1993 My China Entertainment Age

Chapter 26: The Goodbye Kiss Under the National Locust Tree, The Night of Yanjing's Olympic Bid!

July 9, afternoon.

In response to Yanjing's Olympic bid, after filming the last scene of the day, director Jiang Wen suddenly announced that the crew of "Sunny Day" will stop for a day off to celebrate the success of Yanjing's Olympic bid tonight.

When receiving this notice, everyone was very happy, but Jiang Xiaofeng felt a little puzzled, because in his previous life's memory, Yanjing's Olympic bid was not successful this time.

It can be seen that everyone has unquestionable confidence and affirmation of the success of Yanjing's Olympic bid, as if this time Yanjing's Olympic bid is a sure thing, which made Jiang Xiaofeng wonder for a while whether his memory has gone wrong.

Upon learning that all the crew members of "Sunny Day" were on vacation for a day, Tao Hong immediately went back to the hotel to pack her luggage, and then happily said goodbye to Jiang Xiaofeng: "I'm going home, and I won't return to the crew until the morning after tomorrow."

Jiang Xiaofeng knew very well that since Taohong had been on the set for the past month, she must be homesick, so she replied with a smile, "Okay, I'll wait for the bus with you."

Tao Hong smiled and declined politely: "No, I'll just wait for the car by myself, I won't tell you anymore, I should go back."

Jiang Xiaofeng continued: "It's okay, I'll accompany you."

"Ok."

Although Taohong said that she would not let Jiang Xiaofeng accompany her to wait for the bus, Jiang Xiaofeng's attitude and actions still made her feel very sweet and happy.

On both sides of the street are unremarkable Chinese pagoda trees, perhaps because the flowering period has passed, the newly scattered petals of the pagoda tree fell on the clean street, clean and elegant.

At the bus stop next to a Chinese locust tree, Jiang Xiaofeng and Taohong, who are in the period of passionate love, are like all ordinary lovers in the world.

While waiting for the car, Jiang Xiaofeng put his arms around Tao Hong, and staged a passionate kiss with her that lasted 5 minutes on the main road.

Because Jiang Xiaofeng is taller and Taohong is petite, during this process, Taohong raised her head almost the whole time, and stood on her toes from time to time to cooperate with Jiang Xiaofeng's soliciting kisses.

After the hot kiss, Taohong's cheeks were flushed, her head was dizzy, and she was almost unable to stand still, so she snuggled into Jiang Xiaofeng's arms, took a breath, and said angrily: "Why are you playing hooligans on the road? Don't be ashamed."

"There is nothing to be ashamed of, we are lovers, aboveboard, not sneaky lovers."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Xiaofeng hugged Taohong even tighter.

It may be because we are young, we stay together every day, and we are used to the feeling of being around each other. Now we suddenly have to separate, even though it is only a short day, we still feel very reluctant.

After missing two buses in a row, Jiang Xiaofeng sent Taohong to the bus.

Watching the bus on which Taohong was taking was gradually going away, Jiang Xiaofeng sighed unsatisfactorily, then stopped a non-stop bus, and set off back to the Asian Games Village.

10 pm.

Gao Xiaosong specially bought a bottle of whiskey and three cases of beer, and invited old and new friends such as Lao Lang, Lin Hai, Shen Qing, Jiang Xiaofeng, etc., to his apartment to play the piano, sing, chat about life, and celebrate the success of Yanjing's Olympic bid. happy event.

Jiang Xiaofeng still didn't quite understand why everyone in China, except him, felt that Yanjing's bid for the Olympic Games would be a success in the end.

In fact, regarding the bidding for the Olympic Games, as early as 1908, a magazine named "Tianjing Youth" once asked the Chinese people three questions:
"When will China send an athlete to the Olympics?
"When will China be able to send a team to participate in the Olympics?"

"When will China host the Olympic Games?"

At that time, our country was in a precarious period, and countless patriotic youths rose up to find a way to save the country and the people for the country. These three problems have remained in the long river for decades.

Finally, on February 1991, 2, the 22nd year since the founding of New China and the 42th year since the reform and opening up, our country has developed rapidly, and Yanjing officially proposed to the Chinese Olympic Committee to host the 13th Olympic Games in 2000 application.

After a full 82 years of dust, the road to realizing the dream of bidding for the Olympic Games has finally taken a historic first step.
At this time, Huaguo had just experienced its first ten-year period of rapid economic growth, and it already had the conditions to host the Olympic Games in terms of overall national strength.

