Almighty Athlete Chapter 67: Predecessor appears
Last year’s IAAF Japan Grand Prix detonated the US stimulant scandal, and half of the track and field circles that affected the United States fell. Perhaps the outside world does not know the detailed process of this matter, but many athletes and coaches in the track and field circle have a general understanding of the process, including Kondo Turtle three found that Gatlin has problems, including Japan’s second longest Intentional concealment, including picking up robberies, etc.
Perhaps because of this, many track and field athletes regard Osaka as an ominous place. It is said that Chinese people are superstitious, and foreigners are more superstitious, especially those athletes who sneakily use stimulants, and they dare not come to participate in Japan, so the popularity of the Japanese Grand Prix has dropped sharply.
In the absence of competitors, Zhang Guan easily won the championship of the 100-meter sprint event, and earned a bonus and appearance fee to go to the country.
A week later, the IAAF Super Grand Prix at Qatar was held in Doha.
The Qatari people are not short of money, and they give a lot of appearance fees, so they still attract some excellent athletes to come to participate. Of course, Zhang Guan is the biggest star of this competition, and it is also received by the highest standard.
However, there is still no well-known European and American players in this race. The only one that is more powerful is the American Tyson Gay. However, Guy is still one level worse than Zhang Guan, so Zhang Guan once again won the 100-meter sprint championship.
In addition to Tyson Gay, another player also caught the attention of Zhang Guan. He is a Nigerian player. He only ran for 24 seconds in the game. His name is Samuel Francis. .
If there is no Zhang Guan turned out, the Francis from Nigeria will immediately be naturalized to Qatar, and in 2007 broke the 100-meter sprint Asian record, becoming the first Asian player to run within 10 seconds, and in 2008 In the Olympic Games of the year, Qatar ran into the semi-finals of the Olympic Games. After that, the Gulf countries that tasted the sweetness began to have a large number of naturalized athletes of African descent. African track and field athletes all appeared in sprinting, middle-distance running, long-distance running and jumping. After 2010, the African “Naturalized Army” became the main opponent of the national track and field team in Asia.
Although Francis is currently a Nigerian player, he appeared on the Qatar arena, clearly indicating that the naturalized legion of the Middle Eastern countries is coming!
May day. In Barcelona, Spain, Zhang Guan and Sharapova appeared together at the awards ceremony of the Lawrence Sports Awards.
This time, Zhang Guan was nominated for the Best Male Athlete Award and the most gold award in the Lawrence Awards, while Zhang Guan's competitors are stronger than one.
Looking at last year's record. The car king Schumacher became the weaker of the nominations. He did not win the Formula One championship, but it is said that he will retire after the season. As a legendary athlete, such a thing can certainly be selected in the retirement. Plus points.
Golf player Woods entered his heyday last year. He won the Buick Invitational, Ford Championship, American Masters, British Open, WGC Championship, etc.
However, compared to last year's results, Woods is not as good as tennis king Federer. Federer's total record last year was 81 wins and 4 losses, second only to the 82 wins and 3 losses created by McEnroe. Federer won a total of 11 singles titles last year, including two Grand Slam titles and four Master Series titles, and his results are absolutely impressive. And the Lawrence Award has always favored tennis players, Federer has an advantage in this regard.
But among the best male athletes nominated, the player with the highest voice was not Federer, but the football player Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho led Barcelona last season and not only defended the La Liga title, but also defeated Arsenal to win the European Cup. Ronaldinho also won two major awards of Mr. European Football and Mr. World Football last year, and this time the selection of the Lawrence Awards was held in Ronaldinho's home Barcelona, which added a lot of momentum to Ronaldinho.
Talk about the achievements made last year. These athletes are not as good as Zhang Guan. In the previous year, Zhang Guan broke the world record for men’s 100-meter sprint three times, broke the world record for men’s 60-meter two times, broke the Asian records for 200-meter sprint and 400-meter sprint. After winning the final prize, all the competitions won the championship. No defeat.
No one has ever done this in history. Just breaking the world record of the men’s 100-meter sprint three times a year is enough to sweep other nominated players.
The award ceremony finally began, and one after another the award was revealed. The best disabled athlete Van Dyke, the best economic spirit award Rossi, and the life-giving award Cruyff are football players, the best contribution award Hingis, and the best newcomer award Nadal are tennis players. The best team award was given to Renault, and the best female athlete was Alpine skier Costric.
After the award of the best female athlete, the award of the best male athlete came.
