The biggest fanatic in football

Chapter 741 Decisive Battle! God of Marathon!

April 28th.

9:45 am.

Cudicini is leading Chelsea players in a morning training session at a training ground in the Manchester area.

But the acting head coach was somewhat uneasy.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, he will lead his team to participate in the 36th round of the league. The opponent is the host, the Red Devils Manchester United.

Manchester United, which also has no official head coach, will not worry Cudicini.

What worries him is that the soul of the team, Lee Polo, is still in London at the moment!

[If this game is not won, Chelsea’s record of unbeatable wins in the season will end here!]

[Lee Polo, Lee Polo, at this critical moment, what kind of marathon are you going to run?]

[Even if you win a gold medal, it is only a bonus of 30,000 pounds, which is not as good as your appearance fee for a game with Chelsea!]

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In the sports world, it is said that there are two "Qiao Gang Leaders".

One is the well-known basketball god, the old Chicago gangster, Michael Jordan.

Another one who is relatively unknown and only circulated in the track and field circles is the famous Kenyan athlete Eliud Kipchoge.

Kipchoge, who was born in 1984, is 10 years older than Lee Polo.

Like many black Africans, he was raised by his mother, and his father only exists in photos.

When he was 16 years old, he entered a local running training camp through a relationship. The director of the training camp was once a student of his mother...

After two years of systematic training, the 18-year-old Kipchoge has emerged at the world level: the world youth 5000m record, the IAAF Super Series 5000m championship, the World Championships 5000m championship... Various honors have come one after another.

In just two months, he became a world-renowned track and field star!

As his prestige and fame grew day by day, Kipchoge gained both fame and fortune. As he grew older, he gradually shifted from 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter events to longer marathons.

In April 2015, he participated in the London Marathon for the first time and won the championship in 2 hours, 4 minutes and 42 seconds.

A year later, he was more prepared and successfully defended his title with a time of 2 hours, 3 minutes and 05 seconds, an improvement of 1 minute and 37 seconds.

In 2018, two years later, he challenged the London circuit for the third time, and his time dropped slightly, 2 hours, 4 minutes and 17 seconds.

Today is his fourth time running the London Marathon.

He had long known that in today's arena, there would be an opponent he had never encountered before.

This opponent will be more terrifying than ever before!

Kipchoge started participating in marathons at the age of 27. Kipchoge knows better than anyone what it is like to run under 2 hours.

Before Lee Polo appeared, 2 hours was considered the limit for marathon!

In May 2017, Kipchoge launched a challenge called "Running Under Two Hours". Witnessed by the whole world, he unleashed his full potential. In the end, due to sudden rain, the road surface became wet.

The running became more difficult due to slippage, and the challenge was declared failed after only 2 hours and 25 seconds.

He is not discouraged, but becomes more courageous with every setback. He has been making more thorough preparations, including special training like an ascetic, maintaining his personal physical condition, selecting a professional running team, building a tacit understanding of the team, and choosing the most suitable track...

Prepare to challenge your limits again.

Two months ago, he had chosen the best time to challenge, that is October 2019!

The location is Vienna, Austria!

His spirit also received strong support from the richest man in the UK, the petrochemical giant Jim Ratcliffe. The billionaire directly gave a generous sponsorship with a wave of his hand!

This huge amount of sponsorship allowed him to invite 41 current professional athletes to serve as his accompanying runners, and equipped him with two pace cars to guide the race.

In order to ensure that there would be no rain that day, they were even prepared to artificially suppress the rain!

Kipchoge is full of confidence in this "1.59" challenge.

But... with Lee Polo's shocking run on April 7, everything changed.

Kipchoge had been carefully preparing for so long, but it all turned into a meaningless joke in front of Lee Polo's super record of "1 hour, 53 minutes and 39 seconds"!

Yes, he had to hire so many helpers and prepare for so long before he had the courage to launch the challenge.

