After the finals of the Grand Prix, the candidates for the Asian Championships at the end of the month have basically been decided. Guo Zizhao and other members of the national track and field team gathered together and started a 10-day training camp at the National Track and Field Training Center.

Everyone's training during this period is mainly to adjust and maintain the state, after all, it is less than half a month, and it is impossible to greatly improve the performance. Therefore, the players basically follow the coaches arranged by each group and conduct unified training. However, Guo Zizhao is a little different among these people.

Because Guo Zizhao trained alone, in addition to his father Guo Sheng and Coach Song Ping assisting on the side, Coach Feng Shuyong and Coach Yu Weili often came to take a look. It seems that they also want to find out something special from Guo Zizhao's training to see if it is the reason why Guo Zizhao's performance is so outstanding. Let's see if we can promote it in the national team. But they are destined to be disappointed, Song Ping has trained Guo Zizhao for more than a month and has not found anything, not to mention what they can see from their observation of fishing for three days and drying nets for two days.

However, their actions made the other members of the sprint group hold back their strength. The favorites to win the championship are different, so many coaches are revolving around Guo Zizhao. I don't know how much hatred Guo Zizhao inadvertently pulled......

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At this time, in the office of the field management center, there was also a big discussion about Guo Zizhao's project.

"Guo Zizhao's 100-meter dash and 110-meter hurdles are definitely no problem. The question now is whether Guo Zizhao needs to participate in the 4x100m relay. Xie Yalong looked at the registration form and asked for the opinions of several coaches.

"According to the usual practice, Guo Zizhao should participate. He had the best time in the 100 meters, and if he had joined the relay team, he would have improved his time by at least 0.2 seconds. Coach Zhang Peng said, "But there is a problem that Guo Zizhao has never practiced relays. There is less than a week to go, and it will be very risky if the team members do not form a tacit understanding with each other. ”

"I think Director Zhang is right. Although Guo Zizhao has the best results, the four relay players are all veterans of the national team and have a certain tacit understanding. Although the personal results are not so outstanding, what if there is no tacit understanding between everyone after Guo Zizhao joins, and there is a situation where the stick is dropped! This is very likely to happen! Feng Shuyong also disagreed with Guo Zizhao joining the relay team.

"Hmm. I also think that letting Guo Zizhao join is also a bit unfair to those team members who practice relays. Coach Yu Weili also said, "Guo Zizhao is an athlete outside the system after all, although the center is currently known to a few of us, but after a long time, other athletes will eventually know." I'm afraid that it will cause dissatisfaction among other team members at that time, and it will affect the results of the relay competition, so let's let Guo Zizhao focus on individual events. Well, let's wait and see. ”

"Well, since everyone thinks so, that's it. Anyway, Guo Zizhao didn't report the relay, so let's unify the caliber first, and then deal with the media. Director Xie also made up his mind.

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Within two days, Coach Song Ping also inquired about the inside story of this discussion from other places. came over and told Guo Zizhao about the situation. "A 4x100m relay?" Guo Zizhao listened to this project and was also thoughtful.

The relay race is the only collective event in athletics. Among them, the 4x100m relay is the most concerned event. This is different from the 100-meter dash, it is a comprehensive reflection of a country's sprinting strength. At present, the 4x100m relay champions in Asia are mainly produced between China, Japan and Thailand. Since the 70s, in the last 7 Asian Games, Thailand has won 3 championships, China has won 3 championships, and Japan has only won 1 championship. However, Kwok knows that in the next decade, the 4x100m relay will become a contest between Japan and Thailand.

With its absolute strength, the Japanese team once dominated the Asian sprinting world for more than ten years, and won the bronze medal in the 4x100m relay at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Although the individual level of the Thai team is not very good, it has successfully defended the title of the Asian Games for two consecutive years by virtue of tacit cooperation. However, after 2010, the sprinting performance of the Chinese team began to improve explosively, and there will be no opportunities for other Asian countries in the future.

However, Guo Zizhao really hasn't run in the relay race, not only has he not practiced the baton handover technique, but he hasn't even run the corner. Of the four bars in the 4x100m, the first and third are corners, and the second and fourth are straights. If Guo Zizhao needs to participate in the relay race, he can only run the second and fourth base. However, because Guo Zizhao has never practiced handing over the baton, the second baton not only has to take over the first baton, but also has to hand over the third baton. Therefore, the technology is more complicated, and it is estimated that Guo Zizhao is most likely to run the fourth sprint stage. After all, as long as the fourth stick is taken over, it is not much different from running 100 meters, just rush all the way to the finish line.

So do you want to fight for it and participate in a relay race?

Guo Zizhao pondered for a while, but forget it. As they said, I have never practiced, and there is still a great chance of making mistakes without tacit understanding. Moreover, the field management center obviously does not want to involve themselves in it, and it seems that they think that the hope of winning the relay is still very high. Besides, even if the relay is started as his new event, this competition will not be used. The system rewards will not be given until the end of the match. Forget it, the relay race will be talked about later.

