Chapter 42
Li Tian ignored everyone's low voices. After tidying up his sportswear and the weight bag on his legs, he began to jog in circles.
"Hans, I think that Li Tian is nothing special! It must be far behind you. Among the three participating events he has applied for, you can participate in the 1500 meters! I don't believe that he has obtained the qualification for recommendation from the academy based on his own strength, and your 1500 meters will lose to him." A young man named Hayes said to a young man beside him who stared at Li Tian's every move with his eyes.
"That's right, except for being a little handsomer than me, I can't see anything extraordinary about him, but it's really unpleasant that he can qualify like us without participating in the on-campus selection. I have the confidence to never lose to him in the 1500 meters." Hans said with a confident look.
"That's it! Why can we get the participation information only if we work hard in the selection competition, and he can get the recommendation qualification for nothing. Is it because he is a 'special recruitment'? If he doesn't show some strength, it will really make us dissatisfied." Hayes' dissatisfied voice aroused the recognition of many people around him. They tried their best in the school selection competition to get such an entry qualification.
In fact, Professor Bard gave Li Tian a few recommendation qualifications to Li Tian. On the one hand, he affirmed Li Tian's strength, and on the other hand, he wanted to protect the confidence of other contestants participating in the school selection. As the person who understands Li Tian the most in Germany, the professor certainly knew that Li Tian's scores had reached the international level. Although Germany is also a world-class track and field power, his advantages are concentrated in strength events and his level is average in running events. The gap between ordinary contestants in the academy and Li Tian would be even bigger. If Li Tian, who had been desperate for competitions for nearly half a year, went to participate in the school selection, the huge gap between the scores would undoubtedly be a kind of self-confidence to other contestants.
"Hans, do you want to figure out his strength? I have a way."
"What method?" Hans is a straightforward person. He will say it directly if he doesn't agree with it. He can only stand here after hard trial competitions. For the Chinese boy who gets nothing for nothing, he certainly thinks Li Tian's incompetence and is eager to confirm his thoughts. Hans can't stand the huge possibility that someone will embarrass the academy during the competition.
"You are the one who challenges him on our behalf and personally test his strength and compete. If he can beat you, we will all accept his recommendation qualifications. If he loses to you, it means that his level is not better than those of us. We collectively ask the college to eliminate his recommendation qualifications."
"But Hayes, can you guarantee that he will compete with me? What if he refuses me?" Although he is straight, he also knows that being rejected by his opponent in person is a shameful thing.
"Don't worry, let's all propose to understand the strength level of teammates. He is not easy to refuse, nor will he refuse. You don't understand those Orientals yet." Hayes affirmed.
Hayes said it well, Li Tian would not refuse, nor could he refuse. He just heard the comments of these players intermittently while warming up, and was quite dissatisfied with the fact that he was qualified for the competition without participating in the selection competition. Some people with racial prejudice expressed extreme contempt for him and the Chinese.
Li Tian is not a person who is afraid of trouble. He is young and energetic and has never lost, and he is not afraid of the challenges of players of Hans' level. He also has a reason to accept, that is, he is a Chinese. As an international student from China, his performance in a foreign country represents not only himself, but also represents the honor of the 1.3 billion Chinese and the motherland behind him. In order to maintain the dignity of the Chinese and change the views of these people towards the Chinese, Li Tian must not retreat. He not only wants to win, but also win appropriately. After all, this is Germany, and he also has to fully consider the emotions of German students. What happened half a year ago made him mature a lot and think more thoughtfully in all aspects. So when Hans asked him for a challenge, Li Tian agreed readily.
A good show that was about to be staged attracted everyone present. Even the four German track and field teams who had just entered the gym stopped warming up and wanted to carefully observe Li Tian's true level to solve the doubts that had been left in his heart for a long time, because as a "special recruitment" and qualified as a college, Li Tian's grades in his usual training were not ideal, and his level was only equivalent to an excellent amateur player, which made the four of them very incomprehensible.
"Wait a minute, I'll challenge you too!" Just as Li Tian and Hans were doing the final warm-up, a guy who was only about 1.6 meters tall and as thin as a monkey jumped out and pointed at Li Tiandao.
"Japanese?" He also has black hair and yellow skin, but his whole body is full of the arrogance and ignorance unique to Japanese people, which makes people extremely annoying. Li Tian was extremely disliked when he saw him at first sight.
"Not bad! I am the second place in the 1500-meter school selection competition, Tian Zhongyi said proudly. In recent years, Japanese track and field has made great progress, especially in men's events, which almost suppressed Chinese players, which made them always so arrogant in front of Chinese athletes. If it weren't for Liu Xiang's breakthrough in Asia's short-term events, I don't know when to make those Japanese proud, Tian Zhongyi would be so proud that he would have turned his nostrils up to the sky.
"You?..." Li Tian deliberately looked him up and down and continued, "You don't have that qualification yet. Have you seen the first place in the 1500-meter market standing here? If, what I said is, if you got the first place one day, maybe I would be kind and pity for you and give you a chance to study hard with me. But with your current height, I think this goal is really difficult to achieve, so I advise you to go back to Japan first and drink a few more glasses of milk and make up for it.
Calcium, let's talk about it after a few centimeters. This will make you run faster. Now your legs are too short. How can a short-legged pig run a thousand-mile horse?" Li Tian's words made the people around him laugh. After looking at Tian Zhongyi who was blushing like a monkey's butt with extreme contempt, Li Tian walked away. He grew up listening to his grandfather's anti-Japanese stories and had a strong hatred for Japan. Of course, he was not polite to this "little Japanese" who was automatically sent to his door to insult him.
Chapter completed!