Born to Run

"The Helsinki World Championships in Athletics is coming soon. Feng Shuyou, deputy director of the Field Management Center, introduced the preparations of the Chinese Athletics Team today and pointed out the five major tasks of the Chinese team in this World Championships. However, Feng Shuyou still emphasized that there is no gold medal and no medal goal. The reason is that forcibly setting goals is meaningless. The vast majority of the participating players will become the backbone of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.... Starting next year, Chinese track and field will also increase the number and frequency of training in Europe and the United States, and learn from each other in track competitions. Get used to the competitive scene and get more substantial psychological progress..."

"The most important sporting event of this year-the 10th World Athletics Championships will kick off tomorrow in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Nearly 1,900 athletes from more than 200 countries and regions will gather in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium to compete in athletics in the next nine days. The highest honor. Just like two years ago, the Chinese track and field delegation, which only sent 36 athletes, also went low-key. Although the team has Olympic champions such as Liu Yangyu and Xing Huina, and the newly emerging track and field rookie Ye Qin, the overall The low level and the unstable state of the key players for gold make the Chinese Army lack of confidence. "No mention of gold, no scheduled results"-If the world track and field championships are compared to a table of feast, the tone is already clear. It shows that the Chinese delegation "humbly" put itself in the position of "just a few cups of soup"..."

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"The weather in Helsinki is really cool!"

On August 4, at the exit of Helsinki Airport, Zhuang Wei pushed a huge suitcase and just stepped out of the plane. He couldn't help taking a breath, feeling exceptionally comfortable.

"It may be ten degrees lower than Yenching, and it has caught up with the normal temperature of the air conditioner."

Chen Zhongzhou also pushed the suitcase, feeling the head-on, with some of the humid air unique to the seaside city, and sighed as well.

In August, the temperature in Yanjing is the highest of the year, and when you arrive in Helsinki, a European Nordic city, you feel as if you have just passed the sauna and were baptized by the cool breeze.

Especially after a long international flight, when both feet are on a solid ground, the feeling is particularly different.

"Ye Qin, Yang Yao, you should be more comfortable playing in such weather?"

Zhuang Wei walked in front and glanced back, followed by Ye Qin and Yang Yao behind Chen Zhongzhou and Randy Hunter, laughing and joking, "Think about when I was in Yanjing, hehe, at night After training outdoors for a while, the underwear can be twisted out."

"Brother Zhuang, you are the one who is most afraid of the heat." Ye Qin was looking at Helsinki Airport from a distance. Hearing Zhuang Wei's vulgar words, he turned his head and smiled back.

"The weather is good, but don't rain." Yang Yao looked up at the thick clouds in the sky, and said with a smile.

"It won't be." Zhuang Wei also glanced at the sky. "At most it will rain for two days. There are still several days before your game. I can do my homework when I come. Helsinki is the most livable city in the world. One, it shouldn’t rain, it won’t rain."

"If it rains, it may have an impact on the game." Yang Yao looked at the gloomy sky and thought about the next game schedule, frowning slightly.

"I hope it will clear up!"

Ye Qin is also a little worried after hearing this. After all, when traveling abroad, the competition is just around the corner. Before the competition, athletes should pay more attention to issues such as adapting to the climate and venue.

The competition time of the current World Championships is from August 6th to August 14th, and it is now on the 4th. If it really rains, it still affects the athletes' game conditions.

Fortunately, his own event is still a few days away, and the event time of the game will not start until August 9. Now I can only hope that the weather will get better at that time and there will be no rain. If it really rains, it would be really not so wonderful.

This time the Chinese track and field delegation went low-key. There were only 36 athletes participating in the World Track and Field Championships. It was originally scheduled to come to Helsinki in two batches.

A batch on August 2 was mainly for middle and long distance running events. The time of these competitions was relatively early, and athletes could better adapt to training when they arrived one or two days earlier. In addition, today's Yeqin and their group on August 4th.

Liu Yangyu originally came with them in the same batch, but because of the limited number of business jets, Liu Yangyu's participation in the men's 110-meter hurdles project was relatively late, so it was one day late.

Regarding this matter, there is still domestic media hyping Liu Yangyu because of the lawsuit and there is no way to get out.

Ye Qin now feels more and more that even after athletes get better and better as their personal performance, after they become public figures, many non-existent things can extend to all kinds of strange topics.

Like Randy Hunter said, he needs to look at these things with a calm mind. Don't be unfamiliar with a few words from the media, and don't be timid after being denied a few times.

Athletes, who have achieved performance, are accompanied by attention and pressure. For example, he met Youssé Bot at the New York Grand Prix. The opponent was once expected by the entire Jamaica and was hailed as the successor to Michael Johnson and a talented player.

But once you lose in the Athens Olympics, criticisms and doubts will flood in, and no one can be an exception.

The same is true for himself. His life and his experience have been shown in front of everyone, but there is always no lack of strange voices.

Feeling the moist breath in the air, he raised his head and glanced at the signs that were very different from Chinese characters and the somewhat crowded airport. Ye Qin couldn't help but clenched his hands holding the suitcase.

He is no stranger to going abroad. He will not have the kind of cautiousness when he went abroad for the first time. He knows his ability and level, and he also knows what he wants.

Choosing the road of sports competition and track and field, then you have to go on, no matter how many difficulties there are on this road, he must overcome one by one!

No matter how difficult it is, it won't be sad that it was once so powerless!

I have become stronger, and I have the ability to face and solve it!

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From Helsinki Airport, there was already a bus waiting there for pick-up.

This has been arranged by the organizer in advance. In the past few days, because of the World Championships, Helsinki has received thousands of tourists every day, and the entire airport has become a little noisy.

Ye Qin is not too surprised by this situation. Compared to last year's Athens Olympics, the current situation is considered better. The World Championships is just a track and field event, and the many events of the Olympic Games attract more tourists.

Before coming to Helsinki, the track and field delegation also did simple science and some precautions for Helsinki.

Helsinki is the capital of the Nordic country Finland and the largest economic port center. It is adjacent to the Baltic Sea. It is a city that combines classical beauty and modern civilization. In 2000, it was selected as one of the nine cultural cities in Europe.

It is interesting that the 2005 World Athletics Championships is already the tenth ~www.ltnovel.com~ and the first World Athletics Championships in 1983 was also held in Helsinki.

Prior to this, Sweden and the Netherlands had held a World Athletics Championships in 1976 and 1980, but these two competitions were limited by the scale of participation and some special reasons, and were not recognized by the IAAF. The first World Track and Field Championship recognized by the IAAF was the first competition that began in Helsinki in 1983.

Speaking of Helsinki being able to host the 10th World Championships this time, Yechin still remembered an interesting fact that the team said at the time.

The IAAF originally announced that the winning bid for the 10th World Championships in Athletics in 2005 was London, England. However, after the British government assessed that the cost of hosting the World Championships in London was too high, it hoped to change the host city from London to Sheffield. Tangu Stadium.

The hosting of international competitions puts considerable financial pressure on the host cities and countries.

Just like hosting the Olympics, before 1984, people were criticized for a while, thinking that it would bring no benefit to the people and money. It wasn't until the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games that the Los Angeles Olympic Games pioneered the introduction of a large number of advertisements and realized profits.

Although the specifications of the World Track and Field Championships are high, there is still a big gap compared to the Olympic Games.

The IAAF naturally did not agree to the request of the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom became the first time since 1976 that a developed country gave up the right to host major international sports events.

In the second bid of the IAAF, Helsinki, which once hosted the first World Championships, stood out from Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Moscow and Rome, and won the right to host the 2005 World Championships.