August 30, 2008, Xiangjiang.

In the morning, thousands of people gathered outside the Sha Tin Hall to welcome the arrival of the gold medalists in the Yanjing Olympic Games in the mainland with warm applause.

“Wow, there are so many!”

As soon as he arrived at the door of the Sha Tin Hall, a small man Ye Qin followed could not help but sigh loudly.

“Really a lot of people!”

Ye Qin looked at the many spectators outside the Great Hall and did not think for a time that so many people would arrive today.

"Ye Qin, I'll guess you're the most popular one."The little man standing next to Ye Qin wearing the national team uniform smiled again and said.

"Chow brother, you too, no one will have to take the stage and fight."

Ye Qin replied with a smile that the little man standing next to him was not someone else, but Zhou Shimin, the boxing champion of the men's 48 kg class at this year's Yanjing Olympic Games, who was China's first boxing Olympic champion.

“Certainly not.”Zhou Shimin smiled and looked at Ye Qin, "Ye Qin, you are also the first time to Xiangjiang."

“Well, it’s the first time.”Ye Qin nodded his head.

Zhou Shimin smiled, "I thought you came to the last Olympics, and I think you've been famous for a long time in my impression."

“Brother Zhou, I am a few years younger than you.”

Ye Qin listened to Zhou Shimin said interesting, even shook his head, these days as one of the members of the Yanjing Olympic Games in Hong Kong, others are not very familiar, but with Zhou Shimin, a cheerful boxer.

He is a little strange about Xiangjiang, this time or the first time to come, has heard a lot of things about Xiangjiang, the boyhood in his hometown also watched some Hong Kong movies through the TV, the memory seems to have been staying there.

After actually coming to Xiangjiang, I found that indeed many of the film and television pictures that have been seen can still be compared with the Hong Kong films in memory.

It was just that at that time, it felt particularly tall on the metropolis, and now it would feel more cramped in it.

For example, although the tall buildings are lined up, the streets are still relatively compact, and the hotel rooms are the same, and the idea of these can probably understand the concept of Xiangjiang.

Ye Qin can also understand Zhou Shimin's sense of feeling that he has been famous for a long time, he won the sixth place in the 200 meters after the end of the last Olympic Games, although the results were enough to show, but as a gold medal team, he was not part of it.

And the outstanding performance of the subsequent world championships has been not related to the Xiangjiang side, coupled with training and competition, the time has been very compact, and it has not been able to come to Xiangjiang.

“Well, I heard the chief say, won’t you come home with us?”The people of Zhou remembered this exchange trip, and asked Ye Qin.

"Well, I'll fly straight from Xiangjiang to Lausanne the next day."Ye Qin nodded, "In fact, if it wasn't for this exchange group, I should have gone to the competition after the Olympics."

"You're really, just finished the Olympics, so anxious and competing."

"There's actually a lot less going on this year."

Ye Qin said with a smile that this year, in addition to the Olympic Games, he has participated in the track and field events has not been much, and now that the Olympic Games are over, he can also put his heart down and participate in other competitions.

Far from it, he missed the Zurich Gold League after the Olympics and the Gateshead Grand Prix in the UK.

Now we can wait, only the Super Grand Prix in Lausanne in early September.

Athletics competition to August and September, in fact, is already a relatively close, can participate in the competition is not particularly much, but including Usse-Bot, Asafaville and Jason Gaby these athletes, is now in the game, he in the IAAF ranking if not want to fall too much, this time, or to seize some opportunities to participate, give themselves brush points.

As for now...

For every Olympic Games, the Olympic delegation will go to Hong Kong and Macao for an exchange visit, which Ye Qin did not know much before, but these days in the delegation also know some things.

First of all, the delegation's visit to Hong Kong and Macao was invited by the two SAR governments and the Olympic Committee.Secondly, after each visit by the Hong Kong and Macao delegation, the head of the delegation will mention that the visit is to "confidently report the care and support of Hong Kong and Macao compatriots for the mainland sports cause and sports athletes, and share the glory and joy of the Olympic Games with Hong Kong and Macao compatriots."

The reason why there is a later statement is that the major Hong Kong and Macao compatriots have extremely important support for the mainland sports cause.

In October 1984, Hong Kong billionaire Huo Yingdong donated 100 million Hong Kong dollars to set up the "Huo Yingdong Sports Fund".The "Huo Yingdong Sports Fund" awards a Chinese gold medalist weighing 1000 grams and $80,000 for each Olympic Games, awarding the Olympic Chinese silver medalist weighing 250 grams of gold and $40,000, and the Olympic bronze medalist weighing 150 grams of gold and $20,000.

In fact, Huo Yingdong will also increase the prize money for Chinese players according to the different conditions of each Olympic Games.For example, in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the "Huo Yingdong Sports Fund" awarded Chinese athletes a prize of 2.4 million US dollars, but by the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, "Huo Yingdong Sports Fund" awarded a bonus of HK$32.59 million, and even the replacement players of the Chinese women's volleyball team were awarded HK$500,000.

The prize money is nothing for athletes in top popular sports, like Ye Qin and Liu Yangyu.But for some athletes in popular sports, in addition to the national team and provincial teams at all levels, the most important bonus is very important for improving everyone's life.It can also play a role in motivation for later generations.

Moreover, this time, in addition to Mr. Hu’s sports fund, another Mr. Zeng Xianzi is also preparing to set up a sports foundation to support China’s sports cause.

The amount donated is HK$100 million, which is used to reward the Yanjing Olympic Games, the London Olympic Games and the Rio Olympic Games eight years later, and the amount of this Yanjing Olympic Games alone exceeds HK$25.16 million.

This money for the development of the entire Chinese sports industry, can not talk about what is a particularly large amount, but the boxing support for the heart of Chinese sports is overflowing with words.

On the other hand, the delegation to Hong Kong to exchange the Olympic Games also has the significance of united front, enhancing the people's sense of identity and pride of the motherland and improving cohesion.

These inner meanings for Ye Qin, not his need to care about at this time, but when he appeared in Sha Tin Hall to arouse the shouts and applause of the whole Xiangjiang people, it still made him feel that his trip to Xiangjiang was still very meaningful.

Four years ago, the core figure of the exchange delegation to Hong Kong was Liu Yangyu, and four years later Ye Qin, two track and field athletes in the two delegations, also let people see the rise of China in the track and field program.

After several heavyweights and the audience shared their winning mood in Sha Tin Hall, today's important communication project soon began today's exchange - performing with the audience and playing games with the audience.

The 25-year-old in the Yanjing Olympic Games men's sword individual competition won gold in the male sword demonstration fencing tactics of the British posture, watching the audience to say hello.Then the women's shooting 25 meters sports pistol champion Chen Ying together with the women's 10 meters air pistol champion Guo Wenjun and other holding props pistol, revealed the target secret, and put on a beautiful sharp gunman posture to take a picture with the audience, it is even more exciting.

After that, a gold team composed of three weightlifting champions competed in a tug-of-war against eight live spectators.The gold medal team did not beat the eight spectators, and finally, the men's weightlifting 85 kg champion Lu Yong lifted a male spectator weighing up to 90 kg, showing the strength of Hercules and saving the face of the gold team.

The climax part of the whole court was the final sprint race, and Zhou Worldmin did not play a boxing "friendship match" with the audience, but Ye Qin and several male and female spectators on the scene, conducted an indoor 40-meter sprint competition.

It was just that the way the game was Ye Qin jumping with one foot, while several spectators ran full force.

The final result still opened the eyes of the citizens at the scene, and Ye Qin won several spectators who played together despite one foot.