Chapter 174: Sorrowful Urging
In early March, the Laureus World Sports Awards were finally announced. With his outstanding performance last year, Guo Zizhao finally got his wish and was selected as the best newcomer of the year.
American golfer Tiger Brown. Woods was named Male Athlete of the Year, track and field athlete Marion Brown. Jones was named Sportswoman of the Year, Manchester United was named Team of the Year, American cyclist Armstrong was named Comeback Athlete of the Year and Pele was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Among these major awards, American athletes account for the majority, which shows that the United States has a strong position in the world sports arena.
However, being able to be successfully elected in the first Laureus World Sports Awards also made Guo Zizhao very satisfied. Hey...... I've set another record!
Hum...... After this year's Olympics begin, it's time for Lao Tzu to challenge for the best male athlete of the year.
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In late March, there was another good news from my mother's side. Walden Investment Group, a shareholder of Sina, wants to fulfill its original agreement to acquire a 5% stake in Sina at market price.
For such an application, Guo Zizhao of course immediately agreed, and told his mother to complete the internal equity transfer as soon as possible. At present, thanks to the hype of the global Internet concept, Sina's stock price is also stable at a high price of $115.23, which is nearly 4 times higher than the issue price of 30.15, which can be described as extremely hot.
At the current stock price, Sina's market capitalization has reached $600 million, and 5% of the shares are more than $30 million. The proceeds from this transfer of shares alone have already made a lot of money for future investment.
waited for the internal transaction to be completed a week later, and Guo Zizhao's hanging heart was relaxed. Grandma's, it's already the end of March, and it's estimated that the bursting of the Internet bubble is not far away. Anyway, the money made by Lao Tzu has already arrived, and the remaining 15% of Sina shares will be slowly put away. After a few years of rebound, it's worth it.
However, I heard my mother say that Baidu will also be listed on the NASDAQ in early April and Sohu in May. Tut-tut...... I don't know if this time, they will be the same as in their previous life, and they will almost lose all their money......
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Sure enough, after entering April, the Nasdaq index showed abnormal fluctuations. By the time Baidu went public, the Nasdaq had plummeted by half, from nearly 6,000 to more than 3,000. After Baidu's listing, the opening price almost remained unchanged, which made Li Yanhong want to cry without tears.
And what's even more tragic is that Sohu, as soon as it was listed in early May, it immediately fell below the issue price and became a fighter in the garbage stocks......
Sina's stock price, of course, was inevitably greatly affected, falling all the way to around $40, a two-thirds decline at once. However, because the stock performed well in the early stage, it was still stable above the issue price.
After all, Guo Zizhao remembered that Sina seemed to have fallen below the issue price in his previous life, and in the end, like Baidu and Sohu, he had been garbage for several years.
At the same time, Brother Investment Company has Guo Zizhao's analysis this time, and it has also made a big profit again. With tens of millions of yuan leveraged hundreds of millions, the final income is estimated to be no less than the harvest in Hong Kong the year before last. This made Li Tianhao and Wang Tonglin, the two elder brothers, admire Guo Zizhao again......
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At the end of April, Guo Zizhao, who was in a good mood, flew to Moscow again. I haven't seen Yelena in three months, and it's time for me to do my boyfriend's duty, hehe......
However, what made Guo Zizhao depressed was that this time he actually took advantage of the excitement and returned in defeat.
After the two met, of course, it was also a thunderstorm, all kinds of greasy, all kinds of show of affection. However, just two days after the start of such a shameless day, Yelena was forcibly taken away by her coach.
In the end, Yelena revealed to Guo Zizhao that this year's coach had arranged a series of low-level world tour tournaments for herself, so she had to start closed training.
The depressed Guo Zizhao also had nothing to do, and finally had to fly back to Rongcheng in a gloomy manner.
Alas...... When will I be able to live a life of husband and wife!
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Guo Zizhao, who was depressed, had to vent all his excess energy on the training ground. In mid-May, Guo Zizhao took his coaching team to start this year's IAAF Grand Prix again.
