August 21, National Stadium.
This is the penultimate competition day of the Olympic Games, and in today's track and field competition, six gold medals will be born.
The women's 20-kilometer walk in the morning has ended, and in the evening, two gold medals were won in the women's javelin final and the women's 200-meter final. Half of the six gold medals have been taken away by the contestants, and the ownership of the remaining three gold medals has yet to be determined.
The three gold medals are men's triple jump, men's 400 meters and men's 110 meters hurdles. Zhang Guan will participate in the finals of two of the events, which means Zhang Guan may win two gold medals today.
At the same time, the men's 4x100m preliminaries will also be held today. Zhang Guan will also appear on the field. However, compared to other individual events, the audience obviously has no hope for the 4x100m. Zhang Guan Although his personal ability is outstanding, the other three players of the Chinese team are all at the Olympic B standard level, while others such as the Americans, Jamaican team, British team and Trinidad and Tobago do not lack world-class athletes. Entering the finals is already people's best expectation for the Chinese team. As for medals, they can only think about it.
Before the relay race, Zhang Guan has to participate in another race, which is the men's 800m semi-finals.
A total of 24 athletes have entered the 800-meter semi-finals. The top two athletes in the group and the other two athletes with the best results will enter the finals. The 24-to-8 rule seems a bit cruel, but for truly capable players, it is not very difficult to advance.
In terms of semi-final grouping, the organizers of the event also deliberately assigned several favorites to different groups. However, Zhang Guan’s opponents in the same group were relatively average in strength. During the competition, Zhang Guan was still the 700m follower. Run, then sprint 100 meters, and then the first place in the group will qualify.
This running method has become Zhang Guan’s signature. Especially after Zhang Guan won the 1,500-meter gold medal and broke the 1,500-meter world record, coaches and training experts from various countries began to study Zhang Guan’s special running style. France, this 1,500-meter race has only been a few days, and someone has already written a corresponding paper on Zhang Guan's running method and plans to publish it soon.
At this time, everyone had only seen the power of Zhang Guan's running method, and only saw that Zhang Guan broke the record and won the championship with this running method, but no one realized that this running method could not be copied at all. Almost all experts believe that since Zhang Guan can do it, there must be a second and third person who can do the same thing and copy Zhang Guan's unique running method.
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After the 800-meter semi-finals, after a short break, Zhang Guan ushered in the men's 4x100-meter relay.
In this event, the goal of the national team is to enter the finals. This does not sound difficult, because the national team has Zhang Guan, and the sprint event should be able to kill everyone. But in fact, there are too many uncertainties in the relay race, and the opponents of the national team are also very strong.
In fact, in previous Olympic Games, the Chinese team was not even qualified to participate in the 4x100m relay. The Olympic qualification for the relay race is different from the individual competition. In the individual competition, you can participate once you meet the Olympic qualification standards, while in the relay race, the average of the two best results achieved within a certain period of time ranks among the top in the world. Only sixteen will qualify for the Olympics.
Taking this Olympics as an example, the two best results must be obtained in competitions recognized by the IAAF from January 1, 2007 to July 16, 2008, and then the tie value will be calculated for ranking. In other words, one good result is not enough. You must have two good results before you can possibly enter the Olympics.
During this period of time, there were very few track and field competitions with relay events. Many international competitions only had individual events and no relay events. Only some World Championships or Intercontinental Games had relay events. . The national team is relatively weak in this event and is not eligible to participate in high-level competitions, so there are fewer opportunities to participate in relay races and even fewer opportunities to achieve two good results. Therefore, in previous Olympic Games, the national team was not qualified to participate in the Olympic relay race at all.
But ranking in the top 16 does not mean that you will definitely be able to participate in the Olympics, because the host country also needs to be considered. If the host country also participates in this event, then there will be one less quota. Of course, in every Olympic Games, some countries ranked among the top 16 did not participate in the competition.
This time the national team is the host country and has a natural quota. For a team that is not usually qualified to participate in the Olympics, advancing to the finals is already a relatively high goal.
In addition to the host Chinese team, participating in the relay race are the United States, Jamaica, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Brazil, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, South Africa, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Japan and Thailand.
From an analysis of strength, the six teams of the United States, Jamaica, the United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, and Canada will definitely get promotion places. These six teams are basically composed of the world's top sprinters. . The strength of Germany, South Africa, Italy, and Brazil should not be underestimated. The Chinese team will compete with these four teams for the other two promotion places, which is also very difficult. Japan, Thailand, the Netherlands, France, and Poland are somewhat inferior. the taste of.
In this competition, the other three players sent by the national team are Wen Yongyi, Zhang Peiming and Hu Kai. This is already the strongest lineup that the national team can field.
The relay race is divided into two groups, and the top eight teams with the overall score advance to the finals. So the ranking in the relay race is not important, the final result is the most important. Even if you run eighth in one group, as long as you are faster than the first in another group, you can still advance to the finals.
The most popular team, the United States, was placed in the first group, which also included Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, South Africa, Poland, Brazil, the Netherlands and Japan. Except for Poland, the Netherlands and Japan, which are slightly weaker, the others are all strong teams. It goes without saying that the U.S. team is the strongest country in track and field. Trinidad and Tobago is second only to Jamaica in Central and South America and is better than many European teams. Nigeria is the number one team in Africa, South Africa and Brazil. , they are also Olympic A-standard athletes participating. Although they are not as good as the previous teams, they are also very strong in strength.
The United States team was the runner-up in the last Olympic Games. At the European Olympic Games in Athens, they lost to the United Kingdom by 0.01 seconds. At the same time, the American team is also the world record holder in this event. The American team led by Carl Lewis once set a world record of 37.40 seconds in the 4x100 meters.
This time, the Americans are of course aiming to win the championship, and the biggest opponent they face is undoubtedly the Jamaican team led by Bolt and Powell.
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