"HAH!, pay up!" Simeon Brezhnev and Oskar Andersson were like teenage boys whose heartfelt proposal had just been accepted by their crush; they were giggling happily from ear to ear, having made the right bet and won a considerable amount of money.
Pedro Santiago, Pedro Santos, Maximilian V, Heinrich Müller, and other diplomats who had placed the wrong bets were very unhappy looking at those smug faces, but sadly there was nothing they could do. In the end, they could only reluctantly pull out their letters of intent and hand them over to the winners.
'Tsk, lucky bastards,' some began to curse inwardly, but overall, the atmosphere was lively.
Suddenly, an announcement was made by the announcers all across the stadium: "Ladies and gentlemen, the 100-meter sprint event will begin in another 30 minutes. Please stay tuned."
