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Chapter 538:20 Golds

The U.S. team was celebrating the gold medal, and a tournament officer came from a distance and came to Li Dai's near.

“Coach Lee, we have just received a complaint from Jamaican coach Fraser that you the U.S. players interfered with the Jamaican handover, resulting in a mistake in Jamaica’s handover with the second and third sticks.”The match-up officer spoke up.

Intentionally interfering?It's nonsense, and we've almost missed it ourselves."Li Dai snorted coldly, and his expression was also sombre.

"Coach Li, in accordance with the rules, since someone complains, we should accept, and investigate, so please come with me, we also need to ask you a few questions, please cooperate with our work."The game officer put on a poker face.

"Well, I'll do my best, let's go."Li Dai said, staring in the direction of the Jamaican team.

Lee Dai did not see Fraser in the Jamaican team's camp, and wanted to come to Fraser to have complained to the U.S. team.

"This Fraser, or the long-time coach, really can't afford to lose!"Lee brushed his mouth.

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Lee followed the tournament officer to an office, and Jamaican coach Fraser was there.In addition, there are today's referees, two deputys of the referee, and three other tournament officers.

“Everyone is here.”The head of the tournament then said: "Then explain your views, Coach Fraser, you are the party to the complaint, so please speak first."

Fraser nodded and said, "I think the U.S. team deliberately interfered with our players during the game, resulting in mistakes made by our players in the second and third sticks."It was obviously a foul for the U.S., which is extremely unfair to us in Jamaica, so this game should be replayed!”

The game officer turned to Li Dai: "Coach Li, what do you want to respond to the complaint about Coach Fraser?"

“Coach Fraser’s complaint is completely false.Our athletes did not intentionally interfere with the Jamaican team's players.”Li Dai went on without mercy: "At that time, you must have seen through the slow-motion playback, our athletes have made mistakes, almost dropped the stick, but also good enough to react fast enough to regain control of the baton, but our players also lost a certain amount of time because of this mistake."I don’t think a coach would have arranged a tactic to lose time, right?”

Li Dai said, turning to Fraser, then asked: "Coach Fraser, if it is yours, will arrange such a tactic, would you rather lose some time, but also let your players deliberately interfere with one of their opponents?"

Fraser snorted coldly, did not answer, and Li Dai continued: "Moreover, if our players did not catch the baton, it would be a drop of the baton, we will lose the game."In addition, if the Jamaican team succeeds, will our American team lose time in vain?If this is intentional, it is clearly not worth the gain.”

The steward nodded again, then discussed a few words with the referee team, and then said: "We listened to the statements of both sides, and after discussion, the game will determine that in the final of the women's 4 and 100 meters relay, the American players did not deliberately interfere with the handover of the second and third sticks of the Jamaican team, which should have been an accident."Coach Fraser, if you do not agree with our ruling, you can continue to bring arbitration to the IOC after the game.”

Fraser also knew that he did not take care of it, as Lee said, no coach would be stupid enough to deliberately arrange this kind of self-harming tactic.

But Fraser did not willing to fail, he immediately said: "Even if the U.S. team did not deliberately interfere with the handover of our players, but the remedial action that the American players appeared after the mistake, but also the handover of our players, it is indeed an interference with the handover of our players, this is an unfair act, we Jamaica team has obviously been treated unfairly, which violates the principle of fair competition in the Olympic Games, so we should give us a chance to remedy, even if it is not a rematch, we should let the Jamaica team run alone."If we surpass the United States in winning the championship, we should return the gold medal to our Jamaican team.”

“Returned?”Li Dai smiled coldly, and then said: "Coach Fraser, as you say, this gold medal belongs to your Jamaican team."I don’t think there’s a rule in the Olympic Games’s charter that the women’s 4 by 100m relay belongs to the Jamaican team?”

For the ironic of Li Dai, Fraser was unmoved, which is related to the ownership of an Olympic gold medal, so Fraser also lost his life, as long as he had the opportunity to get back the gold medal, he was willing not to have this old face.

The stewards and the referees whispered again, apparently discussing Fraser's point of view.

