After Leaving the Sports Circle, I Became a Cooking God (Completed BL)

Chapter 257-258

Translator: dapotaturs

Release Date: 10/11/2023

Chapter 257: Men's and Women's Mixed 4x400m Relay Preliminaries (The Competition Continues)

The recent internet public opinion storm was detected in time, and although it gained momentum quickly, the overall clarification also happened rapidly. However, even with the quick response to clarify the situation, the negative public opinion had already spread.

As the saying goes, it's easy to spread a rumor but hard to quell it. Even though there were people who had been fooled by the previous negative narratives and were now angrily sharing clarifications and criticizing Ding Ruihan, there were still many who remained unclear about the background of this situation.

The Athletics Management Center directly called the provincial team where Ding Ruihan was currently training and strongly criticized the negligence and inaction in terms of the athletes' education and management in the team. They issued a notification of suspension for Ding Ruihan in the name of the Athletics Management Center for the current year.

When Ding Ruihan received a call from the current coach in his team, he felt a mix of anger and fear. However, since his involvement in hiring trolls to attack the national team had been exposed, and some of the troll accounts he had used had been banned, the trolling studios were now turning on him. They warned him that if further investigations were carried out, they wouldn't cover up anything for him, and he would have to face the consequences.

Furthermore, these trolling studios even threatened to make him compensate for their losses.

In summary, Ding Ruihan, who had stirred up an internet rumor in the morning, was now in a difficult situation himself.

He didn't want to be suspended. His performance this year had been outstanding. In domestic Grand Prix events, he had even achieved a remarkable time of 45.77 seconds. This time, two or three years ago in the domestic circuit, Zhang Ziyi couldn't have run such times even several times in a year.

Ding Ruihan knew he could achieve even better results. After clocking 45.77 seconds, his provincial team was planning to send him to international events to achieve better results and earn more recognition.

It was because of this 45.77-second achievement that Ding Ruihan believed he deserved better treatment and a place in the national team. Recalling the past when he was removed from the trial team, he became resentful and took this opportunity during the Olympic period to stir up this controversy.

However, now the Athletics Management Center had banned him for the year, and the public opinion on the internet had not gone in the direction he had hoped. All these events left Ding Ruihan feeling deeply dissatisfied. With his talent, how could someone like Zhang Jiale surpass him? And the fact that Zhang Jiale was eventually selected for the national team and had even made it to the Olympics was a bitter pill for him to swallow.

All these thoughts swirled in Ding Ruihan's mind, darkening his complexion. Even his parents, who had been keeping an eye on the situation, didn't anticipate this outcome. As a result, their family's mood had soured.

Leaving aside Ding Ruihan, who had already sunk into obscurity, the ordinary people online, after several days of Olympic competition, had seen a slight decrease in their interest and enthusiasm for the games. However, the events at noon had rekindled the focus of numerous netizens on today's athletics events.

Online, even though the national team, the Athletics Management Center, and Su Bai had all clarified and explained the arrangements for tonight's event, some viewers still felt it was somewhat inappropriate to not send the best athletes to the first 400-meter event of the Olympics. However, after the troll fake accounts causing trouble were banned, the truly unreasonable people on the internet remained in the minority. The volume of retweets of informative posts for track and field enthusiasts, which had been drowned out by the fake accounts, gradually began to rise. Even among those who didn't fully understand the situation, the discussions were mostly questions, lacking the previous hostility.