In the middle distance running event, the United States is not the most powerful. They prefer stimulating events like sprinting. As for other countries, there is also a lack of top athletes in middle distance running. It can be said that the middle distance running event in entire America can only be regarded as the upper middle.
In the layout of the world's middle distance running, it is the pattern of the top three in West Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Europe, Britain, France, Italy, and other sports powers have very good middle-distance runners, and of course, they are all black athletes. These countries have a colonial history in Africa, so there are some excellent black athletes in their own countries. In countries with late colonies such as Germany, there are fewer black people in the country, so there are not too many black athletes, and there are also very few good athletes in the middle-distance race.
African countries have always been the cradle of middle- and long-distance runners. Among them, Kenya, Morocco, and Algeria are traditional powers for middle-distance running. They are also the main exporters of athletes.
Middle-distance running is also a traditional strength of West Asian countries. The climate and dietary habits of the West Asian region are easier to create for middle-distance runners. The arrival of the African Naturalized Corps made West Asian countries even more powerful. The physical talent of the African Naturalized Corps, coupled with the material security and training level of the countries in West Asia, has created a strong strength in West Asia in recent years.
When mentioning sprinters in West Asia, you have to mention Rashid Ramz.
Rashid Ramz is originally from Morocco. Like many African track and field athletes, he started to practice track and field to get rid of poverty. Although Morocco is a West African country, the main ethnic group is Arab, and the official language is also Arabic, so Ramz applied for Bahraini citizenship when he was eighteen, and also served in military service for Bahrain. In the following years, he quickly grew into the world's top middle-distance runner.
In the Athens Olympics, Ramz was the favorite to win the 1500m event at the time, but at the time he retired due to physical discomfort in the semi-finals, and he regrettably ended his first Olympic tour. However, in the 2005 World Championships in track and field, Ramz won the world championships of 800 meters and 1500 meters in one fell swoop, achieving the title of king of middle-distance running.
Afterward, Ramz rested for a while due to injury and came back in the second half of 2006. Before Ramz participated in the track and field World Cups to adjust his status. Now, Ramz's status has almost returned to its peak.
At this time, before the starting line, Ramz closed his eyes tightly, and the instructions of coach Virgil appeared in his mind.
"After a while, don't care about other athletes, and don't follow up, just lead to the end of the game!"
Ramz opened his eyes. He felt that what Coach Virgil said was indeed the best tactic for him. If anyone of the athletes on the scene has the strength to lead the game until the end of the game, I am afraid there is none other than Ramz. His strength is the top in the world.
At the same time, Zhang Guan inadvertently glanced at Ramz, because Zhang Guan knew that Ramz would be the biggest obstacle to his 1500m championship.
In the past two years, Zhang Guan has participated in many international track and field competitions and has encountered Ramz many times. Zhang Guan has witnessed Ramz winning many middle-distance running championships, so Zhang Guan naturally knows Ram has the world's top strength at 1500 meters, and more importantly, in Zhang Guan's memory, the 1500 meters champion of the next Olympic Games is Ramz.
"I seemed to have watched the game at that time. I remember Ramz was the leader from the beginning to the end, and finally won the championship with a huge advantage. That was the Olympic game. The real powerhouse is like a cloud, with a high level of athletes. There are so many Asian Games, Ramz was able to lead till the championship in the finals, and his strength is indeed far superior to other athletes. Since this is the case, I will follow Ramz for a while, which should be the most cost-effective method."
Zhang Guan instantly set the tactics for this game, that is, running behind Ramz.
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In this game, two athletes from Qatar entered the finals, namely Najim and Sulaiman, so the atmosphere of the audience was very warm. The audience was looking forward to the Qatari local athletes winning a gold medal, in addition to this outer, Bahraini Ali, Saudi Arabian Savin, Japanese Kobayashi, and Iranian Mudira, who played against Zhang Guan in the preliminaries, also entered the finals.
In addition to the two Bahrain athletes, the strength of the two Qatar athletes is also very strong, plus since it was home game, there must be some advantages, so Najim and Sulaiman also have high hopes to win the championship. The strengths of Saudi athlete Savin and Iranian athlete Mudila are relatively weak, and competing with them is an easy medal, while others such as Kobayashi and others, although they are 1500 in their respective countries the strongest person probably will only accompany the runner.
