The Champions Are Short of Money

On the second day of the award ceremony, Zhang Guan asked for a leave and then went to the headquarters of OPAP. For athletes who have no competition, it is not difficult to ask for leave.

For Zhang Guan, it is the top priority to get the prize of more than 10 million euros first, and OPAP also sent a special car to the Olympic Games to pick up Zhang Guan.

Does Zhang Guan lack money? Of course! Some people will say you are full bullshit! The world record holder just needs to accept one or two advertisements to make all that money, how could he be short of money? How could it be worst than tens of millions?

The actual figures best illustrate the problem. To give the most representative example, in 2003, Liu Feiren's advertising endorsement bonus added up to 1.6 million. After the 2004 Athens Olympics became famous, he surprisingly signed several endorsements, and his income reached 23 million. It was 26 million, and then 58 million in 2006, and reached a peak of 170 million in 2007. According to statistics, Liu Feiren earned a total of 535 million in 11 years of his career.

Five hundred million, that a lot! But this figure is pre-tax income, which is not really in your pocket. According to the provisions of the Individual Income Tax Law, 535 million is required to pay about 171 million in personal income tax, after which about 363 million is left.

So does this 363 million belong to Liu Feiren?

Of course not! According to the provisions of the "Interim Measures for the Management of National Team Athletes' Prizes" and "Interim Measures for the Administration of Bonuses and Prizes for Athletes, Coaches, and Social Donations", at least half of these 363 million are to be turned in. You will be paid 40%, and the remaining 60% will be divided with the coaches. The athletes may get less than half of the total bonus; 15% of the advertising endorsement fee will be handed over to the Tianxie Association for development funds, 20% will be paid to the unit, and 15% will be given to the coach and active people, the last 50% can be included in the athlete's pockets.

Therefore, Liu Feiren's actual career money is only about 180 million. His eleven-year career average is 16 million per year, which is about 1.6 million euros, which is only equivalent to Messi or Ronaldinho's salary of one and a half months. Not to mention that it is only 2004, and Liu Feiren still can't make more than 16 million a year. Even for Liu Feiren five years later, the amount of tens of millions or hundreds of millions is by no means "area."

This is track and field, not football with a weekly salary of 200,000 euros, or basketball with an annual salary of 20 million US dollars. In commercial sports, athletes have generous salaries given by clubs. For track and field events, even the national team's track and field athletes have a monthly salary of only one thousand. There are only a few pieces, and the athletes in the local team may only get a few hundred pieces.

Therefore, Zhang Guan felt that he was short of money. He didn't want to save as hard as Liu Feiren for more than ten years. He chose the fastest legal way to get money. To this end, he is willing to bear some costs, such as being exposed by the media, such as being punished. Then he received more than 15 million euros in income, which is equivalent to the peak income of Liu Feiren in ten years. Considering the inflation factor, 15 million euros will be more than 150 million in the future. Earn more in your career.

15 million Euros is not only Zhang Guan's fortune but also his retreat. With such a sum of money, at least in some aspects of the future, he does not have to worry about being controlled by others. With this money, he can also do more things, such as investment.

This is a very simple arithmetic problem. For Zhang Guan, taking a risk in exchange for ten years of career income is worth it. With this 15 million euros, what about being exposed by the media? What about being punished?

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At the OPAP headquarters, Zhang Guan saw Osedolis and Fleggs, as well as a white-haired old man who is the chairman of the OPAP board of directors. If ordinary people won the prize of tens of millions of euros, they wouldn't use the figure of the OPAP chairman to personally award the prize, but Zhang Guan is the Olympic champion of track and field and also the world record holder, so the OPAP chairman must personally present the prize to Zhang Guan...

There were a lot of media reporters in the field who were invited by the OPAP company. The OPAP company can't let go of such publicity opportunities. Of course, this kind of publicity is mostly carried out in the form of news, and it cannot be a straightforward advertising endorsement...

"Tap and shoot, although you can shoot as long as the money is happy! So many euros, you haven't seen so much money in two lifetimes. You can kill people if you change it into national currency, wrong, the euro can also kill people!" Zhang Guan thought silently.

Accountant Fleggs accompanied Zhang Guan out of OPAP's headquarters. Fleggs said while walking: "Mr. Zhang, I have made a more complete set of bonuses for you. I hope that I can explain it to you in detail, and part of it needs your authorization. "

"Okay." Zhang Guan looked at the sky and it was already lunchtime, so he said: "It's better to go to lunch first, and then talk about it slowly."

"Of course." Fleggs invited Zhang Guan to get in his car, and then said, "I don't know what you want to eat."

