Chapter 72 Olympic Games

On this sunny day, the blue sky is peaceful and deep, reflecting the rhythm of nature like a lake. The sunshine is warm, as if it has drawn a picture full of vitality with poetic warmth.

第10届夏季奥林匹克运动会于1932年7月30日-8月14日在美利坚的洛杉矶举行。

Today is the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympics. Zhang Feng brought his family to the stadium early in the morning. The main venue is a modern circular stadium modeled after the ancient Roman Colosseum. It is grand in scale and advanced in design and can accommodate 10.5 spectators.

The runway has a circumference of 400 meters and is color-matched: the runway is paved with red brick powder and there is green lawn in the middle, which increases the visual beauty.

Located on the Pacific coast of southern California, Los Angeles is a port city with beautiful scenery and is known as the "City of Angels".

After the Rome Conference, the city began to actively prepare for the Olympic Games. Even the global economic crisis caused by the New York stock market crash in 1929 did not affect the preparations much, because the main venue of the Olympic Games, which was the most expensive, had begun construction as early as 1919.

In addition, Los Angeles has built an open-air swimming pool that can accommodate more than 1 people and a comprehensive gymnasium that can accommodate 2 people; it has also built 700 wooden cabins for the athletes, which can accommodate more than 2000 people and are very popular among athletes.

These wooden huts were later called the Olympic Village. In light of this experience, the International Olympic Committee later made clear provisions in the Olympic Charter that the host country must build an Olympic Village.

The stadium was packed with people at this moment. Many people were like Zhang Feng's family, each holding a small American flag in their hands and cheering enthusiastically. This was of course Zhang Feng's idea. He had someone make a batch of small flags in advance and distributed them for free outside the stadium.

Zhang Feng did this, of course, not because he loves America so much, he just did it for advertising. The front of the small flag has a star-spangled pattern, and the back has the names and logos of Shennong Bio-Pharmaceutical Company and KFC printed on it.

At this moment, the entire open space outside the track near the seating area is filled with huge promotional billboards for Shennong Bio-Pharmaceutical Company and KFC.

Universal magic medicine - Shennong sulfa tablets

With Tiannan Baiyao, say goodbye to pain and welcome a happy life! - Shennong Pharmaceutical
At home or outdoors, Band-Aid is your best protector, building a protective barrier for you - Shennong Band-Aid

Finger-lickin' good - KFC

With KFC, life is delicious--KFC

Because of you, life is so beautiful - KFC

The 1984rd Olympic Games held in Los Angeles, USA in 23 was the first Olympic Games with commercial sponsors and the first Olympic Games to make money. All previous Olympic Games were heavily in debt.

Therefore, before the start of the Olympics, Zhang Feng obtained the right to place company billboards in the stadium in the name of providing free medicines to athletes and giving a little benefit to the person in charge.

"Mom, I want to go to KFC later." The child next to Zhang Chengwen begged his mother. It was obvious that he was attracted by the fried chicken pattern on the billboard.

"Okay, after watching the opening ceremony, we'll go eat." The mother said, stroking her child's head lovingly.

"Shennong Band-Aid, isn't that what you have on your hand?" a British athlete said to his teammates.

"Well, it should be. Look at that Isatis root above, isn't that what you drank yesterday?" The athlete next to him looked at the trademark on the Band-Aid on his index finger, then looked at the billboard in front of him and said.

"Don't say anymore. I heard it's a magical Chinese medicine from the Far East. It's so bitter that I didn't even have dinner yesterday. But the effect is really good. My throat didn't hurt much when I woke up this morning, and I didn't have a fever anymore." "Tiannan Baiyao, Isatis root, and Goupil plaster, aren't these all Chinese traditional medicines? How come these foreign devils are using them too?" Shen Siliang said to Liu Changchun on the other side.

"I wanted to say this a few days ago. There is a Shennong medical box where we live, and a large part of the medicines in it are Chinese traditional medicines." Liu Changchun responded.

"Alas, our country is abolishing traditional Chinese medicine, but I didn't expect that these powerful countries would pick it up and use it. I really don't understand it." Song Junfu on the other side said with emotion.

