"The new 400-meter world record? Someone in this world can break the 400-meter world record!" The scene was completely crazy.
Legendary American sprinter Michael Johnson, who has been undefeated for 400 meters for seven consecutive years, set a new 400-meter world record with a score of 43.18 seconds in the 1999 World Championships in Spain. This world record is also a sprint event. The world record that is the most difficult to break is also hailed as a world record that belongs to the 21st century. No one was able to break it in fifty years.
Since Johnson retired, there have been many strong men in the 400-meter run, but none was able to challenge the 400-meter world record left by Johnson. Not because athletes didn't want to, but because they simply don't have that qualification. How can a group of athletes who can't even run within 44 seconds be qualified to challenge the world record of 43.18 seconds?
Until the appearance of Zhang Guan, in the Golden League Oslo station with a score of 43.99 seconds, entered the 44-second mark, and in the next Golden League, Zhang Guan also constantly refreshed his best results. But even if Zhang Guan made a 400m score that could be ranked tenth in history not long ago, no one thought that Zhang Guan would be able to break the 400m world record.
The world record of 43.18 seconds is really difficult!
Zhang Guan passed this difficulty today. He raised the world record of 400 meters by 0.02 seconds. This sudden 43.16-second result made people feel a little surprised. There was no sign before so not everyone had prepared a mental preparation for when Zhang Guan would break this world record.
In the eyes of professional sportsmen, Zhang Guan broke the world record for the 400-meter sprint, which is more meaningful than the 9.70-second mark he ran in the 100-meter sprint event. Zhang Guan was originally the 100-meter world record holder. He also broke the 100-meter world record many times. It is a matter of course for the world record holder to break the world record he holds. On the 400-meter project, Zhang Guan is not the world record holder. He broke the world record set by Michael Johnson, which means that he also stood at the pinnacle of the world in another project.
Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee, is, of course, one of the professional sportsmen. He knows how difficult it is to break the 400-meter world record. He also knows what this new 400-meter world record means for a 100-meter world champion. What a huge amount of gold!
His Royal Highness looked very excited, and the sprinting exercise brought out his male hormones. People only heard him say, "In a day, no, it should be said that within a few hours, Zhang Guan broke two world record of the project, 9.68 seconds for 100-meter sprint and 43.16 seconds for 400-meter sprint, is a miracle! I believe history will remember this day! Remember this miracle belonging to Belgium!"
Behind Rogge, a Swiss assistant secretly glared at the crown prince. Zhang Guan broke two world records, but the crown prince was forced to give him the title of "miracle belonging to Belgium". Although the place where the world record is broken is indeed in Belgium, the fact that the record can be broken is mainly due to the strength of the athletes. It does not seem to be directly related to where the game is played. When did athletes breaking the world record have to pick their locations?
But the VIP rooms were almost all full of Belgians. When they heard the crown prince's "belonging to the miracle of Belgium" speech, they all nodded. Even Rogge was very agreeable.
Seeing this scene, the assistant sighed helplessly, his boss nodded in agreement, then it is regarded as a "Belgian miracle"!
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At this stop of the Golden League, the broadcaster still invited Michael Johnson as a guest.
In the studio at this time, Michael Johnson's face was confused, and there was a trace of sorrow in his eyes. It was a reality that the 400-meter world record was broken.
Michael Johnson, the former 400-meter world record holder, of course, knows how difficult it is to break the 400-meter world record. For Michael Johnson, the 400-meter world record is the biggest achievement in his sports career and is worth bragging about.
But today, Michael Johnson witnessed his world record being broken. It felt like he had raised a child for many years and was suddenly being taken away by others. The sour feeling in his heart made Michael Johnson want to cry. There were tears, but he was in the studio. There is not only a lot of people here but also the audience in Europe in front of the TV. Therefore, Michael Johnson can only endure, every minute and every second of this moment which is extremely tormenting for this former flying man.
