Zizhao Chuan: The Biggest Sportsman

Chapter 72 Asian Athletics Championships

After the finals of the Grand Prix, the candidates for the Asian Championships at the end of the month have basically been decided.Guo Zizhao gathered together with other members of the national track and field team and started a 10-day training life at the National Track and Field Training Center.

Everyone's training during this period is mainly about adjusting and maintaining the state. After all, it is impossible to greatly improve the performance in less than half a month.Therefore, the players basically follow the coaches arranged by each group and conduct unified training.However, among these people, Guo Zizhao seemed a little different.

Because Guo Zizhao trained alone, apart from his father Guo Sheng and coach Song Ping assisting him, coach Feng Shuyong and Yu Weili often came to see him.

It seems that they also want to find out some special places from Guo Zizhao's training, and see if it is the reason why Guo Zizhao's performance is so outstanding.See if it can be promoted in the national team.But they were destined to be disappointed too. Song Ping had trained Guo Zizhao for more than a month and found nothing, let alone what they could see after three days of fishing and two days of netting.

However, their actions made the other members of the sprint group suffocate.The favorites to win the championship are different. So many coaches revolve around Guo Zizhao.I don't know how much hatred I inadvertently brought to Guo Zizhao...

At this time, in the field management center office, there was also a moderate discussion about Guo Zizhao's entry.

"Guo Zizhao's 100-meter sprint and 110-meter hurdles are definitely fine. The question now is whether Guo Zizhao needs to participate in the 4x100-meter relay." Xie Yalong looked at the registration form and asked for the opinions of several coaches.

"According to the usual practice, Guo Zizhao should participate. His 0.2-meter time is the best. If he joins the relay team, he can improve his time by at least [-] seconds." Zhang Peng said, "But there is a problem that Guo Zizhao has never practiced. Passed the relay. There is less than a week to go, if the team members fail to form a tacit understanding, the risk is very high."

"I think Director Zhang is right. Although Guo Zizhao has the best grades, the four relay players are all veteran members of the national team and have a certain understanding. Although their personal performance is not that outstanding, if Guo Zizhao joins In the end, there is no tacit understanding between everyone, what should we do if there is a situation where the bat is dropped! This is a very likely situation!" Feng Shuyong also disagrees with Guo Zizhao's current joining of the relay team, "However, if Guo Zizhao is asked to practice relay skills again, wait It is still possible to join the relay team at the Asian Games.”

"Well. I also think that Guo Zizhao is a bit unfair to the relay players." Coach Yu Weili also said, "Guo Zizhao is an athlete outside the system after all. Although only a few of us know about the center, but After a long time, other athletes will know about it. I am afraid that it will cause dissatisfaction among other team members and affect the results of the relay competition, so let Guo Zizhao focus on individual events. Let’s wait for the team event.”

"Okay, since everyone thinks this way, that's it. Anyway, Guo Zizhao didn't report for the relay, so let's unify our caliber first, so that we can deal with the media at that time." Director Xie also finally settled down.

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Within two days, coach Song Ping also found out the inside story of this discussion from other places.Come over and tell Guo Zizhao the situation.

"4x100m relay?" Guo Zizhao was thoughtful after hearing about this project.

The relay race is the only team event in track and field.Among them, the 4x100m relay is the most concerned project.This is different from the 100-meter sprint. It is a comprehensive reflection of a country's sprint strength.The current Asian 4x100m relay champions are mainly produced between China, Japan and Thailand.Since the 70s, in the last 7 Asian Games, Thailand has won 3 championships, China has won 3 championships, and the Japanese team has only won 1 championship.However, Guo Zizhao knows that in the next ten years, the 4x100m relay race in the Asian Games will become a contest between the Japanese team and the Thai team.

Relying on their absolute strength, the Japanese team once dominated the sprint world in Asia for more than ten years. In their previous life, they also won the bronze medal in the 2008x4m relay at the Beijing Olympics in 100.Although the personal level of the Thai team is not very good, they have successfully defended their title in two consecutive Asian Games thanks to their tacit cooperation.However, after 2010, the Chinese team's sprint performance began to improve explosively, and there will be no opportunities for other Asian countries in the future.

However, Guo Zizhao has never run a relay race, not only has he not practiced baton handover skills, he has not even run a curve. Among the four bars of 4x100 meters, the first and third bars are curves, and the second and fourth bars are straights.If Guo Zizhao is required to participate in the relay race, he can only run the second and fourth poles.

However, because Guo Zizhao has never practiced handing over the baton, the second baton not only has to take over the first baton, but also has to hand over to the third baton.Therefore, the technology is relatively complicated. It is estimated that Guo Zizhao is most likely to be in the sprint stage of running the fourth leg.After all, as long as you take over the fourth baton, it is not much different from running a hundred meters. You just have to rush to the finish line.

Then do you want to fight for it and participate in a relay race?

Guo Zizhao pondered for a while, then forget it.As they said, I have never practiced before, and the chances of making mistakes without tacit understanding are still very high.Moreover, the field management center obviously did not want to involve themselves in it. It seemed that they believed that the hope of winning the championship in the relay was still very high.Besides, even if he starts relay as his new project, he won't be able to use it for this competition.The system rewards will not be given until the end of the game.Forget it, the relay race will be discussed later.

