During the Republic of China, there was a National Sports Association of China. This Association of China was established in 1910 and was the leading organization of national sports at that time.

As early as 1928, the National Sports Association decided to hold the Fourth National Games in October 1929, and the venue was determined to be Guangzhou.

However, as the strength of the Nanjing National Government grew, the status of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols also rose. Under pressure from the Nanjing side and Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols, the date of the National Games was postponed to April 1, 1930, and the venue also became Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

The first National Games in Old China were held by foreigners, the second National Games were held by non-governmental organizations, and the third National Games was held by Beiyang warlords. Therefore, the fourth National Games, the first National Games organized by the Nanjing government, so Nanjing attached great importance to this National Games, and even spared huge sums of money to build a sports field.

Moreover, this National Games is the first time that localities are allowed to openly select athletes.

In the previous National Games in Old China, the contestants were all students, and they were all students from Western schools.

Modern Chinese sports have been made from nothing, and church schools have made great contributions. For example, the First National Games of Old China was hosted by a church in Nanjing. The famous St. John's University dominated the top three list of the first National Games.

In the early 20th century, ordinary people had no idea about sports, and only Western schools offered physical education courses. It was impossible for old-style schools that taught "Zhihu" to have physical education courses.

After the May Fourth Movement, Western education was promoted on a large scale, and physical education classes gradually entered various campuses. Most of the people who know sports were people who had gone to school, and they were all students from good families.

Their family has money and doesn't have to work hard for food, clothing, housing and transportation. They naturally have time to engage in various sports. If they are ordinary peddlers, they will be very sleepy in supporting their families and will definitely not waste their time on the stadium.

So whether it is the National Games, the Local North China Games, the East China Games, or the International Far East athletes, the participants are all students, or returnees from Southeast Asia.

Only students could participate in sports meetings, which became an unwritten rule at that time.

By the Far East Games held in 1927, this restriction was finally lifted. The reason for the cancellation of this restriction was not that the general public could participate in sports, but because many outstanding students in sports had graduated. In order to allow these graduates to participate in the competition, the rule that only students could participate was cancelled.

The 4th National Games in 1930 made progress in the mechanism of selecting athletes. In addition to allowing citizens from all walks of life to register, local generals held selection competitions to select athletes participating in the National Games.

Using long jumpers in the selection competition is obviously a fairer method. In the future, Americans will use this method to select athletes. No matter how powerful you have been, it is not counted as many world records you have set, and honestly participate in the selection competition. The selection competition cannot be out of the line, and even the world record holder cannot participate in the Olympics.

But in this era, who do farmers or workers know about sports? The peddlers and pawns at the grassroots level don’t even know the words “big”.

Therefore, the so-called "professional, peasant, industrial and commercial enterprises" can register for participation, but it is just a slogan. The final sign-up is still students from various schools.

Chen Qiang even felt that the rules that allow peddlers to sign up for the competition were simply tailor-made for him. In addition to Chen Qiang, which peddlers can stand on the National Games!

Of course, Chen Qiang must first pass the Shanghai selection competition.

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In order to participate in the National Games selection competition, Chen Qiang formulated a more comprehensive training plan for himself.

Previously, Chen Qiang took over the task of running 100 meters and earning 100 points, but now Chen Qiang started to take over the task of running a 42.195-kilometer marathon in 24 hours, because this task can earn 500 points.

When Chen Qiang was a newspaper boy, he could not run 42 kilometers in a day. Now he is a coachman, and the distance he runs is much larger, but he can still run less than 42 kilometers in a day.

It is impossible for the coachman to run from morning to night. In many cases, they will wait for business in fixed locations, and Chen Qiang is even more so. Because he speaks foreign languages, he often goes to Licha Hotels, French Guild Halls and other places where foreigners are densely occupied. He basically won't run around the streets aimlessly.

However, in order to be able to make a 42-kilometer journey, Chen Qiang deliberately increased the distance to ensure that he could run these 42-kilometers every day and get 500 points.

After all, this 42-kilometer mission has a time limit. If Chen Qiang runs within 24 hours, the mileage he had run before would be wasted.

Running 42 kilometers with a cart is a great energy consumption. Chen Qiang is also as tired as a dog every day. Fortunately, such days will not last too long, because the Lunar New Year is coming soon, and Chen Qiang can also take a few days off at that time.

