Volume 3 The King of Athletics Chapter 75 Fighting Varina Again
There are countless people around the world who have studied Varina's running style. In addition to professional sports coaches who want to steal from it, other college students and graduate students with sports-related majors will also take Varina's running style as their graduation thesis, and those who need to be promoted to professional titles in the domestic sports system system, there are many people who choose to get a paper related to Varina's running style.
Of course, there are more people who study Zhang Guan's 100-meter sprint, but Zhang Guan's 100-meter sprint is unreasonably fast, and there is nothing too commendable in technology, and the research value is far less than that of Varina.
As the head coach of the national team, Director Yu has of course read a lot of papers on Varina's running style, and there are even many people who come to the door with papers in the hope of getting comments from Director Yu. So at least theoretically, Yu knows a lot about coaching Dovarina's running style, and he knows that Varina can improve his time by 0.5 seconds in the second 100m stage simply by adjusting the span of his pace.
And today, Zhang Guan has also done this, which means that Zhang Guan's total time can also be improved by 0.5 seconds.
"0.5 seconds! In the previous Golden League, Zhang Guan had already run into the 44-second mark, and if he was 0.5 seconds faster, wouldn't he be able to run to 43.50 seconds! At this moment, Yu Gui involuntarily recalled the historical achievements of running under 43.50 seconds.
"There seem to be only two people in the world who can run 43.50 seconds, world record holder Michael Johnson and former world record holder Reynolds. If I'm not mistaken, there have only been five times in the history of mankind in the 400m that they have run under 43.50 seconds, four times for Johnson and one time for Reynolds. Zhang Guan has the potential to become the third person in history to run under 43.50 seconds! ”
Yu Gui thought about it, and his hands trembled involuntarily.
Last year, Director Yu was still glad that Zhang Guan ran within 46 seconds in the 400 meters; In the winter East Asian athlete, Zhang Guan ran under 45 seconds. Breaking the Asian record in the 400m made Director Yu excited for several days, and at that time he couldn't help but start looking forward to when Zhang Guan would be able to run under 44 seconds.
However, half a year later, on the field of the Golden League, Zhang Guan defeated Varina and ran within 44 seconds, and the speed of this progress has made Yu Gui extremely satisfied, Yu Gui feels that Zhang Guan is close to the limit in this project, if he wants to improve again. Maybe it will take two or three years to reach the peak of Zhang Guan's body before he can make a faster speed.
But today, Director Yu found that his judgment of Zhang Guan had made another mistake, and less than a month after the last stop of the Golden League, Zhang Guan inexplicably mastered a new technique, a technique that was enough for him to run within 43.50 seconds.
Zhang Guan is 20 years old this year, and two years later, he will be 22 years old. He is definitely better than he is now, and he will be the most powerful weapon of our Olympic team in the next Olympic Games! At that time. You're sure to shock the world! ”
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The IAAF Golden League Paris tournament takes place on 7 July. There is a conflict in time with this year's Wimbledon. However, Sharapova lost to Mauresmo in the tournament and ended her Wimbledon schedule by losing to Mauresmo in the semi-finals, so she had just time to come to Paris. Watch Zhang Guan in action.
Unlike the previous Golden League, the 110m hurdles event was set up in Paris, and the Golden League allowed the organizers to set up special events. France has a famous 110-meter hurdles player Doucoure, so the 110-meter hurdles are set up in Paris.
However, the biggest attraction of the Golden League Paris is the return of another world record-level track and field star, she is the American female flyer Marion Jones. She will compete in the women's 100-meter dash.
Marie Jones is the brightest star of the women's sprint, breaking world records in both the 100m dash and the 200m dash, her best time in the 400m dash is 49.59 seconds, which is also the world's top level, and her best long jump time of 7.31m is enough to win the championship at the Athens Olympics, and she also plays basketball, football, baseball, and even joined the WNBA as a player.
In 2003, the two world record holders, Jones and Montgomery, had a child, and Jones was also embroiled in a doping scandal and only recently returned to competition.
For example, in the men's 100-meter sprint, the weaker runners first have to compete in Group B, eliminating some of the athletes and then entering the 100-meter sprint.
As the world record holder, Zhang Guan naturally did not need to participate in the 100-meter group B race. However, this time, the schedule is still very unfavorable for Zhang Guan. The men's 400m dash was held at 17:40 p.m. Paris time, while the 100m final was held at 18:35, less than an hour apart.
The 400-meter sprint requires athletes to consume all their physical strength before the finish line, and if there is still a lot of physical strength after running 400 meters, it proves that there is a problem with the distribution of physical strength in the athlete's competition. In world-class competitions, it is not uncommon to see athletes exhausted after 400 meters and carried off the sports field.
