Zizhao Chuan: The Biggest Sportsman

Chapter 460 Changes in Mindset
Justin Gatlin, Maurice Green, Sean Crawford and Kobe Miller formed the American men's 4x100m relay team, which can be described as extremely luxurious lineup!Coupled with substitute player Davis Patton, the strength of the American men's relay team is now catching up with the "Golden Generation" in 1992!

At the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, the American men's relay team composed of Carl Lewis, Burrell, Carson and Mike Marsh, the four top "flyers" at the time, ran a time of 37 seconds. Achievements, and so far, no one can shake this world record.

In this year's U.S. men's relay team, Gatlin, Green and Crawford all ran under 9 seconds in the men's 90-meter trapeze competition of this Olympic Games.Although Parton and Miller are slightly weaker, it is not difficult to run within 10 seconds.

Therefore, when interviewing reporters before the game, Green also released bold words, claiming that the US team's goal in this Olympic relay is not only a gold medal, but also a world record of 37 seconds!
In the preliminaries that night, Crawford ran the first bat, Patton ran the second bat, Miller ran the third bat, and Green took the final fourth bat.

就是这样一个并不算最强的组合，就轻松的跑出了37秒96的成绩来。这个成绩不但比排在预赛第三位的英国队所跑出的38秒53，要高了不止一个档次，离去年中国队在世锦赛上夺冠的37秒92的成绩也是相差无几啊！

No wonder the U.S. team had such confidence before the game, daring to say that winning the gold medal is not a problem, and hitting the world record is their goal!
But after the preliminaries results of the next group of Chinese teams came out, the American team suddenly felt that they were in big trouble...

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37 second 89!

Damn it... The Chinese team's score in this preliminaries actually reached 37 seconds!Your sister, this is too outrageous!

The U.S. team was also facing a formidable enemy immediately after the game. Guo Zizhao obviously didn't do his best in the preliminaries. If it was the final, the Chinese team's score should be improved by more than 0.2 seconds. There is no problem!

Let me go... In this way, the Chinese team is very likely to run nearly 37 seconds in the final.This result is almost the same as the best result of the US team in training!Hiss... now we're going to be in big trouble!

Don't look at the American team's announcement that their goal this time is to hit the world record of 37 seconds, but they know in their hearts that they are still far from this world record!
In fact, in terms of personal strength, the strength of this U.S. relay team is no worse than that of the "Golden Generation" in 1992, and may even be slightly higher.But in terms of the cooperation of the baton, it is more than one level worse than the predecessors!
During the pre-Olympic training camp, the best result of the US relay team's internal test was only 37 seconds, and most of the time, the results were stable between 58 and 37 seconds.It is precisely because of this that the US team believes that winning the gold medal is an easy task.

But as soon as the Chinese team's preliminaries results came out, the Americans immediately felt the pressure.

The strength of the Chinese team has improved too fast!The handover of the Chinese team is also perfect!Except for Guo Zizhao, the strength of the other three players has improved to a certain extent compared to last year. Although each person's improvement is only about 0.05 seconds, but the three together have an advantage of about 0.15 seconds!

Coupled with the increasingly perfect coordination of the Chinese team, this allowed the Chinese team to run an astonishing time of 37 seconds in the preliminaries, even when Guo Zizhao let go of the water.

Big trouble!All the athletes of the American relay team also felt a little bit in their hearts...

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However, the progress of the game will not stop because of the concerns of the American team.

An hour later, the final of the men's 110m hurdles will soon officially begin.

After the relay race, Guo Zizhao didn't go back to rest directly, and was in the waiting room with Luo Yichao, Feng Shuyong and others, waiting for the final with Liu Feifei and others.

At this time, coach Sun Haiquan had become the busiest person in the lounge. While constantly repeating the tactical arrangements with Liu Feifei, he occasionally turned back to ask about Chen Yanhao's physical condition.However, judging from Sun Haiquan's appearance, he probably enjoys this painful and happy life.

Can you not be happy?
This time, the two disciples under him both made it to the Olympic finals!Which other coach in the national track and field team has this honor?
Although in the past two years, Liu Feifei and Chen Yanhao also entered the finals of the indoor and outdoor world championships three times at the same time, but how can the world championships compare with the Olympic Games?

Besides, this time because Guo Zizhao took the initiative to abdicate, Liu Feifei also took on the important task of winning the gold, which made Sun Haiquan even more nervous.If Liu Feifei misses this time, then his master and apprentice will not be drowned by the spittle stars of the people of the whole country!
But what if it succeeds!

Thinking of this, Sun Haiquan's heart suddenly became hot again, and then he became a veritable champion coach!The Olympic champion of men's individual sprint event... besides Guo Zizhao, then Liu Feifei will be the only one!
This honor is much more than the gold medal in the team event of the relay race!Although for the national team, a gold medal in a team event has a higher gold content than an individual event.But for athletes and coaches, gold medals in individual events are the first choice!
For a group project, there are too many people participating, ordinary viewers can't remember who it is!Even though the men's 4x100m relay won the World Championships last year, it is estimated that except for Guo Zizhao, ordinary audiences are not very impressed with the other three players.

But personal projects are different!Just like Guo Zizhao back then, once he won the world championship in the individual sprint event, he immediately became a household name among the people across the country!
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Thinking of this, Sun Haiquan couldn't help but cast a glance at Guo Zizhao, who was still whispering with Feng Shuyong and others not far away.

For Guo Zizhao, Sun Haiquan's feelings are also very complicated.

If it weren't for Guo Zizhao, I and Liu Feifei wouldn't have received so much attention from the field management center in recent years, and wouldn't have had so many opportunities to go out for competitions and training.Especially at the invitation of Guo Zizhao, he participated in two training camps of the world's top masters, and after communicating with the team of top international masters, he and Liu Feifei benefited a lot.

But since last year's World Championships in Paris, Liu Feifei and himself have had some subtle changes in their attitude towards Guo Zizhao.Especially after Liu Feifei successfully ran within 13 seconds this year, this feeling became even stronger.

The reason is also very simple. Now Liu Feifei has grown up, has the strength and is qualified to compete for the championship.And Guo Zizhao, a former idol and a "good teacher and helpful friend" who has helped him and others, suddenly became a competitor and the biggest obstacle on Liu Feifei's way to win the championship.This made Sun Haiquan and Liu Feifei feel a little strange.

At the World Championships in Paris last year, Chen Haijian and others won a gold medal in the World Championships under the leadership of Guo Zizhao.With this great honor, coach Mai Shaoqiang of the relay team and the entire men's relay team became the darlings of the media.All this made Sun Haiquan and Liu Feifei envious.

And this year, after Liu Feifei ran for 13 seconds and had the strength to hit the gold medal, both Sun Haiquan and Liu Feifei couldn't control their desire for the Olympic champion!
As an athlete, the pursuit of the championship should be endless!For this point, the two of them don't think there is anything wrong!
However, both of them also understood in their hearts, even if Liu Feifei has the strength to hit the gold medal, so what?As long as Guo Zizhao is there, as long as Guo Zizhao goes to participate in the competition, Liu Feifei's hope of winning the gold is nothing more than a dream!

Defeat Guo Zizhao?Hehe... how is it possible!
But just when both of them were a little depressed, Guo Zizhao actually offered to abdicate to Xian!

I'll go... Could it be that Guo Zizhao saw what he and others were thinking!Was it so obvious to me in the first place?

Thinking of this, Coach Sun Haiquan also glanced at Guo Zizhao not far away with some guilt...

(End of this chapter)