Basketball starts with breathing

Chapter 327 The opening ceremony, playing in Spain tomorrow [Subscribe]

Lu Yu knew that Wang Zhizhi wanted to leave the Mavericks.

But Lu Yu didn't expect that Wang Zhizhi would find him and say he wanted to go to the Bulls.

This is a bit unexpected.

However, it is not impossible to operate. After he leaves, the Bulls will definitely have some weaknesses in the interior. A player like Wang Zhizhi who can play both center and power forward is also a player who has performed well in the playoffs. Definitely what the Bulls need.

And there's a good chance that it will play out with the Bulls.

Lu Yu suddenly thought of the Mavericks. From the perspective of last season's lineup and pure business, the Mavericks were the most likely to get Lu Yu.

Assuming no other team wants the superstar on the Stud team, then it's up to who has the more chips.

In such a comparison, the Mavericks, who put together a five-star lineup last season, are indeed well-capitalized.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements when the time comes, but I'm the behind-the-scenes boss of the Bulls, so you must help me keep it a secret."

In fact, even if it is known to the media, it does not matter.

After all, the relationship between Jessica and herself has never been made public.

This is also the reason why Lu Yu did not choose Snoopy, because Snoopy often appeared in front of the media when he was working in the magazine, and everyone knew that Snoopy was his own.

On August 8, the Olympic Games opened.

Lu Yu's father, Lu Chaoyang, had been sitting in front of the TV and waiting for the start of the live broadcast. Logically, he should be free now, but he couldn't worry about the restaurant in Spokane and insisted on staying in Spokane. .

Watching TV with him was his apprentice, Hu Weidong, who was recovering in the United States.

"Hey, why haven't I seen the stinky boy yet!" Lu Chaoyang pointed to the TV screen and said, "He called and said he was the standard bearer, so it's not like he is bragging about this, right?"

"Why are you asking me, son?" Hu Weidong laughed.

"I'm just asking if you can't do it. If you don't see it, go back quickly if you don't."

"Look, didn't I come to accompany you to watch the Olympics?"

Since last year, Hu Weidong has gradually faded out of the national team. He sometimes sighs that it is a pity that he is getting old too fast, otherwise he will catch up with everything in this year's Olympic Games.

Since the Chinese men's basketball team has Lu Yu, they have won more balls than they have won in the past 30 years.

"You can see that the venue for the Athens Olympic Games is not bad. It's not as bad as my son said. Two days ago, my son said that they hired a group of workers from China to rush to work... What happened to the row of advertisements in the back?"

"It looks a little familiar." Hu Weidong thought for a while: "It's a bit like the advertisements hanging on the walls of domestic real estate construction sites..."

"It's not going to be all construction waste, right?" Lu Chaoyang said with a smile: "This must be the idea of ​​our Chinese workers in the past."

It really made them guess right. There was indeed a pile of construction waste behind the advertising banners at the Olympic Games.

The Chinese men's basketball team thought this was the worst Olympic Games in history.

Lu Yu just stood there quietly holding the flag, thinking in his heart, "That's because you haven't seen the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Brazil Olympics."

Lu Yu remembered that in 2012, the London Olympic Organizing Committee proudly announced that their venues were much faster than the Athens Olympic Games. However, they were too happy too early...

When American athletes came to London, the bus bound for the Olympic Village got lost and took them around London for four hours.

Getting lost is trivial, and an Olympic shuttle bus was involved in a traffic accident, killing a passerby unexpectedly.

When the athletes came to the Olympic Village, they found that their toilets had no lids.

In the pole vault competition, Lassero Porguez's pole suddenly broke into three pieces and his head landed on the ground. Fortunately, he was fine.

Then the auditorium collapsed, the reporter interview area collapsed, the wrong national flag was hoisted, the national anthem was wrongly placed...

Until the final analysis of the reason, someone said the truth: "It's the Olympic Organizing Committee, the Olympic Organizing Committee should not have invited Mr. Bean at the opening ceremony..."

Think again of the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

Athens knows how to cover it with billboards, Brazil doesn't even cover the roof of the gymnasium, and it doesn't cover it if you want.

Before the Olympic Games started, the mascot, the jaguar, wanted to escape from prison, but was directly - bang!Killed by a single shot, really died before the apprenticeship...

Shi Dongpeng and the media were robbed of their luggage, and anti-doping officials were robbed on the street.

In this regard, the Governor of Rio State explained:

Funding has not yet come in, police cars have no money to refuel, patrols are temporarily canceled...

However, this is not the most embarrassing news. The most embarrassing news is: the local police in Brazil have been robbed by gangsters...

Recalling these, Lu Yu suddenly felt that even the air of this Olympic Games became much fresher.

