All-round Athlete

Chapter 6 The rematch begins

"What? Break a national record!" Zhang Guan was taken aback by this task. Zhang Guan's best level in the past was only a national second-level athlete. The national record is so far away for Zhang Guan, and it is simply an unreachable peak.

"What kind of broken system is this? This task is impossible to complete! How can the national record be broken so easily? If I can break the national record, why would I stay here? I only ran 10.38 seconds, and the current national record is... ...By the way, what is the national record..."

Zhang Guan suddenly remembered that the national record at this time did not seem to be fast, it was 10.10 seconds away.

"How long is it in ten seconds?" Zhang Guan recalled it carefully. He only remembered Su Feiren who ran 9.99 seconds, but he still couldn't remember the current 100-meter record.

While thinking, Zhang Guan walked down the runway and came to Mr. Chen.

"Mr. Chen, I've advanced." Zhang Guan trotted all the way to Mr. Chen's side.

"You just fell behind the second place. You don't need to rush so hard in the preliminary round. You can guarantee the promotion. You don't need to try your best. After all, there will be a rematch in a while, so you need to save some energy." Chen Lao said.

"I see." Zhang Guan replied.

Veteran Chen pulled Zhang Guan closer, pointed to Director Yu beside him and introduced, "This is Director Yu, the coach of the national team's track and field team."

"Hello Director Yu!" Zhang Guan immediately greeted Director Yu. He had noticed Director Yu a long time ago. After all, a bald head is too conspicuous, and Director Yu is wearing a sportswear. Zhang Guan naturally imagined Director Yu as the coach of a certain team. But I didn't expect to be the coach of the national team.

"Old Chen is really smart, and he found a good seed again." Thinking of this, Director Yu patted Zhang Guan's shoulder and said, "Young man, I remember you. Run well in the next race, as long as The results are not worse than now, and if the national team has a training camp in the future, I will definitely count you in!"

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After watching Director Yu leave, Zhang Guancai asked, "Old Chen, what is the current national record for the 100m?"

"10 seconds 17. It was created by Zhou Wei at the National Athletics Grand Prix in 1998." Old Chen turned his head to look at Zhang Guan, and asked, "Why are you asking this?"

"It's okay. I'm just calculating how far I'm left." Zhang Guan thought to himself: "Remember, the current national record is Zhou Wei's 10.17 seconds, and I'm only 0.21 seconds behind. It doesn't seem too difficult. I just sprinted The skill has been upgraded, the effect and duration have been improved, and it may be able to reach this level."

Old Chen next to him chuckled, and said, "Don't look at the height of the mountain. To be honest, your current results have met my expectations. If you continue to run like this, if you are lucky, you might win that medal." .As for the national record, if you work harder in the future, you will have a chance."

When Chen Lao talked about the 100-meter record, he seemed a little regretful. This national record has been maintained for five years, and there is still no player to break it. In Zhang Guan's memory, this achievement has been maintained for thirteen years, and it was not broken by Su Feiren until the 2011 National Athletics Championships.

Since 2004, with the retiring of the outstanding athletes who emerged in the late 1990s, the domestic 100-meter sprint event has fallen into a low ebb stage. From 2004 to 2010, no domestic athlete ran under 10.20 seconds in the competition. within.

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The progress of the 100-meter competition was very fast, and the 18 rounds were finished in a blink of an eye. The coaches of each team quickly got the promotion list and the next group. At the same time, the name Zhang Guan quickly spread.

If the time of 10.38 seconds is placed in the previous year, it can be regarded as the fourth fastest time in China that year. However, domestic athletes generally performed better this year, and this time is currently ranked fifth in the year. Suddenly a person who can run this score will naturally attract the attention of the coaches of each team.

In the training system for domestic athletes, athletes receive training from an early age. The county-level sports team selects good seedlings from the school. The county-level team with good results will be selected by the city-level team. In the middle of the selection, there are even the selection of sports schools at all levels, etc. Excellent athletes have long been known to everyone under this layered selection system, and at the level of provincial teams, they know each other even more. It is no secret which team and which athletes are in good condition, and which team has excellent talents in the reserve force. Even if there are so-called "dark horses" in normal games, they are athletes that everyone already knows, but they just don't pay attention to them.

But today Zhang Guan obviously broke this tradition. His time of 10.38 seconds won the first place in the preliminary competition, and his name spread quickly. At this time, the coaches of each team realized that they knew nothing about this athlete. So the coaches of each team asked around, hoping to know the origin of Zhang Guan.

When everyone knew that Zhang Guan was a disciple personally selected by Mr. Chen, they seemed to take it for granted. Mr. Chen is a master in the field of track and field. It is only natural that the disciples he personally selected are so outstanding.

