Chapter 1283 Thousands of miles off the mountain, go to the meeting alone (25)
Gu Mo nodded.
"Why? Where are the men from your country? Why don't they come?"
Gu Mo was silent for a moment, "Because our country is suffering from war, and all men have gone to the battlefield."
The female athletes all looked at Gu Mo with sympathetic eyes, and some gave Gu Mo a hug and comforted him.
"It doesn't matter."
Gu Mo took a sip of water and said, "I will try my best on the field to tell my compatriots that our nation will stand up again."
This is a nation that can never be defeated and can persevere and rise from the ashes in the face of adversity every time.
Although many people did not see the day when new life came, countless people remembered their sacrifices, and countless people took their place to pass on the roots of this nation from generation to generation.
Gu Mo didn't go to bed very early that night. There were newspapers in the hotel. She picked up a few and flipped through them. She happened to see a cartoon called The Sick Man of East Asia published in a European newspaper.
A haggard Chinese man with long braids and a long mandarin jacket stood under the Five Rings flag with his hands behind his back, carrying a huge duck egg on his shoulders.
It's obviously an insinuation that it's impossible for China to win a medal in the Olympics this time.
A newspaper from China even mentioned the story of several Chinese tennis players who participated in the Olympics and were eliminated in the preliminaries, and concluded that the level of Chinese athletes was lagging behind compared with their country.
Unexpectedly, Gu Mo will eventually come home defeated, and Gu Mo's failure in the Olympics will be the failure of the entire Chinese nation.
Gu Mo cut out all the pages targeting China and put them in his bag.
When she went to the conference venue the next day, Principal Zhang found the newspaper fragments from her bag and asked, "What are you doing?"
Gu Mo, "I think I will need these things sooner or later."
Principal Zhang, "..."
The opening ceremony began, the leaders finished their speeches, and athletes from various countries appeared one after another.
Hua Guo was the eighth to appear, but when the name of Hua Guo was read, the representative of Hua Guo did not appear.
The Chinese audience present became anxious.
"What's going on? Didn't Principal Zhang bring Gu Mo here? Why is no one on stage?"
"It's not like you got stage fright when things got tough and ran away, right?"
"Impossible! They have come thousands of miles away and will never run away. Something must have happened. I'll go over and have a look."
While everyone was speculating, they finally saw a representative from China appear.
It turns out that the reason why they came out a little late was because there was something wrong with the flagpole.
As soon as they appeared, the Chinese people in the audience applauded very enthusiastically. Compared with the number of Chinese representatives, it was a bit... hard to describe.
There are 37 countries and more than 2,000 athletes participating in this Olympic Games. There are many teams from other countries, but only six people represent China.
The other four people were local Chinese that Principal Zhang found to support the scene.
Even though they were alone, they still walked with their heads held high.
The Chinese people in the audience watched this scene, took off their hats, waved, raised their arms and shouted, some even cried with tears streaming down their faces.
Although there are few people, they are here after all.
Gu Mo's eyes swept across the venue, but when she saw the Olympic rings on the venue, she paused slightly.
The Olympic Games are originally meant to promote peace and fairness through sports. They are competitive games that exist to stop the battlefield and build a peaceful and beautiful world.
However, the irony is that the Olympic Games have continued and the Olympic spirit has been promoted, but wars are still everywhere.
And, it will never stop.
After the sports meeting officially started, the first competition was the 100-meter dash.
Gu Mo was placed in the second women's group.
She does not have the conditions of foreign athletes to wear professional running shoes. She only has cloth shoes made for her by Gu's mother and Manzhi.
But this will not affect her performance at all
This time, Gu Mo didn't suppress his strength too much. He rushed out as soon as the starting gun was fired. His legs turned as if they were in multiples, making it a bit blurry in people's eyes.
The staff present and the audience were a little dumbfounded.
And when Gu Mo crossed the finish line, it seemed like it was just a blink of an eye.
She searched everywhere for Principal Zhang amidst the applause of the audience. When she found him, she yelled "Flag, Flag, Flag" at Principal Zhang.
Principal Zhang had been worried that Gu Mo would not perform well after traveling a long distance. Now he saw that Gu Mo ran first, and he was faster than the previous first place in the first group. He had lost his usual composure and calmness, and was in the stands.
Like those overseas Chinese, they yelled crazily to express their excitement.
Coupled with his age, the shouting was too loud and he didn't hear Gu Mo calling him at all.
A Chinese heard this and took out a flag from his bag.
The distance was too far, so I couldn't hand it to Gu Mo, so I had to throw it towards him.
Gu Mo unfolded it and ran around the track quickly
The audience applauded like thunder, and the Chinese people followed Gu Mo's figure with their eyes and shouted wildly.
Soon, the results of the women's 100-meter race were announced, and Gu Mo was first.
Her results not only broke her previous best score, but also broke the international record.
According to the rules of this year's Olympic Games, Gu Mo should have stood on the high platform in the middle, raised the flag and played songs.
However, the flag was not raised and there was no song.
The scene was a little cold for a while.
Of course, this was not because the organizers deliberately threatened China, but because they never thought that China would win, so the staff was negligent and did not record the song of China at all, nor did they prepare the flag of China.
Originally, the organizers planned to leave it at that and just raise the flag. If not, it would be fine.
But the Chinese present were very excited, "We won, why don't we raise the flag or play songs?"
Finally, at the insistence of the Chinese present, the staff found a Chinese flag and raised it.
As for the song... they really couldn't find it for a while.
At this moment, Gu Mo suddenly took the microphone and started singing.
After a while, the Chinese people in the audience started singing along.
Passionate and impassioned, the entire Olympic venue resounded with China’s song.
This is a moment worthy of their pride and glory!
The scene of Gu Mo running around with a flag and singing while holding a trophy was also photographed by reporters and became the front page of Meiguo the next day.
In the photo, she is wearing clothes with the word "China" printed on them. She is telling people that she is Chinese and she is fighting on behalf of China.
And she won.
After that, Gu Mo continued to play.
For swimming, she didn't have professional swimsuits and trunks. She still wore the ones made by Manzhi and Gu's mother, which would have a certain resistance in the water.
When doing pole sports, she did not have her own poles and had to borrow them from other athletes.
