Su Bai, as a track and field athlete with no prospects, decided to retire due to a lack of hope for improving his results.
But when Su Bai officially submitted his retirement application, his...
"What the hell? A war of revenge?"
Huang Yiluan just casually opened his Weibo and was stunned by this message in which someone @ him.
As a result, after he read the entire post @his Weibo, he couldn't help but burst out laughing, and immediately clicked on the retweet comment, and by the way @ several of his other friends who are die-hard fans of the 400-meter sprint.
Huang is a serious Huang: [Hahahahahahahahahahaha, I can’t take it anymore, (dog head dog head) Is the little Japanese going to suffer this day too? @老勇doesn’t want to run, @马不吃草……// (reposted original text). 】
On Weibo, many track and field enthusiasts were laughing, further hyping up the hashtag #Battle of Revenge#.
After all, in the past, only domestic track and field fans envied the Japanese track and field atmosphere. This time is the first time that the Japanese side gave in first.
Of course, it is a bit of an exaggeration to say that they are giving in. With such a huge momentum, many track and field fans have realized that the Japanese team is probably taking advantage of their previous defeats to the Chinese team to stimulate the Japanese track and field players, inspire their spirit of revenge, and then take this opportunity to attract more attention in Japan.
To be honest, "running culture" is already popular in Japan. This time, with the gimmick of the so-called revenge battle, it may really trigger a wave of attention in Japan.
Not to mention Japan, even here in China, after seeing the gimmick of "battle of revenge", many people were excited. Some people immediately said that they should organize Japanese students to go to the scene to cheer for the national team members. The venue should not be completely occupied by Japanese audiences.
Someone else found the live broadcast link of Yokohama TV in Japan, which also included the video link of Yokohama News interviewing Ryunosuke Arakawa at noon. Immediately, another group of people went to watch the original video.
This time, the domestic sports channel still bought the live television rights for the World Athletics Relays, but did not acquire the online broadcast rights 100%. Instead, it obtained shared live broadcast rights with another video website that had invested heavily.
After all, the sports channel is an official channel, so they dare not do anything fancy in their speeches or publicity. But it is different for this website that has won the shared network live broadcast rights. They were originally worrying about what kind of publicity strategy they should release in the final stage in order to attract the maximum number of viewers to watch the game.
As a result, a pillow fell from the sky just as I was dozing off.
Okay, no need to worry this time!
Immediately, a fresh promotional topic was posted on the video website’s promotional Weibo.
[#Revenge Battle# The Japanese team started a 'revenge battle'. Who will be the final winner between the Japanese track and field team and the Chinese track and field team? Everything will be held at the Yokohama World Athletics Relays on May 11th and 12th! (Remember to lock on @裤裤视频网 for simultaneous live broadcast)]
As soon as this publicity came out, another wave of people learned about the upcoming World Athletics Relays.
Of course, the sports channel’s publicity campaign is not far behind.
All of a sudden, the Internet has been flooded with various promotional content related to the competitions tomorrow and the day after.
Yokohama, Japan
That afternoon, after Su Bai finished communicating with the athletes about the next day's competition in the hotel, the accompanying translator Lin Ping suddenly found the coaches again and said that the Yokohama TV station in Japan had sent an invitation.
"Match commentary...?"
Su Bai looked at Lin Ping in confusion. He had never had much contact with Japanese before, so he really couldn't understand the way these Japanese people thought.
“But I don’t speak Japanese.”
What’s the point of this explanation if you can neither understand it nor speak it?
Lin Ping was also in a headache: "The Yokohama TV station in Japan invited the Japan Athletics Association to send someone to invite me. I just received the staff of the Japan Athletics Association. I don't know how to reply, so I came to find you."
Jiang Wentao and Pei Jinan looked at each other in bewilderment. They had been accompanying athletes in competitions for so many years, and this was the first time they had encountered such a thing. If it was just an invitation from Yokohama TV station, it would have been fine to refuse, but they asked the Japan Athletics Association to speak up.
The Japan Athletics Association, the China Athletics Association and the Athletics Administration Center have frequent exchanges and can be considered a model of friendly cooperation. This invitation request has become semi-official in nature. It would not be appropriate to reject it too decisively without any special reason.
Su Bai was a little confused: "But... I really can't speak Japanese."
"That's what I told them too." Lin Ping frowned. "But the TV station said they have invited a translator from the Japan Athletics Association. If you can speak simple English, that's fine too."
this……
Su Bai turned his head and glanced at Pei Jinan and Jiang Wentao.
Jiang Wentao and the other person looked at each other, not knowing what to say - the Japanese TV station had already said this, so what else could they do?
"Then...would you agree to it?"
Jiang Wentao asked with a frown, and then immediately said: "But if you think it's not okay, Xiaobai, let's forget it. It's not a big problem anyway."
Su Bai was a little confused at this moment. He finally thought about it and said, "It's okay, just agree to it."
