All-round Athlete

Chapter 829 Entering Long-distance Running

Although Zhang Guan has not participated in track and field competitions for a long time, but in the two sprint events of 100 meters and 200 meters, Zhang Guan is still the biggest favorite to win the championship. Odds of the second is Jamaica's Usain Bolt.

In fact, Bolt has almost dominated the two events of 100 meters and 200 meters in the past two years. Without Zhang Guan, Bolt is really a rare opponent. But even so, Bolt is still only considered to win the second favorite.

If it is other athletes who have not appeared in the track and field for two or three years, they will definitely be forgotten, and there will be almost no odds of winning the championship. But Zhang Guan is different, as he is the world record holder, as long as he Before retiring, he must be the most attention-grabbing powerhouse on the field.

What's more, before the 2008 Olympics, Zhang Guan did not participate in track and field competitions for a year. As a result, he broke world records one after another in the Olympics. With this precedent, when the gaming company set the odds, it would never dare to underestimate Zhang Guan in the slightest.

"Long time no see. Is Bolt better than before? In 2009, he ran 100 meters in 9.58 seconds, which almost broke my world record. In 2019, the performance has not improved, it should have reached the limit, if I don't participate in the 100 meters and 200 meters, I believe that the champion is none other than Bolt!"

"In the 400-meter event, the US team seems to have declined in recent years, but Central American and Caribbean countries have risen. Who is this Killarney James? I have never heard of it before. The winning odds are second only to me, and America's Merritt flat?"

Zhang Guan went to the Internet to check the information of this man named Killarney James, only to find out that this is a 19-year-old teenager from Grenada in the Caribbean.

"19 years old this year, 20 years old next year, so young! Last year's World Youth Champion, and able to run within 44 seconds." Zhang Guan silently remembered this young teenager.

"Let's look at the middle-distance running again. There are so many names I don't recognize!" Zhang Guan looked around. Although Monaco's Igud and Bahrain's Ali are on the list, they are no longer popular candidates to win the championship. Kenya, Ethiopia, and Algeria, the three middle-distance running powerhouses in Africa, have emerged a group of powerful middle-distance runners.

"Back then, the Middle East countries naturalized a large number of African track and field athletes, which indeed increased their strength in a short period of time. However, in the past two years, the pace of naturalization of athletes in the Middle East countries has obviously slowed down a lot, and what followed was The performance has plummeted. Spending money to poach other people's excellent athletes is not a long-term solution after all, the key is to improve the level of one's own country and cultivate its own excellent athletes."

Zhang Guan couldn't help but think of Chinese football. The clubs in the Chinese Super League are crazily poaching big-name players and coaches, spending hundreds of millions of dollars. Not as good as a year. There are more and more high-rise buildings in the city, but there are fewer and fewer venues for activities. Children's time is all taken up by various cram schools, and even some grassroots sports schools have given up on training football players.

Zhang Guan remembers that when he was in middle school, he would often play football with his classmates after school. Many of his classmates would collect posters of Beckham or Ronaldo, and more than ten years later, they would probably talk about League of Legends most. And those fresh Korean stars.

Zhang Guan looked at the long-distance running event again, but what surprised Zhang Guan was that the biggest favorite to win the championship was not Ethiopian, Kenyan, Algerian, emerging Eritrea and Uganda, but a British!

And in the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters, the biggest favorite to win the championship is the British.

"Mo Farah, another long-distance running king after Bekele!" Zhang Guan frowned.

Ethiopian player Bekele, known as the "King of Long-distance Running in the World", is the Olympic record holder and world record holder for the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter long-distance running. Fly away part of the million dollar jackpot.

But now, Bekele is old, and he is still unable to resist the invasion of age after all. The British player, Mo Farah, will succeed Bekele as the "King of Long-distance Running in the New World".

Farah was born in Somalia and came to the UK as a refugee when he was 8 years old and became a British citizen. In the era when Bekele ruled long-distance running, Farah can only be regarded as a world-class level, not the world's top. However, Farah is a late-blooming athlete. He began to emerge in 2010 and broke the European records of 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters in succession. The current world ranking given by the IAAF is that Farah ranks first in the world in both 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters.

Zhang Guan has an impression of Farah. He remembers one game. Farah fell down in the second half, but he continued to fight after getting up, and finally won the championship.

"If I remember correctly, the gold medals in the 5,000m and 10,000m long-distance races at the London Olympics next year will all belong to Farah!" Zhang Guan suddenly shook his head helplessly.

"At first, I thought that I would never enter the field of long-distance running in my life, but now it seems that I am afraid that I will really go to long-distance running! If it was three years ago, I really would not dare to try it, and in the past three years In the past, I have more stamina than before, and I should be able to handle long-distance races."

At this time, Zhang Guan has already made up his mind, he will enter the long-distance running next year!

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"5,000 meters and 10,000 meters are already two events. I can still participate in another track and field competition. The long jump and triple jump are the strengths of the British team. Let's see what the British have in these two events. People have hope to win the championship!" Zhang Guan found the long jump and triple jump events.

In recent years, the level of the international long jump has been declining. In the two years when Zhang Guan participated in the long jump, other athletes could jump over 8.7 meters. In 2010, the best long jump in the world was only 8.47 meters. , It will even drop below 8.4 meters in the future.

The early batch of outstanding athletes are no longer active, and these long jump players who are active now, so in Zhang Guan’s view, they are all like weak chickens. Jumping more than 8.1 meters is considered to be very good, and they can even win medals , You can win the gold by jumping 8.2 meters. In the past few years, jumping 8.1 meters was guaranteed to participate in the next three trial jumps, and 8.2 meters was only the result of Zhang Guan's first three trial jumps.

"British players Gray Rutherford and Chris Tomlinson are rising players in recent years. Rutherford's winning odds are second only to me. In this case, the last event of track and field is to choose Long jump!"

Zhang Guan's last project is triathlon. Triathlon can also be regarded as a traditional advantage event of the UK. In this event, the UK has the strength to get three places to participate in the competition. In a sports powerhouse like the United States, only two athletes in the triathlon are eligible to participate in the Olympics.

At the same time, there are two powerful players in the British team, namely Alistair Brownlee and Johnny Brown. Both of them are famous triathletes and both have the strength to get gold medals.

Now that he has decided to enter the long-distance running event, and he can ride a road bike, he is only 1.5 kilometers away from the triathlon. Zhang Guan only needs to learn one or two long-distance swimming skills, and he can handle the triathlon the match of.

So far, Zhang Guan has also confirmed all the competitions he will participate in in the London Olympics. They are track and field 5,000-meter long-distance race, 10,000-meter long-distance race, long jump; road cycling road race, individual time trial; track cycling race, Keirin race; boxing above 91 kg; tennis men's singles; and triathlon.

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