Lee felt he had to do something.In case the game officer is brainless, really give the Jamaican team a chance to replay, with the U.S. team 41 seconds away from the results, really can not keep this gold medal.

So Li Dai said: "You stewards, and the referee, if I am not mistaken, the IAAF's drop of the baton is so stipulated that the athlete must run the whole course with the baton, if the stick drop must be picked up by the loser, he can leave his own parting to pick up the stick, if this approach is taken, and does not hinder other athletes, it is not a foul behavior."I was right, right?”

“That is indeed so.”The judge nodded his head.

"According to the slow-motion replay at that time, although the baton of our players was off, she regained control of the action process of the baton and did not leave her own separation, so the behavior of our players was not a foul?"Lee then asked.

“Yes, all the technical moves of the American players are done in their own way.”The judge nodded his head with confirmation.

“The rules make it clear that leaving oneself parted without hindering other athletes is a foul, in other words, if the action taken in one's own separation cannot be considered an act of interference.”Li Dai said.

"Why do you say that doing action within yourself can't be counted as interfering with the opponent?"Fraser immediately retorted.

"If you do your part of the action, it is also a disturbance behavior, then before the women's 100 meters competition, Jamaican team athletes in the competition to see our players at a glance, our athletes feel that the look is too terrible, and interfere with the play of our athletes, then I can also complain to the game?" 」Lee asked.

Fraser snorted coldly again, did not answer, in fact, he wanted to refute, but he really did not stand on the side of the truth.

Listening only to Lee Dae went on to say: "I do not deny that the Jamaican player made a mistake after our athlete narrowed off the baton, and the mistakes of the Jamaican team may also be causally related to the actions of our players, but this does not blame the Jamaican team's mistakes on our side."In the relay race, mistakes are a regular occurrence, and accidents are part of the game, we can't because of an accident, we have to re-play the game?"

"Moreover, if the Jamaican players can play a more stable game, then they will not make a mistake in handing over the baton."At the end of the day, the Jamaican team made a mistake.So Jamaica should take responsibility for themselves and not let other teams pay for their mistakes.So I implore the tournament to reject Coach Fraser's unreasonable request."

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In the end, the game did not accept Fraser's request, and the game officer also knew that Fraser's request was completely unreasonable.

After this small storm, the competition also has to continue, followed by today's final of the men's 4 by 100 meters.

In this project, the strength of the United States team is indisputable, the United States team has Alexander and Ford two new Olympic champions, is obviously the biggest hit to the championship.

What's more, the U.S. women's team has won the relay, which also provides the impetus for the men who participated in the relay.The best players in the women's team only won the Olympic bronze medal, but they won the relay championship.There are two gold medalists in the men's team, and what is the reason not to win the gold medal in the 4th 100-meter relay?

In contrast, the two-time Olympic defending champion Jamaica did not have the sharpness of the previous, in the individual project, whether it is the men's 100 meters or men's 200 meters, the Jamaica team has lost to the United States, which makes Jamaica's road to defending has been weakened.

More importantly, the women's team lost the game in the relay and did not even get a medal, which brought a great blow to the morale of the Jamaican team.

In group sports, athlete morale is an important factor.For example, on the court, playing the wind ball and playing the wind ball, is two completely different experiences.

And the way the Jamaican women's team failed, but also to the Jamaican men's team to bring extra pressure, Jamaican men's team players will worry that they will not encounter the same situation as the women's team, they will not appear similar mistakes when handing over the baton.

People are always worried that bad things will happen again, especially on the field, such as an athlete who has been injured because of a technical action, and when he is healed and does the same technical action, he will worry that he will be injured again.

Now the Jamaican men's team is also in this state, the women's team mistakes like a haze seeds, planted in their hearts, began to sprout, gradually grow.When they make a handover stick, they always seem to hesitate, as if they are very worried about the mistakes of the handover sticks and fall on the men's team.

In this state, the Jamaican team is the opponent of the United States team.

When Sean Ford handed the baton to Alexander, the U.S. team's lead was enough to lock in the game's win.