There will be a rematch shortly thereafter. There are five semi-finals in total, and the top three in each group plus the fourth place with the best score in the five groups will enter the semi-finals. There are a total of sixteen people, and the competition is still very fierce.

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Chen Wenzhong is the sprint coach of the track and field team of the Guizhou Provincial Team. When he was young, he was also a famous sprinter in China. He broke the national record five times, including breaking the national men's 100-meter sprint record in 10.20 seconds in 1996. After Chen Wenzhong retired last year, he stayed with his home team and became a coach.

At this moment, Chen Wenzhong is seriously studying with the promotion list and group list.

"The fastest time in the preliminary round is 10.38 seconds? Who rushed so hard? Don't you know that there will be two races this morning? His name is Zhang Guan? Where did he come from? I've never heard of such a person." Chen Wenzhong frowned and thought.

In the eyes of coaches at Chen Wenzhong's level, the time of 10.38 seconds can be the leader of the 100-meter team in some provincial teams, and the absolute main force in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces with the strongest sprints.

When coach Chen Wenzhong opened the semi-final grouping, he suddenly found that Zhang Guan was in a group with Pang Guibin, the main player in his team.

Pang Guibin was one of the contributors to the provincial team's 4x100m national championship in the Ninth National Games. This player had good results in training, but his best time in the official competition was 10.40 seconds. Obviously slower than Zhang Guan.

Coach Chen then looked down and found two more names in the list of the same group, namely Wang Peng, a local player from Jinmen, and Hu Kai, a player from Shancheng.

"Wang Peng is a player who can run within 10 seconds 30, and he is a local player in Jinmen. This group must recommend Wang Peng to the semi-finals; Hu Kai is an athlete who was discovered by Professor Li of Tsinghua University two years ago. Although he is 18 He started sprinting at the age of 10, but his performance has improved amazingly in the past year, and his time should be around 10.40." Coach Chen wrote his estimated time behind the athlete's name while thinking.

"Wang Peng is definitely the number one in this group. The next two promotion places should be our team's Pang Guibin and Shancheng's Hu Kai. But this sudden appearance of Zhang Guan is an unknown factor. If he is really that fast , Pang Guibin and Hu Kaizhong will definitely be eliminated." Coach Chen drew a circle on Zhang Guan's name, and then put a question mark.

After a few minutes of thinking, Coach Chen called Pang Guibin to him, and said in a low voice, "You should pay attention to Zhang Guan who is the first in the preliminary round; it may be a coincidence that he can run 10.38 seconds, but it cannot be ruled out that he really has this opportunity." Strength, so don’t hold back when you run, the main goal is to get out of the semi-finals!”

At the same time, the coaches of the Jinmen team and the Shancheng team are also using the same words to tell Wang Peng and Hu Kai. These coaches may not have good performances in previous games, but their brains are better than one. Originally, there was an unknown factor such as Zhang Guan in the eight-to-three middle school in this group, so the coach was more inclined to be prudent in the choice of strategy.

Chen Lao also called Zhang Guan to the front, ready to give pre-match guidance.

Looking at the list of groups in his hand, Mr. Chen wanted to introduce to Zhang Guan the notable characteristics of the other athletes in the same group, but then Mr. Chen felt that it was useless to talk about the technical characteristics of a beginner, so he told Zhang Guan It may not be able to understand it, and it will take time to digest and understand it. So Mr. Chen simply put down the group list and said, "Run well in a while, and strive to qualify!"

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The organizers of the competition took into account the factor of strength when they were divided into groups. Each of the five groups had two to three strong athletes. Therefore, there were no surprises in the next rematch, and the strong players successfully advanced to the semi-finals .

Zhang Guan's group played in the last round, and with the presence of the strongest local player Wang Peng, there were many more spectators.

The moment Zhang Guan stood on his own track, he immediately attracted most of the attention inside and outside the arena. Both athletes and coaches wanted to know who the athlete who could run 10.38 seconds in the preliminary race was. Even the referee I couldn't help but look at Zhang Guan more.

But the eyes of the vast majority of people looking at Zhang Guan are full of suspicion. Zhang Guan looks to be seventeen or eighteen years old, and he was unknown before. It is impossible to have too strong a competitive level. The result may be a coincidence, and this rematch will also be the end of his competition.

On the runway, Zhang Guan had a smile on his face and looked at the finish line ahead with a look of anticipation.

"The effect of expert sprinting skills has been greatly improved. I don't know if I can break the national record with all my strength. But this is only a rematch. As long as I can qualify, there should be no need to do my best." Zhang Guan thought to himself .

At this moment, the starting gun sounded, and Zhang Guan rushed out immediately, but immediately found that he was ahead by half a body!

Zhang Guan started to fall behind again...

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