All-round Athlete

Chapter 510 Zhang Guan Team Event: Relay Race

On August 21, the National Stadium.

This is the penultimate competition day of the Olympic Games, and in today's track and field competition, six gold medals will be born.

The women's 20-kilometer race walk in the morning has ended, and in the evening, the women's javelin final and women's 200-meter final also won two gold medals. Half of the six gold medals have been taken away by the contestants, and the ownership of the remaining three gold medals is yet to be determined.

The three gold medals are men's triple jump, men's 400m and men's 110m hurdles. Zhang Guan will participate in the finals of two of these events, which means that Zhang Guan may win two gold medals today.

At the same time, the men's 4x100m preliminaries will also be held today, Zhang Guan will also appear on the field, but compared to other individual events, the audience obviously has no hope for the 4x100m, Zhang Guan Although his personal ability is outstanding, the other three players in the Chinese team are all at the level of the Olympic B standard, while others such as the Americans, Jamaica, the British team and Trinidad and Tobago do not lack world-class athletes. Entering the finals is already the best expectation for the Chinese team. As for the medals, that is just a matter of thinking.

Before the relay race, Zhang Guan had to participate in another race, the men's 800-meter semi-final.

A total of 24 players entered the 800-meter semi-finals. The top two in the group and the other two athletes with the best performance will enter the final. The rule of 24 into 8 seems a bit cruel, but for truly capable players, it is not very difficult to get promoted.

In terms of grouping in the semi-finals, the organizers of the event also deliberately assigned several favorites to win the championship in different groups, while Zhang Guan's opponents in the same group were relatively mediocre in strength. Run, sprint for the next 100 meters, and then win the first place in the group.

This running method has become Zhang Guan's signature, especially after Zhang Guan won the 1,500-meter gold medal and broke the 1,500-meter world record, coaches and training experts from various countries began to study Zhang Guan's special running. It is only a few days since the 1,500-meter race, and someone has already written a corresponding paper on Zhang Guan's running method, which will be published soon.

At this time, everyone only saw the power of Zhang Guan's running style, only saw that Zhang Guan broke the record and won the championship with this running style, but no one realized that this running style could not be copied at all. Almost all experts believe that since Zhang Guan can do it, there must be a second or third person who can do the same thing and copy Zhang Guan's unique running method.

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After the 800-meter semi-finals, after a short break, Zhang Guan ushered in the men's 4x100-meter relay.

In this event, the goal of the national team is to enter the finals. This does not sound difficult, because the national team has Zhang Guan, and the sprint event should be able to kill the Quartet. But in fact, there are too many uncertainties in the relay race, and the opponents of the national team are also very strong.

In fact, in previous Olympic Games, the Chinese team did not even qualify for the 4x100m relay race. The Olympic qualification for the relay race is different from that of the individual competition. The individual competition means that you can participate only after reaching the Olympic standards, while the relay race means that the average of the two best results achieved within a certain period of time ranks among the top in the world. Sixteen to qualify for the Olympics.

Take this Olympic Games as an example. During the period from January 1, 2007 to July 16, 2008, the two best results must be obtained in the competitions recognized by the IAAF, and then the ranking will be calculated after calculating the tie value. That is to say, one good result is not enough, two good results are necessary to be able to enter the Olympic Games.

In this period of time, there are very few track and field competitions with relay races. Many international competitions only have individual events and no relay events. Only some world championships or intercontinental games will have relay events. . The national team is relatively weak in this event, and they are not eligible to participate in high-level competitions, so there are fewer opportunities to participate in relay races, and even fewer opportunities to run two good results. Therefore, in the previous Olympic Games, the national team was not eligible to participate in the Olympic relay race at all.

But ranking in the top 16 does not mean that you will definitely be able to participate in the Olympics, because you have to consider the reasons of the host. If the host also participates in this event, then the number of places will be one less. Of course, in each Olympic Games, there are also some top 16 countries that did not participate in the competition.

This time, the national team is the host, and it naturally occupies a place. For a team that is not eligible to participate in the Olympics on weekdays, advancing to the final is already a relatively high goal.

In addition to the host team, China, the United States, Jamaica, Great Britain, France, Germany, Brazil, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, South Africa, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Japan and Thailand will also be participating in the relay.

In terms of strength, the six teams of the United States, Jamaica, Great Britain, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, and Canada are sure to qualify. These six teams are basically composed of the world's top sprinters. . The strengths of Germany, South Africa, Italy, and Brazil should not be underestimated. The Chinese team will compete with these four teams for the other two promotion places, which is very difficult, while Japan, Thailand, the Netherlands, France, and Poland are a little bit soy. the taste of.

In this competition, the other three players sent by the national team are Wen Yongyi, Zhang Peiming and Hu Kai. This is already the strongest lineup that the national team can send.

The relay race is divided into two groups, and the top eight teams with the total score enter the final. So the ranking in the relay race is not important, the final result is the most important. Even if you run eighth in one group, as long as you are faster than the first in another group, you can still advance to the final.

The United States, the favorites to win the championship, were divided into the first group, which also included Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, the Netherlands and Japan. Except for Poland, the Netherlands and Japan, which are slightly weaker, the others are all strong teams. Needless to say, the U.S. team is the number one track and field country. Trinidad and Tobago is second only to Jamaica in Central and South America, and is better than many European teams. Nigeria is the number one team in Africa, South Africa and Brazil , They are also Olympic A standard players participating. Although they are not as good as the previous teams, they are also very strong in strength.

The US team was the runner-up in the last Olympic Games. In the Athens European Olympic Games, they lost to Great Britain by 0.01 seconds. At the same time, the US team is also the world record holder for this project. The US team led by Carl Lewis once set a world record of 37.40 seconds for 4 by 100 meters.

This time, the Americans are of course aiming to win the championship, and the biggest opponent they face is undoubtedly the Jamaica team led by Bolt and Powell.

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