Zizhao Chuan: The Biggest Sportsman

Chapter 866 The era of "Guo Liu Romeo" is coming to an end

After Guo Zizhao saw the final list of the men's 110m hurdles, he was also a little bit embarrassed.

In this life, although with his own efforts, Liu Feifei, Roberts, and Merritt also had several peak duels, but now, the era of "Liu Luomei" is coming to an end.No, if you add yourself and Oliver, it means that the period of "Guo Liu Romeo" that represents the pinnacle of the men's 110-meter hurdles in this life is almost over!
I have retired a long time ago now, and Liu Feifei has also faded out of the audience's sight this year due to injuries, and it is basically a foregone conclusion to retire after the injury recovers.Now Roberts is about to do the same. Without the support of the Cuban Athletic Association, without systematic training, and the impact of injuries, Roberts has already disappeared from everyone.

Although Merritt has barely maintained his top international strength this year under his own conditioning, but due to the continuous aggravation of kidney disease, Merritt will almost withdraw from the international arena next year.And when Merritt returns to the game after the operation, it is estimated that he can have the top international strength.

As for Oliver, in order to ensure that Merritt won the championship again this year, he also deleted Oliver from the list of outer disciples at the beginning of this year.Therefore, this year is probably Oliver's last glory, and it will be even more difficult to run within 13 seconds so easily in the future.

These players have not only been able to easily run the world's top results within 13 seconds over the years, but they are also super masters who have broken through 12 seconds.After these super masters have all left the field one after another, the reign of "Guo Liu Romeo" will also be completely over.At that time, players who can reach within 90 seconds will be rare in international track and field.

Thinking of this, Guo Zizhao also turned his head to look at Yi Jing.Starting from next year, the international track and field world will usher in a period of low ebb in the men's 110-meter hurdles. I just don't know if this guy can seize this opportunity in the past few years...

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In this upcoming final, in addition to Merritt and Oliver, two super masters who have attracted much attention, Xie Wenjun and Yi Jing, two Chinese players in their prime, also received media attention.

23-year-old Xie Wenjun is Liu Feifei's fellow apprentice, and 25-year-old Yi Jing is Guo Zizhao's disciple. Although Yi Jing has been under Guo Zizhao's family for a short time, who can guarantee that he will not become the second Merritt in the future?

It's just that from the current point of view, Yi Jing and Xie Wenjun's strength is only at the world's first-class level. Whether they can achieve a breakthrough in the next year or two is still unknown...

In addition, there is another player who has caused a lot of excitement in the western media, that is the 22-year-old Russian player Sergey Shubenkov.

You know, although the western media is not very interested in the Russians, Shubenkov is a white player!Moreover, he is the only white athlete among hurdlers who has a chance to break through the 13-second mark!Moreover, he was also a white player who had been selected for Guo Zizhao's training camp.

Tsk tsk tsk... This time, the Western media couldn't help being uninterested!

As early as the beginning of 2012, Shubenkov was selected by Guo Zizhao to participate in his own training camp, which also attracted a lot of media attention at the time.You know, Shubenkov at that time was just beginning to make his mark in the European arena.

Especially Shubenkov's identity as a white sprinter also made the Western media very excited.You know, since Le Matre was favored by Guo Zizhao a few years ago, his grades have soared all the way!Now, Le Matre has become the only top Caucasian master in the international track and field who can run 10 meters in 200 seconds and 20 meters in [-] seconds.

Although Le Matre's result still won't win any medals in the top international competitions, but it is not a big problem to run steadily into the finals of the Olympics or World Championships.Especially in the European Championships, Le Matre is still a well-deserved top boss.

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And Shubenkov did not disappoint the Western media. While Le Matre won the men's 2012m and 100m sprint championships in the 200 European Championships, Shubenkov also won the European men's 110m hurdles.

And, to people's surprise, Shubenkov's winning time was 13 seconds, and his personal best time was 16 seconds!In the future, he is very likely to become the first white hurdler to break through the 13-second mark!
Although Le Matre and Shubenkov performed mediocrely in last year's London Olympics and failed to make it to the finals, the Western media's eager attention to these two people still cannot be reduced.

In the current World Championships in Moscow, both Le Matre and Shubenkov also reached the final, and the western media is full of confidence in them.

In fact, Shubenkov's strength is still good!Especially this year, after Guo Zizhao accepted Shubenkov as his outer disciple, Shubenkov's performance became more stable.

After the end of the London Olympics last year, Guo Zizhao also suddenly had three places for outer disciples vacant.After Liu Feifei was seriously injured, there was no hope of coming back. Blake was deleted by himself, and Oliver was also deleted later.

Therefore, Guo Zizhao simply recruited Shubenkov, Vicourt and Jamaican hurdler Pachement as outer disciples during the training camp at the beginning of the year.Although their current strength is not very outstanding, but after one or two years, it will be time for them to stand out.

And in the men's 110m hurdles final tonight, Shubenkov's performance was also quite outstanding!

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No.1, Merritt, with a score of 12 seconds!

No.2, Oliver, scored 12 seconds!

No.3, Shubenkov, with a time of 13 seconds!

No.4, Wilson, with a score of 13 seconds!

No.5, Shi Dongpeng, scored 13 seconds!

Under Guo Zizhao's meticulous care, Merritt's condition remained pretty good this time.Although the results have dropped by a notch compared to last year, they still won the championship in this final calmly.

In any case, under his own training in this life, Merritt did not burst out with an astonishing 12 seconds as in his previous life, but in terms of the stability of the results and the number of times he ran within 80 seconds. It is completely different from the previous life!

Moreover, Merritt has received many more honors in this life than in his previous life.An Olympic champion, a World Championship champion, an Indoor World Championship champion, a Diamond League champion, and two World Championship runner-ups. It can be said that, apart from a World Cup (Intercontinental Cup) championship, Meri Special is also able to complete the "Grand Slam".

However, with Merritt's current physical condition, the function of both kidneys is already less than 50% of that of a normal person. Even if he can persist until the World Cup track and field competition in September next year, his performance will definitely drop by more than 13 seconds.Guo Zizhao can't guarantee whether he can win the championship by then.

Moreover, if Merritt waits for the kidney transplant after next year's World Cup, it is estimated that there will not be enough time for recovery.At that time, if Merritt can't achieve the grade A, he might even miss the 2015 Beijing World Championships!
You know, as the champion of the World Championships this time, as long as Merritt reached the A standard of the Beijing World Championships in 2015, he can directly get a wild card to participate in the competition!

Therefore, after careful consideration, Merritt felt that the World Championships in Beijing was more attractive to him.As for the World Cup of Athletics, since it was renamed the Athletics Intercontinental Cup, it has dropped a notch in the IAAF's top competition.The attraction to the top international players has also dropped a lot.

Therefore, Merritt still plans to wait until the end of the year for a kidney transplant.Next year, I will use the previous year to recuperate and recover, and I will start to compete in the Beijing World Championships again the year after...

(End of this chapter)