Almighty Athlete Chapter 105: Bolt appears
New York.
"You have been here for less than a week, and you have to leave so soon!" Sharapova snuggled in the arms of Zhang Guan, her face full of grudges.
Zhang Guan sighed helplessly: "The Athletics World Cup is about to start. This is my first time participating in the Athletics World Cup, and also the first time I have participated in the long jump event on the international arena! The comprehensive strength of Asian Athletics It’s not as good as Europe and America, and even Africa. If I don’t go to the competition, the Asian team will be at the bottom again.”
"Okay! Anyway, this year's China Open is about to start, and the track and field World Cup should be over by then! I'll go find you then." Sharapova said.
"The track and field World Cup will end on September 17th, and I will probably be able to enter the country on the 19th. When will the China Open start this year?" Zhang Guan asked.
"Starting on September 18. The Chinese Open is only a second-level event, and I was not going to participate in it, but since you are here, I will definitely go." Sharapova said.
In tennis tournaments, the bonuses and points of different levels of events are different. Of course, the qualifications of players of various levels of competition also have different restrictions. Among them, the four major slam events each year are naturally the highest level events, and the requirements for the players are also the highest; the first-level tour under the four major slams, the prize money is generally 1.34 million US dollars. Both are relatively high, often able to attract the Grand Slam champion level players to participate.
Under the first-level tour is the second-level tour. The points of the second-level tour have been reduced. The prize money is generally 60 million US dollars, of course there are exceptions, such as the Dubai Open, the organizer is a local tyrant, so the prize money has More than one million dollars. The second-level tour occasionally attracts two or three Grand Slam champion-level players to participate. If the organizers are willing to pay the game fee, it is also possible that there are more big-name players than the first-level tour. In 2oo6, China Open was a second-tier tour.
As for the three-tier tour, the prize money is only 175,000 US dollars, and this level of competition is generally attended by players outside the 20th place in the world. The big-name players are attracted by the appearance fee; and the fourth-level tour can be regarded as the entry-level event of the professional league. The players are relatively weak. Generally, players in the world ranking about 30 can win the fourth-level tour.
China Open only resumed in 2oo4 years and was included in the aTp and Ta second-tier tour in 2oo5 years. However, because the organizer is strong enough. National support is also strong, so it attracts many top players every year. It was not until 2oo9 years that the Chinese Open was successfully upgraded to a first-class event.
This year's Chinese Open included Mauresmo, Davenport, Petrova, Jankovic, Kuznetsova and other players. Sharapova, who had just won the US Open, was originally Not ready to participate. However, in order to get together with Zhang Guan, Sharapova decided to participate in this year's China Open competition.
September 14. Zhang Guan arrived in Athens, Greece, and joined other players of the national team to participate in the 10th Athletics World Cup.
This time the track and field World Cup, the national team sent a total of 12 players, including five male players and seven female players. In addition to Zhang Guan and Liu Feiren, the male players of the national team also have to participate in three items of triple jump, high jump and triple jump.
The rules of the Athletics World Cup are different from the general world-class events. This event is ranked according to the points, and the men’s and women’s teams are calculated separately. The participating teams are also different from the traditional ones. They do not register in units of countries, but in the form of alliances on all continents. Of course, like the United States, Russia and other track and field powers. A country's track and field strength has crossed a continent, so it tends to form its own team.
In the current World Cup, the men’s team includes the European team, the American team, the African team, the Asian team, the American team, the Russian team, the French team, the Oceania team and the Greek team; the women’s team has the European team Team, United States Team, African Union, Asian United, American United, Russia, Poland, Oceania United and Greece. Among them, the United States and Russia, as the two countries with the strongest track and field levels in the world, each form their own team, the Greek team as the host also forms their own team, and the French men's team and the Polish women's team form an independent team.
And the national team obviously does not have the level of independent team, so we must join the Asian team. According to the situation in previous years, the Asian team is at the bottom of the major leagues, and often even the independent countries are not as good.
However, the strength of the Asian team this year is extraordinary. First, the group of naturalized legions in West Asian countries, including many of the world's top players. For example, Qatar's king of 3ooo rice hurdles, Sha Xien, his 5ooo rice long-distance running is also the world's top level; in East Asia, Liu Feiren and Japanese team's hammer Hao Guangzhi also have the strength to win gold. Of course, the biggest killer of the Asian team is undoubtedly Zhang Guan.
