Chapter 67 Chapter 67

The next morning, golden sunlight shone on the earth.

#Chinese Shooting Team Advances# is still the hot search on Weibo.

After waking up, netizens started to check videos and Weibo, and many people were still confused.

[What? The Olympics started at midnight yesterday? I went to bed early and didn't even know anything.]

Ahhhhh, I actually missed the opening ceremony! This is so late, 2 AM, who wouldn't be asleep?

[Don't worry, the shooting gold medal finals start at 5 PM today! If you're free, remember to come to the livestream.]

As more netizens woke up, news of last night's qualifying matches spread more widely.

At this time, Anyang City, Jiangbin Province.

Fang Xiangyun and Zhu Lifang have been invited by relevant personnel to the school auditorium, ready to watch the live broadcast of the evening finals with Chu Xi's alma mater teachers.

Leaders from the Sports Bureau also showed up and shook hands with Fang Xiangyun and his partner one by one.

The teacher who had taught Chu Xi before couldn't stop smiling and kept praising her.

"Chu Xi is such a driven kid. When I first met her, I noticed she had a special aura. At the time, I was wondering how she could have such an aura at such a young age. Now I see that she was destined to learn shooting."

The former head teacher smiled and chatted with Fang Xiangyun.

Fang Xiangyun also felt proud. "Yes, she's always been different from other kids, always had her own opinions. Right after she graduated from college, she was clamoring to move out and live on her own, and I didn't stop her. But then I heard her talk and found out she was taking shooting practice."

The two men flattered each other commercially.

Zhu Lifang sat in a seat nearby, chatting and laughing with another teacher.

The entire auditorium was decorated in a festive manner. Every guest was holding a small red flag in their hands, with a bright and cheerful look and a smile on their faces.

…

It’s still early morning here in Sanlitos.

The whole city became very quiet as night fell.

After a day of competition and the opening ceremony, the athletes are now sleeping in relaxation.

When Chu Xi's alarm clock rang, the first ray of sunrise light was slowly rising from the horizon.

She rolled over, sat up, and turned off the alarm. Her eyes were still closed, and she looked a little sleepy.

Jiang Wannan next door was also woken up by the alarm clock.

The two were silent for two seconds.

"What time is your game today?" Jiang Wannan realized what was going on and quickly got up and sat up.

Chu Xi rubbed his brows and sighed softly: "Ten o'clock."

"There's still time." Jiang Wannan glanced at the time and saw that it was only six o'clock, so she lay back on the bed with peace of mind.

Chu Xi couldn't sleep. She sat on the edge of the bed to relax, then threw back the quilt and got out of bed to wash up.

At 6:15, she left the apartment on time and went to the Olympic Village restaurant for breakfast.

Song Anshan probably started even earlier.

As soon as Chu Xi entered the restaurant, she saw Song Anshan, her physical trainer, and team doctor already sitting around the dining table.

"Here I am. Did you sleep well last night?" Song Anshan looked at Chu Xi.

Chu Xi sat down and nodded, "Yes, okay."

After a while, Lu Meng also arrived at the restaurant on time.

At half past six, Chu Xi and a few others finished their breakfast together, walked out of the restaurant, and came to the bus stop in the Olympic Village, ready to go to the training range.

After breakfast, Chu Xi and Lu Meng regained their energy.

Walking into the training range, Chu Xi took a deep breath and got into competition mode.

There are still three hours left until the women's 10-meter air pistol final.

It's already noon domestically.

Many office workers came out of their offices and started looking for a place to have lunch.

They chatted on their phones, "Time flies! The Olympics are back! How come there's no opening ceremony at all this time?"

"The time difference for this Olympics is quite serious. Everyone was asleep in the early hours of yesterday morning when the opening ceremony was being held. Who could have known about it?"

"Holy crap! Look at the trending searches! The first gold medal event will be held in the finals this afternoon."

More and more people began to pay attention to the opening ceremony of the Olympics, and CCTV Sports Channel also began to report news related to the Olympic events.

Chu Xi's name is so popular that many marketing accounts have started to dig up her past history.

The marketing account actually found some of it.

Among them, there were various rumors that Chu Xi had a chaotic private life, was ungrateful and betrayed the company, and acted like a big shot in private.

