The members of the national track and field team did not know that this Asian Championships had received countless times more attention in the country than ever before. Every drop of water they shed on the field, every achievement they made, was seen by countless spectators.
Where there is attention, there is heat, and where there is heat, there are media chasing the heat.
No matter what, the national track and field team that returned home with honors this time truly received the honorable treatment of "returning home with honors". Countless media were waiting at the airport exit, and even some track and field fans came to the airport to welcome these victorious heroes.
Jiang Wentao and others' plane landed first. When landing, Jiang Wentao received a call from the staff of the Farmland Management Center, informing him that a large number of media had arrived at the airport.
In order to avoid the trouble caused by congestion and to prevent chaos, Jiang Wentao, who landed first, had no time to rest. He directly contacted the airport with Liao Jie who came to the airport to help, and cleared an area that could be used for interviews and then arranged a small interview meeting.
Due to the limited venue and time, Jiang Wentao directly selected several players from the national team who had performed well in the Asian Championships as representatives to accept group interviews from reporters.
The other athletes had no objection to the athletes named by Jiang Wentao to be taken away. After all, those who were called away, such as Zhang Ziyi and Cui Luoheng, either created unprecedented good results in the history of Chinese track and field, or set records in the Asian Championships. At the very least, they won gold medals in the Asian Championships.
Of course, strength is everything in the sports circle. Zhang Ziyi and his team have such strength, so isn't it natural for them to accept interviews as representatives?
Qiu Wen and others followed the airport staff to another airport exit, where the national track and field team's bus was already waiting for them.
People got on the bus in twos and threes and sat down in their seats, only to find that there was a small box on each seat.
"Hey, what's this box?"
Qiu Wen looked at the obviously hand-packaged paper box in his hand, glanced at it with a little curiosity, and suddenly smelled a tempting aroma coming out of the box.
At the front, the bus driver heard the question, turned around and laughed: "Oh, I almost forgot, there are snacks on your seats made by Coach Su Baisu and Chef Jin Manjiang. They were freshly baked this afternoon. We still have to wait for the other contestants inside, so everyone should eat some snacks first."
Wow!
Snacks made by Su Bai and Jin Manjiang!
When everyone on the bus heard this, their eyes lit up - this was incredible!
Most of the people in the car were not from the 400-meter sprint team, but they definitely had friends in the 400-meter sprint team. They had heard the legend of Su Bai countless times. But, Su Bai was a serious 400-meter head coach. Could he really be a chef for everyone?
Therefore, they have longed for the food made by Su Bai for a long time.
This time, it is said that Su Bai and Jin Manjiang made the snacks together.
Oh, Lao Jin’s cooking skills are not something that ordinary team members can enjoy. No matter whether this snack is made by Lao Jin or Su Bai, it is definitely a profit!
Qiu Wen was also sitting happily in his seat at this moment. He opened the small box and took out a small cake from it. The fragrant and soft cake seemed to melt in the mouth. When he took a bite, he found it soft and dense, with a fragrant and sweet taste. He simply couldn't stop eating it once he started.
"Ah, this cake is delicious!"
The contestants in the bus ate the snacks in their hands with happiness on their faces: Oh, you know what, no matter who made this, it tastes so good!
The only problem is that the portion is a bit small.
Take track and field athletes for example. They have huge appetites. They can finish such a small snack in just three or two bites. After they finish eating, the lingering taste in their mouths and teeth is still there. It feels like they have just opened their appetites and haven’t really started eating yet, but the snacks are already gone.
It is said that the most delicious food is the food that you haven’t eaten enough of.
As the snacks were all gone, the contestants in the car started howling.
"Ah, this snack is too little!"
"The little cakes are really delicious, but there are so few of them..."
Some people also encouraged the driver with a smile: "Hey, Master Sun, we don't know how long their group interview with reporters will take, why don't we go back to the base first? We will help them eat their snacks in the car, and we guarantee that none of them will be left behind!"
As soon as this proposal was made, everyone in the car laughed and expressed their agreement.
Everyone in the car was laughing and joking. Inside the airport, reporters were led to a temporarily cleared area for group interviews, where they met representatives of the players who had returned with honors.
This Asian Championships not only achieved many unprecedented good results in track and field, but also had a lot of attention from the TV broadcast on the sports channel to the online broadcast on the sports channel live broadcast network, as well as the discussion volume on Weibo, and the built-in topic popularity data charts on QQ and WeChat...
