In the middle of the bar, Kapitsa was already "drunk and brave". He had no basketball, no rap, and could only sing and dance. He once again enlivened the atmosphere in the venue and became the focus of the audience.
Chen Muwu was happy to see Kapitsa share his attention.
Moreover, after he made such a fuss, the environment in the venue became even noisier. Now even if he wanted to talk about how to use the theory of relativity to calculate the orbit of electron spin, Dirac and Fowler might not be able to hear him clearly.
As soon as Chen Muwu put down the pen in his hand, Best entered the Eagle Bar.
He arrived as promised, with a group of Cambridge blue suits behind him.
Without speaking, people can recognize them just by the skin on their bodies. These are the noble athletes of Cambridge University.
"Chen," Best glanced around the inside of the Eagle Bar after entering, then went straight to Chen Muwu's table, "Do you know how fast you achieved swimming results at the United Games?"
The usually polite Best was nowhere to be seen. Now he was so excited that his voice even overshadowed Kapitsa, who was singing and dancing in the middle of the bar.
"...I was afraid that it would affect your thesis defense, so I resisted telling you, but today you finally got your doctorate, and I no longer have any worries. In this joint sports meeting, your 100-yard freestyle score was yes……"
Chen Muwu quickly stood up, pulled Best and walked out.
Beside the table where he just sat, a group of professors were left looking confused.
Although the environment in the bar is very noisy and Kapitsa's singing voice is loud, Best's voice is also not quiet.
After Chen Muwu left, everyone's eyes fell on his taciturn roommate Dirac.
"Paul, who is this person? What was that sports meeting he just mentioned about?"
Finally, Fowler asked the question that concerned everyone.
As one of the few insiders, Dirac could only briefly tell the story of Chen Muwu's participation in the Cambridge-Oxford Joint Games with several professors.
In order to cool down last summer, the Cavendish Laboratory organized several swimming activities by the Cam River, so no one was surprised that Chen Muwu could swim.
But the strange thing is, why did this man go to London to participate in the sports meeting quietly, and from what the visitor said, Chen Muwu also achieved good results?
Best, who was pulled aside by Chen Muwu, finally finished the last half of his sentence.
"Chen, your 100-yard time was fifty-four seconds! If not for every spectator present, who saw with their own eyes that you threw the proud New Zealander from Oxford University behind you several meters away, I would have thought You have to wonder if there is something wrong with the game timekeeper."
Chen Muwu was stunned when he learned about his score.
In order to win the championship without fail, he had tried his best in the 100-yard game that day.
But the final result was only fifty-four seconds?
It seems that I have neglected training during the more than a year of traveling, and my results are still swimming against the current. If I don't make progress, I will fall back.
Before he traveled through time, he was someone who could swim like this in a 100-meter race.
Thinking of this, Chen Muwu felt a little depressed.
Best captures this emotional turmoil keenly. "Chen, what do you mean by this expression? Does it mean that you are not satisfied with this result?"
He nodded subconsciously and whispered to himself: "I should be able to swim faster..."
Chen Muwu's unintentional remarks were thought by Best's ears to be an act of pretentiousness.
"Chen, you just said a joke, swimming 100 yards in fifty-four seconds, isn't that fast?
"Not only did your result far break the competition record, after returning to school, I went to the library to find a record book from the Antwerp Olympic Games in Belgium four years ago. Guess what? That 100-meter freestyle The American who took first place in the competition only swam one minute and one second.
"And the final finishing time of the 400-meter race is even longer. In the last Olympics, the first-place finish time was five and a half minutes, and your time in the 400-yard race was only four minutes and twenty. Seven seconds.
"I think you can definitely sign up for the Olympic Games to be held in Paris in July this year. If you want to win the 100-meter freestyle, you can try to win the championship. But the 400-meter freestyle championship should be as easy for you as picking something up!"
Chen Muwu was shocked when he heard the name of the Olympic Games.
With my results, I may not be able to get first place in college competitions in the capital in the future. How could I be able to win the Olympic title a hundred years ago?
And he also swam four minutes and twenty-seven seconds in the 400-yard freestyle competition?
It shouldn’t be. Didn’t I only run 400 meters in four minutes and fifteen seconds?
Obviously when I was swimming, I didn't feel that my physical fitness had dropped much compared to more than a year ago, but why did my performance drop so much?
Chen Muwu's brain was running rapidly. He finally found the answer to the question he didn't understand when he was a hundred yards away.
In the Thames race, although the units are shorter than the metric length unit meter, it is nearly 10% shorter than the imperial length unit yard.
However, whether it is on the River Cam or the Thames, whether it is 100 yards or 400 yards, the race track is a path in the river to the end. There is no starting platform, and there is no turning and kicking on the wall every 50 meters. .
The missing two items are the key to greatly improving the performance of the game.
There is only one jump, so we can ignore it for the moment, but pushing on the wall and turning around can play a big role in improving your performance.
Otherwise, why is the swimming record in the 25-meter short pool so much faster than that in the 50-meter standard pool?
In other words, it's not that Chen Muwu's speed has dropped a lot, but that the mechanism of the game is different.
So if you go to the Olympics as Best said, you might actually be able to get a few gold medals back.
Thinking of this, Chen Muwu was certainly filled with excitement.
If you could really win the Olympic gold medal for China in the 1924 Olympics, what would that be?
Not only did he participate in the Olympics eight years earlier than in the original time and space, he was also able to win China's first gold medal sixty years earlier.
