The Olympic Games are gradually approaching, and athletes have begun their final sprint training.
The training location of the U.S. track and field team came to Los Angeles. As the second largest city in the United States, and with the presence of Hollywood, the entertainment industry in Los Angeles is quite developed, and this is also a fatal attraction for young people. Many young athletes on the U.S. track and field team agreed to come to Los Angeles to train because they also took a fancy to the rich entertainment life here.
However, they soon discovered that they had no time or energy for entertainment. Their training schedule was full, from morning to night, and they didn't even have a break on weekends. Moreover, the training intensity is very high. After a day of training, everyone is almost in a state of going to bed. Going out to a nightclub is completely impossible.
This kind of training is very boring, and persisting in it is simply a kind of torture, but since you are an athlete, you should adapt to the torture of this kind of training. Besides, Dai Li has already made a sound, if you can't adapt to this kind of training, get out immediately!
Everyone has self-esteem, especially athletes who can be selected for the U.S. national team. They are all top track and field talents and have very strong self-esteem. Such people will not give up easily. No one is willing to quit voluntarily, nor People are willing to be thought of as wimps by other athletes.
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On the training ground, Ellis Meter crossed the last hurdle and crossed the finish line with all his strength.
Then he looked back and saw a number of 12 seconds and 98 displayed on the scoreboard.
Matt was suddenly shocked, he didn't believe his eyes.
"Oh my god, I ran into 13 seconds. Isn't this a dream?" Mate couldn't help but exclaimed.
If you can run the 110-meter hurdles within 13 seconds, you can win the championship in any competition.
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Franz Muller held the pole in his hand and looked up at the horizontal bar supported in front of him.
There was a height he had never challenged before: 6 meters!
He took a deep breath and started to speed up.
Supporting, taking off, and relying on the elasticity of the pole, he completed hanging, body swinging, leg raising, pull-up bar and other movements.
Then he fell onto the thick cotton pad.
Muller quickly climbed up and immediately looked at the horizontal bar above to confirm that the horizontal bar had not fallen.
"Height of 6 meters! I really succeeded!" Muller couldn't help shouting excitedly.
Muller knows what it means for men to be able to exceed 6 meters in the pole vault. The Olympic record for this event is only 5.97 meters!
The same thing keeps happening on the training ground. Athletes challenge their limits and achieve better and better results.
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The quadrennial Olympic Games has come to Brazil. For American audiences, this Olympic Games is very suitable to watch. It is also in the Americas, and the time difference is negligible. American audiences will not miss any game.
However, in the first few days of the competition, the results of the U.S. Olympic team were somewhat unsatisfactory.
In this Olympic Games, the first major events to be held are shooting, weightlifting, swimming, diving, judo, and road cycling. Among them, shooting, swimming, and road cycling are all strong events for the United States, and the United States has also won gold medals. one.
However, the competition in these projects is also very fierce, and the United States cannot be the only one. For example, in shooting, although the United States has the most shooters in the world, when it comes to the world's top competition, China, South Korea, Russia, Italy, and Germany also have the world's top athletes, and American athletes do not have any advantage. Another example is road cycling. The strength of European countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy is not inferior to that of the United States.
In these two events, the US team performed relatively normally, and its results were similar to previous years. But swimming was holding back the U.S. team.
In swimming, the United States is the undisputed number one in the world, and it is also the number one event in which the United States wins gold medals. The American team has even won more gold medals in swimming than in track and field. There are 34 gold medals in swimming events in the Olympic Games. If the U.S. team performs better, it can win 15 or 16 gold medals, which is almost half of the gold medals in swimming events. In comparison, the U.S. team can only win in track and field events. About ten gold medals.
However, the recent doping scandal also affected many swimmers, which caused the strength of the U.S. swimming team to decline. The strength of the first major gold medal event has been weakened, and the number of gold medals in the United States has naturally declined.
When swimming is a little "cool", track and field has become a life-saving straw in the minds of many Americans.
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The first competition day of track and field events. At 9:30 a.m. local time, the Olympic track and field competition officially began, with the men's discus qualifying competition starting first.
Discus is a sport that combines strength and technology. Athletes do not necessarily need a lot of weight, but they must have good force skills and excellent body balance.
European countries have always dominated this event, especially Germany, which is very good at this event. Other countries such as Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Poland, and Estonia, which have blood ties with the German nation, also have strong expertise in the discus event. Strength.
As for the United States, although its strength in the discus event is not as good as that of Germany, it is still considered a world-class level.
However, the impact of the doping scandal caused the top discus thrower in the United States to withdraw from the Olympics. The newly recruited athletes were not very strong. Even Dai Li did not find any extremely talented athletes in this event. Therefore, although the American team sent three athletes to participate, all of them were eliminated in the qualifying round and none of them entered the finals.
This is a very poor result for the American team. In previous Olympic Games or World Championships, although the United States could not win a medal, it could still have an athlete reach the final.
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An athlete from the Russian team entered the men's discus finals. Russian team coach Merklov was very satisfied with this result.
"Our goal in the men's discus event has been met if we can have athletes enter the finals." Melklov subconsciously glanced in the direction of the American team, and then continued: "No one from the American team should enter." Finals, right?”
"Yes." Deputy head coach Igo Najav continued: "The Americans sent three athletes to participate, but their results were in the second half of all the players, and they are still far away from the finals!"
"As we expected before the game, although this American team still has a large number of players, there are only a few truly top players." Melklov smiled easily.
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At USATF headquarters, CEO Williams is also paying attention to the performance of the US track and field team.
"No athlete has entered the finals, or the players' strength is too poor! It seems that we shouldn't have too much hope for Coach Li. If it doesn't work, it won't work..." Williams shook his head.