Over the past four days, the Asian Athletics Championships, which might not have made even a splash before this year, has achieved amazing results in all of the above categories this year.
Let's go back to the "Track and Field Idol Training Camp" during the Spring Festival winter training period. When this variety show was broadcast, it did trigger a nationwide craze for chasing track and field stars. However, many people also believed that this variety show was just a temporary hit, just like many variety shows that were once popular. As the variety show craze passed, those variety show stars who were once popular in variety shows and were called "national stars" would also become silent.
However, the variety show "Track and Field Idol Training Camp" was not as tepid as many people expected. And four months after it became a hit, track and field, a major sport that was once rarely paid attention to in China, has reached the level where it can be followed by tens of thousands of people.
The popularity brought by the variety show "Track and Field Idol Training Camp" and the sustained attention people paid to sports were things many people had never imagined.
During the four-day Asian Athletics Championships, many media and related data research practitioners saw people's lasting attention and enthusiasm for the sport of athletics.
And judging from the data continuously output in the past four days, it is very obvious that this Asian Championships has also successfully brought a large number of enthusiastic new fans to the event of track and field.
As the saying goes, when there is heat, there is greater attention. Therefore, these media outlets heard the news and rushed to the airport just to get the first-hand news of "the national track and field team returning with honors."
At the Athletics Management Center, after arranging the group interview, Liao Jie also discussed this matter with Jiang Wentao in private.
"These past few days, we at the center really didn't expect that the staff at the sports channel kept contacting us by phone, reporting good news to us in real time. As you know, during these days of the Asian Championships, it was all workdays in China, and there was a time difference. When it came to the live broadcast, we were at a disadvantage in terms of time. As a result, the live broadcast data was still the first in the entire sports channel."
"Not only that, the live streaming data, as well as the audience interaction and activity data during the live streaming, are all among the best."
"In addition, there are the current search indexes and data reports from various data research institutes, some of which specifically study the popularity of Weibo and online discussions. Our projects are all ranked."
Jiang Wentao understood that Liao Jie was explaining why the media made such a big fuss about their return this time.
Looking at the media who were setting up equipment on site and preparing for interviews later, Jiang Wentao smiled and said, "This is a good thing!"
Hearing Jiang Wentao say this, Liao Jie also nodded with a smile: "Isn't it? This is really a good thing!"
Those who have been engaged in track and field for their whole lives, of course, think that track and field is a very good sport. However, it is very difficult to improve the mass base of track and field. It is obviously a major sport, but to be honest, the number of fans of the sport is even less than that of sports like table tennis.
Without a fan base, there will be a lack of influx of enthusiasts and a lack of basis for selecting talents.
With the same physical condition requirements, who knows what other events will be chosen to practice by the track and field team in the end? After all, the initial talent selection is done among young kids, and you really can’t tell what they will grow up to be like in the future.
He has strong explosive power, runs fast and is flexible. A little kid like this just said he wanted to play football, and you really can't stop him.
Here at the Athletics Administration Center, we promote the popularization of track and field events every year. But running, shot put, long jump... to be honest, these are compulsory subjects in students' physical education classes starting from elementary school. How could most people not know about these events?
The purpose of their promotion is to make more people not only know about these events, but also to make them interested in them and start to like athletics.
Before, they really intended to test the waters for the variety show during winter training. After all, other projects had actually used similar formats, but they just failed to succeed in the end.
But their Track and Field Administration Center was lucky, and they actually succeeded in their attempt. Then, the "Pyramid Speed Challenge" launched on the variety show triggered another nationwide craze, and according to the feedback information they collected from stadiums across the country, this "Pyramid Speed Challenge" has greatly increased the flow of people to stadiums in various places.
Judging from the information fed back by some gyms, there are still many people who continue to train in the gyms and want to complete the "Pyramid Speed Challenge".
They have been promoting athletics for most of their lives, isn't this the effect they want?
In the past few days, whether it is the athletes' performance in the Asian Championships or the relevant data of the Asian Championships, everyone in the Athletics Administration Center feels particularly happy.
At the group interview, after the reporters had made their preparations, the dozen or so contestants brought by Jiang Wentao also went to the interview seats one by one. They first stood and took photos for all the reporters, said hello, and then sat down one by one.
