The three-star and striped flags rose at the Maracana Stadium at the same time, and the flag of "The Starry Flag" was also played again.

The Brazilian audience at the scene was not intimate with the American national anthem, and they were discussing the power of the United States.

"There was news that the American track and field team was subjected to the image of a doping scandal and its strength has been greatly weakened. Now it seems that this is not the case."

"Don't believe those media, when did they tell the truth? So far, there have been five gold medals in track and field events, and the US team has occupied two of them, which is not weak at all."

"The American team's track and field strength is really the world's number one. Even if it is affected by the doping scandal, many capable players cannot participate, but they are still a team with good results in track and field events."

At this time, many Americans who watched sports games in public places in the United States were celebrating excitedly.

The American Athletics Association CEO Williams did not go to bed this time, but stayed in front of the TV to watch the Olympic Games.

The three-star and striped flags raised at the same time reminded him of the Olympics eight years ago, when the men's 4-meter event was finally won three medals in gold, silver and bronze.

"When did our long jump become so strong?" Williams murmured to himself.

Williams looked at the three strong boys on the podium, only one of whom was familiar to him, and the other two looked very handsome. Obviously, these two faces were only joined by Team USA after the doping scandal.

"These two young men I don't know should have been selected by Li Dai. Including Wins Jackson, who won the women's shot put yesterday, Coach Li has a really good vision."

At this moment, Williams suddenly admired Li Dai.

"I suddenly feel that maybe Coach Lee should not be our scapegoat. At present, the athletes he selected are great. If he is given another four years, our American track and field team will become stronger again in the next Olympics!"

...

Three American players were wearing star-striped flags and were interviewed by reporters. Li Dai looked at all this with a smile on his face, and he was applauding Libra in his heart.

The strength of these three players is good, but if they only perform normally, they are not enough to win the Olympic gold medal. At this time, the state of Libra has become a big boost. The nature of the long jump sports also determines that the state of Libra can have miraculous effects. Six attempts to jump, and once the state is overwhelming, it is possible for the athlete to win the championship.

And Li Dai's luck is also good enough today. Two people were in full swing in their state when they tried to jump for the first time, which directly put a lot of pressure on athletes from other countries, making the US team take the lead at the beginning of the game. If the US team did not put pressure on the strong players from other countries at the beginning and allowed them to slowly adjust their state, the outcome is still unknown. After all, this is the Olympics and the highest-level competition in the world. A score that has just reached .4 meters can only be considered the last step compared to the long jump champions of previous Olympic Games.

While the men's long jump final was held, the women's 1-meter semi-final also ended.

Two players from the US team entered the finals, and all three players from Jamaica entered the finals.

The final female 100-meter sport fight will begin in two hours.

The next event in the track and field is the men's 10,000-meter long-distance race.

A total of 34 contestants participated in the men's 10,000-meter long-distance race. Almost all contestants were Olympic A-grades, and most participating countries sent three contestants.

In the long-distance running of 10,000 meters, we must use the alternating lead tactic to save physical fitness. If a country sends three athletes, it is easy to form a small-scale tactic of taking over the lead; if it is just one person, it is difficult to support it. If it is just one person, it will definitely be too physically unsupported. If it follows, it will fall into the rhythm of others. Therefore, it was really difficult for the Chinese team to send only one person to win the championship in the women's 10,000-meter event.

Africa's long-distance running duo Ethiopia and Kenya are undoubtedly the strongest players in this event. Other countries such as Uganda and Eritrea are comparable to those of the United States in terms of strength, and are considered to be in the second group.

Although the US team is second only to the African two-star team, Li Dai has no intention of winning the men's 10,000-meter medal. Kenya and Ethiopia are too strong, and this obvious gap in strength cannot be made up for by Li Dai in the short term.

The results of the competition were not unexpected. The Kenyans won the top two, the Ethiopians won three or four, and the long-distance running event is still the world of Africa. An athlete in the United States competed for fifth place, which was also a good result.