Zhang Guan will participate in 1oo, 2oo, 4oo and long jump in this track and field world cup, which is unprecedented in the history of the track and field world cup. No athlete has done so in the history of track and field. It can be said that Zhang Guan will create a history as long as it can play smoothly.
However, this time no one regards Zhang Guan as a successful player. Zhang Guan broke two world records in Brussels, Belgium. It has proved to the world that he can cope with two events at the same time. In three sprint events. Zhang Guan is undoubtedly the biggest favorite to win.
As for Zhang Guan's sudden participation in the long jump, it did make many people feel surprised, but if you think about it carefully, you won't be surprised. There are many examples of sprinters and long jumps. Especially in the 1980s and 1990s, sprinting and track and field were even very popular. It's just that in recent years, with the continuous improvement of the strength of players, the requirements for athletes' technical level are getting higher and higher, but it is better to run side by side, but cross-athletes such as sprint and long jump are gradually being eliminated.
As for the performance of Zhang Guan in the long jump event, the best prediction given by professionals is a silver medal, because in the long jump event, Panamanian Saradino will participate. Saradino is currently the world’s best long jumper. It is said that he has the strength to jump to a distance of 8.7 meters. In the IAAF Golden League, which ended not long ago, Saradino also won five games. In the end, one million will try to share a piece of soup.
With the existence of Saradino, the best long jumper in the world, Zhang Guan will naturally not be regarded as a winner.
In the hotel’s restaurant, Powell sat alone in a corner with a strange expression. Occasionally, other athletes came and wanted to chat with him. But because of Powell's expression, he chose to detour.
Suddenly, a figure appeared and sat directly opposite Powell. Powell thought why the guy was so uninteresting, so he looked up and saw Zhang Guan looking at himself.
"It turns out to be you!" Powell said.
Powell is a big-name athlete. The big-name athletes have a bad face. Of course, ordinary players dare not come close. But the larger Zhang Guan has no such concerns. And his private relationship with Powell is quite good. When he saw Powell's expression, curiosity drove Zhang Guan over.
"Asafa, it looks like you are in a bad mood!" Zhang Guan said.
Powell nodded: "I have decided to abandon the 1oo meters in the World Cup."
"Give up? Why? Is there a physical cause? The old injury is recovering?" Zhang Guan asked. He felt that apart from the cause of the injury, there was really no reason for Powell to retire.
Powell sighed and said: "I don’t want to participate in the World Cup as the United States. I think Jamaica’s track and field level is enough to form an independent team, just like the French team this year!"
Everyone knows that Jamaica is a place rich in flying people, but in fact Jamaica is also very powerful in other sports. It is only because Jamaica's sprint is so dazzling, so people only remember that Jamaica is rich in trapeze.
The mentality of Powell, Zhang Guan is understandable. If possible, Zhang Guan also hopes to be able to set up a Chinese team separately from the United States and Russia, instead of staying in the Asian United team. Zhang Guan believes that every athlete hopes that his country will be able to form an independent team to compete in the track and field World Cup.
However, if you form an independent team, you need strength first. The overall strength of a country’s athletics. For example, the United States or Russia, even if they form an independent team to participate in the track and field World Cup, they also have a chance to win the first place.
"Asafah, I can understand your feelings. You see I am also in the Asian team!" Zhang Guan continued: "In this way, you are much better than me, at least the strength of the American team Very powerful, but the strength of our Asian team is very strong."
"This year's Asian United team is not weak, there are three world record holders, you, Liu Feiren and Sha Xien. And you are also the holders of two world records." Powell paused. Then he said: "In the 1oo meter project, the strength of the other players is average. The strongest ones are probably Obik Viru and Tyson Gay! As for the 4oo meter project, Varina did not participate."
"Did't Varina come? Who is the American team?" Zhang Guan asked curiously.
"La Shawn Merritt. This young man seems to be doing pretty well recently." Powell continued: "You are the world record holder of 1oo meters and 4oo meters. There is certainly no pressure to win the 2oo meters. Obi Kveru will also participate in the 2oo meters competition. In addition, the 2oo meters champion Wallace Spearman of the World Championships last year will also participate! By the way, we have a young man in Jamaica. If you are young, it is relative to me. In fact, he and You are the same age, and his 2oo meter level is also good, but he has not participated in many international competitions, and his experience is still lacking."
Powell raised his head after looking up, looked behind Zhang Guan, and then said: "He is talking, he will come!"
Zhang Guan has already guessed who Powell said is, but he still wants to confirm his thoughts, so Zhang Guan immediately looked around~IndoMTL.com~ really saw a familiar face.
"It really is Bolt!"
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