Chapter VIII Admission to the Olympic Games

The men's 100m morning event has ended, with the men's 100m semi-finals taking place later in the afternoon. There are only two groups in the semi-finals, followed by a ranking based on the overall score, with the top eight teams advancing to the final on the morning of the second day.

The competition has reached this point, there are no weaker players, and those who can get to this point are all strong players, if you talk about dark horses, there is only Zhang Guan.

If the other fifteen athletes are calculated in terms of strength, only Chen Jian and Shen Bang can guarantee to enter the finals, both of whom have the strength to run within 10.3 seconds, and the other players will depend on their own performance and performance.

The organizers of the event divided Chen Jian and Shen Storm, the two strongest athletes, into different groups, Zhang Guan happened to be in a group with Shen Storm, and in the same group were Yin Hanzhao, the men's 100-meter champion of the Ninth Games, Gong Wei, the 100-meter record holder in Gui Province, Liu Dapeng, the first person in the 100-meter Northeast China, Jin Ke, a special student of Peking University, and Hu Kai, a glasses man who had competed in the semi-finals.

In terms of strength, Shen Bang is undoubtedly the strongest, and the other Yin Hanzhao, Gong Wei, and Liu Dapeng are all experienced veterans and have a chance to enter the finals, while the young Jin Ke and Hu Kai have a slim chance of entering the finals.

Since the top eight athletes in the semi-finals were selected for the race, the eight athletes on the starting line did not show too much gunpowder, but were very harmonious.

When the athletes all stood on the starting machine, the referee raised the starting pistol.

The gunshot rang out, and everyone immediately rushed out, except for Zhang Guan's start that was half a beat slower, and he fell behind to the last place in an instant.

"The start was as bad as ever. That's about 0.4 seconds of reaction time! It looks like this kid's start is really bad, not pretended! Director Yu in the stands thought silently.

On the track, Zhang Guan also felt very helpless, his condition in the afternoon was still relatively average, although it was slightly better than the second race in the morning, but the starting reaction time was still worse than the first race in the morning within 0.3 seconds.

But then, he entered Zhang Guan's regular sprinting rhythm, sprinting skills played an effect, super explosive power, quickly increased the speed to the extreme, and then began to surpass other competitors.

Glasses man Hu Kai and Jin Ke at the start, these two people are Tsinghua University's special enrollment, the other is Peking University's special enrollment, the two as students of the two highest universities in China, born with the sense of competition between Tsinghua University and Peking University, and now they are not giving in to each other on the field, trying their best to compete with each other. And Hu Kai's state is obviously better, after a short period of stalemate, Hu Kai has already led Jin Ke by half a body.

At this moment again, a figure kicked past Hu Kai, and he was Zhang Guan.

"Being overtaken by someone, it feels so familiar, this scene seems to have been experienced in the morning, how can it be Zhang Guan again!"

The same scene once happened in the morning rematch, when Hu Kai was just half a position ahead of Pang Guibin and was overtaken by Zhang Guan, but Hu Kai never expected that in the semi-finals in the afternoon, this scene would reappear again. On the same day, he was surpassed twice by the same person in the same way on the same field, Hu Kai suddenly felt very depressed, but there was no way, Hu Kai's speed couldn't catch up with Zhang Guan at all.

Next, Zhang Guan caught up with Liu Dapeng, a flyer from the Northeast, and he didn't even give Liu Dapeng a chance to hold on, so he overtook him, and then caught up with Gong Wei, who held the record in Gui Province.

"It's Zhang Guan, he's really fast!" Gong Wei thought silently in his heart, he had heard his teammate Pang Guibin talk about it at noon, and he was surpassed by Zhang Guan in just an instant, and the speed that was not at the same level made Pang Guibin give up chasing directly, and now Gong Wei also deeply understands this.

Yin Hanzhao, who was in second place, found that there was already a gap between Shen Storm and Shen Storm, who was in the lead, but Yin Hanzhao always thought that he had a chance to catch up, because he knew that Shen Storm would slow down in the second half of the race.

Shen Storm's strongest event is the indoor 60m, and he won the third place in the indoor 60m at the International Indoor Athletics Championships in Vienna in March, so Shen Storm's indoor 60m is the world's top level. Shen Storm is characterized by fast starting reaction, strong explosiveness, and early breaking point, so he can achieve excellent results in the indoor 60-meter event, but in the 100-meter race, Shen Storm cannot always compete with the level of explosive power of 60 meters, which is why he can never outrun Chen Jian in the 100-meter event.

In fact, as Yin Hanzhao expected, after 50 meters, it was the time when many athletes increased their speed to the extreme, but Shen Bang was not as fast as before.

"Here's your chance! Maybe you can catch up with Shen Storm before the finish line! Wait, someone is catching up after you! Yin Hanzhao had already noticed Zhang Guan who was approaching at this time.

After 70 meters, Shen Bang, who was in the lead, also found that there were two people approaching behind.

After 80 meters, Zhang Guan completed the overtaking of Yin Hanzhao.

Shen Bang tilted his head slightly, and happened to see the scene where Zhang Guan surpassed Yin Hanzhao.