If you run 100 meters first and then 400 meters, it's good to say, after all, running 100 meters is not as expensive as running 400 meters, and an hour's rest time can restore a lot of physical strength; However, it is impossible to recover the physical strength previously consumed in the 400 meters after running 400 meters and then 100 meters.
Therefore, in the eyes of those professionals, under this kind of schedule, Zhang Guan will definitely give up one of the events to ensure the other, and if he gives up the 400 meters, then he will definitely adopt a more conservative running style in the 400 meters to reduce the consumption of physical strength; If he gives up the 100 meters, Zhang Guan will inevitably do his best in the 400 meters, and then he will not have the physical strength in the 100 meters event.
In fact, this is the first time that everyone has encountered this situation, and no athlete has ever participated in two events at the same time in a Golden League before, and runners only run once, so the rules have never considered the issue of athletes resting.
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"Coach, I'm going to give it my all this time, I'm not going to be as careless as I was last time. I won't give Zhang Guan another chance! Varina said categorically.
Coach Hart looked confident at this time, and he nodded confidently at Varina: "Jeremy, I believe you, you are the strongest 400m runner in the world, I have never doubted this, I know you will not make the same mistake twice." And the reality is very favorable for us. ”
Coach Hart took the schedule and said: "Fifty-five minutes after the 400-meter race is the 100-meter sprint, and Zhang Guan's actual rest time is probably only forty minutes, so he will inevitably give up one of the events to ensure the championship of the other." The current situation seems. It's more likely that he'll give up the 400m dash, given that he's so dominant in the 100m dash that if it's just the 100m dash, it's almost certain that he'll win all six races. ”
"But coach, Zhang Guan should be very good at physical recovery." Varina spoke.
"yes, that's the only thing I'm worried about. Although it is theoretically unlikely that he will recover his strength in 40 minutes, Zhang Guan is an athlete who is very good at creating miracles, and many so-called theories do not hold true to him. Coach Hart turned his head to look at Varina and said seriously, "So it's about to start." You still have to give it your all! Don't give Zhang Guan a chance. ”
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The Golden League starts with the 100m Group B, followed by the men's and women's 400m hurdles, followed by the men's 800m, women's 1500m and 5000m, and then the 400m.
The women's 400-meter sprint starts first. Richardz of the United States took the title and continued her unbeaten run, while the men's 400-meter dash would begin in ten minutes.
Team USA in addition to Varina. There was also a black athlete named Locke, who had performed well in the United States but rarely appeared on the world stage.
Bahamian star Brown and Canada's Taylor also participated. Since it was held in France, French player Leslie De Joan also participated.
But as everyone knows, the main attraction of the 400-meter dash is the duel between Zhang Guan and Varina, and the other competitors are once again reduced to foils, and if Zhang Guan tactically chooses to abandon the 400-meter dash, Varina will undoubtedly become the champion.
The organizers also knew this, and deliberately arranged Zhang Guan and Varina in adjacent lanes, Zhang Guan in the third lane, and Varina in the fourth lane, both of which are relatively golden in the 400-meter sprint event.
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"Game on!" By the time the commentator's voice fell, the athletes on the field had already run several steps, and there were deafening cheers from the audience, half for local athlete Leslie Deqiong, and the other half for Zhang Guan and Varina.
Perhaps because of the local fight, De Joan seemed excited, his acceleration seemed fast, while the other athletes were in the middle of the game, and there was no change in the running style.
Varina stole a glance at Zhang Guan behind him, and he felt that Zhang Guan's speed was about the same as in the previous game.
"It's still so fast, aren't you ready to give up 400 meters? Do you think you'll be able to beat me if you can run 44 seconds? Don't underestimate me, if you consume too much energy now, the 100m championship will not be guaranteed for a while, and you will probably be disappointed if you lose the 400m and 100m champions at the same time! ”
Varina thought as she adjusted and prepared to enter the runway.
Beside Coach Hart, another American sprint coach said, "It looks like Zhang Guan didn't give up the 400 meters!" In this case, the physical exertion is too great, and in the 100-meter dash for a while, Powell may have a chance to win the championship. ”
Coach Hart shook his head: "It's just started now, it's hard to say, and after entering the 300 meters, we can determine whether Zhang Guan has given up the 400 meters...... Hey? The magnitude of his pace? So much bigger? Is he going to learn Varina's technique? ”
On the track, Zhang Guan has already run a distance of more than 20 meters on the straight track. (To be continued.) )
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