MTL - A Day In a Japanese Fishing Village-Chapter 637 Hit your promise with money (fifth more)
Bill Bowerman was disappointed after listening to Williams' words, and they came a step too late.
"Chairman, us?" Bill Bowerman looked at Shuichi Minano and didn't know what to do.
"Mr. Williams, it's like this. I wonder if you can use our products to participate in the Games? Not only do we give away the products for free, but if one of you wins the championship, I will reward you with $50,000 for each championship! How many have won the championship? I personally reward me with $50,000 for the gold medal." Minano Shuichi took out his trump card.
"What? Are you telling the truth?" Team leader Williams was stunned when he heard this.
There are 292 people in the Olympic Games he participated in. If 20 people win the gold medal, it will be a reward of 1 million US dollars. What if more people got gold medals? Wouldn't that make a lot of money.
At that time, he can also draw some oil and water from it, is there any?
You must know that as an athlete, the salary is generally not very high, and after retiring, there is no guarantee of illness or not, and even can not find a job. What if you win the gold medal? That gold medal was more than $50,000, not even $3,000.
But with the $50,000 reward, it’s different.
As the team leader, he felt that he should think about his athletes.
This is $50,000, you can buy a sports car!
"Of course it's true!" Minamino Shuichi smiled and nodded.
"Then I promise to use your Nike products to compete in the Olympic Games." Williams agreed without thinking. Because Adidas didn't give them money at all, just sponsored the product for free. There are also some follow-up daily training products for free sponsorship only. Compared with this reward of 50,000 dollars for a gold medal champion, it is no better than that?
At this time, Bill Bowerman was stunned. He didn't expect that his chairman and boss solved this problem in the simplest way.
"Money really does everything!" Bill Bowerman smacked his lips.
"But I have a request."
"Mr. Minano, please speak." Williams said with a smile.
"If someone in your team wins the championship gold medal, you must mention our products during the interview. I know that you can't advertise any product during the interview. But you can make fun of it when you give your acceptance speech, just say Win luck, maybe it's my shoes or something." Minano Hideyoshi said. This is not to mention Nike at all. As long as the athletes say that the shoes are easy to use, the media will take pictures of the shoes, and the logo on the shoes will soon attract everyone's attention.
"Okay, no problem, I know what to tell the athletes." Williams laughed.
"Also, don't tell anyone about this."
"learn!"
After left here, Minano Shuichi took Bill Bowerman to the next team - German United. Then there is the Italian team, the British team, the French team.
Anyway, he walked through most of the teams, and every time he went to a team, he did the same as above. Anyway, they were stunned with money until they agreed.
Although this will cost millions of dollars, it is worth it! All it takes is a shot at Nike's reputation, and that's a one-time thing.
Except for some teams that signed a contract with Adidas, it cannot be changed. Many people have cooperated with Shuichi Minano. After all, you can get a $50,000 reward for winning the championship. The confusion is too big.
The offensive of money is unmatched.
Especially these athletes, they need this money don't they?
That's it. Two days later, Shuichi Minano settled this matter. Anyway, Bill Bowerman, who was by his side, admired him very much. He hadn't thought of this method anyway.
Just like that, waiting for the arrival of the Rome Olympics.
August 25th, the date of the Olympic Games.
All competitions are launched one after another. Minamino Shuichi did not return to Tokyo, but stayed here with Bill Bowerman to watch the Olympic Games live.
I have to say that the Olympic Games is a very high-profile event. It is about the glory of a country, so many people are watching it.
All kinds of global TV live broadcasts, all kinds of broadcasts, all kinds of newspaper reports and so on.
The games that Shuichi Minano and Bill Bowerman watched were all about track and field games. After all, only track and field games were linked to Nike shoes.
This time, what Hideo Minano saw was the decathlon track and field.
Decathlon is the most fiercely contested event in this year's track and field. There were the "Three Heroes" of the decathlon in the field at that time: La Johnson of the United States, V. Kuzvatsov of the United States, and Yang Chuanguang, a Chinese athlete. Since 1955, the decathlon world record competition has formed a tug-of-war between Johnson and Kuzvatsov, with records changing hands several times. In May 1958, Kuznetsov broke the world record of 7985 points created by Johnson with 8014 points, but more than two months later, Johnson regained it with 8302 points; the following year, Kuznetsov once again achieved a score higher than Johnson's score of 8357 Before the 1960 Olympics, Johnson set a new world record of 8,683 points. The "Three Heroes" met in Rome, and the competition immediately heated up. Yang Chuanguang played well and defeated Kuztsov, but lost to Johnson by 58 points and only won the silver medal.
This time Johnson won the gold medal!
"Can you win the championship even at this speed?" Minano Shuichi looked at the game but felt that there was nothing to watch, because the speed was too slow in his eyes! The spectators around were all excited when they saw the championship, and they all shouted with real arms.
Minamino Shuichi's words made Bill Bowerman beside him very ashamed. Isn't this fast enough? If he went down to the game, he would definitely be thrown out of sight.
Next is the women's sprint race!
The race started, and suddenly a black woman was like a dark horse and kept leading the way. In the end she won the first place. This person is the famous female trapeze Rudolph! In the Olympic Games, Wilma Rudolph became the fastest female flying woman in the world at that time, known as the "Black Gazelle". She won 3 gold medals and was also the first black Olympic women's 100m champion.
As time goes by, gold medal champions are produced every day, and if these champions cooperate with Minano Shuichi, they will mention some of the products they use during the interview! Of course, most of them are track and field champions, and other types of champions are still rewarded, but they are not allowed to mention products. After all, what's the use of diving and asking him to carry Nike shoes? Isn't it embarrassing?
