Volume 3 Come on, let's go to the future together Chapter 209 Carry forward the style and teamwork
The top 24 in the women's category will advance to the final stage, and since there are only 4 teams, the quarterfinals will be held directly.
Among the three Chinese female players, Li Pingping's luck is relatively the best.
She finished 23rd in the time trial, a slight improvement from her previous position, and this time placed in the fourth group, alongside the 35-year-old American veteran Jaco-Belis. The other 4 people in the same group are not strong and famous, which gives her a certain probability of qualifying.
Wu Ying played very well in the time trial, thinking that she could avoid the strongest opponent by finishing in the first few places, so she followed the coach's arrangement and worked hard to get the fourth place in the time trial.
According to this position, she was placed in the second group in the quarter-finals, with No. 4 Therespage and No. 12 Bellinghery, and the rest of the opponents are not worried, as long as she stabilizes herself and does not overturn again, at least it is no problem to reach the small finals.
Contrary to Wu Ying, Fan Qingwan's results in the time trial were not outstanding, and she had two chances to get the best result in the time trial, she obviously had a chance to get the first three picks, but both times she deliberately slowed down before the finish line, and she was able to get the 17th pick.
This achievement is very worrying, only about 1.5 seconds away from the last place in the finals, which makes Tang Huai very angry: "What is the mess? You're playing with fire! ”
As a result, the girl was depressed and ate for a long time before saying, "I want to play a few more rounds with the masters." ”
Only with strong self-confidence will you dare to face the strong, hearing her say this, Tang Huai was relieved: "That's it, it's not impossible, but you have to tell me in advance......"
The competition here is a group of 6 people, and the top three can be promoted, and there is little chance of being directly eliminated with Fan Qingwan's strength.
If all goes well, she will most likely skate past the quarter-finals, semi-finals and major finals with Samkova, Moioli or one of the best players such as Brockhoff, Therespage, Jacobeth and so on.
Competing on the same stage in three rounds is indeed a good opportunity to gain experience.
It is precisely because of such bold ideas and determination that Fan Qingwan treats every round as a final, showing a strong desire to attack, which makes Samkova, who is in the same group as her, a headache.
After three rounds, the three Chinese female athletes all successfully advanced, among which Fan Qingwan ate Samkova hard in consecutive corners and won the first place in the group; Wu Ying slightly lost to the same group of Therespage and advanced to the second place in the group.
Li Pingping's road to the cut was a bit bumpy, and her opponents in the same group had three Americans, in addition to Jaco-Belis, Swift and Gaskil.
The two tried to retaliate, emulating the Chinese team's closed-door tactics in the first game of the men's group, monopolizing the three promotion spots.
They almost squeezed Li Pingping off the track at the first corner, but the Chinese girl, with her flexible waist, managed to drill through a gap of less than 20 centimeters.
Not only did she succeed in breaking through, but she also took advantage of her opponent's mistakes to overtake the two and finished second in the group.
Banks' men were eliminated by one more man, which made him even more annoyed.
This time, he led the team out to compete, but he wrote a letter of guarantee, guaranteeing that a medal would be in the account, and the total number of American athletes who entered the men's and women's finals was not less than four.
To that end, he assembled the largest team ever represented in the United States, with 12 men and women making it to the finals alone.
You must know that the total number of participants in the men's and women's finals is only 72, and they occupy 17% of the places, which is quite impressive.
However, this has just entered the final stage, and there are already 3 people who have been eliminated, and they are all planted on the Chinese athletes, which will make Banks very embarrassed, if he can't achieve the set goal, he will definitely not be able to explain it when he goes back.
Angry, he could no longer care about any gentlemanly demeanor and face, and began to scold, and arranged for his athletes to be bad.
The first to bear the brunt are Zhang Zhiwang and Wu Lihan in the first group of the 1/4 finals.
Banks was well aware of the weaknesses of the two, one straight could not increase speed, and the other corner could not control the route, so he made tactical arrangements for his athletes: "Don't entangle with Zhang Zhiwang on the straight, and surpass Ulihan on the corner." If any of the two of them threaten your advancement, just knock you over! ”
Banksy's plan is to let the two Americans who survived in the first four groups, Kony and Vader, block Hemerlin, Li Changyi, etc., and there are four American players in the last four groups, and the men's group only needs to ensure that the three of them enter the finals.
The real hope of winning the championship was placed on Jacobelis and Gulini in the women's division.
According to the experience of previous World Cup sub-tournaments, the strength of these two female players is very strong, as long as the limelight Moioli and the "big devil" Samkova overturn, the championship will not be able to run.
Banks is planning to take advantage of the overwhelming number of people to make a name for himself as a coach in one fell swoop, so as to become one of the top coaches in the world and earn a high seven-figure salary.
But he didn't know that after the tempering of the physical competition, the Chinese athletes seemed to be reborn one by one and showed extremely strong strength.
First of all, in the first group of the 1/4 finals, Wu Lihan, Zhang Zhiwang and Gao Entropy won the division.
The other three players in their group are Austrian Heimering, German Berg and American Weidder.
It was discussed before the game that Zhang Zhiwang would carry forward his style and escort Wu Lihan to advance, because only by letting him get a good ranking can he have a chance to return to the national team.
High entropy doesn't have to worry about Ulihan, as long as you protect yourself and strive for a good ranking as much as possible, it is best to be promoted, even if you can't advance, it's okay, the key is not to get hurt again.
Once the race began, Ullihan took the lead again alongside Hemering, followed by a high-entropy walk, not the fastest but relatively safe route.
Zhang Zhiwang was alone in the palace, blocking the breakthrough of Berg and Vader.
Years of experience in sparring had made him perfect for this dirty job, and he was in a swing of the pendulum from side to side, and suddenly it seemed like he was about to knock over Berg, and immediately swung in the other direction to invade Vader, catching the two of them off guard.
With Zhang Zhiwang as a barrier, the Ulihan and high entropy in front of him glide very safely and smoothly. Ullihan was in very good shape, as if he had found the feeling of being able to go downhill that day, even in corners, at very high speeds.
However, his slightly stiff cornering stance scared the evenly matched Hemerin, and the world champion did not want to be knocked over by this reckless man, and took the initiative to cross the finish line one position behind and relegated to second place.
The high entropy was a little slower than them, and they took third place in style.
Zhang Zhiwang was more unlucky, Vader was so angry that he shoveled him down from diagonally behind when he saw that he had no hope of qualifying.