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The camera is aimed at the Olympic Stadium. The first thing that jumps into view is the blue water in the center of the venue, which symbolizes the Aegean Sea that the Greeks are proud of. It is also the stage for tonight's opening ceremony.

This special stage contains high-tech components: the total weight of water is 2162 tons, and it takes six hours to fill it all up. At the end of the performance, ten large water pumps will make the water disappear without a trace in 3 minutes. , the disappearing water will flow to an underground storage tank large enough to hold it.

Before the opening ceremony, people counted down from 28, indicating that the 28th Olympic Games will enter a countdown state.

As the lights in the venue gradually dimmed, hundreds of drummers beat the sky-shattering drums against the backdrop of melodious Greek music, announcing the official start of the opening ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games.

With just one opening ceremony, Athens conquered the world!
The Athens Olympic Games, which finally ushered in the opening amidst a chorus of doubts, happily responded to all the doubts about Athens with a wonderful opening.At the opening ceremony, which permeated Greek civilization and wisdom, as well as the spirit of peace, unity, and fraternity of mankind, everyone was shocked.

At this moment, the problems of the venue, the roof of the swimming pool, and the huge expenses have all become the details.

Just before the opening ceremony, the Athenians played a short film on the big screen.The rapidly changing footage reveals the entire process of the Olympic Stadium from scratch, from ruins to grandeur.

What did the Athenians want to prove?They wanted to prove at the last minute that they did a miracle.

Hmm... Lu Yu wants to say, this is a miracle of Chinese workers!
There are many objective reasons for the dystocia of the Athens Olympic Games.

A small city with a population of just over 1000 million cannot support the huge Olympic Games even if the whole country puts all its efforts into it.

So really don't blame them, poverty is the original sin!
There was a Greek performance on the TV, and Lu Chaoyang was sleepy while watching. The regional culture was different, so he didn't have the ability to appreciate it at all.

In the broadcast booth, Sun Yiping and Han Qiaosheng complimented the performance just now. They couldn't do anything about it. They have the ability to appreciate it, but obviously they also knew that most audiences did not reach this level, even if they introduced it. With all the hype, the audience in front of the TV would also say, what kind of shit is this show doing?

Sun Yiping said calmly: "Greece, like China, is also an ancient civilization. This performance is like a hodgepodge..."

He really didn't know how to compliment it.

Han Qiaosheng immediately took up the conversation: "Yes, in a short 10-minute performance, Greek sculpture, painting, music, literature, and history are all combined together, which is really amazing...The entrance ceremony has begun!"

Han Qiaosheng's voice became high-pitched: "The first to appear was the Greek Olympic flag-bearer, as the birthplace of the Olympic flame, Greece is the first to appear in the Greek Olympic delegation at each Olympic Games, but this year they are the first to appear. It's just their flag-bearer, because they're also the hosts this year, and their Olympic team will play at the end."

In the previous Olympic Games, Greece was the birthplace of the Olympic Games and the host country of the first modern Olympic Games, and it was the first to enter the stadium, and the host was the last to enter the stadium.

People thought that Greece would give up the first position this time, so that the small American country of Saint Lucia, which starts with the Greek letter Alpha, would enjoy the honor of being the first to enter.But the Greeks ended up taking both the first and last positions.

First let the Greek flag bearer enter the stadium with the national flag, followed by the flags and athletes of Saint Lucia and the other 200 countries and regions, and finally the athletes of the Greek delegation will appear, which means that the Greek flag and athletes will enter the stadium in two steps ceremony.

"The second one is St. Lucia... The Chinese Olympic delegations used to be sorted in English. We usually play in the 40th place starting with C, but this time the host country is Greece, because Greece uses Greek language. , so according to the spelling of Greek, plus this Olympic Games has broken through 202 countries and regions, the Chinese delegation will play in the 78th place."

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"The U.S. delegation came out, and we saw a lot of our old rivals, like their great swimmer Phelps, like our regular NBA players..."

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"Come on!" Han Qiaosheng's voice was more than an octave higher: "The Chinese delegation has appeared, and the first is our Chinese men's basketball player Lu Yu, who is smiling, followed by Yu Zaiqing, Duan Shijie, Xiao Tianhe and Cui Dalin are the four regimental leaders, followed by 28 regimental officials and 178 athletes. In the phalanx, the regiment leaders wore dark navy blue suits with the Chinese Olympic Committee logo, yellow trousers and brown leather shoes. Five-ring tie; male athletes in red suits, yellow shirts, beige trousers, and brown leather shoes; female athletes in white tops and red skirts and red leather shoes."

Lu Chaoyang couldn't listen to what Han Qiaosheng said at Nabalabala, he just raised his chin shyly: "See, that's my son, I gave birth to."