Jiang Wentao, as the temporary host of this group interview and also the team leader of this Asian Championships, also took the interview seat and greeted the media friends present with a smile.
He had a pretty good memory and had a pretty good impression of the media on the scene. He clearly saw many unfamiliar faces he had never seen before, and some of the media, just by looking at their station logos, could be seen not to specialize in sports coverage.
The heat is really rising!
Jiang Wentao was sighing in his heart, smiling calmly, and greeted all the media people: "Hello, everyone. I am in charge of competition work at our Athletics Management Center. My last name is Jiang. I am familiar with some of the old friends present. I also say hello to all the new friends I met for the first time today. Thank you for your attention and love for our track and field events, track and field athletes, and the national track and field team."
The reporters present were all smart people. Jiang Wentao was smiling and easy to talk to, so they were naturally not bad either. They all smiled and applauded Jiang Wentao.
"This time, our national team athletes have achieved fruitful results in the Doha Asian Championships, winning 11 golds, 13 silvers and 9 bronzes, taking first place in both the gold medal table and the medal table, as well as breakthroughs in various results. These are all the fruitful results brought by these athletes. I just invited our representative athletes who have achieved important results to our group interview site, and now I will give the interview rights to you all."
Jiang Wentao knew the main goal of these reporters and didn't say much. He just emphasized the first place in both the gold medal and medal charts and left the rest to the reporters who were waiting to interview the athletes on the scene.
After Jiang Wentao stepped aside, the reporters' flashlights flashed again. Then after Jiang Wentao said that he could ask questions, all the reporters present raised their hands.
In the following time, reporters' questions popped out like a machine gun. It was the first time for the contestants sitting in the interview seats to experience such a scene. They were really unable to react at first.
Among these contestants, there are of course different levels of popularity. For example, Fang Yu, Wang Shen, Zhang Ziyi, Cui Luoheng, and Chen Yada received questions one after another, which made them overwhelmed.
[Hello Zhang Shuai, you broke the 45-second mark in this competition, but have not yet reached the Tokyo Olympic standard of 44.90. In the next year, do you think you have a chance to reach this Olympic standard? 】
[Hello Zhang Shuai, in last night's men's 4x400m relay final, you ran an excellent first leg. Some netizens analyzed that you ran a better result in the relay than in the men's 400m sprint final. Can you tell us about your first leg result in the relay last night? Did you reach 44.90 seconds?
If so, why are you in better shape in the relay than in the individual events? 】
[Hello, Xiao Cui, you can be said to have no rivals in the Asian Championships this time. Your performance has amazed many people. In this competition, you broke the Asian Championships record set by the former hurdles king. Many people say that you will be the new generation of hurdles king. Do you think you can reach the same level of performance as the hurdles king? 】
[…Sister Dan, the women’s team you led also achieved good results in the Asian Championships. However, the overall performance and progress of the women’s team are still behind those of the men’s team. Can you tell me what this represents? 】
[… Fang Yu, your current condition is very stable. You have run under ten seconds many times this year. Does this prove that you have the ability to run under 10 seconds stably? 】
[…Wang Shen, your current personal PB score of 2.35 meters has surpassed Ye Wenhao’s 2.32 meters. Does this mean that your strength is far superior to his…]
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Although some of these media reporters are not specialized in sports reporting, they are very thorough in their preparation for interviews and ask very sharp questions. However, compared with the past when track and field events were not so popular, the mildness of the questions asked in interviews has greatly decreased.
The players present had never experienced such a situation before, but they had all received relevant interview training in the team. Although they were a little confused at the beginning, after actually facing the reporters, they were not afraid of the questions.
After all, we have managed to survive the stressful track and field competition, so we cannot be afraid of these non-threatening guns and cannons in front of us.
In the end, this impromptu group interview lasted for more than 40 minutes due to the enthusiasm of the media, and only then did both the hosts and the guests complete the interview with great satisfaction.
Only after all the media had left did the athletes who had been so brave and invincible on the field breathe a sigh of relief.
Zhang Ziyi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "These reporters were not so fierce before. Some of the questions today really made my scalp tingle."
"Like what? For example, can the women's team be better than the men's team in the 400-meter sprint?"
