After breakfast, coach Virgil called Carmel and Ramz to the hotel's conference room and then started playing videos of Zhang Guan's recent games.
"Do you see the video? Did you find Zhang Guan's weakness?" Coach Virgil asked.
Carmel and Ramz looked at each other and didn't seem to know what "the weakness of Zhang Guan" was.
"Coach, you can just say it!" Carmel said anxiously.
Coach Virgil smiled slightly, pressed the remote control, and then said, "This is the 1500m preliminary game, Carmel, the four of you have been leading alternately in the front, Zhang Guan initially fell to the end of the team. Then starting here, he used this straight line to run to the front... "
"Looking at the final of the 1500m, Ramz, you accelerated at this time, Sulaiman and Najim did not choose to follow up, but Zhang Guan followed up..."
Coach Virgil said here, looked up, and said excitedly, "You see Zhang Guan likes to follow behind the leader or behind the leading group, even if the leader or the leading group runs very quickly, Zhang Guan will keep up even if he breaks away from the big army."
"Coach, do you mean Zhang Guan likes to follow people who run faster?" Ramz grabbed the point sensitively.
"That's right." Coach Virgil nodded, "Zhang Guan should not be very confident in his running and sprinting levels, so he will use this method. According to my observation, Zhang Guan's essence of tactics is to first ensure that he does not fall behind the leading group in the running, and in the end, he will rely on his strong speed and sprint ability to overtake."
"But this kind of running requires a very high level of physical fitness?" Carmel asked.
Coach Virgil nodded by default, "Yes, but Zhang Guan is the most powerful athlete in the world. So in today's 800m race, if we want to defeat Zhang Guan, we must use his weaknesses."
"Coach, what do we need to do?" Carmel asked immediately.
"We may need to sacrifice someone." Coach Virgil said while looking at Ramz and then continued, "We need an athlete to take the lead position at the beginning of the game, and then do it with no effort. Lead the race quickly, lure Zhang Guan to run, and consume Zhang Guan's physical strength greatly, to create opportunities for other athletes. But in this case, the leading athlete may not be able to finish the whole race because of excessive physical exertion."
Ramz took a deep breath, and looked at Coach Virgil and said that he was willing to be the victim.
That's what Coach Virgil meant. Both Carmel and Ramz have won the 800-meter world championship. The two men have almost the same strength in the 800-meter project, but Ramz just participated in a 1500-meter final yesterday, and he hadn't had a full day of rest, so Carmel was better than Ramz in preparing for the game.
At the same time, Ramz has been in the leading position in yesterday's 1500m finals. If in today's 800m finals, Ramz uses the same tactics again, it will be easier to believe, and it is more likely to lure Zhang Guan to catch up. Considering the above two points, the best choice to act as a decoy athlete was Ramz.
Although Ramz didn't want to be the bait, he knew that for the victory of the Bahrain team, he must be the victim.
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On the morning of December 11th, in addition to the men's 200m semifinals, there were men's 110m hurdles, so Zhang Guan and Liu Feiren both appeared on the track and field.
For Zhang Guan, the 200-meter semi-final is like an appetizer, and Liu Feiren, who has not participated in the competition for a long time, this was not very enjoyable. However, Zhang Guan still has a 200-meter final and an 800-meter final in the afternoon. If Liu Feiren wants to have fun on the field, he will have to wait until tomorrow.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Doha time, the men's 200m race officially started. Judging from the strength of the athletes, Zhang Guan will undoubtedly win the championship, and among the other athletes, the last athlete of the Japanese team, Shenwu, is the strongest athlete except for Zhang Guan. There should be no problem for him to win a silver medal.
The bronze medal battle will be played between the national team athlete Yang Yao and the Japanese team athlete Gao Pingshi. So in this 200-meter sprint contest, it is the final analysis of the Sino-Japanese war. In the end, Yang Yao defeated Gao Pingshi with a 0.1-second advantage and won the bronze medal in the 200-meter competition.
Then, Zhang Guan ushered in his sixth Asian Games gold medal competition, the men's 800 meters final. This is also the last single event in the middle distance run.
