The lead of this group of athletes in the early stage was too slow, and this result was also expected by Director Ma.

However, Zhang Guan's performance made Director Ma feel that he had gained a lot.

"Old Yu, what do you think of Zhang Guan's run?" Director Ma asked.

"Are you asking about results or running style?" Yu Gui said.

"In terms of results, this 1 minute and 51 seconds is definitely not Zhang Guan's extreme performance." Director Ma looked at Zhang Guan, who was exiting, and then said, "Let's talk about how to run!" ”

"Zhang Guan's running style reminds me of when he ran 400 meters. In the 800-meter race, Zhang Guan still retains a lot of physical strength at the end, and this child does have a special talent in terms of physical reserves. Director Yu paused, and then said: "What I'm wondering about is that his physical strength is so good, why don't he just lead to the end?" Then he can run at his own pace and he will definitely get better results. ”

"I can't figure that out either." Director Ma took a deep breath, lowered his voice, and then asked, "Old Yu, how fast do you think Zhang Guan's running style can be?" ”

"It's hard to say, after all, I'm not specialized in middle running, but judging from experience, Zhang Guan's 800 meters should be able to run under 1 minute and 47 seconds." Director Yu said a number that even he thought was quite high.

"Is it less than 1 minute and 47 seconds? That's one of the best results in Asia. Director Ma's voice changed, and then said: "Do you think Zhang Guan can participate in the Asian Games?" ”

"You want Zhang Guan to run the 800 meters of the Asian Games?" Director Yu's eyes widened in surprise.

"I'm just talking about it casually." Director Ma motioned for the guide to sit down, and then said: "But Zhang Guan seems to want to go to the Asian Games to run 800 meters." ”

"No way!" Director Yu immediately shook his head: "He is tired enough to participate in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter races now, at most let him go to a long jump!" 800 meters to run? I'm going to use him as an animal! ”

Director Ma smiled awkwardly, although Director Yu is the deputy head coach of international track and field, he is also the coach of the sprint event, so he will naturally be biased towards the sprint event. Therefore, it is normal for people to oppose Zhang Guan's participation in the middle distance race.

I saw Director Ma continue: "Actually, before that, I had a phone call with Zhang Guan. ”

Director Ma told Director Yu about the previous call with Zhang Guan, and Director Yu suddenly fell silent. After a long time, Yu Gui said: "That's right, this kid has a lot of ambitions, he wants to participate in the 800 meters and 1500 meters of the Asian Games." In line with his character. ”

"There's a saying, oh yes! The world of genius is not something we can imagine! Director Ma made a joke and then said: "I always thought that a person's energy was limited and it was unlikely that he would be able to achieve high achievements in every sport, but now it seems that there are always some things in this world that I can't understand." ”

"Don't sigh yet, Zhang Guan is going to participate in the Asian Games 800 meters, what are your plans? Give me a word of approval. Director Yu said.

"I haven't decided yet. I thought so. If Zhang Guan can win an Asian Games medal in the middle running event, it doesn't hurt to send him to try. The level of middle running in our country is too weak, and the middle running has always been not taken seriously, if Zhang Guan participates in the middle running race, if it can awaken everyone's attention to the middle running event, I think it is worth it. Director Ma spoke.

In China, middle-distance running is indeed the weakest track and field event. In terms of attention, the mid-run is certainly not as popular as the sprint. Everyone knows who the world record holder is in the 100m, but who will remember the world record holder in the middle run. Therefore, the best track and field seedlings in China will definitely choose sprinting.

And those track and field seedlings with average explosiveness but decent endurance. The first choice is also race walking or long-distance running, race walking has always been the strength of the national team, both men and women have the strength to win the championship in world-class competitions, and the long-distance running event since the era of "Ma Jiajun" has continued to achieve results in the world, and the level of attention and training is also higher than that of the middle run.

Director Ma is the head coach of the national team. Of course, we should consider the whole track and field business as a whole. Since the Athens Olympics produced Zhang Guan and Liu Feiren, the development momentum of domestic track and field short events has been extremely rapid, and a large number of outstanding young athletes have emerged, and the long-distance running events have been developing well, only the middle run. Gradual marginalization.

Especially after Zhang Guan won several 400-meter championships, the attention of the 400-meter masses increased instantly, and even Varina's popularity increased rapidly in China. Many people know that there is a white foreigner named Varina, who is Zhang Guan's main competitor. At the same time, some athletes who originally practiced 800 meters are ready to switch to 400 meters, which makes the development of middle-distance running more and more weak.

Zhang Guan is now the focus of the whole people, if Zhang Guan really has the ability to win a medal in the Asian Games, or even a gold medal in the middle running event, then the middle running event will definitely be immediately taken seriously, which is obviously beneficial to the overall track and field environment in China.

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On the second day of the race, Zhang Guan only had one race, and that was the men's 1500m preliminaries.

