Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 134 82 Invitation from the Crown Prince of Sweden

In addition to Kikujiro Ishii, the Japanese ambassador to France, Prince Albert of the United Kingdom and Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden sat in the VIP seats in the audience seats of the swimming pool.

The semi-finals of the 500-meter freestyle will be divided into two groups. The top two in each group will be selected, plus the No.3 with the best score. A total of five people will be selected to enter the finals on the second day.

Chen Muwu will have double matches for the next few days, so he has already made a battle plan, that is, to save his energy and swim with No.1, as long as he can enter the final with the second place in the group.

In the end, as he envisioned, he advanced with a time of 21 minutes and 49 seconds, ranking fourth among the five finalists.

For Chen Muwu, this speed is basically the same as that of Wuyou.

After all, no matter how bad his previous level was, he could swim the 1500-meter freestyle within 10 minutes.

Except for Chen Muwu and Gao Shishengnan, the other three finalists, No.1 and No.5 are all Australians, and No.2 is from Sweden.

So apart from Chen Muwu, the remaining four finalists were all cheered by officials from their respective countries in the audience.

Chen Lu, the Minister of the Republic of China in France, also received an invitation from the organizer before the start of the competition.

When he first heard that the British student had made it to the finals, he was really happy for a moment.

But when I heard that there were five people in the finals, and this Chen Hanchen ranked fourth, Chen Lu suddenly lost interest.

Anyway, he can't win the championship, and he has to go to the audience seats in the open-air swimming pool to be exposed to the sun for an afternoon. Isn't this stupid?
So the reply given by the embassy of the Republic of China in France was that the envoy was busy with affairs and could not go to the scene to watch the swimming final.

But this does not mean that no one in the audience cheered for Chen Muwu.

In addition to De Broglie and Best, Zhang Xiuyou and the others also organized many work-study students in Paris to watch the game.

Of course, their tickets were all settled with the help of Chen Muwu and Todd Broglie.

Although he has participated in the competition for two days, when Chen Muwu played again this afternoon, there were boos from the audience.

But the boos were not to mock Chen Muwu's race, but because he was naked from the upper body when he played.

The current Europeans are also very old-fashioned. They think that Chen Muwu's clothes are really indecent.

From the time when he wore these swimming trunks for the first time by the Cam River in Cambridge, to the Olympic Games two days ago, Chen Muwu has long been used to this incomprehensible voice.

The enemy's siege is tens of thousands, and I stand still.

He was neither blushing nor embarrassed, but took the voice from the audience as a disguised form of encouragement, and waved his hands generously towards the source of the voice like a star at a concert.

Because he ranked fourth among the five finalists, Chen Muwu was assigned to the fourth lane in the final.

Since this was the first time a standard swimming pool was used in the Olympics, no one except Chen Muwu knew that the fastest two strokes in the pool were the four and five strokes in the middle.

This can be regarded as a blessing in disguise for him, so the results of the competition may be further improved.

There is no jumping platform at the starting point of the swimming pool, so the five athletes stood on the shore one by one, ready to enter the water, and quietly waited for the referee to fire the gun.

After the gunshot, the other four athletes chose to enter the water nearby, and only Chen Muwu threw his body as far as possible for one and a half meters.

Now he no longer has to stare at No.1 in front of him, but starts paddling and kicking according to his familiar rhythm.

The 500-meter self-swimming may be the worst event in the entire swimming competition.

After all, because of the long schedule and long time, no athlete will try his best at the beginning, so the intensity and enjoyment of the competition are much worse than those of the 100-meter freestyle.

At first, everyone in the audience chatted and laughed, and no one took the game in front of them too seriously.

Because the results from the qualifiers to the semi-finals had been clearly laid out in front of everyone.

That is, the difference between the final results of No.1 and No.4 is less than ten seconds. They only need to watch the competition carefully in the last 50 meters or 100 meters to tell the result.

