The Sydney Olympic Games has attracted athletes and tourists from all over the world. They must have a lot of valuable things on them. However, in the face of "gold and silver are precious", Sydney, as the host, has the opposite performance: some people steal the athletes' entry documents, and some people quickly find the owner after picking up the Olympic medals.
According to Sydney police, four days ago, an Australian boxer was stolen from the National Flag Square in the Olympic Village. On Friday, when he went to watch the women's basketball game, he found a photo of him on the chest of a nearby audience. The 27-year-old thief recognized his master and ran away. After a chase between the boxer and the Australian judo players present, the thief living in Sydney was finally caught.
Taylor, an Australian female rower, is much luckier. After winning the silver medal on Wednesday, she hurried downtown to attend the carnival in the evening. But when she arrived at her destination, she accidentally left her medal in the taxi. After discovering that she lost her medal, she called the police and called all taxi companies in Sydney to ask. While she was busy, a taxi driver delivered the medal to her door. It turned out that he found this medal under the back seat when he was cleaning the car.
iron will
On the highest podium of the 4× 200m freestyle relay and the 4×100m medley relay, there are four Americans, one of whom is a hero highly praised by the audience, that is Jeff? Farrell. One month before the Olympic Games, he got acute appendicitis. Three days before the operation, he just broke the national records of 100 meter and 200 meter freestyle. On the sixth day after the operation, he will also participate in the Olympic trials. At this burning moment, Farrell was extremely anxious. The strong-willed Farrell did leg and abdominal muscle exercises and stretching exercises in the hospital bed the day after the operation, that is, with the careful guidance and help of the coach. Every time I pull an unhealed wound, it hurts like an arrow through my heart. Sweat oozed from his forehead. Farrell was not haunted by illness. His action touched the doctor's kind heart, and the doctor made an exception and agreed to let him go into the water for training. The doctor sprayed a viscous liquid around his wound and wrapped it with a waterproof bandage to prevent infection.
Six days later, Farrell appeared in Beach's trial. He beat other contestants with extraordinary perseverance and won the right to the final of 100 meter freestyle. On the eighth day after the operation, he took part in the 200-meter freestyle final. He rowed forward desperately, surpassing three opponents in one breath and finishing fourth in 2 minutes and 4.6 seconds. Twenty days later, in the Olympic swimming competition, Farrell cooperated with three teammates to break the world records of 4× 100 meter medley relay and 4× 200m freestyle relay. When the audience learned Farrell's story from the narrator, no one was surprised by his success.
Special magic towel for diving
A careful audience will find such a small phenomenon. In diving competition, Japanese athletes always throw a small towel before taking off, and this towel is the secret weapon developed by Japanese sports experts for their own athletes-"magic towel". It turned out that the Japanese found in their research that the water droplets attached to divers would lower their body temperature, which would lead to the decline of their sports ability. To this end, Japan specially developed this "magic towel" for their Olympic diving team to keep the athletes fresh.
According to reports, this towel is made of 100% synthetic resin, which has super water absorption capacity. No matter how wet it is, it dries when it is twisted. Players have to try many times before the game, and towels are generally not suitable. In fact, as early as 1976 Olympic Games, Nordic athletes used the "magic towel", but it was made of deerskin. Japan was inspired and developed into the present "magic towel".
The mystery of rice
In 1950s, the Japanese men's gymnastics team achieved excellent results, which attracted people's attention. Some people think that Japanese people used to sit cross-legged on the floor when they entered the house, which activated flexible trainees. Some European experts believe that it is because Japan likes to eat rice, as if rice contains nutrients that are particularly useful for gymnastics. During the 1956 16 Olympic Games, people who hold this view have even talked about it. Even quoted a "secret story" when the Japanese team participated in the World Cup two years ago. On the morning of the game, the Japanese team didn't go to the restaurant for dinner. Before the game, people thought that the Japanese team was trying to control their weight, but I heard that the Japanese team had a special meal of rice in the dormitory. As a result, the Japanese team approached the Soviet team for the first time and won the second place in the group. Don't you know, this is not because of eating rice. It turned out that the Japanese team was personally cooked in the dormitory by the head Goto and the director Yuanshan, and held a traditional Japanese national "forced food party" to boost morale.
