Born to Run

When Ye Qin woke up from the massage table, it was 13:30. As soon as he raised his head, he saw the waiting area. Yang Yao was leaning on a bench with a towel on his face, his chest and abdomen undulating slightly. , It seems to be resting. bookmark our website

"Brother Yang, are you over?" Ye Qin twisted his neck slightly, moved a little, and asked Yang Yao casually.

"Well, not long after the comparison."

Yang Yao seemed to hear Ye Qin’s voice and pulled the towel off his face directly. The sweat on his face didn’t seem to be dry, and his expression was a bit gray. Seeing Ye Qin looking at him, he showed a barely smile , "21 seconds 03, fifth in the group, was eliminated."

Ye Qin was taken aback, sighed silently in his heart, walked to Yang Yao, patted the other person's shoulder lightly, and comforted, "Brother Yang, you have bad luck. Change to my group, you I was promoted."

Ye Qin actually didn’t know what to say. Yang Yao, as the core player in the men’s sprint of the national track and field team, was once the most outstanding figure in the Chinese men’s sprinter in Asia. He was also rare in the international competitions before him. Contestants who meet the competition criteria.

But it basically stopped in the first and second rounds, which is a bit of a pity for a player who has aspirations. In particular, Yang Yao has been studying in the United States for a while, and this result is really not satisfactory.

"Don't follow the frown." Yang Yao raised his head and glanced at Ye Qin's face, then suddenly stood up and smiled at Ye Qin, "I had expected this result before. The next game is up to you."

"Yeah." Ye Qin looked at Yang Yao's expression and nodded solemnly, "I will warm up first, Brother Yang, when we return to China, we will train together in the future."

"I see, hurry up and warm up." Yang Yao waved his hand to Ye Qin, "I'll go and cheer for you later."

Ye Qin didn't shy away, nodded, and walked directly to the warm-up track.

He just lay on the massage table and closed his eyes and took a nap, and his body relaxed. Although it was not a deep sleep in the full meaning, his spirit and physical strength did recover a lot during this session.

Moreover, this is the first day of the World Championships, and his physical reserves are sufficient, but he has a short sleep and rest in order to better be able to maintain it.

Watching Ye Qin continue to warm up, Yang Yao stood on the sidelines and sighed silently. After one game, his trip to the World Championships was over. The Chinese team also participated in the 4×100m relay at the last World Championships in Paris. This time, the Chinese track and field team did not meet the standards for the relay event.

To be honest, he is a bit discouraged at this moment. Although he has thought about this before coming to Helsinki, he still depends on being stimulated by opponents and the environment in large-scale competitions and able to have outstanding performance.

Unfortunately, there was no fluke in the end.

"My talent may not be as good as Ye Qin, but it is definitely not my bottleneck now. I still want to participate in the Yanjing Olympics in three years."

For a moment, Yang Yao's thoughts rolled in his mind, and he made up his mind again.

There are setbacks and failures. If Yeqin hadn't appeared, he might not care so much about his own results. After all, there would be no one but him in the domestic sprinter who was eligible to participate in the two World Championships and the Olympic Games.

But now, he is not reconciled.

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The Helsinki Olympic Stadium did not know when it had started drizzling, but it could not stop the enthusiasm of the spectators in the stands.

Many spectators with rain ponchoes were very enthusiastic before, and spectators without rain gear were also unaffected.

The waves of cheers and applause were higher than the waves, and the fiery emotion seemed to evaporate all the falling rain.

On the track of the track and field, the men's 200-meter preliminaries were completely over at 13:30, and then two field events were carried out, the men's decathlon long jump and the men's javelin group B qualification.

At 13:50, the 400-meter standard track became lively again, and the men’s 400-meter preliminaries began.

The men's 400 meters competition this year is a total of three shots, preliminaries, semi-finals and finals.

There are a total of 7 teams in the preliminaries, and the top two of each preliminary group will advance directly, and then the 10 best performers will be added. A total of 24 athletes will advance directly to the semi-finals.

The semi-final is divided into three groups. The top two in each group will advance directly, and the top two players will make up for the finals. A total of eight players will participate in the finals.

The first group of the men's 400m preliminaries started at 13:50, the second group started at 13:57, and the third group started at 14:04.

Ye Qin is in the third group.

At 14:01 in the afternoon, after the 400-meter athletes in the second group were off the field, Yeqin and seven other athletes appeared on the preliminaries track.

On the big screen of the scene, the list of players in the third group of 400 meters was also displayed at the same time:

The first one, Simon Kirch, Germany;

The second one, Allison De Pegro, Dominican Republic;

The third way, Andra Williams, Bahamas;

Fourth Road, John Stephenson, Australia;

The fifth track, Said-Adre, Yemen;

The sixth way, Eric Miraza, Mauritius;

The seventh way, Ye Qin, China;

Eighth Road, Taylor Christopher, Canada;

After the 200-meter preliminaries, after a period of rest and warm-up, Yeqin stood on the track again and could clearly feel that his body was adjusted to its best condition.

The slight raindrops fell on his body, with strands of coolness, but this coolness could not stop the heat in his heart.

This set of 400-meter preliminaries is somewhat different from the races he has participated in before. The most obvious difference is that the white athletes are much more proficient.

Whether it is the German players in the first lane, or the Australian and Canadian players in the fourth and eighth lanes, they are all typical white athletes.

In the one-to-two-hundred-meter events such as the Olympics and the World Championships, white and yellow racers are relatively rare, especially in the semi-finals and finals, which are almost rare.

But in the 400m event, the proficiency of the white athletes will obviously increase.

In this regard, the speed ability of white players may not be particularly strong, but they are not weak in terms of speed endurance and endurance. Many white runners in the field of middle and long distance running can have excellent performances.

At this time, the first man in the men's 400 meters, Jimmy Warner, who just won the group first in the second group of 400 meters preliminaries, is a white player. Jimmy Warner won the 400m championship at the Athens Olympics last year. In a sense, it can also be said that it stimulated the growth of many white players in Europe.

Ye Qin doesn’t know much about his group of athletes. Although he participated in the World Youth Olympic Games and this year’s Grand Prix, his time in international track is relatively short. He has seen that the top 400m athletes are just A very small part.

And in his preliminaries, Randy Hunter specifically reminded him of only one Canadian player Taylor Christopher who was next to him for the eighth race.

The Canadian player is extremely tall, taller than the Yosse Bot, who Yechin knows, and almost two meters faster. This body type may start slowly, but with long legs and large strides, it is competitive in the second half of the 400-meter project. What's more, the opponent ran a 150-meter run in the United States this year in 15.17 seconds, and a 200-meter run in 20.49 seconds. With this height and body shape, it is conceivable that the opponent's speed ability is not weak.

Ye Qin has a very clear understanding of this in his heart. This is a World Championship, not a general Grand Prix or other level of competition. Every player who can stand on this track will not be mediocre.

Moreover, the 400-meter three-shot rule has fewer places for promotion, and to some extent, the competition is more intense than the 200-meter four-shot rule. If you want to advance to the semi-finals, at least some players need to go all out.

"Onyourmarks!"

The voice of the starter on the sidelines reminding the players to take their respective positions sounded.

Ye Qin let out a foul breath, his eyes were firm, and he walked slowly to the starting line, and the race was about to begin!