After accepting the invitation, Su Bai was really confused. After looking at Jiang Wentao and others for a moment, they all laughed.
"Okay, that's incredible." Pei Jinan smiled and shook his head, "When our Xiaobai arrives in Japan, he will become a commentator for Japanese TV stations!"
After Lin Ping went out to communicate with Yokohama TV and the staff of the Japan Athletics Association, he finally understood what Yokohama TV meant.
"They not only invited Coach Su, but also Ryunosuke Arakawa. One reason is because of the publicity surrounding this 'revenge match'. They wanted to invite the two coaches to the TV station's live studio to personally explain the match to the audience and be a witness to the final result. Another reason is that they also prepared a live commentary session, where they will invite Coach Su and Ryunosuke Arakawa to comment on the teams that are about to start the match and make predictions about them."
Lin Ping paused and said, "The TV station said that the review game will only be officially implemented after both Coach Su and Coach Arakawa agree to it, so I want to ask Coach Su what he means here."
After hearing this, Jiang Wentao and Pei Jinan immediately understood that the Japanese TV station was not only trying to create a gimmick of "revenge battle", but also wanted to create a "confrontation" between the coaching levels of both sides.
Su Bai and Arakawa Ryunosuke are both young and promising talented track and field coaches. Arakawa Ryunosuke previously presided over the 400-meter training of the Japanese track and field team, and the results have always been good, but Japanese track and field originally had an advantage in short-distance events. For Arakawa Ryunosuke, the results he has achieved since he took over the 400-meter event can be regarded as "maintaining the status quo" and he has not been able to achieve a breakthrough.
But Su Bai is different. Based on the poor foundation of Chinese track and field before, Su Bai led his teammates to achieve the current results.
From this aspect, Su Bai's performance is obviously better than the other two coaches.
Jiang Wentao raised his eyebrows: "Tsk, it seems that the Japanese team wants to complete their 'revenge' both on and off the court this time." At this point, Jiang Wentao turned to look at Su Bai: "Xiaobai, the commentator in front, we just agreed to it, and this commentary, we can agree or not, there is no reason for us to agree to everything they say."
Hearing Jiang Wentao's words, Su Bai smiled and nodded, but still turned to look at Lin Ping: "It's okay, I agree."
"This..." Lin Ping was stunned.
Su Bai smiled, his face full of casualness: "Even if the Japanese team wants to 'retaliate', it depends on whether I and our players agree to it."
Seeing the smile on Su Bai's face, Pei Jinan, Jiang Wentao and Lin Ping all smiled.
"Hey, okay, Coach Su, I'll go tell the people at Yokohama TV right away!"
Having said that, Lin Ping turned around and ran out with a smile to tell the people from Yokohama TV station that Su Bai had accepted the invitation.
Soon after Yokohama TV received the news, it released a preview for the next two days on its official website:
[Big surprise!] The talented coaches from China will compete against the talented coaches from Japan on the spot! 】
[Sparks fly between geniuses. What kind of soul-stirring scene can the two divine brains evolve into? ! 】
【Major project of Yokohama TV! ! 】
[Yokohama World Relays, a showdown between geniuses outside the arena! 】
Not only Japanese TV stations, but also Ryunosuke Arakawa posted relevant information on his personal Twitter:
[Tomorrow, I will meet with Chinese coach Su Jun at Yokohama TV station. At that time, there will be a competition between him and me regarding coaching ability and vision! Please look forward to tomorrow's meeting battle! 】
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Many international students in Japan have found that the enthusiasm for track and field information in China is far beyond their expectations. So, at the request of domestic netizens, they are working hard to collect and translate relevant information and forward it back to China.
As a result, I suddenly saw the news released by Yokohama TV and Ryunosuke Arakawa.
…They can understand these contents just by looking at the words, but when they are put together, they have no idea what they mean?
Some international students communicated with each other privately, but they didn't quite understand what Yokohama TV and Arakawa Ryunosuke meant, so they discussed it and sorted out these messages and immediately forwarded them back to China.
Many domestic netizens were keeping an eye on the updates from these international students, and then they saw these two new messages being released.
ha?
A showdown between the brains of God?
A battle of talents outside the arena?
What the hell is this?
That is, while netizens were holding the melon, not knowing how to proceed, the domestic track and field management center and the national track and field team received the message sent back by Jiang Wentao and Su Bai.
Then, after the two parties communicated, the official Weibo account of the Athletics Management Center released the official news.
The official microblog of the Athletics Administration Center: [On May 11 and 12, when the Yokohama World Athletics Relays are held, Japan's Yokohama TV has invited my country's national track and field team's 400m sprint head coach Su Bai to participate in the live commentary of the event. Also invited is Japan's 400m sprint head coach Arakawa Ryunosuke. During the event, the coaches of both sides will comment on each team and give their own predictions and evaluations of the team. Everyone is welcome to watch the live broadcast. 】