Although this is only a preliminary round, it has received no less attention than a final. If you just talk about the results, more people will be happy.

Although it was only the third overall result in the preliminaries, it made people see the hope of winning the bronze medal, and many people felt that even if they couldn't win the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 meters, it didn't matter, and it was a big breakthrough for the national team to advance to the final.

"I didn't expect that we would not only make it to the final in the 4x100m event, but also have the ability to challenge for medals. I remember four years ago at the Athens Olympics, our national team didn't even qualify for the 4x100m competition! An old spectator sighed.

"Of course, we have a crown now." A person next to him continued: "And it's not just Zhang Guan, the other three players are also playing very well." After all, 4 by 100 meters is a collective event, and one crown alone is not enough, one hero has three gangs! ”

"If we can win a bronze medal in the final, it will be a big breakthrough in the history of athletics, after all, this is a team event."

"Someone has calculated before that even if Zhang Guan won the championship in the triple jump, 400m and 800m, he only won eight gold medals, just equal to Phelps. However, this 4 x 100 meters has a hope of winning medals, and when the time comes, won't the governor be able to win eight golds and one bronze, and nine Olympic medals, which will be one more than Phelps! ”

"That's really the case, so Zhang Guan can hope to surpass Phelps. Some foreigners said before that even if Zhang Guan won eight gold medals, he was not as good as Phelps, and this time Zhang Guan won one more bronze medal than Phelps, see what else these foreigners have to say! ”

"Foreigners must still only talk about the gold medal, and they will still ignore the bronze medal nine times out of ten. I think that unless Zhang Guan wins the ninth gold medal, foreigners will have nothing to say. ”

"The ninth gold medal? I really hope that Zhang Guan can win nine gold medals, completely surpass Phelps, and convince those foreigners to lose! ”

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After the 4x100m relay race, Zhang Guan immediately appeared next to the sand pit of the long jump, and the final of the triple jump was about to begin.

Three days ago, when Zhang Guan participated in the qualifying round of the triple jump, he was just a player who was valued by everyone, and even if he jumped out of the first place in the qualifying round, people still did not associate Zhang Guan with the word "winning the championship". In the triple jump event, Zhang Guan is the first time to participate in the international competition of the triple jump, and the past competition results are completely zero, naturally not as good as those who have achieved fruitful results at the world champion level.

The world number one in this event is Portugal's Nelson Evola. Evora had competed at the Athens Olympics four years earlier, where she had been eliminated in the qualifying round, and in 2005 and 2006, Évora did not perform at a world-class level. But in 2007, Evola reached his prime, winning four of the six Golden League races and narrowly missing a share of the Million Gold Prize. After that, he jumped a personal best of 17.74 meters in the track and field world held in Osaka.

In addition to Evola, Great Britain's Phillips Eduu, Bahamas' Liwan Sants and Cuba's David Gilat are also very strong.

Evola, Eduu and Girat were in the same group as Zhang Guan in the qualifying round, and they recently competed against Zhang Guan in a 17.54m finish in the qualifying round, but this is nothing for the world's top long jumpers, who can jump 17.60m if they are in normal form, and 17.70m if they are in better form. Therefore, at that time, Evora and Eduu won against Girath, and they did not think that Zhang Guan would pose a great threat to them.

But now it was different, because on the night of the triple jump qualifying event, Zhang Guan jumped 9 meters in the final of the long jump, becoming the first person to jump 9 meters. It was at that moment that Zhang Guan directly entered the triple jump championship ranks, and even became the biggest favorite to win the triple jump event.

Although the long jump and the triple jump have similarities, they are two different competitions after all, and now is not a few years ago, and athletes in the long jump and triple jump can have a large number of them. Nowadays, sports competitions are becoming more and more specialized, and the kind of athletes who have long jump and triple jump are already rare, and even if they do, they can achieve results in one of them at most.

If a long jump world champion comes to the triple jump, he may only be able to get the attention of the competitors; And if an Olympic champion in the long jump appears in the triple jump, it will be more well-known at best, but it will still be classified as a medal hopeless.

But if an athlete who had just jumped to the 9-meter mark three days ago came to compete in the triple jump, it would be completely different. There is a world record holder and an ordinary world champion, a person who can break the long jump world record, a person who can jump up to 9 meters in the long jump, this physical talent alone is enough to threaten any world champion in the triple jump.

Of course, physical talent alone is certainly not enough, the triple jump is a sport that attaches great importance to technique, and an athlete with poor technique is unlikely to jump well even if he is physically talented. However, in the previous qualifying round, Zhang Guan has already shown first-class triple jump skills, although it is not perfect, but it is more than enough to cope with the official competition, and with Zhang Guan's physical talent, it is reasonable to be called the biggest favorite to win the triple jump at this time.

Zhang Guan had just competed in the 4x100m relay race, and he was the last person to show up next to the sand pit in the long jump. At this time, other players cast jealous eyes on Zhang Guan, not only because Zhang Guan has strong strength, but also because Zhang Guan must be determined to win this Olympic gold medal.

The biggest topic of discussion in the entire Olympics right now is who is the greatest athlete between Zhang Guan and Phelps. Phelps has won eight gold medals, Zhang Guan wants not to lose to Phelps, and will definitely move towards the goal of eight gold medals, now Zhang Guan has won five gold medals, and in the next competition, 400 meters, 800 meters and triple jump are indispensable for Zhang Guan.

"This time, Zhang Guan is here for the gold medal! He's definitely going to hit for a sixth gold medal. With a grim look on his face, Evora could already have a hunch that the final would be perhaps the toughest game he had ever faced. (To be continued.) )