Li Polo just changed careers halfway and participated in the official competition for the first time, and easily improved his record by more than seven minutes!

Even if he can really break through the 2-hour mark, he will only be the second person in history!

Therefore, he must face off with Li Polo!

Regardless of victory or defeat!

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10 o'clock sharp.

London, which loves rain the most, has clear skies and warm sunshine, which is perfect for running.

"Snapped!"

The starting gun has sounded.

Kipchoge did not go out of his way to see Lee Poirot, but insisted on focusing on himself, starting according to his long-standing training habits, increasing his speed, and then running at a constant speed.

But his attention was still attracted by a blue figure.

No way, Lee Polo's start... is still so different.

He still completed the first 200 meters of the race at a sprint speed, and then resumed his long-distance running rhythm.

As an experienced veteran, Kipchoge was not affected at all and moved forward step by step at his own pace.

He watched Li Polo and the 16 accompanying runners gradually running further and further away, but there was no wave in his heart.

[These running groups...are they put together temporarily? 】

Kipchoge's eyesight is very sharp and he can see through Lee Polo's lies at a glance.

A real running team needs to run in at least several times in advance to adapt to the employer's running rhythm and habits.

But those people around Li Poluo obviously simply followed Li Poluo on both sides. Their biggest role was just to block the spring breeze from outside for him...

Moreover, after Li Polo ran the first 10 kilometers, there were five professional runners who could not keep up with him!

Average pace per kilometer, 2 minutes and 36 seconds!

Li Polo unknowingly increased his pace a little bit!

After running 21 kilometers, the first group of 16 people who accompanied the runners stopped in relief, and the second group of 16 people took over the task of continuing to accompany the runners.

At this time, Kipchoge was already one kilometer away, and the estimated finishing time of the two was at least 3 minutes different!

At about 30 kilometers, Li Polo arrived at the replenishment point he planned. His personal trainer Legg Strong had already made preparations and handed over a freshly peeled banana and half a cup of nutritional drink.

superior.

Li Polo bit off half a banana in one bite and drank half a glass of drink without slowing down at all.

After he swallowed the food, his speed increased!

【Isn't he a human?】

Everyone in the running group could not help but have this thought:

[Even if you just ate some food, it won’t be converted into energy so quickly, right?]

【He must not be human!】

[Negative emotions from the running group, +2333!]

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For this marathon, Li Polo is confident that he can improve his performance by at least half a minute.

Because that time in Paris, he spent at least half a minute on that beautiful and passionate female fan!

This time, no woman will stop him, and he is confident of achieving a new breakthrough!

"Yes!"

Someone in the running group let out excited shouts.

The finish line is in sight, only 500 meters away at most.

Not far from the finish line, there is a huge electronic timer hanging.

They were still distinguishing the specific time, but they felt their eyes were blurred!

Li Polo...start sprinting!

Everyone was surprised!

[It turns out...this is the speed at which he can sprint with all his strength?!]

Just hearing a "hiss", Li Polo was like a strong wind, knocking away the ribbon at the finish line!

The electronic timer stopped abruptly!

1 hour, 52 minutes and 26 seconds!

Lee Polo once again improved the world record he set just 20 days ago by 1 minute and 12 seconds! -

"call…………"

Kipchoge finally reached the finish line.

No one came to greet him, and the scene was particularly deserted at this time.

He looked up at his results:

1 hour, 59 minutes and 57 seconds.

He successfully broke through the 2-hour limit, but there was no trace of joy in his heart!

【From today on, no one will call me "King of Marathon" anymore!】

[Li Polo...he is the god of the marathon!]

Together with marathon runners all over the world, he sent uncontrollable resentment towards Lee Polo:

[All because of your existence, our goals in this life are shattered! 】

[No matter how hard we try, we can never catch up with your record!]

【Marathon...this sport is about to lose the meaning of competition!】

【Negative emotions from marathon runners all over the world, +12009958!】

(End of chapter)