Almighty Coach

Ford, who has changed his running method, has rapidly improved his strength. During training, he often runs within 20 seconds. In terms of performance alone, he seems to have returned to the 200-meter champion of the World Championships that year.

Of course, training and competition are different. In official competitions, especially large-scale international competitions, athletes can play 80% of their usual training strength, which is considered to be a stable performance.

This also fully confirmed Dai Li's previous guess. The reason why Sean Ford couldn't run fast was not because of his lack of talent, nor was it because he didn't work hard enough. It was entirely because of problems with his running style.

The coaches that Ford met before were all trying to use technology to make up for his short legs, but the result was counterproductive. Ford did not gain faster speed, but slowed down.

However, Li Dai believes that running with long and short legs should not be the same as normal people. Instead of choosing to avoid weaknesses, it is better to develop strengths and use the advantages brought by strengths to offset the disadvantages caused by weaknesses. From this perspective, as long as the advantages brought by strengths are large enough, Ford's overall speed will still increase.

Ford's long and short legs are faster than other normal athletes in the corners, but when it comes to straights, his long and short legs will definitely affect his speed. If the long and short legs make Ford slow by 0.1 seconds, and Fu De is 0.2 seconds faster in the corner, and after doing this, Ford is 0.1 seconds faster than before.

This is also thanks to Ford's left leg being longer than his right leg, and since the race runs counterclockwise along the track, he will gain more momentum when cornering. If the right leg is longer than the left leg, then Ford is really out of the game.

It's just that Ford's progress has not been tested by the competition. It's not that he doesn't want to participate in the competition, but that he has no chance to participate.

The 200-meter sprint competitions are pitifully rare. Generally, only some large-scale competitions will have 200-meter events. Compared with them, the treatment of the 100-meter sprint is much better. m dash this item.

There are too many commonalities between 100 meters and 200 meters, and many sprinters take care of these two events at the same time. Some athletes who run 100 meters may not have good cornering skills, so they will not run 200 meters concurrently, but 200-meter athletes must have no problem running straight, so they will concurrently run 100 meters.

As the organizer of the competition, the physical fitness of the athletes will be considered when setting up the competition events. Therefore, it is impossible for the two events of 100 meters and 200 meters to be held on the same day in a large-scale competition, and the physical fitness of the athletes cannot support these two events at the same time. consumption.

Therefore, in the Olympic Games or World Championships, the 100-meter race is often started first, and the 200-meter race will start after the 100-meter preliminaries and rematch finals are completely over. In those invitational races or grand prix races that finish in one day, there are simply only 100-meter events, not 200-meter events.

The small number of 200-meter competitions also makes more athletes focus on 100-meter events, and fewer and fewer athletes specialize in 200-meter events. If the athletes are all running the 100 meters, then the organizers of the competition will pay more attention to the 100 meters and ignore the 200 meters.

This is actually a vicious cycle. If the competition of a certain event is good, there will be fewer athletes involved in it; if there are fewer athletes, this event will also become less and less.

The United States is the country that hosts the most track and field competitions in the world. There are hundreds of competitions at the state level or above every year, but not many of them include 200-meter events. Most of these competitions are completed in one day. The race, so only set the 100-meter project.

Fortunately, this year is the Olympic year, so in the first half of the year, the number of competitions will be more than usual, especially when the Olympic trials are approaching, the USA Athletics Association will host some slightly larger competitions, which can be regarded as a way to earn points for athletes and let young people Athletes accumulate some competition experience to prepare for the next Olympic trials.

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Florida, Miami Athletics Open.

This is a four-day competition, which is relatively large-scale in track and field competitions, and the competition time is relatively abundant, so this competition has a 200-meter sprint event. In other track and field events, the 800 meters and 1,500 meters of the middle-distance race, and the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters of the long-distance race also exist at the same time.

At the scene of the 200-meter final, Sean Ford walked to his own lane, bowed down and began to adjust the starting block.

No one around paid him any attention, and even when the athletes were introduced later, there was only sparse applause.

The champion of Ford's World Championships has been too long, so long that it has been forgotten by people; there are many young fresh meat who also entered the finals. people's attention.

Ford looked very calm, he was used to all this.

When he won the 200-meter championship in the World Championships, he was also full of glory. When he appeared on the field, he would get the most cheers and applause, and someone in the stands would shout his name loudly.

But soon, all these became doubts, because there was no such excellent result as running out of the World Championships. When people's expectations of him turned into disappointment, there were no more cheers and applause.

The halo of the world championship champion gradually faded, and Ford was quickly forgotten. Although he was still active on the field and participated in the competitions, the applause he received was less and less, and the younger audience could not even remember With his name, he became a relatively ordinary member among countless athletes, and Ford himself gradually got used to all of this.

