For middle-distance runners, alternating leads is indeed the most practical tactic, whether it is to seize the initiative, control the rhythm, or limit the opponent, it can be completed by alternating the lead. The four players present are all excellent mid-runners, and they are no strangers to the tactics of alternating leaders.

I saw Saven think for a while and said: "It's no problem to use alternate leads, but the preliminary round should be the top six in the group to advance to the finals, and there are only four of us, if Zhang Guan runs in the fifth or sixth place, he can also enter the finals." ”

"We were also discussing this issue just now, whether to bring Moodira in as well." Carmel paused, and then said, "Actually, we don't care, I'm afraid the audience will be unhappy if they find out." ”

Moodira is an Iranian player, and Iran and other Middle Eastern countries are very discordant with each other due to historical beliefs and other reasons. Carmel and the other four players, all naturalized from Africa, felt indifferent about working with Iranians, but they were worried about causing some unnecessary trouble.

"Forget it, let's not have too much contact with Moodira! I think the four of us are about the same, so let's change the rhythm a little more. Qatar's Bashar Najim said he was playing at home, so he didn't want the crowd to see him intersecting with the Iranian.

……

At this moment, Zhang Guan held the list of participants in his hand, and after looking at it for a long time, he only looked at one Carmel's name.

"Carmel is the 800m champion of the Athletics World Cup! I don't know anyone else. Zhang Guan looked at the names on the list, looking confused.

At this time, Director Yu said: "There are four naturalized African players in your group. You've seen Joseph Carmel from Bahrain, the 800m champion of the Athletics World Cup, but the 1500m is not his strong point, so it's not as good as the 800m. Another Bahraini player is called Bella Mansor Ali. ”

"Found it, it's this." Zhang Guan pointed to Ali's name on the list. Then he said: "This Ali is so young, he is only eighteen years old this year!" ”

"Don't believe that, it's fake, I guess Ali himself doesn't know his true youth." Director Yu continued: "This Ali is from a tribe in Kenya, and that tribe didn't have more than ten numbers more than ten years ago, so when Ali first participated in the competition, he filled in the age of 10. If only according to his age. I'm afraid I will participate in the World Series when I am eleven or twelve years old. Although the information in your hand shows that he is eighteen years old, maybe he is twenty-eight. ”

Zhang Guan nodded yes, and Director Yu continued: "This Bashar Najim from Qatar is also a naturalized player from Africa, by the way, he is the same as the two people from Bahrain I mentioned earlier, he is from Kenya, be careful when you run for a while, the three of them join forces to lead the rhythm." In addition, the Saudi Arabian Asa is a naturalized athlete from Algeria. ”

"Okay, understood, I'll keep an eye on these four people." Zhang Guan nodded.

"Don't hold on when you're competing. It doesn't matter if you can't run, there are still two races waiting for you! Director Yu kindly reminded.

"Don't worry, it's going to be fine." After Zhang Guan finished speaking, he walked towards the track.

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"The men's 1500m heats will start next, and it is worth mentioning that the king of sprints, Zhang Guan, will appear in the 1500m heats." With the shouts of the on-site commentators, the 1500-meter race is about to begin.

Virgil, the coach of the Bahrain team, frowned and stared at Zhang Guan, who was preparing on the track.

Coach Virgil was a man of the same era as Coach Hart, who excelled at coaching sprinters. Coach Virgil is good at coaching middle-distance runners, but the strength of middle-distance running in the United States is far inferior to that of sprinting. So Coach Virgil hasn't been able to achieve the same impressive results as Coach Hart, but that doesn't stop Virgil from becoming the best coach in the world.

"Coach, are you still paying attention to Zhang Guan?" Rashid Ramz, who was placed in the next group, walked up to Coach Virgil and said: "Today's schedule is still very bad for Zhang Guan!" After the 1500m heats, Zhang Guan still needs to participate in the semi-finals of the 100m and the semi-finals of the 400m, if you add the three races in the morning. Zhang Guan played six races today, and there was also a 1500m middle distance run. ”

Rashid Ramz, who is of Arab descent, is more adept at the 1500m than Carmel and is arguably Bahrain's best hope for gold in the 1500m. Historically, he also won the gold medal in the men's 1500m at the 2008 Olympic Games, achieving zero Olympic gold medals for Bahrain.

I saw Coach Virgil nodding and said: "Zhang Guan has had three races a day before, and they are all finals, and today he is only participating in the preliminaries, and the preliminaries do not have to do his best, in the sprint event, Asian athletes do not pose any threat to him at all, so his physical exertion will be much less." Moreover, in the long jump qualifiers in the morning, Zhang Guan only made a test jump, and the physical exertion was almost negligible. I think the only thing that really exerts a lot of physical strength on him is the current 1500m race! ”

"Coach, I remember that there doesn't seem to be a sprint champion in history who can achieve results in the 1500m event, so why do you pay so much attention to Zhang Guan?" Ramz asked.