"It's that newcomer Zhang Guan! He should have started much slower, how could he catch up! Shen Bang's mind flashed through the scene of Zhang Guan from the last place to the first place in the morning rematch. Then he looked ahead and saw that the end was in sight.

"It's almost the end, hold on! How can I lose to a newcomer! Shen Storm tightened his teeth and tried his best.

After 90 meters, Zhang Guan and Shen Storm have been neck and neck, and at this time, neither Zhang Guan nor Shen Storm has any reason to give up, this is no longer a battle for promotion, but a battle of honor as an athlete.

At this moment, Shen Tyranny, every meter forward, is trying his best, he doesn't want to lose, but he is desperate to find that every meter forward, he has to fall behind a little. He watched as he passed past him and crossed the finish line, and he tried his best to fight back, but he looked so helpless.

Shen Storm crossed the finish line, slowed down until he stopped, then looked at the scoreboard and found his score. The final time of 10.31 seconds was a satisfactory result for anyone, and it was the second place of the year last year.

Then he looked at the first place, which was Zhang Guan's results.

"10.28 seconds!" Shen Bang gasped, he didn't expect this young man who suddenly appeared to run into the 10.3 second mark. This result is enough for Zhang Guan to advance to the ranks of the top players in China.

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10.28 seconds is already the best result in the domestic 100-meter event this year.

On the rostrum, Director Yu suddenly realized something, and then clenched his fists excitedly.

"This ticket is a reversal. I've been waiting for a year, and I've finally been able to get to this result......"

Then Director Yu glanced in the direction of Chen Jian, the first long-distance runner in China, and muttered to himself: "You should also exert your strength, otherwise you will be surpassed by this junior, and you may not be able to go to the Olympics next year!" ”

At the same time, Chen Lao and other teammates who were watching the game also ran up, and even the coaches of other teams came to congratulate them, looking beaming.

"What's wrong? Are they all here? What's the big battle? Zhang Guan was taken aback by this formation.

Chen Lao took the lead in grabbing Zhang Guan and said, "Zhang Guan, well done!" It can be regarded as winning this ticket for our country. ”

"Admission ticket? What admission ticket? Zhang Guan asked strangely.

"Of course, it's a ticket to the Olympics!" Chen Lao continued: "You ran 10.28 seconds and reached the Olympic B standard!" ”

Zhang Guan immediately understood.

As the world's highest-level sports competition, the Olympic Organizing Committee has set the Olympic qualification threshold in order to prevent lower-level athletes from participating in the competition and thus affecting the overall level of competition. The qualification line for track and field events is judged based on the official competition results of the National Olympic Committee and above in the past two years, with Olympic A and Olympic B standards.

According to the regulations of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, in the track and field individual event, each Olympic Committee can send up to three athletes who have reached the Olympic standard A in each event. If there are less than three athletes who meet the Olympic standard A, the athletes who actually meet the standards will register for the competition; If no one reaches Olympic standard A but someone reaches Olympic standard B, then only one athlete with standard B can be sent to participate; If you can't even meet the Olympic B standard, you will not be allowed to participate in the Olympic competition in this event.

Under this rule, if only one player from a country reaches the A standard, it is obviously the most disadvantaged situation, because the quota is the same as that of the country with only the B standard, and there is only one participant. It can also be said that if there is only one A sign in the quota, it is equivalent to B bid.

In addition, athletes who do not meet the standards and want to register for the competition in the field event will be determined by the IAAF based on the athlete's performance level and the number of athletes who meet the requirements in the relevant event. Athletes must reach a certain international level and prove their strength by participating in international competitions recognized by the IAAF. To put it bluntly, it is to "go through the back door" to participate.

At the 2004 Athens Olympics, in the Olympic track and field men's 100m event, the Olympic A standard was 10.21 seconds, while the Olympic B standard was 10.28 seconds. 10.28 seconds, which is also the minimum standard for athletes to participate in the Olympic Games. Until the 2008 Olympic Games in the capital, it was still used according to this standard, and by the 2012 London Olympics, the standard was raised to 10.18 seconds in the A scale and 10.24 seconds in the B standard.

Men's short track events in track and field have always been the weakness of the national team, and athletes participating in the Olympics basically rely on the standard B line of the Olympic Games. Next year's Athens Olympic Games track and field individual results recognition time is from July 1, 2002 to July 2004 registration deadline (except for marathon, race walking, all-around events), as long as the results achieved in the national or above Olympic Committee level competitions during this time period are counted, and the best time run by domestic athletes after July 1, 2002 is 10.32 seconds, that is to say, no one in China has reached the Olympic B standard of 10.28 seconds.

Of course, the national team disdains to participate in the competition "through the back door", but for more than a year, no player has reached the Olympic B standard, which is also a very shameless thing, and of course, the level of domestic players will definitely not be satisfied with the B standard standard. However, Zhang Guan's score of 10.28 seconds today can be regarded as buying a guaranteed ticket for the national team.

From this moment on, Zhang Guan's name really entered the domestic track and field circle.

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