Almighty Coach

The US team won a gold medal, and Dai Li also slept soundly.

Early the next morning, Dai Li came to the Maracana Stadium.

The first competition event is the women's triple jump qualifying competition, which will start at 9:30 in the morning.

In this event, the gap between the world's top players is not large, and both Europe and America have gold-winning athletes. So the United States can't talk about any strength.

In the end, an athlete from the United States entered the finals. Her name is Ma Mina Jin. She is only 20 years old this year. She was also a player who had no chance to compete, but was discovered by Li Dai after the doping scandal.

Seeing that Mamina Jin entered the finals, Dai Li had already decided in his heart that he would continue to use the status scale until the finals.

This was followed by the preliminaries of the women's 3,000-meter obstacle course.

Obstacle races have always been a strong event in the United States, but the 3,000-meter distance is close to long-distance running, and there are obstacles to be crossed, so the physical consumption is similar to the ordinary 5,000-meter race. In this kind of long-distance sports, the African long-distance running duo Kenya and Ethiopia are also very strong. These two countries are also the main competitors of the US team.

There are a total of 18 places in the final of the 3000-meter obstacle course, so the difficulty of advancing is a little bit less. In the end, all three contestants of the US team advanced. However, Ethiopia and Kenya each had three players who advanced to the final. In addition, Germany and Australia each advanced to the final. Among Asian countries, only African naturalized athletes from Bahrain advanced to the final.

After that, the first round of the women's 400m was held on the runway. This is an event in which the US team occupies an absolute dominant position. With the strength of American athletes, it is possible to win gold, silver and bronze medals. with no doubt.

At the same time, the field event was the men's discus. All American athletes were eliminated in the previous qualifying rounds. Dai Li did not pay attention to the final results of the men's discus.

The last track and field event in the morning was the first round of the men's 100 meters. The 100-meter trapeze competition has always been the most watched event and the event with the largest number of participants. Among the contestants, about one-third of them participated through the B standard. These people really came to play soy sauce, and they would definitely be eliminated in the first round as cannon fodder. In addition, one-third of the players have just reached the level of the Olympic A list. This type of players also focuses on participation. It is thankful to be able to enter the second round.

American athletes are naturally going for the championship, especially Justin Alexander, who was the "second in the world" before the suspension, so the first round can only be regarded as a warm-up for American athletes.

There were still no track and field competitions scheduled in the afternoon. In the evening, the men's pole vault qualifying competition and the men's 400-meter semi-finals began almost at the same time.

The men's 400m is the most stable event for the U.S. team. With the existence of the "King of 400m" Jimmy Irvine, the gold medal has already been won by the U.S. team. The only suspense is whether the U.S. team can win three medals at the same time.

In the qualifying competition for men's pole vault, Franz Muller, whom Dai Li placed high hopes on, is about to appear. Although this German guy did not participate in the Olympic trials, he has an S-level talent. Under the pressure, it quickly broke through the 6-meter mark.

The world record for men's pole vault is 6.16 meters, while the Olympic record is 5.97 meters, which means that a result of more than 6 meters is already possible to win the Olympic champion.

Franz Muller did not disappoint Dai Li either. He successfully advanced to the final, and he was the only one on the US team to enter the final.

The situation in other countries is similar. For example, Russia, which is strong in pole vault, has only one player to enter the final; Germany, which is also very strong in pole vault, has only one player to enter the final. In addition, there are the Czech Republic, France, Poland, etc., and one player has entered the final of the pole vault. The final list of 12 men's pole vault finalists announced came from 12 different countries, which means that no country can dominate this event, and everyone's strength is very average.

Then there was the men's long jump final, which was a gold point for the US team, and three players from the US team advanced to the final.

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The long jump has also been affected by previous doping scandals. Several American long jumpers did not participate in the Olympic Games.

However, there are too many famous long jumpers in the United States. Even the athletes who came from the bench all have the strength of world-class players. Coupled with Li Dai's surprise training, their strength has been greatly improved.

What's more, Li Dai also has a status scale. For a sport like long jump where there are many attempts, but only the best result is counted, the status scale is really a magic weapon.

The result did not disappoint Li Dai. After the first jump, one of the American athletes was in a bad state and jumped with a score of less than 7.5 meters. The other two athletes were in a state of extreme condition , one jumped 8 meters 38, and the other jumped 8 meters 37.

The world record for men's long jump is 8.95 meters, and the Olympic record is 8.90 meters. But such perverted results were all created in the 1980s and 1990s, when track and field performance exploded. Today's athletes can't even jump over a distance of 8 meters and 50 meters. In international grand prix competitions of a general nature, a champion can be secured with a score of more than 8.30 meters.

In the Olympics and World Championships, the level of athletes must be higher, but not too much.

One was 8.38 meters, and the other was 8.37 meters. For athletes from other countries, these two results were really two heavy punches in the chest. They did not die and suffered internal injuries. It is estimated that after seeing this result, those athletes with a relatively low level have the heart to withdraw directly from the competition.

Athletes with high levels of strength can feel the deep malice of reality in the face of such a score close to 8.40 meters. They are all here for the gold medal. If they really can't get the gold medal, it would be nice to get a silver medal. But now it is only the first trial jump, and the gold and silver medals almost flew away. This is really frustrating for those athletes who aspire to win the championship.

Moreover, American athletes faced such two good results at the beginning of the competition, which means that after five jump attempts, competitors from other countries must choose the ultimate jump method every time, because it is impossible to seek stability. more than these two results. And extreme jumping means that the chance of mistakes will increase, which will also cause additional pressure on athletes.

Faced with this situation, athletes from other countries have no choice but to fight. The result is that some people are happy and others are sad. Some athletes succeed in fighting, and some athletes fail.

After three rounds of trial jumps, the best result is still 8.38 meters created by American athletes, the second best result is 8.37 meters created by American athletes, and the third best result is also 8.31 meters by American athletes. The American player who only jumped less than 7.5 meters in the first round before finally encountered a burst of state in the third trial jump and raised his score to 8.31 meters.

In this way, for athletes from other countries, the gold, silver and bronze medals seem to have all flown away.

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The British star Rutherford looked at the scoreboard with despair on his face. He just jumped 8 meters 33 and squeezed the American who was originally ranked third to fourth.

However, the American athlete immediately jumped 8 meters 39 and rose directly to the first place.

What made Rutherford even more desperate was that the last American player to appear on the stage jumped 8 meters 41.

Seeing this result of over 8.40 meters, Rutherford felt like crying.

"What's going on with the US team today? Have they all got wings? If this continues, the gold, silver and bronze medals in the long jump will all belong to the US team!" Rutherford felt extremely frustrated, he had no hope of winning at all. ambition.