All-round Athlete

Chapter 127 The King of Athletics: All Six Games in the Golden League (Second Update)

From August 30 to September 4, the Asian Athletics Championships will be held in South Korea.

The last Asian Athletics Championships was held in the Philippines. Zhang Guan also stepped onto the international stage for the first time in that competition, and then defeated Asahara Shinji and Suezue Shingo consecutively to win the championship with a record breaking Asian record. And that Asian Athletics Championships was held immediately after the World Athletics Championships. Considering that the competition time was too close, none of the top domestic players participated.

Half a month has passed since this year's World Athletics Championships, and the athletes of the national team have fully adjusted. Therefore, top domestic track and field athletes, including Liu Feiren, have all gone to Incheon, South Korea to participate in this session of the Asian Athletics Championships.

But this time it was Zhang Guan's turn to not be able to participate, because the last stop of the IAAF Golden League in Berlin will be held on September 4th. The time coincides with the Asian Athletics Championships. Zhang Guan has won five consecutive As long as you win the last game, you can get the final grand prize of 1 million US dollars, so Zhang Guan will not give up the Golden League. At the same time, from the perspective of the national team, the final general of the Golden League is much more important than a champion of the Asian Athletics Championships. Whether it is the amount of bonuses, difficulty or honor, the Golden League will throw out the Asian Athletics Championships several times street.

According to the rules of the IAAF Golden League, as long as you win five out of six races, you are eligible to share the US$500,000 bonus equally. At present, apart from Zhang Guan, the Russian long jump queen Lebedeva has also won five competitions, which means that she and Zhang Guan have been able to share the value of 500,000 US dollars equally. In fact, each of them has already received 250,000 US dollars.

For Zhang Guan and Lebedeva, the Berlin station, the last stop of the Golden League, will be a game worth 500,000 US dollars. If both of them win the championship, they will share the remaining 500,000 US dollars equally ; if both of them fail to win the championship, then no one can share the remaining 500,000 US dollars; but if one of them wins the championship and the other does not win the championship, then the person who wins the championship will exclusively share the remaining 500,000 US dollars. million dollars.

Although the two are in different competitions, they became rivals at the last stop of the Golden League. The media all over the world also began to hype, which of the two will win the final prize. Many sports media and sports commentators have also begun to analyze how the final prize of 1 million US dollars will be distributed.

For this reason, Deutsche Welle also conducted a poll specifically for the public. As a result, only 10% of the public believed that neither Zhang Guan nor Leibedeva could win the official title of the Berlin Station, and that only Leibedeva 13% of the respondents believed that only Zhang Guan won the championship, 17% believed that only Zhang Guan could win the championship, 53% believed that both of them could win the championship, and 7% of the people did not express their views.

The opinions from professional sports people are much more professional.

For example, German professional track and field coach Ewald expressed his opinion in the "Berlin Daily": In the men's 100-meter sprint event, since the moment Powell withdrew from the current Golden League due to injury, Zhang Guan won the Golden League. There is no suspense for the sixth consecutive championship. Among the remaining athletes, their strength is far inferior to Zhang Guan, let alone they are all defeated by Zhang Guan. Moreover, Zhang Guan rushed to Berlin for adaptive training a week earlier for the Golden League Berlin station. For this reason, he missed the IAAF Riety Grand Prix on August 28. I think for Zhang Guan, the next thing to do is to play normally. In the women's triple jump event, Lebedeva has been plagued by injuries. For this reason, he also gave up the World Athletics Championships. In the last Golden League match in Brussels, Lebedeva was actually Played with injuries, but for Lebedeva, the good news is that her biggest competitor, World Championship champion Smith, also played with injuries.

Lebedeva's ankle has been injured all the time. In the previous World Athletics Championships, Lebedeva also missed the game due to injury, but her injury is obviously not to the point where she cannot compete normally. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Lebedeva The baby is deliberately truce, preparing for the Golden League, she is rushing to the final prize of 1 million US dollars. Compared with the final prize of 1 million U.S. dollars in the Golden League, the prize money for the champion of the World Athletics Championships is only 10,000 euros. Even if the world record is broken, it is only an additional reward of 100,000 euros.

Lebedeva's main opponent in the triple jump event is the Jamaican Smith. Smith is the fourth place in the women's triple jump event at the Athens Olympics. In addition to participating in the Golden League, she also participated in this year's World Athletics Championships . In the World Athletics Championships, Smith won the triple jump championship, but was also injured because of this. She missed the Golden League Zurich and Brussels. The Golden League Berlin was her first game after returning from injury. , no one can tell.

The $1 million competition between Zhang Guan and Lebedeva is obviously the biggest highlight of the Golden League Berlin station, and also the biggest highlight of the entire series of Golden Leagues. Since the two belong to different events, the arrangement of the order of competition becomes very important.

