The next morning, Bai Yu got out of bed early and washed up with the water they had brought themselves. Then he went to the hotel gym and did some light exercise.
He has another race today, the 3,000-meter steeplechase, but it starts in the afternoon, so he has a short rest in the morning.
At 2 p.m., Bai Yu arrived at the stadium and sat in the stands to watch the game.
Track and field is a large sport that includes many smaller events. Even though this invitational tournament doesn't include every event, there are still quite a few.
Bai Yu's favorite event to watch was the pole vault competition, especially the men's pole vault. There was one athlete in the competition that Bai Yu greatly admired.
Why do I say that?
Because this guy is a smart person, he knows how to control his performance, and he improves his world record every year.
That's right, he breaks the world record every year, and this guy has already broken it several times.
Unlike other events, pole vaulting involves increasing the height of the jump from low to high. As long as someone has a leading advantage and no one can surpass them, they can win the championship.
The person Bai Yu admires has an absolute advantage in the high jump, and he increases it by one centimeter every year, gradually raising the world record.
It's not that this guy can't challenge higher records, but that it's unnecessary. He's already won, so why should he continue to challenge?
He might as well save the record for next time, then he can get another bonus for breaking the record.
Unfortunately, Bai Yu couldn't reach that level in running. Otherwise, he would have wanted to learn from him and improve the world record second by second, and he would have wanted to win more prize money.
After watching the high jump for a while, the staff came to inform him that he could start preparing. He would be able to compete after the 4x100m relay semi-finals were over.
Bai Yu then took off her jacket, revealing a red tracksuit with the word "China" printed on it, and went to prepare.
Bai Yu's sportswear, besides the Chinese characters for "China" and the number eleven, is covered with a dense array of logos and stickers.
Since Bai Yu doesn't accept advertisements, the only revenue he can bring to the track and field team is from renting out advertising space on their clothing.
According to incomplete statistics, Bai Yu's outfit had at least twenty brand logos pasted on both the front and back, making her the contestant with the most logos throughout the entire competition.
An hour later, Bai Yu received another $200,000 prize and a medal.
At the same time, Bai Yu also improved the world record for the 3,000-meter obstacle course by three seconds, and the current world record is seven minutes and 52 seconds.
The audience was already numb to Bai Yu's latest world record. In just three days, Bai Yu had broken three tournament records and two world records. They were already a bit overwhelmed.
After receiving the award, they were interviewed again, answering some questions and generating another wave of buzz.
After finishing his two races, Bai Yu prepared to buy a ticket to return to China, as he had nothing to do while abroad.
Just as he was preparing to return to China, he received the prize money for the competition, a remittance of 500,000 US dollars.
He won two championships in this competition, with prize money of 200,000 for each event, totaling 400,000. The additional 100,000 US dollars was a reward for breaking the competition record and the world record.
Upon seeing the payment confirmation message, Bai Yu immediately tossed his phone to Coach Li, asking him to check the information and then arrange the distribution ratio.
The team does not share the prize money earned from international competitions. The team only shares the advertising fees or other activity fees that Bai Yu receives. The prize money is distributed among Bai Yu and his team.
Their team is quite large, consisting of a coach, a translator/legal counsel, an assistant, a logistics staff member, a security guard, and a doctor.
Including Bai Yu, there are seven people in total, with Coach Li as the coach and Wang Hai as the assistant.
This team of people is specifically responsible for Bai Yu's participation in all competitions and activities, whether domestic or international.
In addition to their salaries from the team, they also receive extra bonuses, a portion of Bai Yu's competition prize money, which goes to them.
When Coach Li saw the phone Bai Yu tossed to him, a bright smile immediately spread across his old face.
As I said before, no one will ever complain about having too much money.
However, before they can divide the money, they need to exchange the US dollars for RMB, which they will have to do after they return to China.
They then flew back to China, all the way back to Sanya Airport in Qinghai Province.
To Bai Yu's surprise, he received the kind of airport welcome usually reserved for celebrities when he returned to China!
As Bai Yu emerged from the airport, all he could see were dense crowds of fans, each holding a support sign and chanting "Bai Yu is invincible!"
To be honest, Bai Yu was stunned when he saw this scene; he never expected to receive such treatment.
He even went up to Coach Li and asked if he had arranged the scene.
After all, he has been in the industry for several years and has been running on the track and field for three or four years. He has never encountered this kind of treatment before.
Even though he has won so many championships and broken world records before, the current 5,000-meter long-distance running record was still set by him.
Why didn't he receive this kind of treatment before? Why is he suddenly getting it now?
It is worth mentioning that Bai Yu currently holds the world records in the 3,000-meter, 3,000-meter steeplechase, 5,000-meter, and 10,000-meter events.
Is that why so many fans came to greet him at the airport?
That makes sense, doesn't it? Since Bai Yu has so many fans, it's not easy for her to leave right away. She could only meet with these fans and act as a background figure for a while.
At the airport reception, Bai Yu repeatedly said: "I will definitely take you to see the flag-raising ceremony."
It was through this sentence that Bai Yu finally understood why these fans came to pick her up at the airport—they all wanted to hear Bai Yu say these words in person!
After spending about an hour in the plaza outside the airport, Bai Yu finally left the airport and went home with her luggage.
When Bai Yu went to participate in the training camp, it was right after the Chinese New Year, and before the Lantern Festival.
However, it was three months later when Bai Yu returned to the company, even after the college entrance examination had ended.
While they hadn't been back for so long, Bai Yu's company had undergone tremendous changes, changing every day, and its development speed was incredibly fast.
Putting everything else aside, the sheer size of their company is already incomparable to what it was before.
When their company was first established, they only rented a small storefront of about ten square meters on the first floor of Uncle Sun's hotel.
However, after nearly two years of development, their company has grown from a small storefront into a large company with half a floor of space.
Currently, apart from the main hall and reception area, the rest of the first floor of Uncle Sun's hotel has been rented by Bai Yu's company.
Overall, Bai Yu's company did not increase its staff by much, but it added several more live streamers, and the extra space in their company was used to set up several live streaming rooms.
In addition, the largest increase in personnel in their company was in legal professionals; Bai Yu's previous idea had already been realized by Li Shuang and others.
This legal team is full of talent; Li Xue even brought in a law professor from Ocean University to serve as their company's legal advisor.
During Bai Yu's absence, Li Xue, Li Shuang, and others did an excellent job, and it did not affect the company's normal development at all.
Therefore, after seeing this scene, Bai Yu could rest assured and start preparing for the Olympics.
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