In the athletes' preparation area, the contestants looked at Zhang Guan with a wary face, obviously regarding Zhang Guan as the biggest threat. However, there are also people who stand with Zhang Guan, talking and laughing. That person was another member of the Chinese team, Li Yanxi, who also reached the final of the triple jump.

The strength of the Chinese team in track and field events is relatively weak, especially in the men's events, it is a historic breakthrough to have one player reach the final in the past, and it is even more rare for two players to enter the final at the same time. Of course, the race walking marathon, which is a win-win race, is not counted among them.

Li Yanxi is the first person in the triple jump in China and even in Asia, and he is a first-class player even in the international arena, but there is obviously a big gap from the Olympic medal. The national team set him the goal of only reaching the quarterfinals, that is, after the first three attempts, he must be in the top eight.

As for Zhang Guan, the national team did not set any goals before the game, but in the current situation, the whole world knows that Zhang Guan is going to hit eight gold medals, so it doesn't matter what goals are set.

In the pre-game draw, Li Yanxi drew the tenth, and Zhang Guan drew the eleventh appearance, and the two were next to each other, which can be said to be the perfect signing.

This kind of draw may be a coincidence, or it may be a "host sign", but even if it is a host sign, it is also allowed by the unspoken rules of the game. Moreover, the first three jumps have to be re-ranked, so strong players will not deliberately question this kind of thing.

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At this time, in the studio of British television, Jon Edwards was sitting there again.

At the Athens Olympics four years ago, Edwards had championed Zhang Guan and had an argument with another commentator, Christian Eriksen. After four years, Edwards sat here again to explain the game.

In the triple jump, Edwards is clearly the most vocal, as he is the world record holder in this event. In 1995, Edwards broke the 10-year-old world record of 17.97 meters set by American Banks with a score of 17.98 meters. In the same year, he jumped 18.16m and 18.29m, breaking the world record twice, and he was also the first athlete ever to jump 18m. During Edwards' active years, he was undoubtedly the absolute ruler of the project.

At this time, Edwards, whose sideburns were already a little gray, was chatting with the host about the upcoming triple jump final.

"Four years ago, Zhang Guan surprised me at the Athens Olympics when he won the men's 100-meter sprint, and four years later, Zhang Guan gave me an even bigger surprise. Although our British players Eduu and Akik will be competing in the next races, I think Zhang Guan has a very good chance of winning the event, after all, he jumped the 9m mark in the long jump. Edwards said with a smile.

The host next to him immediately said: "To tell you the truth, three days ago, I didn't even notice that Zhang Guan participated in the triple jump competition, but only three days later, he became the biggest favorite in the triple jump event." We all know that almost everyone is talking about who is the greatest athlete in Olympic history, Zhang Guan or Phelps, and Zhang Guan will have to win the triple jump if he wants to achieve Phelps' eight gold medals. Some people are even saying that Zhang Guan will break the world record and win the championship. As a world record holder in the triple jump, what do you think of this statement? ”

Edwards thought for a second and said, "I think Zhang Guan should be the closest person to the triple jump world record, even if he can't break the world record in the next competition, he will attack the world record in the future." I remember that I reached my peak at the age of 29 and broke the world record, while Zhang Guan is only 22 years old this year, and he still has a lot of time to break the world record after another. ”

"I didn't expect you to have such a high opinion of Zhang Guan." The host didn't hear the smell of gunpowder and looked a little disappointed, and at this time, the game began.

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The first to appear was Bulgaria's Karailyev, who was at the bottom of the twelve, but the first one put him under a lot of pressure, and he only jumped 16.48 meters, which was a big drop from the qualifying round.

Cuba's Fuentes was second on the stage, and he made a mistake in the step jump, resulting in a final time of 15.92m, a figure that is clearly not representative of the level of the Olympic athletes.

The third to appear is Russia's Spasokhovsky. The former Soviet Union was very strong in the triple jump, and although the current Russian athlete also has good strength, Spasokhovsky jumped 16.79 meters, temporarily ranking first.

The top three players are not strong, but there is a feeling of hors d'oeuvres. The fourth player was Brazil's Gregorio, who jumped 17.14 meters to become the first athlete to jump 17 meters today.

World No.1 Evola of Portugal finally made his fifth attempt, and his first attempt was conservative, apparently preparing to jump a guaranteed time first, and the final 17.31m should have no problem finishing in the top eight.

After Evora, another strong competitor British player Eduu also appeared on the field, the triple jump is Britain's strong point, Eduu is only winning the championship this time, and he is behind Evola, obviously a more advantageous position, and finally he also jumped 17.51 meters, directly ahead of Evola 20 centimeters.

Seventh-footed Bahamian player Liwan Sants is also a strong player, but his 16.91m mark is not indicative of his true level. Another Cuban, Girard, jumped straight to 17.27, which is much better than his compatriot. The ninth-off Briton Akik jumped just 16.74 metres and will have to work hard if he is to finish in the top eight. And the tenth is the turn of China's Li Yanxi.

This was Lee Yeon-hee's first Olympic Games, and he was very nervous, he didn't play as well as he should in the first jump, and there was a slight mistake, although he tried hard to adjust in the back, but in the end he only jumped 15.93 meters, ranking second to last.

Li Yanxi looked at the final results and shook his head dissatisfied. The audience made a voice of regret, but only a second later, cheers appeared in all directions, because Zhang Guan appeared on the stage.

"Then it's Zhang Guan's turn to appear, and the first time he tries to jump, he can jump out of a guaranteed score first. According to the current athletes' results, if they can jump more than 17 meters, they should have a good chance of entering the next three attempts. As soon as the commentator's voice fell, Zhang Guan had already begun to run.

I saw Zhang Guan quickly accelerate to the extreme, and then began to jump, but then Zhang Guan did not finish the next move, but slowly stopped, because Zhang Guan himself had realized that the moment he jumped just now, his toes stepped on the line.

The referee raised the red flag.

"Oh! Stepping on the line and committing a foul! Zhang Guan failed to try his first jump, what a pity! ”

The crowd also made a cry of regret, and in the athletes' preparation area, athletes such as Evola, Eduu and Girat breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that Zhang Guan is not as good as everyone says, the first attempt to jump failed, a total of six chances, he is so missing one."

"Six chances, you have to be in the top eight in the first three times. In the long jump event before, wasn't the Greek player Tesa Thomas just eliminated after three consecutive failed attempts! Maybe Zhang Guan will repeat the mistakes of the past. ”

"Among the eleven contestants who have appeared so far, only Zhang Guan failed to try to jump!"

"It's really only Zhang Guan who failed to try the jump, and you see, the last Romanian Opglia has already appeared...... Oh! He jumped 17.22 meters. In this way, there is really only Zhang Guan who has no results! ”

"I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect that Zhang Guan, who was known as the biggest favorite before the game, would be ranked first from the bottom!"

The first round of competition came to an end as Romania's Opglia, who made his 12th appearance, finished his trial jump. Great Britain's Eduu was first, Portugal's Evola was second, Cuba's Gilat was third, and Zhang Guan was the only one out of 12 to finish. (To be continued.) )