Born to Run

May 9, Osaka, Japan.

The sun is shining today, the air is exceptionally clean, and the blue sky is like a gemstone, and there are hardly many clouds on it.

At this time, the Changju Stadium was in full swing, with more than 47,000 on-site audience seats, almost all of which were filled with crowds of spectators, and the atmosphere was incredible.

"Remember when there were not so many people at the World Championships, right?"

In the rest area of ​​the stadium players, Zhuang Wei listened to the loud shouts from outside, and an incredible color flashed across Yuanyuan's face.

"There weren't that many people at the Osaka World Championships."

Chen Zhongzhou, who had personally experienced the Osaka World Championships, heard Zhuang Wei's words and immediately laughed and replied, "The Osaka World Championships organizers at the time were fairly well prepared, but the Japanese team performed poorly at the World Championships. This prevented many Japanese spectators from buying it. Except for a few games such as relay races, most of the other games were not particularly crowded at the time."

"Then there are so many people here in this Grand Prix?"

Zhuang Wei shook his head slightly, as if he couldn't figure out where the problem was.

Although more than half a year has passed, the domestic Olympic atmosphere has not completely dissipated. Some time ago, the nomination for the Lawrence Sports Awards was announced. The Chinese Olympic team also won the best nomination. Think about the domestic atmosphere at that time. It's really a feat that can be called a flourishing age.

Comparing the Osaka World Championships at that time, I feel that the Japanese people's enthusiasm for track and field events is really not too enthusiastic. There are not many spectators in many games, and there is a lot of redundancy in tickets for some less popular events.

However, after all, the Olympic Games are high enough to be a world-class gathering. Up to now, there has not been a World Championship held in China, but from the sidelines, it should be more enthusiastic than the Osaka World Championship.

The only thing that makes Zhuang Wei feel a little strange now is that the original Osaka World Championships didn't have so many spectators. Instead, the Osaka Grand Prix that took place every year made the spectators extremely enthusiastic, so he couldn't help but ponder a few words.

"This Osaka Grand Prix is ​​still different after all."

Chen Zhongzhou seemed to know Zhuang Wei’s doubts, and then explained again, “The IAAF has confirmed the changes to the schedule some time ago. The World Athletics Tour started in 2005 and ended in 2010 next year. Into the IAAF Diamond League and the IAAF World Challenge."

"Diamond League and IAAF World Challenge?"

Zhuang Wei was a little curious when he heard Chen Zhongzhou say this.

Various events of the IAAF have undergone many changes. The most sought after in the past few years since 2005 is undoubtedly the IAAF World Tour. The tournament includes the first level of IAAF gold. League and IAAF Super Grand Prix, the second level is the IAAF Grand Prix and regional licensing events.

In the past few years internationally, the Golden League and the Super Grand Prix, as well as the Grand Prix of various countries and cities, have been hailed as very successful events by various countries.

For most athletes, being able to participate in regional licensing competitions and grand prix competitions is already a threshold for entering international competitions.

Being able to participate in the Super Grand Prix and the Golden League basically means being among the top athletes.

Zhuang Wei is just a physiotherapist. He didn't know that the IAAF's restructuring of the event had already been launched. He asked Chen Zhongzhou a few words about the Diamond League and the Challenge.

Then, under Chen Zhongzhou's explanation, he probably understood the situation of the IAAF competition system after the restructuring.

After the restructuring, the IAAF Diamond League is an elite track and field event every year, with a very high level. The purpose is to replace the Golden League that started in 1998.

Although the Golden League was originally established to enhance Europe's leading world track and field image, after so many years of development, there has been some discord.

The goal of the new Diamond League is to enhance the attractiveness of global track and field sports. In addition to the original five-stop Golden League (except Berlin), the Diamond League has added competitions in several countries including China, Qatar and Morocco, as well as the United States.

In short, it is actually the original China’s Shenghai Golden Grand Prix, the Cartel Doha Super Grand Prix, the Monte Carlo Super Grand Prix in Morocco and the Eugene Grand Prix in the United States and the five sites of the Golden League. The competition formed a new Diamond League.

This is the first level of the IAAF competition, while the IAAF World Challenge is the second level of competition. The second level of competition is intended to replace the original IAAF Grand Prix.