If the one who competes first wins, it will definitely put a lot of pressure on those who compete later; and if the one who competes first does not win, those who compete later will feel more relaxed. Therefore, the athlete who takes the lead in the competition will have a certain degree of initiative. Moreover, the nature of the triple jump competition is different from that of the 100-meter sprint. The 100-meter sprint can be completed in two to three minutes from the preparation to the end of the competition, but the triple jump competition is for each athlete to jump alone. The triple jump players in the Golden League There are less than eight people, so each person is allowed to jump six times, so the process of the triple jump competition is quite long compared with the 100-meter sprint.

In the end, the organizers made a compromise plan, the triple jump competition started first, and the 100-meter sprint competition was held during the triple jump competition.

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Finally came the day of the game. When Lebedeva appeared on the runway, there were bursts of cheers from the audience.

As the champion of the women's triple jump in the last stop, Lebedeva was the last one to appear among all the players. She waved to the audience to signal everyone to be quiet, and then she was about to start the run-up.

Run-up, hops, strides, and jumps, Lebedeva did it in one go, but when she fell into the sand pool, her face was not very good-looking. She only picked out 13.93 meters in the first jump. This result is a very sloppy result for an athlete of her level. In the previous Golden League stops, Lebedeva only jumped twice. Below the score of 13.93 meters, it can be said that this result is the third worst result of Lebedeva's current Yellow League series.

Fortunately for Lebedeva, her main competitor, Jamaican Smith, did not perform well either, with just a little over 14 meters. It seems that Smith's injury has not healed. So Lebedeva hurriedly began to adjust her state and prepare for the next game.

At this time, on the runway, the eight men's 100-meter athletes all stood in their positions, waiting for the referee's instructions.

"The men's 100-meter race is about to start!" The voice of the DJ on the field attracted Lebedeva's attention. Lebedeva saw Zhang Guan who was doing warm-up exercises at the starting point. The yellow skin was surrounded by black athletes. Extraordinarily conspicuous.

"Zhang Guan is also going to compete. If he wins, I will share less than 250,000 US dollars. No, I must put a little pressure on him. The next jump must be good, and I will determine the winner with one jump!" Lai Bedeva walked towards the runway while thinking.

The run-up, hop, stride jump, and jump are still perfect movements, but the moment she fell into the sand, Lebedeva smiled on her face. She knew that her jump was exactly at 15 Meter mark, this result is enough for her to win the championship.

"Okay, I won! Audiences, you can cheer for me!" Lebedeva was waiting for the cheers of the audience, but what came was sighs.

"What's wrong?" Lebedeva looked back suddenly, but found that the referee raised the red flag.

Lebedeva made a foul on this jump and the result was invalid.

In order to be able to achieve good results in this jump, Lebedeva just chose a relatively extreme jump point, so she stepped on the line and fouled when she took off. But Lebedeva didn't realize this at first, thinking that she had created a good result.

Lebedeva's mood was more or less affected by being convicted of a foul on the second jump, but as an experienced athlete, she quickly adjusted her mood and prepared for the third jump.

Not far away, the men's 100-meter race still hadn't started, and Lebedeva finally waited for her third jump.

This time, the audience gave Lebedeva warm applause. She jumped 14.78 meters in the third jump, which ranked first among all the contestants.

Lebedeva began to bow and thank all around, as if she had won the championship and took the $1 million grand prize in her hands.

But just two minutes later, the Sudanese Aldama suddenly emerged, jumping out of 14.82 meters, surpassing Lebedeva.

At the same time, the gunfire of the 100-meter sprint rang out.

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"Zhang Guan took the lead!"

The camera is aimed at Zhang Guan, and moves forward at high speed along the track next to it, capturing every movement and every expression of Zhang Guan into the footage. As for the other athletes, although they worked very hard, at this moment they all became companions to study with the prince. Everyone was waiting for the moment when Zhang Guan crossed the line, and no one cared about the second place competition.

"Zhang Guan, crossed the line! He won the championship! He became the million dollar winner! He won all six games! He is the fourth athlete to win the million dollar award." The commentator continued: "In 2003 Before, the Golden League directly rewarded 50 kilograms of gold. After 2003, the Golden League was changed to a million-dollar prize. Before that, there were Mozambican athlete Mutola, Bahamian athlete Darlene Williams and Swedish athlete Olsson Three athletes have won the million dollar award! However, according to the rules of the competition, Lebedeva's five consecutive victories have also won 250,000 US dollars in the million dollar award. Now, this year's million dollar award is won by two people Whether it is divided equally or divided into one and three depends on Lebedeva's next performance!"

The pressure has shifted to Lebedeva's side.

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