While the freshmen of Ocean University of China were still undergoing military training, Bai Yu and others had already embarked on their journey to Zhejiang Province.
The 2016 National University Games will be the 10th edition, held in Zhejiang Province, and will last for eight days. Thousands of university students from all over the country will gather together.
Bai Yu and others were contestants representing Hainan Province and Hainan University.
On September 4th, nearly two hundred college student athletes from Hainan Province formed a delegation, along with over one hundred accompanying personnel, and boarded a plane to Zhejiang Province.
Because there were too many participants, one plane was not enough to accommodate them all, so they were split into two groups and headed to Zhejiang Province.
Hainan University is the best university in Hainan Province, but the main force of this delegation is not Hainan University, but Hainan Sports Vocational College, which was just established at the beginning of this year, abbreviated as Hai Ti.
The entire delegation consisted of more than 300 athletes and staff, of whom only more than 60 were from Hainan University, but nearly 200 were from Hainan Sports University, and the remaining dozens were from other colleges in Hainan Province.
However, Coach Li was not worried at all. No matter how many students Haikou Sports University had, in terms of track and field, Haikou University was not afraid of its opponents at all, and even had the advantage.
On the afternoon of the 4th, Bai Yu and others checked into the hotel provided by the event organizers, waiting for the opening of the Universiade the next day.
Not every sports event has an Athletes' Village, especially for national-level events like the Universiade, where there are simply too many people to accommodate everyone.
Only the hotels provided by the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau allow those eliminated to check out and leave, while those not eliminated can continue to stay and compete!
This is already considered good; Zhejiang Province is a relatively wealthy province, and it can provide hotel accommodations.
If this were a slightly poorer province, it might be possible for the participating provinces to solve their own accommodation problems.
"Brother Yu, I heard that the hotel we're staying at provides three meals a day. It's already past four o'clock. Let's go to the restaurant and take a look."
The hotel provided by the event organizers was a standard double room, meaning two people shared a room. Bai Yu and Wang Hai shared a room.
As soon as they arrived at the hotel and put their things down, Wang Hai came up to Bai Yu with the competition manual, pointed to a piece of information on it, and started talking to him.
Bai Yu looked in the direction Wang Hai pointed and saw that the dining location and time were clearly written on it!
Sure enough, Wang Hai was still the same Wang Hai. In his mind, nothing was more important than cooking. The first thing he did upon entering the hotel was to see where their restaurant was located.
"Let's wait a bit, it's only a little past four. Let's wait until five and go with Brother Tao and the others."
Bai Yu put his luggage away and then lay down on the bed to rest.
Flying is a tiring experience, especially since the distance from Haikou to Zhejiang Province is quite far. In addition, he didn't sleep well last night, so he looked very tired.
At five o'clock, before Bai Yu and the others had even gone to find Hu Tao, the latter knocked on their door and invited them to have dinner together in the restaurant. Apparently, it was Coach Li who had invited them.
The truth is that Coach Li notified everyone in the group chat that they should go to the restaurant at 5 p.m. because he had something to say. However, Bai Yu was resting while Coach Li was talking, and Wang Hai was playing on his phone and didn't notice.
In the end, it was Hu Tao who noticed that Bai Yu and the other person weren't replying in the group chat, so he contacted them at five o'clock.
Soon, the group arrived at the restaurant together, only to find that it wasn't just students from Haida University there, but all the participants representing Haida Province in the competition.
The reason for calling everyone here is to explain the rules to be followed during the competition: don't cause trouble, don't get into conflicts with others, and maintain the positive spirit of all universities in Hainan Province.
The speaker was not Coach Li, but a relevant leader from the sports department of Hainan Province, someone that Bai Yu and his students could not possibly contact.
After the speech, Bai Yu and the others could start eating.
The hotel they stayed at offered buffet-style dining, but unlike typical buffets, it featured cuisines from various regions. Guests could simply take whatever they wanted, and the food was incredibly plentiful.
Bai Yu and Wang Hai each chose a few Sichuan dishes, while Hu Tao and Liu Ming took a few Cantonese dishes. The four of them sat down at the table for dinner.
