Chapter 166: Fighting Varina
Countless people in the world were studying Varina's running style. In addition to professional sports coaches hoping to steal techniques from him, other college students and graduate students with sports-related majors will also use Varina's running method as their graduation thesis, and those in the domestic sports system need to be promoted which is why so many people choose to get a paper about Varina's running?
Of course, more people are studying Zhang Guan's 100-meter sprint, but Zhang Guan is unreasonably fast in the 100-meter sprint, so there is nothing technically commendable. The research value is far from the technique of Varina.
As the head coach of the national team, Coach Yu, of course, has read a lot of papers on Varina's running method, and many people even come to the door with papers hoping to get Yu's comments. So at least in theory, Yu Gui's understanding of Varina's running method is still very well understood. He knows that in the second 100-meter stage, Varina can improve the score by 0.5 seconds simply by adjusting the stride span.
Today, Zhang Guan also achieved this, which means that Zhang Guan's overall score can also be improved by 0.5 seconds.
"0.5 seconds! Zhang Guan has run into the 44-second mark in the previous Golden League. If it is 0.5 seconds sooner, wouldn't it be possible to reach 43 seconds and 50!" At this moment, Yu Gui recalled involuntarily in his mind of those in history, who ran within 43.50 seconds.
"There seem to be only two people who can run into 43 seconds and 50 in this world, the world record holder Michael Johnson and the former world record holder Reynolds. If I remember correctly, in the 400 meters project, in human history, there were only 5 times when someone ran within 43.50 seconds, including Johnson 4 times and Reynolds once. Zhang Guan may become the third person in history to run within 43.50 seconds!"
Coach Yu thought, his hands tremble involuntarily.
Last year, Yu Gui was still glad that Zhang Guan ran within 46 seconds of 400 meter in the East Asian Athletics in winter, Zhang Guan ran within 45 seconds, breaking the 400-meter Asian record, and being excited for several days, he couldn't help but look forward to when Zhang Guan would be able to run within 44 seconds.
However, half a year later, in the Golden League game, Zhang Guan defeated Varina and ran within 44 seconds. This speed of progress has made the Coach extremely satisfy. Yu Gui feels that Zhang Guan has already been close to his limit on this project. If he wanted him to improve again, he may have to wait for Zhang Guan's body to reach the peak after two or three years before he can achieve a faster speed.
But today, Yu Gui found that his judgment of Zhang Guan was wrong again. It was less than a month before the last stop of the Golden League. Zhang Guan inexplicably mastered the new techniques, which was enough to make him run within 43.50 seconds.
"Zhang Guan is 20 years old this year. Two years later, he will be 22 years old and began to enter the golden peak of an athlete. He must be more powerful than he is now. In the next Olympics, he will be the most powerful weapon for the Olympic delegation! At that time, he will shock the world!"
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The IAAF Golden League Paris race was held on July 7. There is a conflict in time with Wimbledon this year. However, Sharapova lost to Mauresmo in the game and stopped in the semi-finals, ending her Wimbledon schedule, so she had enough time to come to Paris to watch Zhang Guan's game.
Different from the last station of the Golden League, the Paris station has a 110-meter hurdle project. The Golden League allows the organizers to set up special projects, and France has the 110-meter hurdles secure, so the Paris station set up the 110 meters hurdles.
However, the biggest attraction of the Gold League Paris station is that another world record-level track and field general has come back. She is the American female sprinter, Marion Jones. She will participate in the women's 100-meter sprint.
Marion Jones is the most dazzling star in the women's sprint event. She has broken world records in both in the 100-meter sprint and 200-meter sprint. Her best 400-meter sprint was 49.59 seconds which is also the world's top level. The best result of the long jump is 7.31 meters. If placed in the Athens Olympics, it is enough to win the championship. At the same time, she also played basketball, football, baseball, and even joined the WNBA as a player.
In 2003, Jones and Montgomery, two world record holders, had a child, and Jones was also caught in a doping scandal. It was only recently that she came back to compete.
There are also significantly more contestants in Paris than in Oslo. For example, in the men's 100-meter sprint, the weaker players first have to play in Group B, eliminating some of the athletes, and the rest will enter the 100-meter sprint.
As the world record holder, Zhang Guan naturally does not need to participate in the 100m Group B competition. However, this schedule is still very unfavorable to Zhang Guan. The men's 400-meter sprint competition was held at 5:40 p.m. of Paris time, while the 100-meter final was held at 6:35, with less than an hour apart. Except for the game time and entry and exit time, Zhang Guan's rest time was only forty minutes.