"Why do you feel like I don't know Lu Yu when I hear this." Hu Weidong was speechless.

In the United States, Jessica was also watching the opening ceremony. Seeing Lu Yu's handsome appearance on the TV screen, she immediately felt that she had made the right choice.

Well, looks are justice!

The team finally stood still under the leadership of the guide, and the flag in Lu Yu's hand was also picked up by the staff. Although it was only a few minutes, these few minutes made him feel that he could carry this flag in his life. worth it.

The scene on the big screen jumped back and forth on the various delegations, and the director was also looking for the celebrities of each delegation. The camera stopped on Phelps, Gatling, and Duncan.

Suddenly, the Chinese delegation appeared on the big screen, and it was Lu Yu and Yao Ming who appeared in the camera.

Sun Yiping introduced excitedly: "Now what everyone sees are the two main players of the Chinese men's basketball team in the Chinese Olympic delegation, Lu Yu and Yao Ming, and Lu Yu is also our flag bearer this time. I wish the Chinese men's basketball team can be in their A good result under the leadership!”

Although he wished, in fact, fans who really care about Chinese basketball know that it is really not easy for the Chinese men's basketball team to break through this time.

Don't look at the high tone set by the Basketball Association this time, and the fans are also surging, but no one knows whether they can win the trophy or not.

Minutes and seconds passed, and the long Olympic Opening Ceremony finally came to an end.

With the proud announcement of the Olympic Committee President Rogge: "The Olympics are finally home!" Then the torch was passed and lit.

These Lu Yu have seen it once, and naturally it is not as startled as Zhu Fangyu next to him.

What he is more worried about now is the game two days later.

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FIBA and the Athens Olympic Organizing Committee have finalized the Olympic men's basketball schedule on August 8. The Chinese team has been drawn to Group A. The order of competition is Spain, New Zealand, Argentina, Italy and Serbia and Montenegro.

The teams in Group B are Australia, Angola, the United States, Lithuania, Puerto Rico and Greece.

For the Chinese team, it doesn't seem to make a difference in which group...

Because for other teams, they don't want to play China, after all, the Chinese team's performance in the World Championships is too eye-catching.

The strength of the world basketball is divided. In the past, the first tier was definitely the United States, the second tier was European and South American countries, the third tier was Oceania countries, and the fourth tier was Africa and Asia.

But now there is a Chinese men's basketball team in Asia, and the African old black has been left behind.

This time, the US team received threats from certain extremists because of Greece, so many big-name players have withdrawn from the Olympics.

Including Kobe, O'Neal, and Ray Allen did not come, which is equivalent to leaving a starting lineup at home.

Artest also called to persuade Lu Yu not to go...

However, the US team still has stars such as Iverson, Duncan, Anthony, Wade, James, Marbury, McGrady, and Stoudemire, but the quality is slightly insufficient.

Before the Olympic Games, Dream Six was beaten by Italy by 17 points in the warm-up match in Cologne, Germany.Two days later, it was still in Cologne, and the Dream Six team relied on Iverson's oversized three-pointer to pull the game against Germany into overtime.

The weakness of the Dream Team has been seen at the World Championships, and now even American fans can't hold out their hopes.

The Athens Olympic basketball competition will be held from August 8 to 14.

The men's and women's basketball teams are played every other day.

The group stage will be played at the indoor stadium at the old airport of Athens, Erinikon, which can accommodate 15600 spectators.

9-11名争夺赛，四分之一决赛、半决赛和决赛将定于8月24日至28日在位于雅典奥运会主会场的奥林匹克室内赛场举行，该赛场可容纳19200名观众。

The Chinese Men's Basketball Olympic Games schedule is as follows:
August 8, 15:14, against Spain;

August 8, 17:9, against the New Zealand team;

August 8, 19:20, against Argentina;

August 8, 21:16, against the Italian team;

On August 8, 23:16, against Serbia and Montenegro.

On August 8, the Chinese men's basketball team first went to the stadium to watch the match between the Chinese women's basketball team and the South Korean women's basketball team. The Chinese women's basketball team finally won the game with 14:71, setting a good example for the Chinese men's basketball team.

Zhu Fangyu pouted: "Who can't win against South Korea..."

Lu Yu glanced at him and said with a smile, "What? We're not confident in playing Spain tomorrow?"

"..." Zhu Fangyu.

"I heard that the gymnastics team is coming to see..." Lu Yu said to himself.

"???" Zhu Fangyu immediately came to the spirit: "What happened to Spain? Spain doesn't still wear our Chinese Li Ning jersey. I will kill him in minutes tomorrow."

On August 8th, the match between the Chinese men's basketball team and Spain will begin.

(End of this chapter)