Chapter 493: The Fastest Speed Mine

"Audience friends, next up is the men's individual time trial in road cycling. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 According to the rules of the race, the runners will start the grid in reverse order according to the points of the individual time trial, so the winner of the last Olympic Games, Switzerland's Cancellara will be the last to start. And the first to play should be Morocco's Raseni. As soon as the commentator's voice fell, he saw Zhang Guan standing on the starting area.

"Zhang Guan?" The commentator was stunned for a moment, then calmed down and said: "In the list I got, Zhang Guan should have started in seventh place, and I think the organizing committee made temporary adjustments. ”

At the scene, the contestants were also quite surprised that Zhang Guan took the lead.

"Zhang Guan? Was Zhang Guan the first to start? Germany's Martin said. Martin is known as a timekeeper in road cycling and a favourite to win the title. And when Zhang Guan won the gold medal in the road race, Martin already saw Zhang Guan as a huge obstacle on the way to winning the championship.

Next to Martin, Grabush, who is also a German player, looked at the British player next to him with disdain: "Zhang Guan was originally the seventh starter, but now it has been changed to the first one, and nine times out of ten it is the British Yankees!" ”

"The British must be very angry when they lose the gold medal in the road race, this is to take a crown to get angry, the first to get out of the car, is to go to the landmine, there will definitely be no good results." Martin spoke.

"The 34.6-kilometer course is nothing for a professional cyclist, even if there are more changes in the road, you can finish the race in less than 55 minutes, let's see how Zhang Guan's results are, at least you can give us a reference." Grabush spoke.

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Britain's Fromm approached Wiggins and said, "Zhang Guan was scheduled to be the first to get out of the car, his race is over, and our competitor is one less competitor." ”

Wiggins nodded, and he patted Fromm on the shoulder: "Let's go back and go, try to ride under 51 minutes, and we'll try to finish the top two!" ”

"51 minutes, it's a bit difficult! In the previous practice, my best time was not over 51 minutes. Martin of Germany and Finney of the United States are very strong, and I am afraid that I will not win a medal. Fromm began.

"Christopher (Flåm), believe in yourself, you can do it!" Wiggins continued to encourage Fromm.

Wiggins is the eldest brother of British road cycling and the boss of the British Sky Team, but he knows how terrible his little brother Fromm is when it comes to talent. Wiggins always believed that it wouldn't be long before Fromm surpassed himself and became the number one cyclist in the UK. In fact, Fromm did not disappoint Wiggins or the British, the future Tour de France treble champion, who will be in his prime next year, showing absolute dominance.

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In general, the first runner to start the grid does not attract the attention of the other runners. Because the first start represents the lowest points, and the lowest points also means the worst strength. In the kilometer time trial of the previous Olympic Games, the first to start were wild card players, and their strength was too far behind that of professional players, and it was common for the final score to differ by seven or eight minutes.

The top drivers don't care about an opponent who is several grades lower than them, and the difference of seven or eight minutes is not even worthy of being called an opponent.

But this time it was different, and no one would question Zhang Guan's strength. Even if Zhang Guan is the first to start, it will still make those big-name drivers feel jealous, and Zhang Guan's final result will also be used as a reference data for them.

Finally, with the referee's whistle, Zhang Guan rode out of the starting area.

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Two minutes later, Morocco's Raseni set off, another two minutes later, Venezuela's Martinez departed, and Iran's Haji set off two minutes later.

"It's almost eight minutes, Zhang Guan should be close to the first timing point!" Fromm spoke.

The first timing point, located at 10.8 km. The time it takes for British runners to reach the first timing point is often between 8 minutes and 30 seconds and 8 minutes and 40 seconds.

Players from other countries may not have such accurate statistics than those of the United Kingdom, and this is also the home advantage of the United Kingdom. The same track, the British can practice dozens of times in advance and hundreds of times, and they know the situation of the track well. The British team knows where there is a slope, where there are sharp corners, how much time it takes in that stage, and how to distribute the energy during the race, the British team has also conducted many experiments and found the best solution.

That's home advantage, with nearly a third of the UK's gold medals coming in cycling at the historic London Olympics. It can be said that in the cycling event, the British team occupies the right time and place, and other countries can only grab the "people" if they want to win the British team.

