All-round Athlete

Chapter 223 The Leader (6)

In terms of middle distance running, the United States is not the strongest. They prefer the exciting event of sprinting. As for other countries in the Americas, there is also a lack of top athletes in middle-distance running. It can be said that the middle-distance running events in the entire Americas can only be regarded as upper-middle.

In the pattern of middle-distance running in the world, there are three strong teams in West Asia, Africa, and Europe.

In Europe, there are excellent middle-distance runners in sports powers such as Britain, France, and Italy, and of course they are all black runners. Because these countries have a colonial history in Africa, there are some excellent black athletes in their own countries. However, in countries that colonized late, such as Germany, there are fewer blacks in the country, so there are not many black athletes, and there are no very good runners in middle-distance running.

African countries have always been the cradle of middle-distance runners. Among them, Kenya, Morocco, and Algeria are traditional powerhouses in middle-distance running, and they are also the main exporting countries of athletes; the main target of exporting athletes from African countries is the Gulf countries in West Asia.

Middle-distance running is also a traditional strength of West Asian countries. Originally, the climate and eating habits of West Asian regions are relatively easy to produce middle-distance runners, and the arrival of the African naturalized army is even more powerful for West Asian countries. The physical talent of the African Naturalized Corps, coupled with the material security and training level of the West Asian countries, has created the strength of the West Asian mid-runners in recent years.

When it comes to sprinters in West Asia, one has to mention Rashid Ramzi.

Rashid Ramzi is originally from Morocco. Like many African track and field athletes, he started practicing track and field in order to get rid of poverty. Although Morocco is a West African country, its main ethnic group is Arabs, and its official language is Arabic, so Ramzi applied for Bahraini citizenship when he was 18 years old, and also served in Bahrain's military service. In the next few years, he quickly grew into the world's top middle-distance runner.

In the Athens Olympics, Ramzi was the favorite to win the 1500m event at the time, but he withdrew from the race in the semi-finals due to physical discomfort, which unfortunately ended his first Olympic journey. However, in the subsequent 2005 World Athletics Championships, Ramzi won the world championships in the 800m and 1500m events in one fell swoop, and achieved the title of king of middle-distance running.

Then Ramz took a break due to injury and did not come back until the second half of 2006. Before Ramz participated in the Athletics World Cup, it was more to adjust his state, but now Ramz's state has almost returned to its peak time.

At this time, in front of the starting line, Ramzi closed his eyes tightly, and coach Virgil's instructions kept appearing in his mind.

"After starting for a while, don't care about other players, don't follow, just lead until the end of the race!"

Ramzi opened his eyes, and he felt that what Coach Virgil said was indeed the best tactic for him. If anyone among the contestants on the field has the strength to lead the race until the end of the competition, it is probably Ramzi, whose strength is definitely the best in the world.

At the same time, Zhang Guan glanced at Ramz inadvertently, because Zhang Guan knew that Ramz would be his biggest obstacle in winning the 1500m championship.

In the past two years, Zhang Guan has participated in many international track and field competitions, and has met Ramzi many times. Zhang Guan has personally witnessed Ramzi winning many middle-distance running championships, so Zhang Guan naturally knows Ramzi. Ramzi has the world's top strength in the 1500 meters, and more importantly, in Zhang Guan's memory, Ramzi will be the 1500 meters champion in the next Olympic Games.

"I seem to have watched that game at the time. I remember that Ramzi was the leader all the way, and finally won the championship with a huge advantage. It was an Olympic game. There are really strong players like clouds, and high-level athletes are better than others. There are so many Asian Games, and Ramz was able to lead all the way to win the championship in the final. His strength is indeed far superior to other players. If this is the case, I will follow Ramz for a while, which should be the most cost-effective of."

Zhang Guan instantly formulated a tactic for this game for himself, that is, to run closely behind Ramzi.

...

In this competition, two contestants from Qatar entered the final, namely Najim and Suleiman, so the atmosphere in the audience was very warm, and the audience was looking forward to the local Qatari contestant winning a gold medal. outside. Bahrain's Ali, Saudi Arabia's Savin, Japan's Kobayashi Shiwa, and Iran's Mudila, who had previously played against Zhang Guan in the preliminaries, also entered the final.

