Chapter 154: Eight Gold Medals, Seven Records
Corva's pace slowed down, but Ismael overtook the lead at the end of the straight, and Zhang Guan took advantage of the opportunity to overtake Colva and follow Ishmael.
Ismael led the bend in frustration, and when the athletes were back on the straight, there were still 300 metres left before the end of the race.
The 800m sprint point is a little earlier, and many athletes start sprinting after entering the final 200m, and Carmel knows that there is not much time left for them, and perhaps the 100m in the straight is the last chance to interfere with Zhang Guan.
"You still have to use the method of card slotting." Carmel secretly gestured to Bongay next to him.
Bongay understood, and then the two of them began to accelerate at the same time, and they caught up with Zhang Guan in front of them in this straight, and then the two moved to Zhang Guan's side one after the other, plus Ismail, the position of Zhang Guan that the three of them were stuck together.
Zhang Guan, on the other hand, feels that the current speed is a little slow.
Zhang Guan's goal is not only to win an Olympic gold medal, but he is also ready to break the 800m world record, but at the current pace, the 800m world record may not be his own.
"It's still not fast enough for the frontrunners. If we continue at this pace, it is impossible to break the world record. It seems that the 800m runners are still far from the world record. Zhang Guan thought silently in his heart, and at the same time he decided not to follow, but to catch up with the front, even if he used some physical strength potions, he had to spell out a world record.
But at this time, Zhang Guan found that he was stuck on the inside by Bongay and Carmel, and he couldn't turn to the outside to overtake, unless he was willing to give up his position and let Bongay and Carmel run in front of him.
"Let's just let it go, I'm not going to run with it anyway, I'm going to sprint early." Thinking of this, Zhang Guan slowed down, gave way to his second position, and fell behind Bongay and Carmel.
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"The position tactics have worked, and Zhang Guan took the initiative to give up his position. Now there are more than 200 meters left from the finish line, Zhang Guan must not be able to adapt to this rhythm of the race, maybe there is a problem with physical strength! Sure enough, it was my tactics that worked the most. Carmel had a smug look in his eyes.
However, Carmel didn't know that after Zhang Guan gave up his position, he immediately turned to the outside runway, and when the track in front of Zhang Guan was empty, the effect of the following running skill disappeared instantly.
Now Zhang Guan has become faster than before, and in two seconds, he has already chased Carmel's side.
Carmel was still smug about his tactical success, but he was taken aback by the figure on his right who suddenly caught up from behind. The red robe and the tall figure were telling Carmel that the person he had caught up with was Zhang Guan.
"It's Zhang Guan! He caught up from the runway on the outside! What is he going to do? Is it because you can't occupy a good position, so you're ready to go to the front to take the lead? While Carmel was still thinking about what tactics Zhang Guan was going to use, Zhang Guan had already surpassed him.
Zhang Guan ran wildly, he was faster than any other player, he overtook Carmel, he overtook Bongay, and he overtook Ismael to rush to the first position.
"Zhang Guan is going to take the lead!" This is the thought of every contestant.
However, they all misjudged, Zhang Guan rushed to the first position, but he did not mean to slow down, he still maintained the original high speed, and rushed into the corner.
"Zhang Guan is not leading! He's in a sprint! Why did he rush so early, there were still more than 200 meters before the game, Zhang Guan actually sprinted in advance! ”
The enthusiastic cheers of the audience that followed, the audience couldn't care so much, they saw Zhang Guan rushing to the front, they saw Zhang Guan rushing to the finish line quickly, so they didn't hesitate to send applause and cheers.
With these applause, Zhang Guan turned into a wild horse that was on the loose, his speed getting faster and faster, and he had no intention of slowing down.
Zhang Guan was the first to rush into the final straight, while the other competitors had been thrown away by Zhang Guan for a long distance.
The camera is directly aimed at Zhang Guan, at this moment, the other players have become a foil, what people are looking forward to is only the moment when Zhang Guan crosses the finish line, and people are waiting for that moment.
In the back, the other competitors had already realized that Zhang Guan was sprinting, and those who were aiming to win the championship certainly couldn't let Zhang Guan cross the finish line first, and they also began to speed up. But how can their speed be compared to Zhang Guan, not to mention that Zhang Guan has already opened up some distance.
The tall figure in front of Carmel was full of unwillingness.
"Why? We've tried all sorts of ways to interfere with Zhang Guan, but why doesn't it work at all? Why can he still have such a fast sprint? It turns out that what we did before was useless! Carmel's eyes revealed a sense of desperation, they can be said to have used all the means, and they almost dragged Zhang Guan behind with their hands, but in the end there was no effect, Zhang Guan seemed to be invulnerable, a Zhang Guan like this, really people can't have the desire to challenge.
"Is there really that big a gap between us?" Ramz had a slight suspicion of himself.
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Bongay looked at Zhang Guan in front of him, he visually measured the distance between the two sides, and couldn't help but be a little shocked.
"I'm so far behind Zhang Guan!"
Bonguy, who has not won a title at the top level of the world, but reaching the final of the Olympics shows that he is the best in the world, but he has never been so far behind a competitor in a competition.
"Is this the best track and field athlete in the world? He actually has such a strong strength! That's right, it's strength! Bongay silently repeated the word "strength" in his heart.
