Rome is the second stop of the Golden League. Since it is only one week apart from the first stop in Paris, there is not much change in the players compared to the first stop.
Powell stood in the preparation area with his eyes closed tightly, but his mind was thinking about what the coach said to him not long ago.
"Have you forgotten your dream? You want to be No. 1 in the world, not No. 2 in the world! Now you have not fulfilled your dream. You are only one step away from the success of your dream. Do you want to give up now? What?"
"Think about it, you have been on this road since you were a child. Over the years, you have trained hard, running from early morning to dusk every day. Why on earth? Now. Are you willing to give up like this?"
"Think about your mother, think about your family, think about your previous life. It is because of you that they can now use refrigerators and air conditioners, eat meat for every meal, and enjoy the best in Jamaica. Life! You are not just fighting for yourself now, but for your family! Do you want them to go back to the past? Living in a crowded room, enduring the heat, eating potatoes and yellow yams? "
"You have to remember, this is competitive sports! Competitive sports will always remember the winner and who is first! As for second place, who cares? So, don't think about being second, you Be first!”
"Since you were a teenager, you have shown extraordinary talent. You have walked step by step, entered the national team, received formal training, and then entered the world competition. Every step of your progress is stepping on countless athletes. Every athlete who enters the Jamaican national team has to defeat hundreds of thousands or even millions of his peers. You have to step over the corpses of countless opponents to get to where you are today! Now, you need to do the same as usual Instead of being the corpse being stepped over!"
"Think about it, among those you defeated, there were not only your enemies, but also your partners. Think about the partners you trained with when you were young! Who among them is still running? Where are they now? What? If you are lucky, you may be able to find a odd job in the city, or you may be able to make a living by relying on the thin fields in your hometown. If you are not lucky, you may be huddled in the corner of the slum, enduring hunger and disease! And their children, Maybe they will repeat the life of their parents, do you also want your children to become like that in the future?"
"You have to understand that you are a warrior and you have to keep fighting! If there is a mountain in front of you, then you have to climb it! If there is a big river in front of you, you have to swim across it! Even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of you, You have to get through, you have to move forward, and you can only move forward, you have no way out!"
Powell took a deep breath. The coach's words kept wandering in his mind, constantly motivating Powell. At this moment, Powell rekindled his confidence and he wanted to challenge Zhang Guan again!
"I want to defeat Zhang Guan!"
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Zhang Guan finally found Sharapova in the stands, which made him feel relieved. Then he looked at Powell who was not far away, and immediately felt the strong fighting spirit on the other side.
"Powell seems to be very excited and seems to be in good condition! By the way, he did not participate in the IAAF Super Grand Prix Lausanne. He did not run around like us, so his competitive state should be better than ours!" Zhang Guan Thinking silently.
Affected by the intensive schedule and days of running around, Liu Feiren could not maintain the good form he had in Lausanne. He ran a time of 13.24 seconds in the just-concluded race and won the runner-up. Zhang Guan was also affected, and his competitive state declined rapidly, which forced Zhang Guan to use two bottles of state recovery potion before the game.
But the good news is that Zhang Guan now has running shoes.
At the Lausanne station, Zhang Guan had already equipped the system with running shoes. He was also experimenting with the performance of the running shoes at the time, so he did not give his best in the competition. After equipping him with running shoes, he can obviously pedal more easily, which means that when he pedals with his original strength, he can gain more kinetic energy, which will also be directly reflected in his speed.
Another point is in terms of motion control. After equipped with running shoes, Zhang Guan feels that his body's motion control is stronger, and this is what Zhang Guan is more concerned about and happy about.
High-level sprinting is not just about mindlessly rushing forward. When it comes to competing at the world's top level, body movement control is even more important than the competitive state during the game. Although the 100-meter dash lasts only ten seconds, excellent athletes can continuously adjust their rhythm during these ten seconds. In a race, your rhythm and state may not be very good when you first start running. As you adjust during the race, you will find the best state and rhythm after a third or half of the run. This is the top. Athletes' movement control is also the most difficult aspect for athletes to master.
