Zhang Guan flipped through the financial statements of the "Championship Fund" since its establishment. Zhang Guan didn't understand this financial accounting thing, but Zhang Guan recognized the numbers on the report. At present, the main project of the Champion Fund took only a few months to implement the "free lunch" program, and the cost of the "free lunch" program has exceeded three million yuan, much more than what Zhang Guan originally expected.
"This is just the beginning. The future is spreading out. I am afraid that I will have to invest tens of millions of dollars in less than a year! But the money has been spent on the ground and it is worth it!" Zhang Guan dropped his report.
"Public welfare is always a bottomless hole. Even if the money is used in the right place, it is still not enough. Like this free lunch program, it only took dozens of schools to spend all the money like this. The poverty of the whole country, there are so many primary and secondary school students, and my strength alone is still too thin. It seems that I still have to find an opportunity to engage in a massive public opinion offensive to attract more people's attention. After waiting two days for the National Athletics Championships, I also have to go to those schools in person." Zhang Guan thought about it while posting the content that could be announced in the "Free Lunch" program to his blog.
The blogging thing is now in flames, especially for celebrities like Zhang Guan. Blogs have a high degree of attention. Several major online media spent a lot of money to invite Zhang Guan to their blogs. Zhang Guan also likes to update his blog, and often sends some photos of foreign competitions, such as the previous two days of the IAAF Super Grand Prix Lausanne race, Zhang Guan released several photos of Liu Feiren breaking the world record. The exclusive photos of these, the things recorded on the scene are very attractive. It is precise because of the pictures and texts recorded in real-time that Zhang Guan's blog can be said to be the most followed blog in China.
At this moment, the ringtone of Zhang Guan's mobile phone rang.
"It's Director Ma! It's estimated that it was the registration of the National Athletics Championships." Zhang Guan answered the phone while thinking.
Director Ma's voice rang from the other end of the receiver, "Zhang Guan! What are you going to do? Just sign up for the long jump, what about the 800 meters? Although the 400 meters and the 800 meters are interlinked, 800m after all, the race is a middle-run! You will barely have enough endurance when you report for the 800 meters, but why is there another 1500 meters? Did your kid take the wrong medicine?"
"I just think it's boring to go sprinting in domestic competitions. In recent years, many excellent sprinters have appeared in our country. For example, Hu Kai in the 100-meter sprint is quite good. Recently, a newcomer named Zhang Pei Meng is also very promising. I'm not going to make anything fun anymore. The track and field championship, it's not easy to get that ranking, so I'm leaving the opportunity to others... " Zhang Guan casually squandered.
"Be honest!" Director Ma interrupted Zhang Guan's words and said sharply.
"Hehe..." Zhang Guan smiled embarrassedly and had to tell the truth, "This time the National Athletics Championships is also just the selection of the Asian Games track and field. I wonder if there is a chance to go to the 800 meters race if it comes to the Asian Games."
"I knew you had other ideas!" Director Ma very simply continued, "You have no chance."
"Don't say no Director Ma, I still hadn't run yet? Give me a chance! Anyway, let me finish the National Athletics Championships, and let's conclude!" Zhang Guan said.
"Go running, no one won't let you run!" Director Ma smiled, and then continued, "But this time at the Doha Asian Games, in the men's event, our national team did not intend to participate in 800 meters and 1500 meters!"
"What? We do not participate in 800 meters and 1500 meters? Why?" Zhang Guan asked with some surprise.
"The strength is not enough, we don't want to be abused!" Director Ma said very directly.
Zhang Guan frowned, "If we can't participate in the Olympics, I will understand. But why aren't we participating in the Asian Games?"
"Asian Games? Don't underestimate the middle-distance running of the Asian Games, which is not much lower than the Olympic level!" Director Ma explained, "Do you know where the highest running level in the world is? It is the West Asia region. Those countries in West Asia, have great athletes who are good at middle distance running. In recent years, many African Kenyan athletes, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, these countries have world-class middle-run levels, and Iran, Oman, Kuwait have middle-run levels. Not bad, even Iraq has a strong total runner. By comparison, our East Asian mid-run strength is considered the weakest of the world, and Japan and us don't have any strong mid-run runners."
"It is the naturalized legion from Africa..." Zhang Guan sighed lightly.