"We used so many methods to disrupt Zhang Guan, but in the end it didn't work, precisely because Zhang Guan has strong strength! We are athletes, and although we use some small tricks in order to win, at the end of the day, it is our own strength that we play, not those dispensable tricks. Maybe in front of the really strong players, those little tricks are something that there is no need to care about. ”
Bongai's mind suddenly conjured up of himself as a child, and in a poor tribe in Kenya, becoming an athlete was the only way out of poverty and into urban life, and in the area where he lived, hundreds of children every year followed the path one after another, hoping to become an athlete.
Bungai was fortunate and successful, and he stood out among thousands of people to become the best runner in Kenya and the best in the world, not by tricks, but by strength. He worked hard day and night to improve his strength, and finally stood on the stage of the Olympic final.
"I was wrong, I was really wrong, I am an athlete, and when I face an opponent who is stronger than me, I should train hard to improve myself and then beat him, instead of playing some intrigue in the competition!"
At this moment, Bongay suddenly had a hint of enlightenment, and his eyes revealed a firmness.
"Zhang Guan, thank you for letting me understand this! To be able to reach the finals of the Olympic Games, I am not weaker than any of them, I have to work hard! I'm going to work hard to get everything I want! ”
The next moment, Bongay vaguely stood out from the crowd, and although he could no longer catch up with Zhang Guan, he was in second place.
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"Come on! Come on! Zhang Guan! Come on! ”
The shouts at the scene had become one, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the finish line, and Zhang Guan had already rushed there at this time.
Zhang Guan leaned forward, made a sprint movement, and successfully crossed the finish line.
"Win! Win! Zhang Guan has won again! Eighth Gold Medal! Zhang Guan did it! Zhang Guan, he did it! In one Olympics, he won eight gold medals, and he did it! ”
While the narrator was speaking, the time spent by Zhang Guan also appeared on the electronic display.
"1:40.22! Sure enough, it's a new world record! A new world record in the 800m! Prior to this, the world record of 800m was set by Denmark's Kibkite in 1:41.11, and today, Zhang Guan broke this world record! 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters, 800 meters, 1500 meters, Zhang Guan swept all the world records in all Olympic events before 100 meters to 1500 meters! Coupled with the world records in the long jump and the three-year long jump, Zhang Guan currently holds the world record in a total of seven events, and from this point, he has surpassed the six world records of the United States' Phelps, although Zhang Guan and Phelps have both won eight gold medals in one Olympic Games, but Zhang Guan has to get one more world record! Zhang Guan is deservedly the greatest athlete in the world! ”
The slogan "The Greatest Athlete of All Time" was already playing in the audience, and the commentators kept repeating the word. Obviously, no matter what excuses the foreign media will make, in the hearts of the Chinese people, Zhang Guan is already the greatest athlete in the world.
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Four seconds after Zhang's cross, Bongay crossed the finish line second, followed by Sudan's Ismail and Kenya's Korwa, with Bahrain's Carmel overtaken by Canada's Reid at the moment of the final cross, with just 0.01 seconds separating the two. The last two were won by Cuban and Algerian.
The 800m race is over, but the debate about the world's greatest athletes has only just begun.
Before the start of this competition, the American media could also say that Phelps's results were better, with eight gold medals and six world records better than Zhang Guan, so Phelps is the greatest athlete in the world. However, after this game, Zhang Guan also won eight gold medals, but there was one more world record, not to mention that Zhang Guan would win at least one silver medal in basketball in the future, so in terms of results, Zhang Guan has surpassed Phelps.
However, many foreign media do not want to admit that Zhang Guan is the greatest athlete in the world, which stems from prejudice against China, and many Western media look at China's achievements with colored glasses, such as a certain invention in science and technology in China, which will be said to have copied the West, or stole Western intelligence, when in fact the Western world itself has not reached that technical level.
There is no plagiarism or stealing information in sports, especially in track and field, the competition is hard power, I just run faster than you and jump farther than you, which means that I am better than you! Can you still say that you copied your run, or that I stole your speed? Do you have to innovate a one-legged jumping run to be considered your own running style?
Therefore, the achievements in sports can make those who look at China with colored glasses have nothing to say.
However, there are still many Western media outlets who are reluctant to admit that Zhang Guan is the greatest athlete in the world, and the matter of picking bones in the egg is even more convenient for some reporters who are good at reversing black and white. So they took time to talk about things, that is, Phelps is the first athlete to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games, and Zhang Guan is only the second, so Zhang Guan is still not as good as Phelps.
It's not the first time they've used this kind of nitpicking or evasiveness. For example, when a media in the West with an anti-China tendency reported on the 2008 Olympic Games, it first reported on the gold medal list, but they found that China surpassed the United States and became the first in the gold medal list, so they stopped reporting the gold medal list the next day, but began to report on the medal list, because the United States was the first in the medal list. But soon China surpassed the United States in the medal table, and then this media shamelessly added the medals of all EU member states, more than 20 member states in Europe, and there is no shortage of Britain, Germany, Italy This kind of sports power, the medals together must be more than China, all this media Olympic medal list, the first is the number of medals of the European Union, and then China, the United States and Russia. At that time, some people joked that if China surpassed the entire European Union in the number of medals, then this media would definitely add up the medals of all NATO countries.
And it was at this time that a report appeared in the eyes of journalists around the world. It was a post-race interview with Zhang Guan after the 800-meter race.
"yes, I've won eight gold medals, but I don't think that's the end. There are still two days left in the Olympics, and I have a chance to go further. Zhang Guan smiled at the camera lens, and then said: "I'm not satisfied with eight gold medals, I will hit the ninth gold medal next!" ”
This is not just a piece of news.
This is more like Zhang Guan's declaration of war! He wants to tell the world who the greatest athletes in the world are! (To be continued.) )