All-round Athlete

Chapter 213 Three preliminaries

The Doha Asian Games is the largest Asian Games in recent years. A total of 11,000 athletes from 45 countries and regions participated in 423 events, which is much more than the last Asian Games in Busan. .

In terms of competitions, the Asian Games are also different from the Olympic Games. For example, the current Doha Asian Games will have such items as bodybuilding, bowling, chess, billiards, sepak takraw, squash, and kabaddi.

The opening ceremony of the Doha Asian Games is on December 1, but the track and field events start on December 7, so the players of the national track and field team can arrive in Doha a little later. But Zhang Guan, the flag bearer of the delegation's phalanx, must arrive in Doha ahead of schedule.

On the evening of December 1, at the opening ceremony of the Doha Asian Games, Zhang Guan played as the flag bearer of the national team, earning enough attention from the media. In the next few days, Zhang Guan mainly carried out some adaptive training, and occasionally went to the arena to watch the competitions of other sports. Until December 5th, other coaches and athletes of the national track and field team arrived in Doha. Officially return to the team.

Since the official opening of the Doha Asian Games on December 2, the national team has also overcome difficulties all the way. It won 16 gold medals on December 2, 13 gold medals on December 3, 9 gold medals on December 4, and 9 gold medals on December 5. With 22 gold medals and 16 gold medals on December 6, it became the first place in the gold medal list and the medal list without any suspense, while Japan and South Korea are fiercely competing for the second place in the gold medal list.

On December 7, the track and field competition, the first major event of the Asian Games, officially started. On this day, there will only be two track and field competitions for one event, namely the men's 20km race walk and the women's 20km race walk. Race walking has always been the strength of the national team. Even in the World Series, they have the strength to win medals, let alone in the Asian arena. In the end, the players of the national team won the gold medals in the men's and women's 20-kilometer race walks, making a good start for the track and field events.

On December 8, the Doha Asian Games track and field competition officially started, and Zhang Guan will also be on the stage of the Asian Games for the first time on this day.

In this day's track and field competition, Zhang Guan needs to participate in four events, namely the men's long jump qualifying round, the men's 100-meter preliminaries and rematch, the men's 400-meter preliminaries and semi-finals, and the men's 1,500-meter preliminaries.

In terms of the schedule, the men's long jump qualifying round and the men's 100-meter preliminaries are only five minutes apart in terms of starting time. Five minutes after the start of the long jump preliminaries, the first round of men's 100-meter preliminaries officially started, which is different from the previous ones. The Athletics World Cup is somewhat similar, but this time Zhang Guan does not have to worry about the overlap of competition time at all.

The 100-meter sprint is the sub-event with the largest number of participants in track and field events. There are more than 40 competitors from various countries participating. Only the first round of preliminaries will have five groups of contests. Zhang Guan, as the biggest player, was selected Arranged in the last group of the preliminaries, that is, the fifth group debut.

In the preliminaries of the 100-meter sprint event of the Asian Games, the men's and women's competitions are crossed. One women's 100-meter preliminaries will be followed by a men's 100-meter preliminaries, and then the second women's 100-meter preliminaries. and so on. Therefore, the fifth group where Zhang Guan is in needs to wait for the first four groups of men and four groups of women to finish the competition before starting the competition. The previous eight 100-meter preliminaries will take at least half an hour to finish, half an hour is enough time for Zhang Guan to complete one or two trial jumps.

In the men's long jump event, there are more than 20 players registered for the Doha Asian Games. According to the rules, each player can try three jumps in the qualifying round, and the top 12 players can enter the final. Calculated according to the one-minute time per person, the entire long jump preliminaries can be completed in just over an hour.

Zhang Guan got the sixth appearance in the lottery, and his appearance position is relatively high, but for Zhang Guan, the order of appearance in the preliminaries does not matter, Zhang Guan is eager to finish the long jump competition sooner.

When the long jump competition started, it was 2:20 in the afternoon in China. Although this day was not a weekend rest day, the ratings in the afternoon were still very good, especially the appearance of Zhang Guan, which made the Asian Games broadcast ratings in this time period climbed quite a bit.

"Friends from the audience, the men's long jump qualification competition will be held soon! This is also a competition that everyone has been looking forward to for a long time. Zhang Guan will make his debut in this Asian Games!" The commentator of CCTV watched Looking at the manuscript in his hand, he continued: "Zhang Guan once won the men's long jump world champion at the World Cup track and field competition in September. I think for Zhang Guan, it is not difficult to advance to this qualifying competition. The key to the competition is to see how Zhang Guan is now. Director Sun, what do you think?"

