All-round Athlete

Chapter 182 It's so cool to be Zhang Guan's coach!

Zhang Guan didn't get up too early the next day, but woke up naturally after sleeping. After lunch, Zhang Guan was not in a hurry to rush to the game site. The 1500-meter race will not be held until evening, so Zhang Guan rushed to the competition site leisurely after dinner to participate in the 1500-meter final.

In the 1500-meter race, the strength of the opponents is relatively average, and there is only one person who is really strong, and that is Dou Zhaobo, the national record holder in the men's 1500-meter race.

Zhang Guan and Dou Zhaobo are quite familiar. Dou Zhaobo is Zhang Guan's teammate in the provincial team. He once set a national record of 3:36.49 in 2003. This is an Olympic A standard result. For an East Asian athlete to reach the Olympic A mark in the 1500m is an absolutely remarkable achievement. In Asian level competitions, Dou Zhaobo has also won medals many times.

Dou Zhaobo had undergone a major operation before the Athens Olympics, and then participated in the Athens Olympics with injuries. He did not perform at his best in the competition and stopped in the preliminary rounds. Also because of that injury, Dou Zhaobo did not return to his peak state throughout 2005, but even so, he still won the championship of the 1500-meter event in the Tenth National Games.

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On the track, the 1500-meter final is about to begin.

Coach Zhou had a smug smile on his face. Among the twelve contestants, Zhang Guan and Dou Zhaobo were his team members. Among them, Dou Zhaobo is the national record holder, and he can be regarded as the strongest player among the participating athletes. Moreover, Dou Zhaobo is in very good condition recently, and he has a great possibility of winning the gold.

As for Zhang Guan, coach Zhou shook his head silently. He still doesn't know how good Zhang Guan's mid-range running ability is.

"In terms of physical condition, Zhang Guan is definitely better than black players. There is no need to prove this. Moreover, he also broke the national record in the 800 meters yesterday. In the 1500 meters event, even if he is a little weaker, it is estimated that he will I can win a medal!" Coach Zhou couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he thought of this, for a level event like the National Athletics Championships, there are a total of 30 to 40 teams participating, and a team can win two medals in one event. Medals are an amazing thing.

Standing on the starting line, Dou Zhaobo had a serious expression on his face. With his strength, it was very easy to win the championship in domestic competitions, but today he was keenly aware that it was very difficult to win the championship. There is a strong opponent, that is Zhang Guan.

"I didn't expect Zhang Guan's strength to be so strong in the middle distance. He broke the national record of 800 meters yesterday! This time is really fast! Three years ago, this kid just entered the provincial team and was still a A rookie who doesn't know anything, I never thought that in just three years, this kid has become the king of sprinting in the world, and now he is marching towards middle-distance running!" Dou Zhaobo laughed when he thought of this.

"That's fine. If I were in normal times, I really wouldn't have the chance to compete with the world champion." Dou Zhaobo thought silently, but at this time, a person patted Dou Zhaobo's shoulder from behind, and Dou Zhaobo Looking back, I found that it was Zhang Guan.

"Brother Dou, I will run after you in a while!" Zhang Guan said with a smile.

"Follow me and overtake me in the end, right? But I'm not a slow runner. If you want to take the gold medal from me, you have to show some real strength!" Dou Zhaobo responded with a smile Dao, the two have known each other for more than three years, and the age gap is only three years old. Even if they are competing in the same field now, there is not much barrier between them.

However, this intimate conversation between the two fell into the eyes of other athletes and coaches, and they were discussing game tactics instead.

In track and field middle and long distance running, the use of tactics is very important. If there is only one athlete in the same team, there may be almost no active use of tactical running methods; Tactical running method; if there are three players in the same team, the tactical choices will be more diverse; and if the three athletes participating are all very good, you can even arrange some medal-winning game tactics. So like in long-distance running competitions, three Kenyan or Ethiopian athletes often win gold, silver and bronze medals.

After a few minutes, the athletes are ready and the game begins.

After the start, the athletes on the outer track began to squeeze desperately to the innermost track to grab a relatively good position. For this kind of competition with twelve athletes, the fourth and fifth places are a better position. This ranking is not too far from the front runners, and the rhythm changes of the front runners can be clearly observed, so that I can also make adjustments relatively quickly; at the same time, because there are more players following behind, I will not feel nervous because of falling behind psychologically.