"I just had a bad feeling, as if I was being watched by a wild beast in the wild." Coach Virgil took a deep breath and continued: "Maybe it's just my delusion! I've probably been too nervous lately. ”

"Coach, don't think about it so much, the game is about to start." Ramz spoke.

At this time, at the starting line, the 12 participating athletes lined up in a half-arc and were ready to start. Then the shots rang out and the athletes took off.

Zhang Guan was in a slightly outward position in the middle, so when the starting gun rang out, Zhang Guan had to merge to the inner track in addition to the normal start, but Zhang Guan found that his merge did not seem to be very smooth, and he encountered difficulties when he just wanted to move the left two lanes, and the black runner on the left seemed to be merging, but in fact he was using his body to block him from occupying a good position.

Zhang Guan glanced at the national flag printed on the other party's sportswear: "This is Bahraini, this Bahraini player has Carmel and Ali, Carmel I know, it seems that this person is the Ali who doesn't know his real age, this Ali has been blocking me like this, it's not a way." ”

Zhang Guan slowed down a little, which was equivalent to letting Ali run to the front, and then continued to merge inward, but the positions of the other players were also very close, and Zhang Guan couldn't find a gap that could cut into the innermost side, so he could only follow the last place in the end.

In terms of parallel experience, Zhang Guan is indeed inferior to these professional middle runners.

Carmel glanced at Ali and signaled that Ali had just performed well and successfully put Zhang Guan in last place. Subsequently, Carmel deliberately gave Ali a position, and Ali also ran in front of Carmel, plus Bashar Najim, who was leading in front, and Savin, who was in front, four people from three countries had formed a small group of leaders.

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"Let's go!" Coach Virgil was still staring at Zhang Guan and then watched as he was stuck in his position by Ali and ended up in last place.

"It's the last place, judging from the skill and timing of the inner road, Zhang Guan seems to be still a rookie." Coach Virgil let out a sigh of relief, and the heart he was hanging from was finally settled.

"Zhang Guan's position seems to be stuck, it seems that he doesn't seem to be able to run in the middle distance, but the information I got in China, his 1500 meters ran a time of 3:35.85, which is also an Olympic A standard result, if he can't run in the middle distance, it is definitely impossible to run the Olympic A standard score, can it be said that he achieved this result with speed alone?" Coach Virgil thought of this and decided to continue to observe Zhang Guan.

However, in the eyes of these ordinary spectators at the scene, Zhang Guan was in the last place as soon as the competition started, which was obviously a weak performance.

"Look, Zhang Guan is the last one! Although he is the king of sprinting in the world, when it comes to the middle distance running, he is only the last place! ”

"I have long said that I don't want to expect Zhang Guan's performance in the 1500m event, there is no athlete in the world who can leap from 100m to 1500m."

"Middle-distance running is still the strong point of our West Asian countries, and even if the East Asians send their strongest Zhang Guan, what can they do? It's not that it's left behind! ”

The people of these West Asian countries are obviously very willing to see Zhang Guan fall behind in the 1500m event, Asia's middle-distance running has always been dominated by West Asian countries or the Gulf region, but there are many countries in the Gulf region, the two gold medals in the 800m and 1500m are obviously not enough, and now Zhang Guan is also coming to share this cake, which will naturally cause public anger in the Gulf countries. Therefore, the audience at the scene was eager to see Zhang Guan deflated in the 1500-meter event.

At the same time, in the live broadcast room of the capital's central power, there was a brief silence.

After the start, the commentator was still shouting excitedly to cheer for Zhang Guan, but he didn't expect that Zhang Guan, who had completed the merger, fell in the last place, and the original commentary was in vain, and the commentator didn't know how to explain it in an instant.

After two seconds of silence, Director Sun, who was a guest, finally spoke: "Well, the game has just begun, and it is still in a stage of following, although Zhang Guan is currently at the end of the team, it is also very likely that Zhang Guan will rush into the top six in the late stage of the game with Zhang Guan's strong sprinting ability." And considering that Zhang Guan has two more races in the next place, it is also a normal phenomenon to retain his physical strength first in the starting stage! ”

"I see!" The commentator glanced at Director Sun very gratefully, and said that today's game is to invite the right guests, Zhang Guan is ranked first from the bottom, and Director Sun found an excuse to forcibly give Yuan back! (To be continued.) )

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