Before the finish line, Zhang Guan raised his arms in celebration, and the Chinese coaching team also pounced on him and handed Zhang Guan a piece of national flag. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the next second, countless photojournalists came over, and some even crossed the guardrail and came to the arena, just to give Zhang Guan a close-up shot.

The three members of the South Korean team all bowed their heads without exception, extremely depressed, and Lee Jung-so, who was led by him, burst into tears.

Coach Cui Guangfu stood there with a dull face, and he even hoped in his heart that it was all just a nightmare, or that the game was not over yet.

"Lost? Did we really lose? We actually lost! Coach Choi muttered to himself in despair, he recalled the game just now, his three players did not make mistakes, especially Lee Kwang-so, and it can even be said that he played very well, but in the end, South Korea's still lost, and the three players lost to Zhang Guan alone!

The South Koreans had a clear team advantage, but they lost the game in a three-on-one situation, which was really a complete defeat.

"How so? Why is this happening? Lost so completely! Coach Cui looked at the score card, and the 2:08.021 was particularly conspicuous.

"2:08.021! World record, this is a new world record! At this moment, Coach Choi finally understood why the Korean team would lose the gold medal, why the world No. 1 Lee Jung-so would lose to Jang Guan, and in the face of a new world record, Lee Jung-so could not win at all!

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"The referee confirmed the result again, 2:08.021, and we congratulate Zhang Guan, who broke the world record in the short track speed skating 1500m. Prior to this, the world record was set by South Korea's Ahn Hyun-so in 2003 in 2003 in 2:10.639, Zhang Guan improved this time by more than 2 seconds in one fell swoop, it is really incredible, you must know that in the world record level, even 0.01 seconds is very difficult, and Zhang Guan participated in this sport for the first time, and the world record was increased by 2 seconds! He is really worthy of Zhang Guan, worthy of being the greatest athlete in the world! ”

"Today's Zhang Guan seems to have brought us back to the track and field arena, the arena where he can overcome obstacles and easily break the world record! Perhaps for Zhang Guan, the track and field field and the short track speed skating field are the same, as long as the racing sport, he has to be the fastest person in the world! He's the fastest guy on land, he's the fastest guy on land, and now he's going to be the fastest guy on ice? It's not impossible, Zhang Guan will also compete in the men's 500m and 1000m short track speed skating competitions, I am sure he will surprise us, and we are looking forward to the next event of short track speed skating as soon as possible! ”

The narrator's series of commentaries are full of praise, and this is still a relatively neutral commentary in Canada, and on the other side of the world, the commentator of CCTV has already held Zhang Guan to the sky.

A new world record was set and the whole world applauded.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as South Korea.

South Korea's interest in the Winter Olympics, especially short track speed skating, is much higher than in other countries, and the reason is, of course, that South Korea is the strongest in the world in short track speed skating. It's as if the Chinese don't miss the table tennis game. In the three levels of short track speed skating at the Winter Olympics, the 1500m is the strongest event of the South Korean team, and it is also the most consistent gold point, plus three athletes have entered the final, so both the South Korean media and the public believe that the South Korean team will win the top three.

The 1500m final started at 12:20 p.m. in South Korea, which was also lunchtime, so the ratings were very high. Many office workers even go to some small restaurants with televisions to watch the 1500m short track speed skating final.

It's just that today's result is destined to disappoint the Koreans. When Zhang Guan crossed the finish line, there were disappointed faces in front of the TV, whether it was a small restaurant or a school cafeteria, as long as there was a TV, all of them were silent, including the TV, which also became muted mode at this time, because the commentator of the Korean TV station also stopped talking, and he didn't know what to say.

The fact that the South Koreans regarded the strongest project and the project that the Koreans considered to be the inevitable winner of the championship was lost was not only unacceptable to the Korean audience, but also difficult for them to understand.

"Why did Lee Jung-so lose? Could it be that he wasn't fast enough? ”

The next moment, the time of 2:08.021 appeared in front of everyone, and the two big English letters behind were even more dazzling.

wr, short for World Record.

"World record! Ahn Hyun-so's world record has been broken! Someone exclaimed.