After the athletes all entered the innermost track, their rankings began to stabilize. At this time, the race had only lasted 100 meters, and everyone's physical strength was relatively abundant, so they were all in the same group.

The speed of the leading runners can only be said to be quite satisfactory, neither too fast nor too slow. For professional 1500-meter runners, this mid-level speed is the easiest to adapt to, so in the next 100 meters, everyone It's easy to run.

After the 200-meter race, the athletes entered the straight, and at this moment, Dou Zhaobo suddenly flashed out from the crowd and slowly overtook the first position.

"Is Dou Zhaobo going to lead the race? This is ready to lead the fast pace!" Other athletes judged one after another.

During the competition, some athletes with strong examples will choose to lead in the early and mid-term if they feel that the rhythm is slow. The most worrying thing for the leader is to be attacked by the athletes behind. In the early and mid-term, when the decisive moment is still very early, even if the loss of the leader has little effect on the position of the final sprint, there is no need to worry about the surprise attack of the athletes behind.

However, Dou Zhaobo did not lead as everyone expected. His speed far exceeded the speed required for leading. We saw that he broke away from the main team and slowly opened up the distance from other players.

"Dou Zhaobo ran so fast from the very beginning. This is not normal. With his strength, there is no need to run like this. Then this must be a tactical arrangement! This is to consume our energy, it is a trap, and we cannot keep up. The players all thought of the conversation between Zhang Guan and Dou Zhaobo before the game, thinking that this was a specially arranged tactic to consume the physical strength of other athletes.

In a middle-distance running competition, an athlete exerts strength in the early stage to lure other athletes to catch up, and then consumes the opponent's physical strength. This is a very common tactic. Some young athletes who lack competition experience are also easy to be fooled, resulting in physical exhaustion Excessive, followed by weakness in the second half.

None of the other contestants caught up. Everyone thought it was a tactical lure, so they still ran according to the normal rhythm. But what everyone didn't expect was that Zhang Guan also left the team and chased after him.

Zhang Guan's idea is very simple. Since he is following, he should choose the fastest runner, and the final result will definitely be better.

But the other players didn't think so. Zhang Guan's performance made the other players very confused.

"Huh? What's going on here? Isn't Dou Zhaobo a tactical seduction? Why did his teammate Zhang Guan also chase after him? Dou Zhaobo set up a trap, but his teammate Zhang Guan fell for it? Surely not There may be a tactical arrangement designed to trap teammates, this must still be a trap, this is a complete set of acting!"

The players behind made "reasonable" judgments one after another, and then thought they were very smart to maintain the original rhythm, continue to maintain a team formation, and follow behind.

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Today's Dou Zhaobo is in very good condition. The 1500m national record holder has not recovered to the state of complete victory after undergoing the major surgery in 2003, so he also needs to prove himself on the field.

There is a running method of following running, and there is also a leading running method of leading. For Dou Zhaobo, the 1500-meter national record holder, he has a lot of experience leading all the way to the finish line. Leading is not a problem for him. .

And for Zhang Guan, following is not a problem either. Zhang Guan, who has a master-level follow-running skill, may be the best person in the world who is good at following.

Zhang Guan followed closely, but did not overtake. Dou Zhaobo could feel that Zhang Guan's rhythm was exactly the same as his own.

"I learned my rhythm very well! There is a straight ahead, just change the rhythm." Dou Zhaobo wanted to do it, and he changed his rhythm after entering the straight track.

"Zhang Guan is still a rookie in the 1500-meter race. Now that I have changed the rhythm, he should have to adjust for a long time!" Dou Zhaobo secretly turned his head to observe Zhang Guan while thinking.

However, to Dou Zhaobo's surprise, Zhang Guan's rhythm was still exactly the same as his.

"Huh? Zhang Guan has caught up with me so quickly?" Dou Zhaobo quickly thought about the countermeasures in his mind.

"Zhang Guan is the fastest runner in the world. In terms of absolute speed, I am definitely not his opponent. I will slow down a little at the next corner and let him take the lead."

I saw that Dou Zhaobo slowed down a little when he was about to enter the curve, and after entering the curve, his speed became slower and slower.

Zhang Guan, who was behind Dou Zhaobo, also slowed down the pace, and the speed was getting slower and slower.

"Zhang Guan is also slow? Why is the rhythm adjusted like me?" Dou Zhaobo was stunned for a moment and then thought: "I am fast and he is fast, and I am slow and he is slow. Now I can see that Zhang Guan today You just came here to follow! If that’s the case, I’ll let go and run away!”

