Varina was shocked, "It's Zhang Guan! He's catching up! Not good, the front is the end!"
Less than five meters left from the finish line, this sudden change suddenly caught Varina a little off guard. Varina couldn't think about how Zhang Guan was catching up. He quickly made a line-crossing action. At the instant, he squinted involuntarily at Zhang Guan's position.
Zhang Guan is also crossing the line, but Varina feels that Zhang Guan's speed is much faster than him. At this moment, Varina's heart is covered with a shadow. He feels that he might lose the game.
In the 400-meter sprint race, there is rarely any victory or defeat in the last second. In the general 400-meter race, the victory and defeat have been almost divided between the two and thirty meters before the finish line. Then they cross the finish line in order.
But today, the game reached the final moment, not just the last five meters. Even when the two athletes made the line-crossing action, they looked like they were in parallel.
"Zhang Guan! How did I forget Zhang Guan! I shouldn't have let my guard down at the last moment, I should continue to accelerate so that I could have rushed to the finish line first! Not like now, where he is now seizing the opportunity!" Varina thought while looking at the timing card. Varina had vaguely noticed that Zhang Guan might be faster, but he still had a trace of expectation in his heart, looking forward to his judgment being wrong, looking forward to the final results.
J-M-Wariner, 44.09.
G-Zhang, 43.99.
Zhang Guan defeated Varina by 0.1 seconds!
"The winner is Zhang Guan! 43.99 seconds, Zhang Guan ran within 44 seconds! Although it was only 0.01 seconds faster than 44 seconds, this is indeed a result within 44 seconds! Since Michael Johnson retired, in track and field there haven't been any results within 44 seconds! And today, Zhang Guan did it. He ran within 44 seconds! He won the 400-meter sprint event! More importantly, he made history! "
"Zhang Guan, the first athlete ever to participate in two events in a Golden League, and he won both events! It is unprecedented! Zhang Guan, he is the first in the world, for 100 meters, he sprinted into 10 seconds, for 200-meter dashed into 20 seconds, 400-meter dashed into 44 seconds! Before the game, everyone thought that Zhang Guan participated in the 400-meter race just to walk through the field, but today, he used the victory to tell the world, he is the well-deserved king of the world sprint!"
"Let's review the game just now. In the last 100 meters, Zhang Guan was in the penultimate position. Then he started to surpass all other athletes and caught up with Varina before the finish line. In the last second, Zhang Guan and Varina have not yet scored a victory or defeat. This is the most intense 400m race, I have ever seen. Let us cheer for the athletes' wonderful performance!"
In the boiling sound of the audience, Varina's face was frustrated. Varina knew that he lost in the last 0.1 seconds. He had been leading but was overtaken in the last 0.1 seconds.
Varina clenched his fists tightly and felt regret in his heart, "I clearly can run faster. In the previous game, as long as I was faster, it would be impossible to be overtaken at the last moment! It was all me. It's my fault, I'm so smug!"
After expressing courtesy congratulations to Zhang Guan, Varina walked down and came to coach Hart.
"I'm sorry, coach, I lost! I could have run faster, I was too careless." Varina said with his head down.
Coach Hart sighed and said, "Jeremy, do you think you lost to Zhang Guan? No, you didn't, you lost to yourself! You are now the strongest 400m player in the world in the 400-meter project, no one in this world is your opponent, so you must remember that your enemy is only yourself. You are lazy, proud of yourself, careless, and too relaxed, these are the enemies you have to face. You should take every game seriously. Otherwise, you can never surpass Michael Johnson. Do you understand? "
...
"Gold League Oslo Station, Zhang Guan won two championships by himself"
"100 meters 9.7 seconds, 400 meters 44 seconds, Zhang Guan crossed two barriers"
"Zhang Guan, the strongest runner in history"
"The 100-meter world record is not enough, Zhang Guan wins the 400-meter sprint again"
"Experts predict Zhang Guan's 200-meter sprint results"
The media of the whole world suddenly boiled, Zhang Guan once again broke the world record of men's 100 meters and improved the human's 100 meters score to the 9.70 seconds mark, which is headline news. For ordinary people who don't know much about track and field, the 400-meter championship is just a foil. Isn't it right for the fastest person in the world to get the 400-meter world championship!
