Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 651: Life before the Olympics (4K)

Chen Ran and his Jin Man Guan Company, waving the hundreds of millions of transfer fees obtained from the transfer of the agency rights of "World of Warcraft", rushed into the online literature market.

Originally, these novel websites wanted to make a last-ditch effort after receiving investment from their sponsors.

But soon, facing the powerful offensive of the Golden Slam Company, they quickly gave up resistance.

It's so hard!

The other party is not only financially strong, but also has the fame of a superstar like Chen Ran, and even has the traffic from a social dominant software like QQ.

How does this work?
It feels like no matter how much money you invest, it's all going to be wasted.

Since the other party is willing to invest in the acquisition, it would be better to take the money and leave gracefully.

As a result, in just over ten days, these two novel websites, which were second only to Qidian.com, preliminarily agreed to Chen Ran's acquisition plan.

In fact, for the authors of these novel websites, although they are unwilling to switch to Qidian.com due to limited recommendation resources, they are happy to see their websites being acquired by the other party.

With the help of QQ, their works can at least get more exposure and readers.

At this point, with money paving the way, Jin Man Guan Company took advantage of the situation to unify China's online literature market. At the same time, the giant company "Reading Group" symbolizing the online literature market was also born.

However, one fact is that although in the current market, "China Literature Group" has no competitors for the time being.

But you cannot guarantee that there will be new capital entering this market in the future.

However, Chen Ran's actions did cause some butterfly effects.

He got a piece of inside information that Baidu and Perfect World were originally planning to enter the online literature market, but after seeing the storm caused by Chen Ran, they hesitated and had to postpone the plan.

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Time quickly came to the end of March, and the Yanjing Olympics was getting closer and closer.

Chen Ran has been recovering from his injury for almost two months and is basically fully recovered. He is ready to start some basic recovery training.

Of course, his retirement plan continues.

At the first clay court tournament, the Monte Carlo Masters, Chen Ran announced his withdrawal again.

But even so, his world number one ranking is still very stable.

After all, after the end of last year's year-end finals, Chen Ran was more than 4000 points ahead of second-place Nadal.

Since 2008, the Spaniard's condition does not seem to be very good.

Even though Chen Ran missed the "Sunshine Double", the points gap between the two sides did not narrow.

One day at the end of March, Director Sun found Chen Ran who was training in Yanjing and asked, "When are you going to participate in the tour, or will you go directly to the French Open?"

"I will probably attend the French Open, but I might withdraw from the previous clay court Masters." Chen Ran joked, "After all, I have already missed three Masters, which means no year-end bonus, so missing a few more Masters is not a big deal."

In the past few days, Chen Ran went to Yanjing to participate in the promotional activities for the Yanjing Olympics. At the same time, in order to ensure the quality of training, he trained at the State Sports Administration Training Center.

You can also communicate with other athletes who play for their country.

But you don’t know it until you see it, but you will be shocked when you see it.

The Chinese men's basketball team actually started training in March, and the CBA game ended early.

Even during this period of time, the Chinese men's basketball team had a gossip scandal that shocked the whole country.

In the words of the national team coach Jonas: What is this lousy CBA game? Every time my players play in the league, their level drops a lot after they return to the national team, and I have to help them get back into shape.

Then, there were the "Nine Questions of Jonas" that caused a sensation in the Chinese sports circle.

This upright Lithuanian old man made all the CBA team owners so angry that they jointly wrote a letter to the leaders of the Basketball Association, demanding that these ignorant Lithuanians be taught a lesson and that they should be fired.

The CBA bosses, who are always generous and face-conscious, even said that they can pay the compensation for terminating Jonas' contract and the salary for hiring a new coach. As long as the Lithuanian old man is fired, they don't mind spending money.

What we are fighting for is a breath of air.

Fortunately, the leaders of the Basketball Association are at least not stupid and it is impossible for them to change the coach at the last minute when the Olympics are approaching.

You local bosses, do you think you can do whatever you want just because you have some money?
However, the leaders of the Basketball Association are still troubled by the outspoken Lithuanian old man.

Foreign teachers are indeed difficult to manage.

