After a break of nearly two hours, the three brothers and 28 decathlon competitors from other countries returned to the competition venue. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Due to the large number of participants, the 31 runners who competed in the final 1,500m race were divided into two groups based on their rankings after the first nine events. The top 15 athletes at the end of the first nine events were assigned to the second group, while the remaining 16 competitors were placed in the first group.

Although the ranking after the end of the first nine competitions does not represent the final ranking of the entire competition. However, in the first group race of the 1500m race, the best one only ran a time of 4:33.69 (721 points).

If you look at the results of past competitions, at least eight to ten of the 15 athletes assigned to the second group have the strength of less than 4 minutes and 30 seconds. Not to mention a "perverted" level master like Ashton Eaton, who has the ability to hit the 4 minutes and 15 seconds mark.

Shortly after the end of the first group race, 15 runners from the second group, including Feng Quan and Ashton-Eaton, came to the starting point of the 1500-meter race under the guidance of the field staff.

Since the 1500m race does not require athletes to stand in their own lanes like the sprint event, the athletes who have scored before the test are placed in the center of the starting line according to the ranking after the first nine events. The athletes at the bottom of the ranking are then evenly distributed on both sides of the starting line.

Therefore, after the first nine races, the two temporarily top two Feng Quan and Ashton-Eaton were placed in two adjacent positions in the center of the starting line.

Although the two will definitely fight for the final championship medal in the next competition. But before the start of the competition, the two "peerless duos" of the decathlon gave each other a friendly smile at the same time.

However, such a smile only lasted on Ashton-Eaton's face for a second or two. Although his strength in the 1500m event is undoubtedly the strongest of all the athletes participating in the decathlon.

However, if they are to make up for the 77-point gap in the first nine events in this final race, Ashton-Eaton will need to lead the wind by at least 11.60 seconds in the 1500m to ensure they can complete the comeback in the final race.

Considering that Feng Quan only ended his journey in the Bundesliga two months ago, he participated in a number of track and field events one after another before he had time to recover from his physical fatigue. Therefore, in this World Championships, he will inevitably put a certain "discount" on his performance due to fatigue. Combined with the results of the competitions he has participated in over the past year, as well as the analysis of Chris Quinn's recent intelligence, the coaching staff of the U.S. track and field team estimates that the wind will be around 4 minutes 28 seconds to 4 minutes 30 seconds in the 1500m event.

Although Ashton-Eaton has broken the 4 minutes and 15 seconds mark in the 1500m event many times in his daily training.

However, in a major tournament like the World Championships, and under the pressure of being 77 points behind, Ashton-Eaton himself is not absolutely sure that he will be able to play his full strength in this event.

Therefore, even according to the analysis of the coaching staff of the U.S. team, the probability of Ashton-Eaton's final reversal in the 1500m event is at least 70%. But for some reason, he always felt that Feng Quan would bring him a not-so-wonderful and unexpected "surprise" in this game......

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Although Ashton-Eaton's confidence that he can come back and win in the final game has weakened somewhat compared to yesterday's game. But the dignity of being the world record holder in the decathlon still allowed him to quickly rush to the front of the team like an arrow off the string after the referee sounded the starting gun on the spot.

Just 100 metres later, Ashton Eaton was 10 metres ahead of second-placed Damian Werner. His biggest rival, Feng Quan, is close behind Damian Werner and is temporarily in third place.

Ashton-Eaton chose to go all out and lunge forward at the start of the game. In addition to wanting to widen the gap between himself and Feng Quan as much as possible, there is another reason, that is, he hopes to affect the rhythm of Feng Quan's game through his "first strike".

Although at last year's London Olympics, the wind won all over itself. But in any case, in the eyes of Ashton-Eaton, Feng Quan, who has just debuted for two years and is less than 20 years old, is just a newcomer. And as a newcomer, the biggest characteristic is probably "young and vigorous".

Therefore, Ashton-Eaton has some subjective belief that after seeing his "first strike", the "young and vigorous" wind is very likely to choose to speed up his feet in order to be able to keep up with his pace. As a result, Feng Quan, whose endurance is "weak", will inevitably be overpowered in the first half of the race, and will have a lack of follow-up in the second half of the race, resulting in a large disadvantage (at least a gap of more than 11.60 seconds) to end the 1500-meter race.

If this happens, Ashton-Eaton can rely on their strong strength in the event to finally complete a big comeback and avenge the defeat at last year's London Olympics.

But will the game really go the way Ashton-Eaton wants it to play? The answer is clearly no.

That's right! On the surface, Feng Quan, who is only 19 years old, is indeed very young. But the ups and downs experienced over the years, as well as the tempering of the Bundesliga for more than half a season, have made Fengquan's mental maturity already surpass most of his peers. Even compared to Ashton-Eaton, it is not far behind.

Therefore, Feng Quan was not affected in the slightest by Ashton-Eaton's "first strike", but continued to play at his own set pace. Even after the first 400 metres, Ashton-Eaton was already 50 metres ahead of him, and the wind was unfazed and raced at the pace he had set before the race.

And after seeing that Fengquan was not fooled because of his "preemptive strike", Ashton-Eaton was not disappointed. After all, if he can maintain his current momentum and extend his lead by about 100 meters at the end of the race, he may also be able to lead the wind by more than 11.60 seconds in the final time, and thus achieve the goal of recovering the 77-point gap.

So, after finishing the 400-meter race, Ashton-Eaton, after looking back to confirm the gap between Feng Quan and himself, once again accelerated his running pace a few points......