There are always those who are brave enough to take advantage of this wave of popularity and directly bring out the negative rumors about Chu Xi that were previously spread.

As soon as the groundless negative information was released, it immediately attracted huge attention.

After a while, the number of views of the whistleblower's post exceeded one million.

Are you crazy? Don't you know that all this negative information was spread about Chu Xi before? And you're still posting it now? Are you crazy or am I?

Chu Xi is really famous. She's completely shameless in her pursuit of attention. You dare to spread rumors, world champion? I've reported you. No thanks.

【Don’t miss it if you pass by, just report it. 】

The post became popular, but the marketing blogger was scolded.

Later, the post was directly reported and removed.

Other marketing accounts also noticed this wave of popularity and shamelessly followed suit, posting negative information. However, they all had experience and did not highlight names or identifying information in their posts, but only used innuendo to guide people to associate Chu Xi with them.

Later, I didn’t know what happened.

Not only were rumors spread about Chu Xi, but Jiang Wannan, Lu Meng, and Lu Wenxuan were also targeted with negative comments.

When fans and netizens saw that there were so many negative posts and they couldn’t report them all, they got so angry that they started frantically calling Weibo customer service to report them.

As negative posts about various athletes were exposed, Weibo finally reacted slowly.

In less than ten minutes, most of the black posts were quickly cleaned up, deleted and the accounts were banned.

The chaotic comment section has returned to peace.

In order to clean up Weibo, the backend quickly manually manipulated the situation and pushed the athletes' more positive posts to the top of the trending searches.

The top ten hot search lists were completely dominated by the Olympics and athletes.

Chu Xi and Lu Meng, who were preparing for the competition, naturally didn't know about these things.

The two stood in front of the shooting position and conducted the final pre-match training.

Song Anshan sat on the bench next to him, taking deep breaths nervously.

He has confidence in the strength of Chu Xi and Lu Meng.

However, this confidence is bound to fluctuate as the final approaches.

For example, he had already begun to predict in advance whether Chu Xi and the others would be affected by the referee, the noise from the audience, or whether they would be under too much pressure and their own tension would affect their mentality.

But no matter how worried he was, once the game started, it was no longer his business.

After careful consideration, Song Anshan finally kept his mouth shut.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the final was getting closer and closer.

With an hour left in the final, Chu Xi and Lu Meng arrived at the competition venue early.

Song Anshan served as the coach and accompanied the players on the waiting stage.

At this time, the audience outside the venue has entered one after another, and audiences from various countries and different skin colors have taken their seats.

After Wu Yuliang, Qi Xiayan and their group entered the venue, they found a seat in the middle front row and sat down.

"Come on, let's take a group photo." Qi Xiayan took out her cell phone and switched it to selfie mode.

Wu Yuliang and others stood up and gathered together, appearing in the same frame on the mobile phone screen.

Qi Xiayan specially painted a heart-shaped national flag on her face today, tied her long hair into two braids, and wore a light blue baseball cap.

After taking the group photo, she sat back in her seat and posted the photo on her Moments.

Posting on Weibo definitely won’t work. The Olympics are so popular right now that anyone who posts something related to the Olympics will attract more attention.

Qi Xiayan didn't want to be criticized for trying to gain popularity, so she only posted the photos on her Moments.

After a while, mutual friends liked and commented:

You actually went to watch the game live!

[People's joys and sorrows are indeed different. You are watching the Olympics, while I am still working overtime on the crew...]

[Has the competition started yet? What's going on?]

A few friends even sent me private messages asking about it.

Qi Xiayan replied one by one with a smile.

Wu Yuliang next to him suddenly shouted, "Here we go! Time to start the pre-match test!"

Qi Xiayan and the others, who were originally busy with their own things, quickly looked up at the competition field.

At the entrance, the eight contestants who had advanced yesterday lined up to enter.

Chu Xi ranked third, the player behind her was Song Lingmei from the South Korean team, and then Lu Meng.

After Wu Yuliang caught sight of Chu Xi, he became even more excited, "It's Sister Xi!"

As the eight contestants who advanced to the finals entered one after another.

The first live broadcast of the San Litos Olympics has finally begun.

The Minzhong video live broadcast room, which had been waiting for the broadcast signal, was the first to connect to the live broadcast of the San Litos Olympics.