There is no other way at the moment. For the sake of the Yanjing Olympics, I can only swallow my anger temporarily, but after the Olympics are over, this guy will definitely not be able to renew his contract.

It's not about money, they have plenty of it.

The main reason is that he is too disobedient.

In the future, the focus will still be on training young coaches for our own country. Only such coaches can be easily controlled by leaders.

These days, at the invitation of Zhu Fangyu, a player of the men's basketball national team, Chen Ran visited the men's basketball training camp.

At present, except for Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian who are still playing in the NBA in the United States, all the players have participated in the training camp.

In fact, in terms of national attention, apart from the 110-meter hurdles and men's singles tennis, the most watched event is men's basketball. After all, the men's football team is really too bad and cannot be relied upon.

But Chen Ran also saw that the men's basketball players were very tired.

Not only do they have to train in camp, they also have to participate in military training, under the pretext of being in good shape for the competition.

Actually, these players are not superior to their competitors in the Olympics. Except for a few such as Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi, and Yi Jianlian, most of them are far behind the European teams.

Therefore, even if you train for a year or two, the gap probably won't be narrowed.

But training, especially long-term training, is still unavoidable.

To use the words of the leaders, they were also trying to give an explanation to higher-ups.

As long as you have trained hard and spent all your funds, even if you are not as skilled as others and lose the game, they can still explain to their superiors that they have tried their best.

You can lose the game, but you cannot disobey the overall arrangements of the Sports Bureau.

Not only the basketball team, but also those on the football team are called up from the club for training every now and then.

Although everyone knows how difficult it is for a football team to qualify from the group stage, the training camp is still unavoidable.

"It seems that I have the most relaxed one. I can arrange everything by myself." Chen Ran joked after listening to Zhu Fangyu's introduction.

The tennis team should be the freest and most relaxed.

Even though Li Na is not pursuing a solo career at the moment, she still participates in competitions all over the world instead of staying in Yanjing for training.

The reason is simple. If you don't compete with high-level players and maintain your form, how can you guarantee your competitive form when participating in the Olympics?

Whether it is WTA or ATP, if you leave this circle and stop playing competitions, you will not be able to maintain a high level of competitive state.

Even for doubles players, the country applies for wild cards so that they can play more tour tournaments.

When it comes to tennis, training camps are the most useless.

But teams like the table tennis team and the badminton team rarely go out to play competitions. They train every day. After all, they have high-level sparring partners and the best training resources in the world.

"Yeah, it seems like you're the only ones who don't have to train. I'm so envious." Zhu Fangyu said enviously. Chen Ran replied, "But I'm still recovering from my injury, and I don't know how I'll be in shape by the time of the Olympics. How about you guys? Are you confident of making it to the quarterfinals?"

You guys are only in the quarterfinals. My goal is to win the championship.

Of course, even if we don’t win the championship, it’s not the end of the world.

"Hey, stop talking..."

The Guangdong team leader obviously has a clear understanding of the strength of world basketball, especially the painful experience of the 2004 Olympics left a deep impression on him. "It doesn't matter whether we have confidence or not. The key lies in those people in the United States, especially Yao Ming. He is the key factor."

"But he is injured and needs surgery. I don't know how good he will be when he returns."

This shadow has been hanging over the Chinese men's basketball team, making their prospects in the Olympics unclear.

However, what made Chen Ran speechless was that this big brother of the Guangdong team was indeed a social person.

He actually asked Chen Ran if he was interested in investing in a nightclub or hotel together.

Since Guangdong East's home base is in Dongguan, the place he invited Chen Ran to invest in was naturally the city of Dongguan.

"Brother, believe me, you will definitely make money!"

"Investing in hotels and nightclubs in Dongguan?" When Chen Ran thought of this, he thought of some rumors.

Dongguan today should be a paradise for men. It can almost be said that they would never want to leave.

The regret of many netizens in later generations is that they were not able to visit this paradise before it was destroyed.

As a guy with a God's perspective, Chen Ran firmly declined the other party's invitation and said he was not interested.

After all, he knew very well that destruction was the inevitable outcome.

