Zhang Guan also held the list of contestants in his hand. In addition to Farah, he also saw a very familiar name.
"Sanenisa Bekele? Didn't Bekele retire?" Zhang Guan said with some confusion.
"He is back again." The coach next to him explained: "Bekele suffered from injuries in 2009. Throughout 2010, he did not participate in a game. At the 2011 World Championships, Bekele came back. He retired from the first race due to injury and has been in the retirement stage since then. He came back again this year and participated in the Ethiopian domestic qualifiers. However, Bekele's speed is not as fast as before and he can no longer run 5,000 meters. Even though In the 10,000-meter event, he is no longer the number one athlete of the Ethiopian team."
"Another outstanding athlete who was destroyed by injuries!" Zhang Guan couldn't help but remember that when he participated in the Track and Field Golden League, Bekele once competed with him for the million-dollar gold award. Today, he has withdrawn from the top athletes. of ranks.
Just listen to the coach continue to say: "In the Ethiopian team, you really need to pay attention to Tariku Bekele. He is Bekele's younger brother and the current head coach of the Ethiopian team."
"I know him, little Bekele. Ethiopians are still the same, they are brothers in battle." Zhang Guan said with a smile.
Ethiopia often has brothers or sisters participating in competitions at the same time, such as the Bekele brothers and the Dibaba sisters. They are all world champion-level athletes. If you see two or even three players in the Ethiopian team with the same last name in the list of contestants, don’t be surprised, and don’t think that the organizer got the names of the players wrong. Nine times out of ten, they are brothers or sisters. .
Zhang Guan took a rough look at the list of players. Although Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea and the United States each have three players participating, the strongest one is the British player Farah. In the 10,000-meter race, he has the ability to run under 27 minutes.
"What running method should I choose? Should I run three times in a row at a fixed speed? Or should I use follow-up running in the front and then use a fixed-speed running in the back?" Zhang Guan frowned and began to think.
"If it is purely for victory, it will definitely save energy to run with a follower in the front and a fixed speed in the back. The Olympic record of 10,000 meters is 27 minutes and 01 seconds. I ran a time of about 26 minutes and 50 seconds. With the results, I should be able to win the championship. But if I want to break the 10,000-meter world record, running like this is not possible. After all, I don’t know whether my speed will be fast or slow in the first few laps."
The 10,000-meter race requires a full 25 laps, which is a very long process. The speed of the runners mainly depends on the speed of the leading athlete. Zhang Guan's follow-up skill is based on the speed of the athlete in front, which is also an uncertain factor for Zhang Guan. If the runners in front run slowly, then Zhang Guan's final result will definitely be slower, and there will be no hope of breaking the world record.
But it is different to run at a fixed speed throughout the whole process. Zhang Guan only needs to pre-calculate a speed that can break the world record, and then run at this speed, and he will definitely be able to break the world record.
"The world record for 10,000 meters is 26 minutes and 17 seconds. Assuming that I finish the race at a speed of 26 minutes and 15 seconds, then I need to set a speed of 22.86 kilometers per hour. I just use three such fixed-speed running skills in a row. A total of I have to run a distance of 11.43 kilometers, which is 11,430 meters. Then after I finish the race, I have to run another 1,430 meters before I can stop, which is equivalent to three more laps of the race!"
Zhang Guan recalled that in the previous domestic grand prix, he forced himself to circle the field for two and a half times before stopping after the game.
Zhang Guanxin criticized the "fixed speed running" skill again. This skill must be used for 10 minutes once. The game ended in 26 minutes and 15 seconds. However, Zhang Guan could not stop and had to run for another 3 minutes. 45 seconds to rest.
"For the sake of the world record, just run three more laps! The worst I can do is use another stamina potion in the middle of the race." Zhang Guan gritted his teeth and made up his mind.
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A total of 30 runners participated in the 10,000-meter long-distance race. All runners stood at the starting line and lined up in two rows.
Zhang Guan stood out among the crowd. Nine out of ten long-distance runners were black. If there were any yellow or white people, they would naturally stand out.