After the men's ten thousand meters, it was the semi-finals of the men's meter. Kenyan players still performed very strongly. All three players entered the finals, and two of the American team advanced. If nothing unexpected happens, the gold medal will be decided between Kenya and the American team.

What followed was the finale of today's competition, the women's 1-meter flying man battle.

...

Li Dai's eyes were on a black man not far away. His beard and hair were white, and he was at least in his sixties.

"That person is Jamaica's head coach Fraser, right?" Li Dai asked the American team leader Donny next to him.

"Yes, he is Fraser." Donny nodded.

Downey has served as the leader of the United States more than once, so he recognizes many coaches from other countries, especially Jamaica, which is the biggest competitor of the United States in sprinting events.

"Coach Fraser is a legend in track and field sports, and has trained no less than ten world champions, including the world's number one sport Jitter. I had just graduated and learned from Coach Xue Li in the national team that he knew Fraser, and Coach Xue Li highly praised him. I really didn't expect that in just a few years, I could compete with him." Li Dai said in his heart.

At the same time, on Jamaica, Fraser's deputy also reminded: "Coach, the head coach of Team USA is watching you!"

"Look at me! Does that Chinese coach want to provoke me?" Fraser turned his head and looked at Li Dai, deliberately widening his eyes, showing a sharp look.

However, what Frazier did not expect was that Li Dai just smiled at him, and smiled very friendly.

Fraser suddenly felt like he was hitting the cotton with one punch.

On the other side, Li Dai patted his chest gently and said to himself: "This old man from Jamaica is really a murderer!"

...

Jamaica is determined to win this gold medal, so they sent double insurance for this. These two female sporters are also the first and second in the world.

Team USA, however, suffered considerable losses due to the impact of the doping scandal.

Every time the stimulant scandal breaks out in the United States, sprinting is the biggest impact, because stimulants should always benefit the most. In terms of 100-meter sprinting, an improvement in 1 second is equivalent to a level that has increased by several levels.

So although two athletes from the US team entered the finals, it was completely unafraid of Jamaica's winning gold. If Jamaica was just a "stronger", Li Dai might be gambling for luck. Maybe the Jamaican players were in a bad state and the US team would be able to win the next gold medal, but Jamaica sent a "double insurance" and Li Dai would never challenge Jamaica.

The result was also as predicted by the outside world. The Jamaican won gold and silver medals, and the American player won a bronze medal, which was also a reward.

...

"I got one gold, one silver and two coppers today, which is pretty good." Li Dai was quite satisfied with the US team's record this day. He stretched and prepared to go back to the hotel to rest.

At this time, a list of athletes participating in the next event appeared on the big screen of Maracana Stadium.

"I almost forgot that there is another women's heptathlon competition, and there should be only one event left in Mi. After this event, the women's heptathlon gold medal will be born. There are also players from the American team participating in this event, so I'd better wait until the game is over before leaving."

Men's decathlon and women's heptathlon have always been two projects that Li Dai doesn't pay much attention to. Of course, this does not mean that these two projects are not important, but because these two projects are too complicated and Li Dai does not have so much energy to focus on these two projects.

When Li Dai accepted the US national team, it was only one month before the opening of the Olympics. There were still many young new athletes in the US team who needed training and needed to improve their performance as soon as possible. At that time, Li Dai could not focus on all-around events. Taking the men's decathlon as an example, it included 1-meter sprint, long jump, shot put, high jump, 4-meter hurdling, 11-meter hurdling, discus, pole vault, javelin, and 15-meter sport. With the same time and energy, training decathlon athletes can only win one gold medal. Li Dai is worse than training these ten individual athletes, and maybe he can win a few more gold medals.

Moreover, training in all-round events is a process of long-term accumulation, and it is not possible to make the grades sharply by short-term assault training.

If a single item, such as an 11-meter hurdle, a javelin shot put, or something, slightly improve your technical shortcomings, the improved performance may increase the athlete's level to a higher level.