A sense of desolation rose from all around them in an instant, and people's expressions were as if they had just experienced a catastrophe.

Losing the gold medal in the short track speed skating 1500m was indeed a big blow to the national self-confidence of the South Koreans, and Ahn Hyun-so's world record breaking was far more serious than the loss of the gold medal. If it is just to lose the gold medal, the South Koreans may comfort themselves that the world record in this event is still held by Ahn Hyun-so, and the South Korean is still the strongest in this event. But now, even this last fig leaf has been torn off.

Koreans have always valued these honors, because they are so lacking in everything, so any bit of achievement will be infinitely magnified, and sometimes they will even take other people's things as their own to show off. Therefore, South Korea's Olympic champions and Winter Olympic champions will be promoted as national heroes.

And now it is in response to that sentence, the higher you hold it, the more painful it hurts.

"Why, why didn't Ahn Hyun-so go! Ahn Hyun-so is the world record holder, and he is the strongest short track speed skater in our country! ”

"Yes, if Ahn Hyun-so is allowed to go up, it will definitely not be this result today, maybe Ahn Hyun-so will break the world record again! I really don't understand what the coach thinks. ”

"This is the responsibility of the coaching staff, and Coach Cui Guangfu is responsible for this!"

"Yes, it's Coach Cui Guangfu's responsibility, it's time for him to step down!"

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In the locker room, Coach Li Bing danced excitedly.

"Zhang Guan, although I guessed that you might break the world record, I never expected that you would be so fast! You're more than 1 second better than you were a little over a month ago, and I've been doing short track speed skating for so many years, and I've never seen anyone make such a big improvement in such a short period of time! Coach Li Bing said.

Professional short track speed skaters, after the technology matures, it is indeed very difficult to improve the time of 1 second, sometimes even to greatly improve their technical movements, to achieve this level of progress, and to the world record level, to improve 0.01 seconds, is a difficult battle. More than a month ago, Zhang Guan's time was just under 2 minutes and 10 seconds, and now it is almost 2 minutes 08 seconds, and this kind of improvement will definitely shock other ice athletes if it is spread.

Zhang Guan smiled slightly, and said: "This is still thanks to the conditions provided to me by the national team, if it weren't for you, I would have been able to run within 2 minutes and 10 seconds." ”

Zhang Guan pointed to the skate blade under his feet as he spoke, and continued: "This specially customized skate blade is different from the one I bought in the store, and Coach Tang also gave me a lot of help. ”

Zhang Guan said as he pointed to the equipment coach surnamed Tang not far away, and this coach Tang smiled shyly.

Professional skating is a must-have instructor, which is one of the hallmarks of skating. In other sports, equipment coaches are often made cameos by training coaches or athletes themselves, such as table tennis, where the rackets are glued by the athletes themselves; Another example is shooting sports, where the gun is also calibrated and maintained by the athletes themselves. In many other sports, the competition equipment is also adjusted by the coach or athlete himself.

However, skating is different, skating blades usually need professional maintenance and maintenance, need to be polished with oil stones, need to use an arc gauge to fix the curvature, need to use a bending device to bend, these work must be done by professional equipment coaches, such as bending, if you don't have a certain experience, it is easy to break the skate blades.

The skates for short track speed skating are actually mounted at an angle, which favors the athlete in cornering. For example, the calculation of the curvature of the skate, the calculation of the inclination angle, and the selection of the skate blade angle according to the field require a certain amount of mathematical skills and rich knowledge of physics. The average athlete has been training since childhood, and may not even have the opportunity to go to high school, so it is impossible to master this knowledge. Therefore, the equipment coaches of short track speed skating are all professionals with higher education, and few are professional athletes.

And a set of suitable equipment, for athletes, the benefits are self-evident. Just like a suit, a made-to-measure garment is sure to fit better than a store-bought ready-to-wear. So before that, Zhang Guan used the equipment he bought to try his best to skate, but he just entered within 2 minutes and 10 seconds.

