After the game, corresponding reports appeared on the front pages of major domestic news media.
"Men's Basketball Team Advances to Olympic Semi-Finals and Achieves Best Record"
"Yao Yao contributed a double-double, crushing the Croatian men's basketball team with 35 points and 17 rebounds"
In this game, from the data point of view, Dayao did perform at a god level. Many people can guess the reason for the national team's victory from Dayao's data. In the Olympic basketball game, if a team's core player can score more than 30 points, it basically means that the victory is guaranteed, of course, the prerequisite is to exclude the US team.
Zhang Guan scored a total of 17 points, which was the second-highest score for the national team. In addition, two players from the national team also scored in double figures. However, because Dayao's data was so outstanding, Zhang Guan did not receive a lot of media attention.
The semi-finals are also the best result achieved by the men's basketball team in the Olympics. The previous best result of the men's basketball team was the quarter-finals of the Olympics. Precisely because of the best record, the media has praised this men's basketball national team.
In other games that day, the Lithuanian team finally defeated the Greek team, so the Lithuanian team became the national team's opponent in the next round. The U.S. team defeated the Australian team without any suspense. In the last match between Spain and Argentina, the Spanish team struggled to defeat the Argentine team in overtime. They will face the U.S. team in the semifinals.
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Zhang Guanke did not have time to pay attention to the next men's basketball game. He still did not participate in the men's basketball celebrations. Instead, he rushed directly to the National Stadium after the game to prepare for the evening track and field competition.
The first event in today's track and field competition is the men's 800-meter preliminaries, and then at ten o'clock in the evening, the men's 200-meter final will be held.
A total of sixty-four athletes participated in the men's 800-meter preliminaries. In this event, West Asian countries have extremely strong capabilities. However, in the past two years, African countries such as Kenya, Algeria, Sudan, South Africa, and Morocco have also gradually rise. Especially Kenya and Algeria, they have brought the "team running" in long-distance running events to middle-distance running events. In many middle-distance running competitions, two or three Kenyan runners or Algerian runners often use teamwork. , to achieve better results.
Prior to this, the favorites to win the men's 800 meters were Konya's Bongay and Korwa, Sudan's Ismail and Bahrain's world champion Joseph Kamel. But today, the favorite to win the 800 meters has become Zhang Guan, because Zhang Guan just broke the men's 1,500-meter world record.
Zhang Guan broke the 100-meter world record and also broke the 1,500-meter world record. This means that Zhang Guan is likely to break the world record in the three events between 100 meters and 1,500 meters. Zhang Guan is the world record holder in 200 meters and 400 meters, which means that Zhang Guan is better at sprinting. The shorter the distance, the greater the advantage for Zhang Guan. The distance of 800 meters is half less than that of 1500 meters, so Zhang Guan's hopes of winning the race will naturally increase.
So when Zhang Guan appeared on the field, he immediately attracted the vigilant or fearful eyes of many "African brothers". There was not much difference in the level of players in this event, and the competition was already very fierce. As a result, another player broke the 1500 mark. The person who holds the world record in meters instantly aroused the same hatred among other players.
Those Kenyan players are even thinking about whether to unite with other African countries and use the alternating lead tactic to kill Zhang Guan, but they also know that this is impossible now. After all, it is the preliminary round, and the relatively poor players in the team are still there. There are many athletes, such as athletes from Vietnam, Guam, and Yemen, who are all here to make soy sauce. Moreover, half of the group Zhang Guan is divided into are European athletes, and there are no athletes from strong middle-class countries such as Kenya and Algeria. athlete.
Twenty-four of the sixty-four players will advance to the next round of semi-finals. In addition to the top two in each group, the eight best performers can also advance.
At seven o'clock in the afternoon, before it got dark, the 800-meter preliminaries had already begun. The favorite to win the championship, Kenyan Bongai, made his debut in the first group, and then easily advanced to the first place in the group. In the subsequent second group, a Sudanese player and a Saudi player won two qualifying places.
In the third group, another favorite to win the championship, Kenyan player Korva, also qualified successfully. Together with him, the American 800m first man Simondes; in the fourth group, the European 800m champion Spanish team Olmedo and Sudanese star Ismail qualified hand in hand, while two lesser-known athletes qualified in the fifth group.
The two players who qualified in the sixth group are known to Zhang Guan, namely Azmi from Kuwait and Kamel from Bahrain. Both of them had played against Zhang Guan at the Asian Games two years ago. Carmel also competed with Zhang Guan for the 800-meter world championship.
The top two places in the seventh group were won by Cuban star Lopez and Kenyan Lalang. Lopez also participated in the 1,500-meter race and competed with Zhang Guan. In addition, Bahrain's Ali is also in this group. He is only ranked fifth. Fortunately, his results are pretty good and he may squeeze into eight additional promotion places.
Zhang Guan appeared in the last group, the eighth group.
Under the promotion rules of the Olympic Games, it is more advantageous to appear later, especially for the last group of players. They already know the results of other players, and naturally know how fast they can run to get an additional eight points. Promotion quota. Therefore, in the preliminaries of the midfield race, there will definitely be more players in the final group who advance.
The overall strength of Zhang Guan's group is not strong. There are three people participating with the B mark. These three people will definitely be eliminated. Among the other four people, only one is an African player, and the others are athletes from Europe. Europe is not strong in the 800-meter event, so there is no doubt that Zhang Guan will advance to the semifinals.
This is also true. After running 700 meters, Zhang Guan directly launched a sprint and easily qualified as the first in the group.
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The semi-finals of the 110-meter hurdles held at 9:30 pm were greatly eclipsed by the absence of Liu Feiren. The only remaining player of the national team in this event was also eliminated in the semi-finals.
But the audience was not disappointed because after the semi-finals of the 110-meter hurdles, the men's 200-meter final was about to be held. Zhang Guan was about to win his fifth gold medal in this Olympics.
At the same time, Bolt will once again challenge Zhang Guan.
This time is different from the 100m final, because the 200m is Bolt's best event.
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