Chapter 178: Old Friends
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The National University Gas were a comprehensive sporting event. The competition scale was no less than any of the other gas, but had competitions less often. It worked the sa way for the World University Gas and the National University Gas.
The National University Gas, for example, although the competitions were slightly tweaked each year, the total number of events was always around ten.
Excluding performances, the Olympics Gas had about thirty official competitions and over 300 small programs all together. The Asian Gas had more events than Olympics. Compared to them, the University Gas had less than one-third of the competitions than the Asian Gas.
There were no events that required expensive equipnt such as shooting or archery, nor difficult sports like gymnastics or diving. For the average undergraduate, there weren’t many opportunities to use firearms and arrows, nor practice gymnastics and diving.
The competitions in the University Gas were popular sports such as track and field, swimming, basketball, ping pong, etc. These gas involved many university students. anwhile, there were also so non-Olympic events, such as martial arts, aerobics, and orienteering. There were also activities like Contract Bridge.
There were about eleven competitions in the University Gas, and events like martial arts, aerobics, and orienteering made up about half of them. There were only six or seven real sports-related programs.
Although there weren’t many programs, there were still many candidates. There were over 6,000 students signed up. In comparison, the Olympics only had around 10,000 candidates. It was truly a large amount of people considering it was only a university competition.
A smaller program with more people ant that every sport would have more participants. This was why the University Gas didn’t restrict enrollnt.
In the Olympic Gas, the maximum number of group mbers for each team was three. However, in the University Gas, more athletes were allowed for each competition. Take sprinting, for example; the Tsinghua University sprinting team could send three athletes to take part in the contest.
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A few days prior, Dai Li had gone to several big track and field competitions with Li Xue. As a result, Dai Li had gained so experience in guiding teams.
Dai Li didn’t have to worry about food and accommodations since the sponsor was in charge of planning everything. All he needed to do was make sure the gas went well.
"The stadium in Wanzhou is so spacious. I bet it’s top ten in our country. No wonder it’s confident it can hold the national gas!"
Dai Li looked around and saw that a lot of people were already sitting on the bench. So of them were holding signs with slogans saying, "Go for it,"followed by the na of a university. There were also cheerleaders in the stands.
So this is the University Gas. I have attended so national track and field gas, but I have never seen an audience like this. Young people are truly full of passion!"
Soone familiar suddenly walked entered Dai Li’s line of sight as he was thinking.
It’s Yuejin Chen! So Hanbei Sports College has also joined the ga. Dai Li stepped forward. It was the sa Yuejin Chen who had brought Dai Li from Yuzhou to Hanbei Sports College, where Dai Li had t Feifei Yu and Zhongyi Xu. It had been two or three years since the last ti Dai Li had seen Yuejin Chen.
Dai Li sighed. He had once seen Yuejin Chen as a legend, since Chen had gone to the training camp as a coach. Dai Li used to think it was sothing that he could never be doing, but now he was on the national team, and was favored by Li Xue.
"Coach Chen!" Dai Li yelled from a distance.
"Dai Li!" Yuejin Chen was surprised. "You’re here too! Aren’t you working for the provincial team now?"
"I am working for Tsinghua University temporarily," Dai Li explained briefly.
"Tsinghua University!" Yuejin Chen was shocked. He was still confused why Dai Li had gone to Tsinghua, as there seed to be no relationship between their group and Tsinghua University. But he believed what Dai Li said.
"The Departnt of Sports in Tsinghua University is much better than our Hanbei Sports College. I am sure you will get dozens of golden dals. Dai Li, What program are you in?"Yuejin Chen asked.
"The sprinting team," Dai Li answered.
"Sprinting! That’s the top program in Tsinghua University. I heard there is an athlete on the track and field team in Tsinghua University who is so good that the national team asked him to join them multiple tis, but still couldn’t get him to say "yes." He is here for the gas, isn’t he?" Yuejin Chen asked.
Dai Li nodded with a smile. He knew Yuejin Chen was talking about Guohong Niu.
"It’s going to be an exciting match. A fight between two tigers!" Yuejin Chen laughed.
"A fight between two tigers?" Dai Li looked at Yuejin Chen, confused.
"You don’t know?" Yuejin Chen sighed, then continued, "You have a tough opponent this ti. There is a really excellent athlete from Jiangdong who is qualified to play for the national team. He may even be better than your athlete!"
Dai Li frowned. He couldn’t believe what Yuejin Chen had just said.
The level of the university athletes varied. But one thing was certain—there couldn’t be candidates who were too good due to the enrollnt rule.
There was only one enrollnt rule—athletes who joined the national competitions before were not allowed to attend University Gas.
For all sports, national competitions included the national track and field championships and the Grand Prix; the swimming national championships, the Youth Championships, as well as the national professional swimming league; the National Basketball League, the national championships, the Grand Prix, the professional league, and the tour; the Super Soccer League, the first and second league, and the football team gas; and finally, the FA Cup, the Table Tennis Super League, League A, and other regional professional competitions.
Anyone who had been to the gas ntioned were not allowed to participate in the National University Gas. This had ruled out a lot of top athletes from the National University Gas because top athletes would not stay in the college and give up great opportunities just to join the gas.
Many top athletes would go to college and finish their undergraduate studies, but when they were given the opportunity to be in the gas, they would definitely skip school for it. They needed the experience and opportunity toget exposure.
Once you were involved in national contests, you couldn’t go to the National University Gas. Because of this, athletes in the University Gas were usually not top athletes. They were not capable of being in other national contests, which ant the University Gas were their only shot.
Guohong Niu was an exception. He was qualified enough to join the national team, but he didn’t want to be there; instead, he had stayed in university to continue his training. This was mainly because Guohong Niu was studying in Tsinghua University, and had an emotional attachnt to the famous school. If it had been so other average university, he probably would not have stayed.
Therefore, when Dai Li heard there were athletes as good as Guohong Niu coming to the ga, he was really surprised.
I can’t believe there is soone better than Guohong Niu, and that he is from the Dongjiang team. They must be from a top university, otherwise the university wouldn’t allow the athlete to stay. Even if it’s not as good as Tsinghua, it can’t be too bad. Nandu University is the only university in the Dongjiang Province, and it is a top 10 school.
Dai Li clenched his fists subconsciously. He really wanted to know who the athlete was!
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