Chapter 60: Changing Odds
Shawn Crawford walked out of the game, and he still couldn't understand why he couldn't run past a yellow man.
"Shawn, you lost to a Chinese! What a shame! Don't forget that you are an American, how can you lose to a thin Chinese?" A very nasty voice that made Shawn Crawford look back was Maurice Greene.
If you ask who is the first flying man in the world today, 80% of people will say Maurice Greene.
Maurice Greene has absolute strength. He once broke the world record of the 100-meter sprint in 1999 and raised the world record to 9.79 seconds. This is the first 100-meter world record within 9.8 seconds. At that time, many experts said that the human limit is 9.8 seconds because Maurice Greene's previous world record was 9.84 seconds.
Maurice Greene has extensive game experience. Since 1997, Maurice Greene has won dozens of world championships. The highest gold content is the 100-meter world championship at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, which means Maurice Greene has Participated as a defending champion.
Maurice Greene also has a lot of talent. He once had a motorcycle accident in 2002 and caused a broken leg. This can be a fatal injury for a sprinter, after rehabilitation, he changed some technical habits and returned to the peak of the 100-meter sprint again. It is not easy to change the habits of such top athletes, and athletes will not lack effort. Maurice Greene can do this, which fully reflects his amazing talent for sprinting.
If you only look at the three points above, then Maurice Greene can be regarded as a perfect athlete, but in fact, Maurice Green's character has a big flaw, he is arrogant, irritable, impulsive, unsightly, etc. and likes to pretend to be a boss.
It was once the era when Carl Lewis ruled the 100-meter sprint. Once Maurice Green defeated Lewis, he performed a very arrogant performance on the spot and then broke the world record. Tim Montgomery broke Greene's world record two years ago. Greene has targeted Montgomery for two years because of this matter. Especially after Montgomery was caught in a drug ban scandal, Greene has fallen into despair.
The car accident two years ago did not allow Greene to converge. After the comeback, Greene became more flamboyant and sarcastic. Especially this time in the US team trio, Greene often became the boss in front of Crawford and Gatlin, so Gatlin and Crawford both hated Greene.
At this moment, when he heard Greene's voice, Crawford knew that he would be satirized by Greene. He was very upset, but he still argued: "That Chinese was very fast, and he is not weak, he is also long, and taller than you. And he ran for 9 seconds and 87. There are not many people in the world who can achieve this result. "
Gatlin, who is about to run, is standing in a trench with Crawford. He also said: "What Shawn said is true, we have to admit that this Chinese has the strength to enter the ranks of the world's top players."
"What about it?" Greene sneered: "If it were me, I would never lose to a Chinese. Once I'll let you know, how I teach the Jamaican rookie."
Greene's Jamaican rookie is Asafa Powell, and the two were divided into the same group. Before the media often speculated that Powell was a genius trapeze, the future will break the American monopoly sprint pattern, which makes Greene very uncomfortable, so Greene intends to teach a good lesson in the game to be touted by the media.
Gatlin knew that Greene was such a stupid character. In the usual game, even if Greene lost the race, he would not admit defeat in his mouth, so he just ignored Greene, and walked on to the track.
In the third set, American runner Justin Gatlin is undoubtedly the strongest runner, in addition to the British Jason Gardner and Nigeria's Uchenna Emidoru also have strong strength, These three also qualify for the previous three, of which the first-ranked Gatling ran out of 9.96 seconds. It is worth mentioning that another Japanese player Asahara Xuanzhi is also in this group. He ran into the fourth place and missed the next round, so both Japanese players were eliminated.
There is no American player in the fourth group, so Aziz Ariza of Ghana won the first place with a score of 10.02 seconds. Also, veteran Kim Collins and Jamaican Michael Flat entered the next round.
In the fifth group, Maurice Greene battled Asafa Powell. Greene suffocated enough to teach Powell, but Powell did not accept the move at all, he did not plan to fight hard with Green in the rematch, so Powell did not exert all his strength, and achieved second place in the group with 9.99 seconds, and had a smooth promotion. Greene was first in the group and Ghanaian Mills was third.
Subsequently, the French player Ronald Bergnon of the first group ranked first in the fourth place of each group with a score of 10.15 seconds and also qualified for the semi-finals.
So far, all 16 players in the semi-finals have been produced. The only athlete in Asian countries is Zhang Guan, and the whites have also been wiped out, which meant he was the only non-black athlete.