The 400-meter sprint event requires athletes to consume all their physical energy before the finish line. If there is still a lot of physical energy after running 400 meters, it proves that there is a problem in the physical distribution of athletes in the competition. In world-class competitions, occasionally athletes are seen to be carried out of the stadium after running 400 meters because of physical overdraft.
If you run 100 meters first and then 400 meters, it's better to say that running 100 meters is not as expensive as running 400 meters. One hour of rest can restore a lot of physical strength, but running 400 meters and then running 100 meters, the physical energy consumed in 400 meters cannot be recovered in just one hour.
Therefore, in the eyes of those professionals, under this arrangement of the schedule, Zhang Guan will give up one of the projects to guarantee the other, and give up 400 meters, then he will use a more conservative running method in the 400 meters competition to reduce the consumption of physical strength; if he gives up 100 meters, Zhang Guan will try his best in the 400 meters competition, and but then there will be no physical strength left in the 100 meters project.
This is the first time anyone has encountered this situation. Before, no athlete would ever participate in two competitions in a Golden League at the same time. The runners only ran once, so the rules never considered the athletes resting problem.
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"Coach, I will do my best this time. I will not be as careless as I was last time, and I will not give Zhang Guan another chance!" Varina said firmly.
Coach Hart looked confident at this moment. He nodded confidently at Varina, "Jeremy, I believe you, you are the strongest 400m player in the world. No doubt, I know you will not make the same mistake twice. And the reality is very beneficial to us."
Coach Hart held the schedule and said, "Five-five minutes after the 400-meter race is the 100-meter sprint race. Zhang Guan's actual rest time is probably only forty minutes, so he will give up one of the projects to guarantee the championship of another project. At present, it seems that he is more likely to give up the 400-meter sprint. After all, he has an advantage in the 100-meter sprint event. If it is only a 100-meter sprint, It is almost certain that he can win all six games."
"But coach, Zhang Guan should have a very good physical recovery," Varina said.
"Yeah, this is also the only thing I am worried about. Although in theory, the possibility of restoring physical strength in forty minutes is not high, Zhang Guan is an athlete who is very good at creating miracles." Coach Hart turned his head to look at Varina and said very seriously, "So the game that is about to start, you still have to go all out! Don't give Zhang Guan a little chance."
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The Golden League of this station starts with a 100m group B game, then a men's and women's 400m hurdles, followed by men's 800m, women's 1500m and 5000m, and then a 400m match.
In the first women's 400-meter sprint race, American Richards won the championship and continued her undefeated victory, and after ten minutes, the men's 400-meter sprint will start the game.
In addition to Varina, the American team also came with a black athlete named Locke. This athlete had a good performance in the domestic sports games in the United States but rarely appeared in the world.
The Bahamas star Brown and Taylor of Canada also participated. Since it was held in France, French local player Leslie Djhone also participated in the competition.
But everyone also knows that the main point of attention in the 400-meter sprint is the battle between Zhang Guan and Varina. The other players have once met again and became supporters. If Zhang Guan tactically chooses to give up the 400-meter sprint, Varina will undoubtedly become the champion.
The organizer also knows this, and specially arranged Zhang Guan and Varina in the adjacent pass, Zhang Guan is on the third track, and Varina is on the fourth track, the two tracks that are sprint in the 400 meters projects are relatively golden.
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"The game started!" When the narrator's voice fell, the athletes on the field had already run out of several steps, and there was a deafening cheer on the scene, half for the local player Leslie Djhone and the other half for Zhang Guan and Varina.
Perhaps this was the reason for the local warfare. Djhone was very excited, his acceleration seemed very fast, while other athletes were quite satisfactory, and there was no change in running style.
Varina glanced at Zhang Guan behind him, and he felt that Zhang Guan's speed was about the same as the last match.
"The speed is still so fast, aren't you going to give up 400 meters? Do you think you can beat me in 44 seconds? Don't underestimate me too much. If you consume too much energy now, the 100-meter champion is also not guaranteed, if you lose both the 400m and 100m titles, you will probably be disappointed! "
Varina thought while making adjustments, preparing to enter the straight runway.
Next to Coach Hart, another American sprint coach said, "It seems that Zhang Guan didn't give up 400 meters! In this case, the physical exertion is too much. After a short 100-meter dash, Powell may have a chance to win the championship."
Coach Hart shook his head, "It's just starting now, it's hard to say, only after entering 300 meters, would you be able to determine whether Zhang Guan has given up 400 meters... Hey? His pace? So much? He wants to learn Varina's technique!"
On the track, Zhang Guan has run a distance of more than 20 meters on the straight track.
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