But, I wonder if China has established an Olympic Committee now? Are you a member of the International Olympic Committee?
Without the Olympic Committee, would I still be able to participate in this Olympics?
Seeing the change in the expression on Chen Muwu's face, Best had already guessed that he was interested, so he continued: "Chen, this is really a good opportunity. Although we, the athletes of Cambridge, have won the championship as early as the second Olympic Games in 1900, Start winning gold medals, but those are British traditional strengths, such as tennis and rowing.
“In the past twenty years, no Cambridge athlete has ever entered the main competition of swimming events dominated by Americans and Australians, let alone achieved any results.
“So you achieved this result in the joint sports meeting, not only our swimming club, but also the school’s sports department.
"Let me introduce to you, these are all members of the Eagle Club that I told you about. This club is responsible for managing all athletes at Cambridge University who have received blue honors.
“They are here this time to help our swimming club and you achieve good results in the upcoming Olympics and bring glory to Cambridge University.
"If you have any difficulties in training or life now, you can tell them no matter what it is, and everyone will try their best to help you solve it."
Chen Muwu didn't expect that he would receive such attention just for swimming.
So he expressed his doubts, that is, it is already mid-May, is it too late to register for the Olympic Games in July?
And is China a member of the International Olympic Committee? Is it qualified to register for this competition?
In Chen Muwu's memory, the selection conditions for the Olympic Games seem to be very harsh. Only those who can achieve the Olympic A standard can get a ticket.
Here again he made the mistake of taking things for granted. Will the intensity of competition in a hundred years be comparable to what it is now?
As expected of those who have done the preparations, several people from the Eagles Club answered these questions one by one.
The current Olympic Games has just entered the formal stage of development. International Olympic Committee Chairman Coubertin hopes that the influence of the Olympic Games can be further expanded, so the registration conditions for the event are very loose.
Even though China has not yet established an Olympic Committee and has not become a member of the International Olympic Committee, Chen Muwu can still participate in this Olympics by registering on his own.
Just for the registration matter, because it involves nationality issues, Cambridge University cannot do it for you. It is very likely that Chen Muwu will need to make a trip to Paris himself.
However, there is still more than a month left before the official competition, so it is still not too late to go to Paris from Cambridge.
In addition, Best also told Chen Muwu something.
He has obtained information from various channels. Compared with Belgium, which had just finished the war at the last Antwerp Olympics and was in a state of poverty, at this Paris Olympics, the French spent a lot of money in order to show off the victorious power of a great nation. For the price, several competition venues have been repaired.
Therefore, this swimming competition does not need to fill the abandoned trenches left over from the war with river water like the previous one. Instead, a standard fifty-meter swimming pool will be built as a competition venue - in fact, This is the first time the standard pool has appeared in the World Series.
In order for Chen Muwu, who has become "accustomed" to swimming in the Cam River, to adapt to the Olympic venue in advance, Best plans to mobilize the members of the swimming club to dig a 50-meter temporary swimming pool on the bank of the Cam River within the next few days. The pool, and then the water from the Cam River, was used as Chen Muwu's training ground.
This played into Chen Muwu's wish. He had long wanted to relive what it was like to swim in a 50-meter standard pool, so Chen Muwu also put forward a lot of constructive suggestions on the size of this swimming pool.
Moreover, the Paris Olympics has a standard swimming pool, which is also a happy thing for Chen Muwu.
After all, turning technology was only developed in the 1950s, and it is now the leading version of dimensionality reduction attack.
Best's words made Chen Muwu, who had not had a sip of wine in the Eagle Bar, feel a little distraught.
Although he hasn't registered yet, he has already begun to look forward to the Olympic Games in more than a month.
A good brother from Sulian who is addicted to alcohol and the mascot of Cambridge University, Kapitsa can always stop a lot of alcohol for him at critical moments.
Therefore, the graduation reception at the Eagle Club ended with Chen Muwu not even having a drink and Kapica drunk.
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Cambridge University is quite efficient. A few days later, Chen Muwu's doctoral diploma was issued to him.
Wearing doctoral uniforms, they followed Ye Gongchao to a photo studio in Cambridgeshire to take photos to be sent home. The two took the relevant procedures completed in Cambridge and took the train to London again.
Some time ago, Zhu Zhaoxin, the charge d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in the UK, stole the show when she attended a banquet hosted by British Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Macdonald for ministers from various countries.
Because during the dinner, the Prime Minister deliberately bypassed the ministers of many foreign powers and came to him to congratulate Zhu Zhaoxin. Your country's international students discovered the ninth planet in the solar system at the British Observatory. Chen Muwu's success is the result of the educational cooperation between the two countries. Such a model...
If the minister to the UK were replaced by Fan Yuanlian, who is dedicated to education, then he would probably take the opportunity to ask the Prime Minister to speed up the negotiations on the Boxer Indemnity.
But Zhu Zhaoxin just thought that Chen Muwu's discovery gave him face in front of foreigners, so he was very satisfied with his talented compatriot.
He specially sent another telegram to the country to ask for credit, indicating that Chen Muwu's achievements in the UK were so great that the country's prime minister personally praised him by name, which was inseparable from his support and cultivation.
One is a rising star in British academia, and the other is the son of the former Chief of Communications. Chen Muwu and Ye Gongchao came to the embassy to handle graduation procedures, and Zhu Zhaoxin did not dare to neglect them at all.
Not only did he personally meet the two of them in his office, and arranged for the staff to complete all the procedures for them, he also brought Chen Muwu a piece of "good news" from China.
(End of chapter)