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On August 21, the Chinese team won a total of three gold medals, among which was the women's doubles badminton event. The finals were held between two groups of Chinese athletes. The gold medals have long been suspended. This made the game less of a gunpowder smell; in the women's weightlifting finale game of 75 kg and above, Tang Gonghong staged a terrible reversal under the disadvantage of breaking the world record in one fell swoop.
In addition to these three gold medals, the endpoint reported by domestic media is that the 100-meter sprint event has historically entered the semi-finals. The result of 9.87 seconds was previously only black, and the yellow race did not dare to think, but now Zhang Guan broke the tradition of black monopoly sprinting. For a time, not only domestic media but also East Asia and even Asia as a whole cheered for Zhang Guan.
In the men's 100m semi-finals, although no white people appeared, European white people did not feel depressed, because, in the women's 100m finals, Belarus 'Nestronco won the championship miraculously. European whites have started cheering, they have broken the black monopoly on sprint events. Especially in some Eastern European countries, their economy is far inferior to that of Western European countries. This gold medal is undoubtedly a stimulant for them.
Moreover, the victory of Nesterenko also made major gambling companies make a small profit, because as a white player, Nestronco is not optimistic before the game, whether it is a men's sprint event or a women's sprint event. No one will bet on a non-black player.
Of course, many people like to suppress the upset, and most of them are small bets of one or two euros. Although the chance of a small stroke is too low, the odds are equally high. After such small bets are accumulated, it is also a considerable amount of money.
In Ladbrokes' data analysis department, analysts are extremely busy. They have to carefully analyze each game and then adjust the new odds.
A young analyst sent the data report to supervisor Williams, and said at the same time: "Supervisor, the odds of the men's 100-meter sprint for track and field have been revised, and there have been no unusual bets."
Director Williams nodded. He took over the data report and looked at the lingering young man. Then he asked, "Little Tommy, do you have any questions?"
"Yes, sir. I don't understand why you have to lower the odds of the Chinese athlete to win the championship. The odds of 1 to 2 are already the lowest among all players. In this case, this Chinese will become the most popular champion in the 100m championship. Although it is said that this Chinese will improve his performance in every game, but I have watched the video of his game, I think his speed has reached the limit, at the Olympic level, I am afraid that it will take 9.8 seconds to win the championship, but for the Chinese, it is impossible to achieve this result." The young man said.
"Little Tommy, your analysis is very reasonable. The Chinese may have reached the limit. Perhaps he can reach the finals, but the possibility of winning the championship is very small!" Williams remarked, then said: " But don't forget that although the possibility is minimal, it does not mean that it is completely impossible. What if the other athletes perform abnormally, and this Chinese alone is exceptional? "
"Although there is this possibility, the possibility is too low, and it can be regarded as zero by statistical standards."
"If I didn't know that the Chinese put a heavy bet on myself, I would think so." Williams took the coffee at hand, took a sip, and then said: "In our previous prediction, the Chinese's result is around 10 seconds, but now he has run into 9.9 seconds, maybe even faster. Thinking about the situation where he bet on himself, I think he has a certain dependence. "
Williams paused, and then said: "I know this reason can't convince you, so let's take a look at the statistics! The Chinese put a heavy bet on themselves at high odds, if he wins the championship, We have to pay him more than one million euros, then we may have to lose money on the 100-meter sprint project, so we must reduce his odds to limit other customers to bet on him, I think even this Chinese is regarded as the hottest pick for the 100m to win the championship, and there will not be too many people betting on him! Imagine who will buy a Chinese to get a hundred at the odds of 1 to 2, Rice champions? "
"If the Chinese did not make such a bet before the game, I would not lower his odds so low, maybe I would adjust his odds to the same standard as Powell, but he had bet on himself! Don't forget, we are a gambling company! Our industry is like a huge casino, and our gambling company is the dealer, you know that in the game, the dealer will always make money, because as the dealer what we seek is stability, and gamblers fight for probability. In a game, for gamblers, either make a big profit or lose; for the dealer, there is only the difference between big and small profits. So we would rather make less money and never lose money. This is our principle! Little Tommy, believe me, other gambling companies will also make the same choices as me. I think maybe the odds of the Chinese will become the number one favorite in the 100m championship in about 10 minutes."
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