Chapter 16: Easy Promotion

Watch the newsletter below: The 15th Asian Athletics Championships kicked off today at the Rizal Athletics Stadium in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. This year's Asian Athletics Championships lasted for four days, and China sent a total of 48 athletes to participate. The seven o'clock simulcast ended the news broadcast about the Asian Athletics Championships in just two sentences, and the central news agency only sent two reporters to report on the scene.

The Asian Athletics Championships lasted for four days, with a total of 43 events, including 22 men's and 21 women's events, and no men's and women's marathons and 50km race walks.

A total of 43 Asian countries participated, including Timor-Leste, Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, while only North Korea and Bhutan were not part of the Asian Athletics Federation's member countries.

More than 1,000 athletes from 43 countries participated, with China, Japan and South Korea accounting for one-fifth, and the Japanese army almost poured out, and even Japan's flying man Shingo Suesue, who recently won a bronze medal at the World Athletics Championships, participated in the competition, and it seems that he is determined to win the men's 100m event.

The national team may have been affected by the World Athletics Championships, and did not send top athletes in the long-distance events, and Liu Feiren, who had just made a historic breakthrough, did not participate in this competition.

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The Japanese team is stationed.

The coach of the Japanese team, Shin Takano, handed the list of competition groups to head coach Keikazu Kobayashi, and said at the same time: "Coach, our Japanese team players have not encountered strong opponents in the preliminary round of the men's 100 meters, and I believe they can all qualify first in the group." ”

The head coach of the Japanese team, Keikazu Kobayashi, stiffened his face, flipped through the group list, and said at the same time: "Don't be careless when you are not careless, although our opponent is not strong, it can be said that the championship is already in our bag, but don't forget that our goal is to win the top three in the men's 100 meters!" Beware of the Chinese team, as well as the black naturalized player from Saudi Arabia, who will definitely pose a threat to us in the top three. ”

"Yes!" The unique Japanese culture of obedience to superiors made Takano Shin immediately agree, and then said: "Coach, I have investigated the athletes sent by the Chinese team, basically the same as we expected before the game, in the men's 200-meter event they sent Yang Yao to compete, in the 100-meter event they sent Chen Jian and Shen Bang to compete, the only difference from what we expected before the race is that they sent an unknown athlete named Zhang Guan. ”

"Zhang Guan?" Kobayashi Jinghe frowned: "I want this Zhang Guan's information." ”

"Coach, I have found Zhang Guan's information, please take a look." Takano handed a thin sheet of A4 paper to Kobayashi Keikazu, and only half of the words were written on this piece of paper.

"A few months ago, I broke China's national record with a time of 10.16 seconds in the trials, and what else?" Kobayashi asked.

"I'm sorry, but that's all. The player is only 17 years old, and that's all he has to do. Takano said.

Kobayashi Jinghe's face instantly became solemn: "Seventeen-year-old can run so fast!" There is such a potential player in the Chinese team, we don't even know it! How could such a mistake occur. ”

Takano Jin immediately said: "Coach, I don't think this Zhang Guan is a big deal. The 10.16-second result is fast, but it was made in a domestic competition in China, and there is probably a false element in it. Moreover, it is a very normal thing for Chinese athletes to falsely report their results, the information says that he is 17 years old, but the real age is likely to be 244 or 5 years old, and athletes of this age do not have much potential to tap. ”

Takano's remarks reflect international distrust of China's athletic achievements, but they also have a certain degree of credibility. Not to mention the cost of results, but to talk about young things, it is almost an open secret in some projects. So in some events, in the junior competition or the youth competition, the national team has a good result, but in the adult competition, it is a tragedy.

"It's not out of the question." Kobayashi Keiwa put down the group list and continued: "Maybe I'm too nervous. We had just finished the World Athletics Championships and didn't have time to rest. When the Asian Athletics Championships are over, I will apply for a vacation for you. ”

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Zhang Guan played in the penultimate preliminary round, and the level of Asian athletes in the 100-meter sprint event is the lowest in the world, but the level of the national team is still first-class in Asia, so in the previous competition, Chen Jian and Shen Bang easily qualified for the first place in the group.

On the track, Zhang Guan sat on his track logo, but he was not nervous, but looked at the athletes from all over the world with interest.

Zhang Guan's left is a Filipino local player, his height of 1.6 meters is simply a dwarf compared to Zhang Guanyi, but in the Philippines, this height is also tall and powerful, and at this moment he is constantly waving his hand in the stands, causing the screams of a group of swarthy Filipino girls on the sight.

Zhang Guan's right is a Thai athlete, who has the feeling of being a mixed race, and looks quite strong, Zhang Guan guesses that he has the kind left over from the American GIs in the past.

