"What? Break a national record!" Zhang Guan was shocked by this task. In the past, Zhang Guan was only a national second-level athlete at his best. The national record was so far away for Zhang Guan, it was simply an unreachable peak.
"What kind of broken system is this? This task is impossible to complete! How can the national record be broken so easily? If I can break the national record, why are I still here? I only ran 10.38 seconds now, and the current national record is... By the way, what is the national record..."
Zhang Guan suddenly remembered that the national record at this time did not seem to be very fast, it was 10.10 seconds away.
"What's ten seconds?" Zhang Guan recalled carefully. He only remembered the Su Fei who ran 9.99 seconds, but he still couldn't remember the current 100-meter record.
While thinking about it, Zhang Guan walked down the runway and came to Mr. Chen.
"Mr. Chen, I've been promoted." Zhang Guan trotted all the way to Mr. Chen's side.
"You just fell a long way behind the second place. You don't need to rush so hard in the preliminary round. Just be sure to advance. You don't have to try your best. After all, there will be a rematch later, so you have to conserve some energy." Mr. Chen said.
"I understand." Zhang Guan replied.
Chen Lao pulled Zhang Guan closer, pointed to Director Yu beside him and introduced: "This is Director Yu, the coach of the national team's track and field team."
"Hello, Director Yu!" Zhang Guan immediately greeted Director Yu. He had noticed Director Yu for a long time. After all, a bald head was too conspicuous, and Director Yu was wearing sportswear. Zhang Guan naturally imagined Director Yu as the coach of a certain team. But he didn't expect to be the coach of the national team.
"Old Chen is really smart, and he has found a good prospect again." Thinking of this, Director Yu patted Zhang Guan on the shoulder and said: "Young man, I will remember you. Run well in the next game, as long as Your results are no worse than now. If the national team has training camps in the future, I will definitely count you among them!"
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After watching Director Yu leave, Zhang Guancai asked: "Mr. Chen, what is the current national record for 100 meters?"
"10 seconds 17. Created by Zhou Wei at the National Track and Field Grand Prix in 1998." Mr. Chen turned to look at Zhang Guan and asked, "Why do you ask this?"
"It's okay. Just calculating how far behind I am." Zhang Guan thought to himself: "Remember, the current national record is Zhou Wei's 10.17 seconds, and I am only 0.21 seconds behind. It doesn't seem to be very difficult. I just sprinted The skill has been upgraded, the effect and duration have been improved, maybe it can reach this level."
Mr. Chen next to him laughed and said: "Don't look at the height of the mountain. To be honest, your current results are up to my expectations. If you keep running like this, you may be lucky and get a medal." .As for the national record, if you work harder in the future, you will have a chance."
When Mr. Chen talked about the 100-meter record, he seemed a little regretful. This national record has been maintained for five years and no athlete has broken it. In Zhang Guan's memory, this result lasted for thirteen years, and was not broken by Su Fei until the 2011 National Track and Field Championships.
Since 2004, with the retirement of a group of outstanding athletes who emerged in the late 1990s, the domestic 100-meter sprint event has fallen into a low ebb. From 2004 to 2010, no domestic athlete has run under 10.20 seconds in the competition. Within.
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The 100-meter competition progressed very quickly. The eighteen games were completed in the blink of an eye. The coaches of each team quickly got the promotion list and the next grouping. At the same time, the name Zhang Guan spread quickly.
If the time of 10.38 seconds were placed in the previous year, it would have been regarded as the fourth fastest time in the country that year. However, domestic athletes generally performed better this year, and this time is currently ranked fifth in the year. Suddenly a person can run this result, which will naturally attract the attention of the coaches of each team.
In the domestic athlete training system, athletes receive training from an early age. County-level sports teams select good talents from schools. County-level teams with good results will be selected by municipal teams, and municipal teams with good results will be selected by provincial teams. There are even selections from sports schools at all levels, etc. Excellent athletes have long been known to everyone under this layer-by-level selection system, and when they reach the provincial team level, they know each other even better. Which team's athletes are in good condition, which team's reserves have outstanding talents, are no secrets. Even if there are so-called "dark horses" in normal competitions, they are athletes that everyone already knows, but they just don't pay attention to them.
But today Zhang Guan obviously broke this tradition. He won the first place in the preliminary round with a time of 10.38 seconds and his name spread quickly. Only then did the coaches of each team realize that they knew nothing about this athlete. So the coaches of each team asked around, hoping to know the origin of Zhang Guan.
When everyone knew that Zhang Guan was the disciple personally selected by Mr. Chen, they acted as if it was a matter of course. Mr. Chen is a leader in the track and field world, so it is only natural that the disciples he personally selected should be so outstanding.
