Vol 5 Chapter 130: Zhang Guan Team Project: Relay Race

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On August 21, the National Stadium. ＞
This is the penultimate day of the Olympic Games, and in today's track and field, six gold medals will be born.
The women’s 2o km race in the morning was over, and in the evening, the women’s javelin final and the women’s 2oo m final were the first to win two gold medals. The six gold medals have been taken halfway by the contestants, and the remaining three gold medals are undecided.
These three gold medals are men's triple jump, men's 4oo meters and men's 11o meters hurdles. Zhang Guan will participate in the finals of two of them, which means Zhang Guan may win two gold medals today.
At the same time, the men's 4-by-1oo meter preliminary match will be held today, and Zhang Guan will also appear on the field, but compared to other personal events, the audience clearly has no hope for 4-by-1oo meter. Zhang Guan Although his personal ability is outstanding, the other three players of the Chinese team are at the level of the Olympic b standard, while others such as the Americans, Jamaican team, British team and Trinidad and Tobago are not lacking in world-class athletes. Entering the finals is already the best expectation of the Chinese team. As for the medals, it is only a matter of thinking.
Before the relay race, Zhang Guan will have to participate in another game, that is, the men's 8oo meters semi-final.
A total of 24 players entered the 8oo rice semifinals. The top two in the group and the other two athletes with the best results will enter the finals. The 24 in 8 rule looks cruel, but for truly capable players, getting promoted is not very difficult.
In the semi-final grouping, the organizers of the event also deliberately assigned several hot players to win the championship in different groups, and the opponents in the same group of Zhang Guan, the strength is relatively moderate, in the game, Zhang Guan is still 7oo meters ahead Running, sprinting 1oo meters behind, then the group got the first place.
This running method has become Zhang Guan's signature, especially after Zhang Guan won the 15oo meters gold medal, and after breaking the 15oo meters world record, coaches and training experts from various countries have begun to study Zhang Guan's special running. Law, this is only a few days away from the 15oo meters game. Someone has written a corresponding paper on Zhang Guan's running method, and is preparing to watch in the near future.
At this time, everyone just saw the power of Zhang Guan's running method. Only Zhang Guan won the championship with this kind of running method, but no one realized that this running method could not be copied at all. Almost all experts believe that since Zhang Guan can do it, there will definitely be a second person and a third person who can do the same thing, and can also copy Zhang Guan's unique running method.
After the 8oo meters semi-final, after a short break, Zhang Guan ushered in the men's 4-by-1oo meters relay race.
In this project, the goal of the national team is to reach the finals, which sounds not difficult, because the national team has Zhang Guan, 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 the previous Olympics, the Chinese team did not even qualify for the 4x1oo rice relay. The qualifications for the Olympics in the relay race are different from those in the individual race. In the individual race, you can participate if you meet the competition standards for the Olympics. The relay race is ranked in the top of the world in the average of the two best results achieved in a certain period of time. Sixteen are eligible to participate in the Olympic Games.
Taking this Olympic Games as an example, the two best results must be achieved in the IAAF-accredited competition between January 1, 2oo7 and July 16, 2oo8, and then the draw value is calculated and then ranked. That is to say, one good result is not enough. You must have two good results to be able to enter the Olympic Games.
In this time period, there are very few track and field competitions with relays. Many international competitions are only individual events, and there are no relay events. Only some world championships or intercontinental games will have relay events. . The national team's strength in this project is relatively weak, and high-level competitions are not eligible to participate, so there are fewer opportunities to participate in relay competitions, and fewer opportunities to run two good results. Therefore, in previous Olympics, the national team was simply not qualified to participate in the Olympic relay.
But ranking in the top 16 does not mean that you can definitely participate in the Olympics, because you also have to consider the reason for the host. If the host also participates in this event, the quota will be one less. Of course, in each Olympic Games, some of the top 16 countries did not participate.
This time the national team is the host, congenitally occupying a place, and for a team that is not qualified to participate in the Olympics on weekdays, advancing to the finals is already a relatively high goal.
In addition to the host Chinese team, the United States, Jamaica, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Brazil, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, South Africa, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Japan and Thailand participated in the relay.
In terms of strength, the six teams from the United States, Jamaica, the United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, and Canada will certainly be eligible for promotion. These six teams are basically composed of the world's top sprinters. . The strengths of Germany, South Africa, Italy, and Brazil are not to be underestimated. The Chinese team will compete with these four teams for two other places. It is also very difficult, while Japan, Thailand, the Netherlands, France and Poland play soy sauce. the taste of.
In this game, 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 was divided into two groups, and the top eight of the total score entered the finals. Therefore, the position of the relay race is not important, the final score is the most important. Even if you run eighth in a group, as long as it is faster than the first in another group, you can still advance to the finals.
The most popular team in the United States was divided into the first group, this group also includes 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. As the number one athletics powerhouse in the United States, it goes without saying that Trinidad and Tobago are second only to Jamaica in Central and South America and better than many European teams. Nigeria is the number one powerhouse in Africa, South Africa and Brazil. They are all athletes who have participated in the Olympics. Although they are not as good as the previous teams, they are also very powerful.
The US team was the runner-up of the last Olympic Games. In the Athens European Games, they lost to the United Kingdom by o.o1 second. At the same time, the US team is also the world record holder of this project. The US team led by Karl Lewis once set a world record of 4 by 1oo meters in 37.4o seconds.
This time, the Americans are certainly determined to win the championship, and the biggest opponent they face is undoubtedly the Jamaican team led by Bolt and Powell. To be continued. 8