After Cao Qianqian stepped off the stage, she looked nervously at her mother, whose face was ashen, and stood silently behind her mother, lowering her head and saying nothing.
Teacher Wang walked over, smiled comfortingly at Cao Qianqian's mother, and shook her head gently.
At this time, the judges' scores came out. Surprisingly, there was only one low score among the five judges, and the other scores were all very high, even a little higher than Mengmeng's score.
Cheng Xiang and others were a little surprised, Mengmeng bit her lips tightly and said nothing.
Cheng Xiang looked in the direction of Cao Qianqian. Cao Qianqian's mother looked as usual, but Cao Qianqian looked a little surprised.
There was a commotion from the judges' table. It was Alice who was arguing with several other judges with a pale face. She was looking at the other judges with her hands spread out and a look of disbelief on her face.
Cheng Xiang vaguely heard Alice talking about movement difficulty, coefficients, and mistakes.
However, several other judges obviously turned a blind eye to her doubts, and waved their hands in annoyance to express that they did not understand Alice's English.
Later, a conference leader came over, said something to Alice, and took Alice out of the judges' seat.
It seems that there is a behind-the-scenes operation. Rhythmic gymnastics is not like competitive sports, where it is clear at a glance whether you lose or lose.
The scoring of rhythmic gymnastics includes many subjective factors, such as the difficulty of the movements, the degree of completion, and some subjective preferences of the judges. Therefore, in this scoring, the highest score will be removed, the lowest score will be removed, and the average score will be calculated.
The lowest score was obviously scored by Alice. Now it seems that Cao Qianqian's average score is actually 0.3 points higher than Mengmeng's.
Alice did not return to the judges' seat until the end of the competition. When the scores came out, Cao Qianqian came in first and Mengmeng came in second.
Fan Xinping stamped her feet angrily: "Shady, I will go to the conference to complain."
Fan Xinping rushed to the judges' podium angrily. Cheng wanted Zhou Tianxing to stay and watch Mengmeng and Zhou Yang, and hurriedly followed Fan Xinping.
On the other side of the judges' podium, Alice was still arguing with a few people who looked like leaders.
Alice has an upright character and is not a person driven by interests.
Cheng Xiang estimated that when Cao Qianqian's mother got through the judges, she didn't include the foreigner in her plan.
I just didn't expect this foreigner to be so serious.
She stood next to the chairman, eloquent, dancing and speaking in English so fast that the translator around her could not react.
The translator looked at her and hesitated: "Uh, ah, well, she said..."
Alice looked at the translator with a question mark on her face and said anxiously: "Quikly, Translate it"
The translator swallowed anxiously: "Well, she said, action, that..."
"She said that Cao Qianqian's movements were not smooth, the difficulty level was relatively low, and she made mistakes, so she shouldn't get such a high score." Cheng Xiang said as he walked over.
"Oh, I think, Great, you are here, yeah, Translate for me." Alice was overjoyed to see Cheng Xiang and urged Cheng Xiang to translate for her quickly.
Cheng Xiang nodded slightly and told her that it had been translated.
Alice gave her a thumbs up, then turned and looked at the chairman of the judges seriously.
The chairman of the judges glanced at Cheng Xiang. He was surprised that this girl could speak fluent English at such a young age.
Seeing Cheng Xiang's questioning eyes, the chairman cleared his throat and said, "Ms. Alice, each judge has their own right to score. If you think it's not good enough, you can give a low score, but you can't influence other judges' right to score. ah."
Cheng wanted to translate the chairman's words to Alice. After hearing this, Alice shook her head and said, this is incorrect and does not comply with the scoring rules. There must be something wrong with them.
After hearing this, the chairman's face turned a little livid, and he said with a dark face: "Although you are a foreign friend, please be careful when you speak. Are you questioning my fairness?"
Cheng Xiang almost laughed as soon as he said this fair word. He was able to say this word so brazenly.
Fan Xinping couldn't stand listening anymore and said to the chairman of the judges: "You have the nerve to say it's fair. Anyone with eyesight can't see that Cao Qianqian's level is not even a little worse than Fan Mengmeng's, but you insist on telling lies with your eyes open. We want to appeal.”
The chairman glanced at Fan Xinping: "You can appeal, go ahead and submit the process, and someone will follow up."
After saying that, he waved his sleeves and walked away, no longer paying attention to them.
Fan Xinping: "Hey, we haven't finished talking yet."
"Okay, I'm not clear with them. Let's submit the appeal procedure first." Cheng Xiang pulled Fan Xinping over. Since they dare to do this, they are naturally not afraid of you pestering them.
The first level of the official university is overwhelming. Cao Qianqian's mother is in the education system and may influence the interests of this school. How could they offend important people for a nobody like you?
Over there, Alice was still arguing with the people in the presidium, and Cheng wanted to take Fan Xinping to the appeal desk to submit the appeal procedures.
Fan Xinping said angrily: "What's the use of writing this? It's just a formality, they won't read it at all."
Cheng Xiang comforted him softly: "Believe me, it will be useful. Just write it down and hand it in to show our attitude."
Fan Xinping wrote the complaint materials in a few strokes, threw them directly into the hands of those people, and walked back angrily.
When Mengmeng and the others saw Fan Xinping coming back with an angry face, they knew that they had failed.
Mengmeng smiled sweetly at her sister: "Don't be angry, it's okay, it's just a medal, I don't care."
Fan Xinping looked at her sister's indifferent expression and didn't know whether to be happy or to scold her for being stupid.
When awarding the award, Cao Qianqian walked up to the podium happily with a smile on her face, while Mengmeng looked so unwilling, and the disappointed expression on her face made even Cheng Xiang feel a little distressed.
Cao Qianqian looked over at the podium with a proud provocation on her face. Mengmeng hesitated for a moment and then walked towards the podium.
Zhou Tianxing grabbed her and said, "You don't have to go up if you don't want to take it."
Mengmeng smiled forcefully: "You must respect the game."
Cheng Xiang patted Zhou Tianxing on the shoulder and shook his head slightly at him.
Zhou Tianxing slowly let go of Mengmeng.
Mengmeng walked up to the podium with somewhat heavy steps, took the medal and certificate that were not worthy of the name, and politely bowed to thank the presenter, neither humble nor arrogant.
After walking off the podium, Mengmeng smiled and waved the medal in front of Zhou Tianxing: "Silver medal, I can't accept your gift anymore."
Zhou Tianxing stuffed the little bear into her arms: "The medal is not important, you are the best."
"Sister Mengmeng, you are the best. That person is not as good as you, but he still has the nerve to receive the gold medal. It's really embarrassing." Zhou Yang comforted Mengmeng with a grimace.
Mengmeng smiled sweetly and said, "Thank you."
At this time, Teacher Wang trotted over with a smile on his face: "Mengmeng, very good, very good, the silver medal is also very good."
Fan Xinping raised her eyebrows and said, "What's good? Teacher Wang, don't tell me you don't know what's going on here?"
Teacher Wang smiled coquettishly: "Sister Mengmeng, you see that the child has already received the award. The child doesn't care anymore. You are an adult and you should know how to measure and advance and retreat."
"What do you mean? You mean I'm making trouble unreasonably?" Fan Xinping said angrily.
