Although Zhang Guan has not participated in track and field competitions for a long time, Zhang Guan is still the favorite to win the championship in the 100m and 200m sprint events. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The second in INFO odds is Jamaica's Usain Bolt.

In fact, Usain Bolt has dominated the 100m and 200m events almost in the past two years, and in the absence of Zhang Guan, Bolt is really a rare opponent. But even so, Bolt is still only considered the second favorite to win the title.

If it were other athletes who did not appear on the track and field field for two or three years, they would definitely be forgotten, and there would be almost no odds to win the championship, but Zhang Guan is different, with his status as a world record holder, as long as he has not retired, he must be the most noticeable powerhouse on the field.

What's more, before the 2008 Olympic Games, Zhang Guan also did not participate in track and field competitions for a year, but in the Olympic Games, he broke world records one after another. With this precedent, when formulating the odds, the company would never dare to despise Zhang Guan.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, is Bolt stronger now than before? In 2009, he ran a 100m 9.58 seconds, almost breaking my world record, but in recent years, the result has not improved, it should have reached the limit, if I don't participate in the 100m and 200m, I believe the champion is Bolt! ”

"In the 400m event, the U.S. team seems to have declined in recent years, but it is the Central American and Caribbean countries that have risen. Who is this Killarney James? Haven't you heard of it before, the odds of winning the championship are second only to me, and the same as the American Merritt? ”

Zhang Guan went to the Internet to check the information of this named Killarney James, only to find out that this is a 19-year-old player from Grenada in the Caribbean.

"I'm 19 years old this year, and I'm 20 years old next year, so young! Last year's World Junior Champion and was able to run under 44 seconds. Zhang Guan silently remembered the young player in his heart.

"Look at the middle distance. There are so many names I don't recognize! Zhang Guan took a general look, Monaco's Igude and Bahrain's Ali, although they are on the list, they are no longer the favorites to win the championship, but they are the three middle-distance running powerhouses of Kenya, Ethiopia and Algeria in Africa, and a group of powerful middle-distance runners have emerged.

"At that time, Middle Eastern countries naturalized a large number of African track and field athletes, which did make them strong in a short period of time, but in the past two years, the pace of naturalized athletes from Middle Eastern countries has obviously slowed down a lot, followed by a plummeting performance. Relying on spending money to poach other people's elite athletes, after all, is not a long-term solution, the key is to improve the level of your own country and cultivate your own excellent athletes. ”

Zhang Guan couldn't help but think of Chinese football, the clubs of the Chinese Super League are crazy about poaching big-name stars and big-name coaches, throwing hundreds of millions of dollars, and the club's performance is improving, but the cultivation of football reserves is not as good as year after year. There are more and more high-rise buildings in the city, but there are fewer and fewer places to move. Children's time is all occupied by various cram schools, and even some grassroots sports schools have given up on the training of football players.

Zhang Guan remembers that when he was in middle school, he often played football with his classmates after school, and many of his classmates would collect posters of Beckham or Ronaldo, and more than ten years later, the children they talked about the most were probably League of Legends and those young Korean stars.

Zhang Guan looked at the long-distance running event again, and to Zhang Guan's surprise, the biggest favorite to win the championship was not Ethiopian, not Kenyan, not Algerian, not the emerging Eritrean and Ugandan, but a British!

And in the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters, the biggest favorites to win the championship are the British.

"Mo Farah, another king of long-distance running after Bekele!" Zhang Guan frowned.

Ethiopia's Bekele, known as the "King of the World's Long-distance Running", is the Olympic record holder and world record holder in the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter runs.

But now, Bekele is old, he is still unable to resist the invasion of age, and it is the British athlete Mo Farah who succeeds Bekele as the "new king of long-distance running".

Born in Somalia, Farah came to the UK as a refugee at the age of eight and became a British citizen. In the era when Bekele dominated long-distance running, Farah could only be regarded as a world-class level, not the world's best. However, Farah is a late bloomer, starting his career in 2010 and breaking the European records in the 5,000m and 10,000m in succession, beating the likes of Africa's long-distance runners. The current IAAF world ranking is that Farah is ranked No. 1 in the world in both the 5,000m and 10,000m.

Zhang Guan has an impression of Farah, and he remembers a match. Farah fell in the second half of the race, but he got up and kept the race and eventually won the championship.

"If I'm not mistaken, at the London Olympics next year, the gold medals in the 5,000m and 10,000m long-distance running events will belong to Farah!" Zhang Guan suddenly shook his head helplessly.

"Originally, I thought that I would never enter the field of long-distance running in my life, but now it seems that I am afraid that I will really go to long-distance running! If it was three years ago, I really didn't dare to try, but after these three years, my stamina is better than before, and I should be able to cope with long-distance races. ”

At this time, Zhang Guan has already made up his mind that he will enter the long-distance running event next year!

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"5,000m and 10,000m are already two events, I can also compete in another track and field event, the long jump and triple jump are the strengths of the British team, take a look at who in the UK has hopes of winning the championship in these two events!" Zhang Guan found the long jump and triple jump events.

In recent years, the international long jump has been declining, in the two years that Zhang Guan participated in the long jump, other athletes were able to jump more than 8.7 meters, and in 2010, the world's best long jump time was only 8.47 meters, and in the future it will even drop to less than 8.4 meters.

The early batch of outstanding athletes are no longer active, and these active long jumpers now, so in Zhang Guan's view, they are all weak chicken-like existences, jumping more than 8.1 meters, even if they are powerful, they can even get medals, and they can win gold by jumping 8.2 meters. In previous years, jumping 8.1 meters was guaranteed to be able to participate in the next three attempts, and 8.2 meters was only the result of Zhang Guan's first three attempts.

"Great Britain's Grey Rutherford and Chris Tomlinson are some of the players who have risen in recent years, and Rutherford is second only to me in the odds to win the title. In this case, the last event in track and field, choose the long jump! ”

Zhang Guan's last event was triathlon. Triathlon is also one of the UK's traditional strengths, in which the UK can afford to win three quotas, while a sporting powerhouse like the United States has only two athletes qualifying for the Olympics.

At the same time, the British team has two strong players, Aristair Brownley and Johnny Brown, both of whom are famous triathletes and have the ability to win gold medals.

Now that he has decided to enter the long-distance running event, and he can ride a road bike, he is only a 1.5-kilometer swim away from triathlon, Zhang Guan only needs to learn one or two long-distance swimming skills to cope with the triathlon competition.

At this point, Zhang Guan has also determined all the events he will participate in at the London Olympics. They are track and field 5,000-meter run, 10,000-meter run, and long jump; road cycling, road races, individual time trials; track cycling races, keirin races; boxing over 91 kg; Tennis Men's Singles; and triathlons. (To be continued.) )