Kangjie was an added player after the fact, coupled with his special status, his number is quite different from that of others.

Usually in marathon races, there are only number but no name on the number cloth, but this time the organizing committee decided to print his name on the number cloth of Chen Kangjie.The game numbers of other athletes are all five digits, but Chen Kangjie's is three digits: 001.It is equivalent to Chen Kangjie being a specially invited player among the specially invited players.

"You helped the organizing committee by participating in the Standard Chartered Marathon this time, but you also cheated a lot of people." Fan Wenxuan sat on the stylish soft chair opposite Chen Kangjie, crossed her legs and said to Chen Kangjie sitting opposite him with a smile .

And He Wanrong and Ouyang Zhenhua were sitting on the side.Fan Wenxuan came here to negotiate with Chen Kangjie on some external publicity matters, and Ouyang Zhenhua came here to gather with Chen Kangjie and report on his work by the way.

"How could it be? Who did I cheat?" Chen Kangjie, who was holding a cup of tea, asked back with a half-smile.

"First of all, you cheated Gibson and Chen Long. The two of them are very happy to promote "Dragon Heart" with you, but they heard that they asked to run a 42.195-kilometer marathon together. It’s a bitter face. They want to participate, they are worried that if they can’t finish the run, they will be ashamed, but don’t participate, this opportunity is very rare, you say, have you tricked them, choose any event that only you can participate in. "Fan Wenxuan joked happily.

"I didn't force them to participate. It's a voluntary activity. It's wise for them to give up this activity. Don't think it's just running. If someone is really not used to it, it's very risky to do such a large amount of exercise all at once. "Chen Kangjie shrugged, curled his lips and said, "Then besides them, who else have I cheated?"

For the 42.195km race, if there is no long-term adaptive training before the race, it will be really dangerous for ordinary people. Sudden extreme load exercise and system function failure are very likely to cause Damage to the blood circulation system, respiratory system, and energy supply system, resulting in problems.According to statistics, one out of every [-] marathon runners dies.Especially when you can't finish the game by yourself, but you burst out with strong perseverance, you are more likely to have dangerous phenomena such as cardiac arrest and muscle atrophy.

From this perspective, it is indeed wise for Gibson and the others to give up not participating.Otherwise, when the time comes to embarrass yourself in front of the media, and you get hurt again, the loss outweighs the gain.

"You also cheated a lot of Hong Kong people, including some entertainers in the entertainment industry. They said that if they had known that you would sign up for the competition, they would have to sign up no matter what. Good. Now that the registration is closed, and they don't have the special treatment that you have, I can only lament the loss of an opportunity to have close contact with you." Fan Wenxuan continued.

"This... can I be blamed for this? Then it's too difficult for me to be a human being. It's impossible for me to do everything well." Chen Kangjie shook his head and said.

"Xiaojie, what Wenxuan said is true. The enthusiasm of Hong Kong people for you is probably higher than that of mainland people. But they really have complaints about you." Ouyang Zhenhua who was sitting on the side nodded and said .

"Complaints against me? I don't seem to have done anything outrageous, right? Isn't it just to participate in such a marathon, do you need to be promoted to such a height?" Chen Kangjie looked at Ouyang Zhenhua suspiciously.

"I am not referring to this, but you did not participate in the two visits of the Olympic gold medal delegation to Hong Kong. Shortly after the 1996 Olympic Games, the national Olympic delegation was invited to visit Hong Kong. You did not come that time. Not long ago, You were also absent from the gold-medal delegation to Hong Kong after the Sydney Olympic Games. Both times, you have disappointed those Hong Kong citizens who like you. You must know that among the gold-medal athletes who visit Hong Kong every time, the citizens want to see them the most It was you who arrived, but you didn't come, you said, did they have a reason to complain to you." Ouyang Zhenhua explained with a smile.

What Ouyang Zhenhua said was true.In fact, every time Chen Kangjie is on the list at the beginning, it is because his reputation is too great and his grades are too good, anyone can not be on the list, except him.However, every time he was invited, he always refused because he had no time.

"But I really don't have time. You all know this. It's impossible for me to have a week free at that time. In addition, you know that when the Olympic delegation visits Hong Kong and Macau, except In addition to promoting the Olympic spirit and increasing the integration of the three places, making money is the key point. The two sports foundations in Hong Kong and the Macau government will reward athletes who win gold medals with generous funds and gold. But I... " Chen Kangjie defended.

"We know that you are not short of money, but the citizens don't think so. They are wondering if you are prejudiced against this place. Of course, there are only a handful of people who have this idea." Fan Wenxuan took Chen Kangjie's words.

"So it is right for you to participate in the Standard Chartered Marathon. Not only can you show your style in the form of sports, but you can also deal a fatal blow to such irresponsible remarks." He Wanrong interjected.

"It's true, but I didn't think too much when I agreed to participate in the competition. Now it seems that a blind cat has bumped into a dead mouse, haha." Chen Kangjie smiled wryly.

Ever since the organizer announced that Chen Kangjie would participate in the Standard Chartered Marathon, various media have flocked to the event. The media that originally planned to "skip the water" of the event decided to focus on it.Even the local TV stations in Hong Kong offered to the organizers to broadcast the competition live.

As a private TV station, consideration of issues is often the priority of interests.In the previous games, none of the local TV stations in Hong Kong were willing to spend more than two hours broadcasting such low-income games live.It would be nice if they could report it in the news.

But now that Chen Kangjie is going to participate, the meaning is completely different.Once any TV organization obtains the right to broadcast live, it will mean an increase in ratings, and it will also be able to obtain considerable advertising revenue.Without Chen Kangjie, it would be quite difficult to get advertisements for this kind of competition, but now that he wants to participate, I believe those discerning merchants will not hesitate to pay for advertisements.

In the past few days, Hong Kong newspapers have focused on reporting that Chen Kangjie will participate in the Hong Kong Standard Chartered Marathon. Some Hong Kong people who love to gamble even use this to bet on which place Chen Kangjie will get.

If it was a sprint event, no one would do that. Everyone knows that he is the king of sprint events.But since Chen Kangjie has never participated in a long-distance running event, there is still suspense.

In short, with his emergence, this time the Hong Kong Marathon has received unprecedented attention, not only the attention of local citizens, but also those from other regions and countries are full of curiosity.

With the help of this competition, applications for interviews with Chen Kangjie suddenly surged in a blowout style.It's a pity that Chen Kangjie was not in Hong Kong during this period, but went to Southeast Asia to do publicity.He will not return to compete until the day before the game.Chen Kangjie's time was very tight throughout the holiday, and it was impossible to spend so much waiting time in Hong Kong.

January 1th is the start day of the Standard Chartered Marathon, and this day is also a Sunday holiday. As soon as it was dawn early in the morning, thousands of local citizens began to flock to the marathon line to seize a favorable position.Especially at the starting point of Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, it was even more blocked.