All-round Athlete

Chapter 149 The King of Track and Field

"It seems that foreigners also care about human feelings!" Zhang Guan opened the list of contestants in his hand while thinking.

Although Zhang Guan didn't know how many such items Varikoff had prepared to sell favors, what he could confirm was that if he didn't know Varikoff, he would definitely not take the initiative to send this list of participants.

"Sure enough, it is as expected before the competition. There is no strong player in the indoor 60-meter event." Zhang Guan looked at the list of indoor 60-meter athletes, not to mention that athletes of the level of Powell and Obikvilu did not participate. , Even Kim Collins, Jason Gardner and other players who are slightly weaker than the world's top players did not participate.

"Jason Gardner is the defending champion of this event, but he is British and is now participating in the Commonwealth Games. It seems that Powell is also in the Commonwealth Games."

In the list of 60-meter athletes, Zhang Guan has only two impressions, and both of them are Americans. One is Leonard Scott and the other is Terrarence Trammell.

Leonard Scott used to be a football player, but was eliminated in the internal selection of the US team before switching to track and field. Zhang Guan had played against him last year, respectively at the World Athletics Championships and the domestic Athletics Gold Grand Prix.

As for Terrarence Trammell, Zhang Guan has an impression of him because he has fought against Liu Feiren many times. Trammel is a 110-meter hurdles athlete who is hailed by the Americans as Alan Johnson's successor and also a competitor Liu Feiren focuses on observing. Trammell signed up for two events at the Indoor Track and Field Championships, the 60-meter and 60-meter hurdles.

"There is no pressure in the 60-meter sprint! Let's take a look at the 400-meter event!" Zhang Guan opened the 400-meter entry list.

The final of the 400-meter dash was held on the last day. Zhang Guan did not know many athletes engaged in the 400-meter dash. However, the country with the strongest 400-meter dash in the world is undoubtedly the US team, so Zhang Guan took the lead Pay attention to the players of the US team.

The three strongest 400-meter players on the US team, Jeremy Variner, Otis Harris and Derek Blue, did not participate, while the three on the list were Milton Campbell, Tyree -Washington and LaShawn Merritt.

Zhang Guan still has some impressions of the athlete LaShaun Merritt. He is known as the second strongest athlete in the United States after Jeremy Variner, but he is still young and has not yet achieved results.

"I don't know the other two members of the US team, Campbell and Washington! I'll have to ask Director Yu later." Zhang Guan continued to check the entry list for the 400-meter sprint.

The defending champion of this event is named Francisco, an athlete from Grenada, a small Caribbean country, and is also considered to be the favorite to win the 400m championship. As for other athletes, Zhang Guan is completely ignorant.

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On March 10, the World Athletics Indoor Championships started.

For Zhang Guan, the first day of the competition was a great test of physical strength. He will participate in the 60-meter sprint group stage at 12:40 noon, the 60-meter sprint semi-final four hours later, and the 400-meter sprint group stage in an hour and a half, and he has a 60-meter sprint in two hours The final of the meter sprint. Equivalent to four games a day.

Fortunately, the consumption of 60 meters is much smaller than that of 100 meters. Zhang Guan feels that he can handle the first three races. If he can't do it in the final 60 meters, he can use the physical recovery potion.

Isinbayeva's match needs to be held tomorrow, and Zhang Guan has become the biggest player in today's arena. Perhaps because of Sharapova, Zhang Guan's popularity in Moscow is even higher than that of local Russian athletes. In the 60-meter group stage and semi-finals, every time Zhang Guan appeared on the stage, the house was full of cheers, and Zhang Guan also entered the 60-meter final with two firsts.

After all, there are no top athletes in the world to participate. For example, Trammell who runs the 110-meter hurdles can be regarded as the favorite to win the championship. How can Zhang Guan, a professional 100-meter runner, stumble.

And the next thing to be held is the group match of the 400-meter sprint.

Zhang Guan's current 400-meter official race record is only one race by an East Asian athlete. People in Europe and the United States have always paid little attention to track and field competitions held in Asia, and they don't know Zhang Guan's running method at all. However, considering Zhang Guan's reputation, the organizer still gave Zhang Guan the treatment of a star athlete when he was divided into groups for the 400-meter sprint group competition. There were no powerful athletes in his group.

For other 400-meter athletes, this is also a good opportunity to observe Zhang Guan. Everyone does not know Zhang Guan's running style and technical characteristics in the 400-meter sprint, so I hope to observe through this competition.

With a gunshot, Zhang Guan quickly entered the game state.

Zhang Guan's speed is still the same, it seems to be faster than other athletes, but it doesn't take any advantage.