Guo Zizhao dealt with Coach Song Ping, and then began to think about the new project to be opened. According to the discussion with the system last year, Guo Zizhao still decided to start the 200-meter and 400-meter sprints as his new events.

Guo Zizhao roughly estimated that he still had three competitions to be rewarded before the Asian Games at the end of the year. Asian Championships, Asian Youth Championships and World Youth Championships, if you are lucky, you can get 30 attribute points in these three games. This is enough to upgrade the "endurance" attribute to the "national level", plus the technology and skills rewarded by the system, there is basically no problem in winning the 200-meter sprint, and the 400-meter dash can also be impacted.

Well, it's such a happy decision. When the new 200-meter and 400-meter sprint events are successful, maybe he can add one or two more gold medals to the Asian Games.

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The 10-day training camp ended quickly. The national track and field team also flew to Fukuoka, Japan, on the 19th, where the 12th Asian Athletics Championships will be held one day later.

The Asian Athletics Championships is the highest level of track and field events in Asia, a major review of Asian track and field strength, and an Asian track and field competition second only to the Asian Games. The Chinese team began to participate in the third Asian Championships in 1979 and has been occupying the top spot in the gold medal table since the fifth Asian Championships in 1983. It can be said that it is a well-deserved track and field hegemon in Asia.

However, it is somewhat embarrassing that Chinese track and field has been a bit of a yin and yang over the years. The men's event won fewer gold medals in the competition, especially in the men's sprint event, except for the 110m hurdles, which can be said to be a solid victory. Especially in the men's 100-meter sprint with the title of "Asian Flyer", the Chinese team has only won three gold medals in history, namely the sixth Asian Championships in 1985, the eighth in 1989 and the 11th Asian Championships in 1995. The other 100-meter gold medals basically fell into the hands of the Japanese team.

In the past two years, Japan's sprinting performance has made a big breakthrough, and last year's best time was within 10.10 seconds. No wonder the national team hurriedly recruited Guo Zizhao. I hope that Guo Zizhao can fight against Japanese sprinters. Especially after Guo Zizhao broke the Asian record of 10.08 seconds in a row this year, this hope is even more urgent.

The next day, Guo Zizhao and other team members went to the venue to adapt. In the stands not far from the runway, there are also several coaches and athletes of the Japanese team, who are secretly observing the state of the Chinese team.

"Chao Yuanjun, the tallest one is Guo Zizhao of the Chinese team. In this 100-meter sprint, he will be your main opponent. The Japanese coach whispered the situation, "According to our information, Guo Zizhao has broken the Asian record of 10.08 seconds three times in this year's domestic competitions. So we had to change the previous plan and let Asahara-kun participate. ”

"The athletes of the Chinese team, everyone knows it. In China, it is possible to break records by taking doping, but it is not possible to compete in international competitions. So you don't have to make a fuss. "It was none other than Japan's national treasure sprinter, Nobuhara Asahara. The 26-year-old is Japan's domestic record holder for the 100m dash, tying Kazakhstan's Savin last year with a time of 10.08 seconds, which he set in 1992.

In addition, Nobuharu Asahara is also an evergreen in the Japanese track and field world, and has been active in the 100-meter competition in Asia. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 36-year-old led the Japanese team to a bronze medal in the 4x100m relay.

In this Asian Championships, the Japanese team was originally going to send young players to compete in the 100-meter competition. And Asahara, on the other hand, was preparing for the New York Friendship Games in half a month. However, after Guo Zizhao's results came from China, the Japanese team had to add Nobuji Asahara, to ensure that the gold medal belonged.

"But this Guo Zizhao's figure is very tall, which is a little different from the previous Chinese sprinters. You still have to be careful. The athlete who spoke was Koji Ito, and he was also a top sprinter in Japan. Together with Nobuharu Asahara, he is known as Japan's "track and field twin stars". This time, in order to prepare for the New York Friendship Games, Koji Ito also gave up competing in the 100-meter sprint, and only participated in a 200-meter sprint in the Asian Championships.

Koji Ito is also an amazing Asian sprinter. In Guo Zizhao's memory in his previous life, this guy set a new Asian record of 10 seconds at the Asian Games at the end of the year. This is also the best result achieved by the yellow race in the international 100-meter track over the years. And this result has been maintained for 16 years in the previous life, until 2015, when China's Su Bingtian broke this curse with a time of 9.99 seconds.

"Okay, don't worry too much, everybody. When the time comes, as soon as everyone fights, you will know his details. Let's go, get some rest. Prepare for tomorrow's preliminaries. Asahara, Xuanji, patted his buttocks and stood up, beckoning everyone to go back together.