For example, in many post-match interviews with top athletes, they always talk about adjusting the rhythm during the game. Most people may not understand it. They think that the athletes only ran for ten seconds in total. What kind of rhythm adjustment is required? I can see it on TV. What comes out is that the athletes have been running, and there is no sign of any adjustment to the rhythm. But in fact, every step an athlete takes may be an adjustment. This adjustment not only requires the body's reaction, but also requires the brain to constantly analyze his own situation and the opponent's situation, and make adjustments to the body. All of these instructions were made in a very short period of time. If you think about an adjustment for just a second or two, by the time your body reacts, the game will be almost over. Therefore, the top athletes in the world are definitely not very stupid. Therefore, sports events not only test the body, but also test the athletes' IQ.
At this moment, Zhang Guan had a stronger level of movement control, so he decided to charge for the world record again.
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A week later, Powell once again got the opportunity to challenge Zhang Guan.
Coach Suereb stood in front of Powell and said: "Going to Lausanne to participate in the competition must have consumed a lot of energy, and I heard that on the night they arrived in Rome, not only was their plane delayed, but the hotel The guest rooms are also full, they must have gone through a rush. Look at Liu Fei, today is nearly 0.2 seconds slower than a week ago, which shows that their condition is definitely not as good as a week ago. This is an opportunity for us! So, Asafa, look at me."
Suereb and Powell looked at each other, and then Suereb said solemnly: "Asafa, I believe in you, you will definitely be able to defeat Zhang Guan, you are the strongest sprinter in the world!"
"Yes, I can definitely do it!" Powell said excitedly.
"Okay, now go on the field, run, use all your strength, and defeat him!" Suereb said as he pushed Powell onto the track.
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"How do you feel?" Director Yu took the jacket that Zhang Guan had taken off and asked.
"Winning the championship is no problem!" Zhang Guan said with a smile.
Director Yu thought Zhang Guan was trying to comfort himself, so he said, "Just run as hard as you can, don't be burdened."
"Don't worry, I came here for the one million gold. If I lose, the gold will be gone." Zhang Guan said as he walked onto the field.
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Italy is also a sports powerhouse, and the audience in Rome seems to be more enthusiastic than the audience in Paris. From the moment the athletes stepped onto the track and started preparing, the cheers and shouts of the audience never stopped. Perhaps it is because many of the audience are from Serie A. fans who have enjoyed using their voices to cheer for athletes for a long time.
For sprinters, they like this kind of atmosphere very much. The shouts of the audience can make the athletes feel the passion and excitement, make the athletes' blood boil, and get the athletes into the state earlier.
What sprinting requires is passion and excitement, what it requires is blood boiling!
The 100-meter trapeze battle, one of the most exciting events in track and field, finally started in this excitement.
Zhang Guan looked at Powell who was not far away. He knew that the best way to completely defeat someone was to defeat him mentally.
"A week ago, I probably needed to be in full form to break the world record, but now that I have shoes, I should be able to break the world record even if my form is not full!" Zhang Guan thought to himself.
When the long-lost gunfire rang out, the athletes started to take off. They wanted to turn themselves into cannonballs and shoot them out.
The first thirty meters are an acceleration process, a beginning process. For the 100-meter race, it is difficult to widen the gap at this distance. It is as if a jar of fine wine that has been sealed for a long time has been opened, and the aroma inside slowly spreads out. Drinkers are looking forward to the taste of the fine wine. , this is a waiting process. What exactly this wine tastes like can only be known after entering it and savoring it carefully.
From thirty meters to fifty meters, it is a stalemate process, the strong will stand out, and the weak will decline.
After fifty meters, the battle between the strong really begins. Just like the last battle between Zhang Guan and Bowie, Zhang Guan established his advantage from fifty meters until eighty meters.
But today's situation is a little different. Fifty meters away, Zhang Guan already had some advantages. This advantage was not huge, but it was enough to shock Powell.
Powell has extremely rich competition experience. He knows that there are two possibilities for this situation to occur. The first is that the status of the athletes is different. For example, his own game state is very poor and Zhang Guan's game state is very good, so Zhang Guan can take the lead just after the halfway point of the schedule.
However, today Powell feels that his condition is pretty good. Although it is not as good as the day when he ran 9.77 seconds, it is not much different from the previous stop. Even if Zhang Guan is in extremely good condition, he will not be able to run in such a short time. to achieve such a lead in the distance. So the possibility of status differences can be ruled out.
Then there is only the second possibility: Zhang Guan is much stronger than himself.
This is a competition on a different level!
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