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In China, the two universities in the Beiqing and Qing Dynasties have always only said that they are the first, and have never admitted that they are the second. Needless to say, the competitive relationship between the two universities is basically known to the people of the country. ． update the fastest

But there are always people who want to compete, so at the end of the last century, some school leaders suddenly had an idea, hoping to follow the example of Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom and hold a rowing challenge. The two schools will compete in this sports competition. It has been held for a hundred years, and it has become the three classic yacht races on par with the Cambridge-Oxford Race in Europe and the Harvard-Yale Race in the United States. Depend on.

At the beginning, the idea and original intention were of course good. The two universities in Beiqing wanted to become world-class first-class universities. Not to mention the hardware, the software must also keep up. Let’s first make a name for themselves. The rowing competition just meets the publicity standards .

They invited the rowing teams from Cambridge and Oxford as guests, invested a lot of money and energy, and did a good job, but then, the two teams’ practice of playing for fun gradually became professional, and specially recruited students majoring in rowing. Invite national-level coaches to train, and even let rowing team Olympic national team players enter the school, become students of the school, and participate in the competition between the two schools.

All kinds of tearing, all kinds of changes, all kinds of violations in the middle, and finally turned into a vicious circle. The original advocates no longer insisted on it. The original intention was never mentioned again.

We only opy other people's models, but ignore the foundation of rowing. In the end, there is not enough fresh blood, insufficient social influence, and various external factors. The competition has only been held for ten years, and unfortunately it died...

An old man sat in the lounge, and the ten team members who faced the extreme challenge, as well as coach Xu Feng, told the whole story with some emotion, causing a burst of sighs.

On July 2, Extreme Challenge recorded a program at the Party-mass Activity Center of Zhongjing Kunyuhe Community. The guest invited was Huang Qinian, the former head coach of the national rowing team and the first coach of the rowing team of Tsinghua University. This old man Boldly telling the inside story of the year really shocked the listeners.

Sha Bei poked Yang An's arm quietly, raised his chin slightly, and asked if there was any problem with saying so.

Yang An received the instructions from Director Guo Hongyang, and understood, it doesn't matter if the story is cut or not, anyway, the story has already been recorded, and they will listen to it first before talking about it!

Old Huang, I want to ask a rather sharp question. Do you think the real reason for the failure of the Beiqing Competition is the lack of fresh blood and no new rowing students were recruited? You were the most recent participant at that time, and I I want to hear you tell the truth.

Yang An asked sincerely, and finally pointed to the ten people on his side, and added: I ask this question mainly because our extreme challenge program group is also trying to promote this sport.

And it is in cooperation with the State Sports General Administration. In the past few months, after our rowing special was broadcast, there seems to be a lot of competition in China, which is similar to the first two years of the Beiqing competition. I don't want to... ...you understand?

Huang Qinian nodded slightly and smiled: Are you afraid of repeating the same mistakes?

Um!

Everyone nodded heavily. This is a lesson learned from the past. The two best universities in China tried it more than ten years ago, but unfortunately failed. Their extreme challenges rekindled their enthusiasm for rowing. How many years can they last? No one can tell.

Huang Qinian habitually reached out and fumbled in his chest pocket, he was looking for cigarettes, when he suddenly realized that a program was being recorded here, he smiled awkwardly.

He made a difficult decision, decided to mercilessly uncover this scar that had been covered up for more than ten years, and reveal the inside story of that year!

Let me tell the truth. I think there are three reasons. The first one is that there are no new students joining, because rowing is too much investment and the school can't afford it. The school doesn't have suitable water training, so it can only rent water centers in other places. , transporting students, placing employees, various expenses are hundreds of thousands a year. In addition, an eight-person boat is hundreds of thousands, and a dynamometer is hundreds of thousands. They are burning money everywhere. It is better to invest in basketball, which is not very good It’s a waste of money, but you can still get a sports major with a good reputation. Anyway, uba is also a commercial project. There is ba, and even nba. Excellent basketball students may be able to enter the professional league draft, but what about rowing? rowing have what?

What an ugly truth!

Yang An and the others were all ashamed. They attributed the crime of the premature death of the competition to the reason of no new students.

Huang Qinian completely let go today, and continued: Second point, Chinese people value face too much and cannot afford to lose.

What he said made several people laugh.

Isn't this mocking the two schools of Beiqing? I can't afford to lose, I can't afford to lose this person, the leaders can't hold back their faces, what else can be the reason?

Yang An nodded: We went outside last month and found that the atmosphere of rowing is indeed a little different from that in China. Especially in Cambridge, every July is their rowing season. The last time we went there was not On the official race day, it is already too lively, and there are rowing boats everywhere on the river. I heard that after the official start, there will be more than 1,000 boats in the participating teams, tsk tsk, I dare not imagine that scene!

Sha Bei said: And I've seen their race schedule, children's group, senior group, amateur group, professional group, men, women, all are competing. This is really rowing for all, fitness for all!

Huang Bo suddenly realized, clapped his hands and said, Do you still remember the nameplate of the 'Knights Club' we saw by the Thames? It says sine1856, remember?

Having said that, everyone remembered.

When visiting at that time, everyone wondered if this was the construction date of some ancient building, or some place like the Memorial Hall of Honor for British gentlemen (chivalry), with a crossed scull drawn next to it, no one knew the reason at that time .

Huang Bo said: I checked the Internet later, and this is a rowing club that has lasted for more than 100 years, and it is a well-known old club in the UK!

My goodness... a rowing club founded in 1856?

It still exists?

Not only does it exist, but it is also very influential! There have been some British ministers, MPs, EOs, and lawyers in this club. They have a long history!

Hey, this is really... ah! Haha...

People don't know what to say. Their rowing club has been established longer than the two universities in Beiqing. The cultural background is not a little bit worse. Therefore, the UK can participate in all age groups, and rowing can persist. For a hundred years, it is purely because the people love this sport! (to be continued...)