Sports is like this, people will remember the champion, the runner-up, and maybe even the third runner-up, but other than that, those athletes who rank low or have no ranking at all will be remembered by people.

The starter's password interrupted Ford's thoughts, and Ford was ready to start. He had nothing else to do and focused all his attention on the runway.

The gunshot sounded, and Ford rushed out, started, accelerated, and turned. When Ford rushed into the straight track, he was already in the leading position, and the other seven contestants were all left behind by him.

At this moment, everyone's eyes were on Ford, because he was the fastest person on the track!

"The leader is Sean Ford!" The commentator called out the name that he used to be familiar with, but now it is very strange.

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As a well-known coach, Sebastian also has several athletes under him who participated in the Miami Athletics Open, but he himself did not go to Miami. At this time, he is in Indianapolis, participating in an interview. The interviews are organized by USA Track and Field to select the next head coach and assistant head coach of the USA Track and Field team, who will then lead the team to the Olympics in August.

The board of directors of the USA Track and Field Association has a total of 15 voting chairmen, and they are also the interviewers this time. A total of nine coaches participated in this interview, all of whom are well-known track and field coaches in the United States. However, Sebastian is the most popular candidate to be elected as the head coach of the US team. Sebastian has won the best track and field coach in the United States. Compared with others, Sebastian's coaching performance, coaching experience and personal His qualifications are superior, and the most important thing is that Sebastian has a wide range of contacts in the American track and field circle.

Although the chances of being the head coach of the U.S. Track and Field Team are great, Sebastian still made careful preparations, and nothing went wrong during the interview process. When the interview was over and the moment he walked out of the room, Sebastian was even more faint I feel that the head coach of this year's US track and field team has been included in his pocket.

Sebastian walked to the parking lot, the smile on his face couldn't hide the joy at this moment. When he reached out to touch the car keys, he inadvertently touched the phone, and then remembered that he had turned the phone to silent mode just before the interview.

"I don't know if anyone called me just now." Sebastian took out his mobile phone, and sure enough, he saw one or two missed calls. The calls were from his assistant, who was in Miami at this time, accompanying him. with athletes at the Miami Open.

"Is there a result from the match in Miami?" Sebastian rebroadcasted the call.

Soon, the phone was connected, and the voice of the assistant rang on the other side of the phone: "Coach, Wharton won the fifth place in the 200-meter event."

"It's very good. Wharton hasn't practiced the 200 meters for a long time, and his main energy is still on the 100 meters. He can get fifth place this time, which is considered a very good result." Sebastian Tian said.

Wharton had lost to Alexander in a recent competition, but he was still the ace athlete under Sebastian. In order to train Wharton, Sebastian also started to let him practice 200 meters, and this The young American champion lived up to expectations and made great progress in a short period of time. The fifth place he won in Miami has already met Sebastian's expectations.

Feeling that his disciple ran pretty well, Sebastian was in a better mood, and he subconsciously asked, "Who is the 200-meter champion?"

"It's Sean Ford," the assistant replied on the phone.

Sebastian thought the name was very familiar, and it took him a long time to remember who Sean Ford was.

"The Sean Ford you're talking about is the one who won the 200-meter championship at the World Championships?" Sebastian asked.

"Yes, that's him." The assistant replied.

"It turned out to be that guy. I haven't heard his name for a long time, and I almost forgot him if I didn't think about it carefully. It turns out that he hasn't retired yet, and the Olympics will come back again this time!" Sebastian said with A teasing tone, completely like sarcastic remarks. In Sebastian's view, Sean Ford was lucky enough to win the World Championships. This kind of short-lived athlete is not worth cultivating, let alone paying attention to.

However, on the other end of the phone, the assistant said: "Sean Ford's time today is 19.93 seconds. He just broke the fastest time in the United States this year."

"What? So fast!" Sebastian gasped suddenly. As a top track and field athlete, he certainly knows what the time of 19.93 seconds means, which is a world championship result.

"Is it super wind speed?" Sebastian asked immediately.

"No, the wind speed is 1.2 meters per second, and Sean Ford is not exceeding the wind speed." The assistant replied.

"Then how did he run so fast? Since the World Championships, he has never achieved good results. Why did he suddenly explode today? Has he changed coaches?" The experienced Sebastian immediately found out the crux of the matter.

"I just inquired. His coach is the same as Justin Alexander, the Chinese-American Lee in Los Angeles. As for when Ford will start training with Lee, I haven't heard the news yet." The assistant replied

"It's him again, it's that Li again!" Sebastian, who was in a good mood at first, fell to the bottom in an instant.