Although Zhang Guan has not participated in track and field competitions for a long time, in the two sprint events of 100 meters and 200 meters, Zhang Guan is still the favorite to win the championship. The second most likely winner is Jamaican Bolt.
In fact, Bolt has almost dominated the 100-meter and 200-meter events in the past two years. Without Zhang Guan participating, Bolt really has few opponents. But even so, Bolt is still considered the second favorite to win the championship.
If it were other athletes who had not appeared on the track and field for two or three years, they would definitely be forgotten, and there would be almost no winning odds to speak of. But Zhang Guan is different. As the world record holder, as long as he is Before he retires, he must be the most eye-catching player on the field.
What's more, before the 2008 Olympics, Zhang Guan also didn't participate in track and field competitions for a year. As a result, he broke world records one after another at the Olympics. With this precedent, betting companies would never dare to look down upon Zhang Guan in the slightest when setting odds.
"Long time no see. Is Bolt better now than before? He once ran the 100 meters in 9.58 seconds in 2009 and almost broke my world record. But in recent times, In 2016, my performance has not improved, and I think I have reached my limit. If I don’t participate in the 100 meters and 200 meters, I believe that the champion will be Bolt!”
"In the 400-meter event, the American team seems to have declined in recent years, but Central American and Caribbean countries have risen. Who is this Killarney James? I've never heard of it before. The odds of winning are second only to me, and American player Merritt is the same?"
Zhang Guan went to the Internet to check the information about this player named Killanie James, and found out that he was a 19-year-old youngster from Grenada in the Caribbean.
"I am 19 years old this year and 20 years old next year. So young! I won the World Youth Championship last year and was able to run within 44 seconds." Zhang Guan silently remembered this young player in his heart.
"Look at the middle-distance running again. There are so many unknown names!" Zhang Guan took a general look around. Although Monaco's Igoude and Bahrain's Ali are on the list, they are no longer the favorites to win the championship. On the contrary, they are A number of powerful middle-distance runners have emerged from the three powerful middle-distance running countries in Africa: Kenya, Ethiopia, and Algeria.
"Back then, Middle Eastern countries naturalized a large number of African track and field athletes, which indeed greatly increased their strength in a short period of time. However, in the past two years, the pace of naturalized athletes from Middle Eastern countries has obviously slowed down a lot. What followed was Performance has plummeted. After all, spending money to poach other people's outstanding athletes is not a long-term solution. The key is to improve the level of your own country and cultivate your own outstanding athletes."
Zhang Guan couldn't help but think of Chinese football. The Chinese Super League clubs are like crazy poaching big-name stars and big-name coaches, spending hundreds of millions of money. The performance of the clubs has improved, but the cultivation of football reserve forces has taken a year. Not as good as one year. There are more and more high-rise buildings in the city, but there are fewer and fewer venues for activities. Children's time is occupied by various cram schools, and even some grassroots sports schools have given up on cultivating football players.
Zhang Guan remembers that when he was in middle school, he often played football with his classmates after school. Many of his classmates would collect posters of Beckham or Ronaldo. But children more than ten years later, they probably talk about League of Legends the most. And those fresh Korean stars.
Zhang Guan looked at the long-distance running event again, and what surprised Zhang Guan was that the favorite to win was not an Ethiopian athlete, not a Kenyan athlete, not an Algerian athlete, nor the emerging Eritrean athletes and Ugandan athletes, but a British athlete!
Moreover, in the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters, the biggest favorite to win is the British.
"Mo Farah, another long-distance running king after Bekele!" Zhang Guan frowned.
Ethiopian athlete Bekele is known as the "King of World Long-Distance Running". He is the Olympic record holder and world record holder in the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter long-distance running. In the Track and Field Golden League that year, Bekele also got a hand from Zhang Guan. Fly away part of the million dollar prize.
But now, Bekele is old. After all, he still cannot resist the invasion of age. The person who succeeded Bekele as the "King of New World Long-distance Running" is the British athlete, Mo Farah.
Farah was born in Somalia, came to the UK as a refugee when he was 8 years old, and became a British citizen. In the era when Bekele dominated long-distance running, Farah could only be regarded as a world-class player, not at the top of the world. However, Farah is a late-blooming athlete. He began to emerge in 2010 and broke the European records in the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters in a row, defeating athletes from the strongest African long-distance running countries in the competition. The current world ranking given by the IAAF is that Farah ranks first in the world in both 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters.
Zhang Guan has an impression of Farah. He remembers a game. Farah fell down in the second half, but he still persisted in the game after getting up and finally won the championship.
"If I remember correctly, at next year's London Olympics, the gold medals in the two long-distance running events of 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters will belong to Farah!" Zhang Guan suddenly shook his head helplessly.
"Originally, I thought that I would never enter the field of long-distance running in my life, but now it seems that I am really going to run long-distance running! If it was three years ago, I really wouldn't dare to try it, but in the past three years In the past, my stamina was better than before, so I should be able to handle long-distance races.”
At this time, Zhang Guan has made up his mind that he will enter the long-distance running event next year!
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"5,000 meters and 10,000 meters are already two events. I can also participate in another track and field event. Long jump and triple jump are the strengths of the British team. Let's take a look at what Britain has in these two events. I hope you can win the championship!" Zhang Guan found the long jump and triple jump events.
In recent years, the level of long jump events in the world has been declining. In the two years when Zhang Guan participated in the long jump, other athletes could jump more than 8.7 meters. In 2010, the best long jump result in the world was only 8.47 meters. , it will even drop below 8.4 meters in the future.
The early batch of outstanding athletes are no longer active. The long jumpers who are active now, so in Zhang Guan's view, they are all weaklings. If they can jump more than 8.1 meters, they are considered powerful and can even win medals. , you can win the gold by jumping 8.2 meters. In previous years, jumping 8.1 meters guaranteed to participate in the next three trial jumps, and 8.2 meters was only the result of Zhang Guan's first three trial jumps.
"British players Gray Rutherford and Chris Tomlinson are athletes who have risen in recent years. Rutherford's odds of winning are second only to mine. In this case, for the last event in track and field, choose Long jump!"
Zhang Guan’s last event is the triathlon. Triathlon can also be regarded as Britain's traditional advantage. In this event, Britain has the strength to obtain three participating places. However, a sports powerhouse like the United States has only two athletes in triathlon who are qualified to participate in the Olympic Games.
At the same time, there are two strong players in the British team, namely Alistair Brownlee and Johnny Brown. Both of them are famous triathlon players and both have the ability to win the gold medal.
Now that he has decided to enter the long-distance running event, and he can ride a road bicycle, there is only a 1.5-kilometer swim away from the triathlon. Zhang Guan only needs to learn one or two long-distance swimming skills to be able to handle the triathlon. the match of.
At this point, Zhang Guan has also determined all the events he will participate in in the London Olympics. They are track and field 5,000-meter long-distance running, 10,000-meter long-distance running, long jump; road cycling road race, individual time trial; track cycling racing, keirin race; boxing over 91 kg; tennis men's singles; and triathlon.
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