Chapter 53: International Olympiad
On Thursday, July 2003, 7, the International Mathematical Olympiad officially kicked off.

Han Youzhang had already set off in advance to attend the team leader meeting as required. Deputy team leader Hu Zhiwei held a simple departure ceremony for everyone, and then personally led the team to fly to Tokyo.

For the team members, it was their first time to participate in a mathematics competition abroad.

Even if you are full of confidence, you will still feel inexplicably nervous.

Of course, Xu Yuan is an exception.

So much so that the car was very quiet on the way to Capital International Airport.

It was not until everyone got on the plane that Hu Zhiwei took the initiative to find a topic to divert everyone's attention.

"Xu Yuan."

"You gave all of us a surprise this time."

"He won the first place in the imperial examination without making any noise."

"I never thought that besides being talented in math, you would also do so well in other subjects."

When Hu Zhiwei said this, his eyes were always on Xu Yuan, as if there was light in his eyes.

After studying mathematics for so many years, he has seen many mathematical geniuses, but most of them are biased in their studies.

Hexagonal warriors like Xu Yuan are indeed rare.

This also shows that Xu Yuan's talents can be applied in various fields.

The future is limitless.

With Xu Yuan participating in the competition as a member of the national team, he relaxed a lot and was not worried about the results at all.

I believe that this year's team total score will definitely win the championship.

"Except for mathematics, the exam papers for other subjects in this year's college entrance examination were not very difficult, which is why I was lucky enough to get the top score."

After hearing Professor Hu's praise, Xu Yuan put on a smile and spoke modestly in a somewhat shy manner.

He knew that except for Liu Yang who did not take the college entrance examination, the overall scores of the other two college entrance examination candidates were not very good, so in order not to affect the subsequent competition, it would be better to have less stimulation.

Hu Zhiwei smiled and waved his hand.

"You don't need to be modest. Just say what you should say. I met Old Tang a few days ago and he praised you a lot."

……

He was just about to continue talking when he suddenly heard a vibration from beneath him and the plane began to take off and climb.

I had no choice but to keep silent for the time being.

Liu Yang, who was sitting in the back, was about to join the chat group, but he quickly grabbed the handrail and closed his eyes.

As for the other few people, their performance was not much better.

First time on a plane in my life.

That's normal.

After taking a few deep breaths under the guidance of the flight attendant, I gradually relaxed.

After all, Xu Yuan had taken a lot of flights in his previous life, so there was basically no change.

While the national team was flying to the tournament venue, many people in the country were also paying attention to the personnel situation of this session.

And discuss it online.

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Lin Haoming was admitted to Yenching University in his second year of high school. It can be said that he was in high spirits at that time.

I gave myself a summer vacation a long time ago and studied computer at home every day.

But he's not playing games.

Since I have applied for the computer major at Yenching University, I must prepare for enrollment next year and familiarize myself with it in advance.

In addition to browsing Sina.com, he usually communicates with his friends in Tianya community.

There were many scholars and industry elites there, and the topics they discussed were very inspiring to him.

He loved hanging out there. At noon, after he finished his meal in the kitchen, he returned to his room and opened the Guantian Teahouse section of the forum as usual, checking the new posts while eating his meal.

"Someone is talking about this year's International Mathematical Olympiad. Has it officially started yet?"

At this moment, Lin Haoming's attention was suddenly drawn to a new post. He murmured something to himself and immediately clicked on it to check it out.

Because he was not selected for the national team, he paid less attention to this schedule after the training camp ended. If I hadn't noticed this post, I wouldn't have known that the national team had officially set out to participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad.

With his idol from the same province in the team, he will definitely not miss out on discussions about the competition.

But when he thought everyone was discussing how many gold medals the national team could win this year, he found that the focus of this post seemed a bit off.

It was normal to announce the members of this national team in the post.

However, many people's eyes were on Xu Yuan.

Many people posted comments below.

"How could there be students from an ordinary county high school? Have the requirements for the national team in the mathematics competition been lowered this year?"

"This is too strange!"

"I just checked this Guyuan No. 1 High School. It seems that no students signed up for the league before. How come a national team player suddenly appeared?"

"The level of the main county high school is not even close to that of Qinghua High School. I'm afraid the results will be unstable."

"It seems that it will be difficult for us to win the team championship this year. This person is likely to be a drag. I don't know how the league's main examination committee selected this person."

……

When Lin Haoming slid his mouse to this point, the anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed and rushed to his forehead.

What happened to the competition students who graduated from ordinary county high schools?

That is also his idol.

Moreover, among the six people, Xu Yuan's performance is the most stable.

Always full marks.

The thought stayed here, and he immediately chose a reply from a person named Mr. Wu to reply.

"Xu Yuan was selected for both the finals and the training team with full marks, and he also won the top spot in the college entrance examination this year. I believe he can definitely lead the team to win a new championship."

Not long after the message was sent, there was a new response.

"You dare to pretend to be an international competition with the college entrance examination paper. It seems that you have never been involved in mathematics competitions."

Lin Haoming read out this sentence word by word, and he was almost laughing out of anger.

That he has never been involved in math competitions?
He is a competitor who has entered the national training team. Without some ability, who would dare to hang around in the Guantian Teahouse section?

"Wait until the competition results come out, and then I'll see what you have to say."

He muttered to himself, typed the result for everyone to see, then picked up his meal again and closed the forum page.

It would be a waste of time to argue with those friends now. Once the results of this competition are announced, they will naturally see Xu Yuan's mathematical talent.

He never doubted this.

Xu Yuan naturally had no idea about the discussion on a domestic forum. He landed safely after flying for nearly three and a half hours and checked into the hotel with the reception of the event organizer's staff.

After a day of rest and adaptation, they, together with other national teams, attended the opening ceremony of this session in the International Exhibition Hall on Saturday.

What Xu Yuan found interesting was that he saw many Asians in those overseas participating teams, and even their names retained oriental forms. He did not expect that his competitors in such an international competition would be his own people.

The next day.

The two-day exam begins.

Similar to the competition system of the domestic mathematics winter camp, candidates need to complete three questions within four and a half hours every day.

However, each question in the International Mathematical Olympiad is worth 7 points.

The total score is 42 points.

After receiving the test paper, Xu Yuan took a quick look at the content of the test and found that the difficulty was not as high as he had imagined, so he calmed down, remained highly focused and answered the questions quickly.

(End of this chapter)