After a summer vacation, a classmate became an Olympic champion?

Chapter 40 What kind of opening action is this?

July 29, Paris time, 10 am.

Today is the day of the men's street skateboarding competition, with the preliminaries at 12 noon and the eight-person finals at 5 pm.

Chen Shu followed Yu Wenhao, Cai Xiaolei and others to the competition venue early in the morning; Cui Chenxi, Zeng Wenhui, Zhu Yuanling and Zheng Haohao sat in a row, acting as cheerleaders, and cheered for Chen Shu later.

Because, this is likely to be a gold medal for their skateboarding team.

Maybe everyone except them is not clear about this part.

At this time, the competition has not started yet, and the athletes can practice freely in the stadium.

After yesterday's explosion, many contestants are obviously very wary of Chen Shu; everyone looks at him strangely.

Although practice does not represent the final competition results, Chen Shu's strength is definitely obvious to all.

This is their biggest opponent for winning the award.

Hua La La!

Chen Shu wore headphones, immersed in the world of music, and skated casually; he did not show off his skills, but familiarized himself with the venue again, imagining the moves he would do in a while, several street-style tricks...

Time passed by, and the two commentators of CCTV were already in place.

Che Lin and Yuan Fei.

The former was called "the first skateboarder in China" for participating in the first Asian Indoor Games and winning the gold medal. He frequently participated in various skateboarding competitions at home and abroad and won the championship trophy many times.

And the latter Yuan Fei, nicknamed "Skateboard Saint Seiya", is the first host in the Chinese skateboarding world. He is also a special commentator of CCTV channel.

"Team, before the game starts, please popularize the history of skateboarding!"

"Okay, skateboarding was promoted in the last Tokyo Olympics!"

Before Che Lin came, he obviously did a lot of homework: "In addition to skateboarding, there are many sports that young people love, such as rock climbing and breakdancing!"

"As IOC President Bach said: We want to bring sports to today's young people, and these young people have many choices. We no longer expect them to embrace us, but we should go to them."

The trend of the Olympic movement's youth is unstoppable, and a new era of youth sports has quietly arrived.

Just like e-sports gradually joining the Olympics and holding the World Cup.

The world is catering to the young market.

Because ratings, derivative value, and sports industry depend on their promotion.

"Speaking of the origin of skateboarding, we have to mention another extreme sport - surfing!"

"In the 1950s, surfing swept the United States, but it was greatly affected by objective factors such as seasons and weather. It was not realistic to practice and compete in surfing all the time!"

"So there was a genius 'surfing enthusiast' who drained the water from the swimming pool and stepped on a 50*10*50 wooden board with wheels to play 'pool surfing'. This is the origin of skateboarding.The prototype of the sport is also an important reason for the skateboarding

‘Bowl’ project! ”

“After decades of development, skateboarding is not only a ‘substitute’ for surfing, but has also gradually become a favorite of young people around the world who pursue sunshine, freedom and enthusiasm.

They not only complete difficult moves in the bowl, use skateboards as a means of transportation, but also go to the streets, use railings, stairs, platforms and other natural props to complete various incredible and difficult moves, and thus develop three main ways of playing in the skateboarding project - bowl, freestyle, and street style!

”

“And the street style that is about to be held is also known as the extreme project of skateboarding, and the bowl style is more competitive!”

“Street style moves are known as the limit of skateboarding! ”

“…”

The two commentators were narrating, and the 2024 Paris Olympic Men’s Street Skateboarding Qualifying Competition officially began.

Chen Shu was the 12th to appear. There were 22 participants in total, divided into four groups.

Japan’s Horimie Yuto and Onodera Ginyun, and the United States’ Nia Houston were in the second group with Chen Shu; it could be called the death group.

So they could sit aside and watch the performances of others first.

Each group had to finish both modes before the next group could take their turn; that is to say, the later they went, the more pressure they actually had. Big, because the previous scores have basically come out.

Among the five judges responsible for scoring, there is a Chinese - Tian Jun.

The godfather of Chinese skateboarders, the promoter of domestic skateboarding, is well-known around the world.

The first group of players were warming up there, and the camera was also given to them.

Soon, the first skater from Australia, Sean O'Neill, started to play.

The first thing he had to do was to show off his skills around the field in 45 seconds.

Nollie reversed the skate + heelflip kick 36 0, nollie reverse skate + kickflip heel turn 360... After two simple professional moves, he started to do a difficult nollie reverse skate + cabalero flying 360!

It is to skate backwards on the skateboard with your back foot, and then turn 360 degrees with the skateboard. This skill is quite difficult.