"I want to try the Greek specialties. You know, I have been in the Olympic Village every single day. Although there are many kinds of dishes, they are the same every day. I haven't tasted the taste of Greek cuisine. But I am Athletes so I'm afraid I can't eat meat." Zhang Guan said.

"It's no problem. I know a restaurant. Their chefs are great. Their desserts and snacks are also very good. I'll take you right now." Fleggs said and started the car.

There are a lot of alleys in Athens, but in these alleys, there are very nice restaurants hidden. Fleggs takes Zhang Guan and him, and the car finally stops in a narrow block.

"Mr. Zhang, please get off the car and wait a moment. You're not allowed to park over here. I want to drive the car to the front." Fleggs said. So Zhang Guan got out of the car and waited by the roadside.

This block is a pure Athenian architectural style, and it seems that it has been built for some years. The buildings on both sides of the street look retro, and some shops even retain the traditional European turn door of the last century.

Zhang Guanzheng admired this exotic building and suddenly heard a female voice shouting: "Robbery!"

"It's Chinese!" Zhang Guan was shocked. It was not easy to hear Chinese in a foreign country. He immediately looked in the direction of the voice and saw a middle-aged couple. The black hair and yellow skin are obvious characteristics of the Chinese. The man is chasing the robber in front, but the man is slightly bloated, and it is impossible to catch up with the robber at his speed.

"Since they are my fellows, I have to help them!" Zhang Guan began to accelerate, chasing the robber.

There was a disdainful smile on the robber's face. He also knew that it was impossible to catch up with himself because of the middle-aged man's figure."

At the next moment, a figure flew over the middle-aged man. The robber took a closer look. He was also chased by a Chinese with yellow skin and black hair.

"Damn the yellow man! He going to chase me. I was a sprint champion when I was on the varsity team." The robber immediately quickened his pace.

"At my speed, the yellow man must have been thrown away by me!" The robber just wanted to look back but felt that his shoulder had been caught by a hand, and then the hand was pulled back violently, the robber fell to the ground.

The robber wasn't so embarrassed at first since it was easy for people to lose their balance during high-speed running, so he was dragged to the ground by Zhang Guan, and the fall was not light.

"What's the matter, how can he run so fast!" The robber was shocked, and the other party was still a dozen meters away a few seconds ago. How could he be caught up in just a few seconds?

Also at this time, the alarm sounded, and a motorcycle carrying two patrol officers in the distance had come. The robber hurriedly got up and stumbled away in the other direction, and the bag he robbed was directly dropped on the ground. Then the two patrol officers ignored Zhang Guan but chased in the direction of the robber.

At this time, the middle-aged man also caught up.

"Thank you..." Half of the middle-aged man had already seen Zhang Guan's face clearly, then said in surprise in Chinese: "Zhang Guan! You are Zhang Guan!"

This time, Zhang Guan was taken aback for a moment. He didn't expect that he was quite well-known, but the other party knew himself.

"Zhang Guan! I didn't expect to see a real person!" The middle-aged man looked very excited, and he continued: "I didn't buy a ticket yesterday, otherwise I will go to the scene to see you receive the award, but I watched the live broadcast on TV! "

In the subsequent conversation, Zhang Guan knew that the couple was visiting Athens. He heard that there was good food in this neighborhood and came here. As a result, he met a robber and happened to be encountered by Zhang Guan.

"Thank you so much!" The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment. He thought about it as if there was no way to repay Zhang Guan, so he took out a Phnom Penh business card from his arms and gave both hands to Zhang Guan. Then he said: "This is my business card. I started a small company. The business is mainly in China. After returning to China, if you need anything, you can call me. I'm helpless in Athens, but I have a lot of influence back in China."

Zhang Guan politely accepted the business card and put it away, then was invited to take a picture with the couple before the couple left.

At this time Fleggs also parked the car and came over and asked, "Mr. Zhang, have you met an acquaintance? Are you guys acquainted?"

"It a compatriot." Zhang Guan said the matter just now, then pulled out his business card and looked down.

"General manager of Yiming Consulting Company: He Yiming. It turned out to be the boss of the consulting company." Zhang Guan looked down but found that there were three addresses of this Ming consulting company, one in each of the three major first-tier cities, and there was three-way of contact behind.

"It looks like this company is not small. There are branches in these three largest cities." Zhang Guan thought to himself.

Fleggs next to Zhang Guan suddenly pointed to the company logo on the business card and said, "Mr. Zhang, I don't mean to disturb you, but I have seen this logo before."