Then when Chen Ran was having dinner in the cafeteria, he met some table tennis and badminton players.

At present, he is basically familiar with some ball game players, especially traditional small ball games.

Seeing that Chen Ran was there, the leaders specially organized a meeting for the leading figures of the men's three small balls, under the pretext of "mutual encouragement."

In order to avenge the shame in Athens, the athletes of these two events had serious expressions, held their breath, and trained very hard.

They are bound to win the gold medals in men's singles table tennis and men's singles badminton at the Yanjing Olympics.

Especially Lin Dan and Wang Liqin.

Just like that, when the leaders of China's men's three small balls, Chen Ran, Lin Dan and Wang Liqin, gathered together, an official with a keen eye on things shouted, "All three of them will win the men's singles gold medal at the Olympics!"

Some staff members even asked the three of them to stand in a row for a group photo.

"come on!"

"Let's win the Olympic gold medal together!"

The first one to extend his hand was Wang Liqin, followed by Lin Dan. These two guys were holding their breath and their eyes were almost full of fire.

Chen Ran had no choice but to reach out his hand to cheer up these two young men who were full of fighting spirit.

The leaders of the Sports Bureau looked at the photo and shouted happily: "If all three of you win the championship, this photo of today's gathering will have historical significance. In the future, it will be enlarged and posted in every training hall of the National Sports Bureau to inspire all athletes in our country."

Can all three of us win?
Chen Ran was a little confused. He remembered that Lin Dan definitely won the championship, but Wang Liqin seemed to have lost the title unfortunately.

But there probably weren’t such gatherings in their previous lives, at least they didn’t participate in any.

Could it be that... a butterfly effect will occur?
Chen Ran discovered that Wang Liqin's eyes were almost full of murderous intent!
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In the remaining days, Chen Ran also withdrew from the Madrid Masters and Rome Masters successively.

By now, almost half of 2008 had passed, and the only official tennis competition he had participated in was the Australian Open.

Various rumors about Chen Ran continued to appear on the Internet.

Some people said that his injury was so serious that it almost affected his preparations for the Yanjing Olympics.

"Be prepared, Chen Ran might miss the Olympic Games."

"Well, it was mainly because he played too many games last year, which led to the serious injury."

"He doesn't need that little money, so why doesn't he control it? It's affecting his preparations for the war now."

"Come on, it was you netizens who forced him to complete the Super Era Grand Slam last year, and now you've fallen out and you've forgotten about it, right?"

"I never said that."

"I never said that."

Many keyboard warriors began to deny it.

But the fact is that Chen Ran has been absent from the game for too long.

This made everyone very worried about his physical condition.

At the same time, Liu Xiang has just started to get out of bed and do some simple recovery training after undergoing surgery, which has finally put the worries of many sports fans at ease.

According to the recovery progress, Liu Xiang should be able to catch up with the Yanjing Olympics, but as for his condition, no one can guarantee it.

Time quickly came to late May, and Chen Ran and his team finally announced that he was going to make an appearance at the French Open!
Wow, is it possible that this guy participated in two Grand Slam events in the first half of the year?

Many fans were also stunned.

Chen Ran is not the kind of famous player who is about to retire, waiting for the Grand Slam tournaments to give him a wild card and not participating in ordinary competitions.

You are the current number one player in the world!

How could the current world No. 1 player directly jump into a Grand Slam tournament without playing any tour tournaments to warm up?

"Is this guy only going to play the four Grand Slams and the Olympics this year?"

“I think it’s very likely!”

"If you ask me, Chen Ran might as well quit all the Grand Slams and prepare directly for the Olympics."

"A double gold slam is enough to make you the best in the sports world."

While people outside were discussing this, Chen Ran and his team were preparing to fly directly to Paris, France.

At the same time, after a period of recovery, Liu Xiang is also preparing to participate in some competitions in June to regain his form.

When Chen Ran left Yanjing, another highly-anticipated Chinese sports superstar, Yao Ming, officially returned to China from the United States to prepare for the national team's training.

He had just recovered from surgery.

The three biggest stars of Chinese sports have all been plagued by injuries as the Olympics approach.

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(End of this chapter)