The host on the other side looked at Johnson helplessly and thought to himself, "This world record probably came too abruptly, Johnson will find it hard to accept for a while! After all, 400 meters was his strongest point."
At this moment, the host's headset heard the voice of the director, "Michael seems to need some time to adjust himself. I will cut the lens for you. You will speak for yourself first."
The host had to continue by himself, "It is amazing. Not long ago, it was also in this venue that Zhang Guan broke the world-class record of men's 100-meter sprint. He pushed the limit of the human 100-meter sprint. Within 9.70 seconds, the new world record of 9.68 seconds still makes it difficult for me to describe the shock in my heart! However, what I did not expect is that just two hours later, in the same venue, Zhang Guan broke the world record of 400 meters!"
"The 400-meter sprint is the most difficult event in all sprints, and it is also recognized as the most difficult world record to break! The previous 400-meter sprint world record was held by Mr. Michael Johnson for 43.18 seconds. Zhang Guan improved the record by 0.02 seconds, oh, it was 0.02 seconds again. In the 100-meter sprint event, Zhang Guan also raised the world record by 0.02 seconds, which is a wonderful coincidence!"
"To be honest, out of all the track and field world records, I always thought that the 400-meter world record would be the most unlikely to be broken. If someone tells me that the 400-meter world record is broken, I will think this is a joke on April Fools' Day. And not long ago, when I saw Zhang Guan's 43.16 results, my first reaction was that someone really could break the 400-meter world record! Zhang Guan is the well-deserved king of the world sprint! I need to say he is the greatest sprinter in history!"
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The final award ceremony in Brussels was another highlight of the media chase. Before the game, the organizer specially approved an award ceremony for athletes who could break the world record in Brussels. Because there was only one athlete in the Brussels station who broke the world record, so this special awards ceremony became a stage for Zhang Guan alone.
According to the official announcement process before the game, the Belgian Olympic Committee President will give Zhang Guan a special prize of 100,000 euros, and the Mayor of Brussels will also give Zhang Guan an honorary citizen certificate and a city key, but when the award ceremony begins, the situation has changed. The President of the Belgian Olympic Committee and the Mayor of Brussels all stood by because His Royal Highness the Belgian Crown Prince personally appeared in front of the awards podium and presented Zhang Guan with a special prize of 100,000 euros and the honorary citizen certificate and city key of Brussels.
The Crown Prince of Belgium personally presented the award to Zhang Guan, the meaning behind this is completely different. After two brutal world wars, there are few European royal families left. Although many royal families in Europe have no real power, their main role is to represent the image of the country, but at the same time, the royal family is also a spiritual yearning for the people. The honor of a country's crown prince personally awarding the prize, this can't be bought with money.
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The hard-working editor Gao Jie has learned well this time. He knows that today is the IAAF Golden League Brussels race. Zhang Guan has to participate in two other projects, so he simply waits in the office.
Sure enough, in the early morning, Gao Jie received the news that Zhang Guan won the men's 100-meter sprint and broke the world record with a score of 9.68 seconds, becoming the first person to reach the 9.70 seconds mark. This news is extremely newsworthy. For a person engaged in the news industry, this level of news must be given a full version.
After finishing the new edition, Gao Jie still did not leave. He was waiting for the news of the 400m race. As expected, he waited until Zhang Guan broke the world record in the 400m race.
Related news content and pictures were quickly transferred to Gao Jie's email box. While scheduling, he lamented the two world records that Zhang Guan had just won.
Gao Jie is not an editor with a professional background in sports. He doesn't know much about track and field, but when he saw the manuscript sent to him by reporters, he realized that the gold content of this 400-meter world record was so large.
After being busy with this, Gao Jie finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then he left the office and walked to the parking lot, ready to go home.
A tired-looking Gao Jie opened the door, turned into the car in a hurry, and started to ring the phone before the car rang.