The "Abolition of Traditional Chinese Medicine" refers to the first Central Health Committee held by the Ministry of Health in February 1929. At the meeting, Yu Yunxiu, Chu Minyi and others successively proposed four related proposals, including the method of abolishing traditional Chinese medicine in order to achieve the goal of natural extinction of traditional Chinese medicine.

However, considering that Yu Yan's proposal was too radical, the Health Conference finally passed the "Principles for the Registration of Old Medical Practitioners". In order to prevent it from being abolished, the Chinese medicine community took various measures to defend itself, such as organizing associations and protesting petitions, and finally prevented the case from being implemented.

Originally, at the graduation ceremony of the Department of Physical Education of Northeastern University on July 7, Marshal Zhang personally announced that Liu Changchun and Yu Xiwei would be athletes, and Song Junfu would be a coach, representing China in the 1th Olympic Games.

Dr. Wang Zhengting, director of the Chinese Sports Federation, and his wife attended the flag-presenting ceremony and delivered a farewell speech, saying: "This is the first time since the founding of the country that our country is sending you to participate in the World Games. It is of infinite significance. I am now presenting the flag to you on behalf of the Chinese National Sports Federation with the utmost sincerity. I hope that you will use your fighting spirit to carry forward in the Olympic Stadium in Los Angeles, so that the national flag of the Republic of China will fly before countries all over the world. This is the greatest honor." Afterwards, the athletes gave a reply expressing their determination to win glory for the country, but Yu Xiwei was unable to go for some reason.

In the end, there was only one Chinese athlete, Liu Changchun. On the opening day, the Chinese team was temporarily put together, with Liu Changchun holding the national flag, followed by Shen Siliang as the general representative, followed by four representatives: Song Junfu, Liu Xuesong, Shen Guoquan, and Tuoping.

However, due to insufficient preparation and hasty competition, Liu Changchun failed to perform to his full potential and lost in the 100m and 200m preliminaries. Later, due to fatigue from the journey and lack of physical strength, he gave up the 400m race. However, Liu Changchun created the history of China's participation in the Olympic Games and had a profound impact on the development of Chinese sports.

Zhang Feng didn't think about changing anything, and he didn't have the ability to do so. He just sent someone to give the delegation $1000 in funds in the name of overseas Chinese in the United States, trying to do his bit.

"Dad, are all the companies listed on the signs ours?" Zhang Chengwen hugged Zhang Feng's arm, pulled him down, and then leaned close to Zhang Feng's ear and asked.

"Yes, these are to advertise our products, let everyone know about this company, and then come to buy, so that we can make more money." Zhang Feng never forgets to teach his sons business skills.

"Oh, I get it, Dad. I will help you with advertising in the future and make a lot of money." Zhang Chengwen said as if he understood.

An hour later, representatives from various countries began to enter the venue. Zhang Feng suddenly thought that entering the sports industry now would be a good choice. Although he could not make money, he could increase his influence and quickly integrate into America.

Sports, as a cultural phenomenon, not only embodies people's spirit of competition and cooperation, but also reflects the cultural exchange and integration between different ethnic groups, classes and regions.

Sports play a very important role in America and have become an indispensable part of people's daily life.

In American society, the most popular sports include basketball, American football, baseball, ice hockey, etc. Because of the popularity of these sports, they have a profound influence on American social culture.

In this era, the most popular sports in America are baseball and ice hockey. Zhang Feng decided to set up a club, starting with baseball, then ice hockey, basketball and football.

Lay a solid foundation and have a certain influence before getting involved in sports events. Many influential sports events in later generations have not yet been established, and no one paid attention to them at the beginning.

For example, in 1946, the owners of eleven ice hockey arenas and stadiums in the United States did not want their venues to be idle when there were no related games. For this purpose, the BAA, the predecessor of the NBA, was established.

When Zhang Feng has money and a certain amount of influence in the future, he can win over a group of people. At most, he can spend a little more money to establish the NBA and become a founder. In the future, he can increase the influence of the Monkey Zhang family.

(End of this chapter)