Almighty Coach

Of course, Dai Li hopes that Sean Ford will win the championship. This championship is not only an honor, but also because there are many business opportunities behind it.

Li Dai and Sean Ford signed a revenue-sharing training contract. The more advertising sponsorship Ford can get, the more share Li Dai will get. Athletes' advertising endorsement income is linked to their fame. The best way is to get better results, win more championships, get more recognition from the audience, and fame will naturally come up.

However, Alexander and Dai Li signed an ordinary training contract. Although Dai Li's fee was also high, it was not a revenue share after all. For Dai Li, it is the best for Alexander to win the championship. It doesn't matter if he doesn't win the championship. As long as the results are good, it can reflect the effect of Dai Li's training. Today, Alexander's ability to run within 9.90 seconds has already proved Dai Li's training level, and no one will be dissatisfied with the training effect.

The 200-meter race has slightly fewer competitors than the 100-meter race, and the number of rounds of the race is also one less, but the intensity of competition is not much less. It's just that Sean Ford's absolute strength is dominant, so in the previous preliminaries and rematch, Sean Ford didn't need to show 100% strength at all, and he could easily pass the test.

In the semi-finals, Sean Ford finally got serious, and finally advanced to the final with the first place in the group.

The 200-meter final was scheduled on the last day of the Olympic trials, and it was also the final event. This day happened to be a weekend, so the audience in the stadium was already full, and the ratings of the TV broadcast had also increased significantly. Obviously good news for the 200m final.

Generally, in large-scale track and field competitions, the finale event is the relay race, but in the United States, the track and field competition is signed up by individuals, so there will be no team events such as relay races.

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The athlete's locker room was a little empty. After all, there was only the last match left, and there were only eight athletes participating. In the huge locker room, there were only about twenty people including the coach.

Foster from Boston should be regarded as a relatively big-name player among the contestants. At the age of 25, he is at the peak of his career as a sprinter. Sprinters at this age are often the strongest.

In the 100-meter sprint competition three days ago, Foster's score was second only to Wharton and Alexander, and he won a bronze medal. Today he will fight for the 200-meter qualifying place. Since Alexander and Walton did not participate in the 200-meter competition, once Foster will enter the top three, he will become the only one in the US team to participate in both 100-meter and 200-meter competitions players.

At this moment, Foster was sitting on a bench lacing his running shoes, and his coach stood beside him, whispering some instructions.

"You have to pay attention to Meier. Although he didn't even make it to the final in the 100-meter sprint, his cornering skills are very good, so in the 200-meter event, his strength is very strong. His This advantage is exactly your weakness, so if you are behind when you come out of the corner, don't panic, sprint forward with all your strength, and use your level in the 100-meter sprint, and you will definitely be able to overtake him. .Come on, try to win a championship!"

Foster nodded and asked, "I heard that there is a former world champion in the final."

"You're talking about Sean Ford! I haven't seen him on the field for a long time, and I thought he had retired. After all, when he won the World Championships, you haven't become a professional athlete, have you?" ?” said the coach.

"I was still in high school, my senior year, and was preparing for a university interview. I wanted to find a better university that could provide me with a full scholarship, so I didn't pay attention to that World Championship at that time." Foster then asked: "Then should we pay special attention to Sean Ford? After all, he is the champion of the World Championships, so he should be very strong."

"Strong strength? Then why haven't you met him in the past two years?" The coach smiled relaxedly: "You don't need to pay attention to him at all, that guy is just a flash in the pan, and he hasn't appeared since the World Championships. In recent years, he can only be reduced to participating in some small competitions. So many people know that he just got lucky to win the World Championships. I remember someone gave him a nickname a few years ago, but It’s just spread on a small scale, and not many people know about it. Can you guess what this nickname is?”

"What is it?" Foster asked immediately.

"The worst world championship champion in history!" The coach replied with a smile: "So you don't have to worry about him at all. This kind of player has no strength at all. I heard that he ran within 20 seconds in Miami a few days ago, but he didn't Maybe every day has such bad luck!"

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Sean Ford took a deep breath, with an expression of enjoyment on his face, the taste of the final made him feel a rippling feeling in his heart.

He has not appeared in the final of such a large track and field event for a long time.

There are not many 200-meter races. In recent years, Ford has to run 100 meters at the same time, but his long and short legs have greatly hindered him in the 100-meter sprint, so slightly larger track and field competitions, It is difficult for Ford to have the opportunity to show his face, otherwise Ford would not participate in that kind of small game. The so-called poor equipment and low level, you can only brush some copies with relatively low difficulty.

But it was precisely because Ford was reduced to participating in small competitions that Dai Li met him.

Although Ford has entered the finals of the Olympic trials, he is still the most inconspicuous. He has not achieved any decent results for too many years, and his name is no longer famous. Those who know him have already recognized him. Forgotten, and new audiences will not recognize him as the former world champion.

A coach like Sebastian, who has always been active in the front line of track and field sports, has to think for a long time before he can remember who Ford is after hearing Ford's name, so the ordinary audience will forget Ford, It's also a reasonable thing.

On both sides of the track, most of the opponents looked at Ford with a curious look. They didn't understand that Ford, the old World Championship champion for many years, the so-called "Water World Championship Champion in history", today How did they "mix" into the finals?

Ford's mentality is very peaceful. The former World Championship champion has become worthless. Over the years, he has long been accustomed to being questioned and ridiculed by everyone. More often, he even hopes that people will forget him. At least that way, people won't cast strange glances at him.

But habit does not mean compromise, and habit does not mean that you will give up yourself.

Ford has always wanted to prove himself with his strength. He hopes to return to people's attention. He wants to say to everyone: I'm back!

Ford has been working on it, too. Even though his hard work has never been rewarded, he has been persevering and never thought of giving up.

And today, Ford finally got the chance to justify himself...