"Indian Sprinter? Is it the kind of shot with a small cannon in the circus? What kind of people are you guys, and all the cats and dogs want to challenge me." Zhang Guan said with a laugh.
The coach glanced at the photos published in the magazine and said, "This man is called Matthew Binu, a 400-meter sprinter in India. Don't underestimate him. He has participated in the semi-finals of the Athens Olympics. His best results can reach 45 seconds!"
Zhang Guan shook his head, "I don't know him, and I don't have any impression. I remember that India seems to only play cricket. When did such a track and field athlete appear?"
Coach Yu thought about it and said, "In fact, India still has some good track and field athletes, especially the 400-meter sprint event, which is the strength of the Indians. It is probably only slightly worse than in Japan."
"The strong point is the 400-meter sprint?" Zhang Guan suddenly remembered news from later generations, saying that a female 400-meter sprint champion in India was a transgender. Zhang Guan also specifically checked the photo of the female runner at the time.
"When I was young, India's sports level was quite good. There were some excellent athletes in various projects, but many of them were athletes born in the British colonial period." Yu Gui said as Zhang Guan took over the magazine and then said, "Don't pay attention to these tabloids. Before the big games like the Asian Games, many athletes like to hype themselves. You are now the world's most famous track and field athlete. Some people come by for your reputation to hype up themself, the Indians are just bragging about their level, when you arrive in Qatar, you may see more similar news."
"I understand, the king with a strong mouth. One by one all came to make headlines next to me!" Zhang Guan smiled, and then asked, "To be honest, I don't have a very good understanding of the 400-meter sprinters in other Asian countries. After all, in the international arena, I have never met the Asian 400-meter athletes. Do any of them need special attention?"
"The 400-meter level of Asian athletes is generally not as good as that of Europe and the United States. In the previous East Asian Games, you and the Japanese also competed. That Yuan Xuanzhi is the strongest level in East Asia. West Asia is slightly stronger than in East Asia. Saudi Arabia, Kewell, Qatar, and Iran all have Olympic A-level athletes, the strongest of which should be Saudi Arabia, all of them are African naturalized athletes. For you, you need to pay special attention to no one, but if they have a black athlete, just pay a little attention. Black people are all naturalized from Africa, and they are stronger than the local athletes in Asia." Yu Gui said.
"Speaking of the Legion of Naturalization, I suddenly remembered a person. That Samuel Francis, the Nigerian who I met at the Doha station of the last track and field Grand Prix, has he joined Qatar now?" Zhang Guan suddenly asked the coach.
"I haven't heard of this, but even if he is naturalized to Qatar, he can't participate in this year's competition according to the rules. It is estimated that if he is fast, he will not be able to participate in the international competition on behalf of Qatar until 2007." Yu Gui explained.
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The Doha Asian Games are about to start, and for the media, they also have a focus of chasing, and the host of this Asian Games is in Qatar, so the media of Western Asian countries are most enthusiastic about the Doha Asian Games coverage.
At this time, the editor of "Flower of the Gulf" Rabach is preparing a warm-up report for the Qatar Asian Games.
"In all the Asian Games, China, Japan, and South Korea have almost won most of the gold medals. All of us in West Asia have not been able to get any of the gold medals combined. We are not as good as China. The strong projects of China, Japan, and South Korea have been taken in one stroke, we are better at writing projects." Rabah thought while entering the website of the Doha Asian Games.
"Athletics is still the number one event. The track and field in China and Japan are still very strong in Asia. Originally, our Gulf countries have naturalized some African athletes and were able to win gold medals in sprint events. Zhang Guan the world record of 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters, has come to participate in the Asian Games. It seems that the gold medal in the sprint event must belong to Zhang Guan. By the way, I heard that Zhang Guan also won the other day. He is a world champion of the long jump, maybe the championship of this long jump will also be taken by Zhang Guan!"
Rabach clicked the mouse and directly skipped the previous few sprint events, directly found the middle distance run.
"Mid-distance running has always been a strong point for our West Asian countries. This time the championship belongs to our West Asian countries. It is estimated that Bahrainis should be very promising. Just rewrite the middle distance running project, analyze the 800 meters and 1500. The audience will like to watch Mi's championship situation." Rabach found the list of participants while thinking.