Director Ma then said, "This time in the Doha Asian Games, our country sent about 900 athletes, which is the largest one to participate in the overseas Asian Games, in addition to coaches, staff, translators, etc. it cumulative over to about 400 people, it is estimated that the number of delegations can reach more than 1,300. Although this number is quite large each quota is very precious. You know that two years later it is the Olympic Games of our country, so this time during the Doha Asian Games, the main goal of the national team is also to prepare the athletes for the Olympics two years later. "
Zhang Guan thought for a while and said, "The two projects of 800 meters and 1500 meters, our country can't pass the Olympic B target and can't participate in the Olympic Games. So we simply don't send people to participate in the Doha Asian Games, which saves the quota for other athletes who can participate in the Olympic Games, am I right?"
"That's almost what it means!" Director Ma said awkwardly.
"It's really practical." Zhang Guan continued, "But this is just right! I am all-inclusive for the two projects of 800 meters and 1500 meters! When I go to Doha, I will get you a gold medal and save the air ticket and room and board money."
"Oh, you just blew it. Mid-run and sprint are different." Director Ma continued, "If you want to play after a few days of the National Athletics Championships, then try it, but pay attention to your body. Don't hurt yourself. You have to continue to participate in the Golden League!"
Director Ma put down the phone, sighed slightly, and said to himself, "Am I too indulgent to Zhang Guan?"
But then, Director Ma remembered his leader, Director Luo, as if to indulge Zhang Guan more.
Zhang Guan is undoubtedly the current "World #1" athlete. A lot of world records are in hand. Even Yao, who plays basketball, is not as good as Zhang Guan, so Zhang Guan can undoubtedly enjoy more privileges. For example, when asking for leave, for Liu Feiren it would be more difficult to take a vacation than Zhang Guan. For example, Liu Feiren has applied for two vacations this year, but none has been approved. And as long as Zhang Guan applies, Director Luo will cheery approval.
The management of the national team is quite strict, especially for young athletes, except for Zhang Guan. Whether it is in the eyes of Director Luo, Director Ma, or in the direction of the coach, Zhang Guan is still a big child or a very big child. They may spoil Zhang Guan more than others.
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Zhang Guan put down his phone and entered the system, silently examining the new skill.
Skills, Follow and run, master level. Follow the runner with the same rhythm and speed in front of the same track, and the physical exertion is 50% of normal. Note: skills do not affect when there are no athletes in front of the same track, and skills have no effect when there are ferrule athletes in front.
"Follow the run, the long-distance running skills!" Zhang Guan sighed silently.
The biggest difference between middle-distance running and sprinting is the combination. Sprinting is one runway per person, and there is a "snatch line" in the middle and long-distance running. As long as the athletes pass the snatch line, they can merge. All athletes will choose the track with the shortest innermost distance to run, so athletes will run in a straight line.
Each athlete's physical fitness and technical characteristics are different, and each game's physical reserve and on-site status are also different, so naturally, there will be some people running fast and some people running slow, even if athletes are running in the same group, there will also have differences due to the reserve of physical strength during the final sprint.
But if there is a person who runs as fast as others, the movement rhythm is the same as others, but the physical exertion is only half of the others, it means that the result of the game can be directly announced, and the person with only half of the physical exertion will sprint in the final and finish before the other athletes.
Therefore, Zhang Guan's skill can be said to be a magical technique for middle-distance and long-distance running. In the game, as long as the lane line is crossed and the merging is completed, Zhang Guan only needs to spend half of his physical strength and honestly runs behind others, and wait for the best time to sprint to flash onto a runway with no one in front, and then sprint desperately enough. Anyway, physical consumption is only half of the others, and the final sprint will be much faster than other athletes.
But there are pros and cons. "Following the run" can only be regarded as a championship-winning skill, but not a record-breaking skill.
The limitation of this skill is that there must be a leading athlete in front of the same track before it can be used. This means that if you run in the first place, there are no other athletes in front, this skill has no effect. If the leading athlete is not on the same track, this skill is useless.
Also, the speed of the following run depends on the speed of the front athlete. If the front athlete runs fast, the runner will naturally run fast, but if the front athlete runs slowly, the follower will, of course, run slowly. This means that the athlete's final performance does not depend on himself, but on the person in front of him.
In the case of using this skill, it is completely lucky to be able to break a certain record. The athlete in front of you must run out of the world record level, and the runner can naturally break the world record, but if the leading athlete in the front is only a national level athlete, then the runner can only run out of the national level.
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The time passed by, and in a blink of an eye, it was August 4, which was the day when the National Athletics Championships and the Doha Asian Games Athletics Trials were held.