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On the afternoon of the 28th, the shooting competition field, the 300-meter rifle three positions.
After 1972, the Olympic shooting competition canceled the 300-meter rifle three-position.The reason is that the competition is lengthy, the distance is too far, and the viewing experience is poor; when shooting at a distance of 300 meters, firearms and equipment have a great impact on the results. Countries change their methods of burning equipment, and small countries cannot afford it; building a shooting range that can accommodate shooting at a distance of 300 meters is very important for the Olympic Games. It's also quite a headache for the host city.
So now the Olympic shooting competition only retains the 50-meter rifle in three positions.But in the 1956 Olympic Games, the 300-meter rifle three-position was still one of the shooting events.
After the athletes went through two poses and shot 80 rounds, Zhang Taofang, Finnish athlete Vero Ironen, and Soviet athlete Vasily Borisov became the most powerful contenders for the championship.
The results of the first 80 rounds are that Willow Elo ranked first, Zhang Taofang was 2 rings behind, and Borisov was 3 rings behind.
Athletes have 15 minutes to re-acquaint themselves with the field equipment when changing positions. Willo Yiluo can adjust the rifle and put it on the gun rack, and turn his head to look at Zhang Taofang who is shooting next to him.
Willo Ilonen is a professional soldier. He joined the army in 1941 as a sergeant in the Special Airborne Regiment of the Finnish Air Force. He started shooting in 1946.
Wei Luo could tell at a glance that Zhang Taofang was a soldier just like him.
As for the Borisov who is farther away, Wei Luo knows him. He has been an old opponent for several years. He is not a soldier. He joined the shooting team after graduating from high school. At that time, the market was extremely stable.
Looking back at Zhang Taofang again, Wei Luo felt that Zhang Taofang didn't look like an ordinary professional soldier, but... how should I put it, his eyes glanced casually, although his face was expressionless, but there was always a sharp feeling.This reminded him of Simon Heye, who Vilo had met at a commemorative event of the Finnish Ministry of Defense, and their eyes were a bit alike.
"White Death" Simon Heye was Finland's greatest sniper, killing 542 enemies in just four months.This Chinese athlete...seems to have a story.
The last item in the 300-meter rifle three-position competition is the standing position, which is generally the item with the lowest average number of rings.The requirement for firearms and ammunition in this competition is that all ammunition with a caliber below 8mm can be used, but the weight of the firearm must not exceed 8kg.
The three-position rifle in the 21st century is basically a dedicated 6mm BR bullet, but it is different now, and there are all kinds of ammunition used in various countries.When Zhang Taofang took out a competition gun produced by Dalian Jianxin Company and a box of 7.62X54R competition-grade bullets, the on-site referees and supervisors were not surprised.
First round of shooting.
Wei Luo, Zhang Taofang, Borisov, 10, 9, 9 rings.
Opening the ring again in the first round did not affect Zhang Taofang's mentality at all.Quietly reload the new ammunition, hold the gun, listen to the referee's instructions, and shoot.
10, 10, 9 rings.
10, 10, 10 rings.
9, 10, 10 rings.
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From the 2nd shot to the 10th shot, Zhang Taofang hit 87 rings, including 5 shots in a row with 10 rings, and Vilo scored 85 points, and the gap between the two sides narrowed to 1 ring.
Wei Luo and Zhang Taofang were still like clay bodhisattvas, with no superfluous expressions on their faces.
第11到第20枪，张桃芳97环，维洛97环。两人依旧保持着1环的差距。
Wei Luo turned to look at Zhang Taofang. Where did this guy who looked younger than him come from?Let’s say he is a novice, and the equipment on his body is very professional. Some equipment looks better than Willow’s own, and that gun is even more flamboyant.Said he is a veteran... Haven't seen him in the last Olympic Games and various championships?
21st to 30th shots.Zhang Taofang has 94 rings and Wei Luo has 94 rings.
In the 300-meter rifle standing position, even top athletes sometimes hit 8 rings, but today Zhang Taofang and Wei Luo seem to have performed super-level, either 10 rings or 9 rings, and more than half of the bullets hit the 10 rings.
In the 31st shot, Zhang Taofang shot first and got 9 rings.
Vero shot, 8 rings.
Gun 32, 10 rings: 10 rings. 33 guns, two 10 rings. 34 guns, or two 10 rings. 35 shots, Zhang Taofang 9 rings.Willow took a deep breath, is the final duel coming?
Concentrate, raise your gun, and shoot. 9 rings!
From the 35th shot, Willow's calm mentality was broken.Now that the mentality has collapsed, of course the last five shots of the two cannot be balanced. The final results are Zhang Taofang 1137/1200, Vilo 1135, and Borisov 1130.
The Melbourne Olympics, the first Olympic gold medal in Chinese history, was won by Zhang Taofang in the 300-meter rifle three-position event!
Chapter 147, Getting Ready for the New Year
On December 1956, 12, the Melbourne Olympic Games closed.
The Chinese delegation won 1 gold and 2 bronzes, ranking 21st in the medal table.Compared with the 36 golds of the Soviet Union and the 32 golds of the United States, it is a younger brother, but...it surpasses India, so it is not bad.
In addition to the women's high jump bronze medal and the 300-meter rifle three-position gold medal, Chen Jingkai won a bronze medal in the 56 kg weightlifting.Although it was only a bronze medal, Chen Jingkai broke the clean and jerk world record with 135.5 kg (snatch was slightly weaker), which was the first time a Chinese broke a world record in the Olympic Games.
