Bab 227: Zhang Guan is catching up
Zhang Guan ran after Ramz, Sulaiman of Qatar, followed by Al Alzemi of Kuwait and Al Shalih of Saudi Arabia, followed by Iranian Moore Here and Japanese athlete Yokota, and finally Carmel.
At this fast speed, the athletes are trying to keep up, trying to keep themselves from falling behind, and no one tried to surpass.
The athletes quickly entered the straight track, and then at the end of the straight line, they heard the reminder bell. The 800-meter race is already more than half of the schedule, and there is still a 400-meter contest in the final lap.
At the same time the bell sounded, the Qatar coach lightly tapped the stopwatch, which immediately showed the time it took the athlete to finish the first lap. The Qatar coach looked at this time and frowned sharply.
"Why did you run so fast on the first lap? Even if Ramz had to lead to the finish line, he would not run so fast on the previous lap." Coach of Qatar raised his head somewhat puzzled and continued to look at the track. The athletes who were struggling just happened to see Ramz speeding up again.
"Ramz is still speeding up? How could this be? If you go on like this, your physical strength will soon be exhausted. I'm afraid you can't keep running for the entire 800 meters. Something feels a little weird. Huh? Carmel still at the end? Carmel didn't keep up." Qatar's coach suddenly realized something, "No, Ramz is just the bait! We were all fooled!"
At the next moment, Qatar coach immediately shouted to Sulaiman, "He is running as the bait, don't follow anymore!"
Unfortunately, at this time, the athletes had already gone, the noisy cheers on the scene drowned the voice of Qatar's coach instantly, and Sulaiman did not hear his coach's reminder.
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On the field, Ramz increased his speed again when he heard the bell of the last lap. This is the same as yesterday's 1500m final. In yesterday's 1500m final, Ramz was also hearing the bell signaling the last lap, then his speed began to increase, and then only Zhang Guan followed. This time, when Ramz speeded up again, other athletes followed without hesitation.
This is human inertial thinking. Ramz used the tactic of leading to the end yesterday, so in today's game, other athletes thought that Ramz was using the same running style as yesterday. Keep up with Ramz. If Carmel came to implement this tactic, someone might have considered whether it was bait or not.
Ramz ran faster and faster as if to release all his physical strength, the other athletes also struggled to run, and their physical consumption was also huge.
"What's wrong with Ramz today, why is he running so fast! I can't hold it anymore!" Al Alzemi of Kuwait insisted hard. Al Alzemi is also an African naturalized athlete. He is also a middle-run runner. Unlike other athletes, Al Alzemi only focuses on the 800-meter middle distance run, so his strength in the 800 projects is very strong.
Players such as Al Alzemi can still hold on, but the weaker Japanese athlete Yokota in the back could not bear it.
Yokota is a rising star in the 800-meter project, he has just risen in recent years. In the next few years, he will become the fastest person in the 800-meter event in Japan. However, compared with the West Asian countries, the gap between Japan's middle-distance races is lacking. It was an unexpected thing that Yokota was able to make it to the finals, but now he has encountered Ramz's speed-up run, and he can't keep up with the rhythm at the 500 meters.
"No, he's too fast, I can't keep up! Forget it, anyway, it already good enough to be able to enter the finals, let's give up!" Yokota thought of this and gradually separated from the big group, slowed down.
A figure suddenly passed by Yokota, and Yokota froze for a moment. He couldn't help thinking, "I should be the weakest athlete among the eight contestants. Why is there another one behind me? Who? My strength is better than someone?"
When Yokota looked at the other athlete, he realized that Carmel was the one who had just surpassed himself.
"It is Carmel! The 800-meter world champion Carmel of the Athletics World Cup! How could he be behind me!" Yokota became more puzzled, and then he found that Carmel didn't seem to want to catch up with the leading group, he was far away. He was running at his own pace.
"The leading Ramz, and Carmel who just pasted me, are both Bahraini athletes... I understand Ramz was just the bait! We were all fooled." Yokota understood instantly.
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"If you continue to run down like this, the physical strength would not be able to sustain, how can Ramz still be so fast? In the end, should I continue to follow? But there are still 200 meters to the end, fight! If Ramz can do it, I must be able to do it!" Sulaiman was forced to keep up with Ramz's speed.
However, at this moment, Ramz suddenly slanted and stepped into the lawn on the left side of the track.
"What's the matter!" The athletes behind Ramz were startled. According to the rules of the game, the athlete's foot cannot be stepped outside the track. Once the foot is out of bounds, the athlete's score in this game will be canceled according to the foul.
