Predecessor appeared

Last year's IAAF Japan Grand Prix detonated the US stimulant scandal and half of the track and field circles that affected the United States fell. Perhaps the outside world does not know the detailed process of this matter, but many athletes and coaches in the track and field circle have a general understanding of the process, including Kondo Kumi who found that Gatlin has problems, plus Japan's second-longest intentional concealment, and including the attempted robbery, etc.

Perhaps because of this incident, many track and field athletes regard Osaka as an ominous place. It is said that Chinese people are superstitious, and foreigners are more superstitious, especially those athletes who sneakily use stimulants, and they dare not come to participate in Japan, so the popularity of the Japanese Grand Prix has dropped sharply.

In the absence of competitors, Zhang Guan easily won the championship of the 100-meter sprint event and returned home after earning a bonus and appearance fee.

A week later, the IAAF Super Grand Prix in Qatar was held in Doha.

The Qatari people don't lack money and give a lot of appearance fees, so they still attract some excellent athletes to come to participate, and Zhang Guan is, of course, the biggest star of this competition and receives the highest standard of reception.

However, there are still no well-known European and American players in this race. The only one that is more powerful is the American Tyson Gay. However, Gay is still one level worse than Zhang Guan, so Zhang Guan easily won the 100-meter sprint again.

In addition to Tyson Gay, another player also caught Zhang Guan's attention. He is a Nigerian player. He only ran 10.24 seconds in the game. His name is Samuel Francis.

If Zhang Guan didn't turn out, Francis from Nigeria will immediately be naturalized to Qatar, and in 2007 he will break the 100-meter sprint Asian record, becoming the first Asian player to run within 10 seconds, and in the 2008 Olympic Games, he represented Qatar in the semi-finals of the Olympic Games. After that, the Gulf countries that have tasted the sweetness began to have a large number of naturalized African athletes. There are African naturalized athletes in track and field events such as sprinting, middle running, long-distance running and jumping. The "Chemical Corps" has become the main opponent of the national track and field team in Asia.

Although Francis is currently a Nigerian player, he appeared on the Qatar field, which clearly shows that the naturalized legion of the Middle Eastern countries is coming!

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On May 23, Barcelona, ​​Spain, Zhang Guan, and Sharapova appeared together at the awards ceremony of the Lawrence Sports Awards.

This time, Zhang Guan was nominated for the Best Male Athlete Award and the most gold awards in the Lawrence Awards, while Zhang Guan's competitors this time are really strong.

From the record of last year, the car king Schumacher became the weakest one in the nomination. He did not win the Formula One championship, but it is said that he will retire after the season. As a legendary athlete, he will retire, this kind of thing can add points to the selection.

Golfer Tiger Woods entered his heyday last year. He won the Buick Invitational, Ford Championship, American Masters, British Open, WGC Championship, and so on.

But in comparison, Woods' results last year were not as good as those of tennis king Federer. Federer's overall record last year was 81 wins and 4 losses, second only to the 82 wins and 3 losses created by McEnroe. Federer won 11 singles titles in the previous year, including two Grand Slam titles and four A master series champion, the results are impressive. And the Lawrence Award has always favored tennis players, Federer has an advantage in this regard.

But in the nomination of the best male athlete, the player with the highest voice is not Federer, but the football player Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho led Barcelona last season, not only defending the La Liga title but also defeating Arsenal to win the Champions League. Ronaldinho also won two major awards of Mr. European Football and Mr. World Football last year, and this time the selection of the Lawrence Awards was held at Ronaldinho's home Barcelona, ​​which added a lot of momentum to Ronaldinho.

When it comes to the results achieved last year, none of these athletes can match Zhang Guan. In the previous year, Zhang Guan broke the world record for men's 100-meter sprint three times, broke the world record for men's 60-meter two times, broke the Asian records for 200-meter sprint and 400-meter sprint. The final prize was won, and in all the competitions, he won the championship without losing.

No one has ever achieved this result in history. Just breaking the world record of the men's 100-meter sprint three times a year is enough to sweep other nominated players.

The award ceremony finally began, and one after another the award was revealed. The best-disabled athlete went to Van Dyke, the best economic spirit award went to Rossi, the life-time award Cruyff are football players, the best pay award went to Hingis, the best newcomer award went to Nadal who were tennis players, the best team award was given to the Renault team, and the best female athlete was given to Alpine skier Costric.

