Chapter 136: Hooked
After breakfast, Coach Virgil summoned Carmel and Ramz to the hotel conference room, and then began to play videos of Zhang's last few games.
"Well, what do you see? Did you find any weaknesses in Zhang Guan? Coach Virgil asked.
Carmel and Ramz looked at each other, apparently not finding what Coach Virgil called "Zhang Guan's weakness".
"Coach, you better say it directly!" Carmel said anxiously.
Coach Virgil smiled slightly, pressed the remote control, and continued: "This is the 1500m preliminary race, Carmel, the four of you have been alternately leading in front, and Zhang Guan fell to the end of the team at the beginning. And then starting here, he used this straight line to run to the front......"
"Look at the 1500m final, Ramz, you accelerated at this time, Suleiman and Najim didn't choose to follow, but Zhang Guan followed......"
Coach Virgil said this, raised his head, and said excitedly: "You see it! Zhang Guan likes to follow the leader or follow the leading group very much, even if the leader or the leading group runs relatively fast, even out of the big army, Zhang Guan will follow. ”
"Coach, you mean that Zhang Guan likes to follow faster people?" Ramz sensitively grasped the gist of it.
"You're right." Coach Virgil nodded: "Zhang Guan should be very confident in his level of follow-up and sprint, so he will use this method. According to my observations, the essence of Zhang Guan's running tactics is to first ensure that he does not fall behind the leading group in the following run, and at the end he relies on strong speed and sprinting ability to overtake. ”
"But this kind of running is very demanding on the individual's physical fitness, right?" Carmel asked.
Coach Virgil nodded tacitly: "That's right, but Zhang Guan is obviously the most physically powerful athlete in the world." So in today's 800m race, if we want to beat Zhang Guan, we have to take advantage of his weakness. ”
"Coach, what do we need to do?" Carmel asked immediately.
"We may need to sacrifice one person." Coach Virgil said as he looked at Ramz. Then he continued: "We need to have a player who takes the lead at the beginning of the race, and then uses his physical strength to lead quickly to lure Zhang Guan to follow, and greatly consume Zhang Guan's physical strength, so that we can create opportunities for other players." However, in this case, the leader may not be able to finish the race due to excessive physical exertion. ”
Ramz took a deep breath, and Coach Virgil looked at him and said that he was obviously making himself the victim.
That's exactly what Coach Virgil meant. Carmel and Ramz are both former world champions in the 800m, and the two are almost the same in the 800m. But Ramz just finished a 1500m final yesterday and Carmel had a full day off, so Carmel is definitely better than Ramz in terms of pre-race preparation.
At the same time, Ramz has been in the lead position in yesterday's 1500m final, and if Ramz uses the same tactics again in today's 800m final, it will be easier to believe and more able to lure Zhang Guan to catch up. With these two things in mind, Ramz is the obvious choice as a decoy player.
Ramz didn't want to be the bait, but he did. For the sake of Bahrain's victory, he had to be that victim.
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On the morning of December 11, in addition to the semifinals of the men's 200m, there will also be a preliminary round of the men's 110m hurdles. So Zhang Guan and Liu Feiren appeared on the track and field at the same time.
For Zhang Guan, the 200-meter semi-finals are like hors d'oeuvres, and Liu Feiren, who has not participated in the competition for a long time, is also very enjoyable. However, Zhang Guan still has the 200-meter final and the 800-meter final to run in the afternoon. And if Liu Feiren wants to have a good time on the field, he will have to wait until tomorrow.
At 4 p.m. Doha time, the men's 200m race officially began. Judging by the strength of the athletes. Zhang Guan will undoubtedly win the championship, and among the other players, Japan's Shinugo Sueji is the strongest player other than Zhang Guan, and it should be no problem to win a silver medal.
The bronze medal match will be played between national team player Yang Yao and Japan's Shinji Takahira. So this 200-meter sprint contest has become a Sino-Japanese battle in the final analysis. In the end, Yang Yao lived up to expectations and defeated Shen Takahira by 0.1 seconds to win the bronze medal in the 200-meter race.
Then, in an hour, Zhang Guan ushered in his sixth gold medal battle of this Asian Games, the final of the men's 800m. It was also the last individual race in the middle distance.
