Chapter 220: The Archery Preliminaries Begin
Due to the entry of Chinese athletes into the finals, the men's 400-meter medley competition has attracted much attention, and the central TV broadcast the whole game live, and the swimming team is also looking forward to Wu Peng's performance. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Wu Peng's time in the preliminaries was 4:21.08.
In the finals, it is difficult to get a very good ranking, according to the results of the men's 400-meter medley finals in the past, at most it is in sixth or seventh place, but it is also a pretty good result.
"What if Wu Peng plays better? He's a big gamer! ”
Team leader Wang Minghao thought so, and coach Zhu Wanggen also thought so, they were all looking forward to Wu Peng's results.
But when the men's 400-meter medley ended, Wang Minghao and Zhu Wanggen's faces were a little dark, and the faces of other related people were not much better, they even felt that the swimming team had lost adults, especially in front of the national audience, and they even hoped that Wu Peng did not enter the finals.
Wu Peng got a rather pitiful result compared to the final - four minutes 27 seconds 13.
The first place went to star Phelps from the United States, who broke his own world record of 4:06.89, two seconds more than the second place, and won the championship by an overwhelming margin.
Seventh place went to Brian Johns from Canada with a time of 4:15.90.
Wu Peng's time was 4:27.13.
Judging from the results, I also know why Wang Minghao, Zhu Wanggen and others are uncomfortable...... Wu Peng was 12 seconds slower than the seventh place, and this time was also 6 seconds slower than the preliminaries.
When Canada's Brian Johns swam to the finish line, almost all the spectators, all the cameras pointed to Wu Peng, he tried very hard to swim forward, but the gap opened up in the middle was too big, and no matter how hard he tried, it would take a certain amount of time.
"The last place is Chinese player Wu Peng, he is really slow ......"
Some foreign reporters couldn't wait to go up for an interview, but Wu Peng made them have to delay for more than ten seconds.
These ten seconds have become the most embarrassing moment!
As a person of concern, Wu Peng also felt very bad, and it was a happy thing to enter the finals, but he didn't expect that there was such a big gap between himself and his opponents.
After the game, Wu Peng said bitterly in an interview, "Today's state is too bad, and I don't have the feeling of yesterday's game at all." However, the strong opponents are also a reason, at the beginning I kept rushing, but there was still a gap with the others. ”
Wu Peng didn't say much, but he still had complaints in his heart.
Yesterday, Wang Jian followed him to do a warm-up, and after doing a set of movements, his state was surprisingly good, that is the feeling of really playing well, I don't know what's going on, there is no Wang Jian today.
In the morning, Wu Peng also asked the coach Zhu Wanggen, who said that Wang Jian was invited by Wang Minghao, and he did not know the reason.
Zhu Wanggen was reluctant to say more.
As a coach of the swimming team, he is very resistant to Wang Jian's guidance of his athletes, saying that his peers are enemies, they are not peers, but when Wang Jian guides his athletes, he becomes a peer, and when it comes to the competition, his athletes listen to each other more than they listen to themselves, and they will feel very unhappy no matter how they think about it.
Wang Jian didn't come, but Zhu Wanggen was a little happy.
When he heard Wu Peng ask, he suddenly felt a little unhappy again.
Zhu Wanggen didn't want to say more, and Wu Peng had no choice, he could only take the normal route to prepare for the game, and he only got this little result if he was not in good shape.
In fact, when training on weekdays, Wu Peng's results are the same, and he didn't play too badly, but everyone has pursuits, and with good results in the preliminaries, when it comes to the finals, it will be a little unacceptable.
Wu Peng didn't get good results, and he just started.
On this day, the other two events of the swimming team were also eliminated, Liu Weijia failed to enter the second round of the men's medley 200m preliminaries, and Ouyang Kunpeng was eliminated in the 100m backstroke event.
Male athletes don't do well, and female athletes don't do much better.
Zhan Zhu is a highly anticipated female swimmer, she participated in two events in the morning and down in succession - 100-meter backstroke and 200-meter backstroke, of which the 100-meter backstroke did not perform well and failed to enter the second round, and the 200-meter backstroke also stepped on the qualification line to enter.
Fortunately, the swimming team has ace player Luo Xuejuan, who entered the semifinals with a strong first place in the women's 100-meter breaststroke preliminaries in the afternoon, so that the swimming team did not suffer the embarrassment of almost 'annihilation'.
Wang Minghao is the director of the swimming sports management center and the leader of the swimming team in Athens, and he must be responsible for the results of the entire team.
Wang Minghao couldn't help but think of a question, "With Luo Xuejuan's support today, what if Luo Xuejuan doesn't perform well tomorrow?" ”
The problem is at hand.
Before the opening of the Athens Olympic Games, the National Olympic Committee made a plan for the gold medals won by the Chinese Olympic team, and the swimming team also had the task of winning the gold medal.
Although it is only a gold medal, other athletes have no hope of winning the gold medal at all, and Luo Xuejuan's poor performance will lead to failure to achieve the goal.
Wang Minghao couldn't help but think of Wang Jian.
When Wang Jian instructed Wu Peng, Wu Peng was able to perform well, so Wang Jianlai guided Luo Xuejuan and Zhanzhu, will they play better?
Wang Minghao thought about it, but he didn't make up his mind, he felt that Shen Yang's requirements were too 'harsh', and the swimming team and the swim team athletes were tantamount to helping the Yangyang Sports Center advertise.
