All-round Athlete

Chapter 868

There are two events in road cycling at the London Olympics, the road race and the individual time trial. The road race is like most stages in the Tour de France. Everyone starts together, and whoever reaches the finish line first is the champion. The individual time trial is also similar to the individual time trial of the Tour de France. A competitor starts every two minutes. The competitors do not interfere with each other. Everyone rides the same route. Whoever takes the least time is the champion.

In this project, the most powerful is still the British team. The new Tour de France champion Wiggins and the future Tour de France triple crown winner Fromm will represent the British team, and the British team also has the advantage of the home field. Their familiarity with the track is still their sharpest weapon.

In addition to the British duo, Cancellara of Switzerland, the champion of the individual time trial at the last Olympic Games, also said before the game that he would try his best to defend his title.

German player Tony Martin, known as the time trial expert of road self-confidence, and he has just won the championship of the Tour of Belgium, his strength should not be underestimated.

There is also the American player Taylor Feeney, who is known as the successor of "Seven Champions" Armstrong. He is quite good at individual time trials and has the strength to make gold.

And Zhang Guan, since he won the road race championship, has also re-entered the field of vision of cycling audiences. Last year's Tour de France champion seems to be still young, and it is not hopeless to win another gold.

Wiggins and Fromm of the United Kingdom; Cancellara of Switzerland, Martin of Germany, Feeney of the United States, and Zhang Guan of China are considered to be the six people who can compete for the gold medal. The medals will also fall to six of them.

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"Zhang Guan will also participate in the kilometer individual time trial. This time, he must not be allowed to win the gold medal! Perhaps, I should use some means!" Sebastian's eyes flickered coldly, and then he picked up the phone, After dialing a number and reporting his identity, the other party immediately became respectful.

"Kilometer individual time trial, at which time do our players start?" Sebastian asked.

"Wiggins is the second-to-last start, and Fromm is the seventh-to-last start." The other party went on to say: "The last one to start is the previous champion Cancellara, and the penultimate start is Martin of Germany. Feeney of the United States was fourth on the grid."

"Where's Zhang Guan? Where does Zhang Guan start?" Sebastian asked.

"Let me take a look... the number one is number seven, and Zhang Guan is seventh on the grid. Behind him is Bazayev from Kazakhstan, and in front is Shiyuki Beppu from Japan."

"Seventh? Why is it so far ahead?" Sebastian continued to ask.

"The starting order is based on the points of the individual time trial in the International Cycling Union. The higher the ranking, the lower the starting position. Last year's Tour de France had an individual time trial stage, and Zhang Guan won the championship at that time. So his points are higher than the wild card players." The opponent immediately explained.

Japanese player Shiyuki Beppu is already the one with the highest points among the wild card players. He has also participated in many intercontinental competitions in the past few years. However, how can ordinary intercontinental events compare with the Tour de France, the Tour de France is the highest level cycling event in the world, so Zhang Guan can win the history of Beppu in terms of points only by winning the time trial of the Tour de France sub-station. Of.

The players with more points than Zhang Guan are all players of the professional cycling team, such as the Kazakh player Bazayev in front of Zhang Guan, who is a player of the Kazakh Astana team. The Astana team is also a professional team at the Tour de France level, and has more opportunities to participate in top-level races. Although Bazaev has not won any championships, he has participated in more races and will surpass Zhang Guan in terms of points. .

A total of 38 candidates participated in the road cycling individual time trial of the London Olympic Games, and some of the world's top professional cyclists did not participate. Zhang Guan started seventh and was already very far ahead, but Sebastian was not satisfied with this.

"Tune Zhang Guan to the first grid!" Sebastian said.

"Let Zhang Guan start first? This is not in line with the rules of the race!" said the other end of the phone with some hesitation.

"We are the Olympic Organizing Committee. Before this kind of hour, we have the final say!" Sebastian said forcefully.

"What if Zhang Guan protests?"

"Don't pay attention to him, just say that the organizing committee temporarily adjusted the order of appearance according to the situation on the spot. There is no need to say anything else!" Sebastian snorted coldly.

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In the individual time trial, the later the start, the more advantage; and the earlier the start, the more disadvantage. The first one to start the car was even "walking on landmines".

There are a total of 38 players, one person starts every two minutes, and it takes 76 minutes for all the players to start. The distance of the London Olympic individual time trial is not too long, only 34.6 kilometers in total. When the first player finishes the race, the last few The players must have not started yet.

If Zhang Guan is the first to participate, when he finishes the race and returns to the finish line, players such as Cancellara, Wiggins, Martin, Feeney, etc. have not started yet, but they have already known Zhang Guan's race in advance. In this way, they only need to be one second faster than Zhang Guan to defeat Zhang Guan. As Zhang Guan finished the race first, he had no chance to overtake.

Sebastian also recognized this point, and he decided to use his power to stumbling Zhang Guan. Allowing Zhang Guan to be the first to start the grid is tantamount to exposing Zhang Guan's results to other players. With Zhang Guan's results as a reference, the other players will also know that Zhang Guan wants to win the gold medal. It will also appear smaller.

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Hampton Court Palace is one of the royal palaces in London. It is located on the Thames River in Richmond, southwest London. It is also the venue for the individual time trial of road cycling.

Since the UK is the biggest favorite to win the championship, on the day of the competition, many British spectators gathered at the scene to cheer for their players.

"Aren't I the seventh one? Why was I transferred to the first one?" Zhang Guan asked the event director in surprise.

"It's basically an adjustment made by the organizing committee based on the situation on the spot. If you don't agree, you can abstain!" the event manager said very coldly.

"Adjustments to the situation at the scene?" Zhang Guan sneered, he didn't see what was going on at the scene, and he wanted to adjust himself to the first start. The first one to start the grid, no matter whether the track is cleared or not, this is obviously to let myself go to "land mines"!

Generally speaking, this kind of "landmine hunting" work is given to the wild card players with the worst strength, but now they deliberately let themselves do it, which is obviously targeting them.

"It must be that guy Sebastian who tripped me up. The last time I talked him down in the post-match interview, this is his revenge!" Thinking of this, Zhang Guan curled his lips in disdain.

"Okay, then I'll be the first!" Zhang Guan readily agreed.

"It's fine for the first one. There's no one in front. Then ride faster and don't worry about someone blocking the way!" Zhang Guan thought while looking at the British audience around him and the Union Jack they were waving.

"I'm here to grab your gold medal again!"

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