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Chapter 460 IMO kicks off

The team leader, Wang Mo, and the others set off for Zurich. He went ahead of schedule to hold a team leader meeting and arrange accommodation for the subsequent delegation. Of course, the most important thing was to hand over the IMO competition questions that Huaguo had created to the organizers and the team. International Mathematical Olympiad Association.

The test questions for the IMO exam are submitted by each participating country. The host country does not need to submit test questions. Afterwards, the host country and the Olympic Committee will jointly select six test questions. This is the intention of the team leader to come to the host place in advance.

The IMO exam time is also two days, also from 8 am to 12:7 every day, three questions are answered in four hours, a total of six questions, each question is 42 points, and the full score is [-] points.

The annual gold medal score line is between 28 and 33 points, which depends on the difficulty of the questions each year. The total points of the six contestants are added up to form the final group score.

Four days after the leader left, Wang Mo, the six of them and the deputy leader set off from Yanjing for Zurich.

This is the second time for Wang Mo to come to this city, the first time was with Guan Juer.

Although the time difference is more than ten years, Wang Mo can see that the main buildings and main streets in Zurich have not changed much, and they are almost the same as ten years later.

No wonder later generations said that many cities in Europe have not developed much in the past ten years. It seems that they are really not talking nonsense.

The car that came to pick up Wang Mo and the others was arranged by the local embassy, ​​and it was also the first time for Wang Mo to take the car of the embassy.

The team leader in the car talked about the team discipline and precautions when they came here. After all, when they go abroad, they are not representing themselves, but the country they represent.

The team leader told them not to run around after entering the hotel, and the six of them were not allowed to go shopping without permission before the exam. After the exam, the team leader would arrange a few days to take them around the local area, and it was worthwhile to go abroad.

Moreover, they are not allowed to accept interviews from the media in private, and must be in the presence of the two team leaders, and the team leader is responsible for talking to the media.

Because the European media advocate freedom of speech, and many of their media are full of curiosity and vigilance about Hua Guo, a newly rising country.

Of course, it also includes contempt and contempt, just like the people around you, you used to be richer than him, you can enjoy his envious eyes in front of him, but one day you find out that this friend has suddenly become rich, how will you treat it He, I believe you will think that he is a bumpkin nouveau riche with no connotation. This is the image of Huaguo in the eyes of European and American countries.

After all, Wang Mo and the others are only high school students, and they are relatively innocent. They don’t know how to recognize the media’s questioning traps. If they say something serious and are misinterpreted and reported by the European media, it will be an international dispute, so the consulate has also equipped them with special translators.

This IMO was held at the most famous ETH Zurich University in Zurich. As the oldest university in Europe, it not only produced Einstein, a world-renowned physicist, but also gave birth to more than 30 Nobel Prize winners. The winners, two Fields Medal winners and one Turing Award winner, not only have some lofty academic status in Europe, but are also well-known prestigious schools all over the world.

The hotel where Wang Mo and the others stayed was arranged by the organizer. It was just across the street from ETH Zurich.

It was already afternoon when they arrived in Zurich on the first day, so they were jet-lagged in the hotel, maybe it was the first time to go abroad, maybe it was about to participate in the top mathematics competition in high school, so Wang Mo and the others The six of them were very excited and couldn't fall asleep. Even Wang Mo himself was a little excited. I remember that he only participated in the IMO once in the first world, but the time since now is too long. If Wang Mo hadn't thought about it carefully Thinking about it, he was still able to remember it.

So the six teenagers discussed excitedly in the hotel room. The six of them were all young people. Although they didn't know each other before, after a month of closed training, they had already cultivated a certain emotional foundation. very familiar.

A few of them are from the big competition provinces across the country, and they have participated in various competitions since they were young. Unlike Wang Mo, who became a monk halfway, and came from the province in the northeast that is backward in competition, but none of the five of them dare to underestimate Wang Mo, after all In the past month, Wang Mo has already proved his strength with the actual situation.

The next day was the opening ceremony. Teams from more than 100 countries around the world came to participate in this grand event. The auditorium of ETH Zurich was full of people.

As the largest and most authoritative mathematics competition for high school students, this also represents whether a country will have a gap in talent and whether there will be successors in the next ten or twenty years.

Mathematics, as the source of all science majors, is the top priority, so the annual IMO results not only win glory for the country, but also illustrate the potential and ability of this country in science and technology.

Although there are more than 100 countries participating in the competition, most of the countries here are not strong teams, and it has nothing to do with them. Thank goodness they did.

With China, Russia, Germany, the United States, Japan, South Korea and other countries standing in front of them, it is difficult to win the first place in a group.

In fact, there are only three countries that are truly powerful countries in the Mathematical Olympiad, namely Germany, Russia and China. The team members who came to participate are actually not American, but European or Asian, but their nationality is American.

Therefore, these countries also attract much attention during the opening ceremony. Whether it is spirit or other things, they are obviously different from other countries. It is like the treatment of peerless masters in the martial arts competition.

Judging from the performance of entering the arena, it can be seen that the education in Huaguo is different from that of European and American countries. They are more publicized and love to express themselves. They just entered the arena quietly, although they were a little curious, but they didn't dare to look around. This may be the result of China's restrained education. Although it pays attention to the face and quality of a big country, it also suppresses the passion of young people.

But Wang Mo was not here. Seeing that Hua Guo was so popular on stage, Wang Mo shook hands with other players nearby, said hello in English, nice to meet you, and looked familiar. , he and other Huaguo team members have a distinctive appearance, and are obviously more popular in Western countries. There are also a few bold girls who blew him kisses, and Wang Mo responded enthusiastically to them, which made the other five teammates look sideways. endlessly.

(End of this chapter)