Chen Qiang also strengthened his food.

Eggs and meat are necessary every day. Every two or three days, Chen Qiang will buy a fish and come back to stew it. He can't afford beef, and eating fish can also replenish the nutrition well.

In addition, some marine shellfish animals are also the main content of Chen Qiang’s recipes. Shellfish seafood in this era is not expensive, including oysters, mussels, sea rainbows, various clams, etc. There are many on the market.

As for vegetables, there are not so many greenhouse vegetables in this era. People can only afford to eat radish, cabbage and bean sprouts in winter. If kelp is considered vegetables, you can also make up the numbers.

Bean products are still the main source of protein for Chen Qiang to obtain, including tofu, shredded tofu, tofu skin, bean intestines, bean tendons, bean curd, etc. Chen Qiang eats it in a variety of ways every day. Whenever he tastes these bean products, Chen Qiang can't help but praise his ancestors and invents how to eat so many bean products.

In addition, Chen Qiang also purchased a set of sportswear and a pair of sports shoes.

In the 1920s, some sports goods manufacturers had appeared in China. In addition to sportswear, domestic companies could also produce sports shoes, and some leather factories could also produce football and basketball. So in the 1920s and 1930s, if the Jiangnan leather factory went bankrupt, not only would the whole venue be 20 yuan and 20 yuan, but even basketball and football were 20 yuan and 20 yuan.

As for the nail shoes used for sprinting, they were considered high-end sports equipment at that time. The domestic market demand was too small, so they needed to go to a shoe factory to customize it. Or they just went to a foreign company to buy imported goods. This high-end sports equipment is all American, and it is expensive. A pair of nail shoes costs more than 20 yuan, which Chen Qiang could not afford.

The monthly salary of ordinary people in old Shanghai was only 20 yuan. If you spend more than a month's salary to buy a pair of nail shoes for running, it was probably like buying a pair of Nike air cushion basketball shoes in the 1990s.

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In a blink of an eye, December passed and Chen Qiang ushered in 1930.

As the twelfth lunar month enters, the people start to buy New Year's goods. After the New Year's Eve, the number of pedestrians on the road gradually decreases. The small business vendors who do business have been busy for a year. At this time, they all go home for the New Year and the school has already had winter vacation.

As the end of the year approached, some commercial banks and foreign companies closed their doors, and the shops opened by Chinese people on the road were all the same. At this time, only the casinos and cigarette pipes were still open, and even the place where flowers and willows were searching for flowers and willows began to close.

Chen Qiang's business must have been greatly affected. Everyone has gone home for the New Year, and fewer people have taken the bus.

So Chen Qiang simply stopped going out to pull the cart, so he stayed at home, then entered the training space, and began to make the final sprint for the National Games selection.

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In the training space.

Chen Qiang crossed the finish line of the 100-meter sprint, and the electronic timer showed Chen Qiang's results this time.

"11 seconds 22, this is the electronic timing score. If it is replaced by a manual meter, it will be subtracted by 0.24 seconds, which means that my current manual meter score has reached less than 11 seconds!"

Chen Qiang's face showed joy.

A few months ago, when he was in Fudan High School, his score was still 12 seconds, and just over three months later, his score improved to 11 seconds.

You should know that the higher the level of the 100-meter sprint, the more difficult it is to improve your grades. It only takes three months from 12 seconds, 2 to 11 seconds, which is also a very amazing progress in later generations.

Of course, Chen Qiang has room for training. If calculated based on ten times the training time, Chen Qiang's progress speed is not ideal.

Multiplying three months by ten means thirty months. If it is in later generations, it takes a certain athlete thirty months to improve his grade from 12 seconds 2 to 11 seconds, and the coach will give up such a talented athlete directly.

This is also impossible. The physical fitness of Chinese people in this era is definitely not as good as that of later generations. Moreover, Chen Qiang was in a state of malnutrition before, so the training effect must be unsatisfactory.

Chen Qiang is still very satisfied with this result.

"In the 11 seconds of hand-making, China in this era should be able to defeat everyone except Liu Changchun! At least no one in Shanghai is my opponent. I will definitely be able to qualify for the March trial!"

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Chapter completed!