Chapter 218 Racing Competition (1)

McGawkids was a little moved by what he said, but he still had some scruples in his heart: "But...the officials in Crete will probably not allow me to leave..."

"What's there to worry about!" Siriteios reminded disapprovingly: "With the support of the Dionysian Military Department, even if those officials are dissatisfied, they will not dare to do anything to you!"

After being reminded by Siritaios, McGarjides finally made up his mind, and he said gratefully, "Thank you, Siritaios!"

"Just verbal thanks won't do." Siriteos said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "When you become a Dionysian citizen and become a Dionysian officer in the future, you will definitely need your help when I have something to do with you. Just don't drive me out."

"Don't worry, I will definitely help you when the time comes!" McGawkids said with certainty.

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On the 7th day of the Dionysian Games, most of the games have been presented to the audience. The traditional Greek games have been redesigned and arranged by the Dionysians, and the schedule has not only become fairer , and also become more exciting, such as running, more like boxing.

A traditional boxing match is held in a relatively large venue, and it is not considered a victory until the opponent is knocked down or conceded, and the players are often seriously injured or even killed. In the boxing match at the Dionysian Games, both players must wear thick gloves and win by hitting each other or knocking down the opponent within the specified time. The players are safer and the game is less bloody.

However, the competition was held in a 5-meter square field delimited by ropes and stakes, which made it impossible for the players to dodge at will, and the competition became more intense and lasting, with stronger confrontation, and won praise from many spectators. Women and children were also allowed to watch the games because of the marked drop in runner mortality.

The same is true for wrestling competitions, which enhance the intensity and confrontation of the competition while ensuring the safety of the players and the fairness of the competition, and even add some interesting links, such as letting the beautiful kingdom slaves start the next competition during the interval of a competition. The number plate wanders around the venue, attracting the attention of male audience...

Even the representatives of Olympia and Delphi were brooding when they saw these novel arrangements and designs in the competition.

Of course, traditional games such as "Brawl" are too chaotic and bloody, completely inconsistent with Davos's aesthetics, and are completely excluded from the Dionysian Games.

The newly established competition items of the Dionysian Games gave the audience huge surprises, such as archery and swimming.

The Greeks were a seafaring people,

Most Greeks have been playing in the sea since childhood, paddling in the water and rowing has become almost an instinct, but swimming has never been a game in Greek games, probably because it is difficult to compete, but the Dionysian Games gave Swimming competitions set the standard: the preparation team for the Games set aside an area on the banks of the Klaty River in the west of Turii for the construction of an open arena. A large rectangular pit 50 meters long, 25 meters wide, and 2 meters deep was dug in the center of the arena, covered with solid and dense Davos cement, and then affixed with smooth marble, so that when the water channel introduces the water of the Krati River into the pool , there will be no obvious leakage. Then pull up a rope every three meters at both ends of the wide side of the pool to form 8 swimming tracks, so that the conditions for swimming competitions are fully met.

Although the first Dionysian Games allowed competitors to use a variety of swimming styles (there was no standard swimming style at that time), and only set different swimming events by swimming distance, but each game The audience for the swimming competition still packed the whole venue, and the cheering and cheering echoed every day on the banks of the Klaty River for a long time.

Although the swimmers in the swimming competition are not allowed to apply olive oil, under the sunlight and in the rippling clear water, the athletes' vigorous posture of waving their arms and kicking their legs also shows their strength and beauty, and can also inspire the audience's interest in the sea. Longing and love.

The same is true for rowing competitions. The Greeks have the conditions to set up a rowing competition, but the reason why it has not been held is probably because most of the Greeks rely on the sea for a living. Boating, fishing, and doing business are very common. It is because it is so common that there is no competition. interest. But the boat races at the Dionian Games were designed to be fun and competitive.

There are two types of rowing competitions in Dionia. One is paddle racing, which uses a wooden boat specially made by the Turii shipyard for the competition. It is narrow in width but very slender. It can take 4 to 8 paddlers. There is no sail, and it is all paddle. For the march, the competition venue is set in Klaty Hanoi. Like the race on land, there are qualifiers and finals, and it is divided into several events according to the schedule and the number of paddlers. The shortest distance is one mile. At the beginning of the competition, the contestants paddled quickly, and the speed of the boat could reach a dozen knots, just like the charge of a three-tiered oar in a naval battle, which made the audience on the shore excited to watch.

