All-round Athlete

Chapter 4 The First Game

Two months later, the provincial track and field team set foot on the train to Jinmen.

The provincial capital is not far from Jinmen City, and the train will arrive there in four hours. If the high-speed rail is completed in a few years, the time will be shortened to one hour.

After the athletes arrange their accommodation, they will go to the competition venue to adapt to the venue.

Athletics is not the country's strong point, so the domestic trials are not taken seriously, and because of this, the registration restrictions are relatively broad. Generally, a representative team in a formal competition can only select three players to participate in the same event, but this time the Athletic Association has relaxed the number of players for each team to four.

The sprint has always been an event with the lowest technical threshold, and in the men's 100-meter event, the provincial teams invariably sent four players to participate in the trials, and most of them were young players, obviously training newcomers. Twenty-two provinces in China except Baodao, five autonomous regions, and four municipalities directly under the Central Government, plus the Bayi Team of the military system, the vanguard team of the public security system, the locomotive team of the railway system, and the communication team of the postal system, a total of 35 A representative team of 140 players will participate in the competition, and there will be 18 games in the preliminaries alone.

Because of this, when Zhang Guan came to the competition venue, the stadium was already overcrowded, and the players could only take a quick look at the surrounding environment, and had no chance to test run on the venue.

Many athletes from each team knew each other, so it was natural for them to chat a few words after they met, but Zhang Guan was a newcomer to this field, so he could only honestly follow behind his roommate Wang Kai, and Wang Kai also acted as the host at this time. Teacher, introduce the nearby athletes to Zhang Guan.

I saw Wang Kai pointing to a handsome guy in the distance, and said: "The one over there is Yin Hanzhao, a veteran of Eastern Guangdong. It's his teammate Liu Yang, the third runner-up in the National Games the year before last. In addition, there is Chen Jian in their team. Chen Jian, you always know, the first person in the domestic 100-meter. He has a quota! But why didn't I see him..."

"That's from the East China Sea team." Wang Kai then pointed to another group of athletes and said, "That crew cut is Shen Bao, who can reach the world's top level in the domestic indoor 60-meter event, and his level in the 100-meter event is second only to him." Yu Chenjian. It is estimated that he will also have a place in the Yatian competition this time."

"Did you see the one with eyes over there?" Wang Kai pointed to the athletes of the Shancheng team.

Zhang Guan followed Wang Kai's expectations, and then said: "I know this person, the spectacle man is crazy!"

"You newcomer, do you still know Hu Kai? Spectacle Man? This nickname is very appropriate. But then again, he is the only athlete who wears glasses in the sprint event. This Hu Kai only emerged in the last two years. His origin is He was from our province, and was later specially recruited to Tsinghua University, and now represents the Shancheng team. The one next to him is He Jun, who also represents the Shancheng team." Wang Kai said.

Zhang Guan nodded in agreement. At this time, Hu Kai hadn't become famous yet, and the nickname "Spectacle Man" was only called by someone in the capital team. Two years later, when he won consecutive championships in the Asian arena, the nickname "Glass Man" would be used. well known.

At this time, Wang Kaiyou pointed to the athletes of the other team.

"Over there is the Huangpu team."

"Huangpu team?" Zhang Guan searched carefully for a long time, and then asked, "Why didn't you see Liu Feifei?"

"He didn't come this time. There is a time conflict between this Asian Athletics Championships and the 9th World Athletics Championships, so Liu Feifei will not participate in the 110-meter hurdles of this Asian Athletics Championships, and he will not participate in the trials. Two A few weeks ago in Huangpu, the trials for the World Athletics Championships were just held, and those who passed the trials to participate in the World Championships will not participate this time." Wang Kai introduced.

"Who went to the 100-meter event? Chen Jian?" Zhang Guan asked.

Wang Kai smiled and shook his head: "Our country's 100-meter level is not up to the standard for participating in the World Championships. In racing events, the real strength of the national team is race walking and women's long-distance events, and the sprint event is only 110 meters. Qualify for the World Championships!"

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Wang Kai went around introducing them, but Zhang Guan didn't remember a few. When it was getting late, he followed the brigade back to the residence. After washing up with dinner, I fell asleep until dawn.

