All-round Athlete

Chapter 151 The King of Athletics Abnormal physical strength?

At 6:15 p.m. Moscow time on the 11th, the 400-meter semi-finals began.

In the group stage, Zhang Guan did not meet a strong opponent, and only had a time of 46.05 seconds as a reference. In the semi-finals, he was in the same group with the two players of the US team, namely the future star of the United States, LaShawn Merritt, and Milton Campbell, who is highly expected to win the championship.

Zhang Guan vaguely remembers that in the future Beijing Olympic Games, the US team won the gold, silver and bronze medals in the men's 400-meter sprint event. LaShawn Merritt. But now the 20-year-old Merritt is still just a young player of the US team. Among the athletes participating in the track and field indoor competition this time, the leader of the US team in the 400-meter section is Milton Campbell.

Campbell is also an experienced player. Although he has not won any awards in his career, he has always been in good form. He belongs to the kind of athlete who cannot win against strong opponents and cannot lose against weak ones.

For the audience, the men's 400 meters did not seem to attract much attention, because 15 minutes ago, the women's pole vault competition had already started, and the Russian pole vault queen Isinbayeva was about to appear. Everyone pays attention to Isinbayeva, and there are no one to watch the semi-finals of the 400-meter sprint.

The rhythmic applause at the scene made Zhang Guan feel a little depressed. He remembered that the game was interrupted by Isinbayeva during the rematch of the Athens Olympic Games. Today, the same situation happened again.

For this reason, the men's 400-meter sprint semi-final had to be postponed for a few minutes. After Isinbayeva successfully jumped over the bar, the starter signaled the athletes to stand on the starting block.

Merritt and Campbell looked in Zhang Guan's direction at the same time. The time of 46.05 seconds was not too much pressure for the two. The key point was that Zhang Guan's running method was so strange that they couldn't figure it out. Why Zhang Guan can explode so fast in the final sprint.

However, the starter's gunshots sounded soon, and Merritt and Campbell could experience Zhang Guan's special running style on the track.

The first 100 meters of the race was still uneventful. Everyone ran normally without any mistakes. Zhang Guan's sense of rhythm looked very good. The speed he showed was definitely at the level of the world's top players.

Next, the athlete entered the second 100 meters, Zhang Guan did not change his rhythm, and Campbell seemed to increase his speed slightly, while Merritt's pace slowly began to increase.

Merritt stole a trick from Jeremy Variner. After entering the straight, try to keep the frequency of steps unchanged, and then expand the range of steps. Although he has not mastered this technique very well, It is also far behind Variner, but at least he has shown his good talent.

Variner's technique is not something everyone can learn.

We normal people can feel it when we walk. If we deliberately increase our pace, the posture of the body will change and the physical exertion will also increase. For 400-meter sprinters, deliberately increase the pace in a certain section of the track. , which also means changes in rhythm and physical exertion, so it becomes a difficult technique to master.

For example, Liu Fei's training on the first bar instead of eight steps from seven steps is actually equivalent to taking one-seventh of the distance for each previous step, and it took Liu Fei several years to complete this change. master. What Liu Feiren changed was only the distance of 13.72 meters in front of the first hurdle, while Variner needed to change the entire straight runway area, so the difficulty can be imagined.

At this time, Merritt felt very good. He had just started to learn the technique of taking long strides on a straight track, but in today's game, he felt that he had already played the best level in his usual practice.

However, after running for tens of meters like this, Merritt still had problems adjusting his pace. His rhythm seemed a little flustered, and he had to slow down a little to adjust his rhythm. The adjustment actually affects the speed very much. His previous efforts are not in vain at this moment, but he is slightly behind Kebbel and Zhang Guan.

In the third 100-meter race, Campbell slightly reduced the pace and increased the rhythm slightly, and he was about to start sprinting!

Campbell is still using the Michael Johnson running method, starting to accelerate at about 250 meters, then making slight adjustments, and then immediately entering the final sprint.

Campbell stands out at this moment. After all, he is a very capable player. Even if everyone accelerates at the same time, Campbell can still gain an advantage.

And Merritt's acceleration was later than Campbell's, and he seemed to be in a hurry.

As for Zhang Guan, the rhythm remains the same.

"I'm in the lead! Well, let's go to the finish line in one breath." Campbell took a look at Merritt's situation and felt that he would continue to run like this. Merritt should have no chance to beat himself!

