Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 348 Lonely Movement and New Ideas

The Chinese Lunar New Year has arrived as promised, with the anticipation of countless people.

With much anticipation, Chen Ran and Liu Xiang, now the twin heroes of the Chinese sports world, took the stage to appear at the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Monkey.

This year's Spring Festival Gala can be said to be a gathering of stars, bringing together many big bowls from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places.

For example, the Monkey King actor Liu Xiaolingtong took a photo with Chen Ran and Liu Xiang, and boasted: "What are international superstars? The three of us are!"

Liu Xiang seemed a little embarrassed, but Chen Ran was much more calm, and even slapped each other with rainbow farts.

"The Monkey King played by Teacher Six must be the goat among all the characters in our Chinese TV series!" Chen Ran gave a thumbs up as he spoke.

In the past six months, the word "goat" has become very popular with the media's promotion, and it has even spread to the entertainment industry.

But after all, Teacher Six is ​​an older person and doesn’t pay much attention to Internet hot topics and doesn’t understand the meaning of “goat”.

So after the staff next to him explained that "goat" was the best English abbreviation in history, Teacher Six beamed with joy.

This young man named Chen Ran is so good at talking!

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with that at all!

My performance as Monkey Brother is a classic, not only among all the roles of Sun Wukong, but even compared to other classic characters in Chinese TV series, he is not far behind.

The title of "goat" is well deserved.

Chen Ran called Teacher Six "goat", which was considered as speaking of him to his heart.

In fact, Chen Ran was a little helpless, even a little bit dumbfounded.

Teacher Six, I just said this casually. I didn’t expect it to make you so happy...

In fact, in this era, Teacher Liu was still a very respected old artist and was widely loved by netizens. No one would have thought that this person with such a high national character would be ridiculed by netizens after a few years.

On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, taking advantage of the spring breeze of the Year of the Monkey, the ever-strong and vigorous Sixth Teacher performed the golden hoop dance brilliantly, winning unanimous applause from the audience.

In the previous life, Chen Ran had actually not watched the Spring Festival Gala for many years and found it more and more boring every year.

It's just that this time he was present in person, and he was more immersed in watching the Spring Festival Gala at the turn of the century, and he also enjoyed it.

Some sketches also have their own characteristics. Not only are they large in scale, they also make the audience laugh frequently.

The sketches of this era mainly pursue program effects and make the audience laugh. They are not the kind that forcefully arrange embarrassing endings for educational purposes, or deliberately pursue the main theme, etc.

What's more, those who can attend the Spring Festival Gala in this era basically have some skills, unlike those in later generations who are just rotten fish and shrimps.

When Jay Chou came on stage humming "Dragon Fist", as expected by the Spring Festival Gala director, the Spring Festival Gala guests present found it difficult to accept this style of music and looked indifferent.

So, in order to celebrate Chen Ran's victory at the Australian Open and wish New Year's greetings to the national audience, he came on stage with a tennis racket and hit the signed tennis balls one after another into the audience, which immediately made the audience below excited.

The atmosphere suddenly became lively and lively.

After the Spring Festival Gala, Chen Ran said goodbye to everyone one by one and returned to the dormitory of the National Sports Administration.

This should be the first time since his rebirth that Chen Ran did not spend the New Year with his parents in his hometown.

However, it was also from this point on that because many young Chinese people did not want to go through the tedious trip to visit relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, more and more people began to choose Spring Festival travel.

Of course, in the Olympic year, many athletes gave up the Spring Festival holiday and continued to stay in the training base of the National Sports Administration, training profusely.

Unlike those football and basketball players who have long been professional, for most Chinese athletes, the Olympic Games is the moment that determines their destiny.

Of course, team sports like football and basketball have huge interests, complicated interpersonal relationships, and the water in them is very deep. Chen Ran is also glad that he chose tennis.

When he was chatting with Liu Xiang backstage at the Spring Festival Gala, the latter showed a very envious look towards Chen Ran in his words and deeds. Because Chen Ran's team completely serves himself, especially in this team, Chen Ran means one and the same.

Liu Xiang's team consists of various leaders of the Track and Field Association, large and small, which gives him a headache.

It was okay that he was not famous before, but now that he is famous, various leaders have jumped out and said that they had helped each other before, implying that people must not forget their roots and must repay their kindness.

These are not team members who serve him. They are simply a group of uncles. In his heart, he envies Chen Ran's team to death.

"But no one knows my loneliness..."

Tennis is an individual sport, and the players themselves are solitary.

Flying around the world alone, playing alone, dealing with losses and injuries alone.

Likewise, the only people who can accompany him are the coaching team.

It is precisely because of this that the relationship between players and teams is often more like a family, competing together, traveling together and spending days and nights together.

In comparison, friendships between players are also more difficult to establish because everyone has different plans to compete.

Even though top events like the Grand Slam Masters bring everyone together, the busy daily routine of training and competition means that time for private communication is destined to be very limited.

In addition, Chen Ran will subconsciously keep some distance from other competitors.

For example, the current Federer and Roddick, and the future Nadal, Djokovic, Murray, or Wawrinka.

The friendship between the two parties may only be superficial.

This is unlike sports such as football or basketball, where teammates in a club can often establish a brotherly friendship, because it is often accumulated through bloody battles together.

While he enjoys the convenience brought by tennis, he also endures the loneliness of this sport.

Chen Ran was lying alone on the big bed in the athletes' dormitory, looking at the fireworks outside the window, feeling sleepy slowly coming over him, and slowly fell asleep.

……

The seven-day Spring Festival holiday passed by in a flash.

During this period, in addition to participating in some business activities, Chen Ran also called his parents and family to report that he was safe.

The rest of the time, he has been staying at the National Tennis Training Center for some recovery training.

The hunger for tennis and competition never returned.

But this is normal. The end of the Australian Open final is only more than a week away.

Chen Ran also figured it out during the Spring Festival.

Since it is difficult to make friends in this circle and the players are separated from each other, it is better to change a goal to make yourself feel more fulfilled.

He is a Chinese.

Then Chen Ran hoped to see a second Chinese player on the ATP Tour stage as soon as possible, and he decided to train one.

Together they will strengthen men's tennis in China.

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(End of this chapter)