Wang Ai and Turin are a story of fate. Although Wang Ai has never played for any professional team in Turin and rarely even comes to Turin. However, this city still gave Wang Ai a great influence.
His love not only made him the winner of three consecutive European Golden Boy Awards, but also invited him to the host city of the Winter Olympics in early 2006 to participate in the torch relay.
There are not many Chinese people coming to Italy to participate in the torch relay this time. Most of them are athletes related to ice and snow sports, as well as well-known athletes from the Summer Olympics, such as Liu Xiang. But there are also a few celebrities, such as those who participated in the Athens Paralympics two years ago.
At the closing ceremony of the conference, Tai Lihua, the representative of "Thousand-Hand Avalokitesvara" performed that shocked the world.
Wang Ain was selected because, firstly, at the Athens Olympics, he set the record for the most goals in a single Olympic Games. Even if this did not win him a gold medal, it was still a sensational and famous Olympic record. In addition, he and Turin
The fate of this city.
In short, Wang Ai's selection is between the professional athlete Liu Xiang and the well-known Olympic figure Tai Lihua. He has the role of both a sports star and a famous figure. Liu Xiang completed the torch relay in Venice a few days ago, and Wang Ai was directly arranged to
The final stage of the torch relay: the city of Turin.
The opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics will be held on February 10, and the passing will be held in Turin on February 9 and 10. Wang Ai’s passing route happened to pass through the door of the "Turin Sports Daily" newspaper office, and the one before him was Juventus.
goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, who was the editor-in-chief of Turin Sports Newspaper.
The reason why so many foreigners are invited to the Turin Winter Olympics is because Italy has a relatively small population of only 60 million people, and 10,000 torchbearers need to be arranged. Obviously, the selection criteria of "world-renowned" and "world-renowned" are
, we couldn’t choose so many people, so we simply invited celebrities from all over the world.
After Wang Ai arrived in Turin one day in advance, he conducted a "rehearsal" in accordance with relevant arrangements, that is, he went to the road section he was responsible for, and then Wang Ai rushed to the location of the Chinese Winter Olympics delegation.
His visit made reporters accompanying the Chinese delegation to the Winter Olympics very excited. After all, Wang Ai is so famous. If you buy any newspaper in Italy, you can see the news that he won the Premier League's best January. Even
Even though the Winter Olympics is so lively, it cannot be concealed. After all, Italy is a football kingdom.
It’s just that the wording is hard to describe. Call it condolences. It’s a bit too big. After all, Wang Ai’s age is here, and his status is just an ordinary athlete. He hasn’t even won an Olympic gold medal. Call it a visit, which seems too obvious.
It's a bit too bland, after all, everyone knows Wang Ai's public support for the Winter Olympics at the General Administration of Sports meeting at the end of 2002.
What senior reporters know better is that Wang Ai’s family company is one of the sponsors of the Chinese delegation at this Winter Olympics.
Finally, the reporter was inspired by the conversation between Yang Yang and Wang Ai.
The conversation between the two after they met went like this.
"Long time no see, Sister Yang Yang, how are you? I fulfilled my promise and came to cheer you up."
"Well, it's not bad, but this is my last Winter Olympics."
"Why? Are you going to play football instead?"
"Oh, I'm already 31, and I haven't retired yet? Most girls get married in their 20s, how can they be like our female athletes, especially in disadvantaged sports? Last year I was studying at Tsinghua University, and the leader approached me and asked me to come back. Our
The short track event is not good enough, and I need to fight for the country. I didn’t even finish school, let alone get married. Fortunately, this is the last class.”
"...Are you so old?"
"...Sister, let me tell you, I have had an idea since the first time I met you. You see, I am going to retire today. Can you help me realize it?"
"What? You didn't say anything!"
"I'm going to kick you hard!"
"oops!"
The accompanying reporter felt that it would be better to use a "visit" between friends. Also meeting Wang Ai was the pair of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo. Zhao Hongbo ruptured his Achilles tendon during training last year, and the entire year was ruined. Even now, he is not in good condition.
good.
This is the cruelty of the doubles event. He is already 32 this year and has suffered such a serious injury. Even if he can persist, he may not be as good as each other day by day. In other words, his entire career may stop at the 2002 World Championships.
That time he won the world championship. In this case, if it was a single event, it would be fine to feel sorry for himself, but he is a double event. His partner Shen Xue is also 27 years old, and has entered the level of athletes in all aspects.
In the period of decline, at least in terms of the physical fitness of Chinese athletes in this era, they can only follow him step by step and cannot change partners, because no one has a better tacit understanding between them.
Therefore, it is more difficult to achieve results in double events. If any one person has a problem, the entire combination will be ruined.
Considering that they have already reached retirement age and are still seriously injured, if China's Winter Olympics projects were not too weak and there were too few talents, they might not be able to come to Turin. But even if they came, almost no one is optimistic about them, and now only
They themselves thought that "they can still save it a little bit more."
It was under this situation that Wang Ai came to see them. It was blogger Zhao Hong who said that Shen Xue was smiling and silent next to him. Judging from his expression, it was impossible to tell that Zhao Hongbo had any dejected air. He was quite humorous and put his arm around Wang Ai's shoulders.
Looking at the newly bought newspaper, there was a photo of Wang Ai holding the Best of the Month trophy. Zhao Hongbo asked Wang Ai to read the newspaper to him.
Wang Ai didn't understand Italian, so he just talked nonsense in English, German and Spanish. Zhao Hongbo didn't understand it anyway.
Most of those who practice the Winter Olympics are from the Northeast, which is a unique advantage for northerners. In this era of poverty, natural conditions determine everything, just like the swimming projects in Zhejiang Province are more developed than those in the north. When did the southern cities become rich enough to not care?
An ice stadium that blows air-conditioning all year round does not care about building an indoor freestyle skiing venue. Only then can the gap in this area be narrowed. In other words, when the Southern Winter Olympics team has enough financial resources to chase winter all over the world, it will also
OK.
Anyway, we can't do it now.
So, Wang Ai went to the Winter Olympics delegation and had a hearty meal of Northeastern cuisine!
This time I came to Italy and made a profit. I didn’t spend a penny and had a free meal. Buwang cheered for them a few years ago.
Since the competition was approaching and everyone was preparing for the game, Wang Ai didn't bother him much. He met with everyone, had a meal, and then said goodbye. He has to return to England to participate in tomorrow's league. After the league, Wang Ai plans to
I invited Xu Qinglian, who is also from the Northeast, to come to Turin with us, not for anything else but to open our eyes: We have all grown up playing on the ice and snow, but look at how well they play!
This chapter has been completed!