Due to the Olympic Games in September, this year's International Athletics Grand Prix and Golden League competitions will have a tighter schedule than last year's. Starting in Osaka on May 17, there were races almost every week, and the races continued until the end of the New Delhi stop on September 7. At this time, there is only one week left before the opening of the Sydney Olympics.
The Grand Prix of Athletics Grand Prix is scheduled to take place in Doha on 5 October. I'll go...... It's only been three days since the Olympics ended, and I don't know what the IAAF thinks.
Just when Guo Zizhao was silently complaining about the IAAF's event arrangement, Coach Fujita, who was far away in Japan, was also anxiously looking forward to Guo Zizhao's arrival.
The reason is also very simple, that is, Coach Fujita's sprinting technical innovation has fallen into deep trouble.
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Since last October, when coach Fujita's sprinting technique revolution began, there has been little progress.
Although Fujita has obtained a lot of footage of Guo Zizhao's races last year, he has analyzed a lot of advantages of using the big stride running method in key races. But how to train athletes and achieve such results in competition is the key to this technological innovation.
Fujita originally planned to use the Japan Athletics Invitational Tournament in October last year to attract Guo Zizhao to participate, so as to observe Guo Zizhao's specific training situation up close. But I didn't expect this idea, because Guo Zizhao refused the invitation and did it.
Coach Fujita, who had no choice but to use conventional stride training methods to train athletes, while slowly analyzing and researching. However, after a few months, the athletes' performance not only did not improve, but also declined to varying degrees. This made Fujita a little anxious......
After all, for the average athlete, according to the height and leg length of each person, they have their own most suitable and comfortable stride length when running. Deliberately increasing the stride length will inevitably cause the frequency to slow down, resulting in a decrease in the final speed.
Of course, for those young athletes who have not yet fully mastered their own running skills, increasing the stride length and increasing the frequency of training can indeed improve their sprinting performance very quickly. However, it is not easy for mature athletes whose physical development has been finalized and has formed their own perfect running rhythm to forcibly change the stride length of running in a short period of time.
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Asian athletes tend to be dexterous, i.e., quick and frequent. However, due to the height and leg length, the general stride length is relatively small. A sprinter like Guo Zizhao, who is 1.88 meters tall, can be said to be unique in Asian athletics.
Originally, Guo Zizhao's stride length was not small, coupled with the role of "strong intermediate stride running shoes", so Guo Zizhao's stride length is also among the best in the world's top sprinters.
After Coach Fujita's training for half a year had no effect, Coach Yamamoto and others also suggested that someone could be sent to China to secretly photograph Guo Zizhao's training content as a reference. But when it was brought up at this time, it was immediately rejected by Coach Fujita, whose self-esteem was hurt.
In the following two months of training, Coach Fujita not only ruthlessly increased the amount of training for athletes, but also often analyzed Guo Zizhao's game video again and again.
However, even if Coach Fujita was almost blind, he didn't see how Guo Zizhao made his stride bigger in the game. In fact, without any slowing down in frequency, there was no intention of deliberately increasing the stride, but Guo Zizhao's stride was inexplicably a lot bigger! It's a real day......
Just when Coach Fujita was puzzled, another piece of bad news came again. Another athlete strained his thigh ligament during a sprint training test because he deliberately increased his stride length during the sprint phase. This is already the third athlete to be injured this month, and all in the same area.
Alas...... It seems that I still underestimated the difficulty of this technological innovation.
Fujita was also depressed to death, so he had to instruct the other coaches to temporarily lower the intensity. Alas, the regular stride length training intensity is too low to be effective, and once the intensity goes up, it is easy to get injured, what should I do?
Fortunately, this year's IAAF Grand Prix in Osaka is about to begin. Coach Fujita was also in a hurry, and he couldn't care about any facelessness anymore, so he immediately rushed to Osaka, ready to take a candid photo of Guo Zizhao's training throughout the whole process.
I don't believe it, I've done it all like this, and I'm afraid I won't be able to find out where your Guo Zizhao's secret is? When the time comes, hum......
The lewd coach is going to start playing again, hehe......