There is still one month left before the opening of the Asian Games, but the national team has already taken the lead in arriving in Xingkou City, where the Asian Games will be held.
This is the benefit of the host country. It can arrive at the venue of the competition in advance and adapt to the competition environment first, especially the local climate, water and soil.
It is said that the soil and water nourish the people. In ancient times, when medical conditions were underdeveloped, many people were likely to die in a foreign land if they traveled far away. At that time, traveling across provinces would risk their lives.
For athletes, the first thing to do when going out to compete is to adapt to the local soil and environment. When a person arrives in a strange place, he needs to adapt to the climate, temperature, time difference, food, accommodation, etc. Every time athletes go to a new place, they must not only quickly adapt to the local environment, but also quickly adjust their bodies to the best condition so that they can perform better in the game.
The national team arrived in Xingkou City one month in advance to allow the athletes to better adapt to the environment in Xingkou City.
Xingkou City is located at the southern end of the motherland. The climate is naturally very different from that of Huajing City in the north, and the eating habits also make many athletes who grew up in the north feel uncomfortable. The national team arrived one month early to ensure that there would be no "non-combat attrition" to the greatest extent possible.
There are a total of five athletes in the sprint team participating. Yang Sijie, Niu Guohong and Zhao Yue are all newcomers. Niu Guohong is a substitute in the relay race and has no individual competition tasks. Yang Sijie participates in the 100-meter sprint and Zhao Yue participates in the sprint. 200m race.
In addition, there are also two veteran players of the national team, Xie Jun and Wei Zitao, participating. Both of them participated in the last Olympic Games, and their strength is among the best in Asia. They are definitely capable of winning a medal. In this Asian Games, both of them participated in the 100m and 200m events at the same time. .
As for the national team, Yang Sijie and Niu Guohong are just here to gain competition experience. They represent the future of the national team. Zhao Yue will participate as the third man in the 200 meters, and the national team will not have any hope for him. The real responsibility for competing for medals lies with Xie Jun and Wei Zitao.
For more than a month, in addition to regular training, the sprint team mainly trained for the relay race. As a substitute, Niu Guohong was naturally the head coach of the relay race, and others such as Yang Sijie, Zhao Yue and others also participated. Training for the relay race. Li Dai took advantage of this opportunity to add all the members of the sprint team to the system's training list, gaining a lot of experience along the way.
With four or five days left before the Asian Games, athletes from various countries began to arrive one after another, and the Asian Games competitions were about to officially start.
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What is about to be held in the arena is the preliminary round of the men's 100-meter dash.
Since many sprinters have to run the 200 meters at the same time, in order to prevent the athletes from being too tired, in terms of schedule, the 100 meters and 200 meters of sprinting will be held separately. The relay race is scheduled for the final stage of the track and field competition.
The three athletes participating in the 100-meter dash on the national team are Xie Jun, Wei Zitao and Yang Sijie. The first two have participated in the Olympic Games. Although they have not achieved any results, they are also people who have seen big scenes. Standing on the Asian Games court, he looked even more at ease, looking very relaxed.
It was the first time for Yang Sijie to participate in such a large-scale international competition, so it was inevitable that he would be a little nervous.
However, advancing to the preliminary round should not be difficult given Yang Sijie's strength. The level of track and field in Asia is really poor. In the preliminary competition, there are many soy sauce athletes who "focus on participation". Countries like East Timor and the Maldives send sprinters at the amateur or semi-professional level. level, it can even be classified into the ranks of sprint enthusiasts.
The national team's coaching staff is focused on several strong opponents.
Xue Li pointed at a black athlete and introduced: "That is Clark from Qatar! The current number one athlete in Asia!"
Li Dai said and looked in the direction Xue Li pointed, and saw a short black athlete. This man was only 1.6 meters tall. He didn't look very strong, and he looked very old. He suddenly looked like he was He must be forty years old, but the data shows that Clark's age is thirty years old.