Under the premise that this restructuring is about to take place, although this year is 2009 and 2010 is one year away, there is only one time left for the Osaka Grand Prix.

And after this year, the Osaka Grand Prix was not merged into the second level of the IAAF World Challenge, but was replaced by the Kawasaki Golden Grand Prix.

Such an international top-level track and field event seems to be away from itself. For the city with a strong track and field atmosphere, many people are quite reluctant in their hearts.

"It turned out to be so."

After listening to Chen Zhongzhou's explanation, Zhuang Wei suddenly realized it. Think about changing to your own country. If the Shenghai Gold Grand Prix is ​​suddenly replaced by cities such as Linzhou, Yangcheng or Yanjing, even if it is still in China, for people who like track and field in the local city, they will still feel it. unfortunately.

This is because the domestic track and field atmosphere has only become enthusiastic in the past few years. If the atmosphere of track and field has been precipitated for many years like Osaka, let alone the feeling of reluctance.

"You really listen to Xiao Chen Hu Xu!"

Yuan Guohua, who had been watching the warm-up on the indoor track, couldn't help but shook his head and laughed when he saw Zhuang Wei nodding his head.

"Huh?" Zhuang Wei was slightly startled, "Isn't it?"

"The words are definitely right. The restructuring of the IAAF tournament has also come out. Even the zero steals discussed before will be implemented from the 2010 Doha Indoor World Championships, but so many spectators are not here for what they are. I won’t see anything about the Osaka Grand Prix in the future."

Yuan Guohua smiled and pointed to Ye Qin, who was warming up, "You see every day, blindfolded, do you really know who the audience is for?"

"You mean Yeqin?!"

Zhuang Wei followed Yuan Guohua's gaze and looked over, his mouth opened slightly, "Isn't it, so many viewers are all coming to Yeqin?"

This answer undoubtedly surprised Zhuang Wei more than just Chen Zhongzhou's remarks about the restructuring of the event.

After all, he knows Yechin’s influence in domestic competitions. There is no doubt that if Yechin goes to participate in the national championship, it is estimated that the audience will surround the stadium for three laps, but this is in Japan.

Yeqin's influence in Japan is certainly great. The outstanding performance of the 2007 Osaka World Championships was almost inseparable from the media discussions in the Japanese track and field world at that time.

But think about it, so many Japanese audiences will be completely crazy for a Chinese athlete. This kind of thing still sounds incredible.

"Of course it is Yeqin."

Yuan Guohua nodded without hesitation. If Yeqin was one of the world's top sprinters before the Yanjing Olympics, many foreign audiences had heard of this person, or could recognize him.

After the Yenching Olympics, it was a well-known ticket.

In particular, the turmoil caused by the wonderful confrontation between Yechin and Yousse-Bot, the world's No. 1 trapeze, who will be the first to break the world record and other topics, almost brought the entire track and field event from the previous somewhat depressed situation. , Leaping high has become a step that attracts everyone's attention.

The astonishing speed of breaking the world record, and the challenge of the most powerful opponent, made the sport of sprinting explode extremely powerful after 2008.

Yuan Guohua knew that Yechin was not planning to go to Osaka to participate in the Grand Prix this year. The team’s plan was for Yechin to go to Qatar to participate in the Doha Super Grand Prix. The time of the two events is very close. May 8 is the Doha Super Grand Prix. , May 9th is the Osaka Grand Prix.

The Doha Super Grand Prix is ​​one head higher than the Osaka Grand Prix, and the lineup of players in the men's 100m event is even better.

For the first game of the 2009 season, both Yechin himself and the entire team hope to have a good start.

But in the end, Osaka offered a price that Yechin and the track team could not refuse. Compared with the appearance fee of the previous games in 2007, this time the appearance fee has increased by more than ten times.

And Ye Qin's arrival, under the deliberate propaganda issued by the host of the Osaka Grand Prix, also achieved results that satisfied them all.

Tickets have been sold out five days in advance, and more track and field enthusiasts are shopping frantically online in order to buy tickets for this Osaka Grand Prix.

This kind of influence was previously impossible for sprinting superstars including Morris Green and Asafaville.