In addition to the two Bahraini players, the two Qatari players are also very strong. In addition, they are playing at home, so they must have some advantages, so Najim and Suleiman also have a high call for the championship. The Saudi player Savin and the Iranian player Mudira are relatively weaker, and they can be thankful if they can win a medal. Others, such as Kobayashi Shikazu and others, although they are all 1500 in their respective countries M is the strongest, but in this arena, probably only have the role of accompanying runners.

While enjoying the cheers from the home audience, Qatari player Suleiman said to his compatriot Bashar Najem: "I fought against Ramzi in the preliminaries, and I feel that his condition has not yet returned to its peak. We have a chance to win the championship in one game! Your 1500-meter strength is better than mine, and I will help you open the way in the next game."

Najim nodded: "We are playing at home, and of course we are determined to win this championship! But apart from Ramzi, we have to be careful about Zhang Guan. In the previous preliminaries, I was in the same group as Zhang Guan. He won the championship in the final sprint. It was very fast, and I almost passed me in the blink of an eye. Although I didn't try my best at the time, to be honest, I have never seen someone run so fast in the final stage of 1500 meters!"

"Don't worry about Zhang Guan. He is a sprinter after all. His explosive power is stronger than ours. It is normal to sprint fast in the end. Everyone has reserved strength in the preliminaries, so Zhang Guan will still have so much physical strength in the end. Sprint. But now it’s the final, I don’t think Ramzi, Ali, or Savin will save their strength anymore. Maybe Zhang Guan’s physical strength won’t be able to hold on in the middle of the run Suleiman paused, and continued: "You see, Zhang Guanlun is much taller and heavier than us, and his physical exertion must be much higher than ours."

"But from the video of the preliminaries, Zhang Guan seems to be very good at following and running." Najim said.

Suleiman smiled slightly: "Then let's run faster so that he can't keep up!"

Meanwhile, Bela Mansor Ali, who doesn't know his real age, is standing with Ramzi.

"Bella, you have to follow closely later, otherwise I will throw you far away!" Ramzi said.

"Follow tighter? Get far away?" Ali was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood Ramzi's intentions. He asked in surprise, "Rashid, are you going to lead?"

Ramzi nodded, and continued: "You should know what it means for me to lead!"

Ali sucked in a breath of air. Leading is a more physically demanding job. As the world's top player, Ramzi must be planning to lead all the way to the finish line if he chooses to lead.

Seeing Ramzi's confident expression, Ali seemed to feel that last year's middle runner king was back again. Ali really nodded solemnly: "Rashid, I will try my best to keep up with you!"

...

The time for athletes to prepare quickly passed, and with a gunshot, the men's 1,500-meter final of the Doha Asian Games officially began.

"The race has started! The players started to cut to the innermost track, huh? Ramz! Look at Ramz!" The commentator's voice made everyone focus on Ramz in an instant.

After running together, Ramzi began to speed up in a straight line instead of merging to the inside. After 70 meters, Ramzi was already in the leading position, and then he started to move to the innermost The runway drives past. With Ramzi's technique, when he moved to the innermost track, he was just stuck in front of the second runner.

At this time, the Iranian player Mudila happened to be in second place. Mudila grabbed a relatively leading position after the start of the game, but he didn't want to lead, because leading is a very exhausting thing, so Mudila When Dila saw Ramz coming, he didn't compete with Ramz for the position, and simply gave way to Ramz, allowing Ramz to occupy the leading position.

"Ramzi is trying to take the lead on purpose! Does he want to lead to the end?" Suleiman of the Qatar team immediately understood Ramzi's intention. He looked at his teammate Najem and asked the end with his eyes. To follow or not to follow, and Najim immediately understood and issued a signal to follow and run.

At this time, in the broadcast hall of CCTV, the guest director Sun also saw the clues, and only heard him say: "It seems that Ramzi is very confident in his state. He rushed to the front as soon as he came up. If I guess If you are right, Ramzi probably intends to lead the race all the way to the finish line."

"Director Sun, we all know that in middle and long-distance running, the leader needs to spend more physical strength, so if he leads the whole race to the finish line, does it mean that the physical strength is also very great?" The commentator immediately asked .

"Yes, so only those strong players have the ability to lead the race all the way to the finish line. As for whether Ramz is going to do this now, we still need to observe and see if Ramz is going to Speed ​​up." Director Sun explained.

But just as Director Sun finished speaking, Ramzi really sped up.

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