Chương 43: ## Chapter 43: Olympic Qualification
After staying at Baker's shop for two days and one night, Emma reluctantly returned to Orlando under her aunt's urging to continue filming the remaining scenes of "Harry Potter."
She didn't have many scenes left in Orlando, about half a month's worth.
Link rested for two days and then returned to the boxing gym to continue his training.
"Coach, Link is here."
Seeing Link enter through the door, an apprentice named Jim rushed upstairs, shouting as he ran that Link had arrived.
Link looked up at the second floor and saw West, Robinson, Reggie, Mario, and the other boxing apprentices standing at the top of the stairs, looking down.
"What are you doing?"
"Link, come up quickly!"
Reggie beckoned and shouted.
As Link walked up to the second floor, a few bangs sounded above his head, and several confetti bursts exploded. The others cheered and applauded, shouting "Link, the champion!"
"Didn't we already celebrate? Why are we celebrating again?"
Link asked, brushing off the confetti on his shoulders.
"I don't think it's necessary either. It's just a championship, not a world title. They're too exaggerated."
Mario stood on the sidelines with a disdainful expression, not wanting to participate.
"Don't talk!"
Coach West glared at him and led Link with a smile to the "Wall of Honor" of the boxing gym, handing him the Golden Gloves trophy and asking him to hold it up for a few photos.
The Golden Gloves trophy originally belonged to Link, but Baker's shop was too small to hold too many things, so he kept the trophy at the boxing gym.
West and Robinson could also use this trophy as a sign to attract more boxing apprentices.
Link smiled slightly, holding the boxing glove-sized Golden Gloves trophy, standing in front of the Wall of Honor, and took a few photos with West.
"Haha, now our boxing gym also has a champion. I hope we'll have more champions and more boxing kings in the future. Let's applaud!"
Led by Robinson, everyone applauded, and Link also clapped.
"Link, wait a minute!"
Coach West took out a car key from his pocket and handed it to Link. "It's not safe for you to ride a motorcycle all the time. I have a Pontiac GTO sports car downstairs, the dark green one. I bought it thirty years ago, it's an old car, and I haven't driven it in a long time. You can take it."
Link was a little surprised as he looked at the key in his hand. When he first arrived, he had seen a very cool-looking old sports car downstairs and thought it belonged to a guest at the gym. He had even taken a few extra glances, not expecting it to be West's.
West could afford a sports car more than thirty years ago, so it seemed he was also a well-off old man.
"Wait!"
Just as Link was hesitating whether to accept it, Mario rushed in from the outside, grabbed the car key from Link's hand, looked at the logo on it, and pointed at the sports car parked on the street downstairs. "West, don't tell me it's that one."
"That's right, I just drove it here!"
West snatched the key back and stuffed it into Link's hand, not allowing him to refuse.
"Are you serious? That's a vintage car worth more than two hundred thousand dollars. You're giving it to Link to drive?"
Mario asked in surprise.
"Not giving it to Link to drive, but giving it to Link. I don't drive it anyway, and it's useless to keep it there. It can also realize its value if Link drives it."
"Giving it to Link!?"
Mario exclaimed in surprise, looking at West in disbelief, his lips trembling. "Last time I saw it, you wouldn't even let me touch it, and now you're giving the whole car to Link? Giving it to him for free?"
West nodded and said to Link, "Don't refuse, it's just an old car, it's not worth much. I'll find someone to handle the transfer procedures later."
"Link, you're not really going to take it, are you?"
Mario looked at Link with a face full of jealousy.
Link smiled slightly and put away the car key, thanking West. He had a coaching contract with West, and when he entered the professional boxing world in the future, he would earn prize money from matches, and West would get a share. By then, the money earned would definitely be more than a few hundred thousand dollars.
A $200,000 sports car, since West was willing to give it, he had no reason not to accept it.
"Haha, Link, that's right. Come with me to the office, I have some very, very good news to tell you, you'll definitely be excited to hear it."
West said with a smile as he walked.
Good things bring good spirits. West's face was glowing with excitement at the moment, his complexion much better than it had been in the past few days.
Mario looked at the two of them, grabbed Reggie beside him, and shook his shoulders. "Can you believe it? West gave his cherished vintage car to Link. He's such a stingy person, but he actually gave a sports car to Link. Has he gone crazy too?"
Reggie shrugged. "It's normal. People used to laugh at Coach West, saying that he had been teaching boxing for nearly thirty years, taught hundreds of boxers, but didn't have a single champion or boxing king. Now Link has won the Golden Gloves Championship, bringing honor to the gym and West. It's normal for West to be overjoyed and reward Link with a sports car."
"But Link is just a championship winner, not a world champion or a world boxing king. He actually gave him a sports car? This is too exaggerated." Mario gritted his teeth.
"Just a championship winner? Why don't you try to win one too?"
Reggie chuckled and returned to the training area to continue his strength training.
"Fine, I'll also win a championship and see what West rewards me with."
Mario clenched his fist and said fiercely.
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In the afternoon, after training, Link drove the Pontiac GTO sports car back to the dive shop.
James, Daniel from the hot dog shop, Michael from the surfboard shop, and Sales from the Mexican barbecue restaurant were sitting under a beach umbrella playing poker.
Seeing a cool-looking sports car driving over, James immediately put down his cards and greeted with a smile, "Sir, what do you need? We have the best Link? Why is it you? Why are you driving a sports car back? Whose sports car is this?"
"Mine!"
Link pushed open the car door and got out of the car.
"Your sports car? Where did you get it?"
Hearing that it was his sports car, Daniel, Michael, and Sales also put down their cards and ran over to look and touch it, constantly exclaiming in amazement.
The Pontiac GTO was a 1970s model, classic and grand, with a wide body design and muscular lines. Back then, the production volume was not high, with only about 300,000 units produced. It was discontinued for more than 20 years and only relaunched in 2004.
Compared to current sports cars, its power was a bit lacking, but its appearance was very cool and had a sense of age, making it one of the favorite collectibles of car collectors.
"Link, you haven't answered my question yet."
James looked back at Link, who was sitting on a beach chair drinking soda.
"Of course I bought it!"
"Where did you get the money to buy a sports car? Oh~ right, your competition prize money was 100,000 dollars, did you use that money to buy it? If I had known that boxing was so profitable, I would have started training too."
Daniel touched the sports car, drooling with envy.
"Link, you spent your hard-earned prize money on a sports car? That's not worth it. You should save up to buy an apartment first, and then buy a car after you have an apartment. Besides, a sports car is not as practical as a family car."
James frowned, his fleshy face showing disapproval.
Link smiled and didn't argue. Daniel wanted to test drive the car, so Link handed the keys to the four of them and went back inside to continue his fitness and training.
Just now at West's, he received a new task - the Olympic Games.
Boxing has always been one of the key events in the Olympic Games. Since the third Olympic Games in 1904, except for the fifth, sixth, twelfth, and thirteenth editions, which were not held for various reasons, boxing has been included in all other Olympic Games.
Like other events, before the Olympic Games, various countries and regions hold qualifying competitions, including the first and second rounds of qualifiers. Athletes compete to win a spot in the Olympic Games.
There are a total of 284 spots in the boxing event of this Beijing Olympic Games, with 9 for the host country, 60 for Africa, 53 for Asia, 91 for Europe, 60 for America, and 11 for Oceania.
There are
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