ice and snow champion

Chapter 98 The 1500-meter Peak Showdown
Eight athletes stood in front of the starting line in two rows, with six in the first row and two in the second row.

Zheng Fan was temporarily ranked eighth, so he stood in the last position of the second row. In front of him was Liu Shaolin in the fifth lane and Xu Yila, who had cheated on him in the sixth lane. South Korea's Xin Dawu won the championship.

Of course, the prerequisite for Xin Dawu to win this competition is that Zheng Fan did not participate in this competition.

When Zheng Fan appeared on the scene, everything became uncertain.

Zheng Fan is not familiar with the player Xin Dawu. He only knows that he is a player who has just participated in major international competitions, but he has rarely heard of it in the future. Whether it is because he was on the wrong team and was dropped from harmony, Zheng Fan has no idea. I know, but in the previous life, he was able to break through the siege and win the final championship of this game, there should be two brushes.

After the referee gave a prompt of "Everyone on their positions...", Zheng Fan made the starting posture of touching the ice, instead of the sideways parallel posture that worked for him.

According to Li Yan, because the lateral parallel pose requires athletes to be in a half-squat position, compared with the ice-pointing pose, it consumes more energy when starting.

In long-distance gliding, it is very important to preserve physical strength, so there is no need to choose a sideways parallel start for the initial occupancy, consuming excess physical strength.

Zheng Fan readily accepted Li Yan's suggestion.

"boom!"

The referee fired a shot and eight athletes rushed out of the starting line.

At the start, the speed of the athletes was not too fast, far from the acceleration of 500 meters, and the competition for the leading position was not too fierce.

According to scientific analysis, the leading skater has to bear more than 30% of the wind resistance, which consumes more energy than the athletes behind him.

Zheng Fan didn't use his acceleration skills at the start, so he only grabbed the fifth position. In front of him was the Dutch player Xin Kei, and behind him were Xin Dawu, Liu Shaolin and Ahn Hyun-soo.

But after only two laps, Zheng Fan found that his ranking has changed, from No.5 to No.7, Xin Dawu has surpassed the fourth position, and Liu Shaolin has surpassed the third. There is only Ahn Hyun-soo left behind.

But Zheng Fan was not in a hurry, but fell tightly at the end of the team, skating at his own pace.

Third round, fourth round...

Although from time to time some players overtake or be overtaken, No.1 is always firmly controlled by Canadian players, and the overall team also presents a stable straight shape, and there will be no situation where multiple players overtake at the same time.

When the race entered the seventh and a half laps, that is, when there were six laps left before the end of the race, Zheng Fan knew that the time for him to exert his strength was coming.

Zheng Fan had watched this game in his previous life. The athletes collectively exerted their strength when there were five laps left. Xin Dawu was the first to start, won the first opportunity, and finally won the first place.

Zheng Fan has self-knowledge. Before his attributes have reached 30 points, his hard power is not enough to match these short-track masters. In this kind of peak duel with a lot of masters, it is very difficult to exert strength in the last five laps The one who rushes to the front, so the first to start and take the lead, is Zheng Fan's core tactic in this competition.

So, when there were six laps left in the race, Zheng Fan, who had always been ranked seventh, finally picked up his speed and started, and the first opportunity to overtake was the upcoming corner.

Before entering the curve, Zheng Fan did not slow down, but directly cut into the curve at a higher speed.

Entering the corner on the inside, sliding out of a semicircle with a larger radius, and exiting the corner on the outside.

In just one corner, Zheng Fan overtook the No.5 Dutch player and No.6 Hungarian player who hadn’t reacted yet.

When cornering, Zheng Fan kept Li Yan's account in mind. In order to reduce physical contact with other athletes, he did not cross the corner next to other athletes. This made Zheng Fan advance to fifth place after cornering, but he was still in Heretics.

But Zheng Fan did not intend to merge into the inner lane, but continued to exert force, his legs were strong, and he kicked hard on the ice. On this straight road, he overtook Xin Dawu, who was temporarily No. 4, and entered the next corner. At that time, he was already neck and neck with Liu Shaolin who was ranked third.

In this corner, Zheng Fan still has no intention of slowing down, because Zheng Fan intends to enter the corner on the outside and exit the corner on the inside, so as to overtake the third place Liu Shaolin and ensure that he enters the top three.

Zheng Fan's early exertion was like a drop of water falling into a hot oil pan, which brought the competition into a white-hot stage ahead of time.

In fact, Liu Shaolin had already discovered Zheng Fan's intentions, because at the last corner, Liu Shaolin had already noticed that Zheng Fan, a rookie in the short track, had already started to exert his strength.

But Liu Shaolin did not give Zheng Fan this chance. He gave up the original rhythm and started to exert force in advance. He also did not slow down when entering the corner. Under the action of centrifugal force, he slid directly into the outer lane, not only blocking Zheng Fan's overtaking and began to try to overtake Xu Yila who was temporarily second.

After Zheng Fan started to exert his strength, Ahn Hyun-soo, who was ranked last, also began to exert his strength, trying to overtake the next few athletes.

The athletes in the back row were completely restless.

Being overtaken by Zheng Fan, a little-known athlete, is a shameful thing for all the famous short track speed skaters in the world.

Although Zheng Fan participated in the World Series for the second time, the results of the last Asian Winter Games were simply unbearable to look at directly. He was eliminated in the qualifiers, and he did not even participate in live TV broadcasts, broadcasts, or rebroadcasts, so he is well-known in the world. Basically equal to zero.

In addition, Ahn Hyun-soo, who was ranked last, also started to overtake. Under the chain effect, all the athletes became commotion.

Zheng Fan's intention was seen through by Liu Shaolin, the outside road was blocked, and Xin Dawu behind him also started to exert his strength, intending to pull the distance from No.2 teammate Xu Yila from the inner road, so as not to merge Zheng Fan Opportunity.

At this time, Zheng Fan felt in a dilemma. He was blocked by No.2 Xu Yila and No.3 Liu Shaolin in front of him. If he wanted to surpass, he had to slide to the outer race. But there is no doubt that this is very risky. It is very likely that after turning the corner, not only did he fail to overtake, but he was replaced by Xin Dawu and Ahn Hyun-soo who followed closely behind him.

Therefore, Zheng Fan did not take this risk, but while reducing his speed, took advantage of Xin Dawu's failure to catch up in time, merged into the inner lane, and temporarily ranked fourth.

But the battle for ranking is far from over. The outsiders Liu Shaolin and An Hyun-soo are always looking for opportunities to overtake. The top two Canadian players and Xu Yila also realized that something was wrong, and began to accelerate skating continuously. Any chance for a player to surpass.

Liu Shaolin and An Xianzhu's positions are a bit awkward at this time, and they want to merge into the inner lane, but the first few players follow closely, and they don't give them any chance to merge into the inner lane.

Liu Shaolin's teammates were still in the back and couldn't help at all;

Ahn Hyun-soo is alone and will not have any cooperation.

This state lasted until the penultimate lap, and it was Xin Dawu, temporarily No.3, who broke the deadlock.

　Today's Chapter 1, there will be another chapter later, but it may be later
　　
　
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