Guo Zizhao dealt with coach Song Ping, and then began to think about preparing for a new project.According to the discussion with the system last year, Guo Zizhao still decided to start the 200-meter and 400-meter sprints as his new competition events.

Guo Zizhao roughly estimated that before the Asian Games at the end of the year, he would have three more competitions to be rewarded.Asian Championships, Asian Youth Championships and World Youth Championships, if you are lucky in these three games, you can get 30 attribute points.This is enough to raise the "endurance" attribute to "national level". Coupled with the technology and skills rewarded by the system, there is basically no problem in winning the 200-meter sprint, and it is also possible to hit the 400-meter dash.

Well, it's such a happy decision.When the newly opened 200-meter and 400-meter sprint events are successful, maybe he can add another gold medal or two in the Asian Games, Guo Zizhao became very happy.

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The 10 days of training ended quickly.The national track and field team also flew to Fukuoka, Japan on the 19th, where the No.12 Asian Athletics Championships will be held one day later.

The Asian Athletics Championships is the highest-level track and field event in Asia. It is a major review of the strength of Asian track and field, and it is also the Asian track and field competition second only to the Asian Games.The Chinese team began to participate in the third Asian Championships in 1979. Since the fifth Asian Championships in 1983, it has been occupying the top spot in the gold medal list.It can be said that it is a well-deserved track and field hegemony in Asia.

However, it is a little embarrassing that the Chinese track and field has been somewhat yin and yang over the years.Men's events have won fewer gold medals in competitions, especially in men's sprint events. Except for the 110-meter hurdles, which can be said to be a sure win, other events are not sure.

特别是在有着“亚洲飞人”称号的男子100米短跑比赛中，中国队在历史上只拿过3次金牌，分别是1985年的第六届、1989年的第八届和1995年的No.11届亚锦赛。而其他的百米金牌，基本上都落入了日本队的手中。

In the past two years, Japan's sprint results have made great breakthroughs. Last year's best time has already run within 10 seconds 10.No wonder the national team hastily recruited Guo Zizhao.I just hope that Guo Zizhao can fight against Japanese sprinters.Especially after Guo Zizhao broke the Asian record of 10 seconds in a row this year, this hope is even more urgent.

On the second day, Guo Zizhao and other team members went to adapt to the venue.In the stands not far from the runway, there are also several coaches and athletes of the Japanese team who are secretly observing the state of the Chinese team.

"Mr. Asahara, the tallest one is Guo Zizhao of the Chinese team. He will be your main opponent in this 3-meter sprint." The Japanese coach introduced the situation in a low voice, "According to our information, Guo Zizhao is in this year's domestic competition. In the competition, the Asian record of 10 seconds has been broken three times. So we had to change the previous competition plan and let Asahara-kun participate."

"As for the athletes of the Chinese team, we all know it. At home, they rely on doping to break records, but they can't do it in international competitions. So you don't have to make a fuss." The speaker was the Japanese national treasure sprinter, Asahara Xuanzhi.The 26-year-old Asahara Shinji is the record holder of the 100-meter sprint in Japan. Last year, he tied the Asian record set by Kazakhstan's Savin in 10 with a time of 08 seconds.

In addition, Asahara Shinji is still an evergreen tree in the Japanese track and field circle, and has been active in the 2008-meter race in Asia.In the 36 Beijing Olympics, the 4-year-old Asahara Shinji also led the Japanese team to win the bronze medal in the 100x[-]m relay.

In this Asian Championships, the Japanese team originally planned to send young players to participate in the [-]-meter race.Asahara Shinji is preparing for the New York Friendship Games half a month later.However, after the results of Guo Zizhao came from China, the Japanese team had no choice but to add Asahara Shinji to ensure the ownership of this gold medal.

"However, Guo Zizhao's figure is very tall, which is a bit different from the previous Chinese sprinters. You still have to be careful." The athlete who spoke was Koji Ito, who was also a top sprinter in Japan.He and Asahara Shinji are called Japan's "Athletics Twin Stars".In order to prepare for the New York Friendship Games this time, Koji Ito also gave up the 100-meter sprint competition, and only participated in a 200-meter sprint competition in the Asian Championships.

Koji Ito is also a terrific Asian sprinter.In the memory of Guo Zizhao's previous life, this guy set a new Asian record of 10 seconds at the Asian Games at the end of the year.This is also the best result achieved by people of the yellow race on the international 16-meter track over the years.And this result has been maintained for 2015 years in the previous life. It was not until 9.99 that Chinese player Su Bingtian broke the curse with a time of [-] seconds.

"Okay, everyone, don't pay too much attention. When the time comes, everyone will know his details as soon as they play against each other. Let's go and have a good rest. Prepare for tomorrow's preliminaries." Chaoyuan Xuanzhi patted his butt and stood up indifferently. Get up, greet everyone and go back together.

　Guo Zizhao's Asian Championship journey is about to begin. I hope everyone will support him!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)