The team leader, Wang Mo, and the others set off for Zurich. He went there in advance to hold a team leadership meeting and arrange accommodation for the subsequent arriving delegations. Of course, the most important thing was to hand over China's own IMO competition questions to the organizer.
and the International Mathematical Olympiad Association.
The test questions for the IMO exam are submitted by each participating country. The host country does not need to submit test questions. Afterwards, the host country and the Olympiad Committee jointly select six test questions. This is the purpose of the team leader coming to the host place in advance.
The IMO exam lasts for two days, from 8:00 am to 12:30 am every day. You have to answer three questions in four hours. There are six questions in total. Each question is worth 7 points, and the full score is 42 points.
The annual gold medal score is between 28 and 33 points, depending on the difficulty of the questions each year. The total scores of the six players are added up to the final team score.
Four days after the leader left, Wang Mo, the six of them and the deputy leader set off from Yanjing to Zurich.
This is the second time Wang Mo has come to this city. The first time was with Guan Ju'er.
Although the time difference is more than ten years, Wang Mo can see that the main buildings and main streets in Zurich have not changed much. They are almost the same as they were more than ten years ago.
No wonder later generations said that many cities in Europe have not developed much in the past ten years. It seems that they are not just talking randomly.
The car that came to pick up Wang Mo and the others was arranged by the local embassy, and it was Wang Mo's first time taking the embassy's car.
In the car, the team leader talked about the discipline and precautions of the team coming here. After all, when they go abroad, they are not representing themselves, but the country they represent.
The team leader told them not to run around after entering the hotel, and that the six of them were not allowed to go shopping privately before the exam. After the exam, the team leader would arrange a few days to take them around the local area, and it would not be a waste of time to go abroad.
Moreover, they are not allowed to accept interviews with the media privately. They must be in the presence of the two team leaders, who are responsible for talking to the media.
Because the European media advocates freedom of speech, and many of their media are full of curiosity and vigilance about China, a newly rising country.
Of course, it also includes contempt and contempt, just like the people around you. You used to be richer than him, and you could enjoy his envious eyes in front of him. But one day you find out that this friend has suddenly become rich. How will you treat him?
He, I believe you will think that he is a country bumpkin and an upstart with no connotation. This is the image of China in the eyes of European and American countries.
After all, Wang Mo and the others are just high school students and are relatively simple. They don't know how to identify the media's questioning traps. If they say something outrageous and are misinterpreted and reported by the European media, it will be an international dispute. Therefore, the consulate has also equipped them with specialized personnel.
translators.
This IMO was held at the most famous ETH Zurich in Zurich. As the oldest university in Europe, it not only produced Einstein, a world-renowned physicist, but also produced more than 30 Nobel Prize winners here.
Award winners, two Fields Medal winners, and a Turing Award winner, not only have lofty academic status in Europe, but are also well-known universities in the world.
The hotel that Wang Mo and the others stayed in was arranged by the organizer. It was right opposite the ETH Zurich, and they were just across the road.
It was already afternoon when they arrived in Zurich on the first day, so they were catching up on the jet lag in the hotel. Maybe it was their first time going abroad, maybe they were about to compete in the top high school competition in mathematics, so Wang Mo and the others
The six of them were very excited and couldn't sleep. Even Wang Mo himself was a little excited. I remember that he only participated in IMO once in the first world, but it was too long ago. If Wang Mo hadn't thought carefully about it,
Thinking about it, he was still choked enough to remember.
So the six teenagers had an excited discussion in the hotel room. The six of them were all young people. Although they didn't know each other before, after a month of closed training, they had already developed a certain emotional foundation, so they also had a certain relationship with each other.
Very familiar.
They are all from the most competitive provinces in the country and have participated in various competitions since childhood. Unlike Wang Mo, who was a monk halfway and came from the northeastern province with backward competition, none of the five of them dare to look down on Wang Mo. After all,
In the past month, Wang Mo has proven his strength with actual situations.
The next day was the opening ceremony. Teams from more than 100 countries around the world came to participate in this grand event. The auditorium of Zurich University of Technology was full of people.
As the largest and most authoritative mathematics competition for high school students, this also represents whether a country will have a talent gap and whether there will be successors in the next ten or twenty years.
Mathematics, as the source of all science majors, is a top priority, so every year’s IMO results not only bring glory to the country, but also illustrate the country’s potential and capabilities in science and engineering.
Although there are more than 100 countries participating, in fact, most of the countries here are not strong teams, and the first place in the team has nothing to do with them. They are just here because there is an incredible talent in the country, and they win a gold medal or a perfect score.
Thank God for them.
In China, Russia, Germany, the United States, Japan, South Korea and other countries are standing in front of us, and it is even harder to win the first place in a group.
In fact, there are only three truly powerful countries in the Mathematical Olympiad, namely Germany, Russia and China. Although the United States has won the first place in many groups and has many perfect scores and gold medals, they are originally a country of immigrants. Every year
The team members who came to participate are actually not Americans, but European or Asian, but their nationality is American.
Therefore, these countries also attracted much attention during the opening ceremony. Whether it was spirit or other aspects, they were obviously different from other countries. Just like the entry of a peerless master in a martial arts conference was a treat.
Judging from the performance at the entrance, we can see that the education in China is different from that in European and American countries. They are more flamboyant and love to express themselves. Many European and American players wave their hands and whistle hooliganly, unlike Chinese players.
They just entered quietly, although they were a little curious, but they didn't dare to look around. This may be the result of China's restrained education. Although it pays attention to the face and quality of a big country, it also suppresses the passion of young people.
But Wang Mo was not among them. Seeing that Hua Guo’s appearance was so popular, Wang Mo even shook hands with other nearby players and said hello in English, nice to meet you and so on, looking familiar.
, he and other Chinese team members have a unique appearance, which is obviously more popular in Western countries. Some bold girls actually blew him kisses. Wang Mo also responded enthusiastically to them, which made the other five teammates look at him.