Chapter 27: The Champion's Destiny
"Good luck on the second day of the Capital National Track and Field Open, Zhang Guanhao won four golds! 》
"Zhang Guanri won four gold medals and staged a perfect comeback! 》
"Four golds in one day, the king of track and field, Zhang Guan, is back!" 》
Zhang Guan won four gold medals in one competition day, which instantly detonated the media. A few months ago, Zhang Guan just announced his return to track and field, and there were still some doubts in the media, but now all doubts have disappeared without a trace, and Zhang Guan has proved his strength on the field.
When looking back at the video of the game, some people found that Zhang Guan obviously still has spare strength, the entire long jump final, Zhang Guan only performed one test jump, 100 meters and 400 meters finals, Zhang Guan deliberately slowed down the speed of the sprint before the finish line, obviously with reservations, with the level of domestic players, Zhang Guan did not need to do his best to compete.
Amid the praise of Zhang Guan from the media, the track and field open came to the third day of competition, May 24, which was also Saturday.
Because it is a weekend, even in the morning, the National Athletics Center is already full, and it is even more difficult to find a ticket for the afternoon game, perhaps because of the impact of Zhang Guan's four consecutive gold medals yesterday, nine out of ten of the audience came to see Zhang Guan's game.
Zhang Guan had to participate in the 800-meter middle run preliminaries and the 200-meter sprint preliminaries on this morning.
In the 800 event, as two years ago, Li Xiangyu still occupies an absolute advantage among domestic players, and he has also won the Olympic B standard, so if Zhang Guan wants to win the Olympic Games in this event, it is not enough to get an Olympic B standard, he must get an Olympic A standard.
However, in the preliminaries, Zhang Guan was not in the same group as Li Xiangyu, there was a black player in his group, and Zhang Guan inquired carefully to know that this black player was named Philip, who was a Sudanese player invited to this competition.
When you encounter a black athlete on track and field, you must be more careful. After all, the black people chose to be very strong in track and field events, but after the start of the competition, Zhang Guan was a little disappointed in this black athlete, his speed was not as fast as Zhang Guan imagined, at most it was about the same as the first-class players in China.
"The foreign athletes invited to this open competition are generally of average level, but in the 800-meter event, it should be no problem for me to run an Olympic A standard." Zhang Guan thought to himself.
The shorter the distance, the less physical exertion, the more advantageous it is for Zhang Guan. Therefore, the Olympic standard of this event is easier for Zhang Guan than the 1500 meters. The 800-meter Olympic B standard is 1 minute 47 seconds, the Olympic A standard is 1 minute 46 seconds, and the speed of the top domestic athletes is generally between 1 minute 48 seconds and 1 minute 50 seconds, so as long as the speed of the leader is not very slow, Zhang Guan is not difficult to run into the Olympic A standard with the final sprint.
After the start of the race, it was initially a domestic player who was leading, not too fast nor too slow. However, the Sudanese seemed to feel that the domestic runners were taking the lead a little slowly, so after entering the second lap, he overtook the front and began to lead, which was exactly what Zhang Guan wanted. He wished the frontrunners had been quicker.
After the final sprint, Zhang Guan won the first place in the group with a time of 1:45.80 and reached the Olympic A standard. However, this is not good news for Li Xiangyu, who has already reached the Olympic B standard, Zhang Guan has reached the Olympic A standard. This is equivalent to squeezing out his Olympic quota, and if he wants to continue to compete, he must also meet the Olympic A standard.
An hour later, the morning race ushered in the final event, the 200m heats. At this time, although it was 12:30 p.m., it was lunch time, but no one in the audience left, and everyone was waiting for Zhang Guan's appearance.
Zhang Guan did not disappoint the spectators, with a time of 20.05 seconds, and also surpassed the men's 200m Olympic A standard of 20.59 seconds to qualify for the Olympic Games.
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In the evening competition, there are two highlights for domestic audiences, one is the final of the men's 110-meter hurdles event, Liu Feiren is about to appear; The other is the final of the men's triple jump event, where Zhang Guan will challenge for the first triple jump title of his career.
In the men's 110-meter final, only the Japanese Naito Mato is the only foreign player, and the remaining seven players are all Chinese players, and at the same time, in order to allow Liu Feiren to better adapt to the Olympic Games, the starting time of this 110-meter hurdles final is also the same as that of the Olympic men's 110-meter hurdles.
But Zhang Guan, who was watching the game from the sidelines, knew that this arrangement could be said to be in vain, Liu Feiren retired due to injury in the first round of the Olympic Games, and had no chance to enter the final of the Olympic Games.
Liu Feiren, who was wearing a black jacket, appeared on the stage, which instantly attracted a lot of voices, and Liu Feiren tried to cross the first three columns in the pre-game preparation activities, which caused screams and cheers from the audience in the stands. However, it is a pity that Liu Feiren tried to run with a gun for the first time, but he was unsuccessful, resulting in a foul in the run, and Liu Feiren also received a yellow card.
Liu Feiren was not affected by the yellow card for the foul, the second shot started very quickly, the first three hurdles established an advantage, and then the acceleration between the hurdles was very smooth, the attack hurdle action was sharp, the rhythm control was exquisite, far behind the other opponents, and finally sprint Liu Feiren slowed down, and finally won the championship in 13.18 seconds.
Zhang Guan, who was watching the battle, clenched his fists with some anger, Liu Feiren obviously slowed down in the final sprint, if he sprinted with all his strength, although it was unlikely to run within 13 seconds, but a result infinitely close to 13 seconds was absolutely no problem. From the analysis of this result, Liu Feiren's physical and competitive state should be very good. Even according to the results of the 110-meter hurdles final of the 2008 Olympic Games, a time of 13 seconds can also win a silver medal.
But three months later, Liu Feiren retired due to injury in the first round, and it is obvious that Liu Feiren's injury was caused by these three months. In three months, a Liu Feiren who can run for 13 seconds has been trained to become a "Liu Ranran" who retired due to injury in the first round, Zhang Guan thought of this, how could he not be angry!
Many of the athletes' injuries are strain-based injuries, and Liu Feiren's right Achilles tendon is even more so, Zhang Guan knows that what Liu Feiren needs most now is a lot of cultivation and a small amount of training, not endless training.
"No, I have to reflect it to Director Ma when I go back and reduce Liu Feiren's training intensity!" Zhang Guan just made up his mind, but saw the joy of victory on Liu Feiren's face at the finish line, and at this second, a sense of helpless bitterness suddenly rose in Zhang Guan's heart.
"If he reduces his training from now on, he may be able to prolong Liu Feiren's career and maybe win a silver medal at the Olympics, but is the silver medal really what he wants? A person who is born for the championship, if he can't win the championship, he himself will be the first to find the meaning of continuing to exist on the field! With three months to go before the Olympics, I think if I cut down on my training now, Liu Feiren might be the first to refuse. Zhang Guan closed his eyes a little painfully, with his understanding of Liu Feiren, Liu Feiren will definitely not reduce training at this time, even if a medal is the runner-up, it is meaningless for Liu Feiren, this is the home field, and Liu Feiren only has the championship in his heart.
Zhang Guan decided not to go to Director Ma to report and stop doing anything.
"For a world champion, maybe falling on the ring is also a ......kind of homecoming" (To be continued. )
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