There are many reasons for this. For example, he has achieved amazing results in the Osaka World Championships, being the first Asian player to break 10, as well as the appearance of the same yellow race, as well as the national sprint stars Shingo Suetsue and Koji Ito. Admiration is all justification.

The more important thing is the national characteristics of this country. I admire the strong. Although I don’t like another country, I don’t want to talk about him at every turn and say that he is a member of my own country. But for the first person to do a sprint event. The enthusiasm for the yellow people who made such amazing contributions is justified.

On the warm-up track, Ye Qin was serious about warming up before the game, feeling the long-lost throbbing about the game, and a hint of excitement surged under his calm expression.

During the winter training, he stopped because of a muscle strain, which almost disrupted the training rhythm, but after resuming training later, his performance was not affected.

In the words of the experts at the Yunyi Institute, one is that the injury is not serious, and the other is that his body is at the peak of his youth.

If there is no major accident, the next three or four years will be the peak of his personal career.

As for how long this peak can be maintained, naturally no one can have the answer.

However, in the best era, to create higher results is what everyone is looking forward to.

...

3:15 pm.

Ye Qin's first race in this Osaka Grand Prix was the men's 200m. He will compete in two games this year, the men's 200m and the men's 100m.

Before the men’s 200-meter starting line, there were only five foreign competitors, namely Yechin, Rodney Martin from the United States, Brandon Christian from Antigua and Barbuda, and Brian Dassin from Zimbabwe. Guy and another American player, Chris Belian.

The other four are all Japanese players including Shingo Suezuki.

From this point, it can be seen that the Osaka Grand Prix is ​​not very attractive to top foreign players, and the Japanese side mainly uses these events to improve their national sprint competition.

Yeqin's state was very good. After the game started, he took the lead at a distance of only 30 meters, and kept this lead all the way to the end.

This 200m race was the first game of the season for Yechin. He didn't release the water too much. Of course, he didn't go all out. He just ran at his own pace as much as possible.

In the end, when Yeqin crossed the finish line, the number of 19 seconds 79 appeared on the yellow timing card.

This is the new event record for the men's 200m at the Osaka Grand Prix. Previously, the record for the men's 200m at the Osaka Grand Prix was held by Namibian veteran Frankie Fredericks.

In the excitement of the audience, Ye Qin waved and walked off the arena.

Before he came to Japan to participate in the competition, he actually did not expect that this time the Japanese Grand Prix would have so many spectators, and he would receive such a warm welcome.

In fact, the situation abroad is similar to that in China, and the influence of the Olympic Games is by no means comparable to that of ordinary competitions.

For a long time, the Chinese people didn’t know much about Asafaville. Although the opponent repeatedly set the men’s 100m record, they lacked the gold medal in the heavyweight competition. After the world record was set by others, many ordinary people lost their impression. .

More than an hour later.

At 5:30 in the afternoon, the heaviest men's 100m race in this Osaka Grand Prix began again.

Yeqin stood in front of the starting line again, and the cheers of the audience in the Changju Stadium almost overturned the roof. The kind of enthusiastic battle, if not listening to the language other than Chinese, gave Yeqin a feeling of being in a domestic competition.

Competitors in the men’s 100-meter race, like American Rodney Martin and Zimbabwe’s Brian Dasingai, like Yechin, participated in the 200-meter race~www.ltnovel.com~ again Participate in 100 meters.

Among the nine athletes participating in the competition, there are still four native Japanese players, but this time Shingo Sususu did not play. The ones who played were Naoki Tsukahara and veteran Nobuharu Asahara, who have grown rapidly in Japan in recent years.

After a gunshot, Ye Qin rushed out of the starting line to the sudden burst of cheers from the audience.

His starting reaction and starting acceleration are now the world's top level, and he also took the lead when he entered the high-speed section of the 30-meter run on the way.

The final result of the men's 100 meters race was 9.88 seconds, which also broke the previous record of 9.91 seconds held by Morris Green.

The second place was unexpectedly won by Japanese local player Naoki Tsukahara with a time of 10.13 seconds.

After the end of the Japanese Grand Prix, Ye Chin and his team's staff are preparing to return to the country to rest in preparation for the next pre-Berlin World Championships.

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