Chapter 165: A Little Incident Before the Game

"Director Yu, when did this happen?"

Mai Shaoqiang held a cigarette in his mouth, held the schedule of the next event in his hand, took a puff, spit out light blue smoke, and asked lightly.

Li Zhizhong sat down, gently fanned the smoke that Mai Shaoqiang had spit out in front of him, rubbed his eyebrows, and didn't care about Mai Shaoqiang, but turned his head to look at Yu Liwei, who was pacing with his hands behind his back.

"On the 12th, the leaders of the regiment headquarters got the news from the Olympic Committee, and the latter two refused to inspect in the name of a car accident and directly evaded the withdrawal." Yu Liwei also had a cigarette on his right hand, which was not lit, but kept shaking as his fingers trembled.

"Our track and field team came late and didn't know the specific situation, but now it seems that eighty or ninety percent of them are eating 'food', and it is not common for us to voluntarily withdraw before the Olympics."

Yuan Guohua sat by the door, his brows furrowed, and he also looked thoughtful. Considering whether this sudden incident would have radiation affect the track and field team.

Yu Liwei took two steps back and forth, suddenly turned around, knocked on the small square table in the middle of the small living room on the first floor, and looked solemn, "You all go down to check it strictly, whether there is it or not, whether it is intentional or not, whether it is intentional or unintentional, avoid appearing." This is in the Olympic Games, and the image of foreign affairs must be maintained cleanly. The leaders in the regiment headquarters had a special explanation, preferring to eat duck eggs than have a scandal. Let's not forget that the next Olympics will be held on our doorstep, and this Olympics will show the image of our next host country. Things like these two athletes in Greece are absolutely not allowed to happen. ”

Li Zhizhong, Mai Shaoqiang and Yuan Guohua all nodded cautiously at the same time, the track and field sprint event has always been the hardest hit area, and the Olympic Committee has also been the most severe. The coaches in charge and their athletes are actually very clear about whether they are clean or not, but after this kind of thing was exposed, the whole delegation became nervous.

This is not a domestic or regional event, but the world's most influential multi-sport event, where all eyes of the world are focused, and if something goes wrong, no one can afford it.

"Where did you two go just now?"

After a short meeting of several people, Yuan Guohua, who was sitting by the door of the small living room on the first floor, noticed that Su Zu and Chen Jiangang had just come back from outside.

"Just took a walk around the Olympic Village." Chen Jian replied with a smile that at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he was still in a state of injury and far from meeting the Olympic standards. This time, like Su Zu, it was the first time to participate in the Olympic Games, and the mood was quite excited, and I felt a little novel when I saw everything.

"It's okay to walk around the Olympic Village, stay safe, and be careful not to get into conflict with other athletes." Li Zhizhong stood up and looked at Su Zu and Chen Jian, "It just so happens that you guys are back, let's go upstairs together and talk to you about something." ”

As he spoke, Li Zhizhong turned his head to look at Yu Liwei again, "Director Yu?" ”

"Go ahead." Yu Liwei lit the cigarette in his hand and waved his hand, "The sprint men's team is also the three head coaches of you, and they all went to explain." ”

When they arrived at the small living room outside the rooms of several athletes on the second floor, Shen Yunbao and Yang Guangzong also came out of the room, looking at the three coaches, Li Zhizhong, Mai Shaoqiang and Yuan Guohua.

"Lao Li, come on." Mai Shaoqiang and Yuan Guohua each found a place to sit down and motioned to Li Zhizhong.

Li Zhizhong stood up straight and coughed lightly, "There is something to inform a few of you, the news from the regiment headquarters has asked all teams to check themselves for prohibited sensitive drugs, you all pay attention to it." Again, you may think that there is no problem with food and medicine. There are dozens of people in our medical team, so don't make your own decisions. In terms of food, I usually eat in the canteen of the Olympic Village, and it is strictly forbidden to eat out. ”

Foods such as meat containing clenbuterol, beef and mutton may also contain Zelenol, and various foods containing antibiotics will cause athletes to test positive in urine.

Regardless of whether it is ingested by mistake or not, this kind of thing is basically disqualified or even banned as soon as it appears, and the only best way to avoid it is mainly the main canteen in the Olympic Village, one is that the organizers will pay attention to this aspect, which is relatively safe and reliable. If there is a problem, it is mainly the responsibility of the organizer, and it is much easier to appeal and test the procedure.

"Coach, is something wrong?"

Su Zu looked at several coaches with a bad face, obviously this sudden internal self-inspection was not groundless.

Li Zhizhong nodded, "At the opening ceremony the day before yesterday, the host's two sprinters were disqualified from the Olympics by the Olympic Committee for failing to be tested within the specified time, and the IAAF also issued a two-year ban. Well, there's an athlete in there that you know too, Kentris. ”

"Is that him?" When Su Zu heard this person's name, he was immediately surprised.