At the side, Liu Jiaonan, the leader of the hammer throw event, asked with a smile, and then Zhang Ziyi immediately glanced at Chen Yada nervously, with an expression on his face that almost said 'I absolutely don't mean that'.
Chen Yadan was very calm about this. She glanced at Zhang Ziyi and said very straightforwardly, "Nothing. I know you don't mean that. But it is true that the women's team's current performance is not as good as the men's team. However, just because they are not as good as you now does not mean they will always be worse than you. The players on the women's team are definitely not pushovers."
Zhang Ziyi heard this and said seriously: "Of course, but our men's team will not relax either!"
Most of the contestants present laughed when they saw Zhang Ziyi like this. They all realized that Zhang Ziyi seemed to have some interest in Chen Yada, but the two of them had obviously not yet said it out loud. Looking at their interaction, the contestants who had just been bombarded by the reporters and media for more than half an hour now felt a little interested in gossiping.
Because of the interview, it was almost 7 o'clock when everyone returned to the track and field training base. However, as the heroes of the track and field team, the cafeteria naturally left a sumptuous dinner for them. When the people participating in the 400-meter sprint event came to the third floor of the cafeteria, they saw a familiar figure wearing a chef's uniform in the cafeteria.
"Ahhhhhh! Xiaobai!!!"
Qiu Wen almost immediately came to Su Bai, and then looked at Su Bai with bright eyes: "Xiao Bai!!! Are you going to cook a feast for us tonight?"
Su Bai smiled and turned around to say, "We'll welcome you tonight, and the chefs in charge are me and Jin Manjiang."
In other words, Su Bai did make some of the food, but he didn't say which one.
As the head chef of the national track and field team's kitchen, Jin Manjiang's cooking skills are impeccable. At this moment, he touched his big belly and came out of the kitchen happily.
"Coach Su Baisu and I will be the chefs tonight. We will prepare dinner for more than 80 people. We can't take care of too many things, so just treat it as a normal dinner to welcome everyone back from abroad. You should have a good authentic Chinese meal."
Jin Manjiang looked at everyone with a smile: "I know, many of you want to eat Coach Su's dishes, but I won't tell you which dish was made by whom among the finished dishes tonight. It depends on your luck to see whose dish you get to eat." Then Jin Manjiang smiled and said, "As for me, I'm afraid that if I tell you which dishes were made by Coach Su, all my dishes will be left over."
As the chef of the national team, Jin Manjiang's words are definitely modest. As a top chef who is only responsible for the catering on the third floor, the meals he cooks are also coveted by many people in the track and field team.
The contestants present immediately smiled and said "absolutely not", then quickly dispersed and took the food they wanted to eat from the hot and warm preparation plates.
Qiu Wen originally wanted to ask Xiaobai to point out which dishes he cooked, but Su Bai ruthlessly rejected him and told him to try his luck on his own, so he had to go dejectedly.
After Qiu Wen left, Cui Luoheng stood in front of Su Bai, without saying a word, but just blinked at Su Bai. His dark eyes stared at the person in front of him without blinking, with an aggrieved look on his face.
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When Su Bai saw Cui Luoheng's look, he was stunned for a moment: "A Luo, what's wrong with you?" As he said that, he raised his hand and rubbed Cui Luoheng's head habitually.
"You want to eat what I cook? I'll tell you which dishes they are?"
Su Bai has always been quite indulgent towards Cui Luoheng's overly sensitive sense of taste.
After Su Bai rubbed his head, Cui Luoheng showed a hint of happiness on his face, and then nodded silently.
Not far away, Wang Shen raised his eyebrows with a half-smile after seeing Cui Luoheng's action, turned his head and glanced at Ye Wenhao who was injured but still came to eat, and looked at him directly: "Okay, be careful with your injured leg, go sit down."
Wang Shen smiled again and said, "Would you like to try the food Su Bai cooked? It tastes really good."
Ye Wenhao was stunned for a moment and scratched his head: "Eh? Didn't you say that everyone can pick whatever they want? Can you tell which dish was made by Su Bai?"
Wang Shen heard this and smiled, saying: "^^I don't know, but it doesn't matter, someone knows."
"ah?"
Listening to Wang Shen's words, Ye Wenhao scratched his head again in confusion.
In the distance, Qiu Wen frowned slightly - he always felt like he might have missed something?
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