After dinner, they went out of the hotel again and strolled around the neighborhood to digest their food before returning to the hotel.
They need to get some rest early tonight, as they have to attend the opening ceremony tomorrow morning, and some of them also have preliminary rounds to participate in this afternoon.
For example, Hu Tao, Liu Ming, and Wang Hai will start participating in the preliminary rounds tomorrow afternoon.
Bai Yu is in a slightly better position. He won't have a competition until the day after tomorrow, but he has signed up for many events, so he will be quite busy in the next few days.
Among all the students from Ocean University, Bai Yu signed up for the most events in this competition, with three events, while the others signed up for a maximum of two.
The key point is that none of the three projects he signed up for conflicted with any of the other projects, which is quite amazing. Otherwise, Bai Yu wouldn't have signed up for three projects by himself.
As for which three events they are, those who know should know: three long-distance running events, the 3,000-meter, the 5,000-meter, and the 10,000-meter.
Nothing happened that night, and I slept soundly until dawn!
However, Bai Yu didn't sleep very comfortably, naturally because the hotel bed was too soft!
Anyone who has been to college knows that most school dormitories have hard beds, and even if a mattress is provided, it's still very hard to sleep on.
But hotels are different. Hotel beds, even if they aren't all Simmons mattresses, are still very soft.
After sleeping there for a night, Bai Yu felt that something was wrong with him all over, and he always felt uncomfortable.
So Bai Yu got up very early in the morning, and by the time he finished washing up and woke up Wang Hai, it was only a little past seven o'clock.
Their meeting time today is 8 o'clock, and then they will take a bus to the stadium to participate in the opening ceremony. They still have some time to go to the restaurant for breakfast.
At 7:59 a.m., Bai Yu and the others appeared on time in the hotel lobby. They had all changed into matching sportswear with the name of their school, Hainan University, written on their chests.
Upon arriving at the lobby on the first floor, staff from Hainan Province greeted them and led them to a bus.
While Bai Yu and the others on the bus couldn't be said to know each other, many of them looked familiar, since some of them had flown in on the same plane the day before.
At 9:30 a.m., all the delegations participating in this Universiade arrived at the stadium, and the opening ceremony of this Universiade began.
Aside from some performances rich in local Zhejiang characteristics, what Bai Yu was most familiar with was the entrance of the various delegations. He had seen it before, in previous Olympic Games, and those scenes were always very impressive.
As one of the contestants from Haida University, Bai Yu naturally only appeared in the Haida Province delegation. However, among the nearly two hundred contestants, he was not particularly conspicuous.
In addition, Bai Yu was not a conspicuous person, so he quietly followed in the group, taking pictures here and there with a video camera, and he was having a great time taking pictures.
Since the start of the new school term after the Lunar New Year, for more than half a year, Bai Yu's Kuaishou account has been updated daily with either training or running content, and rarely with videos of beachcombing or fishing.
For a fleeting moment, Bai Yu felt like she was about to become a sports blogger!
Especially when fans learned that Bai Yu was going to participate in the Universiade, they left messages in the comments section, strongly requesting that Bai Yu film more content about the Universiade competition.
At this moment, Bai Yu is fulfilling her fans' requests and recording her wonderful life.
It's worth mentioning that in September 2016, just a few days ago, a software called A.mE was launched. Bai Yu registered an account on this software as soon as possible and posted her first video.
You might not be familiar with A.mE, but its new name will become a household name in China and even the world.
That is: TikTok!
Therefore, Bai Yu is now a blogger on two platforms. Her account on Kuaishou has nearly four million followers, and although A.mE is a new platform, it has a fan base from Kuaishou, and Bai Yu already has several thousand followers on A.mE.
For a platform that's only been around for a few days, Bai Yu already has several thousand followers, which puts him among the top few on A.mE.
Before the opening ceremony began, the leaders of Zhejiang Province's sports department gave a speech, and then after the delegations entered the venue, the leaders gave another speech.
Time flew by, and the entire morning was spent on the opening ceremony. Not a single event was held, and then it was lunchtime. The competition would continue in the afternoon...
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