Clark was born in Kenya and later naturalized in Qatar. Two years after naturalization, he won the first Asian championship for Qatar. Two years later, he successfully ran under 10 seconds and broke the Asian sprint record. Became the first "Asian" to run under 10 seconds.
Clark's success set off a "naturalization trend" in West Asian countries. Countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain have begun to naturalize athletes from Africa, so there are many black faces in the track and field competitions at this year's Asian Games.
Xue Li pointed in another direction: "That's the Japanese team there. The coach with neatly combed hair is the Asian sprint king, Sasaki Akita!"
Compared to the naturalized athlete Clark, the name Sasaki Akita is more familiar to Dai Li. It can be said that he represents an era of Asian sprinting.
Japanese sprinting has dominated Asia for almost thirty years, during which a so-called "golden age" emerged, and Sasaki Akita was the representative figure of that era. After retiring, Sasaki Akita became the sprint coach of the Japanese team, and now he has returned to the Asian Games again.
Xue Li then introduced: "Have you seen the short-cut young man next to Sasaki Akita? He is the sprint genius Oda Shosheng of the Japanese team. This Oda Shosheng is 20 years old this year, and he once ran 9 seconds in high school. The score of 97, although it was run at a super wind speed of 4.6 meters and cannot be regarded as a record, still shocked the entire Japanese sports world."
"Oda Shosheng is considered the future hope of Japan's sprint. Even though he is only 20 years old, he has very rich competition experience. He also played in the IAAF Osaka Station last year and competed with the world Top sprinters competing on the same stage.”
"Competing with the world's top sprinters, this Oda Xiangsheng should be the last one!" Li Dai said with a smile.
"No, it's the second to last." Xue Li said.
"Among the world's top sprinters, who can't outrun him?" Dai Li asked in surprise.
"One of them committed a false start and was sent off, so there was no result, so Oda Shosheng took the second-to-last place." Xue Li continued: "Yang Sijie of our team is only a few months younger than Oda Shosheng, and the two of them People are destined to become competitors, but at present, it seems that Oda Xiangsheng has the advantage, and his competition experience is richer than Yang Sijie."
"Japan just likes this kind of method of cultivating athletes, getting a group of 14- and 15-year-old athletes to participate in international competitions and compete with adults in their twenties who are in their prime. Occasionally they win one or two Just brag a lot, but when those so-called 'geniuses' grow up, they will soon be lost to everyone." Dai Li complained.
"This is probably the nature of Japanese people. They like to bet on the future with the present, but after all, physical training must be done step by step. No one can become a superman overnight, so many times, they seem to win. The present has been gained, but the future has actually been lost." Xue Li said.
At this time, Li Dai had already detected Oda Xiangsheng. Oda Xiangsheng's talent in sprinting was B+, which was pretty good, but much worse than Yang Sijie. However, Oda Xiangsheng's ability value is indeed very high, which is much higher than that of Yang Sijie.
Dai Li knew that this was probably the so-called ability value piled up with resources.
Although Japan is a small island country, it has the second-largest economy among developed countries in the world, and its resources in sports training are also world-class. When they spend most of their resources on Oda Shosheng, Oda Shosheng's level will naturally be relatively high.
In fact, Japanese athletes have always had this characteristic. When they were young, they were all once-in-a-century "geniuses" and future world champions. They also crushed their peers in competitions. But when they grew up, they gradually became passers-by and were beaten in various ways during the competition.
At this moment, the audience suddenly let out a disappointed sigh.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Dai Li couldn't help but look around. Then he vaguely saw a person being helped off the court by the long jump sand pool in the distance. Judging from the color of the competition uniform, he seemed to be the national team. a player.
"It's our people who are injured!" Li Dai said.
At the same time, Xue Li's cell phone rang. After Xue Li picked up the phone, his expression immediately became serious.
"In the men's long jump final, Fang Haiquan sprained his foot during the second jump! I have to go take a look." Xue Li said eagerly, while already taking steps.
"I'll go with you." Li Dai caught up with Xue Li without hesitation.