Zhang Guan looked at the athletes around him, and several of them had competed in the previous 800m heats or 1500m races, such as Kamel and Ramz of Bahrain and Suleiman of Qatar. Other competitors include Kuwait's Al Alzemi, Iran's Mor Eh Jae, Saudi Arabia's Al Shalih and Japan's Mato Yokoda.
The pre-match atmosphere today is very different from yesterday. Before yesterday's 1500-meter race, no one thought that Zhang Guan would win the 1500-meter championship, and both the athletes and spectators valued Zhang Guan's fame rather than strength.
But Zhang Guan broke the Asian record of 1500 meters in yesterday's race, which surprised everyone, but also made the competitors feel deeply jealous, and in today's 800 meters event, Zhang Guan suddenly became the first favorite to win the championship, and even suppressed the track and field World Cup champion Carmel in terms of momentum.
The runners quickly completed their preparations and occupied the starting line.
“Onyourmarks…… set......" The starter raised the starting pistol, then pulled the trigger, and with a single gunshot, the game officially began.
The first 100 meters are lane splits, so the runners don't have to worry about rushing the lane. But from a tactical point of view, if you want to get a good position at the back, then running a little faster in the lane split is a good option.
"Look, Ramz! Ramz is fast, is he ready to take the lead again? ”
It has already been noticed that Ramz is indeed a little faster than the other runners, and he is indeed the first to cross the lane line, and then quickly changes to the innermost track and begins to enter the lead.
The follow-up runners also began to change lanes after crossing the grab line, and although the 800-meter runners were four fewer than the 1500-meter runners, they were more ferocious in grabbing positions. Because there are only two laps in the 800-meter race, excluding the start, strong track and sprint, the actual distance to follow in the big group is only more than 400 meters, so it is especially important to occupy a good position.
"Look, Carmel made a mistake!"
I saw that Carmel hesitated a little in the process of changing lanes, and then was blocked by Kuwait's Al Zemi, and had to follow in the last position.
The audience immediately burst into exclamations. Carmel is the champion of this year's Track and Field World Cup, and was regarded as the first favorite to win the 800m event before the Asian Games.
However, the high-profile player made a mistake at the beginning of the bout and was stuck in the last position.
At the end of the 200 meters, the athletes have completed the lane change, at this time the athletes are still relatively strong, and they follow each other relatively closely, and then the athletes enter the corner. Just as he entered the corner, Ramz, who was in the lead, began to pick up speed.
"Ramz is speeding up again! Could it be that he still has the same tactics as yesterday, leading all the way to the finish? ”
Everyone in the room remembered yesterday's Ramz, in yesterday's 1500m final, Ramz led from the start, using a high speed throughout, and judging from the results, Ramz's tactics yesterday were very successful, he broke the Asian record, and also set a personal best. If it weren't for the sudden appearance of a crown, Ramz's yesterday's tactics could even be used as a textbook case for mid-running.
In yesterday's 1500m race, Ramz did not keep up after the speed of the race, they thought that Ramz was using a gambling style of running, so in the final sprint, Ramz was even 20 meters ahead of third-placed Najim, and it was too late to catch up with such a big gap. Only Zhang Guan followed Ramz closely, and the final game became a contest between Zhang Guan and Ramz, and others such as Suleiman, Najim and others, even if they still had the strength to spare, they could only watch and be anxious.
Therefore, in today's 800m final, when Ramz picked up speed again, both the competitors, coaches and spectators thought that Ramz was using the same tactics as yesterday.
"Catch up, today can't make yesterday's mistakes, yesterday just didn't follow Ramz all the time, so Ramz pulled too far away." Suleiman, who played in yesterday's 1500m final, reacted first, picking up his pace and keeping up with Ramz.
Subsequently, the other runners made the same choice, except for Carmel, who was in last place, only slightly accelerated, and looked like he was barely following the race.
But Carmel was the last athlete in the queue, and it was clear that no one in front of him would pay attention to Carmel's movements.
"The tactics worked! It seems that not only Zhang Guan, but even other players have taken the bait! Coach Virgil was excited, but he was nervous, and he was worried that his intentions would be seen by other coaches. (To be continued.) )
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