"Let me see who are the men participating in the men's 800 meters. All three of Carmel, Ramz, and Ali of Bahrain have participated, Al Alzemi of Kuwait, Mohr of Iran and Hejaz and Mu Dila, Sulaiman, and Bashar Najim of Qatar, Al Shalih of Saudi Arabia, Japanese Yokota and Suzuki Shangren, Chinese ... What? Zhang Guan!" Rabach called out Zhang Guan directly.
"It's the same name!" Rabach immediately clicked on the athlete's information, and the photo showed Zhang Guan.
"Zhang Guan signed up for 800 meters? I'm not dreaming! When did he start running the middle distance? Did the organizers of the tournament make a mistake?" Rabach was confused. He couldn't wait to open the search engine and search for the content of Zhang Guan 800 meters.
Related content immediately appeared on the webpage, and the top one was "Zhang Guan announced that he was about to enter the middle distance race."
Rabach immediately clicked on this news, which is just some of the interviews with Zhang Guan after the track and field World Cup.
"Zhang Guan said he wants to participate in the 800 meters and 1500 meters of the Asian Games? But he is a sprinter!" Rabach carefully read the report and then immediately went to check the registration information of the Doha Asian Games 1500 meters. Then he saw Zhang Guan's name again.
"Zhang Guan is participating in the 800m and 1500m races of the Asian Games! Such important news, why haven't I noticed before!" Rabach was a little annoyed, and then Rabach continued to search for relevant news about Zhang Guan participating in the middle distance race, he found that only the interview after the track and field World Cup was circulating on the Internet, and there was no other information.
The Athletics World Cup is far less influential than the Athletics World Championships. If there are no national athletes, many countries are even disdained to report. If the national athletes do not achieve results, at most there will be only one newsletter, and everyone is concerned more about the final game results, how many people pay attention to the interview after the game.
Of course, if Rabach uses the Chinese search site to search for it, he will definitely find Zhang Guan breaking the national records of 800 meters and 1500 meters, but Rabach uses a foreign search site, but the search is still in English, which will naturally not find information about Zhang Guan's domestic game situation.
"This is big news! Zhang Guan, the king of the sprint, will participate in the middle distance race of the Asian Games! It's exciting to think about it. Toutiao, this is sure to make today's sports headlines!" Rabach thought excitedly.
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Bahrain.
Bella Mansour Alixing rushed into the lounge and said, "What you said a few days ago was originally true. Zhang Guan signed up for this Asian Games middle distance race!"
Ali put an Arabic newspaper on the table, Carmel next to it immediately picked it up, read it in a hurry, and then said in amazement, "Zhang Guan signed up? I thought he was interviewed just to talk about it."
Rashid Ramz on the side showed a long-expected expression, and then said, "I told you not to underestimate Zhang Guan's determination. An athlete of his level, once he has a goal, he will do it."
"Relax, Rashid." Carmel threw it to Ramz and then said, "You should look at the professional sports reviews later, they are not optimistic about Zhang Guan, so, I think, in this Doha Asian Games it is a good chance for us to defeat Zhang Guan. Although it is a middle-distance race, it should be a wonderful thing to beat the world's fastest sprinter! Don't forget, I am the 800-meter champion of this track and field World Cup, I will use reality to tell Zhang Guan that the middle distance running event is not something he can touch."
As Carmel said, at this time, the sports media in West Asia sang the voice of Zhang Guan, questioning Zhang Guan's mid-distance running level. Some people directly said that Zhang Guan was not capable. Some sports professionals even used the "advise retreat stream" and directly expressed publicly that they hoped that Zhang Guan could withdraw from the middle-distance race in the Asian Games.
This situation is not difficult to understand. Middle distance running has always been the traditional strength of West Asian countries. Before this, even the Asian track and field power Japan, in the middle distance running, is far inferior to the athletes of West Asian countries. Now Zhang Guan wants to enter this field, he will suffer a lot of doubts and resistance.
For example, one day, the tennis king Federer announced that he would come to China to play table tennis. Everyone's first impression must be that Federer is funny. Although you are a tennis king, you should not come to look for abuse to play table tennis in China? And if Federer appears in the table tennis field, I believe everyone will feel that a second-tier athlete from the national team can easily defeat Federer.
At present, the middle-distance runners in West Asia also have this kind of mentality. Everyone thinks that if you are a sprinter, even if you are the king of the world sprint, you will be looking for abuse in the middle distance running event of the Asian Games.