"Ramz fouled! What's wrong with him? No, he wants to retire!"
At the next moment, Ramz left the track directly, stepped on the lawn, stopped slowly, and then sat on the ground with his buttocks and began to rest.
"This... Ramz gave up the game! Isn't he going to lead to the end? Is his body suddenly feeling unwell?" Everyone's eyes were focused on Ramz, even the TV broadcast lens was focused on Ramz, he was given a big close-up.
But Ramz sat on the lawn and gasped, laughing.
"Ramz is laughing, he is not sick!" Sulaiman's expression changed suddenly, and then he turned his head to look behind him for the first time, looking for Carmel's position.
At the same time, Saudi athlete Al Shalih and Kuwaiti athlete Al Alzem were also looking back. They immediately found Carmel's figure, and at this time, Carmel's figure was still ten meters away from the large group.
"It turns out that Carmel hasn't followed! I understand Ramz was a bait. Before that, Ramz ran deliberately very fast, tempting us to follow, to consume our physical strength, but Carmel continued to run with a normal rhythm! The Bahrainis are insidious!" Sulaiman scolded, but felt very helpless.
According to the normal rhythm of the game, the athletes should be ready to launch a sprint after 600 meters. But in today's game, due to the induction of Ramz, the athletes' physical strength has bottomed out at this time, and it is impossible to sprint. Especially after Ramz retired suddenly, it made the athletes understand that it was during the middle of the game, which also gave the athletes a heavy blow psychologically, even if some athletes wanted to stick to the end with willpower. After this blow from Ramz, it became impossible.
Almost instantly, the athletes slowed down, and the little physical strength they had left, they could only maintain a slower speed.
But at the back, Carmel's face showed a smug smile. He still had a lot of physical strength, and he was still less than two hundred meters from the end. Carmel was ready to sprint.
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Zhang Guan has been running with the crowd, but he always pays attention to the movement of Ramz.
"It feels like I'm running fast today! The final of the Asian Games is different. The pace is much faster than the domestic World Championships, and the contestants are much better!" Zhang Guan sighed.
Zhang Guan has almost no experience in the 800-meter race. He did not realize that Ramz's leading speed is somewhat exaggerated. He thought it was the normal rhythm of the world-class 800-meter final.
"Oops! Why did Ramz run to the lawn? Did he give up the game? Why did the people in front look backward? Is there anything behind?" Zhang Guan looked puzzled and looked back.
Zhang Guan can count the number of 800-meter races he was in with one hand. With so few games he can neglect, it is naturally impossible to judge that Ramz was bait in such a short time.
But at the next moment, Zhang Guan felt that his rhythm of running was slowed down instantly. He couldn't help but look forward and found that the speed of the previous athletes were all inconsistently slowed down.
Zhang Guan is now running. He can only run at the speed of the front athlete on the same track. For other athletes, he has actively slowed down his pace. For Zhang Guan, it is mandatory to follow the leader with his running skills. So he slowed down.
"Everyone is slow? Why? Without Ramz leading, wouldn't it be possible to run faster?" Zhang Guan felt a little inexplicable, and then, Zhang Guan found a figure crossed over himself.
"It's Carmel, is he sprinting? Wait, I understand, Ramz deliberately lured us to run faster, and then consumed our physical strength to let Carmel win the championship." Zhang Guan finally understood Bahrain's intentions.
If it was other athletes, by the time they understood that the intention of the Bahrain team it was already too late, their physical strength has been exhausted, but for Zhang Guan, it was not over, after all, Zhang Guan's physical energy consumption is only 50% less than normal. And the shorter the distance, the less physical exertion Zhang Guan has, and his advantage is also obvious.
At this time, Zhang Guan silently estimated his physical strength and felt that even if he was separated from the big group, he could support it to the end, and the speed of the big group was too slow. So Zhang Guan immediately gave up and followed the run, but turned to the outer runway and began to accelerate.
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"Haha, you were all tricked! Now you have no physical strength, you can only be overwhelmed by me! I won this game!" Carmel became ecstatic, he ran faster and faster, and then entered the final straight, he looked at the empty runway ahead and felt that the goddess of victory was already waving to him.
"Joseph, speed up, speed up! Hurry up!" Coach Virgil's voice suddenly sounded. The husky American English is particularly evident in the cheers of Arabic.
"What's the coach nervous about? The others have no physical strength, the championship is about to come..." Carmel thought, but then, coach Virgil's raining words had already passed into Carmel's ears.
"Zhang Guan is catching up!" Coach Virgil's highly recognizable voice surrounds Carmel's ear.
Carmel looked back immediately, and was shocked!
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