After the competition, corresponding reports appeared on the front pages of major domestic news media.

"Men's Basketball Advances to the Final Four of the Olympics to Set the Best Record"

"Da Yao contributed a big double-double, 35 points and 17 rebounds to crush the Croatian men's basketball team"

In this game, but judging from the data, Da Yao did play a god-level performance, and many people can guess the reason for the national team's victory from Da Yao's data. In the Olympic basketball game, a team's core players can score more than 30 points, which basically means that the victory is sealed, except for the current U.S. team.

Zhang Guan scored a total of 17 points, which was the second-highest score for the national team, and two other players from the national team also scored in double figures. However, because Da Yao's data is so good, Zhang Guan did not get a lot of media attention.

The semifinals are also the best record of the men's basketball team at the Olympics, and the previous best result of the men's basketball team was the quarterfinals of the Olympics. It is precisely because of the best record that the media has praised this year's men's national basketball team.

In the other matches of the day, Lithuania eventually defeated Greece, so Lithuania became the opponent of the national team in the next round. The U.S. won against Australia without a hitch, and in the final match between Spain and Argentina, Spain played extra-time to defeat Argentina and they will face the United States in the semi-finals.

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Zhang Guanke did not have time to pay attention to the next men's basketball game, he still did not participate in the men's basketball celebration, but rushed directly to the National Stadium after the game to prepare for the track and field event in the evening.

The first event of the day is the men's 800m heats, followed by the men's 200m final at 10 o'clock in the evening.

A total of 64 athletes participated in the men's 800m heats, and in this event, West Asian countries are extremely strong, but in the last two years, African countries such as Kenya, Algeria, Sudan, South Africa and Morocco have gradually risen. Kenya and Algeria, in particular, have brought the "huddle run" of the long-distance running events to the middle-distance running events, and in many middle-distance races, two or three Kenyan runners or Algerian runners often work together as a team to achieve better results.

Prior to that, the favourites for the men's 800m title were Konya's Bangai and Korva, Sudan's Ismail and Bahrain's world champion Joseph Kamel. But just today, the favourite to win the 800m title has become Zhang Guan, who has just broken the world record in the men's 1500m.

Zhang Guan broke the world record in the 100m and also broke the world record in the 1500m, which means that Zhang Guan has the potential to break the world record in all three events between the 100m and 1500m. In the 200 meters and 400 meters, Zhang Guan was originally the world record holder, which also shows that Zhang Guan is better at sprinting, and the shorter the distance, the more advantageous it is for Zhang Guan. The 800m is half the distance less than the 1500m, and Zhang Guan's hopes of winning the championship naturally increase.

So when Zhang Guan appeared on the field, it immediately attracted a lot of "African brothers" vigilant or jealous eyes, the level of the players in this event is not much different, the original competition is very fierce, and the result is that there is a person who broke the 1500-meter world record, which instantly aroused the hatred of other players.

Those Kenyan players are even pondering whether to unite with other African countries and use the tactics of alternate leadership to kill Zhang Guan, but they also know that it is impossible to achieve it now, after all, it is the preliminary round, and there are many players in the team who are more than good at the level, such as Vietnamese, Guam, and Yemeni players, all of whom are here to play soy sauce, and half of the group Zhang Guan is divided into are European players, and there are no athletes from Kenya and Algeria and other middle-running powers.

Twenty-four of the 64 players will advance to the semi-finals of the next round, with the top two in each group qualifying and the eight best finishers also qualifying.

At seven o'clock in the afternoon, before it got dark, the 800-meter preliminaries had already begun. Favourite Bongai of Kenya made his overall appearance in the first group before comfortably topping the group. In the second group, a Sudanese player and a Saudi Arabian player qualified for the two places.

In the third group, another favorite to win the championship, Kenya's Kolva also qualified, along with Simmonds, the first person in the 800m in the United States; In Group 4, European 800m champions Spain's Olmedo and Sudan's Ismael qualified together, while Group 5 featured two lesser-known athletes.

The two runners in Group 6 are known to Zhang: Kuwait's Azmi and Bahrain's Carmel, both of whom had played against Zhang Guan at the Asian Games two years earlier, with Carmel and Zhang Guan competing for the 800m world title.

The top two in Group 7 were won by Cuba's Lopez and Kenya's Lalang, who also competed in the 1,500m and against Zhang Guan. In addition, Bahrain's Ali is also in this group, and he is only fifth, but fortunately, his results are not bad, and he could squeeze into an additional eight promotion spots.

Zhang Guan appeared in the last group, which is the eighth group.

Under the Olympic qualification rules, the later you play, the better, especially for the last group of runners, who already know the results of the other skaters and naturally know how fast to run to get an extra eight qualifying places. Therefore, in the preliminaries of the halftime run, there will definitely be more players in the last group who will be promoted.

The overall strength of Zhang Guan's group is not strong, and there are three people who participated in the competition with the B standard, and these three people will definitely be eliminated. Of the other four, only one is an African athlete, and the others are all athletes from Europe. Europe is not strong in the 800m event, so there must be no suspense for Zhang Guan to advance to the semi-finals.

In fact, after running 700 meters, Zhang Guan directly launched a sprint and easily qualified as the first place in the group.

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In the semi-finals of the 110-meter hurdles held at 9:30 p.m., Liu Feiren's absence caused a lot of discoloration, and the only remaining player of the national team in this event was also eliminated in the semifinals.

But the crowd was not disappointed, as the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles were followed by the final of the men's 200m, and Zhang Guan was on the verge of hitting his fifth gold medal of the Games.

At the same time, Bolt will once again challenge Zhang Guan.

This time it was different from the 100m final, because the 200m was the one Bolt did best. (To be continued.) )