Long-distance runners all look relatively thin, and even those who are tall must be skinny. Compared with them, Zhang Guan is simply too tall. The other two can't even stand on the same track, so Zhang Guan has to occupy the space himself. One piece.
Most of the contestants cast curious glances at Zhang Guan. In people's opinion, Zhang Guan should appear in the sprint or middle-distance running competition. After all, that is the event in which he broke the world record.
Only the British player Farah looked at Zhang Guan with an unkind expression. In Farah's view, long-distance running is his own territory and no one else is allowed to interfere. It's like a male lion entering another male lion's territory on the prairie. It would be strange if the two sides don't fight!
And now Farah is the lion who only wants to defend his territory.
All the players were ready. With the sound of a gun, the game started, and Zhang Guan also started the fixed speed run. The speed he set was 22.86 kilometers per hour. At this speed, he could run in 26 minutes and 15 seconds. Time to finish.
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"The race started, the players started to merge, and they were about to enter the first corner. Who is in the lead? It's Bekele! The legendary Ethiopian superstar Bekele is in the first place. He has been suffering from injuries in recent years. Troubled, but in today’s game, Bekele’s condition looked very good!” the commentator’s voice sounded.
When the players passed the first corner and then entered the straight again, everyone discovered that at the end of the camera, one player had fallen out of the group.
"It's only 200 meters, why is someone falling behind?"
"In a 10,000-meter race, you start to fall behind after 200 meters. How will you run in the next 9,800 meters?"
"Who is this? He couldn't hold on as soon as the competition started. If he does this, it won't take long before he is trapped!"
"The laggard seems to be an Asian player!"
"It's Zhang Guan! The last player left behind is Zhang Guan!"
"I have long said that Zhang Guan is not a long-distance runner. He fell behind at the beginning of the race. He should just quit the race!"
"Zhang Guan is really looking for something to do. Wouldn't it be nice to run in sprint or middle-distance running honestly? If you have to do it, you can run in sprint. Now you know, you can't keep up with the rhythm from the beginning!"
The audience at the scene started talking quietly, and in front of the TV, Sebastian hummed a tune happily.
"Haha, you fell behind at the beginning, Zhang Guan, you are destined to be defeated in this game! Great! I have to open a bottle of wine to celebrate!" Sebastian walked to the wine cabinet excitedly, He took out a bottle of brandy that he had treasured.
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Zhang Guan's current speed is slower than other players.
Because at the beginning of the game, the players have more energy and their speed will be slightly faster.
On the other hand, countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, and Eritrea use a team strategy, deliberately speeding up at the beginning of the game to affect the rhythm of other athletes and consume the physical strength of their opponents. But when they reach two or three thousand meters, they will definitely slow down.
Zhang Guan, however, ran at one speed throughout the entire race, so at the beginning of the race, he was actually the slowest person.
If expressed in terms of data, Zhang Guan set the time to complete 10,000 meters in 26 minutes and 15 seconds, and the time it took to run 1,000 meters was 2 minutes, 37 seconds and 50. While other runners ran 1,000 meters at a speed within 2 minutes and 35 seconds. If Some people deliberately set a fast pace, and it is very common to run within 2 minutes and 30 seconds, which is 7.5 seconds faster than the speed set by Zhang Guan.
Prior to this, Zhang Guan participated in domestic grand prix and did not fall behind at the beginning. Because the long-distance running level of domestic athletes is relatively poor, the best ones have to run for 29 minutes, and there are also many who run for more than 30 minutes. Even if Zhang Guan set the result at 22.22 kilometers at that time, he would not fall behind.
But in the Olympic Games, the results of the players are generally within 28 minutes, and the opponent's strength has improved a lot. Even if Zhang Guan sets a faster speed, he can only fall behind at the beginning of the game. .
In the Olympic 10,000-meter battle, Zhang Guan was left behind by the peloton in the first lap. At this moment, everyone felt that Zhang Guan had been eliminated.
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