Chapter 979: The First Day of Competition

The next day, the game officially started.

The first event is the 100-meter sprint qualifier in track and field. In track and field, it also includes running, long jump and high jump.

In running, it is divided into 100-meter sprint, 1,500-meter middle-distance run and 10,000-meter long-distance run.

However, compared with the track and field of later generations, the track and field events at this time are considered to have a lot less sub-categories. In the track and field of later generations, there are nearly 30 small events.

At present, there are only five track and field competitions in Dahua.

The 100-meter sprint is the event with the largest number of participants, with as many as 120 participants.

After all, the threshold for this thing is low, as long as it has legs, any province can send one or two faster runners to join in the fun.

Unlike football, many provinces can't even make up a complete football team, let alone come to participate.

With a large number of people, it is natural that some people need to be eliminated first.

The preliminaries started, every group of eight, the top two advanced, and the bottom six were eliminated, quite cruel.

If you are unlucky and happen to be assigned to a group with two masters, you can only consider yourself unlucky.

fair?

The organizer didn't think much about it.

In Dahua's first National Games, due to lack of relevant experience, the details were rather rough.

As the starting gun sounded, the players in the first group rushed out.

Then, a very embarrassing scene appeared on the field.

The contestants from West Siberia were more than ten meters behind the first place after a few seconds. The gap is so large that it is surprising.

There is a huge gap between provinces in terms of economy, and this gap is also true in sports.

Xu Chao of the Nanjing team rushed to the first place, he is a professional athlete.

In other words, he usually doesn't have any serious job, just practice running, running, running.

Hartel, a contestant from Mongolia, mainly raises horses, and running is just a hobby. Because he likes to race with his own horses, he runs faster than ordinary people, so he was sent to Nanjing to compete.

In terms of physical talent, Hartl is by no means inferior to Xu Chao.

However, it is not an easy task to challenge others' ability to eat with a hobby.

For Hartle, it doesn't matter whether he runs fast or slow, but for Xu Chao, if he can't run fast, he will be eliminated and have to work hard in the factory.

In terms of devotion to running, the difference between the two is hundreds of thousands of miles.

As Xu Chao was the first to reach the finish line, some spectators gave applause and shouts.

After all, Xu Chao represents their home team.

Even the audience from other places admired Xu Chao's dominance as he crossed the finish line first.

"Tsk tsk tsk, when did running fast count as a skill?"

An old audience was amazed.

"Hey, old Wang, do you feel sorry that you were born too early. Otherwise, with your ability to escape, you can become a star on this stage, not a joke."

The companion sarcastically said.

Lao Wang was a soldier for nearly twenty years when he was young, and he hardly ever won a battle in his life.

To be able to survive countless defeats, it is natural to have the ability to escape, and the legs are very strong.

"Wars, can that be called escaping? That's called retreat, a strategic shift."

Old Wang said angrily.

However, in his heart, he was indeed regretful.

In the past, he who ran fast could only become a deserter, a joke. But in today's peaceful age, it is unbelievable that running fast can actually make money and become famous.

The next few knockout rounds were similar to the first group, with a huge gap in player strength.

Meanwhile, in another stadium, a football game was going on.

Spectators watching football games are much more enthusiastic than those watching track and field games.

After all, football has been developed in Dahua for ten years. It is currently the most popular sport in Dahua, and it is also the most popular sport in the world.

In order not to be ridiculed by Dahua as a barbarian, Western European countries are also working hard to promote Dahua's culture, including football.

European countries even spent money to form their national teams.

In the tenth year of Yongxing, several football teams from Western Europe were sent to Dahua for several friendly matches.

As a result, the British team lost to Dahua 2-8, Spain lost 1-9 to Dahua, Rome lost 1-11 to Dahua, and France lost 0-10 to Dahua.

Football is not like sprinting. As long as a talented athlete appears, results can be achieved quickly.

Soccer is a sport that requires background and cannot be done quickly. The talent of Western Europeans in football is not necessarily worse than that of Dahua, but they develop later, and the domestic football atmosphere is not as good as Dahua.

Therefore, when they competed with the Dahua team, the team they carefully built suffered a disastrous defeat without exception.

In this time and space, Dahua's football is a giant, and no other country can challenge it.

There are a total of 16 teams participating in the football project, that is to say, there are still 28 provinces that lack high-level football teams.

Dahua's football teams are basically concentrated in the Jiangnan area.

There are four professional football teams in Nanjing alone, three in Shanghai, one in Suzhou, one in Yangzhou, and one in Zhenjiang...

In the Jiangnan area, these majors are sufficient

The teams even form a football league, compete with each other every year, and then get ticket revenue and advertising revenue.

There are also football teams in Guangzhou and Wuhan, but because of the distance, they have not joined this league for the time being.

However, as the speed of the Dahua train is getting faster and faster, the expansion of the league scale is also in progress.

The sixteen teams adopted a single game to determine the outcome, which was very tragic.

Even a strong team needs to go all out, otherwise things that capsize in the gutter are very common on the football field.

In the first game, the Henan team played against the Guangdong team. As a result, there was an upset and the Guangdong team was eliminated. You know, the slogan of the Guangdong team before the game was the champion.

As a result, the Henan team was eliminated 3-2 in the first round, which was a little embarrassing.

The Guangdong fans who came to support the team could not accept such an ending.

Although everyone is a Chinese, there are still some hometown complexes in different regions.

As a Cantonese, I naturally hope that the Guangdong team will win.

As the star province of Dahua, Guangdong is the first echelon of Dahua in terms of economy, culture and sports. In any event, their goal is to be the champion, and they have a strong complex.

They were eliminated in the first round, making these fans irrelevant.

Coupled with the frenzied atmosphere at the scene, the displeased Guangdong fans broke out in an argument with the fans next to them, and then there were physical conflicts, and as many as 22 people were arrested.