All-round Athlete

Chapter 513: The Bottom One

In the athlete preparation area, the contestants looked at Zhang Guan with vigilance, obviously seeing Zhang Guan as the biggest threat. However, some people stood with Zhang Guan, talking and laughing. That person is Li Yanxi, another competitor of the Chinese team, who also entered the final of the triple jump.

The strength of the Chinese team in track and field events is relatively weak, especially in the men's events. In the past, it was considered a historic breakthrough to have one athlete reach the final, and it is unique for two athletes to enter the final at the same time. Of course, the race walking marathon, a game that determines the outcome, is not included in it.

Li Yanxi is regarded as the number one triple jumper in China and even in Asia. Even in the international arena, he is a first-class player, but there is obviously a big gap between him and the Olympic medal. The goal set by the national team for him is only to enter the top eight, that is, to rank in the top eight after the first three jumps.

As for Zhang Guan, the national team didn't set any goals before the game, but under the current situation, the whole world knows that Zhang Guan is going to win eight gold medals, so it doesn't matter what goal he set.

In the lottery before the game, Li Yanxi was drawn tenth and Zhang Guan was drawn eleventh. The two were next to each other, which can be said to be a perfect lottery.

This kind of lottery may be a coincidence, or it may be the "host lottery", but even the host lottery is allowed under the unspoken rules of the game. And after the first three jumps, the rankings will be re-ranked, so capable players will not deliberately question such things.

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At this time, in the studio of British TV, Jon Edwards was sitting there again.

In the Athens Olympics four years ago, Edwards once supported Zhang Guan, and also had a dispute with another guest commentator Eriksson. After four years, Edwards sat here again to explain this game.

For the triple jump, Edwards obviously has the most say, because he is the world record holder for this project. In 1995, Edwards broke the American Banks' world record of 17.97 meters with a score of 17.98 meters. In the same year, he jumped 18.16 meters and 18.29 meters, setting world records twice. He was also the first athlete to jump 18 meters in history. In the years when Edwards was active, he was undoubtedly the absolute ruler of this project.

At this time, Edwards, whose temples were already graying, was chatting with the host about the upcoming triple jump final.

"At the Athens Olympics four years ago, Zhang Guan gave me a surprise. He won the men's 100-meter sprint championship, and four years later, Zhang Guan gave me an even bigger surprise. Although we are British Players Aiduwu and Ajik will both participate in the next competition, but I think Zhang Guan is very likely to win the final championship, after all, he skipped the 9-meter mark in the long jump event." Edwards said with a smile.

The host next to him immediately said: "To be honest, I didn't even notice that Zhang Guan participated in the triple jump competition three days ago, but after only three days, he became the most popular player in the triple jump event We all know that now almost everyone is discussing who is the greatest athlete in Olympic history, Zhang Guan or Phelps, and if Zhang Guan wants to achieve Phelps' eight gold medals, he must Won the championship in the triple jump event. Some people even say that Zhang Guan will break the world record and win the championship. As the world record holder of the triple jump, what do you think of this statement?"

Edwards thought for a second, then said: "I think Zhang Guan should be the person who is closest to the world record of the triple jump. Even if he can't break the world record in the next competition, he will aim for this world record in the future." The world record was launched. I remember that I ushered in my peak when I was 29 years old and broke the world record, but Zhang Guan is only 22 years old this year, and he still has a lot of time to hit one world record after another."

"I didn't expect you to have such a high opinion of Zhang Guan." The host seemed a little disappointed that he didn't hear the smell of gunpowder, and at this time, the competition had begun.

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The first one to appear was Bulgarian player Kara Iliyev. His level was at the bottom of the twelve players, and the first appearance gave him a lot of pressure. As a result, he only jumped 16.48 meters. It's a big difference from the qualifying round.

Cuban player Fuentes made his second appearance. He made a mistake in the step jump. As a result, the final score was only 15.92 meters. This figure obviously cannot represent the level of Olympic athletes.

The third one is Russia's Spasokhorsky. The former Soviet Union was very strong in the triple jump. Although the current Russian players also have good strength, Spasokhorski jumped 16.79 meters and temporarily ranked first.

The top three contestants were not strong, but they felt like appetizers. And the fourth player is Brazilian player Gregorio, who is much stronger than Kenjiri. He jumped 17.14 meters and became the first athlete to jump 17 meters today.

The world's No. 1 Portuguese player Evola finally made his fifth appearance. His first attempt was relatively conservative. He was obviously planning to jump out of a guaranteed result first. However, the final 17.31 meters was not enough for entering the top eight. There should be no problem.

After Evora, another strong British player, Aidou, also entered the arena. The triple jump is the strength of the UK. Aidou is only winning the championship this time, and he played behind Evora, obviously. In a relatively favorable position, he also jumped out with a good result of 17.51 ​​meters in the end, directly leading Evora by 20 centimeters.

Immediately after the seventh appearance, the Bahamian player Liwan Sanz is also a strong player, but the result of 16.91 meters does not represent his true level. Another Cuban player, Gilat, jumped out of the 17.27 fan, which is much better than his compatriots. Then the ninth Englishman, Akik, only jumped 16.74 meters. If he wants to squeeze into the top eight, he has to work harder. And the tenth is the turn of Chinese player Li Yanxi.

This is the first time for Li Yanxi to participate in the Olympic Games. He seemed very nervous. He did not perform to his due level in the first jump, and even made a slight mistake. Although he worked hard to adjust later, in the end Still only jumped 15.93 meters, ranking second to last.

Li Yanxi looked at the final results and shook his head dissatisfied. The audience made a sound of regret, but only a second later, cheers appeared in all directions, because Zhang Guan appeared on the stage.

"Then it's Zhang Guan's turn to make his debut. For the first jump, you can jump out of a guaranteed result. According to the current results of the athletes, if you can jump over a distance of more than 17 meters, you should be more likely to enter the back." Among the three trial jumps." Just after the commentator's voice fell, Zhang Guan had already started to run.

I saw that Zhang Guan quickly accelerated to the extreme, and then started to jump, but then Zhang Guan did not finish the next movement, but stopped slowly, because Zhang Guan himself had realized that the moment of jumping just now , toes stepped on the line.

The referee raised the red flag.

"Oh! It's a foul by stepping on the line! Zhang Guan failed his first jump attempt, what a pity!"

The audience also expressed regret, and in the athlete preparation area, players such as Evola, Aidou, Gilat and others also breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that Zhang Guan is not as good as everyone said. He failed the first jump attempt. There were only six chances in total, and he missed one."

"Six chances, you have to be ranked in the top eight in the first three times. In the long jump event before, the Greek player Tessa Thomas failed three consecutive jumps and was eliminated directly! Maybe Zhang Guan will also Repeat the same mistakes."

"Among the eleven contestants currently on stage, only Zhang Guan failed in his jump attempt!"

"Really only Zhang Guan failed in the trial jump, and you see, the last Romanian player Opulia has already appeared... Oh! He jumped 17.22 meters. In this way, it is really only Zhang Guan who has no results! "

"I didn't expect, I really didn't expect that Zhang Guan, who was hailed as the biggest favorite before the game, was ranked first from the bottom!"

With the twelfth appearance of the Romanian player Opulia ended his trial jump, the first round of the competition is also over. British player Aidou ranked first, Portuguese player Evora ranked second, Cuban player Gilat ranked third, but Zhang Guan ranked last, and among the twelve players, he was the only one. No grades.

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