The strength of domestic athletes 1500 meters is slightly stronger than 800 meters, the rise of Ma Jiajun in the early nineties of the last century directly led to the domestic long-distance running career, although 1500 meters is a middle-distance run, but because of the technical characteristics and long-distance running, so 1500 meters is also the beneficiary of the rise of Ma Jiajun at that time, and there were a group of very good athletes in the early nineties.

There are more domestic athletes who train in the 1500m than in the 800m, so there are more people participating in the 1500m race, but the race is still divided into three groups, because the 1500m start is not a separate lane.

In a race where lanes are separated, each athlete occupies a track, and the number of participants in a race is limited, while in a race where there is no lane separation, athletes stand in a row, one person, two people, and three people in two...... In short, as long as you stand in the runway. Especially in the 10,000-meter race, the athlete is already relatively slim, and it is possible for seventeen or eighteen people to run at the same time in a race.

Zhang Guan's group has a total of 13 athletes, including two very good 1500m athletes, one is called Tang Baojun and the other is Yang Anyue. The 1500m level of these two is the top in China, and both have won the domestic track and field Grand Prix.

The 1,500-meter starting point is just behind the rush line, with athletes standing in an arc on the starting line, with the athletes on the outer track standing relatively forward and the inside track standing relatively backward.

When it comes to the 1,500-meter race, tactical planning becomes very important. The more experienced an athlete is, the better he will be at executing his tactics, so an experienced athlete may win the championship even if he does not have the strength to win the first place.

Before the game, the coach began to arrange tactics for the athletes, and Coach Zhou also called Zhang Guan to his side.

Coach Zhou himself is a special coach for middle running, especially in the 1500 meters, so the 1500 run of the provincial team athletes is very strong, and Coach Zhou can give Zhang Guan this 1500 meter run quota. It also shows that the provincial track and field team attaches great importance to Zhang Guan.

Coach Zhou looked at Zhang Guan and thought about it for a long time and didn't know what tactics to arrange. Originally, the provincial team gave Zhang Guan a place in the middle running race, which was originally an act of selling face, and he didn't expect Zhang Guan to get any results, but yesterday's 800-meter race surprised Coach Zhou, and he also saw that Zhang Guan's 800-meter limit was definitely more than 1 minute and 51 seconds, and Zhang Guan's physical strength would definitely be able to make faster results.

"What tactics should be assigned to Zhang Guan? The longer the running distance, the more tactics there are, and the 1500m tactics are quite varied. Coach Zhou was silent for more than twenty seconds, and finally spoke: "En." Come on, run well! Take care to protect yourself. Just don't get hurt, grades don't matter. ”

Coach Zhou put on a posture of "you can have fun", which made Zhang Guan speechless.

This is not the case with the other coaches, and according to the rules, only four of the thirteen athletes in this group will eventually make the cut, according to the promotion ratio. The competition in this group is even more fierce than the average sprint event, so the coaches are very serious about arranging tactics for the players.

After a few minutes, the athletes were all on the starting line. Zhang Guan was assigned to the middle position this time, so that he needed to rush inside in the game for a while.

Athletes in the 1500m are generally tall and thin, but few domestic athletes can exceed 1.9 meters. As a sprinter, Zhang Guan obviously has a lot more muscles than middle-distance runners, so he suddenly stands out from the crowd when he stands out from the crowd.

For those spectators at the scene, this game is obviously very interesting. The strength of this group of athletes is relatively high, Tang Baojun and Yang Anyue are both capable of winning the championship, and Zhang Guan's 1500m debut is very much expected by everyone.

With a single gunshot, the game began.

This time Zhang Guan did not immediately turn on the sprint skills, in yesterday's 800-meter race, Zhang Guan started a sprint instantly exceeded the distance of several meters of other athletes, and then in order to follow, Zhang Guan had to slow down, which made Zhang Guan feel that the gains outweighed the losses, so after summing up the experience, Zhang Guan simply slowed down at the start, as long as he could keep up with the pace of the big group.

So Zhang Guan began to move to the inside track at a normal pace, but in terms of grabbing the road, Zhang Guan was not good at it and lacked experience, so he was constantly stuck by other athletes with his body, and when he merged into the innermost track, he became the last one.

"Woo ......" Many people made an exclamation sound, and Zhang Guan, who often leads in the sprint race, actually fell last, which made the audience instantly interested.

But the sports professionals didn't react so much, this is a 1500m middle distance run, the first 100m doesn't make a difference, the final sprint is the key. There are also many examples of starting in last place and finishing first in the race.

And Zhang Guan also feels that it doesn't matter, there is more than 1000 meters in the 1500-meter race, and the athletes will run at a constant speed in the same group, and they can't pull any distance from each other, so running with the first place is also running, and running with the penultimate place is also running, everyone has the same speed, there is no difference.

So, Zhang Guan stayed in the last place honestly, closely following the penultimate place. (To be continued.) )

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