Almighty Athlete Chapter 80: Look flat Zhang Guan

In the preliminary competition of the 200-meter sprint, players have uneven levels, and basically athletes who can advance to the Olympic A standard can enter the final.

There are two strong players in the first group, namely Crawford of the United States and Obik Viru of the Portuguese. Among them, Crawford is the defending champion of the Olympic Games for the men’s 200-meter sprint. In the end, Crawford advanced easily with the group first. Obik Viru retired due to injury.

In the second group that followed, there weren't too many famous players, including Jamaican sprinter Williams, who looked like a face to Zhang Guan. However, there is another person that Zhang Guan knows, that is Japanese player Gao Pingshi. Gao Pingshi only achieved the fourth place in the competition. His result was 20.58 seconds. In the preliminary round, this result is very good. If there is no accident, his result is enough to allow him to get eight additional places. of.

In the third group, another Anderson player from Jamaica also appeared on the stage and advanced smoothly. Kim Collins, who is more familiar with Zhang Guan, also advanced in this group. In the fourth group, the American player Dix appeared on the field. Dix, a freshman who has just graduated from college, is the only player in the US team to participate in both the 100m and 200m events. He was able to kill in the US Olympic qualifiers, and his strength is indeed very powerful.

Bort appeared in the fifth group. This time, Bolt did not show his strength. It was completely like coping with the game. After all, the level of the preliminaries was too low, which made Bolt completely uninterested. In the subsequent sixth group, Spearman, a 200-meter American star, also made a qualifying appearance. Spearman was a 200-meter sprinter. He once competed with the Zhang Guan in the 200-meter sprint event of the 2006 World Cup and won a silver medal.

In the seventh group, the Japanese player Shingo continued. This first Asian sprinter was 28 years old. This age is a small tail for the European and American track and field athletes, but for a Japanese, it is actually a state of decline. In recent years, he specializes in 200 meters, but he only ran out of sixth place, and the result of 20.93 seconds also basically bid farewell to the Olympic Games.

The eighth group, Zhang Guan appeared in the cheers of the audience. The strength of this group of players is weak, so Zhang Guan easily made the group first. Like Bolt, he does not need to show his true strength at all, just a little run is enough, and this will not give the opponent too much information.

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After the 200-meter preliminaries, Zhang Guan didn’t even have time to be interviewed by reporters, so they embarked on the triple jump qualifying arena.

A total of 39 players compete in the triple jump qualifying event. The players are divided into two groups, but the two groups are played at the same time. The qualification rules for the triple-jump qualifying competition are the same as those for long-jumping, with the top 12 of the total score entering the finals. From the point of view of the player's strength, if he can jump to more than 17.20 meters, he should be able to secure a promotion; if he jumps to more than 17.15 meters, there is great hope to be promoted.

Triple long jump is a traditional strong project in Europe, especially the British. Its strength in this project is the best in the world. Britain has always had the tradition of triple jump, and the world record for triple jump is created by the famous British long jumper, Edwards, known as the "Bird of the Century". However, after entering the new century, there has never been a dominating triple jumper like Edwards in England.

In this project, the national team sent a total of three players to participate. In addition to the Chinese team in Asian countries, only a few sporadic players participated in this project.

When it comes to the Olympics, the world’s top competition, there are very few athletes like Zhang Guan who participate in both long jump and triple jump. Although long jump and triple jump have a lot in common, they are two different items after all. In the last century, athletes have become both long jumpers and triple jumpers. After entering the 21st century, there are also some excellent long jumpers who can perform both events. However, with the continuous progress of sports, every sports event is developing in a professional and sophisticated direction, and athletes who have long jumps and triple jumps have slowly disappeared.

In the qualifying group, Zhang Guan was placed in Group A, and the other two players of the national team were placed in Group B.

Zhang Guan is in Group A, and there are several world-leading triple jumpers. Of the four top favorites for the Olympics, three are in Zhang Guan. They are the British triple jumper Phillips Aidu, Portugal's Nelson Évora and Cuba's David Girat.