Thinking of this, Dou Zhaobo made adjustments again, adjusting the movement rhythm to the feeling he is most familiar with, and reducing physical exertion as much as possible.

700 meters, 800 meters, 900 meters, 1000 meters... Dou Zhaobo entered the straight from the curve, and then into the curve from the straight, and finally heard the bell to remind him when he crossed the finish line once.

"One last lap!" Dou Zhaobo knew that the time to decide the outcome was coming.

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When Dou Zhaobo entered the last lap, Coach Zhou subconsciously lowered his head and looked at the numbers displayed on the stopwatch in his hand.

"Today, Dou Zhaobo seems to be in pretty good condition. His speed is pretty fast. If he keeps going like this, he should be able to run within 3 minutes and 39 seconds. But I don't know if his physical strength will last at the end." Coach Zhou silently thought.

The 1500-meter Olympic B mark is 3 minutes and 39 seconds. For domestic athletes, being able to run into the Olympic B mark is definitely worth celebrating for him by the whole team.

After 1300 meters, Dou Zhaobo on the field showed his strength as the national record holder. Even in the last lap, his speed still did not slow down, and his rhythm control was getting better and better. The players, gradually began to be unable to keep up with Dou Zhaobo's speed, and the weakest player had already fallen out of the main team.

Only Zhang Guan, closely following Dou Zhaobo, ran through the final bend and entered the straight.

"It's time to sprint. Sure enough, as I expected before the race, I didn't get rid of Zhang Guan in the whole race! This kid is really a genius!" Dou Zhaobo thought about Zhang Guan's performance in the 1500-meter preliminaries the day before yesterday, and then thought Said: "According to Zhang Guan's rhythm, he should start to surpass me at this time!"

This idea just emerged from Dou Zhaobo, Zhang Guan had already left the innermost runway, and then launched the final sprint.

The acceleration of the 1500-meter sprint is very rhythmic. It is not necessary to reach a very high speed during the sprint, but you must try to maintain the speed as much as possible. Sustained speed is much more important than short-term high speed. Therefore, in the final sprint stage, athletes surpass each other much slower than sprinting. The overtaking of sprinting is almost completed in the blink of an eye, while the overtaking of middle and long distance running needs to speed up, catch up, stalemate, overtake, and then stabilize the position to avoid being overtaken. This requires a process. From an ornamental point of view, the surpassing process of middle-distance running is not as violent as sprinting, but the degree of stimulation is not inferior to sprinting.

After Zhang Guan started to speed up, he quickly approached Dou Zhaobo, and at this time Dou Zhaobo also started to speed up. However, Dou Zhaobo was obviously not as fast as Zhang Guan, so he was finally overtaken by Zhang Guan.

"Zhang Guan is catching up! It's much earlier than I expected." Dou Zhaobo quickly checked Zhang Guan's speed with his eyes, and was shocked in his heart.

"I can't catch up with this speed! I have already run 1400 meters, how can his physical strength support such a fast speed at this time! This is the same as the preliminaries the day before yesterday." At this moment, Dou Zhao Bo made such a judgment in his mind.

Dou Zhaobo recalled Zhang Guan's performance in the preliminaries. At that time, Zhang Guan was also running along. It seemed that there was nothing unusual. It was not until the final sprint that he showed amazing speed.

Next, in the last tens of meters, Zhang Guan surpassed Dou Zhaobo, slowly opened the distance between him and Dou Zhaobo, and crossed the finish line with the cheers of the audience.

Dou Zhaobo crossed the finish line second. He felt an inexplicable sense of tension in his heart, so he involuntarily turned his attention to the large timer on the sidelines. The above shows the result of Zhang Guan, the first athlete to cross the finish line. Then Dou Zhaobo's complexion changed drastically.

The timer showed Zhang Guan's final result: 3:35.85.

Zhang Guan successfully ran within 3 minutes and 36 seconds!

The Olympic A mark for the 1500m is 3:36.60.

But Zhang Guan's result not only reached the level of the Olympic A standard, but also a new national record!

"It's not over yet, why another national record?" Coach Zhou couldn't help but glanced at the rostrum, and instantly found Director Yu's shiny bald head. At this moment, Coach Zhou finally felt the sense of accomplishment that Director Yu felt.

"It's really cool to be able to coach Zhang Guan!" Coach Zhou thought silently.

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