A rematch will take place soon. There will be a total of five semi-finals. The top three in each group plus the best fourth place among the five groups will advance to the semi-finals. There are a total of 16 people. The competition is still very fierce.
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Chen Wenzhong is the sprint coach of the Guizhou Provincial Track and Field Team. When he was young, he was also a famous sprinter in China. He broke the national record five times, including breaking the national men's 100-meter dash record in 1996 with 10.20 seconds. After Chen Wenzhong retired last year, he stayed with his home team and became a coach.
At this moment, Chen Wenzhong took the promotion list and group list and was studying them carefully.
"The fastest time in the preliminary round is 10 seconds 38? Who is so fierce? Didn't he know that there will be two races this morning? His name is Zhang Guan? He came out of nowhere. I have never heard of this person." Chen Wenzhong frowned and thought.
In the eyes of coaches at Chen Wenzhong's level, the time of 10.38 seconds can serve as the top 100-meter athlete in some provincial teams, and he can also assume the absolute main position in the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi, which are the strongest sprinters.
When coach Chen Wenzhong opened the semi-final groupings, he was shocked to find that Zhang Guan was paired with Pang Guibin, the main player in his team.
Pang Guibin was one of the contributors to the provincial team's national championship in the 4x100m at the Ninth National Games. This athlete performed very well in training, but his best time in the official competition was 10.40 seconds. Obviously slower than Zhang Guan.
Coach Chen then looked down and found two more names in the list of the same group, namely local Jinmen player Wang Peng and Shancheng player Hu Kai.
"Wang Peng is a player who can run under 10 seconds and 30 seconds, and he is a local player in Tianjin. This group will definitely send Wang Peng to the semi-finals; Hu Kai is an athlete discovered by Professor Li of Tsinghua University in the past two years. Although he is 18 He only started practicing sprinting when he was 20 years old, but his performance has improved tremendously in the past year, and his time should be around 10.40 seconds." Coach Chen thought as he wrote his estimated time behind the athlete's name.
"Wang Peng is definitely the first in this group, and the next two promotion places should be Pang Guibin of our team and Hu Kai of Shancheng. But Zhang Guan, who suddenly appeared, is an unknown factor. If he is really that fast , one of Pang Guibin and Hu Kaizhong will definitely be eliminated." Coach Chen drew a circle on Zhang Guan's name, and then put a question mark.
After a few minutes of thinking, Coach Chen called Pang Guibin closer and whispered: "You should pay attention to Zhang Guan, who ranked first in the preliminary round. It may be a coincidence that he can run 10 seconds and 38 seconds, but it does not rule out that he really has this ability." Strength, so don’t hold back when you run, and make qualifying for the semi-finals your main goal!”
At the same time, the coaches of the Jinmen team and the Shancheng team were also telling Wang Peng and Hu Kai with the same words. These coaches may not have very good results in previous competitions, but their brains are better than the last. The original eighth-placed third in this group suddenly had an unknown factor like Zhang Guan, so the coach also tended to be more prudent in his strategic choices.
Mr. Chen also called Zhang Guan forward to prepare for pre-match guidance.
Mr. Chen looked at the group list in his hand. He originally wanted to introduce to Zhang Guan the noteworthy characteristics of other athletes in the same group. But then Mr. Chen felt that it was useless to tell a beginner about technical characteristics, so he told Zhang Guan You may not be able to understand it, and it will take time to digest and understand it. So Chen Lao simply put down the group list and said: "Let's run hard and try to qualify!"
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The organizers of the competition took into account the factor of strength when dividing the groups. Each of the five groups had two to three strong athletes. Therefore, there were no upsets in the subsequent semi-finals, and the strong players successfully advanced to the semi-finals. .
Zhang Guan's group was in the last round, and with the presence of Wang Peng, the strongest local player, there were a lot more spectators.
The moment Zhang Guan stood on his own track, he instantly attracted most of the attention inside and outside the stadium. Both athletes and coaches wanted to know who the athlete was who could run 10.38 seconds in the preliminary round. Even the referee I couldn't help but look at Zhang Guan a few more times.
But the vast majority of people looked at Zhang Guan with suspicion. Zhang Guan looked to be about 17 or 18 years old. He was unknown before. It was impossible for him to have a strong competitive level. In the preliminary round, he clocked 10.38 seconds. The result may be a coincidence, and this rematch will be the end of his game.
Zhang Guan, who was on the track, had a smile on his face and looked at the finish line ahead with expectant eyes.
"Expert-level sprinting skills have greatly improved the effect. I don't know if I can break the national record if I try my best. But this is just a rematch. As long as I guarantee to qualify, there is no need to try my best." Zhang Guan thought to himself. .
At this moment, the starting gun sounded. Zhang Guan rushed out immediately, but immediately found that he was half a body ahead!
Zhang Guan fell behind again at the start...
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