Hearing Fromm mention Zhang Guan, Wiggins also began to pay attention to the race data sent back from the front, with Wiggins's strength, he can ride in the first stage of less than 8 minutes and 30 seconds, Wiggins is confident, this result is definitely the first in the world!

"I estimate that Zhang Guan's time is more than 8 minutes and 50 seconds, and if there are more accidents on the road, maybe the time for him to pass the first timing point will be more than 9 minutes." Wiggins spoke.

The next moment, the first timing point in front of it has already transmitted the data back.

"8 minutes and 20 seconds! The time for Zhang Guan to pass the first timing point was 8 minutes and 20 seconds! Wigginston was stunned.

"Impossible! How could Zhang Guan be so fast? I practiced so many times before the race and my best time was only 8 minutes and 23 seconds! Zhang Guan is the first time to run this track, and he is the first to start, he is a scavenger, and he is in front of the mine! How fast can you go to the mines! Wiggins' eyes widened in surprise.

Beside him, Fromm's expression was even more unbearable than Wiggins's.

The current Fromm is slightly inferior to Wiggins, and in his previous practice, there are not many cases where he can enter within 8 minutes and 30 seconds, and 8 minutes and 20 seconds is a distant achievement for him.

"Maybe at the beginning, Zhang Guan rode faster, and the road in the first stage was not complicated, there were more straight ahead, and there were fewer ramps, and when it came to the second stage, when there were more ramps, Zhang Guan would definitely slow down!" Fromm reassured himself.

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Next to him, such as Martin of the German team, Finney of the American team, and Cancellara of the Swiss team, they also saw a time of 8 minutes and 20 seconds.

"Zhang Guan took 8 minutes and 20 seconds in the first stage, and considering that he was the first to start, his time would be a little lower, so I should have controlled the time to 8 minutes and 10 seconds. However, the 10.8-kilometer journey, 8 minutes and 10 seconds, is fast enough, and it seems that the road in the first stage is relatively smooth. Finney of the American team nodded silently.

Not far from Finney, the "time trial expert", Germany's Martin, was also silently calculating how much time he should have to complete the first stage.

"Judging from Zhang Guan's speed, the first stage should be relatively gentle, I am better at the stage with a gentle road, and the first stage is also my advantage stage! I'm going to try to keep it to 8 minutes or less! Martin thought to himself.

Players from other countries don't have the home data of the United Kingdom, and they are judged solely by their own game experience. However, they soon realized how wrong they had made to use Zhang's results as a reference.

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A little more than three minutes later, the second Moroccan runner to start, Raseni, also passed the first timing point.

"9 minutes and 33 seconds? So slow, Raseni is 1 minute and 13 seconds slower than Zhang Guan? ”

"It's only 10.8 kilometers, and it can be slowed down by 1 minute and 13 seconds, and the strength of the wild card players is really enough!"

A little more than a minute later, Venezuela's Martinez also passed the first timing point.

"At 9:14, this Venezuelan is much better than the Moroccan player before him."

"Maybe the Moroccan player from before had an accident!"

"But compared with Zhang Guan, the gap is still very big!"

The surrounding audience whispered.

Afterwards, several competitors arrived at the first timing point, and none of them scored under 9 minutes.

But the world's top players, like Martin, Feeney, Cancellara and others, didn't care. In their opinion, the level of the wild card players is simply too poor, and their results are not valuable at all.

At this time, Zhang Guan was also about to reach the second timing point.

The second timing point, located at 23.5 km, is 12.7 km away from the first one, which is 1.9 km longer than the first one.

The longer the journey, the more time it will take. And the 12.7km of the second stage is more complicated than the 10.8km of the first stage, with more curves and more slopes.

The British team played at home, with plenty of stats to back it up, and they knew that the second stage would take between 14 minutes and 50 seconds and 15 minutes and 10 seconds. So as the 14 points approached, the two British players, Wiggins and Fromm, had already begun to pay attention to the data passed back from the front.

"I don't know how much time it will take for Zhang Guan to smash the second stage. If he takes more than 15 minutes, I can barely accept it, but if he is under 15 minutes......" Wiggins couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat as he thought about it.

The next moment, the second timing point in front finally came back with real-time data.

"Zhang Guan has passed the second timing point, what is his result?" Wiggins looked up, and then saw a number that shocked him!

Said the passer

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