Dong Wenyue and Xu Yingzhe, who are responsible for the commentary, have already put on their equipment and are ready.

"Hello everyone, I'm Xu Yingzhe, the commentator for this match. Today we've also invited CCTV News host Dong Wenyue to watch the game with us."

"This women's 10-meter air pistol final, as the first gold medal event of the St. Lithos Olympics, has been attracting much attention. Now is the pre-match test session for the athletes from each country. Let's first review the results of the previous round of qualifying."

Dong Wenyue cooperatively took over, "The qualifying rounds for this year's women's 10-meter air pistol event were quite a surprise. First, the two Indian athletes, who had always attracted much attention, performed poorly in the qualifying rounds and finished 12th. Then there were the young players from Chinese Taipei and South Korea's Lee Ye-eun. Both of them have performed well in international competitions, but they were also unexpectedly eliminated in yesterday's qualifying round."

"Among the eight players who have advanced to the finals, there are indeed quite a few dark horse newcomers. Obviously, this will be another unpredictable game."

Xu Yingzhe continued, "That's right, the shooting competition is all in a split second. There's still half an hour until the final. Let's continue to watch this live broadcast and look forward to the performance of the two Chinese players."

The brief explanation ends, and then the advertisement is inserted directly.

A large number of viewers and netizens poured into the live broadcast room.

[My connection is so slow here, what's going on?]

[Me too, it's so laggy, the commentary is so laggy it turns into electronic music.]

[Girls, please watch the live broadcast. I guess there are too many people and the app server is a bit overwhelmed.]

I'm still on the subway! There's no TV, so I hope it won't crash soon.

[If the video is too slow, you can go to Yuexin Video, where they also broadcast the Olympics live! ]

Currently, CCTV is the only country that has the rights to broadcast live Olympic Games.

As a special live broadcast software for sports events, Yuexin Video has been given the opportunity to cooperate with China Central Television Video, becoming the only software besides CCTV to have the live broadcast rights for the Olympics.

In just a few days, the latest download volume of Yuexin Video exceeded two million.

And today, downloads continue to grow at an astonishing rate.

With a quarter of an hour left before the final, another larger wave of traffic poured into Minzhong Video and Yuexin Video.

【Ahhhhhhh, I didn’t miss it! I didn’t miss it! I came to watch the live broadcast!】

[Just got off work and am on my way home, so I came in to take a look.]

[I see the women's diving next door has also opened a live stream reservation, but it's two hours later than the shooting, so I'd better watch this one first.]

[Why are there only ads? When will the live match begin?]

Minzhong Video was still interrupting with commercials. Another energy drink promo ended, and the live broadcast finally returned to the Olympic Games.

"Hello everyone, welcome back to the women's 10-meter air pistol final. I'm commentator Xu Yingzhe. There are now ten minutes left before the final begins, and the eight competitors are fully engaged in their shooting."

"We can see that China's Chu Xi is currently in the H position, and Lu Meng is in the L position. Both players performed well in the qualifying round yesterday, advancing to the finals with third and sixth place respectively."

"Before the Olympics, both athletes had performed well in international competitions such as the World Cup and the World Championships, earning them the qualification to compete in this Olympics. Although both are newcomers to the shooting team, their abilities should not be underestimated."

Dong Wenyue continued cooperatively, "That's right. Shooting is a test of mentality. Many shooters are relatively young, but their mentality is as steady as a rock. Chu Xi and Lu Meng are two such athletes with strong hearts."

[How long will it take? My livestream is getting slower and slower!]

[Sisters, please try Yuexin Video, this one is really stuck.]

【Downloaded! Already downloading! 】

The entry #The final of the first Olympic gold medal event begins# became a hot search, and this wave of popularity brought a lot of traffic to the two live broadcast rooms.

At the shooting competition, Chu Xi finished practicing the last shot and slowly exhaled.

The referee on the scene began to call a halt: "The trial shooting time is over, please stop shooting, the finals will begin soon."

Zhu Lifang, Chu Xi's alma mater teachers, and leaders of the local Sports Bureau who were watching the live broadcast immediately stopped shouting and all looked at the big screen in front of the auditorium.

When everything was ready, the referee made a gesture.

"The women's 10-meter air pistol finals have begun. Competitors may prepare for their first set of shots. Please note that each shot must be completed within 50 seconds."