Another kind of boating competition is sailing, or a competition boat transformed by the Turii shipyard based on a small cargo ship. It can only be ridden by one person, and cannot use oars. It can only control the sail to move the boat forward, so its competition venue is In the Gulf of Turii, there are no qualifiers, and all players participate together, starting from the port of Turii and arriving at the Grand Port of Tarantum. The game lasts for a whole day, and there are many observation boats along the way to prevent players from cheating. This competition is entirely to test the ability of the players to maneuver the boat in the sea. Therefore, the contestants are all experienced boat owners and fishermen from various regions and city-states. At the same time, it also attracted a large number of boat owners and fishermen from the Kingdom of Dionia and various city-states. Watch and learn.

On the seventh day of the Dionysian Games, a very traditional and less familiar competition to the people of Dionysus began: car racing.

Among all the Greek Games, car racing is the most popular. After all, human beings are always passionate about the ultimate pursuit of speed. In speed events such as racing and rowing racing, car racing takes the longest, the most intense, and the most effective. Stimulate the passion of the audience, and it is also most liked by the Greek nobility, because according to the regulations of the traditional games, the championship title of the racing competition does not belong to the driver who drives the carriage, but to the person who provides and owns the carriage. , This gave the Greek aristocrats who had no time to train and could not play in person the opportunity to win the championship of the Games. Therefore, many famous Greek dignitaries have won the championship of this event, such as Alcibiades of Athens and Sparta. Dionysius, king and tyrant of Syracuse...

However, the Dionysian Games has changed the tradition of this competition. In the invitation letter sent to the various city-states to describe the rules of the various events of the Dionysian Games, it is emphasized that the championship glory of the racing competition provides the driver and the racing car. The two are jointly owned, and the bonus is divided equally between the two.

In the traditional Greek Games racing competition, many drivers are slaves, and the master and the slave share the championship honor. This is simply a humiliation to the Greek aristocracy, but even so, many Greek city-state aristocrats still signed up for the competition, because in the Now that Dionia is powerful, dominates most of the Mediterranean, and controls the Greek world, this is a great opportunity for them to show their name in front of King Dionia, which will be of great benefit to their future development in the political arena. .

Not only these Greek aristocrats are keen on the racing competitions of the Dionian Games, but also the people of Dionia who like exciting competitive sports, are also eager for the long-rumored racing competitions, so on the day of the competition, thousands of Tens of thousands of spectators flocked to the stadium in the northern part of the Shibari Plain from all directions.

Since the venue has just been built, it doesn't even have an official name, it's just called simply - Turii Racing Arena. After the preparatory team for the Games determined racing as a competition event, the Turii City Hall, which had never held a racing competition before, specially sent a delegation to Olympia, Delphi and other places to visit and study, including officials and engineers from the Manufacturing Supervision Department.

But after they came back, the arena designed and built was very different from those racing arenas in mainland Greece, just as the Greeks believed that any competitive game could be watched for free, while the Dionians were very different from the racing arenas in Greece. Money is used to watching games, so this arena is closed. Due to the hasty construction time, it is not as imposing as the Hades main arena. Its height is only 20 meters, and the auditorium has only two floors, but its length exceeds that of any arena in the kingdom, reaching more than 500 meters. Its appearance presents a long oval, so it can accommodate more than 30,000 spectators.

It was still early, but the entire auditorium was almost full, and thunderous cheers erupted from the noisy arena. It turned out that King Davos and his family appeared in the special royal stand.

Like Hades Main Arena, there are also royal stands in the racing arena. But unlike the Hades main arena, it was not built in the auditorium, but built on two floors of auditoriums, becoming the highest point of the entire arena. This is the engineer's intimate consideration for the royal family: Because the track of the venue is too long, you can only see the panorama of the entire stadium if you sit at a higher place.

Davers returned to his seat after waving to the audience. Cristoia, Dido, and the others restrained the children and forbid them to run around. Although there were railings around them, it was not a joke to accidentally fall from a height of more than 20 meters.

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