Director Sun, the guest next to the commentator, immediately said: "Actually, I think whether Zhang Guan's condition is good or not will not affect his final championship. After all, this is only the Asian Games. If it is the World Athletics Championships or the Olympics, Zhang Guan It may take some time to adjust myself to the best condition, but in the Asian Games, the opponents want to be relatively weak, and I think there is no suspense to win the championship with Zhang Guan's level."

"Hehe, it seems that Director Sun is very optimistic about Zhang Guan." The commentator continued.

"Yes." Director Sun admitted categorically, and then continued: "In the last Athletics World Cup, Zhang Guan made his debut in the international long jump competition. Although I didn't watch the live broadcast of that game, I also After reading the competition briefing, Zhang Guan only made two trial jumps in that competition. The first time was 8.58 meters, and the second time was 8.63 meters. The record, and even set the best long jump result of the year twice, and the result of 8.63 meters is the best result in the world in the long jump event in the past six years."

"Then Director Sun, can I understand that the current Zhang Guan is the strongest long jump athlete in the world?" The commentator immediately asked.

"From the perspective of the best results, it can be said that." Director Sun continued: "And I personally think so."

While the two were talking, the competition had already started, and the athletes came on stage one by one. The top three competitors quickly completed their respective trial jumps.

"Oh, the next one is Al Haddad from Kuwait. After Haddad finishes dancing, it's Zhang Guan's turn to play!"

The performance of the top four players was not good, either they fouled or their results were terrible, while the fifth young Kewell player Al-Hadadi performed well, jumping out of 7.55 meters.

"Finally someone has jumped more than 7.5 meters." Zhang Guan walked to the run-up area while thinking.

I saw that Zhang Guan started the run-up almost without any preparation. In terms of the take-off position, Zhang Guan also chose to be more conservative, and started to take off when he was still far away from the performance. But even so, Zhang Guan still easily skipped the eight-meter barrier.

"Zhang Guan jumped eight meters! 8.13 meters, this is the best result so far. Zhang Guan's expression looks very relaxed. I think he is very satisfied with this result. This result is enough to enter the final!" The narrator spoke.

"That's right, a good score of 8.13 meters is enough to enter the final even in the Olympics." Director Sun's voice suddenly became high: "Huh? Zhang Guan put on his coat, and he started packing his backpack."

Zhang Guan on the TV screen had already come to the sidelines and put towels and other items in his backpack.

"I guess Zhang Guan is going to give up the remaining two trial jumps! Indeed, for him, this result has completely ensured that he can enter the final, so it is better to save some energy. He still has 100 meters and 400 meters in the future." The two games." Director Sun said immediately.

Sure enough, after finishing his equipment, Zhang Guan turned around and left the area of ​​the long jump field.

"Cut..." Not far away, Ben-Mazuk, who hadn't made his first trial jump, said disdainfully: "I wanted to compete with you, but I ran away..."

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Half an hour later, Zhang Guan appeared on the track to participate in the men's 100-meter preliminaries.

In the 100-meter race, 24 of the 40 contestants will advance to the next round. The top four contestants in each group plus the top four with the best results can all advance, so competition is not considered a competition. It was very intense, and in the first four preliminaries that have ended, the other two players of the Chinese team also successfully advanced to the semi-finals.

Standing on the track, Zhang Guan looked at the contestants from various countries on both sides, and suddenly had a feeling of going back to the past. When Zhang Guan went abroad for the first time to participate in the Asian Athletics Championships, the situation was similar to now.

"In the blink of an eye, more than three years have passed! Back then, I felt that participating in an Asian Athletics Championships was a great achievement. Now that I come to the Asian arena, I really feel like beating up a child."

Zhang Guan smiled self-deprecatingly, and at this time the gunshots of starting also rang out. Ten seconds later, Zhang Guan advanced to the first place in the group without any suspense.

"It's over for another race. After the 400-meter preliminaries are over, I won't have a race this morning! I'm off work!" Zhang Guan thought with a relaxed face.

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After another half an hour, Zhang Guan appeared on the track and field track again, and this time it was the 400-meter preliminaries.

The national team only sent one player, Zhang Guan, to participate in the men's 400-meter competition. Japan in East Asia sent three athletes, while countries in West Asia and South Asia sent more athletes in this event, such as India and Sri Lanka in South Asia. , Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc. in West Asia, among which the three players from Saudi Arabia are all African naturalized corps.

"I don't know any of these contestants! There are no blacks in my group, so there are no naturalized athletes. It seems that you can just run around." Zhang Guan looked at the other contestants around him. Suddenly, he saw a somewhat familiar faces.

"I seem to have seen this guy somewhere. Eh? From India? I remembered. He is called Indian Flying Man, what is his name Binu... I remember he said in the interview that he wanted to challenge me?" Zhang Guan faced A disdainful smile appeared on his face.

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