After the award of the best female athlete, the award of the best male athlete came.

In the guest area, Sharapova said softly to Zhang Guan, "Your hope is great. Both football and tennis have won several weighty awards, and there are currently none for track and field events."

Zhang Guan nodded, then shook his head again, "The chance of a football player getting the best male athlete is not high, and Ronaldinho is far from the reputation of Bailey or Maradona. It is estimated that Ronaldinho would not be able to win the best male athlete. But Federer's chances of winning are still very high."

"A total of four female track and field athletes nominated the best female athletes, including Isinbayeva and long-distance Queen Di Baba, but both failed to win the best female athletes. I think the selection committee should give some to the track and field events!" Sharapova said.

At this time, the awarding guests began to announce the list of winners.

"The winner of the 7th World Lawrence Sports Award for Best Male Athlete is Zhang Guan!"

The camera immediately pointed to Zhang Guan, and immediately next to Sharapova kissed Zhang Guan.

Subsequently, Zhang Guan stood up and embraced Federer, Ronaldinho, Schumacher, and others, and the audience applauded in the audience to receive the award.

The best male athlete of Lawrence is definitely worthy of Zhang Guan, and Zhang Guan is also the first Asian to win the award of the best male athlete of Lawrence, and also the fifth athlete to win this award.

The Lawrence Sports Awards have been held for the seventh time, and the only winners of the Lawrence Best Male Athletes were Tiger Woods (twice), Schumacher (twice), Tour de France King Armstrong, and Tennis King Federer. The four individuals are also the nail households nominated for the Best Male Athlete Awards every year. Almost every nomination for the Best Male Athlete has them. Today, there is another crown in this nail household club.

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After the award ceremony of the Lawrence Awards, Zhang Guan did not choose to return to his country but continued to stay in Europe, because in another week, he will rush to Norway to participate in this year's IAAF Golden League opening game. And Sharapova will also separate from Zhang Guan, she is going to France to participate in this year's French Open.

A week later, Oslo, Norway.

Yu Gui directed a list of entries to Zhang Guan, and then said, "Look, there are people that you didn't expect here this time."

Zhang Guan took the list and looked carefully. First of all, he found the name of Powell. Another Jamaican player was Michael Flat.

"Powell's injury has been healed for seven or eight months! I don't know how he is now." Zhang Guan asked.

Coach Yu thought about it and said, "Powell won the championship of 10.02 seconds in the Commonwealth Games a few days ago, but this result has no reference value for him."

Zhang Guan bowed his head and recalled carefully. The original Gatlin was suspended in 2006, and for this reason, Powell did not seem to have encountered a decent opponent in 2006. Although Powell has been winning the championship this year he did achieve a high enough score, it may be that the opponent is not strong enough. It wasn't until the rise of American Tyson Gay in 2007 that Powell began to come up with a real strength game and set a world record of 9.74 seconds.

Another Jamaican player, Michael Flat, was directly ignored by Zhang Guan. Flat also participated in the Athens Olympics and was eliminated in the semi-finals. His 100-meter sprint strength is similar to that of Kim Collins, and he is considered a first-class player, but not to the top level.

Zhang Guan continued to look along with the list, with old acquaintances Obik Viru and Kim Collins on the list.

"Orusoki Fasuba, Nigerian? Was it the guy who participated in the World Championships in track and field last year?" Zhang Guan asked.

"Yes, Fasuba is two years older than you. The Athens Olympics men's 4-time 100-meter relay bronze medalist, ran a 9.85-second result the other day, breaking the record of the 100-meter sprint in Africa." He smiled and glared at Zhang Guan, then said, "He was called "African Zhang Guan" by Nigerian media."

"African Zhang Guan?" Zhang Guan said unexpectedly, "I didn't expect that my African brothers would look down on me so much!"

"If it weren't for the fact that America and Europe had their 100-meter well-known players, maybe the "American Championship" and the "European Championship" would have been an option. But there is no famous sprinter in Australia!" Yu Gui said with a smile.

Zhang Guan shook his head helplessly and then continued to read.

"The United States sent three people! Shawn Crawford is here? He is quite strong and is at the same level as Maurice Greene and Tyson Gay is here, Tim-Montgomery? Montgomery? Is it the same name? Or is it that Montgomery?" Zhang Guan raised his head in surprise.

Coach Yu nodded seriously, "Yes, that is Montgomery! The former world record holder can also be said to be your predecessor."