With the distribution of profits over, their company only had one large expense left to pay before the Chinese New Year.
However, before transferring the money, Bai Yu and the others needed to ask for leave and go to the other party's base to take a look.
After all, the amount donated by Bai Yu and his group was not small, and the total amount from both sides was 100 million.
This invitation came from both the other party and Bai Yu himself; he wanted to go and take a look.
As a man, who wouldn't like the big guys at a naval base? Can someone who doesn't like them even be called a man?
As for Bai Yu's application, there were only four people in total, namely the Ocean University F4, while Li Xue and Xia Jing did not go.
They were girls, so they weren't particularly interested in these things. Besides, the base Bai Yu and the others were going to was in Sanya, so if they wanted to see it later, they could do so in Sanya.
However, it certainly can't compare to Bai Yu's ability to enter the base or even board the ship for a visit.
On February 1st, which was the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, Bai Yu and his three companions visited the South China Sea Fleet in Sanya and then donated 80 million yuan.
The next day, the four of them flew to Zhejiang Province and visited the East China Sea Fleet.
Over the past two days, these few people didn't just look around and leave. During the visit, they basically ate and took things with them, except for not being allowed to take photos or videos.
They ate in the army canteen, eating whatever the soldiers ate. Before leaving, they took away many souvenirs, the one Bai Yu liked the most was a tank made of artillery shell casings.
That thing is really cool. In order to bring this tank home, Bai Yu and the others rented a car and drove all the way back to Sanya.
Although driving back was tiring, they returned to Sanya with a great sense of satisfaction.
The first thing I did after returning was to brag to Li Xue and the others about how awesome my mom was.
They've basically seen everything they could in the last two days. Except for those on missions and not at the base, they've seen everything that's on the base, whether it flies in the sky, floats on the sea, or dives underwater.
This excitement did not subside in the slightest, even with the arrival of the Spring Festival.
As February 12th arrived, marking the arrival of the 21st Spring Festival, Bai Yu finally had some free time and spent the New Year quietly at home.
After the New Year, it was time to visit relatives and friends, pay New Year's greetings to elders and give gifts. He was busy until the tenth day of the Lunar New Year when he received a phone call.
"Hey Coach Li, is the training camp about to start? Okay, I'll go with Wang Hai tomorrow. Is this training camp in the provincial team or in the capital?"
Neither? You're going to another place for training this time? And for three months straight? Okay, I'll come find you in Haikou tomorrow.
Coach Li called Bai Yu, mainly to tell him that the training camp was about to begin.
The 2020 Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic. In order to prepare for the Olympics, intensive training was inevitable.
In fact, for the other track and field team members, this training camp had already begun long ago. They had basically started closed training three or four months before the Lunar New Year.
Bai Yu was also notified at the time to ask if he wanted to go, but Bai Yu declined.
That's right, he was rejected by Bai Yu!
For the other athletes on the track and field team, this training camp was mandatory; they had to participate whether they wanted to or not.
However, for Bai Yu, this mandatory training camp became voluntary. Bai Yu could go if he wanted to, and he didn't have to go if he didn't want to.
The reason is quite simple: Bai Yu is too strong, and this kind of intensive training will not help him improve his strength much.
Of course, Bai Yu wasn't the type to simply refuse to participate. To avoid standing out, he not only refused training but also underwent a physical fitness test at the provincial team and then ran 10,000 meters with all his might.
The final result was obvious: he finished the 10,000-meter run and no longer needed to go to training.
But I have to go to this training camp now, because it wasn't required by the track and field team, but by someone higher up.
The people who need to receive training are not the track and field team members, but the vast majority of athletes participating in this Olympics, regardless of their event, unless they have a legitimate reason, they must participate.
This training camp mainly focuses on physical fitness. For athletes, regardless of the sport, good physical fitness is essential.
Especially for track and field athletes, physical fitness is essential.
So on the eleventh day of the first lunar month, Bai Yu and Wang Hai set off. They first went to Haikou to find Coach Li, and then the group of more than ten people boarded a plane and set off.
Besides Bai Yu, there are quite a few athletes from Hainan Province going to the training camp this time, including swimmers, badminton players, basketball players, and so on.
Their first stop was the capital city, where they gathered at the national team's base. Once all the athletes from different regions had arrived, they were taken away in batches by bus.