However, an all-round event is a cumulative result of multiple individual events. The results improved by one individual event will be evenly distributed to other events. At this time, the improvement of the score will be less obvious and will definitely not be enough to increase the athlete's level by a higher level.

In modern sports, the professional requirements for athletes are getting higher and higher, and there are fewer and fewer people in track and field positions. In the 1980s and 1990s, there were many athletes who ran sprint and long jump. Even when they first entered the 21st century, there were many players who were long jump and triple jump. But now, this kind of cross-event is almost extinct. In sprint, 1 meter and 2 meters, 15 meters and 15 meters, 5 meters and 10,000 meters and marathons, 2 kilometers and 5 kilometers in races. This is probably the only remaining one who has multiple positions.

An athlete may have great athletic talent, but a person's energy is limited after all, and it is already very difficult to achieve the world's top achievements in one of the sports. Once you engage in multiple events, you will not be able to achieve the world's top performance. The so-called "all-round" means "can't do it".

Developed countries in Europe and the United States have always been the most powerful countries in all-round events. This sport needs to comprehensively test the athletes' speed, explosive power, strength, flexibility, bounce, endurance, balance and other indicators. Whites are obviously stronger. Their explosive power, bounce ability and endurance are stronger than those of yellow people, and their flexibility and balance and strength are stronger than those of black people. It is very suitable for this kind of sports that tests comprehensive abilities.

...

The order of the women's heptathlon is 1 meter hurdle, high jump, shot put, 2 meter running, long jump, javelin and metre running. All competitions will be completed within two days. Among them, there are only three opportunities for field events such as high jump, long jump, shot put, javelin and other field events, which is different from the six opportunities for individual individual events.

After completing each event, athletes will get corresponding scores based on the scores of the event. For example, the scores obtained by throwing 2 meters and throwing 19 meters are completely different. Even if an athlete wins first place in the shot put event, if the score is not good enough, he will not get a high score. Similarly, even if an athlete has a ranking of several places, as long as his grades are good enough, he will get a high score.

In the end, the winner depends on who has the higher score. This competition system determines that even if a single event fails, as long as the other events perform well enough, the score will eventually be returned.

Now, the first six projects have ended, and only the last meter is left to run at mid-range distance.

At this time of the game, the clues of the championship can be fully seen. The athletes' previous scores have been widened, and only a few players with the highest scores are still likely to win the championship.

Currently, the first score is a Ukrainian player. Her score is 53, the second place is a German player with a score of 5777, the third place is an American player with a score of 572, and the fourth place is a Russian player with a score of 565. The score gap between the latter athletes and the first place is within 2 points, so there is still a chance to win the gold medal.

The fifth place score is 5614, and the score difference has exceeded 2 points. This is basically a difficult result to turn the tables, and it is possible to hit the medal.

The last event for women's heptathlon is Mipa.

The first meter of the meter is run in a separate track. After 1 meter, athletes begin to merge into the innermost track and then complete the next competition. Therefore, the final results of athletes will be largely affected by the leader. The leader's speed is fast, the athlete's performance will be better. The leader's speed is slow, and the athlete's performance will be worse. In the official Mi preliminary or rematch, there will often be a situation where the best-achieved group advances. At this time, the third place in the slow group will definitely suffer.

Given the characteristics of Mi, in the women's heptathlon, Mi is arranged in the last event, and the eight best-scoring people will be divided into the same group of competitions, so that they will not fall behind in the results due to the inconsistent speed of the leader, and eventually suffer losses when calculating the score.

The same is true for men's decathlon. 15 meters is not a lane-district run, so they are arranged in the last event. Those with the best grades will be divided into the same group.

The first one to appear were the eight people with the lowest score.

"It's not unreasonable for these eight people to rank last, but it can be seen from the scores of Mi that the best one has just reached 2 minutes and 14 seconds." Li Dai looked at the contestants' results and shook his head slightly.

