Chapter 501: The Olympics Begin
After Tang Shuai got off the stage, he walked next to the other athletes, in addition to the introduction at the beginning, there was a group photo at the end.
"Hello, I'm Tamara Abald." At that moment, Abald, who was standing in front of her, greeted him.
"Hello, I heard you on the sidelines just now, you are the guard of the Brazilian women's basketball team." Tang Shuai said with a smile.
"Thank you for your contribution to our country." Abald smiled and said gratefully.
"I also did my best, after all, without the fans, the competition of our athletes would be meaningless." Tang Shuai continued to say with a smile.
Arbad smiled and said to the assistant next to him, and soon the assistant took a business card.
She followed, "There's a chance we can have a cup of coffee together." ”
Tang Shuai glanced at Albad, although he hadn't seen it before, but he had to say that this was a rare beautiful athlete, with delicate facial features and a particularly straight nose.
Beautiful people have priority in any field, which is probably the reason why Albad can be the only Brazilian star in this wave who is not the core of the team, but appears here, after all, the most important thing in this kind of charity activity is popularity.
He took the business card and said with a smile, "If you have time." ”
At this time, the host on the stage had already signaled the stars to go up and take a group photo, and Tang Shuai also followed on the stage.
When the stars came together, the scene suddenly erupted in a burst of excited cheers.
From the reaction of the fans, it is clear that the event was extremely successful.
After the event, Tang Shuai returned to the Olympic Village, and under the leadership of Gong Luming, they conducted closed training in the designated stadium.
Because of the fear of the impact of the Seka virus on the players, the national team absolutely prohibits the players from going out without permission.
After the final warm-up game with the Serbian team in Group B, the Chinese men's basketball team entered the final countdown time.
Basketball and soccer are the longest-running competitions, so they will be played at the beginning of the Games, with the Chinese team in Group A, and their first game of the group stage will be the day after the opening ceremony of the Games.
At the opening ceremony, Yi Jianlian led the athletes of the Chinese team with the Chinese flag high, which was the second time he became the flag bearer of the national team after the 2012 London Olympics.
Brazil's opening ceremony was marked by a distinctive performance that drew cheers from the crowd and the Rio 2016 Games officially kicked off after IOC President Thomas Bach delivered his final speech.
At 1:45 p.m. on August 6, Brazilian time, the players of the Chinese national team entered the game under the guidance of Gong Luming, where they had to watch the opening match between the Australian team and the French team.
In the qualifying round that ended in mid-July, France, Canada and Serbia were separated from the top three in the qualifying round and successfully entered the Rio Olympics.
According to the previous grouping rules, France and Canada, who finished first and second, fell into Group A, which is the group where the Chinese team is located, while Serbia entered Group B.
Unlike the American team, the French team can be said to have their strongest lineup this time, Parker, Fournier, Batum, Dior, Gobert coefficient are listed, even the contract expires Masimmi and Noah also appear in the lineup, as well as De Corlo, Atkinsa, Boubois and other former NBA players, the lineup can be described as unprecedentedly strong.
It is precisely because of the strong lineup that the matchup between them and the Australian team has attracted many fans and spectators, and most of the positions in the entire Rio Olympic basketball stadium are people.
The match between the two sides began quickly.
At the beginning of the game, the French team played quite strongly, and although the Australian team was excellent in physical confrontation, it was a little overwhelmed in the face of the fierce attack of the French team.
At 10-20, halfway through the first quarter, the Australians were already 10 points behind the French team.
"The French team is so strong!" Zhao Haoyan, who was sitting on the side, couldn't help but sigh.
"Better than Team America?" Tang Shuai said jokingly.
"Huh? Probably not. Zhao Haoyan thought for a while and said.
"The U.S. team has played all, the French team has nothing to fear, and the Australians are not that weak." Tang Shuai looked at the field and said.
Australia's style of play is tough at best, brutal at worst, both offensive and defensive are always full of physical confrontation, and the French players soon found that physical confrontation and small movements became more and more after taking the initiative.
In one attack, Parker was dropped by Dellavidova, almost leaving the two men fighting.
In the rhythm of the Australian team, which was full of small movements and physical confrontations, the French soon felt like they were stuck in a quagmire, and the score was caught up little by little.
Zhao Haoyan was stunned.
After the game, the French team won a difficult victory over the Australian team with their strength, but they also paid a heavy price for it, and the core of the inner line, Noah and Gobert, left the field one after another, and it was doubtful whether they could play in the next game.
