"The battle for the strongest in the world, Zhang Guan KOs Klitschko!" 》
This is the biggest sports news that people pay attention to the next day.
Although this is just a competition with a performance interest, it has already attracted the attention of the world after a large amount of publicity in the early stage. This is the first time Klitschko has participated in a competition since he won the "Super Boxing Champion" in July last year. Many people originally thought that Klitschko would show the style of a boxing champion, but what no one expected Yes, this "super boxing champion" who has just ascended the throne, don't let anyone KO him.
On TV, sports news, talk shows, and talk shows were all talking about Zhang Guan's victory over Klitschko. The focus of their discussions was also different. Some invited boxing experts to analyze the game, while others Concerned about the attention this game has brought, some people have also set their sights on the $300 million prize money that day.
On the Internet, netizens’ discussions have flooded major forums. Domestic netizens’ discussions are more serious, while foreign netizens directly refer to Chinese kung fu. Some even use the unparalleled magical skills in martial arts novels as examples. Examples of things like the Great Shift of the Universe, the Nine-Yang Magic Technique, and the Sunflower Book were all given.
This was Klitschko's first defeat since 2004. Klitschko failed to avoid Zhang Guan's uppercut at all in the end, and was considered by many experts to be a very bizarre thing. The post-match interview Among them, Klitschko also did not express any views on this. Because he himself couldn't remember at all how he received this punch.
Zhang Guan is also called "the strongest man in the world" by many media. His victory over Klitschko is full of gold. Klitschko's eight-year unbeaten streak was broken, but Zhang Guan remains undefeated. achievements.
The turmoil in the competition lasted for a long time before gradually dissipating. After Zhang Guan received the bonus, he left Las Vegas and returned to China. The Spring Festival was coming soon and he wanted to go home for the New Year.
After the new year, Zhang Guan still has two important tasks. One is to train for long-distance running, and the other is to train for triathlon.
In comparison, triathlon training is more urgent because the Olympic qualification systems for the two are completely different.
If you want to participate in the Olympics in track and field events, you have to reach a certain standard. The Olympic B standard for the men's 5000 meters in the London Olympics is 13 minutes and 27 seconds, and the Olympic A standard is 13 minutes and 20 seconds. The Olympic B standard for men's 10,000 meters is 28 minutes and 05 seconds, and the Olympic A standard is 27 minutes and 45 seconds. If Zhang Guan wants to compete, he must at least reach the Olympic B standard.
In fact, in the two events of 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters, Zhang Guan only needs to reach the B standard to participate. Because of the men's long-distance running event, the Chinese team is relatively weak, especially since the participation standards of the 2012 Olympics have been improved compared to the 2008 Olympics. With the strength of Chinese athletes, even an Olympic B standard cannot be met.
Across Asia, not many can meet the Olympic standards for long-distance running. In West Asia, there are naturalized African athletes in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain who can meet the Olympic participation standards, while in East Asia, only Japan's Sato Yuki barely reaches the Olympic B standard.
For Zhang Guan, this situation of qualifying by meeting the standard is the easiest. He only needs to participate in one national competition and achieve a qualified result to get a quota for the Olympic Games. He does not even have to worry about other People compete with themselves.
For Zhang Guan, those events that rely on world rankings or qualifying events to qualify for the Olympics are a lot more troublesome, such as triathlon, which is this type of event.
Triathlon is a popular sport with a strong mass base in European and American countries. This sport originated in Hawaii and was invented by the US Navy in Hawaii. It later gradually became popular in the United States. Therefore, the US team has a strong strength in this sport. There are thousands of Ironman competitions held in the United States every year, with more than 150,000 participants.
In addition to the United States, triathlon sports are also very developed in the United Kingdom. Although the United Kingdom is only a small island, it also holds as many as 350 triathlon competitions every year, which means that there are competitions almost every day, and there are also competitions in the entire United Kingdom. There are more than 200 triathlon clubs, including many professional clubs, which means that triathlon in the UK has become professional and commercial.
Among other countries in Europe, traditional sports powers in Western Europe such as France, Germany, and Spain are also quite strong in triathlon. However, inland European countries and Eastern and Northern European countries are affected by climate conditions. On the contrary, triathlon is not. Not that fiery. After all, there is a 1.5-kilometer outdoor swimming in the Olympic triathlon, and the climate in Eastern and Northern Europe is not suitable for outdoor swimming.
There are also many triathlon enthusiasts in Oceania, especially in Australia, where the climate is a paradise for triathlons.
As for triathlon in Asia, it is definitely the weakest. Asians have little ability in long-distance running and cycling. Only in swimming, China, Japan and South Korea still have some talents. Therefore, Asian triathletes mainly come from China, Japan and South Korea. In many international triathlon competitions, in order to take care of Asia, the organizers will deliberately give Asia an extra qualification.
In the London Olympics triathlon competition, there are 55 places for men and women each. Among them, the top eight countries in the world in triathlon can send up to three athletes to participate, and the remaining countries can send up to two people to participate.
Among the 55 places, 3 places are for the top three in the Ironman World Championships, 44 places are allocated according to the points of the International Triathlon Federation, 1 place is the direct participation seat of the host country, and 2 places are It is the invitation quota from the third-party committee, which is also the wild card. The last five quotas are generated from the intercontinental championships on the five continents.
The host country's quota, the top three in the Ironman World Championships, and the 44 quotas in the world rankings are definitely not for Zhang Guan. Zhang Guan has never participated in a triathlon competition, let alone been ranked.
As for the invitation quota for the two tripartite committees, it has nothing to do with Zhang Guan. Zhang Guan previously agreed to a boxing exhibition match and in exchange received a boxing Olympic invitation quota from the boxing tripartite committee. But Zhang Guan has nothing to exchange with the Triathlon Tripartite Committee, and it is unlikely that he will get a wild card spot.
Therefore, Zhang Guan’s only hope of qualifying for the triathlon Olympics is the intercontinental championships on five continents.
There are only five places in total across the five continents, and each continent actually only has one place. This means that Zhang Guan must win first place in the Asian Triathlon Championships before he can qualify for the Olympics.
This year’s Asian Triathlon Championship will be held on April 8 in Tateyama, Japan. So for Zhang Guan, there is only more than a month left. In more than a month, he had to stand out from many domestic players and obtain a spot in the Asian Championships before he could go to Japan smoothly.
So just after the Spring Festival and before the Lantern Festival, Zhang Guan rushed to Qiongzhou Island at the southern tip of the motherland and started triathlon training.
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