Zizhao Chuan: The Biggest Sportsman

Chapter 420

"How is it? Do you see anything?" After returning to the station, Hoganband and the coach analyzed the video of Guo Zizhao's preliminaries again.

For Guo Zizhao, a powerful opponent who suddenly appeared, Hoganband and others still attached great importance to it.It's just that Guo Zizhao has never participated in an international swimming competition before, and everyone knows nothing about Guo Zizhao's real strength and technical characteristics.

Therefore, now the video of this game has become the only research material.

"Judging from the whole game, Guo Zizhao's swimming skills are average." Hoganband also shook his head, "Guo Zizhao's main advantage is in physical fitness. It can be seen from the strength, frequency and kicking of the arms and legs." , although Guo Zizhao's figure is not very suitable for swimming, but with his super physical fitness, he can make up for this defect."

"You are right, especially the sprint in the final stage, which brought Guo Zizhao's speed, strength and endurance to the extreme!" The coach couldn't help but sigh, "I just don't know now, Guo Zizhao is here How much did he put in the preliminaries? If his final strength can really reach 48 seconds, it will be on par with your current results!"

"Well... Judging from Guo Zizhao's competition habits on the track and field, the results in the preliminaries must be the worst. Then, the results in the semi-finals and finals will be better one after another." Hogenband also said noncommittal "However, the promotion rules for swimming competitions are different from those for track and field. I just don't know what kind of tactical arrangements Guo Zizhao will have this time."

"Forget about this! After the semi-finals tonight, you will probably understand!" The coach also ended the topic, "Okay, you have a good rest, there is a final tonight. This is the most critical match right now! Whether you can defend your title at this Olympic Games depends on your performance tonight!"

"Don't worry! I can beat Thorpe once, and I can win Thorpe for the second time! The men's 200m and 100m freestyle champions in this Olympic Games, or my Hoganband!" The Dutchman also said confidently arrive.

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At [-]:[-] p.m., the night's swimming competition ignited the flames of war again at the Olympic Aquatics Center.

According to the arrangement of the Athens Olympic Organizing Committee, every morning is the preliminaries for various swimming events.The more exciting semi-finals and finals are generally arranged in the evening.In the afternoon there is no swimming competition.

The reason for this is also very strange. It is because the Olympic Aquatic Center, the venue for the swimming competition, has no roof!

It's not that the organizing committee doesn't repair the roof of the venue, and the progress of the early construction period is really too slow. It was only a few days before the start of the Olympic Games that the decoration of the venue was basically completed, and there was really no time to install the roof.Therefore, the swimming competition had to be held in the semi-open-air aquatic center.

In Athens in August, the weather in the afternoon is really too hot.In order not to let the hot weather and the direct sunlight in the afternoon affect the competition, the organizing committee had to take the afternoon bye.

As a result, the evening schedule is very tight.Less than half an hour after the men's 100-meter freestyle semi-final, there will be the men's 200-meter freestyle final.Therefore, for Hoganband and Thorpe, this will also be a big test in terms of physical strength.

Just before Guo Zizhao packed his things and was about to go on stage, Deputy Director Shang Xiutang's cell phone rang.Shang Xiutang took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and he was immediately happy, "Hehe...a good omen! The good news just released by the delegation, our country has won another gold medal. The shooting team men's 10-meter air rifle, Zhu Qinan broke the 702.7 ring The world record wins the gold and teammate Li Jie wins the silver medal."

"Haha... that's good, it really is a good omen! I hope Luo Xue can also win the swimming competition later and win the first gold medal for our swimming team!" Guo Zizhao also said with a smile.

"Haha... There is still one hour left for Luo Xue's match. Let's talk after you win this semi-final! Come on, we will wait for your good news." Head coach Zhang Dongya also said happily.

"No problem, just look at it, I'll win it for you in minutes!" Guo Zizhao greeted everyone with a smile, and walked to the arena under the leadership of the staff.

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In the semi-finals of the men's 100m freestyle, there are a total of 16 players, divided into two groups.

A wave of top players such as Popov, Hoganband, Thorp and Schumann were all shortlisted smoothly as expected.Of course, in the morning preliminaries, Guo Zizhao was the biggest dark horse.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that the two American players, Jason Lezak and Ian Crocker, performed abnormally in the morning preliminaries, and neither of them entered the men's 100-meter freestyle event. semifinals.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a great shock in the international swimming world.As one of the two overlords in the international swimming world, although the U.S. team has never had the chance to take the title of "World's No. [-] Flying Fish" over the years, it is also a strong contender in the "Flying Fish War".

Especially for the two contestants this time, Jason Lezak swam the world's best time of 48 seconds this year, and is regarded as Hoganband's biggest challenger in this "Flying Fish Battle" .However, what I didn't expect was that this buddy only swam 18 seconds in the preliminaries, and he was ranked outside the 49th place in the total preliminaries.

Another player, Ian Crocker, was not only the world champion of men's 100-meter butterfly at the World Championships last year, but also entered the top eight in the world in freestyle this year.Unexpectedly, this time, he also failed in the preliminaries.

In the history of the Olympic Games, there is only one time in the past century that the US team did not appear in the men's 100-meter freestyle final, and that time was the 1980 Moscow Olympics that the Americans boycotted.But now in this Olympics, the Americans did not even make it to the semi-finals, which also gave the US swimming team a blow.

However, everyone did not expect that when the semi-finals ended a few minutes later, another top player was unexpectedly eliminated...

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In the first group match of the semi-finals, Hoganband, Thorpe and others made their debut first.Since there was another final half an hour later, neither of them went all out in this semi-final.

But even so, Hoganband still won the group No.48 with a time of 53 seconds, and entering tomorrow's final is a sure thing.And Thorpe also swam 1 seconds, enough to ensure that he entered the final.

In the second group where Guo Zizhao is, there are also powerful masters such as Popov and Schumann.In order to secure the first place in the semi-finals, Guo Zizhao went all out this time.

The skill of "Shocking Leap" was not hidden this time, coupled with the "Powerful Advanced Sprint Skill" in the second half, Guo Zizhao once again ignited the field of the semi-finals, and finally won the first place with a time of 48 seconds. The first name of the second group.

This result not only tied the world's best result of American player Jason Lezak this year, but also ranked first in the overall score of the semi-finals again, strongly entering the men's 100-meter freestyle final.

When the total scores of the 16 contestants who participated in the semi-finals came out, the audience was in an uproar again.

郭子昭以48秒18成绩排在了第一位，南非名将舒曼以48秒37的成绩紧随其后，然后就是霍根班德的48秒53。再往后，就是意大利选手马格尼尼、南非选手内特林、澳大利亚选手“鱼雷”索普、克罗地亚选手德拉加尼亚和阿尔及利亚选手伊莱斯。

The former "World's No. 49 Flying Fish" and "Swimming Czar" veteran Popov only swam 23 seconds this time, ranking 9th, and missed the final of the "Flying Fish War"!

I'm going... After seeing this ranking, everyone was shocked in their hearts, and something big was going to happen...

(End of this chapter)