The scores of all-round athletes were originally lower than those who specialized in training individual events, and the eight worst ones were naturally even more terrible. If they were female athletes who specialized in practicing rice, they could basically run within 2 minutes in the Olympic finals.

The athletes who made the second round were in better condition, with the best result reaching 2 minutes, 13 seconds, 65 seconds, and then the players who made the third round were the leader who kept pressing on speed, and the best result of this group actually started at 2 minutes, 15 seconds.

The fourth group of players ranked 9th and 16th. Theoretically, if their grades are good enough, they have the hope of winning a medal, so the athletes in this group are also very good at running. Several players scored 2 minutes and 1 second, and the first place even scored 2 minutes and 55 seconds. According to the scoring rules, he can get scores of more than 9 points.

Finally, it was the best eight people to make their debut.

Li Dai used a morale booster book against the American team athletes and began to watch the game with peace of mind. Although the American team player ranked third, he was 136 points behind the first place, which is not an easy gap to catch up.

However, what Li Dai did not expect was that the Ukrainian player, who ranked first, seemed not very good at Mid-Running. After the round-trip, she actually fell in the last place.

"Is she deliberately retaining her physical strength? There is a possibility. After all, she is now 61 points ahead of the second place and 136 points ahead of the third place. It is normal to seek stability." Li Dai said in his heart.

However, more than a minute later, Li Dai found that his judgment was wrong. This Ukrainian player was really not good at Mi.

On the contrary, American players have always been in the top three.

"This game is a chance!" Li Dai suddenly realized this.

The contestants rushed into the last straight and started the sprint, and Li Dai couldn't help but stand up and cheer for his team members.

In the end, the first one to cross the finish line was the Russian, with her score of 2 minutes, 6 seconds, 5, and the American player followed closely, with her score of 2 minutes, 7 seconds, 34. The difference between the two sides was only 4 seconds, while their previous score was 52 points.

"2 minutes, 7 seconds, 34, which can almost get 1 point. The Russians are faster than us. 4 seconds, and they should not have an advantage of 52 points. The Russians' total score will not exceed that of the United States." Li Dai made a judgment immediately.

Li Dai is now concerned about the second-place German player and the first-place Ukrainian player. The second-place German player leads the United States by 75 points, while the first-place Ukrainian leads the United States by 136 points.

The German athlete's results were very bad, only 2 minutes, 15 seconds, and she was not good at running rice.

"2 minutes, 15 seconds, 21. According to the scores of athletes in the previous rounds, this score should be less than 9 points. As long as we get 975 points, we will surpass the Germans." Li Dai calculated in a flash.

"I just estimated that our players should be able to get about 1 point. In this way, we will beat the Germans and are now second."

It took Li Dai to calculate all this for about one second. At this time, the Ukrainian player who ranked first in the grade had already passed the finish line. She was still the last one, with a score of 2 minutes, 17 seconds, 72.

"We were 136 points behind Ukraine before. The Ukrainian only ran 2 minutes, 17 seconds, 72. This score should be between 5 and 7 points. If my player gets 1 point, then this Ukrainian can win the championship as long as he gets 65 points!"

Thinking of this, Li Dai's heart was hanging. Before the final result was released, he didn't know whether his contestant could surpass this Ukrainian and become the first place. He looked at the big screen with an anxious look on his face.

The athlete's scores were counted as scores and appeared on the big screen.

"2 minutes, 7 seconds, 34, got 14 points, and our final result was 676 points!"

"The Germans scored 9 points in 2 minutes, 15 seconds, and the final result was 6667 points, less than us!"

"The Ukrainian only ran for 2 minutes, 17 seconds, 72, and scored 55 points. His final result was 6693 points, 13 points less than us! We won!"

Li Dai clenched his fists excitedly.

He didn't expect that in his last event today, the United States team won another gold medal, and it was a project that Li Dai didn't pay much attention to.
Chapter completed!