As for where they went, Bai Yu didn't care. He only knew one thing: they had left the city and come to the suburbs, near a small mountain.
The entire car was filled with track and field athletes, including Wang Hai.
Although Wang Hai doesn't achieve good results in international competitions, his performance in the 800m, 1000m, and 1500m events is quite impressive domestically.
Then he was pulled in to be a sparring partner for this training session. Yes, a sparring partner.
Wang Hai himself didn't care about this result. After all, he hadn't participated in a formal competition for a long time. It was normal for the higher-ups not to let him participate. Being able to get a sparring partner spot was already good enough.
He was already quite content, even a little happy, because he was paid to be a sparring partner.
Furthermore, in order to motivate the sparring partners, the leaders of the sports bureau also gave them a benefit: if they ever outperformed the official athletes during training, they would receive a bonus.
The minimum bonus is 500 yuan, with no upper limit. You get the bonus for each win, and ten wins.
Because of this condition, the sparring partners who came to participate in the training camp were all eagerly anticipating the competition. However, the sparring partner specializing in long-distance running looked rather unhappy.
Because Bai Yu is the sole long-distance runner, he is competing in three events and is the only one of his kind. If they want to win the prize money, they must outrun Bai Yu.
But who is Bai Yu? Even though he didn't participate in many international competitions over a full year of 20 years, and his international ranking points didn't increase much either.
Even so, Bai Yu is still the world's number one in long-distance running, and he is the only Asian among the top twenty.
In this situation, it's a joke for these sparring partners to expect to receive bonuses.
But that's how sports competitions are. If athletes want to make a living, they have to rely on their strength. Whoever is stronger has more say and can earn more.
Bai Yu's reaction to this was so-so. He could do nothing but look at the players who were his sparring partners with sympathy.
Upon arriving at the training base, Bai Yu immediately took out his phone, snapped a photo, and posted it on his Douyin account with the caption: "Training begins!"
His post caused a huge uproar, immediately wiping out the sports enthusiasts on his account.
As mentioned before, Bai Yu's account has a very complex fan base. Apart from fans who enjoy beachcombing and fishing, the majority of fans are actually sports enthusiasts.
The period when he gained the most followers was also the time when he traveled all over the world to participate in competitions and win gold medals. In just over a year, he gained at least 30 to 40 million followers.
While other athletes were updating their training activities, Bai Yu remained silent, spending his days either fishing at sea or participating in fishing competitions, and occasionally selling products in his live stream.
During that period, Bai Yu was scolded a lot. Many people said that he was wasting his time on frivolous pursuits and had no sense of urgency.
However, at the time, the entire Douyin (TikTok) was focused on fishing, and the General Administration of Sport had not released any news about training camps.
That's why the situation wasn't allowed to escalate; Bai Yu ignored it, and it quickly passed.
But things are different now. Bai Yu posted an article about participating in a training camp, which is sure to excite his sports fans.
After all, Bai Yu was someone they had high hopes for, someone who could raise the national flag in the notebook. Now that he had started training, did that mean their hopes had increased?
This Olympics, hosted by the Chinese people, is arguably the most anticipated Olympics for all Chinese athletes.
Especially for those events where we have a chance to win, our people are full of expectations and want to see our national flag raised in the notebook.
Let our national anthem resound throughout the entire notebook!
This is even more evident in Bai Yu, after all, judging from Bai Yu's strength, he must have been playing multiple roles in this competition.
With his abilities, as long as he performs normally, he can make our national flag rise three times in the UK and make the people in the UK hear our national anthem three times.
Moreover, these fans have already planned that as soon as the competition starts, they will go to the notebook to support Bai Yu, and at the moment Bai Yu wins the championship, red flags will fill the stadium stands, and our national anthem will resound throughout the stadium.
Following Bai Yu's post, the topic of athletes starting training camp quickly rose to the top of Douyin's trending topics and continued to gain traction.
Bai Yu can now be described as a trending topic generator. As long as his posts aren't too boring or outrageous, they can generate a lot of buzz.
Of course, if something goes too far, it might trend on social media, but it's best to avoid trending like that.
When Bai Yu and the others arrived at the training base, there was no training scheduled for the first day. Instead, they rested on the spot for a day and tidied up their personal belongings.
This day was the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, and the next day was the Lantern Festival!
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