“Friends from the audience, what we bring to you next is the men’s individual time trial of road cycling. According to the competition rules, the players will start in reverse order based on the points of the UCI individual time trial. Therefore, the champion of the last Olympic Games, Switzerland Player Cancellara will be the last player to start. And the first player should be Moroccan player Raseni." The commentator just finished speaking, but he saw Zhang Guan standing on the starting area.
"Zhang Guan?" The commentator was stunned for a moment, then calmed down and said: "In the list I got, Zhang Guan should start in seventh place. I think the event organizing committee made a temporary adjustment."
At the scene, the contestants were quite surprised that Zhang Guan started first.
"Zhang Guan? Is Zhang Guan the first to start?" German player Martin said. Martin is known as the timekeeping expert in road cycling races and is also a favorite to win the championship. When Zhang Guan won the gold medal in the road race, Martin already regarded Zhang Guan as a huge obstacle on the road to winning the championship.
Next to Martin, Grubbsch, who is also a German player, looked at the British player next to him with disdain: "Zhang Guan was originally seventh on the grid, but now he has been changed to first. It is most likely the British guy's fault. !”
"The British must be very angry after losing the gold medal in the road race. They are taking it out on themselves. The first one out of the car is going to the mines. There will definitely not be any good results." Martin said.
"A 34.6-kilometer race is nothing for a professional cyclist. Even if there are more changes on the road, the race can be completed within 55 minutes. Let's take a look at Zhang Guan's results first. It can at least give us a reference. ." Grubush said.
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British player Fromm approached Wiggins and said: "Zhang Guan is scheduled to be the first to start the car. His game is over. We have one less competitor."
Wiggins nodded and patted Fromm on the shoulder: "Work hard later and try to ride within 51 minutes. We will try to take the top two places!"
"51 minutes is a bit difficult! In the previous practice, my best score did not exceed 51 minutes. Germany's Martin and the United States' Feeney are both very strong. I'm afraid I won't win a medal." Fromm He spoke.
"Christopher (Fromm), believe in yourself, you can definitely do it!" Wiggins continued to encourage Fromm.
Wiggins is the number one brother of British road cycling and the boss of the British Sky Team, but he knows how terrible his younger brother Fromm is when it comes to talent. Wiggins has always believed that it won’t be long before Fromm can surpass himself and become the number one brother of British cycling. In fact, Fromm did not disappoint Wiggins or even the British. The future Triple Crown winner of the Tour de France will usher in his peak period next year and show his absolute dominance.
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Under normal circumstances, the first player to start will not attract the attention of other competitors. Because starting first means the lowest points, and the lowest points means the weakest. In the kilometer time trials of previous Olympic Games, the first ones to start were all wild card players. Their strength was far inferior to that of professional athletes, and it was common for the final results to differ by seven or eight minutes.
The top drivers will not care about an opponent whose strength is several levels lower than their own. With a gap of seven or eight minutes, they are not even worthy of being called an opponent.
But this time it was different. No one would question Zhang Guan's strength. Even if Zhang Guan is the first to start, he will still make the big-name drivers feel afraid, and Zhang Guan's final result will also be used as a reference data for them.
Finally, with the referee's whistle, Zhang Guan rode out of the starting area.
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Two minutes later, Morocco's Raseni set off, another two minutes later, Venezuela's Martinez set off, and the next one two minutes later was Iran's Haji.
"It's almost eight minutes, Zhang Guan should be close to the first timing point!" Fromm said.
The first timing point is located at 10.8 kilometers. The time it takes British players to reach the first timing point is usually between 8 minutes and 30 seconds to 8 minutes and 40 seconds.
Except for the UK, players from other countries may not have such accurate statistics, and this is also the UK's home field advantage. The British can practice the same track dozens of times and hundreds of times in advance, and they know the conditions of the track well. The British team knows where there are slopes, where there are sharp turns, and how long that stage will take. As for how to allocate physical strength during the competition, the British team has also conducted many experiments and found the best solution.
This is the advantage of home court. In the history of the London Olympics, nearly one-third of the British team's gold medals came from cycling events. It can be said that in the cycling event, the British team occupies the right time and place, and if other countries want to beat the British team, they can only compete for the "people and people".
