Chapter 501 The Olympic Games Begins
After Tang Shuai got off the stage, he walked to the other athletes. In addition to the initial introduction, there was also a group photo session.
"Hello, I'm Tamara Abalde." At this moment, Abalde, who was standing in front of her, greeted him.
"Hello, I heard you when I was on the sidelines just now. You are the defender of the Brazilian women's basketball team." Tang Shuai said with a smile.
"Thank you for your contribution to our country." Abald smiled and said gratefully.
"I also do my best. After all, if there are no fans, our athletes' games will lose their meaning." Tang Shuai continued to smile.
Albad smiled and said to the assistant beside him, and soon the assistant brought a business card.
She followed, "We can have a cup of coffee together when we have a chance."
Tang Shuai looked at Albad. Although he had never seen it before, he had to say that this was a rare beauty athlete with delicate facial features and a particularly straight nose.
Beautiful people enjoy priority in any field, which is probably the only reason why Albad can become this Brazilian star, but is not the core of the team, but appears here. After all, the most important thing about this kind of charity activity is popularity.
He took the business card and said with a smile: "If you have time."
At this time, the host on the stage had signaled the stars to go up and take a photo, and Tang Shuai also followed him onto the stage.
When the stars came together, there was a burst of excited cheers suddenly erupting at the scene.
From the fans' reactions, it is obvious that the event was extremely successful.
After the event, Tang Shuai followed him back to the Olympic Village. Under Gong Luming's leadership, they conducted closed training in the designated stadium.
Because of concerns about the impact of the Seka virus on players, the national team absolutely prohibits players from going out privately.
After the final warm-up match with the Serbian team in Group B, the Chinese men's basketball team entered the final countdown.
Basketball and football are the longest matches, so the game will be held at the beginning of the Olympics. The Chinese team is divided into Group A, and they will usher in the first game of the group stage on the second day of the Olympic opening ceremony.
At the opening ceremony, Yi Jianlian held high the Chinese flag and led the Chinese team's athletes into the stadium. This was his second time since the 2012 London Olympics.
Brazil's opening ceremony was distinctive, which attracted cheers from fans on the scene, and after the final speech by the International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, the 2016 Rio Olympics officially kicked off.
At 1:45 pm on August 6, Brazil time, the Chinese national team members entered the game under the guidance of Gong Luming. Here they had to watch the opening match between the Australian and French teams first.
In the undraft ending in mid-July, France, Canada and Serbia ranked in the top three in the undraft and successfully entered the Rio Olympics.
According to the previous grouping rules, France, which won the first and second, fell into Group A, which is the group where the Chinese team is located, while Serbia entered Group B.
Unlike the US team, the French team has ranked their strongest lineup this time, with Parker, Fournier, Batum, Dior and Gobert being the most powerful. Even Masinmi and Noah, whose contract expires, also appear in the lineup, as well as former NBA players such as De Krolo, Akinsa, and Bubova, and the lineup is unprecedentedly strong.
It is precisely because of the strong lineup that the showdown between them and the Australian team has attracted many fans and spectators, and most of the seats in the Rio Olympic Basketball Arena are people.
The match between the two sides started soon.
The French team played a very strong momentum at the beginning of the game. Although the Australian team had excellent physical confrontation, they seemed to be unable to withstand the fierce offensive of the French team.
10 to 20, halfway through the first quarter, the Australians were already 10 points behind the French team.
"The French team is so strong!" Zhao Haoyan, who was sitting aside, couldn't help but sigh.
"Better than Team USA?" Tang Shuai said jokingly.
"Ah? That probably doesn't." Zhao Haoyan thought for a while and said.
"The United States has played, and the French team has nothing to be afraid of, and the Australians are not that weak." Tang Shuai said as he looked at the field.
The Australian team's style is more powerful and the ugly is more barbaric. Whether it is offense or defense, it is always full of physical confrontation. After taking the initiative, French players soon discovered that physical confrontation and small movements have become more and more.
During an attack, Parker was knocked down by Delavedova, almost causing the two to fight.
In the Australian team's rhythm of small movements and physical confrontation, the French quickly felt like they were trapped in the mud, and the score was caught up little by little.
Zhao Haoyan was stunned for a moment.
After the game, the French team defeated the Australian team with their strength, but they also paid a heavy price for it. The inside core Noah and Gobert were injured and left the field. It is doubtful whether they can play in the second game.