To the right is a player from the Middle East, although he is not very old but has a lot of beard, and the game is about to start sitting there praying, and if you look closely at the national flag on your chest, it is from the United Arab Emirates, a country of local tyrants.

On the far side was a Malaysian player, who was of Chinese descent and had greeted Zhang Guan in half-baked Cantonese before his appearance.

"Hey......" Zhang Guan sighed, feeling that the gap was so big. In his mind, the international event should be surrounded by some strong blacks or big white people, all of them muscular like calves, and the track is full of momentum! But now, except for the Emirati athlete, who can barely be said to be short, the others are all. With those two little short legs, Zhang Guan didn't believe how fast they could run in the 100 meters.

Physical exercise can make people grow taller, especially Zhang Guan's body is only seventeen years old, which is still the age of growth and development, and a few months of training have made Zhang Guan's height grow to more than one meter eight or nine, and almost to one meter nine, which can be regarded as tall in Nordic countries, and it is even more outstanding in Asia.

At this time, the referee signaled the athletes to prepare for the race, and everyone stepped forward, stood on the starting gear, and prepared the starting posture......

Shots rang out, and at the moment when the athletes rushed out, deafening shouts immediately rang out from the scene. It's all about cheering for the Filipino athlete. But after a few seconds, the cheering shouts became more and more sparse.

The Filipino athlete has fallen into last place. Whether it is a Thai mixed-race, or a UAE beard, or a Malaysian Chinese, the speed is faster than the Filipino dwarf, and the height of 1.6 meters is already very disadvantageous in terms of leg length.

The Philippines is not a sports powerhouse in the first place, they are best at sports or combat sports, such as taekwondo and boxing, and the entire Southeast Asian and South Asian countries are very weak in track and field, but they are the weakest in track and field in the world.

Zhang Guan was in the lead from the first time, even if Zhang Guan deliberately slowed down, the lead was already relatively large in the second half of the race, and finally won the first place and qualified with a time of 10.43 seconds, while the Filipino athlete who fell last ran 11.5 seconds away.

Since learning the skill of quick reaction, Zhang Guan saved about 0.15 seconds in the start, at this time Zhang Guan's real time was about 10.05 seconds, the level of Asian athletes is generally low, Zhang Guan did not need to do his best in the preliminary round, so Zhang Guan did not fully exert his strength at all.

The voice of the system finally sounded: "Participate in an international event, the mission is complete." Rewards 1 skill point. ”

Zhang Guan let out a sigh of relief, this task was finally completed. But the next moment, Zhang Guan suddenly patted his head, as if he remembered something.

"It's a loss!" Zhang Guan muttered to himself.

According to the setting of the system, breaking the record can be rewarded with skill points, and the current national record is 10.16 seconds created by Zhang Guan, if Zhang Guan just ran 10.15 seconds in the race, it can be regarded as breaking a national record, and you can get a reward of skill points.

Zhang Guan realized that every game in the future must be carefully calculated, and the opportunity to get skill points must not be missed.

At this point, a new dialog box pops up:

"Some skills belong to growth skills, and the effect of the skill will not be reflected immediately after learning, but will gradually increase the effect over time, and the effect will also decrease with the decline of physical function, and this type of skill often needs more skill points to be able to learn, such as skill strengthening and skill fitness."

"Novice tasks, learn skills to strengthen the body, learn skills to keep fit."

Zhang Guan's brows tightened, the two skills of strengthening the body and keeping fit are passive skills, one can increase the strength of the body, and the other can increase the endurance of the body, he has long noticed these two skills, but each of these two skills requires 3 skill points to be able to learn, which means that 6 skill points are required to complete this task.

"I now have two skill points, and I need four more skill points to complete this skill. I have three more matches in the semi-finals, semi-finals and finals, and if I break the national record in each of them, I can get 3 skill points, which is not enough to complete the task, so I have to break the Asian record in one game. Or if you can get the honor of champion in the end, you can also get additional skill points. Zhang Guan silently calculated in his heart.

The current Asian record is 10 seconds held by Koji Ito, Zhang Guan is not yet up to this level, and if you want to win the championship, you must first beat the Japanese player, Japan's Shingo Sueji ran a time of 10.03 seconds at the World Athletics Championships last month, which is the second best time in Asia, and he is currently in good shape, Zhang Guan is not sure that he will be able to beat Shingo Sueji.

"I can't do it now, I have to be faster! It seems that this is the only way to do it......" Zhang Guan thought about it and felt that he could use a skill point on the sprint skill.

"Upgrade Sprint!"

The next moment, the blue skill icon of the dash skill turned purple.

"A master sprint, a huge increase in straight-line running speed. Duration: 40 seconds. ”

Zhang Guan looked at the skill description, let out a long breath, and said secretly in his heart: "Skill upgrade, this time you should be able to run within 10 seconds." ”

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