The gold medal of the admission ticket.
In the high jump competition of 16 Olympic Games, 19-year-old American black player Duma won the championship, but this gold medal was hard-won. Because he danced like a forest at that time, he barely passed the American trials before the Olympic Games, and the coach of the American team didn't take him seriously at all. When he took part in the high jump, he couldn't find a team leader and coach, and the doorman at the stadium didn't believe that he would be an athlete. It's no use saying good or bad. He was in such a hurry that he had to buy his own ticket before going in. After entering the stadium, he found that the high jump competition was about to begin. He threw himself into the game without any preparation. In the end, he won the championship with a score of 2.12m and broke the world record. A ticket was exchanged for 1 gold medal, which was passed down as a sports story.
"Record-breaking" Olympic Games
The Sydney Olympic Games has many ancient records. In addition to athletes frequently setting new world records in competitions, many of them were rewritten by the host.
The unprecedented popularity of Olympic tickets fully reflects the high enthusiasm of Australians. The sales rate of up to 90% not only keeps Sydney's name in the Olympic history forever, but also makes them earn an unprecedented A $780 million in one breath.
Sydney Olympic Committee President Michael? Knight said on Sunday: "Australians are fully committed to this Olympic Games, which makes it so incredible. They really deserve a gold medal. "
What makes Australians proud is television broadcasting. There are 220 countries and regions in the world that broadcast this Millennium sports event, six more than Atlanta, which has the largest population in history. Someone joked that everyone on the planet who has a TV set watched the game.
During the Sydney Olympic Games, the Internet was also very popular. Only official website, the organizing committee, has an astonishing 9 billion hits, much higher than the 634 million hits of 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.
According to Knight, Australians originally wanted to use this opportunity to create a new high of receiving 5 million tourists a year. Although this record has not been broken, the organizers are quite satisfied with the tourism revenue. Just the Olympic souvenir business, they earned 420 million Australian dollars.
"Super Fat" Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
In weightlifting above 90kg, I only saw a short and chubby athlete, weighing 172kg. Move towards the barbell like a "mountain", stretch out your round arms to a maximum of 60 cm thick, and grab the barbell. He is the "super fat" Anderson in America. At this time, he was suffering from otitis media, and a small ear disease made the "giant" very distressed and haggard. But in the competition, he still tied for the first place with the Argentine "giant" Steve with a total score of 500 kilograms. After the game, he weighed himself again. He lost 27 kilograms of fat because of his ear disease. In the end, the gold medal belongs to him.
Act of the program, good moths also join in the fun.
On Sunday, just as the performance of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games was fascinating, a group of fat and furry moths were unwilling to be lonely, and they flew onto the stage like a flood, which was likely to perform with the actors on the same stage.
When Australian soprano yvonne? When Kenny sang to the climax of the Olympic anthem, an oversized moth landed on her pink evening dress. The other took the white shirt of IOC President Samaranch as a cover.
These moths have brought a lot of trouble to the Sydney Olympic Games. They are on their way to the snow-capped mountains, and the bright lights of the Olympic Village attracted them, so these insects also came to experience the rare ceremony of the Millennium Olympic Games.
Predictions and facts about the Sydney Olympic Games
2003-09- 16 18: 15:00
Before this Olympic Games, people made various predictions about the situation of the Sydney Olympic Games based on the experience of previous Olympic Games. But Sydney seems to be a city that likes to surprise people, so let's see what the facts are.