And Merritt turned his attention to Zhang Guan.

"I'm already ahead of Zhang Guan. Can I qualify for the second place in the group? Wait a minute, Zhang Guan is using the same running method as in the group stage!"

The next moment, the leading Campbell entered the last 100 meters first. At this time, he had exhausted a lot of physical strength, but he still forcibly increased his speed again for the final sprint.

Merritt followed closely behind. At this moment, Merritt showed the potential of a future sprint star. His physical reserves were better than Campbell's, and his sprint speed was also fast. He began to slowly approach Campbell.

"Come on, we will surpass Campbell soon!" Merritt thought to himself. And at this moment, a red figure suddenly appeared beside him, and then flew past very quickly, heading straight for Campbell in front!

"It's Zhang Guan!" Merritt's eyes widened. Zhang Guan once again showed a speed that does not belong to the 400-meter sprint, and this time, his sprint was faster than the group stage!

Yesterday, Merritt watched Zhang Guan's 400-meter sprint on the spot, but the feeling of watching the match was completely different from the actual competition. During the match, Merritt just felt that Zhang Guan's sprint was incredible, but in the actual contest, When Zhang Guan passed him at such a fast speed, Merritt suddenly felt a sense of despair.

"Zhang Guan runs so fast, how can I chase him?"

For Zhang Guan, the final sprint became a performance of surpassing his opponents. He surpassed Merritt, Campbell, and all the people in front of him.

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Behind the hotel where the athletes stayed was a school with an open-air athletics field.

Campbell, dressed in sportswear, trotted into the school and ran towards the track and field, but the school security guard just gave him a look and did not stop him.

"How did Zhang Guan do it? Is it true that the rhythm of the first 300 meters is completely unchanged and can really retain more energy, but it is impossible to sprint so fast! I always feel that something is wrong, I have to try it myself OK." Campbell ran to the track of the track and field, but saw a familiar figure speeding on the track. It was LaShawn Merritt.

Merritt has run into the second corner at this time, his rhythm is very steady, but it looks a little strange, Campbell can clearly feel that Merritt's speed is slower than usual.

Next, Merritt didn't accelerate at the original acceleration point, or he didn't accelerate in the corner at all. He ran into the final straight, then started to speed up suddenly, and rushed towards the finish line.

Merritt's sprint speed is very fast, much faster than the usual final sprint, but as the distance gets closer and closer to the finish line, Merritt's speed slows down, Campbell can see that Merritt is struggling, or can Said that at the last moment, Merritt had exhausted his strength.

Merritt crossed the finish line, looked at the stopwatch in his hand, and shook his head in disappointment.

"No, I follow Zhang Guan's running method, and it's almost 50 seconds! And if I run like this, the final sprint can't reach Zhang Guan's speed at all, and my physical strength can't support the finish line! What the hell is Zhang Guan doing?" Did it?"

"La Sean!" Campbell's voice sounded from not far away: "Are you experimenting with Zhang Guan's running method?"

"Yes." Merritt nodded, and continued: "But I can't do it. I have tried it twice, and I deliberately slowed down a little in front to reserve more energy, but in the end it was far worse than not doing it. The sprint speed of Shang Zhangguan and the distribution of energy are big problems, I can't keep sprinting to the finish line at that speed."

"You time me, I'll try." Campbell said standing on the starting line.

One minute later, Campbell also reached the finish line. He didn't ask about his score at all, because he knew that his score was almost 50 seconds away.

"How can there be such a strange running method in the world!" Campbell couldn't help complaining: "I ran 300 meters ahead, even if I ran very slowly, the remaining physical strength is impossible to sprint at that speed! Is that guy in Guan an alien!"

Merritt continued: "I think if I could double my physical strength, I should be able to do that kind of sprint in the final stage."

"Twice as much? LaShawn, what joke are you talking about! How could someone in the world have such abnormal physical strength..." Campbell's words stopped suddenly. As an experienced professional athlete, he knew what Merritt said That's right, if you really have twice the physical strength than usual, you can indeed do what Zhang Guan did.

"Could it be that Zhang Guan has such perverted physical strength?" Campbell gasped. He suddenly realized that the strongest point of Zhang Guan, the world's number one flying man, might not be his explosive power beyond ordinary people, but his ability beyond the scope of normal human beings. physical fitness.

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