He felt that he should discuss this issue with Shen Yang again.
Wang Minghao made a quick decision!
In the evening, he went directly to the dormitory to find Shen Yang.
Shen Yang was just about to rest, but he didn't expect Wang Minghao to find it, the apartment dormitory can arrange eight people to live, and the six male and female athletes of the archery team all live here, and tomorrow the archery team will start the individual competition, and they must have a good rest that night.
Shen Yang could only walk out of the apartment with Wang Minghao.
When he got outside, Wang Minghao spoke, "Xiao Shen, I guess you also know what I'm here for, can you ask Wang Jian to help guide our athletes......"
Shen Yang frowned, "Didn't we talk about it?" Just a few conditions. If you agree, Wang Jian can go over, and the price is still two thousand at a time, but first of all, it is good to guide an athlete to participate in the competition for two thousand, not two thousand a day......"
Wang Minghao had a headache when he heard the price.
In fact, for him, thousands or tens of thousands of yuan is not a big price, after all, he is the director of the swimming project management center, and it is no problem to use the swimming team's training funds and the funds to participate in the Olympic Games to pay for Wang Jian's expenses, the key is that two thousand at a time always feels a bit too much.
However, Wang Minghao accepted this price in his heart, otherwise he would not stand here, let an athlete perform well in the competition, two thousand yuan is definitely worth it.
He considered discussing the 'advertising issue' with Shen Yang, "The other two conditions are to let Wang Jian appear in the competition field, and let the athletes thank ......"
"This is negotiable."
Shen Yang suddenly interrupted and said, Wang Minghao was happy when he heard it, but then he continued to darken his face, "Do you know why Coach Sun of the track and field team agreed to our conditions?" ”
Wang Minghao listened.
"Because they don't have enough money to train. Our fee is 20,000 yuan for one day, one athlete. You can ask Xie Chunfeng and Li Bin, or you can go directly to the basketball team to find Yao Ming, they have all been trained, and ask them if this is the price. ”
Wang Minghao was stunned.
Xie Chunfeng and Li Bin are okay, they are all athletes of the track and field team, and it is possible to 'collude' with Shen Yang.
Yao Ming?
Yao Ming also trained at the Yangyang Sports Center?
Wang Minghao didn't need to verify it, he knew that Shen Yang would not lie to himself, because Yao Ming was on the Olympic basketball team, and the place where he lived was only two buildings away from here.
"As long as your swimming team pays according to the normal fee standard of our Yangyang Sports Center, we will not have any additional conditions, all training, preparation, competitions, reporter interviews, etc., are subject to your arrangements."
Wang Minghao was dumbfounded.
20,000 a day?
Why don't you grab it, Wang Minghao!
There are still a few days left in the Olympic Games, and won't the swimming team have to come up with 100,000 yuan? For athletes to get good results, 100,000 yuan is not much, but the main reason is that this money is a bit too much, and he can't use the training and competition funds openly, so in order not to have an accident, he can almost only pay out of his own pocket.
Wang Minghao suddenly made up his mind to betray the athletes.
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Shen Yang didn't have time for Wang Minghao to waste his lips and tongue.
The men's archery individual preliminaries are about to begin, and he is also an athlete participating in the competition, so he must have a good rest in the evening.
After negotiating with Wang Minghao, Shen Yang called Wang Jian, and after some advice, he went back to the dormitory to sleep, and at seven o'clock the next morning, he got up on time and went to the archery team training ground to warm up.
After that, the whole archery team rushed to the competition venue.
The leading coach of the men's archery team is Wang Wenlong, and the other two athletes are Yongfujun and Zhang Haifeng.
Wang Wenlong went to get the ranking table, and the three athletes talked about the competition.
After a few days of contact, Shen Yang, Yongfujun and Zhang Haifeng got to know each other, their archery level is not bad, and they are definitely the top in the world, the most important thing is that they are very enthusiastic to guide Shen Yang, and also take the initiative to talk about some competitions.
For example, the rules of the Olympic preliminaries were told to Shen Yang by the two.
In the morning, they will have a ranking match for the round of 64, which can also be said to be the preliminary round of the Olympic Games, with 64 athletes, each shooting six sets of arrows, each group of six, a total of 36 arrows; After resting for 10-15 minutes, shoot again according to the above procedure, for a total of seventy-two arrows.
After that, the referee will rank the first to sixty-fourth players based on the cumulative number of rings of each player's 72 arrows.
There will be no knockouts in the morning.
In the afternoon, there will be a knockout round, and according to the ranking of the 64 players, there will be one-on-one pairings, such as: 1st place vs. 64th place, 2nd place vs. 63rd place, and so on.
In the knockout round, each athlete shoots 12 arrows, divided into four groups of three arrows, using a one-to-one alternate firing method, and the winner enters the next stage of the competition.
This elimination rule will continue until the finals.
The morning game is a noun, no athletes will be eliminated, and the three of them are relatively relaxed.
Shen Yang felt that it didn't matter.
He's so confident in himself that no matter how he plays, he won't have a problem with not playing well and will definitely make it to the final.
Before participating in the preliminaries, Shen Yang played a set of 'Shen Quan One Style' to adjust his physical condition.
Due to the blessing of the body's Yuan Force, this set of movements is not very effective for him, but doing the movements should also relax the body.
At 8:50 a.m., the preliminaries officially began.