Almighty Coach

The Olympic track and field event has come to its seventh competition day.

In this day's competition, the US team had several gold points, such as men's shot put, men's 400-meter hurdles, women's 400-meter hurdles, men's decathlon, and men's 200-meter sprint. In addition, the preliminary round of the 4x100m relay will also be held on this day.

With the strength of American athletes, no matter if they are male or female, as long as there is no mistake of dropping the stick, it is very easy to pass the preliminary round of the 4x100-meter relay.

And Dai Li happens to have the title of "chain of iron chains", which is to strengthen the cooperation of the athletes in the team competition. At the Asian Games that year, Dai Li relied on this title to allow the national team to win the 4x100m relay race.

With the blessing of the "chain of iron chains", the players of the US team cooperated very tacitly, successfully completed the competition and advanced to the final.

After the relay race, today's first gold medal in track and field is about to be born, that is the men's 400-meter hurdles.

Since the explosion of track and field sports in the 1980s, the United States has occupied a dominant position in this event. They have won several consecutive Olympic champions in the 400-meter hurdles.

The reason why the United States is strong in this event is that it has a group of excellent 400-meter runners. The 400-meter hurdles is considered a relatively difficult event in track and field sports. Most of the 400-meter hurdles athletes are converted from the 400-meter sprint. Athletes come on as substitutes.

The United States has the most 400-meter sprinters in the world, and naturally there will also be a large number of 400-meter hurdles runners. The so-called quantitative change leads to qualitative change. When there are enough people engaged in a certain sport, there will always be better talents, let alone American athletes. His talent was originally world-class.

However, in today's men's 400-meter final, it was not a player trained in the United States that took up the task of winning the gold for the US team, but a naturalized athlete.

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"Claret, you look a little nervous. It seems that the Olympic finals are not an ordinary competition. Based on your competition experience, you will also feel nervous!" Dai Li said with a smile.

"I'm sorry, coach, I'm a little nervous, I'll try my best to adjust." Kleite continued: "After all, this is my first time representing the US team."

The 31-year-old black athlete named Klett will represent the US team in the men's 400m hurdles final.

Colette was born in Trinidad and Tobago, a small Caribbean country. People in this country love sports very much, and many outstanding athletes have been born, and Claret is one of them.

Kleite also participated in competitions as a Trinidad and Tobago athlete at the earliest. He participated in the World Athletics Championships, the IAAF Grand Prix and the Diamond League, and also participated in the Olympic Games, and achieved some excellent results , but Clayte was wearing the Trinidad and Tobago jersey.

Later, Kleite joined the United States as a citizen and became an American athlete. For this reason, he also missed the last Olympic Games, because according to the regulations of the International Olympic Committee, after an athlete changes his nationality, he cannot represent his country in competitions within three years.

In this Olympic Games, Kleite was also one of the beneficiaries of the doping scandal. He was only the third place in the trials, and he was regarded as the "lower horse" in the US team, but the first two also retired due to the doping scandal. The "lower horse" of Clayte has become a "higher horse" and has to take on the important task of winning gold for the US team.

Dai Li is very optimistic about Klater, because this athlete works very hard and is very self-disciplined.

Dai Li knew that as an athlete not born in the United States, and in the 400-meter hurdles, which is the most powerful event for the US team, the hardships that Kleite put in to stand out were absolutely unbearable for ordinary people.

Kleite is different from the previous pole vault champion Muller. Although Muller was born in Germany, he came to the United States with his parents when he was very young. He lived in the United States since he was a child, received American education, grew up in the United States, and was influenced by American culture. have integrated into the United States. And as a Germanic German, Americans are more likely to accept him.

Claret is a naturalized athlete. He did not grow up in the United States. He has not received the influence of American culture, and naturally he cannot integrate into American culture so easily. Moreover, he is black, and black immigrants are also a major obstacle for Clarets to gain recognition.

For Claret, if he wants to be successful, he must work harder and achieve more than other Americans.

Dai Li is not an American, so he can understand Claret's eagerness to integrate into the United States. When he first came to the United States to open a training center, he was not trusted. Americans did not believe how capable a Chinese coach could be. Later, Dai Li gradually proved himself through his achievements, and then he gained a firm foothold in Los Angeles. heel.

