Today, Mayor Shen did not appear at Qingdao Stadium, but came to Qingdao's pier to watch the swimming competition.

The sports meeting held in Qingdao has two more events than the sports meeting held in Jinan the previous year, namely swimming and national skills.

This is also what Mayor Chen is quite proud of. Mayor Chen hosted the North China Games in order to compete with Chairman Han from Shandong. Now Qingdao's North China Games have two more competition events than Jinan's North China Games, which can be regarded as comparing Chairman Han. Mayor Chen's vanity has been greatly satisfied.

Qingdao is located on the coast, and during the Republic of China period, Qingdao's sea bathing grounds were known as "the number one sea bathing ground in Asia". Of course, other coastal cities may not be worse than Qingdao, but due to the construction of Germans, Qingdao's various facilities are much better than other cities, so Qingdao can get the title of "the number one in Asia".

Today, this sea bath in Qingdao has become a natural venue for swimming competitions.

The swimming competition stadium is located on the west side of the pier. The waves here are not big, so it is more suitable for swimming competitions. The weather in July is already hot, and the sea temperature in Qingdao is also very suitable for swimming.

There was no constant temperature swimming pool in that era. Most cities in the northern hemisphere are only suitable for swimming in summer, so the Olympics will be held in summer. If it is in other seasons, athletes can freeze into popsicles when they go into the water to swim. This is also because of this reason, before the emergence of the constant temperature swimming pool technology, the Olympics had never been held in the southern hemisphere.

Qingdao is close to the sea, so swimmers are also relatively strong. At the North China Sports Games, Qingdao team is indeed the best in swimming. For example, inland provinces, if there is no suitable place for swimming, they will definitely not be able to train excellent swimmers. However, places such as Liaoning, Tianjin, Hebei, etc. are located further north, and the sea water of the Bohai Bay is not as warm as the Yellow Sea, so swimmers are far less powerful than Qingdao.

This is also the reason why Mayor Chen added swimming events, which is to win gold medals for Qingdao team.

At this time, Mayor Chen was watching the women's freestyle competition. Qingdao's female swimming numbers lived up to expectations and had just won the top three women's 50-meter freestyle, which made Mayor Chen feel very happy.

In China in the 1930s, feudal ideas were still strong, and women wearing swimsuits in public were undoubtedly an impact on the old traditions. In the eyes of those conservative people, women wearing swimsuits with arms and thighs exposed and swaggering in broad daylight, which was simply obscene and slutty and watery poplar. If they were placed in certain places, women who dared to wear them like this might be soaked in pig cages.

It is also for this reason that women's swimming at that time could only develop in relatively open coastal cities, such as Shanghai, Guangzhou and Qingdao. In other cities, their ideas were open enough and they were not as suitable for swimming. They were more conservative in their ideas.

In today's women's swimming competition, the trestle was filled with spectators, especially male spectators. Although they all acted like gentlemen who were not polite and looked hypocritical, in fact, when the female athletes in swimsuits appeared on the stage, they all stared at the graceful figure of the female athlete.

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Mayor Chen looked at the swimming competition venue with an enthusiastic look on his face, and was looking forward to the next competition event that Qingdao athletes could also win the championship.

At this moment, someone came over from afar and was a civilian secretary of the Qingdao Municipal Government.

The secretary found that Mayor Chen was in high spirits and did not dare to disturb Mayor Chen's Yaxing, so he could only stand aside and wait.

A moment later, Mayor Chen also saw the secretary standing not far away, so he called him close and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

The secretary whispered: "Mayor, on the sports field, Chen Qiang won the championship in the three events of rice and triple jump!"

The surprise flashed in Mayor Chen's eyes, and then he asked, "Isn't the triple-level long jump competition held at the same time as the 200 meters? Can Chen Qiang still be a clone!"

"Report to the mayor, after Chen Qiang ran 200 meters, he took advantage of the 400 meters that he had not started yet, and then went to 400 meters again. But what we didn't expect was that Chen Qiang jumped so once and won the championship." The secretary paused and continued, "Mayor, we really don't know that we can win the championship even if we jumped once. We thought we had to jump every time."

The secretary introduced the process of the competition in detail. When he learned that the plan to consume Chen Qiang's physical strength was useless, Mayor Chen's face was already a little embarrassed. When the secretary talked about it, Chen Qiang took advantage of the gap between rice and just jumped once and won the championship of the triple jump. Mayor Chen felt even more depressed.

It was like a hunter who used food as temptation to set up a trap and wanted to catch prey, but in the end it was not only that he did not catch the prey, but instead the food used for temptation was eaten by the prey.

"A bunch of waste!" Mayor Chen cursed angrily, and continued: "I don't even understand the rules, and I'll trip others up!"

At this moment, Mayor Chen's good mood had disappeared without a trace.

