Shanghai Subway
Shanghai’s subway network has had a makeover to celebrate the Diamond League returning to China’s biggest city. The results are fantastically confusing.
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Google translate isn’t as hilariously inept as it was when SPIKES was fudging through a Spanish A Level, but it is still inept. And hilarious.
We’d like to explain what the heck is going on with the brilliant athletics decals that adorn the Shanghai Subway, but we can’t. Something about an interactive treasure hunt game. Possibly.
We came across the pics on this website, and we translated the words using the search engine behemoth’s twisted algorithm. The resulting verses won’t provide you with much englightenment. But they might make you laugh.
subway
No longer ordinary white top duplex
But it is packed into the athletics stadium
Such ideas
Not only will appear in a foreign country
This is a small drill
In order to meet May 14
The arrival of the Diamond League Shanghai Station
Carefully crafted out
“Diamond No.” train track and field
In addition to exaggerated decoration
Let your proximity to its “path”
More intimate games you play
“Diamond Award” week in and week to send
1. Track and field stadium “pit” You deal is off
Play a point
Into Subway
“Fire” the same athletics track
Quasi keep your eye on
Eager
End of the runway
They were placed with a
Long jump pit and the shot put throwing area
Even unarmed
You can also put a wayward large POSE
Experience a
2. Answer scan code to take the prize winning puzzle
Play point two
In addition to unique cabin floor
Also on the inside handle small diamond set aside mystery
Red, yellow, blue, green salad four rings
Athletics Fun Four Topics
answer
To win the Diamond Puzzle
Assembly of
More participation “Diamonds” Sweepstakes
Beautifully week in and week to send packages
Spectators correct collection
3. Creative door waiting for you to show the self-stick
Play point three
Interactive elements within the compartment
May only floor, two-dimensional code
Look at the door
A bundle of stadium “large”
Full of tension
Put a poster with paragraph posture
Zhang motion to Creative Self
Every minute
Incarnation “Track and Field Daren”
To read the original Chinese version click these very words
Thanks to Rosemarie Smit and Marleen Rennings from Global Sports Communications for providing the images