At the first 50 meters, Kikujiro Ishii was still a little complacent, because Katsuo Takaishi, the native athlete on the field, was always in the leading position.

If he can continue like this, doesn't that mean that Ben's first Olympic gold medal will be within his reach?

Can you witness this event with your own eyes?

But as the game progressed, the smile on Ambassador Ishii's face gradually froze.

How come every 50 meters, every turn, the speed of the supporter of Sidao can be increased?
Only a third of the game went on, and the support team was already in the lead of the game.

But on the other hand, his compatriot Gao Shi Katsunan has gradually fallen behind the other four players in the water and is in the last position.

This Katsuo Takaishi did indeed create coolness, but what became cooler was not the surrounding air, but Kikujiro Ishii's heart.

Didn't the staff member of the embassy who sent the letter to him pat his chest and guarantee the ticket, swearing that the Gaoshi player is expected to keep his card and win the gold?
How could the current situation be completely opposite to what he boasted?
Whether it is this athlete or that staff member, they are all red deer!They should all be sent to seppuku!

In the auditorium, except for Ishii Kikujiro and the few followers he brought along, everyone seemed very happy.

The group brought by Zhang Xiuyou shouted the name of "Chen Hanchen" in unison.

Although De Broglie didn't know what the three syllables meant, he yelled the loudest.

He even figured out other meanings of the name, "chen" naturally refers to Chen Muwu, and "han" seems to be what the Mongols call their emperor, such as the famous Genghis Khan.

Therefore, the meaning of "chen han chen" together should be everyone cheering for Chen Muwu, describing him as great as King Khan.

De Broglie is worthy of his background in history. He can always think of an explanation that has nothing to do with the correct answer.

Although Prince Albert was also very excited, the royal etiquette already ingrained in his mind firmly pressed him on the chair.

His eldest brother, Prince Edward, left France and returned to the UK after attending the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and watching the British player Abrahams successfully win the 100-meter sprint championship on the [-]th.

And Prince Albert, because he had seen how fast Chen Muwu could swim in the Thames River.

That's why he deliberately stayed in France for a few more days, just to see if Chen could continue to create miracles in the Olympics.

The situation in front of him is indeed worthy of the few nights he stayed in Paris, and when he returns home, he can go to his elder brother to brag about it.

Since his eldest brother was not around, Prince Albert could only extend his bragging claws to the Swedish crown prince beside him, and used all kinds of praise and praise words to blow Chen Muwu to the sky.

Prince Gustav Adolf also sighed silently in his heart: Orientals are geniuses in art and physics, and now when it comes to sports, this person is still a genius!
He originally thought that this kind of person with a well-developed brain and body could only exist in the fantasy of the perfect human being described by the philosophers of ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle, but he did not expect to see it with his own eyes today.

Could this be the mysterious power from the East?
In the end, Chen Muwu won the 40-meter freestyle championship in the 226 Paris Olympics with a time of 1924:500 and an absolute crushing attitude of [-] seconds ahead of No.

What is the concept of this time difference?
Probably when Chen Muwu had climbed onto the shore, put on the velvet bathrobe handed by Best, and was about to tie the belt around his waist, the silver medalist, Charlton from Australia, had just arrived at the shore.

On the other side of the auditorium, a five-color flag was raised on the top of a display board that used movable type to display athlete information and time like an old-fashioned airport screen.

The swimming event of this Olympic Games uses such a method to announce the country where the champion belongs.

In fact, at the beginning, the organizer of the swimming competition did not prepare this flag at all.

But seeing that the Chinese athlete in Sidao had left the other four far behind, they went to the auditorium to ask around, and finally borrowed the national flag.

The audience basically gave applause and cheers to Chen Muwu, who won the No.1. Only the shortest men, headed by Ishii Kikutaro, were ashen-faced.

However, what makes them feel even more ashamed than the Chinese winning the championship is that, not long before Chen Muwu reached the finish line, that Gao Shi from Ben had just completed his penultimate lap.