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In the subsequent 100-meter preliminary round, semi-finals, Chen Qiang still advanced without any suspense.

On the third day of the competition, the 100-meter final and the long jump final were held at the same time. After Chen Qiang won the 100-meter championship, he ran to the long jump pool again. He only tried to jump and locked the championship in advance.

Chen Qiang once again used the technique of standing up and flew, which also made many long jumpers on the scene envious.

So far, Chen Qiang has won five championships and has also won 25 points for the Shandong team.

After that, Chen Qiang will participate in two team events, namely the 4-by-100-meter relay race and the 4-by-400-meter relay race.

Relay races require cooperation among athletes.

For example, in a 4-by-100-meter race, it is a great result to be able to achieve an advantage of 0.1 seconds while running on the track. However, if you don’t cooperate very skillfully when handing over the baton, it may cost the athlete 0.2 seconds.

By the same token, athletes cannot surpass their opponents on the track, but a perfect match can achieve the goal of surpassing them.

In the 4-by-100-meter competition in the future Asian Games, only one of the four players of the Thai team barely reached the level of the Olympic B-target, while the four players of the Japanese team all had the Olympic A-target level. As a result, the Thai team defeated the Japanese team, which was the victory of team cooperation. Although Thai athletes were much worse than Japanese athletes in terms of personal ability, every time the baton was handed over, the Thai team could recover the gap between 0.1 and 0.2 seconds through cooperation, and they eventually won the game.

Of course, if the strength gap is too large, no matter how exquisite the cooperation is, it is useless. For example, when the Thai team meets the American team, the American team has an absolute advantage in sprinting strength. The athlete's personal ability is much stronger than that of Thailand. This gap in hard power cannot be made up for cooperation.

The relay races in the 1930s did not pay attention to cooperation when handing over the baton. The relay race players all relied on their own personal abilities to compete. It was also for this reason that the relay races were very bad at that time. For competitions like the North China Sports Games, if you run for 46 seconds by 100 meters, you can almost win the championship.

What is the concept of 46 seconds? Chen Qiang's score when he broke the 400-meter world record in the Olympics was 45.9 seconds, which means that Chen Qiang's complete range of 400 meters was faster than the four people running one 100 meters each. In this way, Chen Qiang's three teammates were more like a burden to slow down Chen Qiang's speed.

Chen Qiang didn't know the other three people from the Shandong team before coming to Qingdao, and did not conduct running-in training with each other.

"If I were given a week in advance and asked me to do some cooperation training for these three people, my grades would be improved by at least one second." Chen Qiang said in his heart.

However, Chen Qiang thought again that the players of the Shandong team did not conduct running-in training, and the same was true for other participating teams. In this era, athletes did not know how to cooperate with the relay races, so everyone was on the same starting line.

The leader of the Shandong team came forward, first encouraged him, and then said to Chen Qiang: "Chen Qiang, you are the fastest, so you can run the last shot."

Generally speaking, among the 100-meter relay in the 4 cities, the fastest person will run the last bat and be responsible for crossing the finish line. The Shandong team leader also plans to hand over this important task to Chen Qiang.

Chen Qiang thought for a while, but shook his head. He said, "I'd better run the third ball."

"Why? Your speed is the fastest." The leader asked subconsciously.

"The distance runs by the third stick is the longest. If I run the third stick, I can also take advantage of my speed. Moreover, I run the corners stronger than others." Chen Qiang replied.

In the 4-by-100-meter race, before handing over the baton, the athlete responsible for taking over the baton does not stand still and take over the baton and start running. Instead, when the player handing over the baton is approaching, the player handing over the baton performs a distance run-up in advance, first increase his speed, and then complete the handing over the baton during the run, which saves time. Therefore, dividing the total score of 4-by-100-meters by four is definitely better than the personal 100-meter score, because there will be a running-up process before handing over the baton.

It is also for this reason that the distance each person runs is different. For example, the first player does not need to take over the baton, and the fourth player does not need to hand over the baton, so the distance they run must be closer than the third player.

The player in charge of the third ball has to take over and hand over the baton. In addition, he runs on a curve, so his running distance is also the longest among the four players.

The athlete in charge of the second base runs in a straight line, so he will take over the baton later and hand over the baton earlier. Therefore, the running distance of the second base athlete is the shortest among the four players.

Chen Qiang's speed is much faster than other players, so he came to the third ball with the longest distance, which was to maximize his speed advantage.

At the same time, Chen Qiang's curve skills are far beyond this era. Letting him run a curve is equivalent to making his strengths more utilized, which will further expand the advantage of speed.

The team leader thought about it carefully and Chen Qiang was right, and Chen Qiang was the real thigh of the Shandong team. Chen Qiang had a request, and the team leader was embarrassed to refuse, so he agreed and asked Chen Qiang to take charge of the third path with the longest distance.