But in the eyes of professional sportsmen, the 400-meter sprint championship and the results within 44 seconds also have a very high gold content for Zhang Guan. Among the runners in the world, they can run from 100 meters to 400 meters, and they are the only ones who can win the world championship level. Marion Jones, a female sprinter, barely counts as one. An athlete, if an athlete can reach the world championship level in both the 100-meter sprint and the 400-meter sprint, it means that he is also the world champion in the 200-meter sprint. From a certain point of view, it may be more difficult to win the world championship of 100 meters and 400 meters than to break the world record of 100 meters.
For a time, the big hat of the "Sprinter" was buckled on Zhang Guan's head.
However, Zhang Guan did not care about these promises, he was concerned about another piece of news, "Varina, I was attacked! "
This is an interview with Varina. In the report, Varina said that he can run faster in the game. The reason why he lost to Zhang Guan at Oslo was that he did not expect Zhang Guan to be launching the offensive at the last moment, Varina claimed that he had a feeling of being attacked by Zhang Guan, and also said that in the next match of the Paris Gold League, he would exert his full strength and revenge.
"Varina really can be faster." Zhang Guan put down the newspaper and fell into thought.
"43.99 seconds is also not my limit, it can still be faster. But technically, I'm not as good as Varina! the running technique is fundamental. I have to be sure to practice the technique after going back!"
...
After the end of the Golden League Oslo, Zhang Guan did not go to France to disturb Sharapova who was participating in the French Open, but flew directly back to the country, and then immediately entered the training. He knew how great Varina was in his peak, so he desperately hoped to improve his sprinting skills to face the competition.
The next stop of the Golden League Awards was held in Paris, France, on July 7th. Zhang Guan had a full month to train to improve his technique level. Also, the organizer has a 110-meter hurdle in the Golden League Paris station, so Liu Feiren will also participate in the competition.
Xinzhuang training base.
Zhang Guan needs to train 400 meters and long jump at the same time, so he can be regarded as the busiest athlete in the base, and he has to practice one hour more than other athletes every day.
At present, Zhang Guan mainly conducts skills training, while other athletes need to train in terms of strength, speed, explosive power, etc. In addition to practicing skills, Zhang Guan is not lacking in strength, speed, or explosive power. What is needed most now is to strengthen the technique?
Taking off and landing, Zhang Guan once again skipped the eight-meter line.
"It's worthy of Zhang Guan, this is the fifth time, he skips the eight-meter line today!" Coach Li, who is in charge of training the long jump, quickly recorded it on the paper, and at the same time, he began to sigh again.
At the eight-meter mark, only a handful of domestic athletes can achieve this result. However, to Zhang Guan, it seems to be looking for things.
"At this rate, maybe Zhang Guan will be able to jump over the 8.4m mark this year! He's a genius to practice one year and break the national record!" Coach Li sighed secretly. The national record for the long jump event is 8.40 meters. In the opinion of coach Li, taking one year of practice to break the national record is for is an athlete of the skyward level, but coach Li forgot about what Zhang Guan did three years ago. The national record for the 100-meter dash was broken in two months.
Coach Li looked at his watch and Zhang Guan worked for more than an hour, so he said, "It's almost time, I think I'll be here today!"
"I didn't practice for a while!" Zhang Guan said, "I will go to Paris next week to participate in the Golden League. Tomorrow I will prepare for the Golden League. The training time for the long jump will be compressed a lot."
Coach Li shook his head, "You have been training every day for the past month. Although they are all technical training, the amount of training is very large. The amount of training is not enough, but the amount is too large. No, the body can't afford it. Anyway, it's still long, you don't have to rush for a while."
Athlete training requires a lot of professional knowledge. In the early years, the domestic athlete training was all estimated by the coaches themselves, and some even simply increased the amount of training indefinitely. I don't know how many outstanding young people have been scrapped. With the development of the times, traditional training methods are gradually being eliminated, and scientific and reasonable training methods are being used more and more, especially by some young coaches, who are all professional sports training students and they will not use a method to increase the amount of training indefinitely.
Zhang Guan is one of the most elite athletes in the country. Even if he usually scraps his skin during training, the coach has to report it. If Zhang Guan is injured due to excessive training, Coach Li can't bear it, so he decisively rejected Zhang Guan's request.
Zhang Guan walked out of the sand pool somewhat helplessly, but he still felt a little pity, so he said involuntarily, "Coach, idle is also idle, or tell me about triple jump!"