In other words, this No.1 from China almost fell behind this player by two laps.

Everyone has already climbed ashore to celebrate, and the athletes from their own country are still swimming slowly in the water. This scene is really ironic.

After watching Chen Muwu put on the bathrobe to keep his body warm, Best happily walked towards the athlete's preparation room.

But after walking a few steps, he found that his athlete was not following behind, and turned around to find that Chen Muwu was still in place.

So Best turned back to the past again and called Chen Muwu softly: "Chen, Chen! Why are you still standing there stupidly? Did you feel unreal after winning the championship?"

"This is the end?"

Chen Muwu asked a question without beginning or end.

"Of course, you are already a champion, what else do you want?"

"What about the awards ceremony? Where's my gold medal?"

He asked Best at a loss: "Chen, are you right? There is no awards ceremony at the end of the game. All the medals are distributed at the closing ceremony! Come on, wait here. On to the next game!"

Best's words were different from what Chen Muwu remembered.

He was still waiting eagerly for the ceremony of raising the national flag and playing the national anthem after changing his clothes, but found that there was no such link now.

But that's fine, after all, Chen Muwu doesn't even know what the current national anthem is.

On the 16th, which is the second day after the final of the 500-[-]-meter final, the largest French newspaper "Le Figaro" wrote on the page dedicated to reporting the results of the Olympic Games, "Fourth in the semi-final, champion in the final, Chinese Chen Hanchen was lucky Championship" title.

It is only in the small print below the title that it specifically describes the news that No.1 dropped No.2 for more than 20 seconds.

The staff of the embassy of the Republic of China in France read this newspaper to Minister Chen Lu, and said that the Olympic Organizing Committee invited him to watch tomorrow's 200-meter breaststroke final.

This time, Chen Muwu still adopted the method of qualifying for the second place in the group in order to save his physical strength for the one-day double match.

He didn't even use butterfly in the qualifiers and semi-finals, but only used breaststroke to pass easily.

Chen Lu once again asked the staff to refuse the invitation of the Labor Organizing Committee. He also pointed to the headline of the newspaper and said to the staff: "Look, it's all written in the newspaper. He got away with it by chance. If I go tomorrow, the result will be this Chen Hanchen lost embarrassment, didn't I also embarrass myself? Don't go!"

Thanks to the absence of the broom star Chen Lu, in the 17-meter breaststroke competition on the 200th, Chen Muwu used the killer trick of "butterfly swimmer + breaststroke leg" and once again led No. The results won the championship.

Of course, his championship has caused quite a bit of controversy, and even used the game to suspend for a period of time.

The staff of the organizing committee and FINA officials gathered together for a meeting to discuss whether the new breaststroke style used by Chen Muwu complied with the regulations.

The result of the final discussion was that there was no problem with Chen Muwu's stroke, his leg movement was also fine, and his breathing style was in full compliance with the regulations. Although it looked awkward, this swimming style was still "breaststroke". Chen Muwu won the gold medal. no problem.

Chen Muwu was very grateful to Best in his heart. If he hadn't got into the horns and pointed out that the butterfly stroke was illegal, then maybe this gold medal might not have fallen into his hands.

The headline of the swimming news on the 18th of "Le Figaro" is, "From Frog to Butterfly, Chinese player Chen Hanchen continues to lead the swimming pool".

Then the title of No. 19 was changed to "Chinese genius Chen Hanchen, three times ahead of No.2 by more than ten seconds, broke the world record three times, and won the third gold medal in swimming".

The three news headlines changed three different names for Chen Muwu. This is really something that only French newspapers can do.

The newspaper was published in the morning. In the 100-meter semi-finals that afternoon, the auditorium in the Tulielie swimming pool was full of people for the first time in the last few days of the swimming competition.

Now, everyone believes that this Olympic Games is a session full of miracles.