Gao Jie's heart suddenly tightened, "Could it be revised again? Zhang Guan won the championship again? Impossible. Zhang Guan only participated in two events. Both the 100m and 400m have been finished. Zhang Guan took two. The champion broke two world records, there should be no problem! "
While Gao Jie was talking, he answered the phone helplessly, "I'm Gao Jie, yes, I haven't left yet, I just got on the car and it's in the parking lot! Is it going to be revised? Oh, Zhang Guan? Isn't he finished? The two championships of 100m and 400m, the two world records, and the manuscripts are already on the line. There are two full pages! Do we also need to focus on the awards ceremony? What is a good report on the awards ceremony! What? The Crown Prince of Belgium himself awarded Zhang Guan!"
Gao Jie hung up the phone, looked out of the car window, and muttered to himself, "Prince, isn't that the crown prince? The crown prince of Belgium personally presented Zhang Guan with an award. This treatment may be unique in the world. Copy it!"
For ordinary people in China, the word "Crown Prince" is extremely lethal. Even if many people don't know where Belgium is in Europe, but since he bears the title of "Crown Prince", everyone generally thinks it is a very amazing thing.
Professional sports reporters will report on Zhang Guan's breaking two world records in a day and list various data to prove how great Zhang Guan's two world records are, but the official public opinion guide hopes to report more on the crown prince awarding him. The two world records are just two numbers in the eyes of people who do not understand sports, but having the crown prince there is a very face-saving thing, so in this way, of course, it is to compete for the country in Europe. So compared to this, the numbers don't mean much.
The family house where Zhang Guan lived was full of firecracker sound early in the morning. People passing by heard the sound of firecrackers and knew that Zhang Guan won the championship again. The boss of the small newsstand not far away is full of happy smiles. Whenever Zhang Guan wins the world championship, his newspaper sales will always be several percents higher.
"Old Wang, Zhang Guan has won the championship again? To be honest, I won't be interested in him winning the championship anymore." A passerby who was familiar with the boss of the stop asked.
"Not only the champion but also broke the world record!" The boss of the newspaper said while humming, "The world record of 400 meters! Even the crown prince of Belgium gave Zhang Guan an award!"
"Oh! It's so powerful! Crown Prince of Belgium! Then give me a newspaper." The passer-by threw the money to the boss.
CCTV once again demonstrated its extremely high work efficiency. In the news at seven o'clock in the morning, a 400-meter sprint documentary has been made. Although the documentary only has a little more than ten minutes, it has introduced these decades in detail. The development of the 400-meter sprint has allowed the people understand this project and let everyone know how difficult it is to break the 400-meter sprint to the world record.
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KIA Automobile Company.
Minister Jin was holding the phone with panic on his face, because on the other side of the phone he was talking to the company's senior director Cui, who was the company's executive director, and his position was far above his minister.
Director Cui, who only listened to the other end of the phone, said, "Minister Jin, the advertisement that Zhang Guan made for us last time, I am still very satisfied. But I think the two versions you sent are not suitable in time. One is the 15-second version and the other is the 30-second version, which is too short."
"I see! I immediately sent someone to contact the advertising company to make a 1-minute version." Minister Jin said.
"Add a 45-second version and a longer 90-second version." Director Cui directly instructed.
"Yes. But for 90-second advertisements, we may spend more on investment in advertising costs." Minister Jin continued, "The production cost is only one of them. The key is that this time the spending on advertisements from TV stations will increase. This will increase the cost of publicity."
"You don't need to worry about funding! Zhang Guan has just broken the world record of 400 meters. He is now the focus of the world. We have to use this opportunity to increase investment in publicity. We signed Zhang Guan. As a spokesperson, the company has already spent a lot of money, and the company's finances have used up the future publicity budget. It can be said that in the next five years, we are unlikely to have budgets to sign any other big-name stars, so we must make good use of this. Every time Zhang Guan achieves something, it will help to promote our brand." Director Cui said.
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There are overwhelming reports in China, and in Belgium, Zhang Guan is staying in the embassy and receiving professional foreign affairs training.