After breakfast the next day, Zhang Guan came to the arena with the track and field team.

Due to the relatively tight schedule of the competition, the first day is mainly the preliminaries. The levels of the preliminaries are not uniform, so naturally it is not much to watch, and not many people are paying attention. Even the reporters on the scene are too lazy to take Picking up the camera to take pictures, and even writing a manuscript seems to be as precious as gold.

There are 140 players in the men's 100-meter event. There will be 18 preliminaries. The top two in each game will advance to the semi-finals. In addition, the top four of the remaining athletes will also enter the semi-finals. There are a total of 40 players. 100 players will be eliminated in the preliminary round.

Zhang Guan was assigned to play on the second runway in the first group.

In many competitions, the first group can also be regarded as the cannon fodder group, because the corresponding timing or monitoring equipment has just been activated during the first group competition, and it is prone to failure or other emergencies. For unexpected problems, some unknown cannon fodder players will naturally have to bear the consequences, and well-known players will be allowed to play after the equipment is fully operational.

Another point is that since the competition has just started, the atmosphere of the competition has not yet been conceived, and it is difficult for the athletes participating in the first competition to enter the competition state, so it is difficult for the athletes to make satisfactory results; As the atmosphere of competition becomes more intense, the emotions of the athletes will also become more excited. If coupled with the enthusiastic shouts of the surrounding audience, it is easy to mobilize the athletes' on-the-spot state, so as to achieve better results. It is also like this that the organizers of the competition often arrange the strong players to play in the middle and lower games.

However, the cannon fodder group also has the advantages of the cannon fodder group, that is, the strength of the athletes is relatively low. Players who don't have many chances to play.

Athletes with a little bit of experience definitely don't want to play in the cannon fodder group, but Chen Lao is still very satisfied with this group. In Chen Lao's view, what Zhang Guan needs most at the moment is to adapt to the atmosphere of the competition, so being placed in a group with a weaker level of competition will help Zhang Guan qualify.

"Boy, this group is so weak, you can qualify if you work hard." Old Chen looked at Zhang Guan who was already standing on the track in the distance, and muttered silently.

At this moment, a person behind him slapped Old Chen on the shoulder.

"Old Chen!"

Old Chen turned his head and saw a bald man standing behind him, looking at him with a smile. This man is about 60 years old, with a big nose and big mouth, and his body is slightly fat. At first glance, he looks like a King Kong coming out of a temple.

"Less than! Do you still remember to come and see me, old man!" Old Chen said with a smile.

This bald man is the deputy head coach of the national track and field team and also the head coach of the national track and field team's sprint event.

The organizer of this competition is the National Athletics Association. Director Yu is the deputy head coach of the National Athletics Team and also works in the Athletics Association, so he must be there in person.

Director Yu is eight years younger than Mr. Chen, and also a sprinter. When he was young, he focused on the 200-meter event and broke the national 200-meter record many times.

Mr. Chen and Mr. Yu have a good relationship. Both of them are from Sichuan Province. Mr. Chen was elected to the national team in the year when Mr. Chen recorded the 10-second record. The coach of the team is the pinnacle of the athletes guided by Yu. Later, he also became the coach of the national team after Guidance Yu retired. "So kind.

When old friends meet, reminiscing about the old days is indispensable, and the other coaches also know the identities of the two, so they step aside knowingly and let the two have a good chat. But soon, Director Yu discovered that today's Old Chen was obviously not focused on reminiscing about the past, but instead focused on the game field.

"Okay, old Chen, don't watch, let's go to the lounge and have a cup of tea. This first match is all cannon fodder, and the strength is very mediocre. What's so interesting." Director Yu said with a smile.

"Cannon fodder? There are good seedlings that I have worked so hard to find!" Old Chen said seriously.

According to Director Yu's understanding of Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen can pay so much attention to it, which shows that the so-called "good seedling" in his mouth is by no means ordinary. This suddenly aroused the curiosity of Director Yu, and he couldn't help asking: "Where is it?" one?"

"It's the one in the second way." Old Chen replied.

Director Yu took a closer look at Zhang Guan in the distance, and said, "He's a young player. Does he have great potential?"

"You can tell by looking at it." Old Chen said with a smile.

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