Hearing Fromm mention Zhang Guan, Wiggins also began to pay attention to the game data sent back. With Wiggins' strength, he could ride within 8 minutes and 30 seconds in the first stage. Wiggins was confident , this result is definitely the first in the world!
"I estimate that Zhang Guan's time will be over 8 minutes and 50 seconds. If there are more accidents on the road, maybe he will pass the first timing point in more than 9 minutes." Wiggins said.
The next moment, the first timing point ahead has transmitted the data back.
"8 minutes and 20 seconds! Zhang Guan passed the first timing point in 8 minutes and 20 seconds!" Wiggins was stunned on the spot.
"Impossible! How could Zhang Guan be so fast? I practiced so many times before the race, and the best time was only 8 minutes and 23 seconds! It was Zhang Guan's first time running this track, and he was the first to start. , He is a scavenger, he is wading through mines in front! How fast can he wading through mines!" Wiggins' eyes widened in surprise.
Next to him, Fromm's expression was even more miserable than Wiggins's.
Fromm's current strength is slightly inferior to Wiggins. In previous practice, he was rarely able to enter within 8 minutes and 30 seconds, and 8 minutes and 20 seconds was even more out of his reach. an achievement.
“Perhaps it was at the beginning that Zhang Guan rode faster, and the road in the first stage was not complicated, with more straight lines and fewer ramps. But in the second stage, when there were more ramps, Zhang Guan It will definitely slow down!" Fromm comforted himself.
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Next to them, people such as Martin of the German team, Feeney of the American team, and Cancellara of the Swiss team also saw a time of 8 minutes and 20 seconds.
"Zhang Guan took 8 minutes and 20 seconds in the first stage. Considering that he started first, the time will be slightly lower, so I should control the time within 8 minutes and 10 seconds. But the distance is 10.8 kilometers. , 8 minutes and 10 seconds, which is fast enough. It seems that the road in the first stage is relatively smooth." Feeney of the American team nodded silently.
Not far from Feeney, the "time trial expert" Martin of the German team was also silently calculating how long it would take him to complete the first stage.
"Judging from Zhang Guan's speed, the first stage should be relatively gentle. I am better at stages with gentle roads. The first stage is also my advantageous stage! I will try to control the time within 8 minutes! Martin thought to himself.
Players from other countries do not have the UK's home data, and they make judgments based entirely on their own game experience. However, they will soon discover what a wrong decision they made by using Zhang Guan's results as a reference.
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More than three minutes later, the second Moroccan player Raseni also passed the first timing point.
"9 minutes and 33 seconds? So slow? Raseni is 1 minute and 13 seconds slower than Zhang Guan?"
"It's only 10.8 kilometers, but it's 1 minute and 13 seconds slower. The wild card contestants are really good!"
More than a minute later, Venezuelan player Martinez also passed the first timing point.
"At 9 minutes and 14 seconds, this Venezuelan player is much better than the previous Moroccan player."
"Maybe the Moroccan player from before met with an accident!"
"But compared with Zhang Guan, the gap is still very big!"
The surrounding spectators were talking quietly.
Subsequently, several players arrived at the first timing point one after another, and none of their scores was within 9 minutes.
But the world's top players, such as Martin, Feeney, Cancellara and others, did not care about this. In their opinion, the level of the wild card players is so poor that their results have no reference value at all.
At this time, Zhang Guan was about to reach the second timing point.
The second timing point is located at 23.5 kilometers, 12.7 kilometers away from the first timing point, and the distance is 1.9 kilometers longer than the first timing point.
The longer the journey, the longer it will take. Moreover, the road conditions in the second stage of 12.7 kilometers are more complicated than the 10.8 kilometers in the first stage, with not only more curves but also more slopes.
The British team plays at home and has sufficient data support. They know that the time spent in the second stage is approximately between 14 minutes and 50 seconds to 15 minutes and 10 seconds. So as the 14th minute approached, the two British players, Wiggins and Fromm, had already begun to pay attention to the data coming back from the front.
"I don't know how long it will take to win the second stage. If he takes more than 15 minutes, I can barely accept it, but if he takes less than 15 minutes..." Wiggins thought of this, and his head I couldn't help but break into a cold sweat.
The next moment, real-time data was finally transmitted back from the second timing point ahead.
"Zhang Guan passed the second timing point. What is his score?" Wiggins looked up and saw a number that shocked him!
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