Prediction 1: Traffic jam
Fact: Sydney's developed railway line has helped a lot, and most Sydney citizens have listened to the government's arrangement and traveled to the competition venues by means of transportation. But there are exceptions Because the equestrian field is far away from the urban area, the audience watching the equestrian competition thought that there would be no problem driving to such a remote place, so everyone drove private cars. The China women's softball team has also become a big traffic jam.
Forecast 2: Airport power failure, baggage conveyor belt out of control and air congestion, flights have to be dispersed in nearby cities.
Fact: Although Sydney International Airport was blacked out twice in August, it stood the test at a really critical moment. There is no error record on the baggage carousel. The number of flights taking off and landing at Sydney International Airport is also less than the original forecast of 1 000. The busiest day is September14,980 flights. However, the gas leak frightened many people.
Prediction 3: Taxi drivers are unwilling to start work.
Fact: As South Wales allowed taxi drivers to raise their prices by 65,438+00% during the Olympic Games, their enthusiasm for work seems to have increased. Telephone reservations for taxi services reach 200,000 times a week. However, taxis can only be seen in cities. Like where we live, taking a taxi is more difficult than going to heaven, so we can only take the bus. If you want to book tickets by telephone, you should call at least 30 minutes before departure. I once had a mixed-race driver from Nepal and China who left me his phone number, but I haven't tried to find him yet, because it's really not cheap to take a taxi in Sydney.
Prediction 4: Spring Influenza Epidemic in Sydney
Fact: Because of this prediction, I had a flu shot before I left. After coming here, although I have met people who have the flu, it is still a minority. The health department of South Wales has not found any influenza virus spreading in Sydney recently. But the pollen here is a little uncomfortable, maybe it's a little allergic, and I always feel itchy all over; My eyes are very uncomfortable. Red all day, and eye drops are not good. According to local people, this is also one of the symptoms of pollen allergy.
When the Olympic venues run out, the borrowed seats will be removed and returned to France.
Although the Olympics were beautiful, many Olympic facilities will bid farewell to Sydney as soon as the Olympics are over. Take the seats in the stadium as an example. After the Olympic Games, half of the seats will have to cross the ocean and return to France by sea.
In order to save money, many things in this Olympic Games are "borrowed". According to the official in charge of the architectural design of the Olympic Park, many venues in this Olympic Games are temporary, such as the volleyball hall is an entertainment center, the weightlifting hall is a conference center, the fencing hall is an exhibition center, and the badminton hall is actually an agricultural exhibition hall. Most of the auditoriums here are temporary. Because there are not so many chairs in Australia, and the newly produced ones are worried that they can't be disposed of after the Olympic Games, smart Australians think of renting them. These 50,000 or 60,000 chairs were rented from distant France, and will be removed and shipped back to France after the game. Temporary things are not just venues and seats. All air-conditioning systems in the Olympic Park are rented from the United States and will be returned to their original owners after the games.
The Dutch player won the gold medal without forgetting her husband.
2003-09- 16 16:09:00
Xinhuanet Beijing, September 26 th Dutch cyclist Zilard has been seeking the road to success. After winning the gold medal in this Olympic Games, she has a new understanding of success: firstly, living a good life, and secondly, riding a bike.
Today, after winning her second gold medal, she said, "My husband Peter taught me this, and he has been with me. This is the secret of my success. " Zilad was the world champion in 9 1 and 93, and then she suffered from eating disorder. In two years, her weight dropped to 48 kilograms, which made her very weak. With the help of her husband and family, she got out of trouble. She won the world-class cycling race again in 1998.
Today's Zillard is brand new. At the age of 30, she never left her husband's words: "Peter taught me the importance of relaxing when playing hard games." He accompanied me shopping and ate my favorite food. He taught me how to relax, which is extremely important to me. I am very relaxed. "
Before winning the gold medal in today's119.7km road race, she had already won the gold medal in the women's 3000m individual chase in this Olympic Games and broke the world record. She said that she would continue to compete for medals in future competitions.
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