Clearly, Clater does not have the ability of Dai Li. For Claret, the identification of his identity is his biggest knot, and now Li Dai must try his best to help Clater untie this knot.

So Dai Li asked, "Clayte, you have implemented the training plan I made for you earlier, right?"

"Of course. Coach, I'm not lazy. I completed the training plan you arranged for me very seriously." Claire nodded. He didn't understand why Dai Li suddenly asked this question.

"Then why did you obey my training plan?" Dai Li continued to ask.

"Because you are the coach!" Claret replied inexplicably.

"Did you not question my training plan?" Dai Li asked again.

"You are the head coach, why should I question you? And the training plan you gave me is indeed very good, perfectly helping me solve some details." Claret said, his expression became more inexplicable.

"Very good." Dai Li nodded, and continued: "Look, I am the head coach of the US team, and I lead the entire US track and field team. In this team, everyone will obey me, and no one will obey me." Against me, no one will even question me. Because I am the head coach, I am the leader of this team, and in USA Track and Field, I have enough authority."

"But I'm not an American, but you still obey me. Why? Because I have the ability to lead the entire team, and I have the ability to convince you! And what you recognize is also my ability."

Dai Li said as he patted Claire on the shoulder, and continued: "Clette, I know what you are worried about, so I hope you can understand one thing, the reason why people recognize you has nothing to do with you It doesn’t matter what your nationality is, where you were born, what people recognize is your ability. In sports, in the Olympics, what people recognize is the gold medal!”

"So you don't need to think so much, and you don't need to look forward and backward. Have you seen the end point? You just need to be the first to cross there and get the gold medal. You are the hero of the Americans!"

Claret nodded in amazement: "Coach Li, I understand, I know what to do."

Dai Li nodded in satisfaction. An athlete like Clayton has competition experience and enough strength. As long as he can release the shackles in his heart and let him fully display his level, the possibility of winning the championship will be greatly increased. increase.

Kleite's performance did not disappoint Li Dai. In the race, the veteran did well except for a little slow start reaction time. In the end, Kleite also scored 47.70 seconds. Won the men's 400m hurdles championship.

After the final of the 400m hurdles, I rested for an afternoon as usual. In the evening game, the first final event was the men's shot put.

Russians and Poles have strong strengths in this project, but the top two men's shot put players in the world are both Americans.

The United States has always had no shortage of strong men, but in the shot put event, there are two talented athletes in this Olympic Games, Divac, the world champion of track and field, and Luthor, who is currently ranked number one in the world.

The current world record for shot put is 23.12 meters, and the Olympic record is 22.47 meters. Both Divac and Luther have thrown over 22.50 meters in official competitions, which means that they both have the strength to break the Olympic record. .

And both of them are still very young. Divac is 24 years old this year, and Luther is 23 years old. For male shot put players, they still have room to grow. Many professional sports commentators believe that the current 23 meters 12 The world record for men's shot put may be broken by one of them.

For the U.S. team, this was another planned gold medal, and there was no upset in the game. Luther won the championship with a score of 22.52 meters and broke the Olympic record. Divac won the championship with a score of 22.18 meters. The result was the runner-up.

Unknowingly, on the seventh day of the track and field competition, the first two gold medals were taken by the US team.

After the men's shot put, it was the women's javelin final. In this event, no athlete from the US team advanced to the final, so the final has nothing to do with the US team.

Dai Li focused on the track, because the last event of the men's decathlon, the 1500-meter race, was about to start.

In the last Olympic Games, the American players took the top two spots. In this Olympic Games, after the ninth event, the javelin, the American team player has firmly occupied the first place in points, and his score has also surpassed 7500 points, 70 points higher than the second place.

So in the last 1500-meter event, he didn't need to fight for the first place, or even for the top few places, as long as he didn't lag behind the second place in points by too much time, he could win the championship.

The American player did not disappoint Dai Li either. Although he only finished eighth in the 1500-meter race, he still ranked first in total points and successfully won the gold medal in the men's decathlon.

The next event was the final of the women's 400m hurdles, where Jamaica, despite having three competitors, lost out in the medal battle to the United States and Russia. In the end, the US team won the gold and bronze medals, while the Russians won the silver medal.

The US team has already won four of the five track and field gold medals that have been born today, which can be described as a bumper harvest.

There is also the last event left on this competition day, the men's 200-meter trapeze battle.