In the guest area, Sharapova said softly to Zhang Guan: "Your hope is great. Both football and tennis have won several weighty awards, and there are currently no athletics awards."
Zhang Guan nodded, then shook his head again: "The chance of a football player getting the best male athlete is not high, and Ronaldinho is still far from the reputation of Bailey or Maradona. It is estimated that Ronaldinho It is unlikely to win the best male athlete. But Federer is still very likely to win."
"A total of four female track and field athletes nominated the best female athletes, including Isinbayeva and Long-distance Queen Di Baba, but failed to win the best female athletes. I think the selection committee should give a total of places to the track and field events Come on!" Sharapova said.
At this time, the awarding guests began to announce the list of winners.
"The best male athlete of the 7th World Lawrence Sports Award is Zhang Guan!"
The camera immediately pointed at Zhang Guan, and immediately next to Sharapova gave Zhang Guan a kiss.
After that, Zhang Guan stood up and embraced Federer, Ronaldinho, Schumacher and others, and the applause of the audience came to the stage to receive the award.
The best male athlete of Lawrence is definitely deserved for Zhang Guan, and Zhang Guan is also the first Asian to win the award of the best male athlete of Lawrence, and also the fifth athlete to win this award.
The Lawrence Sports Awards have been held for the seventh time, and the only winners of the Lawrence Best Male Athletes are Tiger Woods (twice), Schumacher (twice), Tour de France Armstrong and Tennis King Federer And these four people are also the nail households nominated for the Best Male Athlete Awards every year. Almost every nomination for the best male athlete has them. Today, there is another Zhang Guan in this nail household club.
After the award ceremony of the Lawrence Awards, Zhang Guan did not choose a country, but continued to stay in Europe, because in another week, he will rush to Norway to participate in the opening game of the IAAF Golden League this year. And Sharapova is also separated from Zhang Guan, she is going to France to participate in this year's French Open.
A week later, Oslo, Norway.
Director Yu handed a list of entries to Zhang Guan, and then said: "Look, there are people you didn't expect this time."
Zhang Guan took over the entry list, looked carefully, first found Powell’s name, and another Jamaican player was Michael Flat.
"Powell's injury has been cured for seven or eight months! I don't know how he is now." Zhang Guan asked.
Yu Guiyu thought about it and said, "Powell won the title in 02 seconds a few days ago, but this result has no reference value for him."
Zhang Guan bowed his head and recalled carefully. The original Gatling was suspended in 2006, and for this reason, Powell did not seem to have encountered a decent opponent in 2006. Although Powell this year Has been winning the championship, but did not make too high a score, maybe the opponent is not strong enough. It wasn't until the rise of American Tyson Gay in 2007 that Powell began to come up with a real strength game and set a world record of 74 seconds.
Another Jamaican player Michael Flat was directly ignored by Zhang Guan. Flat also participated in the Athens Olympics and was eliminated in the semi-finals. His 100-meter sprint strength is similar to that of Kim Collins and is considered a first-class player. , But not to the top level.
Zhang Guan continues to look along the list, with old acquaintances Obik Viru and Kim Collins both on the list.
"Orusoki Fasuba, Nigerian? Was it the guy who participated in the World Championships in track and field last year?" Zhang Guan asked.
“Yes, Fasuba is two years older than you. The men’s 4-time 100-meter relay bronze medal winner of the Athens Olympics. He ran 85 seconds a few days ago, breaking the record of the 100-meter sprint in Africa~IndoMTL.com ~Guide Yu said, glaring at Zhang Guan with a smile, then said: "He was called'Africa Zhang Guan' by the Nigerian media. "
"Africa Zhang Guan?" Zhang Guan said with a bit of laughter and laughter: "I didn't expect African brothers to look down on me so much!"
"If it is not the Americas and Europe that have their own 100-meter well-known players, maybe "America Zhang Guan" and "Europe Zhang Guan" are already out. But Australia does not have a famous sprinter, maybe it will be an "Australia" Zhang Guan'!" Yu Guidao said with a smile.
Zhang Guan shook his head helplessly, and then continued to read.
"The United States sent three people! Sean Crawford is here? He is quite strong, and is at the same level as Morris Green. And Tyson Gay is here, too. "Montgomery? Is it the same name? Or is it just Montgomery?" Zhang Guan looked up in surprise.
Director Yu nodded seriously: "Yes, that is Montgomery! The former men’s 100m world record holder can also be said to be your predecessor." (To be continued.)
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