British star Phillips Aduwu is already thirty years old this year. He participated in the Sydney Olympics in 2000, so this is his third time participating in the Olympics. Aidou once jumped 17.68 meters at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and in the next few years, he also regularly jumped over 17.50 meters. In the first half of 2008, he once jumped out of the 17.75 meters.

Portuguese player Nelson-Evora is 22 years old this year. He also made a good 17.74 meter jump at the Osaka World Championships last year and won the triple jump in the Osaka World Championships. In last year's IAAF Golden League, he also repeatedly achieved good results.

The Cuban player David Girat is also 22 years old. He once won the triple jump event at the World Youth Athletics Championships, which is a fame. This year's state of Gilat is very good, and he has repeatedly scored more than 17.50 meters.

In addition to these three winning titles, this group also includes Russian player Spasokhosky, Romania player Oplia, and Ukraine player Kuznetsov. Long jumper.

However, the promotion rules for the Olympic Games are calculated by adding the results of groups A and B together, so the effect of grouping on promotion is much smaller.

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When Zhang Guan appeared in the sand pool run of triple jump, it immediately became the focus of all contestants.

"That's Zhang Guan? How did he come? Did he go to the wrong venue?" Ukrainian Kuznetsov said.

"I remember Zhang Guan participated in the long jump competition, and the results are quite good. But now it is a triple jump competition, did he remember the wrong time?" Russian Spasok Horsky said .

The Belarusian player Gilat Niskie took out a piece of paper, looked at it carefully, and said, "It turns out that Zhang Guan also participated in the triple jump event! This is written on it."

"Zhang Guan also participates in triple jump competition? So he is both a long jump and triple jump? This kind of player is rare now!" Spassock Horsky continued: "But Zhang Guan participated After playing several sprint competitions and playing tennis, it is not surprising that the long jump and triple jump."

"I don’t know what the level of Zhang Guan triple jump is? He is still very good at long jump events, and triple jump may be very strong." Kuznetsov said.

"In addition to Zhang Guan, the Chinese team has two players participating, which means that the strength of Zhang Guan can at least reach the Olympic A target!" Pratnitsky said against the list of contestants.

"Olympic A standard!" Spassock Horsky and Kuznetsov nodded at the same time, a dignified expression appeared on their expressions.

In the triple jump event, Russia and Ukraine each have three contestants, so Spasokhorsky and Kuznetsov are also Olympic A-markers. But their level is not top-notch, they may be able to reach the finals, but definitely missed the medal. So they can feel that Zhang Guan and they may be players at the same level.

"It seems that to advance to the final, there is one more opponent!" the two thought at the same time.

The three of them are all talking in Russian, so other non-Russian countries cannot understand what they are talking about. On the other side, Brazilian player Gregorio and Portuguese player Evora are also talking about Zhang Guan, they are both Portuguese-speaking countries.

"Zhang Guan is also here! I only know that he participated in the long jump competition, but I don’t know if he will participate in the triple jump competition." Evora said with a light face, as a championship champion, he entered the finals It was a breeze for him.

Gregorio, who has obviously done his homework in this area, said: "The information I found here, it seems that Zhang Guan only started to participate in the triple jump this year, but his progress rate is very fast It’s fast, after only a few months of practice, I have been able to jump into the Olympic A standard."

Gregrio’s strength is between entering the finals and qualifier elimination~IndoMTL.com~ If you play better, you can enter the finals, and if you play worse, you will be eliminated, so he did before the game More adequate preparation, including access to other athletes' information.

Evora nodded gently and then seemed to inadvertently ask: "So what is the best result of Zhang Guan?"

"I think about it." Gregorio frowned and thought about it, and said, "I remember I checked. Zhang Guan broke the Asian record for the triple jump in May, when his results seemed like It’s 17.37 meters!"

"Cut! I think it's just how powerful, it's only 17.37 meters, I jump farther than this!" Evola pouted, obviously he didn't put Zhang Guan in his eyes.

Not far away, three British players are standing together.

As the first person in the British triple jump, Aidu is naturally looking at the top of the eye.

"Triple long jump is my place, I did not expect Zhang Guan to come back to participate, but I will tell you with strength in a while, you are out of bounds! With me in, triple jump is not something you can touch. !" (to be continued.)