Plop!

Sure enough, the player fell down.

But it doesn't matter, he can continue to do the moves, and if there are high-scoring moves later, he can still score.

It's a pity, Sean should be the first warm-up player. He was in a bad state. After falling three times in a row, he ended his chance to be timed in this round.

13.41 points!

A very low score.

It can be seen that Sean is still very dissatisfied. This player is very famous in the hearts of skateboard fans all over the world, especially in China.

But because he was the first to appear, some of them had not yet entered the feeling. If they were still like this in the second time around the field, they would get a low score. There were two chances in total for this link.

After the first round, the 6 players started the second attempt.

Just like this, one by one, the first group's timing scores were all released soon.

The highest score was an Argentine player, who scored 88.53 points!

This is a relatively high score in the first timing, and he completed it very well. Within 45 seconds of timing, there was only one mistake, and he also completed two difficult skills, which are all plus points.

"We see that the next one to play is the second group!"

"The second group has a young player from China, Chen Shu. He is only 13 years old this year. In the skateboard qualifying competition held in Shanghai in April, he won the first place and qualified for Paris. He defeated the world's number one Onodera Ginyun and the American number one master Eaton!"

"So he has the strength to hit the medal in this project!"

Yuan Fei said it quite tactfully. Che Lin on the side said: "But the skateboard project is changing rapidly. Even if you are the world's number one, you can't guarantee it. , he can advance by himself, because the error rate is very high, so we should not put pressure on Chen Shu! ”

“The players in his group are all very strong!”

“The first one we saw was the world’s number one in the current street skateboarding project, Onodera Ginyun!”

“He is 14 years old this year, but he began to shock the skateboarding world at the age of 10 and was hailed as a super genius. He won his first world championship at the age of 12. He is very strong and is a strong contender for the gold medal in this project!”

Before Che Lin finished his introduction, Onodera Ginyun had already skated out.

After three difficult moves, he pulled a big one, an aerial turn plus a 720 flip, and cracked the skateboard under his feet.

"Ah~~~"

Commentator Che Lin sighed regretfully: "Unfortunately, this round's results should be wasted!"

Time is very important in time trials. The more moves you complete, the more bonus points you get. If the skateboard is broken, you must change it, and basically there is not enough time.

So, he scored 49.5 in this round!

Then it was the American player Houston who came on stage. Che Lin praised him in the live broadcast room again. After all, this is the world's number one player of the same era as him, and his absolute idol back then; and then in this round, he pulled even more than Onodera Ginyun.

17.89 points!

The result made Che Lin's commentator silent for a full 10 seconds. Yuan Fei hurriedly said: "It's okay, there is still a second round!"

The players in the second group went on stage one by one. Perhaps because there was still one more time, they were holding back the idea of ​​challenging themselves. Many of them were doing high-difficulty; except for the defending champion Horimi Yuto who was ahead of Chen Shu, he passed the timing very stably with 0 mistakes.

89.72 points!

Currently the first in the timing link.

"This is the stability of the defending champion. Horimi Yuto may not be the strongest among them, but he is definitely the most stable veteran!"

Che Lin was bragging again. Yuan Fei next to him looked at Chen Shu who was about to go on stage and hurriedly"Next, the young player from China, Chen Shu, will be on the stage!"

"Let's cheer for him!"

"Chen Shu completed two 720 moves in the last qualifying round. If he can complete it this time, he can also get a high score of over 80!"

Che Lin recovered immediately and began to focus on Chen Shu's performance.

At this moment, all the audience and players in the venue were also focused on Chen Shu; the audience was watching the game, they didn't know Chen Shu's strength, but the players wanted to see what kind of difficult moves Chen Shu could complete in this official game.

Every player was worried and looking forward to it, worried that Chen Shu was too fierce and his moves were too explosive; and the expectation was whether Chen Shu would be awesome; some people even had a trace of evil expectations in their hearts, hoping that Chen Shu would fall, and if he broke the skateboard, it would be even better.

Jagger, who was insulted by Chen Shu yesterday before he even went on stage, thought so. He looked a little nervous and tense, and pursed his lips as he looked at Chen Shu standing in front of the starting platform.

Chen Shu did not start skating directly, but looked at Horimi Yuto, Onodera Ginyun and others in the same group, and Jagger, who had not yet competed, and suddenly smiled.

The next second, when these people did not know why Chen Shu was laughing, they saw Chen Shu put down the skateboard.

"Oh, shit!"

Jagger screamed, and Che Lin was stunned for a moment as he looked at Chen Shu jumping up from the starting platform.

What kind of opening action is this?