Next, when entering the straight track, Zhang Guan still used the previous running method. When the other athletes did not accelerate significantly, Zhang Guan did not take the lead, and of course he did not lag behind.

The athletes entered the second corner at about the same time. Obviously, the strength gap between the athletes in the group stage is not large. The running method is also the mainstream running method in Europe and the United States. I am afraid that it is necessary to wait until the sprint to see the difference.

Soon after entering the curve, some athletes began to accelerate, but Zhang Guan still followed the original rhythm. Everyone else started to speed up, but Zhang Guan was still running at his original pace, which seemed much slower in comparison, and he was also in a backward position.

The audience didn't seem to understand that much. Many people sighed, while the professional coaches and athletes all frowned. Zhang Guan's performance was really strange.

"What is Zhang Guan going to do? Why is he still running at the original pace? Why doesn't he sprint?"

"What kind of running method is this? Is this some new tactic?"

The coaches of the American team secretly looked at Director Yu and others not far away, and found that Director Yu looked calm, obviously not worried because Zhang Guan was behind. The coach of the US team became more and more sure that Zhang Guan's running method was definitely not that simple.

Next, the athlete entered the final straight, and Zhang Guan was also the last athlete to enter the straight, and then Zhang Guan began to sprint towards the finish line.

"Sprinting now? Maybe it's too late in time! Not necessarily, if there is a sprinting level like Wariner, maybe he can catch up before the finish line. I just don't know if his sprinting level can be compared to Wariner's." Na." The U.S. team coach made his own judgment.

"Wow?" The audience at the scene exclaimed, Zhang Guan's speed suddenly rose to a very high level, and he surpassed the two athletes who were behind in the blink of an eye.

"Why is this acceleration so fast? Is this a sprint for a 400-meter sprint? It's almost as fast as running a 200-meter dash! How could he still have so much energy reserves? Could it be that he didn't try his best at the beginning?"

At this moment, all the coaches and athletes in the field were moved, and Zhang Guan on the track surpassed one athlete after another, took the lead at the 360-meter position, and then quickly left the second place behind , It was not until 20 meters away from the finish line that Zhang Guan withdrew his strength and crossed the finish line relying on inertia.

46.05 seconds, this time is enough to qualify for the first place in the group in the indoor competition, however, it brought enough shock to others.

"Is this the old-fashioned way of running?" LaShaun Merritt immediately thought of the way of running at a constant speed in front and sprinting behind the back decades ago, but in his memory, the runners who used this way of running None of those athletes ran so fast in the final sprint.

"No, in the end his speed was too fast, it didn't look like he was running 400 meters at all. This shows that he has a lot of reserve energy in front of him. Since he has so much reserve energy, why does he still use this retro running method? ? If he adopts some mainstream running methods, he will definitely lead to the end at the second corner. Why does he put all his physical strength in the final straight sprint? Is he deliberately playing with his heartbeat?" Merritt scratched his head, how? Can't figure this out either.

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Running 400 meters is still a lot of physical exertion for athletes. In most track and field competitions, in order to allow athletes to better recover their physical strength, the 400-meter sprint is held once a day.

Zhang Guan has run two 60-meter sprints before, and now he has run another 400-meter race. His physical strength is already below the normal line, and two hours later, he will participate in the final of the 60-meter sprint.

In the US team, Leonard Scott was very excited at this time. He felt that he might beat Zhang Guan in the 60-meter sprint event.

"If Zhang Guan hadn't participated in the 400-meter sprint, I really wouldn't be his opponent, but he decided to kill himself to run the 400-meter dash. He must not have much energy now! When the competition comes, I will definitely win Zhang Guan!" Scott couldn't restrain the excitement in his heart, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he started to laugh.

Scott had played against Zhang Guan before. At last year's World Athletics Championships, in the 100-meter sprint competition, Scott was just a bastard. No one cared about him. Everyone's focus was on the relationship between Zhang Guan and Gatlin. contest. In that race, Scott only finished seventh, and this result was naturally ignored by everyone.

Then at the Track and Field Gold Grand Prix held in China, Scott met Zhang Guan again, and even wanted to collide with Zhang Guan on purpose. However, that time became the background wall again. Zhang Guan broke the men's 100-meter world record in that race and became the focus of the entire event. But Scott, no one remembered that he had participated in that race.

Today, facing a Zhang Guan who has little physical strength left, Scott felt that his chance had come.

"Zhang Guan! I remember that you are the holder of the world record in the 60-meter sprint! I remember that you have never been defeated in the competitions you participated in! The world's first flying man? So today, let me Leonard - Scott Te, kick you off the altar!"

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