Moreover, in 1990, Yanjing successfully hosted the Asian Games, demonstrating its mature capabilities in terms of sports facilities and event hosting.

In the past two or three years, the people of Yanjing all over China have also devoted themselves to this Olympic bid campaign from the bottom of their hearts. The theme closely linked to the whole country is just two words: Olympic bid.

In the summer of 1993, 10 colorful flags promoting Yanjing's bid to host the Olympic Games were fluttered on the main streets of Yanjing. All the campaigns for the Olympic bid reached their peak in September 1993.

CCTV also dedicated a 4-episode program called "How Yanjing's Olympic bid was successful", which will be broadcast directly after the Olympic bid is successful.

It can be said that for the Olympic bid, it took two and a half years and a full 30 months of work, and we made full preparations.

Therefore, everyone is looking forward to the final result of the Olympic bid with great hope.

That night.

In front of the TV, hundreds of millions of viewers around the world are watching this historical moment, especially the tens of millions of Chinese people. How much preparations our motherland has made for the Olympic Games, everyone is looking forward to this moment of dream come true.

In the first three rounds of voting, Yanjing got 32, 37, and 40 votes, almost all leading, and defeated one competitor after another. The second-ranked XN got 30, 30, and 37 votes in the first three rounds respectively.

2:27 am.

After the solemn "Olympic Hymn" was played, IOC President Samaranch stood on the podium in the middle of the cooking stage and thanked several cities that bid for the Olympic Games one by one, including Yanjing in China, which was his first A city of thanks.

Because most of the people present were patriotic, and their English was not very good. When he said the word "Beijing", everyone thought he was announcing the success of Yanjing's Olympic bid, and the apartment had already started cheering.

Lin Hai and Lao Lang were also very happy, they clapped each other's hands to celebrate, with expressions of joy and excitement on their faces.

At this moment, Gao Xiaosong, who is proficient in English, explained from the side: "Don't get excited, buddy. Samaranch is not talking about Yanjing winning, but thanking Yanjing."

After listening to Gao Xiaosong's explanation, everyone was dumbfounded and found it unbelievable.

Immediately afterwards, Samaranch solemnly announced: "XN won the right to host the 2000th Olympic Games at the end of 27."

When the word "XN!" was read from Samaranch's mouth, the Chinese delegation at the scene fell silent for a while.

It turned out that in the last round of voting, Yanjing regrettably lost to XN by 2 votes.

However, in front of the TV cameras, He Zhenliang still graciously congratulated Australia's Gosper for winning the right to host.

After the results came out, De Franz, one of the scrutineers, went to He Zhenliang and comforted him: "The voting results were very close, 45 votes to 43 votes, Yanjing was only two votes away."

That night, the big guys in front of the TV were all depressed, complaining and questioning while drinking whiskey.

"Could it be that North Korea didn't vote for us? We raised white-eyed wolves!"

"That's right, we spent so much money to support them, yet they treat us like this!"

"I seriously suspect that it may be the ghost of the United States!"

"..."

Big guy, you say something, and I say something, expressing your inner dissatisfaction and indignation.

Although Yanjing's Olympic bid failed, Jiang Xiaofeng, Gao Xiaosong and the others still drank the bottle of whiskey.

July 9, afternoon.

The Chinese Olympic bid delegation took the opportunity to return home, and the staff on the plane also encouraged and comforted everyone. He Zhenliang also expressed his sincere thanks to everyone.

The plane arrived in Yanjing on the 26th. People held flowers and held red banners and waited at Yanjing Airport early to welcome the delegation home. Although the Olympic bid failed, we worked hard enough and everyone did their best.

However, what was the reason that Yanjing finally lost by two votes?
He Zhenliang, head of Huaguo's Olympic bid delegation, analyzed after returning home: 1. The members of the Egyptian Olympic Committee have a good relationship with Huaguo. The body really didn't allow it, so I didn't make the trip in the end.

2. The Bulgarian IOC member is the son-in-law of the secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He said that he must vote for Yanjing, but before the vote, the political situation in Bulgaria changed, and this member was implicated and could not participate in the vote.

However, the truth of the matter is that a few years later, Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates himself admitted that as a member of the Australian Olympic Bid Committee at the time, on the eve of the September 9 election, he gave Kenya and Uganda The two IOC members each received US$22 in cash.

And these two votes in Africa were originally considered by Yanjing to be "iron tickets"...

In short, there are different opinions, including various international environments, which may also be the main reason why Yanjing's bid for the Olympic Games did not come true.

(End of this chapter)