“20 gold!We won our 20th gold medal!”Donny looked very excited.

This isn’t the first time Downey has played in the Olympics with the U.S. team, just when the track and field team is leading, and that’s the second time, but he’s never experienced such a big win.Now, the unprecedented victory of the American track and field team will also make Downey's position in the American Field Association further, and his political career is bright.

More importantly, he witnessed the scene and the birth of the most powerful American track team in history.It’s really worth bragging about for a lifetime.

Also happy is the American reporter, at this time the American team with the current reporter has thought of the title of tomorrow's news:

Ten years of waiting, the American sprint back to the top!" "

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Returning to the hotel bus, all the players of the U.S. team are still excited, but Li Dai took a piece of material and fell into thinking.

He has a game tomorrow in his hands.

Tomorrow will be the penultimate day of the Olympics and the second-to-end race day of track and field.

Since the final day of the Olympic Games, the Maracana Stadium will hold a closing ceremony, and the closing ceremony needs to be rehearsed in advance, so on the last day of the Olympic Games, the Maracanã Stadium will not be scheduled, so tomorrow is also the last match day in the Maracanã Stadium.After tomorrow's game is over, the Maracanã Stadium will have to prepare for the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Athletics still has eight events left, with the men’s marathon held on the last day and outdoors, without the need to occupy space at the Maracanã Stadium.The other seven projects are all focused on tomorrow.

All seven events are finals, namely women's high jump, men's Javelin, men's 1500 meters, women's 800 meters, men's 5000 meters, women's 4 by 400 meters and men's 4 by 400 meters.According to the schedule, all seven events are held in the evening, which means that there will be no track and field competition for a whole day tomorrow.

The good news for the U.S. team is that all seven sports have athletes in the final, and the strength of the players are good.

Two 4 by 400 meters relay, is the United States team must win the project, the United States team in the 400 meters of the advantage is already very obvious, this advantage added to the 4 by 400 meters project, become more obvious.It can be said that two gold medals of 4 and 400 meters have been booked by the United States team.

The women's high jump is a European strength, and the finalists are all European except for the two American players.However, European players are more divided, Spain, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Croatia, Bulgaria, Sweden, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, each one of the players to advance to the final.This also shows that the competition in this project is very fierce, no country dares to say that it has an absolute advantage in the women's high jump project.

Men's Javelin and women's jump is similar, there are a large number of European athletes into the final, and the United States team in the Javelin project has not been strong, but the strength has been ranked in the middle, this time the United States team has a person into the final.In general, in the javelin project, everyone's strength gap is not very large, everyone can lose the horse hoof, it is difficult to say who will win the championship.

Women's high jump and men's Javelin two projects, the state of Libra can play a role, each athlete has a number of opportunities to try, as long as there is a state explosion to earn.

And in these two projects, the level difference before the athletes is not very large, it is easier to use the state scale to muddy the water.A good state can determine the final championship.If those players have a large gap in the strength of the project, such as the S+ level of rulers to participate, then the United States even if it is even a few state bursts, it is difficult to get the gold medal.

"Two relays, plus women's high jumps and men's Javelin, are four gold medals, one short of what I said is 25 gold."Li Dai frowned at the remaining three projects.

Men's 5000 meters, has always been the world of African long-distance running duo, although the three players of the American team have also won the promotion, but it is very difficult to win gold.

However, there is also good news in the men's 5000m project, Kenya team in the first round of the game appeared to cooperate with the error, even no one to advance to the final, this is a big cold.So the U.S. team just needs to face the top team in Ethiopia.

Women's 800 meters and men's 1500 meters two two mid-distance running sports, the competition is also very fierce, in addition to Russia, Africa's Kenya, Uganda, Algeria, South Africa, have the world's first-class middle-distance runners, promoted to the final players, the strength is basically in the same level line, it is difficult to say who can win the game in the end.

“I’ve seen athletes in this class, not only S-level players, not even an A+ one.This is rare in a high-level event like the Olympics.It seems that tomorrow these two projects will be a dogfight!”

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