"Savage! It's so barbaric! At the end of the game, Zhao Haoyan kept muttering.
Tang Shuai smiled and shook his head, the Australian team has always been this style, and now it is in the same group as the Chinese team, it is definitely not a good thing to mess with, even if you can win, you have to lose the rhythm of your own skin.
After the match between Australia and France, the match between China and the United States will begin.
Unlike the warm-up game, the U.S. team did its best to reach the official Olympic Games, and although the Chinese team worked hard after playing, the strength, especially the strength gap of the substitutes, still made them lose in the end.
90 to 120, a 30-point fiasco, Gong Luming knew that it was difficult to win this game, and did not give the main players too much playing time, so the fiasco was expected.
Because the game was expected, the morale of the national team was not affected.
The men's basketball team was played at intervals, with Group B on the second day and hosts Brazil making their debut.
The bonus of the home stadium of the Olympic Games is too great, and the Brazilian team, which is at a disadvantage, played with great momentum in the cheers of the home fans, and at the last moment, it relied on Barbosa's layup to knock down the powerful Lithuanian team and win a key battle in the group.
By the end of the next day's game, the Chinese team also ushered in their first real battle in the group stage, and it was also one of their opponents before the opening game, France.
For the Chinese men's basketball team, there is good news that the French team's Noah chose to take a break for this game, and Gobert played with an injury.
Although there is no bloody street brawl of fans like a football game, there is always saliva in any game.
The match between the two sides has not yet started, and fans on both sides have already started a war of words online.
A French fan 1: This is the most unsuspenseful game of the team's group stage, our opponents have lost almost all their warm-up games in the summer, and the most effective one is the 15-point loss to the United States in Los Angeles, but a loss is a loss, and their 30-point defeat in the first game shows that there is no point in that kind of warm-up game.
I will see it every day: yes, our weak team got the ticket directly to the Rio Olympics, but the strong French team got the ticket by losing the qualifying match.
A French team fan 2: Can Asian basketball be compared to European basketball? Put the Chinese team in the European Cup, they don't even qualify for the qualifiers, no, into the European Championships!
Red Pants: It's a pity that China doesn't belong to Europe, and the "strong" Europe doesn't have the strength to put us in Europe, so this assumption doesn't hold, so we can always enter the Olympics by winning the championship, and the French team can't do it once! (Hisser's expression)
A French fan 3: It doesn't make sense to say this, we will abuse you in the next game, we will get the top two in the group, the Chinese team? Leave Rio with a winless record!
DXY Kaede: Really? Congratulations on your crazy milk yourself, I hope to vomit blood in anger after waiting for the results of the game~ (cheap expression)
A French fan 3: What's the point of taking advantage of the mouth! There's a bet that the loser will walk around the streets with the words "coward" engraved on the pin!
DXY Kaede: What don't you dare!
Red Pants Man: I'll bet too, add me one, bet a little bigger if you want to bet, and the person who loses will write on the butt ~
A French fan 3: Come on!
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The fans on both sides were arguing on the pitch, but it was a very crucial game for both teams, and no one took it lightly.
At 10:30 a.m. Brazil time, after the match between the United States and Venezuela, the match between China and France was also staged.
In the general competition, the favorite teams are scheduled to play in prime time, and the United States team, as the favorite to win the championship, naturally belongs to this range, while a team like the Chinese team can only be scheduled late at night.
After the end of the game of the American team, because it was too late, most of the fans had already left the stadium, only some Chinese, some fans of the French team, and some Brazilian fans who had been called by Tang Shuai in the public welfare activities stayed at the scene, and the total number of people was less than one-third of the football stadium.
There are few fans in Brazil's basketball stadiums, but China, far across the ocean, has fallen into a frenzied atmosphere, and fans may miss the game when it officially starts after the online scolding battle.
Although it was Monday, the skipping of classes, the skipping of classes, and even some companies simply organized basketball fans to watch the live broadcast of the game, and the whole of China because of Tang Shuai, because the Chinese men's basketball team fell into a state of complete loss of control.
I am afraid that such a scene can only be compared with Yao Ming when he played in the Beijing Olympics.
The head coach of the Chinese team, Gong Luming, also promised the fans in an interview before the game that he would have no reservations in the match with the French team, which undoubtedly gave the fans a boost and made the fans even more crazy about this matchup.
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