Zhang Guan looked at the athletes participating in the competition, and several of them were in the previous 800m preliminaries or 1500m competitions, such as Carmel and Ramz of Bahrain, Sulaiman of Qatar. Also, other contestants include Kuwaiti Al Azemi, Iran's Mohr Ahae, Saudi Arabia's Al Shalih, and Japan's Yokota.
The pre-game atmosphere today is very different from yesterday. Before yesterday's 1500m race, no one thought that Zhang Guan would win the 1500m championship. Whether it was the athletes or spectators, Zhang Guan's reputation was more important than strength.
However, Zhang Guan broke the Asian record of 1500 meters in yesterday's game, which made everyone feel astonished. It made the contestants fall into a deep sense of fear. In today's 800 meters project, Zhang Guan suddenly became the champion. The number one athlete, even suppressing Carmel, the track and field World Cup champion.
The athletes quickly finished their preparations and took up the starting line one after another.
"On Your Marks... Set..." The starter raised the starting gun, then pulled the trigger, and with the sound of the gun, the game officially started.
The first 100 meters are split runs, so athletes don't have to worry about the race. But from the perspective of tactical choice, if you want to occupy a better position in the back, running a little faster in the split run is a good choice.
"Look at Ramz! Ramz's speed is fast, is he ready to take the lead again?"
Some people have noticed that Ramz is indeed faster than other athletes, and he is indeed the first to cross the snatch line, and then quickly merged into the innermost runway and began to enter the leading state.
Subsequent athletes also changed lanes after crossing the lane grab line. Although the 800-meter contestant had four fewer people than the 1500-meter contestant, the position grab was more brutal. Because there are only two laps in the 800-meter race, excluding the starting, and sprinting, the distance to run in the big group is only more than 400 meters, so it is particularly important to occupy a good position.
"Look, Caramel made a mistake!"
They saw Carmel's hesitation in the process of changing lanes, and then he was blocked by Kuwaiti athlete Al Alzemi, and he had to follow the final position.
There was a burst of exclamation immediately from the audience. Carmel was the champion of this year's Athletics World Cup. Before the Asian Games, he was regarded as the favorite to win the 800-meter project. Even if Zhang Guan suddenly emerged, it still did not affect everyone's optimism about Carmel. Many people still think that Carmel will win the final championship.
However, this high-profile athlete made a mistake at the beginning of the game and was stuck in the final position.
At the end of 200 meters, the athletes have completed the lane change. At this time, the athletes are still full of physical strength, and they are also more compact with each other. Then the athletes entered the curve. At the moment of entering the corner, the leading Ramz began to speed up.
"Ramz is speeding up again! Is he still using the same tactics as yesterday, leading the way to the end?"
Everyone remembered yesterday's Ramz. In yesterday's 1500m finals, Ramz was the leader from the beginning, using a higher speed throughout the race, and from the results, Ramz's tactics yesterday it was very successful. He broke the Asian record and also created his best results. If it wasn't for a sudden emergence of Zhang Guan, Ramz's yesterday's tactics could even be used as a successful case for middle-run textbooks.
In yesterday's 1500m race, after Ramz sped up, the athletes did not keep up. They thought Ramz was using a gambling run, so in the final sprint, Ramz even led the third place. The distance between him and Najim was twenty meters, it was too late to pursue such a big gap. Only Zhang Guan followed Ramz, and the final match became a contest between Zhang Guan and Ramz. Others such as Sulaiman, Najim, etc., even if they still have the surplus, they can only watch them anxiously.
Therefore, in today's 800-meter final, when Ramz speeded up again, both the contestants, the coaches of various countries, and the audience on the scene thought that Ramz was using the same tactics as yesterday.
"To catch up, I can't make yesterday's mistake today. Yesterday, I didn't follow Ramz, so I was pulled away by too much distance." Sulaiman, who participated in yesterday's 1500 meters final, took the lead in response, he speeded up and kept up with Ramz.
Later, other athletes also made the same choice. Only Carmel, who was ranked last, only slightly increased the speed and he seemed to be reluctant to run.
But Carmel is the last athlete. The athletes in the front will not pay attention to Carmel's movements.
"The tactics succeeded! It seems that not only Zhang Guan but even other athletes were also hooked!" Although coach Virgil was very excited at this time, he was extremely nervous in his heart.