The impact of the Olympic Games on Chinese people is obvious. The common people find that besides going to and from work, eating and sleeping, there is another interesting activity: listening to the radio/watching TV every day to see if the Chinese team has won a medal today.For ordinary people, this is not only a pastime, but also a subtle influence of cohesion and patriotic education.
National competitive sports became a pastime for the common people, and a few months later, the 1957 World Table Tennis Championships in Stockholm showed its effectiveness again.
In terms of individual sports, because of Zhang Taofang's gold medal, shooting has suddenly become a popular sport with high status-in fact, it is not considered universal, but now there are 240 million PLA commanders and millions of militiamen in the country. It's started so vigorously.
"This is a sports rifle made in Dalian, this is from Shenyang, this is from Taiyuan, and this is from Chongqing," Liu Xuechang reported to Liu Nai, "5.6mm small bullets, bolt-action, very simple, four factories of the General Administration of Ordnance Industry They can be built, and they all pass the range test."
Liu Nai casually picked up a sporting rifle made in Chongqing, and pulled the bolt a couple of times, and it felt smooth.
"Although the shooting range tests are all qualified, the accuracy of several guns should rank one, two, three or four. Which factory's gun is the most accurate?"
"It's the one in your hand, from the Chongqing factory. It's fine for any 50-meter competition."
Liu Nai: "In the future, grassroots militias will be equipped with many sporting pistols and sporting rifles in their arsenals, and shooting teams will be established in various places...Sporting rifles can also be used to train marksmanship. The bullets are cheap, and the annual output of tens of thousands is not too much. So sporting rifles It must be accurate enough to be able to participate in the competition, and the price must not be too expensive, you have to think carefully about it.”
Liu Xuechang: "The ex-factory price of a gun is between 100 and [-]. The Shenyang factory is the most expensive. Their handguards, the few dollars that are expensive are basically wood. It’s still much cheaper than that.”
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London.
In December 1956, the Queen of England and the House of Lords looked for Prime Minister Eden everywhere, but Eden was not in the UK now, and he went to the Caribbean to recuperate.
Knowing that his song was not too long, Aiden simply gave up on himself. Taking advantage of public funds to recuperate, he went to the Caribbean on November 11th and returned to London on December 20th. During this time, Butler acted as prime minister. duty.
Aiden returned from recuperating (du) sick (jia) in the Caribbean Sea, the British troops landing in Port Said have been completely withdrawn under the full supervision of the US and the Soviet Union, and of course the right of way of the Suez Canal has not been returned.Britain's income from the Suez War was zero, and it paid 2.1 million pounds in war expenses and dozens of deaths, because the indirect losses caused by the United States' sale of sterling and national debt are difficult to count.
After the war, there was a regular trade deficit in the UK, coupled with the sterling crisis caused by the Suez War, the UK's financial system was already crumbling. The economic crisis of the capitalist world in 1957-1958 was about to explode from Britain first.
Beijing, State Planning Commission.
"Director Xue, in recent months, not only the UK has been in a trade deficit, but the US's trade surplus has also shrunk significantly. From January 1955 to the present, the annual growth rate of investment in the US has reached 1%. Is this a sign that something is going to happen? ?”
Tang Hua held a report from the Department of Economics and Trade of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Xue Muqiao and the chief accountant each had a copy of the same report.
Xue Muqiao: "The vigorous investment of the United States is one aspect, the large fluctuations in the British financial market is the second aspect, and there are several other factors. If all of them are gathered together, then the Western countries are likely to have the first overall situation after the end of World War II. economic crisis."
"The Bretton Woods system has been established for 12 years," Xue Muqiao continued. "The exchange rate of the dollar on the gold standard is relatively high, which has caused a lot of losses in the export of American goods, and the decline in export competitiveness. This is the root cause of the decline in the US trade surplus. The reason. With fewer exports, their relative domestic production cannot be resolved. In fact, this relative surplus has accumulated for two or three years.”
Chief Accountant: "In Western countries, Japan and West Germany are developing rapidly. The average wages in these two countries are low, especially in Japan. Their steel, building materials, and manufacturing industries expanded rapidly in the post-war years, and now they are recovering domestically. It’s almost the end of the day, and the products will be sold to foreign markets. The United States has already suffered a lot in these industries this year.”
Tang Hua: "Not only are wages low, these two countries were defeated countries. After the war, their currencies depreciated sharply, and they have not fully recovered now. The undervaluation of the exchange rate will make their products more competitive when exporting. Marshall supported Europe and lost the war. Later Japan supported two competitors in international trade."
Xue Muqiao: "The economic crisis cycle is their culprit, and they can't get out of this cycle. It has been eleven or two years since the end of World War II, and there have only been small crises in individual countries. The cycle of the overall economic crisis should be fast. I went to the Internet Richard check."
Xue Muqiao walked to the computer and flipped through the data center of the State Planning Commission.Although he is the director of the Central Bureau of Statistics, he not only understands the domestic economic situation, but also the operating conditions of major countries in the world.Xue Muqiao looked at the statistics of the Ministry of Foreign Trade for a long time, and he wanted to determine how the economic crisis in the West would happen.
"...According to various indications, it will explode in the first half of 1957," Xue Muqiao said, "starting from the United States."