In the final of the men's 60m at the National Indoor Track and Field Championships at the beginning of the year, the eighth place was Kentrice, and Su Zu still had a profound influence on him at that time. At that time, Kentris was another non-black player in addition to him, and although he didn't talk to him, he was more or less aware of it in the final.

Kenteris specialises in the 200m and 400m and is a 14-time gold medalist at the Greek Athletics Championships and a five-time gold medalist at the Greek Indoor Athletics Championships. Having won gold medals in the 200m at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 2001 World Athletics Championships and the 2002 European Athletics Championships, he is the only European sprinter to win gold medals in three major competitions and the only European world champion in the 200m.

It can be said that Kentris is a well-deserved national treasure of Greece's track and field athlete, but he violated the ban and did not participate in the test, and was disqualified before the start of the Olympic Games.

This kind of thing is a huge stimulus for the whole country of the host this time, and after the incident was exposed, the local people and the media were all boiling and looking like they were in a state of turmoil. It's no wonder that from the regiment headquarters to the team, they suddenly became nervous. (Analogous to the situation of Liu Feiren in '08, this is more serious than that, after all, blind people can also point the finger at the Olympic Committee in addition to athletes.) )

Athletes' testing for illegal drugs is not only a pre-competition and post-competition urine and blood test, but also a random spot check and test, especially before and after some important competitions, the Olympic Committee Athletics Federation will suddenly contact the athlete coach to arrive at the designated place within the specified time for physical testing. Once an athlete is unable to arrive at the designated place for testing within the specified time and cannot provide strong evidence to show the reason for his delay, he or she will immediately face layers of penalties.

This time Kenteris and another Greek athlete, Tanu, artificially planned a car accident, saying that they were unable to get tested for illegal drugs on time for some reason. Although the two "took the initiative" to express their willingness to withdraw from the Olympic Games, they were still punished by the Olympic Committee for disqualification from the 2008 Olympic Games.

Nothing was said all night.

On the second day, under the arrangement of the officials and team leaders of the regiment headquarters, the teams of each project followed the head coach and local staff to the small training venue arranged in advance for pre-competition adaptation training.

The competition schedule is getting closer, and starting on the 18th, the men's and women's shot put events in track and field will begin the preliminaries and finals at the Ancient Olympia Stadium.

The sprint men's team will have a few events that will be more later, and the training time reserved for everyone is relatively sufficient.

The men's 100m starts on Saturday, August 21 (local time).

The first round of heats will be played at 10:35 p.m., and the quarterfinals will be played at 7:40 p.m.

The semi-finals will be held at 20:55 on August 22, and the final will be held at 23:10.

The men's 200m started on Tuesday, August 24, 2004.

As in the 100m, the first round of heats starts at 10:35 p.m., followed by the quarter-finals at 8 p.m.

The men's 200m semifinals will be held at 22:50 on Wednesday, August 25, and the final will be held at 22:50 on Thursday, August 26.

The men's 4×100m relay will be held at the end of the Games, with the first heats on Friday, August 27 at 8:10 p.m., and the final on Saturday, August 28 at 21:45.

Qualification for the Olympic relay is different from that of other individual events, which are based on the AB standard, but are determined by world rankings.

From January 1, 2003 to August 9, 2004 for the Athens Olympic Games relay qualification period, the International Olympic Committee stipulates that each relay team can have a maximum of 6 members, during the relay qualification period, the top 16 in a certain level of events held by the IAAF or in the continental championships according to the world results to qualify.

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On August 21, the first shot of the men's 100-meter preliminaries of the Athens Olympics is about to be fired.

After nearly a week of recovery training, Su Zu, Chen Jian and other members of the men's sprint team have basically adapted to the local environment and gradually entered the state.

Since the establishment of the delegation on July 20, the training of the track and field team has begun to control the intensity, and the daily training has been carried out, but in order to prevent unnecessary injuries caused by practicing too hard before the competition, it has been based on restorative low-intensity training, and the purpose has been changed to allow the athletes to adjust and recover and maintain their competitive state.

After nearly a month, even if the training intensity was lowered, Su Zu's potential value, which had already accumulated to 90.1%, had exceeded 100% a few days ago, and he once again had a little attribute point to use.

Before this kind of competition, there was no need to think about saving attribute points, which was directly added to the agility quality by Su Zu, and the 25 agility quality, which was originally the same as the physical fitness, became 26 points.

After having a nutritious breakfast in the main cafeteria of the Olympic Village, Su Zu and Chen Jian returned to the dormitory to pack up their things and have a men's 100-meter preliminaries in the morning.

Standing in front of the small window of the dormitory, Su Zu looked at the faintly visible Olympic Stadium in the distance, gently clenched his fists, and took a deep breath.

All the way forward, I finally came here.

"Su Zu, it's time to go!" Outside the living room, Chen Jian's shout came.

Su Zu packed up his mood, put the two pairs of spikes and team uniforms that fit the most in his bag, opened the door, and began to walk outside.