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The 4-by-100-meter preliminary race has begun.

In Chen Qiang's opinion, the strength of the other three players in the Shandong team is quite good. Although they are not as good as the top domestic athletes like Liu Changchun, they are also considered to be mid-to-high-level in this North China Games.

The situation in Shandong has been relatively stable in recent years, which has also promoted the development of education to a certain extent. As the education industry develops, the sports industry will naturally develop. Therefore, the athlete level of Shandong team has been improved by a higher level than two years ago.

Soon, the first and second players completed their respective competitions, and the baton was handed over to Chen Qiang.

Chen Qiang did not keep this time. After all, he was the "thigh" of the Shandong team. The Shandong team was counting on him in this 4-by-100-meter game, so Chen Qiang did not dare to neglect and directly used all his strength.

Chen Qiang's strength is much stronger than others. In just such a curve, he can get one second faster than the other third lane. This means that even if each of the other three players in the Shandong team are 0.3 seconds slower than others, the Shandong team will eventually have a 0.1 second lead.

If it were someone else, 100 meters was one second faster than others, which sounded incredible, but Chen Qiang was the world record holder after all, and his best result for 100 meters was 10 seconds 2. In this era, 100 meters was only one second slower than Chen Qiang, and it is estimated that he could count with five fingers.

So in this preliminary round, Shandong team easily advanced.

In the next 4 by 400 meters, Chen Qiang was responsible for the fourth bat and still easily led the Shandong team to successfully advance.

As mentioned before, the 400-meter athletes of this era can be considered fast if they run for 56 seconds. The 400-meter world record held by Chen Qiang is ten seconds faster than this, which means that each of the other three athletes of the Shandong team can spend 3 seconds.

Even if the Shandong team's players are poor, they cannot be three seconds slower each.

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After a night of rest, the North China Games ushered in its last day of competition. On this day, Chen Qiang was going to lead Shandong to compete for the championship in two relay events.

The first thing to start was the 4-by-100-meter final. In addition to the Shandong team, there are also Beiping, Hebei and the host Qingdao team.

What surprised Chen Qiang was that the Liaoning team led by Liu Changchun did not enter the finals and was eliminated in the preliminary round.

At the North China Games two years ago, Liaoning was the team with the strongest sprinting strength. However, with the fall of the Northeast, college students in the Northeast had to retreat to Peiping and began a life of living under others. Daily study and training were not guaranteed, and some people even chose to stay in the Northeast, which made the overall strength of the Northeast team very significantly decline.

In the entire Liaoning team, Liu Changchun is the only one who can run, and the other three are weak, and Liu Changchun does not have the strength of Chen Qiang. His teammates are really too dragged, so the Liaoning team did not enter the finals.

The result of this game was similar to yesterday's preliminary round. When the third bat was completed, with Chen Qiang's outstanding performance, the Shandong team had a huge advantage. The player in the last bat of Shandong team was not much worse than other teams, and the advantage was smoothly maintained to the finish line. The Shandong team won another championship.

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In the 4-by-400m final, Chen Qiang was responsible for the last bat.

The first two sticks have ended. At this time, the third stick is running on the track, and Chen Qiang has already entered the relay zone. However, a hint of anxiety flows out of Chen Qiang's face.

"The Shandong team is a lot behind!" Chen Qiang said in his heart.

In fact, to be precise, the Peking team, which ranked first, should be a bit ahead.

The Shandong team is currently in third place, and the gap between him and second place is not big, but the first-place Peking team is far ahead.

Although the Peking team does not have the "super thigh" like Chen Qiang, the overall strength of the four athletes is very good, and it is stronger than the average level.

This is like Tian Ji's horse racing. Chen Qiang of Shandong team is a top-class horse with three low-class horses in the competition, while the Peking team is four medium-class horses in the competition. Before Chen Qiang, the top-class horse, appeared, three low-class horses are naturally not the opponent of the medium-class horses.

The Peking athlete next to Chen Qiang began to hand over the baton, while the third player of the Shandong team's team was still on the way.

It was also at this time that Chen Qiang counted seconds silently in his heart.

"One, two, three, four..." When Chen Qiang counted to "five", the third batsman of Shandong team finally ran closer and handed over the baton.

"I fell behind for more than five seconds, and I looked less than six seconds, and I could still catch up with it with my hard work!" Although Chen Qiang knew that he was already a little behind, he did not give up.

The audience in the stands had already begun to whisper.

"The Peiping team won, and has already led so much, and it is impossible for those behind to catch up."

"Not necessarily, there is also Shandong team and Chen Qiang!"

"I'm more than 30 meters behind, even Chen Qiang can't catch up!"
To be continued...