First, the Finn Paavo Numir won five gold medals in middle and long-distance running and cross-country running, and now there is Chinese athlete Chen Hanchen, who is aiming for his fourth gold medal in swimming.

Some people even think that this young Chinese man, Chen Hanchen, is greater than that Numi, because there are only five individual swimming events, and Chen has signed up for four of them by himself.

If he wins the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle again, he will become a double champion of long-distance and short-distance, but Numir will not win the gold medal in the 100-meter race anyway.

Chen Muwu advanced to the 7-meter freestyle final without any surprises, so on July 20, the afternoon of the last day of the swimming competition, tickets for the entire swimming pool were hard to come by.

Everyone wanted to see with their own eyes whether China's sports geniuses could create new miracles.

This time Chen Lu finally arrived at the scene, and he was even arranged in a position closer to the center of the VIP seats, next to Coubertin, the chairman of the International Olympic Committee.

After obtaining Madame Curie's consent, De Broglie picked up her youngest daughter Eve from Sevigne College on his own initiative, intending to surprise Chen Muwu who was struggling in the water.

The Crown Prince of Sweden, Prince Gustav Adolf, also had to bring his daughter, Princess Ingrid, because he was annoyed by children.

Ingrid is now the most popular and sought-after princess in Europe. Countless countries want to get engaged to this princess. Prince Albert, who is sitting next to the Crown Prince of Sweden, was rejected by her three times.

Of course, the most depressed person at the VIP table was not Prince Albert, but the ambassador to France, Ishii Kikujiro.

Because the unlucky Katsuo Gao Shi, who was set by Chen Muwu for nearly two laps, once again entered the 100-meter final.

This was supposed to be a joyful event, but for some reason, Ambassador Ishii just couldn't be happy. He always felt that this time the team was going to be bullied by supporters in the swimming pool again.

Chen Muwu’s opponents in the final are very strong, including the 1912-meter world record holder, Johnny Weissmuller from the United States, and his teammate, the double 1920-meter freestyle champion in the 100 Stockholm Olympics and the [-] Antwerp Olympics, Duke Kahanamoku.

But he was still full of confidence, and when the starting gun fired, he jumped into the water with the others.

The shouts from the audience were deafening, and two sopranos screamed from the VIP seats.

One is from Eve next to de Broglie, and the other is from the little Swedish princess, Ingrid.

Although the Crown Prince of Sweden also hopes that the Chinese genius Chen in the water will win the championship, he still feels a little uncomfortable seeing his daughter so crazy.

Especially when he thought that the second prince Albert of England had told him that this fast swimmer was also a physicist, Gustav Adolf felt even more uncomfortable.

Although he has no blood relationship with the only great emperor in Swedish history, Gustav II, but now he has found a commonality between the two.

That is, their daughters seem to like people with high IQs. Queen Christina, the daughter of Gustav II, once had an affair with the mathematician Descartes.

How come 300 years later, did my daughter also fall in love with a physicist?

Although this Chinese Chen is very good-looking, has a great figure, and has an excellent brain, he is not European after all, and the Swedish royal family still has regulations, that is, the first princess cannot marry a commoner, if it is not the first order of the throne As an heir, you must marry another country.

Just when the Crown Prince of Sweden was thinking wildly in the VIP seat, the cheers that suddenly echoed in the stadium also revealed the final result of the game.

Without any suspense, Chen Muwu finally won the championship with a time of 55 seconds, more than three seconds ahead of Weiss Muller behind him.

Although from the 500-meter freestyle final, Chen Muwu's competition in the water, Prince Gustav Adolf did not lose a game.

But today's game still made him feel excited.

The Crown Prince of Sweden thought in his mind that he must invite this Chen Muwu to the Swedish embassy for a meal, meet him, and have a good chat about him and the Chinese culture behind him.

But before that, what reason should I think of to send my daughter away in advance?

(End of this chapter)