All-round Athlete

Chapter 433 The strength of the B-standard players

Since the 1500-meter middle-distance race is a race regardless of track, there will be twelve contestants participating in each preliminaries, and the top five in each group and the other four with the best results will enter the semi-finals.

In the first group of the first round of the 1500m preliminaries, Ramzi, a Bahraini who is the most popular player to win the championship, ran 3 minutes 32 seconds 89 and easily won the promotion.

During the game, Ramz led the way almost all the way. Obviously, his strength has an absolute advantage in this group. Even the second place in the group was 2 seconds behind by him.

"You did a great job! Ramzi, you are the first in the group, congratulations!" Ali, who is also a Bahraini player, came on stage and congratulated you.

"It's your turn to play next, come on!" Ramzi continued encouragingly: "Don't take it lightly for a while, South Africa's Deventer, England's Baddeley, and Morocco's Iguid are all here. In your group, they are all players who have the strength to enter the final."

"And Zhang Guan." Ali continued.

"Don't worry about Zhang Guan, didn't I tell you before, Zhang Guan didn't even reach the Olympic A standard, an Olympic B standard player, you just ignore him. He is not the same Zhang Guan back then." Ramzi said explain.

"Judging from the 100-meter preliminaries this morning, Zhang Guan seems to be in good condition. His result is the fastest among all the competitors." Ali said with some concern.

"Ali, you are worrying too much. The 100m is completely different from the 1500m. If I were Zhang Guan, I might as well give up the 1500m earlier and focus on the sprint. At least I can guarantee the gold medal in the sprint. " Ramzi patted Ali's shoulder while talking, and continued: "The opportunity to participate in the Olympics is rare in a lifetime, and we in Bahrain have never won an Olympic gold medal. If we win the gold medal, we will become Bahrain's Hero. Come on!"

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The second group of contestants has already stood on the starting line.

Zhang Guan turned towards the surrounding track, and he didn't know anyone except Ali, a Bahraini. However, the players' sports vests have their national flags printed on them.

"South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Morocco, Brazil, Cartel, Ethiopia, Bahrain... This group of players has a complete range of nationalities. I heard that Kenya and Algeria are also good at middle-distance running, but this group is not Morocco's mid-range running seems to be very strong. I remember that Ramzi is a Moroccan who was naturalized in Bahrain. If this Moroccan runs fast enough, I will follow behind." Zhang Guan looked at the Moroccan Iguid.

At this time, the other contestants also planned to defeat their opponents and qualify for the qualifying round.

Many people have already noticed Zhang Guan. After all, Zhang Guan's reputation is there. He will attract many people's attention when he appears in any arena.

However, most of the 1500-meter middle-distance runners did not regard Zhang Guan as a competitor. After all, they entered the Olympic Games with the B standard. Those who are very lucky may be able to enter the second round, but they will definitely miss the final.

Another point is that China's strength in middle-distance running has always been the lowest in the world. Everyone's attention is focused on a few powerhouses in middle-distance running, and few people pay attention to Zhang Guan's strength.

Zhang Guan has participated in only one international competition in the middle-distance running event, the Asian Games. Asian players may know that Zhang Guan has won the championship in the Asian Games, but they are not from Asia. Obviously, they will not care about the Asian Games. , I don’t know that Zhang Guan has achieved good results in middle distance running.

The audience at the scene had high hopes for Zhang Guan. In the eyes of the Chinese audience, Zhang Guan was the undefeated God of War. As long as he appeared on the field, it represented the number one and victory.

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"The game has started! The players started to merge. Oh, Zhang Guan's merge was not smooth, and was blocked by other players!" The commentator's tone was obviously angry, as if the player who blocked Zhang Guan I did something unreasonable.

Zhang Guan did not have a smooth start. Although his lap times were good, Zhang Guan was not a middle-distance runner after all, so rushing lanes had never been Zhang Guan's forte. In domestic competitions, Zhang Guan can occasionally take advantage of some advantages, but in the Olympic arena, there are so many strong players, and any competitor is stronger than domestic athletes, Zhang Guan naturally can't take advantage of it cheap.

Although Zhang Guan didn't fall behind at this time, he was caught in the middle, and there was another player on his right side. It can be said that Zhang Guan can't advance or retreat now.

If it is other athletes, such a position like a sandwich must be very uncomfortable. Not only must you maintain a certain rhythm with the athletes in front, but you must also be careful of the athletes around you to prevent them from being stuffed in front of you. But Zhang Guan has the help of the "follow and run" skill, so he doesn't have to worry about this at all. He just needs to use his skills and run down with the players in front of him.

The level of preliminaries is uneven, there are the world's top strong players, and there are weak chickens who barely reach the Olympic B standard. In the Olympics, how big is the gap between the strong and the weak? Ramzi, who appeared in the first group of the group stage just now, has already given the answer. Ramz's final score was 3 minutes 32.89 seconds, while the last Australian player in the first group had a score of 3 minutes 53.95 seconds, a difference of more than 21 seconds between the two.

At this time, the leader was a Brazilian player from Sosa. The natural enthusiasm and impulsiveness of the South American made him rush forward as soon as the gunshot sounded. It's just that his leading speed can only be said to be quite satisfactory, neither fast nor slow.

For those capable players, it is more than enough to keep up with this speed, but for those players with poor strength, they have to work very hard to keep up with this speed.

According to the normal situation of 1500 meters, this time period should be followed by everyone maintaining a stable rhythm, and there will not be much change in the ranking. However, in the middle position, there is one person who does not want to follow this way, and that is Bahrain. Ali.

Ali has been paying attention to Zhang Guan. At this time, he found that Zhang Guan was following behind without rushing, and the rhythm of following was very good, which was exactly the same as that of the players in front. Ali instantly remembered the scene at the Asian Games two years ago.

"The Asian Games two years ago was also like this. At the beginning, Zhang Guan was running along honestly, but in the final sprint, he ran out of abnormal speed and directly left us behind. It seems that today's Zhang Guan wants to repeat the old trick again, no, I have to increase the speed, so that even if he doesn’t make it to the top five in the group, he will still have an advantage if he is ranked according to time in the end.”

Ali thought of this, turned out of the crowd, and rushed directly to the leading position, and then Ali began to speed up, obviously preparing to speed up the pace.

"Ali ran to the front, and he speeded up!" South African player Deventer was very happy when he saw this scene, and he also speeded up immediately.

"This is the best way to eliminate some weak players first, especially those Olympic B-standard athletes. They have no hope of advancing, so don't make trouble, just follow behind honestly!"

There was pride in Deventer's eyes, and he strode away and followed.

"Ali's leading speed is quite fast. If he leads at this speed, I guess only half of the people can keep up." When Deventer took advantage of the curve ahead, he turned his head and looked back, just as he said Unexpectedly, several players have indeed fallen behind.

"There seem to be more people following up than I expected. Huh? Why is Zhang Guan also following up!"

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