Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 668 Olympic Holiday
After saying goodbye to Djokovic and Nadal, Chen Ran walked straight to the gathering area of ​​fans and media with the golden medal hanging around his neck.

When it all came to an end, he felt relieved.

He finally kept the singles gold medal in China!
Wearing the national flag, holding up the gold medal, taking photos with everyone, and enjoying the celebratory moment.

Chen Ran was surrounded by hundreds of media reporters.

This does not include the waiting time outside the venue.

However, after briefly accepting a few words from the interview, Chen Ran returned to the locker room to receive physical therapy.

His intuition told him that this injury seemed to be serious.

At the same time, various national official media, including CCTV, also highly praised Chen Ran's performance.

"Fighting despite injuries, Chen Ran successfully defended his title, adding another heavy gold medal to the Chinese delegation!"

"The men's singles gold medal and the double-circle gold grand slam are unprecedented. Chen Ran has surpassed anyone in the history of men's tennis in terms of honors."

The media also said that even including female players, no one has completed the double-circle Golden Slam so far.

Although Graf has 22 Grand Slams, it is not difficult for Chen Ran to surpass her given her current age and competitive state.

Besides, people don’t really think of men’s tennis and women’s tennis on the same track.

However, in order to implement the country's concept of gender equality, the official media also tacitly stated that the value of this gold medal is as heavy as Li Na's, and both are worthy of publicity.

But in fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the difficulty and value of the men's singles gold medal is much higher than that of the women's singles gold medal.

Of course, Chen Ran wouldn't argue about this.

Just put them in parallel!

After the tennis match, Li Na, Zheng Jie, and a group of young golden flowers began to travel to North America to participate in the North American season.

Li Na only withdrew from the Toronto tournament, but not the Cincinnati tournament. Apart from that, she also had to participate in the US Open.

She is striving for the WTA Finals at the end of the year, so even if she wins the championship, she dare not relax at all.

She doesn't have the capital that Chen Ran has.

The new generation of golden flowers, especially those born after 85, are also beginning to emerge.

They will participate in the US Open qualifying round to compete for a place in the main draw.

In addition, several Chinese male players also qualified for the qualifiers and went to the North American arena together.

Only the first person, Chen Ran, stayed in Yanjing leisurely and enjoyed his vacation.

Anyway, Chen Ran is not planning to participate in the US Open, so there is no need for him to travel to North America.

The tennis match ended early, and in the remaining days, Chen Ran traveled to various competition venues, admiring the performance of Olympic athletes in various events.

However, wherever he went, there were audiences looking for him to take photos, both at home and abroad.

Not only the audience, but even domestic athletes came to take photos with the tennis superstar.

This is the influence of the number one player in tennis!
Such days are so unpleasant.

Although the Chinese team won far more gold medals in this Olympics than in the previous one, the quality of the medals was actually far behind.

If it weren't for the butterfly effect he caused, the women's tennis doubles, men's 110-meter hurdles, and women's volleyball championships in the Athens Olympics would have been the glory that the Yanjing Olympics could never have replicated.

In this Olympics, the women's volleyball team, the only major ball event that was highly expected, failed to reproduce the glory of four years ago and lost to the American team, whose coach was Lang Ping, the former pride of the women's volleyball team.

Chen Ran even witnessed this scene on the spot.

After all, my butterfly wings cannot influence the girls of the women's volleyball team.

This complex mix of emotions made everyone feel an indescribable feeling in their hearts.

But competitive sports are so special and unique.

Similar examples have been played out frequently in the world of sports, with coaches from other countries coaching another national team and defeating their own country.

Although everyone feels uncomfortable, the most they can do is complain anonymously on the Internet. The official level still needs to give enough respect.

I hope that in the future, Lang Ping will be able to lead the Chinese women's volleyball team back to the top like she did in her previous life.

Chen Ran felt that his relationship would not change the outcome of the 2016 Olympics.

Then, he also went to the basketball game.

After many setbacks, the Chinese men's basketball team finally qualified from the group stage.

But that was all. Even though they were playing at home in the quarter-finals, they were still beaten badly by the European powerhouse Lithuania and had no power to resist.

This is also a team composed of the most outstanding players in the history of Chinese men's basketball.

I can only say that the gap is still too big.

Two or three NBA-level players plus a bunch of CBA players were simply unable to resist a group of Lithuanian players playing in Europe, the latter of which had almost no NBA players.

"Don't be sad, the next one will be better!" The fans at the scene could only cheer like this as they looked at the brutal score.

But only Chen Ran knew that this was not the beginning, but the peak.

At this rate, it won’t be long before this group of people become fellow sufferers with the men’s football team, becoming the object of public ridicule, and even being called the synonym of “high salary and low ability”.

In the next ten years or so, world basketball will make rapid progress, while we will continue to regress and seem to have reached an irreversible point.

Chen Ran sighed lightly. In fact, he didn’t understand why Yao Ming’s performance would get worse and worse after he became the chairman of the Basketball Association in the future.

He did not go to say hello or comfort the defeated Yao Ming, but chose to turn around and leave.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Ran lingered in the competition venues of major popular events.

Lin Dan finally made up for the regret of the previous Olympics and won the coveted Olympic men's singles gold medal.

At this point, he also completed the Grand Slam in badminton.

Some Lin Dan fans even joked that Lin Dan has more honors than Chen Ran.

What's more? It just so happens that he has an Asian Games championship, which Chen Ran doesn't have.

Upon hearing this, Chen Ran just smiled and did not try to explain.

Men's 110m hurdles in track and field.

Although Liu Xiang has returned from injury, his condition is far worse than four years ago.

But fortunately, Liu Xiang did not withdraw from the competition like he did in his previous life.

He persisted all the way and made it to the finals.

Amidst everyone's expectations, Liu Xiang's performance was considered satisfactory and he won a bronze medal.

Chen Ran also witnessed this moment on the scene.

In fact, the bronze medal result is also very good. After all, the other two opponents are in too good shape, and Liu Xiang is indeed no match for them at the moment.

Fortunately, he still holds the Olympic record for the men's 110-meter hurdles.

A bronze medal is better than withdrawal, and it's much better.

Chen Ran also felt that this result was very satisfactory.

As Liu Xiang himself said, he saved the best of himself when he was 21 years old.

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(End of this chapter)