Born to Run

Two or three hours passed quickly. Ye Qin and the team leader Zhou Bin ate something to add calories at the University of Sherbrooke, and then briefly rested in the lounge, followed by warm-up preparations, which will soon begin. Enter the inspection program.

　　 The men's 400-meter race in this World Junior Championship is a three-shot tiebreaker. The preliminaries, semi-finals, and finals will be held on three days.

　　 The preliminaries started at 13:55 on July 10th. As the number of participating athletes reached 42, they were directly divided into six preliminaries groups, with seven players from each group participating, and the top four players in the group directly advanced to the semi-finals.

　　 The semi-finals started at 18:15 on July 11th. There were three teams. The top two of each team directly advanced, and then the two best players, a total of eight players participated in the final.

　　The time for the final is at 17:10 on July 12.

　　 Today is the preliminaries. The time of the five preliminaries are 13:55, 14:01, 14:07, 14:13, 14:19 and 14:25.

　　 Yeqin was in the third group of the preliminaries. After some trivial procedures such as roll call, Yeqin and the other players passed through the tunnel at Sherbrooke at 14:05 local time and were preparing to play.

　　 just met the seven players from the previous group who had completed the preliminaries to leave the field. Since he was just waiting, he didn't know how the previous group's results were.

However, Yechin was slightly surprised by the oncoming figure wearing a yellow sprint suit. It was a black young athlete who looked a bit immature in appearance, but was very tall, compared to The discus athlete Wu Jiang who lives in a dormitory with Ye Qin these days is a bit higher.

　　 may be due to the height, looks very thin, slender limbs, walking in the crowd is quite different.

　　As he passed by, the black boy seemed to feel Ye Qin's gaze, and his sweaty face suddenly grinned and made a grimace.

　　 "This Jamaican is a bit funny!"

　　 Ye Qin also smiled. He just noticed the sportswear logo on the opponent's chest. The four black and green inverted triangles were separated by the thick yellow X line.

　　 He studied geography in his first year of high school, and before and after the delegation came to Sherbrooke, he introduced the national flags of other countries. The standard for the national flag of this black teenager should be Jamaica, a small country in the Caribbean.

　　 crossed the track, and soon Yechin and six other third-group preliminaries appeared in front of the men's 400-meter runway starting line at Sherbrooke Stadium.

　　 At this time, on the big screen at Sherbrooke Stadium, the names, passes and nationalities of the third group of preliminaries were also played.

　　The first course, Nicholas Pace, Germany;

　　 Second Road, Ye Qin, China;

　　 The third track, Sateri Guman, United States;

　　 Fourth Road, Osu Chavez, Canada;

　　 Fifth Road, Karaka-Apalao, India;

　　 The Sixth Road, Nick Clayty, England;

　　 The seventh way, Leonard Malakwen, Kenya;

　　 Ye Qin basically few remember the names of other players, and it was a preliminary match. He didn't pay attention to other players, he only knew that everyone was from different countries.

　　 "Ye Qin!"

　　 "Yechin, come on!"

　　 "Run well, Ye Qin!"

　　……

　　 At this moment, there was a burst of cheering and cheering chanting his name from the sidelines.

　　 Ye Qin looked in the direction of the voice, and at a glance, he saw a bright red flag swinging from side to side in the crowd.

　　 "It should be Wu Jiang waving the red flag!"

　　 The distance is a little far away, and it doesn't seem to be so real, but he and Wu Jiang are in a dormitory. After a few days, he has a vague impression of that figure.

　　 That's where he sat there a few hours ago to cheer shot putter Liu Feng. It was also where the head of the Chinese delegation and the non-competitive team members were temporarily organized as cheerleaders.

　　 Ye Qin waved his hand in the direction of the red flag on the sideline, and suddenly felt that his heart was filled with an inexplicable emotion.

　　 In such a stadium, he seemed to have a different feeling amidst many cheers.

　　 He raised his head and didn’t care too much about the other players. He didn’t know him anyway. He just wanted to take a good look around and see the entire Sherbrooke University Stadium.

　　 It’s different from seeing the whole stadium from the perspective of the audience in the morning. Being here at this moment seems to be like an actor on the stage, becoming the center of everyone’s attention.

The stadium is an open outdoor venue. There are not many spectators in the stands, and the views on both sides are transparent. In the north and south of the stadium, there are more than ten meters high projection lamp posts, and each lamp post has a shining light on both sides. High-power spotlights. After night falls, these lights are turned on to be unaffected by the weather, making the stadium feel like daylight.

　　 In the middle of the runway, the men's shot put group B qualifying round is going on, and there is also the bunker on the other side of the runway, where the long jump qualifying round is going on.

　　 "This is the stage of the World Series!" Ye Qin sighed silently, looking at the surrounding environment.

　　 About this time a year ago, he got the admission letter from Xiushui No. 2 Middle School, and was still anxious about how to collect the tuition fees.

　　 Entered Xiushui No. 2 Middle School, he was stunned to participate in the school sports meeting, followed by the city middle school sports meeting, provincial youth track and field championships, and several tests. After the third quarter of each day, he was almost untouched to train on the cinder track.

　　 To this day, to this day, he is thousands of miles away, in a stadium in a country that he didn't even dare to dream of, UU reading www. uukanshu.com participates in world-class competitions.

　　 Although the World Junior Athletics Championships is only the third time, it is far inferior to other competitions in terms of popularity and competition level, but it is also a world-class competition under the IAAF.

　　 And he, stood here!

　　 "Ye Qin, for many people, practicing sports is entertainment, interest, stepping stone, and means... But for some people, sports is a way to change their lives."

　　 In his mind, Ye Qin remembered for no reason what Yan Ning had said to him when he refused the invitation of coach Zhao from the Vanguard Sports Association.

If he hadn't set foot on the runway, he could not have made such a big change in his life in one year, with tuition reductions, school subsidies, nutritious meals, and the ability to go to Nanxiu City, Zuohai City, Yanjing, and even In the current foreign country.

　　 The first time to fly by plane, the first time to stay in a hotel, and the first time to go abroad.

　　 If he didn't set foot on the track, he should be like other classmates now, study hard, maybe he can have a good future in the future, after exhausting his best, climb out of the small mountain village.

　　 Maybe he failed the college entrance examination, but he was just an ordinary part-time worker, like his uncle, struggling to survive in a materialistic society.

　　 There may be many possibilities, he doesn't know.

　　 But now it’s only a year, and a lot of things that I didn’t dare to think have happened!

　　 "Will sports change my life?!"

　　 Ye Qin asked in a low voice, he felt that he might have found the meaning of running.

　　……

　　 "Onyourmarks!"

　　 The sound of the starter by the side of the runway reminding the players to take their positions sounded from the horn.

　　The game has started!