Almighty Athlete Chapter 453: Into the long distance running

Although Zhang Guan hasn’t participated in track and field competitions for a long time, Zhang Guan is still the biggest favorite in the two sprint events of 100 meters and 200 meters. The second odds are Jamaican Bolt.

In fact, in the past two years, Bolt has almost dominated the two projects of 100 meters and 200 meters. In the absence of Zhang Guan, Bolt is really a rare opponent. But even so, Bolt is still considered the second hottest title.

If it is other athletes who have not appeared on the track and field for two or three years, they will definitely be forgotten, and there will be almost no odds to win the championship, but Zhang Guan is different, as his world record holder, as long as If he hasn't retired, he must be the strongest player on the field.

Not to mention that before the 2008 Olympic Games, Zhang Guan also did not participate in track and field competitions for a year. As a result, at the Olympic Games, it broke the world record one after another. It really can be said that God blocks and kills Buddha. With this precedent, Bocai definitely dared not take Zhang Guan lightly when setting odds.

"Long time no see, is Bolt now stronger than before? He had ran 100 meters, 9 seconds and 58 seconds in 2009, and he broke my world record. However, in recent years, the performance has not improved, it should be reaching the limit, if I do not participate in the 100 meters and 200 meters, I believe that the champion is Bolt!"

"For the 400-meter project, the American team seems to have fallen in recent years, but it is the rise of Central America and the Caribbean countries. Who is this Killarney James? I haven’t heard of it before, and the odds for winning the championship are second only to Me, the same as American Merritt?"

Zhang Guan went online to check the information of this name Killarney James, only to find that this is a 19-year-old general from Grenada in the Caribbean.

"19 years old this year, 20 years old next year, so young! Last year's World Youth Championship, and can run within 44 seconds." Zhang Guan silently remembered this young general.

"Look at the middle distance running again. There are a lot of names I don’t know!" Zhang Guan took a look around. Igud of Monaco and Ali of Bahrain, although they are on the list, are no longer popular candidates. On the contrary, Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Algeria, three middle- and long-distance runners, have emerged a group of powerful middle-distance runners.

"At that time, a large number of African track and field athletes were naturalized in the Middle East countries, and indeed their strength has risen in a short period of time. However, in the past two years, the pace of naturalized athletes in the Middle East countries has obviously slowed down a lot. The result is a straight-line decline in performance. After digging money to dig up other excellent athletes, after all, it is not a long-term plan. The key is to improve the level of your country and cultivate your own excellent athletes."

Zhang Guan couldn’t help but think of Chinese football. The clubs of the Chinese Super League are crazy about digging big-name stars and big-name coaches. They are spending hundreds of millions and hundreds of millions of dollars. The club’s performance is improved, but the cultivation of football reserve forces, but A year is not as good as a year. There are more and more tall buildings in the city, but fewer and fewer venues for activities. All the children's time is occupied by various cram schools, and even some grassroots sports schools have given up the training of football players.

Zhang Guan remembered that when he was in high school, he often played with his classmates after school. Many classmates would collect posters from Beckham or Ronaldo. For children more than a decade later, they talked about heroes. Alliance and those fresh Hanxing.

Zhang Guan looks at the long-distance running again, and what makes Zhang Guan surprising is that the biggest favorites are not Ethiopian players, Kenyan players, Algerian players, emerging Eritrean players and Uganda players, but an Englishman. !

And 5000 meters and 10000 meters, the biggest favorite to win the championship is this British.

"Mo Farah, another king of long-distance running after Beckler!" Zhang Guan frowned.

Ethiopian player Beckler is known as the "king of the world's long-distance running." He is the Olympic record holder and world record holder of the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter long-distance races. At the same time, in the track and field gold league, Becker also flew from Zhang Guan Part of the million dollar prize went away.

But now that Beckler is old, he still has difficulty resisting the invasion of his age. He succeeded Beckler as the "king of the new world long-distance runner" and it was the British player, Mo Farah.

Falah was born in Somalia. When he was 8 years old, he came to the United Kingdom as a refugee and became a British citizen. In the era when Beckler ruled the long-distance race, Farah can only be regarded as a world-class level, not reaching the top of the world. However, Farah was a late athlete. He began to make a splash in 2010 and broke the European records of 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters in a row. In the competition, he defeated the athletes of African long-distance runners. The current world ranking given by the IAAF is that Farah ranked first in the world at 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters.

Zhang Guan is very impressed with Farah, he remembers one game. Farah fell in the second half, he climbed up and still insisted on the game, and eventually won the championship.

"If you remember correctly, at the London Olympics next year, the gold medals of the two long-distance races of 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters will belong to Farah!" Zhang Guan suddenly shook his head helplessly.

"I originally thought that I would never enter the long-distance running field in my life, but now it seems that I am really going to run long-distance running! If it was three years ago, I really dared not try it, and Over the past three years, my endurance is better than before, and I should be able to cope with the long-distance race."

At this time, Zhang Guan has made up his mind that he will enter the long-distance running project next year!

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"5000 meters and 10000 meters are already two events. I can participate in another track and field event. Long jump and triple jump are the strengths of the British team. Take a look at these two events. Who is there to hope to win the championship!" Zhang Guan found long jump and triple jump events.

In recent years, the level of international long jump events has been declining. In the two years that Zhang Guan participated in the long jump, other athletes can jump more than 8.7 meters. In 2010, the world’s best long jump performance was only 8.47m~IndoMTL.com~ In the future, it will even drop below 8.4m.

A batch of outstanding athletes are no longer active, and now these long jump players are active, so in the Zhang Guan's view, they are all weak chickens. Jumping more than 8.1 meters, even if they are powerful, they can even take To the medal, you can win gold by jumping 8.2 meters. In the past few years, jumping 8.1 meters is to ensure that you can participate in the next three test jumps, and 8.2 meters is only the results of the first three test jumps of Zhang Guan.

"British players Gray Rutherford and Chris Tomlinson are rising players in recent years. Rutherford’s odds for winning the championship are second only to me. Since this is the case, the last item in track and field , Choose long jump!"

The final project of Zhang Guan is triathlon. Triathlon is also regarded as the traditional advantage of the United Kingdom. In this project, the United Kingdom has the strength to fill three places. However, as a sports powerhouse like the United States, only two players in the triathlon are eligible to participate in the Olympic Games.

At the same time, there are two powerful players in the British team, Aristal Brownley and Johnny Brown, both of whom are famous triathlons, and both have the power to get their gold medals.

Since I have decided to enter the long-distance race, and I will ride a road bike, it is only 1.5 kilometers away from the triathlon. Zhang Guan only needs to learn one or two long-distance swimming skills to be able to cope with the iron man Three events.

At this point, Zhang Guan has also determined all the events that it will participate in the London Olympics. They are track and field 5000-meter long-distance running, 10000-meter long-distance running, long jump; road bike road race, individual time trial; field bike racing, Kailin race; boxing 91 kg or more; tennis men's singles; and triathlon. (To be continued.)

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