Better tools make good work. The national team tailor-made equipment for Zhang Guan, and then equipped with special equipment coaches, which made Zhang Guan's performance further improved. In today's game, Zhang Guan has a slight reservation in order to seek stability, and he can already get close to 2 minutes 08 seconds, Zhang Guan feels that if he goes all out, it will definitely not be a problem to score within 2 minutes 08 seconds.

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Zhang Guan's record-breaking championship is not a new thing for many people, in track and field racing, "breaking the record and winning the championship" is the norm for Zhang Guan, but this time the venue has been changed to a skating rink, and the competition has also become short track speed skating.

When the news came out, the world was shocked again. Zhang Guan once again crossed the project, and then successfully stood on the top of the world. He became the first athlete in the world to win gold in an individual event at both the Summer and Winter Olympics, and the first person in the world to break a world record at both the Summer and Winter Olympics. Zhang Guan inadvertently made another unprecedented achievement, and wrote a strong stroke in the history of world sports.

And many professional sports commentators are realizing that the short track speed skating project is about to change!

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The second day of competition in short track speed skating came four days later, on February 18, when Zhang Guan only needed to compete in one race, and that was the group stage of the 1,000m. At the same time, there was also a relay preliminaries in the men's event, but because the opponent was relatively weak, Zhang Guan, who was tasked with winning the gold, did not participate in the relay race.

There was no danger in the preliminaries, Zhang Guan successfully advanced, and another player of the national team, Han Jialiang, also successfully advanced to the next round.

Three days later, on 21 February, the short track speed skating competition will be held in two events, the women's 1500m and the men's 1000m, and the gold medals in both events will be decided.

Men's 1000m short track speed skating, the first to start is the 1/4 finals, Zhang Guan met South Korea's Lee Hao-seok again, in addition to this group there is no decent opponent, and whether it is Zhang Guan or Lee Hao-seok, they also reserve their physical strength for the next competition, so they did not kill the bayonet.

In the semi-finals, Zhang Guan met another South Korean player, Cheng Sibai, and the American player Apollo was also in the same group.

Apollo is the defending champion of the 500-meter short track speed skating, and he also has the nickname "Prince of America" and is arguably the strongest short track speed skater outside of South Korea. His strength is indeed very strong, at least in the first half of the race, he did not lose to Cheng Shibai in terms of speed, and he was not surpassed by Cheng Shibai until the final sprint.

In the end, Zhang Guan and Cheng Shibai qualified in the top two of the group, and Apollo ranked third, whether he can advance depends on the results of the other group.

In the other group, South Korea's Lee Jung-so dominated the group, with his teammate Lee Ho-seok finishing second and Canada's Hamelin third, but Hamelin did better than Apollo. Since there were only five spots in the 1000m Group A final, Apollo had to be eliminated from Group B, and the five runners who remained in Group A were Jang Guan, Lee Jung-so, Lee Hao-seok, Sung Si-baek and Hamelin.

The 500m and 1,000m finals of short track speed skating are divided into two groups, A and B, and those who do not make it to the semi-finals will participate in the final of Group B. In the two groups, Group A players are competing for the championship, second and third place, while Group B is competing for the position. For example, in the 1000-meter short track speed skating, a group of five people, even if they win the first place in Group B, they will only finish sixth in the end. In the 500-meter short track speed skating, there are four people in a group, and the first place in group B is equivalent to the fifth place.

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Coach Choi Kwang-bok looked a little nervous, partly because the final was about to start, and secondly, because he was feeling a lot of pressure these days, mainly from within South Korea, of course, because the Korean team lost the gold medal in the men's 1500m.

"In the 1000m event, all three of our competitors made it to the final again, and there were only five people in the 1000m final, so our advantage is greater than that of the 1500m! So this time, we must not lose. Cui Guangfu took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

But Zhang Guan also entered the final, and since he was able to break the world record of 1500 meters, he may also be able to break the world record of 1000 meters! Even if he can't break the world record in the 1000m, it will definitely threaten our team to win the championship! This gold medal is bound to be won, and Zhang Guan must not be allowed to affect the result of the competition! Coach Cui Guangfu thought of this, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

"Since the conventional method is risky, it may be necessary to use some special tactics, and if necessary, one player should be sacrificed to ensure that this gold medal is in hand!" (To be continued.) )