While enjoying the cheers of the home audience, Qatar native Sulaiman said to his compatriot Bashar Najim, "In the preliminaries, I had a fight with Ramz and felt his condition had not yet returned to its peak. We have a chance to win the championship in this game! Your 1500m strength is better than me. I will help you to open the way when you run."
Najim nodded, "We are fighting at home. Of course, for this championship, we have to be ambitious! But in addition to Ramz, we have to be careful about Zhang Guan. In the previous preliminaries, I was in the same group as Zhang Guan. When he was in the final sprint he was very fast, and he almost surpasses me in a blink of an eye. Although I didn't do my best at the time, to be honest, I have never seen someone who can run so fast in the final stage of 1500 meters!"
"Don't worry about Zhang Guan, he is a sprinter, after all, his explosive force is stronger than ours, and the speed of the final sprint is normal. Everyone's strength is reserved in the preliminaries, so Zhang Guan will still have so much physical strength in the end. But now it's the final, I think neither Ramz, Ali, or Savin will save their strength anymore, maybe they will run halfway through, and Zhang Guan's physical strength will not be able to sustain" Sulaiman's words paused, and then said, "You see Zhang Guan's body is much taller than ours, so he must be heavier, and his physical exertion will also be much higher than ours."
"But from the video of the preliminaries, Zhang Guan seems to be very good at running," Najim said.
Sulaiman smiled slightly, "Then we will run faster and make him unable to keep up!"
At the same time, Bella Mansour Ali, who does not know his true age, is also standing with Ramz.
"Bella, you will have to keep up a little later, otherwise I will be thrown away very far!" Ramz said.
"Follow up? Far away?" Ali immediately understood Ramz's intentions after he froze. He asked with some surprise, "Ramz, do you want to lead?"
Ramz nodded and said, "What I mean by leading, you should know!"
Ali suddenly took a sigh of relief. This lead was a more strenuous job. As a top athlete in the world, Ramz, if he chooses to lead, he must be planning to lead to the end.
Seeing Ramz's confident expression, Ali seemed to feel that the king of the middle-run last year was back. Ali nodded, "Rashid, I will try to keep up with you!"
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The time for the athletes to prepare quickly passed. With a gunshot, the Doha Asian Games men's 1500m final officially began.
"The game started! The athletes started to cut to the innermost runway, Huh? Ramz! Look at Ramz!" The commentator's voice made everyone instantly focus on Ramz.
Ramz started a straight-line speed-up after running together, instead of merging inwards. After seventy meters, Ramz was already in the leading position, and then he began to move toward the innermost side. The runway attracted the other athletes but with Ramz's technique, when he moved to the innermost runway, he just got stuck in front of the second runner.
At this time the Iranian athlete Mudila came in second place. Mudila grabbed a relatively leading position after the start of the game, but he did not want to lead, because leading is a very physical consuming matter, so when Mudila saw Ramz coming, he didn't grab a position with Ramz. He took a slight handicap and made Ramz occupy the leading position.
"Ramz is deliberately grabbing the lead! Is he trying to lead to the end?" Sulaiman of Qatar immediately understood Ramz's intentions. He looked at his teammate Najim and asked with his eyes to follow or not to follow, Najim immediately noticed and issued a secret signal to follow the run.
At this time, in the broadcast hall of CCTV, the guest Director Sun also saw the clue, and others looked at him say, "It seems that Ramz is very confident in his state, and he rushed to the front as soon as he came up if what I'm guessing is true, Ramz is probably planning to lead the way to the end."
"Director Sun, we all know that in the middle and long-distance running, the leader needs to spend more physical energy, so if it is a full lead to the end, does it mean that the physical strength consumption is also very huge?" The commentator immediately asked.
"Yes, so only those strong athletes can lead the way to the end. As for whether Ramz is going to do this, we still need to observe and see if Ramz wants to speed up." Director Sun explained.
But just after he said that Director Sun's voice just fell, Ramz accelerated.