Chapter 77: Five Races in One Day
Historically, Ramz won Bahrain its first-ever Olympic gold medal, but Ramz was tested for doping the following year, and the IOC tested positive for sealed Olympic B-bottle specimens, suggesting that Ramz did use doping at the 2008 Olympics and was banned for two years.
Now, Ramz is back on the same path, using doping in order to improve his performance.
Coaches are absolutely inseparable from the use of doping by athletes, and sometimes it is even the coach who instigates the use of doping by athletes.
Ramz's new coach thought it was an American, and it was a coincidence that this coach was also involved in the doping scandal of the American "Balco Laboratory", which ruined people such as the female flyer Jones and the world record holder at the time, Montgomery, etc., so this coach is also familiar with doping and knows many ways to circumvent urine tests.
Ramz used erythropoietin-stimulating stimulants, which were the third generation of erythropoietin EPO and the most advanced stimulant at the time. This stimulant can increase the number of red blood cells in the body's blood, increase the oxygen content of the blood, and is used to maintain and promote the metabolism of normal red blood cells. With the use of this stimulant, it is possible to improve the athletic performance of athletes and improve sports endurance.
This stimulant is actually a glycoprotein hormone, which is originally present in the human body, so as long as the dosage of the hormone is controlled within a certain range, the post-race urine test can be circumvented. Of course, if the dosage is relatively large, it will definitely be detected.
Although Ramz has been using this stimulant before, his dosage is controlled very well, and he even specially invited a testing agency in the United States to conduct a test, and the results were no problems. But in today's match, Zhang's performance put Ramz under pressure, so he decided to increase his doping use.
In the coach's mind, he does not support Ramz to continue to increase the doping dose, and in the coach's experience, it is very likely that if the doping dosage is added, it will not pass the post-match urine test.
But the coach thought about it, and what Ramz said was also very reasonable, Bahrain has never won an Olympic gold medal, and for now, Ramz is the only possibility for the Bahrain team to win gold, and if Ramz wins, he will also receive a rich reward from Bahrain as a coach. And if Ramz can't win the title, maybe his coaching career in Bahrain will come to an end.
As an American coach, he gave up his life in the United States and ran all the way to Bahrain in the Middle East, enduring heat and drought, not all for the sake of money. And Ramz's suggestion can obviously bring huge financial benefits to the coach.
"Or just take a gamble and win the Olympics and make a big deal of money. Anyway, I'm an American, I can't stay in Bahrain for the rest of my life, maybe Ramzi will be found out in the future, but maybe I'll be back in the United States by then! Thinking of this, the coach nodded silently and said, "Okay, since you have decided, then I support you in doing this." ”
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Zhang Hangneng successfully advanced to the final of the men's 1500-meter middle distance run, which can be regarded as the so-called. After this game, Zhang Guan's game for the day was over. The next day, Zhang Guan will usher in the most difficult day of the competition.
At nine o'clock in the morning on August 18, Zhang Guan was going to participate in the preliminary race of the men's 400-meter sprint; An hour later, at 10 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Guan was going to participate in the preliminary round of the men's 200-meter sprint, followed by the qualification round of the men's triple jump; In the afternoon, the men's basketball team will face the last opponent in the group stage, Greece; At eight o'clock in the evening, Zhang Guan will participate in the semi-final of the men's 200-meter sprint, and after the semi-final, Zhang Guan will also participate in the final of the men's long jump event. In other words, Zhang Guan will face five events in one day.
Fortunately, there is no middle-distance running event arranged on this day, the physical exertion will not be very large, and most of the track and field events are preliminaries and semi-finals, so the competitive pressure will be much less, and the last event is the final of the long jump. In basketball, since the Chinese team and the Greek team have successfully qualified for the quarterfinals, the role of this game is mainly to arrange the group rankings, and it will not be very intense.
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On August 18, Zhang Guan came to the Bird's Nest early in the morning to prepare for today's game.
The men's 400m dash preliminaries were the first event in the Bird's Nest today, with a total of 56 runners registered, so the preliminaries were divided into seven groups.
The promotion rules for the men's 400m dash are that the top three finishers in each group directly advance to the semifinals, and the three runners with the best results can also qualify, so a total of 24 runners can qualify.
It is said that Zhang Guan, a superstar-level player, is a local battle, and is often arranged to appear in the last group of the finale, but considering that Zhang Guan will participate in the 200-meter preliminaries an hour later, the organizers deliberately arranged Zhang Guan to appear in the third group.
This is a very good group for Zhang Guan, after the first and second groups of competitions, the relevant equipment is up and running, and the personnel are in place, at least the hardware will not cause problems for the athletes.
In terms of players, in addition to Zhang Guan, there is no well-known player in the third group, except for Zhang Guan, this group is definitely the weakest of the seven groups.
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As soon as Zhang Guan walked near the athletes' preparation area, he was greeted by Varina with a smile on his face, and behind him were two American athletes, Merritt and Neville, who were also sent by the Americans in the 400-meter sprint.
In Zhang's memory, there were seven times in the 2008 Olympics when one country won the championship, second and third place at the same time, that is, three identical national flags were raised at the same time at the medal ceremony. These are the three American players in the women's sabre individual competition at the same time the champion, second and third place, the women's 100-meter sprint Jamaica team won the championship, second and third place at the same time, the tennis women's singles Russian players won the championship, second and third place at the same time, the men's 400-meter hurdles United States team won the championship, second and third place at the same time, the men's 400-meter United States team won the championship, second and third place at the same time, the table tennis women's singles Chinese team won the championship, second and third place at the same time, and the table tennis men's singles won the championship, second and third place at the same time.
So if it weren't for Zhang Guan, the trio of the U.S. team in front of them, Varina, Merritt and Neville, would have been the top three in the 400-meter sprint. And they will add another gold medal to the U.S. team in the 4x400m event.
"It is indeed spectacular to raise three identical national flags at the same time, but this time with me, at the award ceremony of the 400-meter sprint, I can't hear the "Starry Flag"!" Zhang Guan thought about it while smiling and greeted him.
Note: Starry Flag is the national anthem of the United States.
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