"Brutal! Too savage!" Zhao Haoyan kept muttering in a low voice at the end of the game.
Tang Shuai smiled and shook his head. The Australian team has always been in this style. Now he is in the same group as the Chinese team. It is definitely not a good guy to mess with. Even if he can win, he will have to lose his skin.
After the match between Australia and France, the next game between China and the United States is the match between China and the United States.
Unlike during the warm-up match, the US team did their best in the official Olympics competition. Although the Chinese team fought very hard after they came on the court, their strength, especially the substitute's strength gap, still made them lose in the end.
90 to 120, a 30-point defeat, Gong Luming knew that it was difficult to win this game, and did not give the main players too much playing time, so the defeat was expected.
Because the game was expected, the morale of the national team was not affected much.
The Olympic men's basketball teams were held at intervals. The next day the match was held in Group B, and the host Brazil team also ushered in their debut.
The bonus at home in the Olympics is too great. The Brazilian team, who is at a disadvantage, played with a strong momentum in the cheers of home fans. At the last moment, he fell from the powerful Lithuanian team with Barbosa's layup and won a key battle in the group.
By the end of the second day's game, the Chinese team also ushered in the first real battle to fight in the group stage, and the French team, which they had watched before the opening game.
For the Chinese men's basketball team, there is a good news that Noah of the French team chose to make a quit in this game, and Gobert played with injuries.
Although there is no scene of fans fighting on the streets like football games, saliva is always indispensable in any game.
The game between both sides has not yet begun, and fans of both sides have already started a fight of verbalism online.
A French fan 1: This is the most suspenseless game in the team's group stage. Our opponents almost lost all their summer warm-up matches. The only thing they can do is lose 15 points to the United States in the Los Angeles game, but losing is losing. Their 30-point defeat in the first game shows that such a warm-up match is meaningless.
I will read it every day: Yes, our weak team directly got the ticket to the Rio Olympics, but the powerful French team got the tickets by losing the qualifying match.
A French team fan 2: Can Asian basketball be compared with European basketball? Putting the Chinese team in the European Cup, they don’t even have the qualification to enter the European Championship, no, they don’t have the qualification to enter the European Championship!
Red Pants Man: Unfortunately, China does not belong to Europe, and the "strong" Europe has not included us in Europe's strength, so this assumption does not hold true, so we can always enter the Olympics by winning the championship, but the French team can't do it once! (Showing expression)
A French fan 3: It makes no sense to say this. In the next game, we will torture you. We will get the top two in the group. The Chinese team? Leave Rio in a mess with an unbeatable record!
dy Feng: Is that true? Congratulations on ecstatically breastfeeding yourself. I hope you will vomit blood after the result of the game~ (silly expression)
A French fan 3: What does it mean to take advantage of your mouth? There is a bet that the loser carries the words "I am a coward" on the street and walks around!
dy Feng: What's there to dare to do?
Red Pants Man: I'll bet too, add me one, if you want to bet, bet bigger, the loser writes on your butt~
A French fan 3: Come on!
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The fans of both sides argued on the court, but for both teams, this was a very critical game, and no one took it lightly.
At 10:30 Brazil time, after the match between the United States and Venezuela, the match between the Chinese and French teams also took place.
In general, popular teams are arranged to play during prime time. As a favorite to win the championship, the US team naturally falls within this range. For teams like the Chinese team, the game can only be arranged late at night.
After the US team's game ended, most of the fans had already left the game because it was too late. There were only some Chinese, some French fans, and some Brazilian fans whom Tang Shuai had called for a public welfare event, stayed at the scene, and the total number of people was less than one-third of the football stadium.
There are few fans in the basketball stadium in Brazil, but China, far away from the ocean, has fallen into a crazy atmosphere. After the fans quarreled online, the game officially started and they may miss it.
Although it was Monday, the class was skipped, and some companies even organized basketball fans to watch the live broadcast of the game. The whole of China was in a state of complete out of control because of Tang Shuai and the Chinese men's basketball team.
Such a scene is probably only comparable when Yao Ming played in the Beijing Olympics.
Chinese team head coach Gong Luming also promised the fans in an interview before the game that they would be unreserved in the game against France, which undoubtedly gave fans a booster and made the fans even more crazy about this duel.
Chapter completed!