Born to Run

"Onyourmarks!"

The sound of each seat with some accents sounded in the arena.

Yechin lifted his head slightly and glanced at the Carlo Zekini Olympic Stadium. This kind of outdoor stadium like a ring-shaped egg without any walls in the world gives people a very broad view.

Standing in front of the starting line, you can watch the white clouds floating in the distant blue sky and the air is fresh. Although the climate is completely different from Sherbrooke, the feeling of open-mindedness is still very clear.

On the spectator stands on both sides of the court, there were more than 10,000 spectators. Although they were not as crowded as when he participated in the City Games, the enthusiasm of the spectators seemed to be even higher, with accents of various languages ​​and some small horns and whistles. Such voices are endless.

Although the atmosphere of the track and field stadium is far less than that of the football match, it is often able to attract the attention of everyone in the moment of some important games.

Leaning over and lowering his head, the spikes on Ye Qin's feet landed on the starting blocks.

In the men's 400m preliminaries, Yeqin was on the fifth track. The significance of this race to Yeqin was promotion. But when he squatted down and was preparing to start, Yeqin took another look at sixth. Sultan Abu Bakr Ali on the road.

The performance of Abu Bakr Ali in the World Junior Championships was really impressed. At that time, Abu Bakr Ali won the championship with a time of 46.10. At this level, even now Yeqin may not be able to achieve it.

But the more so, the more Ye Qin wanted to continue to compete with each other.

After the Linzhou Station of the National Indoor Championships, Ye Qin followed Nie Fangping's model of "training by competition, training while playing", and participated in two grand prix and a national track and field championship and Olympic trials.

In these races, he won the championship in one of the 400 meters, and the others were runners-up and third place. In the youth competitions he participated in before, he was still the leader in the country, but in the professional arena, he faced Yang Yao, Jing Ke, Gu Kay and Xu Zhiyu have a few people, whether it is 200 meters or 400 meters, he has encountered challenges.

Especially at the National Championships. This is the Olympic trials. He also met Xu Zhiyu, the current national men's 400m record holder. Although neither of them could run the 400m Olympic B standard level, he was still slightly weaker than Xu Zhiyu. First line.

However, in three consecutive competitions, the 200m and 400m combined equals six high-intensity competitions, which still allows him to grow and break through such a load, and his progress is very obvious.

Of course, this level of progress is not the same as when he first started practicing track and field. When he first started practicing track and field, whether he was 400 meters or 200 meters, his growth rate was measured in seconds, but now , The 400m score broke through 47 seconds, after the 200m broke through the second, the progress can only be a few tenths of a second.

This is the natural law of the human body. The closer to the limit and peak, the slower the growth rate. But the difficulty of improving his performance by 0.5 seconds at this time is much more difficult than the two or three seconds he had just started practicing track and field with Yan Ning.

Ye Qin has gradually fallen in love with this mode of competition and training. Every time when training gets boring or gains a little, he immediately enters the field to verify it, and constantly corrects his details, fitness and speed at 400 meters. The distribution can be more refined, and the speed of the first half of the start is getting more and more convenient.

It is precisely seeing Ye Qin's good situation that Nie Fangping lamented that there is no suitable game for Ye Qin to continue to participate in the World Youth Championship, otherwise Ye Qin may be able to go further, and because of this, Nie Fangping is determined to want. After the World Youth Championship or the Olympic Games, he led Ye Qin to participate in international competitions.

"SET!"

After the referee at the sidelines confirmed that all the players had leaned over and kept their bodies still, the starter yelled out a preliminary command.

The seven runners before the starting line changed from squatting to starting position at the same time.

On the big screen, the information of the seven preliminaries has also appeared. The first is New Zealand's Corey Innis, the second is Venezuela's Carlos Perez, and the third is French's Teddy Vernel. , The fourth Australian player Ben Provens, the fifth Chinese player Yechin, the sixth Sudanese Abu Bakr Ali, and the seventh Nepalese Gupar Katricha.

After Ye Qin's voice reminded the players to prepare, the various messy thoughts in his mind gradually calmed down, and his mind seemed to be empty, just waiting for the gunshots of the game to sound.

In the consecutive games in April and May, he has gradually become accustomed to the atmosphere of the stadium. He does not need to do special psychological counseling work for himself before the game, all kinds of preparations, as long as he is on the stadium and on the runway, he will be able to Soon to enter the game state.

This is also an obvious benefit brought by the "play by match, practice while playing" mode. Although Ye Chin only played the airport game, and it has been more than a month from now, but the feeling of the game, The body still remembers.

This is also one of the reasons why many players are able to maintain their mental state very well in the top competitions. The more competitions, the better the mental state, but for the various tensions and excitement before the game, or other messy emotions, The influence of the players will be greatly reduced.

boom!

The gunshots of the game sounded!

Almost at the moment when the gunfire sounded, Yeqin's attention had been focused on the arena.

After the sound of the gunshot, swinging arms, stretching, and striding, all the movements are like running clouds and flowing water.

He was too familiar with the 400-meter race. After the start, he steadily increased his speed at his own pace.

His start acceleration is still not the fastest, but compared to the previous race, his current start acceleration has improved a lot.

The most important thing is that after a year, his muscle strength has improved a lot. Although he is not particularly able to focus on improving his strength, he has a variety of basic training exercises, as well as physical development and nutritional supplements. Now he The explosive power and the acceleration in the first half of the start have still been improved.

And compared to before, Yechin's understanding of the 400-meter project, as well as details such as corner acceleration, has also made great progress.

The World Youth Championship is currently a competition for players below the U20 level in the world. The overall level is naturally very different from that of the Olympic Games, but among the youth track and field competitions under the age of 20, it is undoubtedly the highest level of competition. The players who came to the competition are basically the most powerful and competent in this age group.

In the first corner, Yeqin ran very steadily. He didn't rush to the first place quickly, leading the other players, but he didn't get to the bottom of the place like before. He runs in an orderly rhythm, always controlling his speed and position among all the players.

The 200 meters ahead quickly passed. Ye Qin stabilized his position in the middle, but entered the second corner. At about 250 meters, he clearly spotted the Sultan who was running on the sixth road to his right. Player Abu Bakr-Ali began to exert his strength.

After the 200-meter race in the front, although everyone is not running at the fastest speed, physical fitness and speed can be improved a bit, but there are not many players who can really raise the speed completely.

Yeqin almost followed the rhythm of Abu Bakr-Ali. After the opponent started to accelerate, he also started to accelerate. In this preliminaries, the target he was staring at was Abu Bakr-Ali.

Two hundred and fifty meters, two hundred and sixty meters, two hundred and seventy meters...

Seven players galloped like arrows on the field.

Soon it entered the stage of the second corner into the straight. In the front more than 300 meters, because of the gap in the number of stretches before the corner started, the ordinary audience could not see the players' respective lead and lag.

But by this time, all the scenes became clear at a glance.

Abu Bakr-Ali suddenly accelerated in the corner, and he had already beaten out the other players and ran to the first position.

But Yeqin, following closely behind, kept a gap of two positions with the opponent, biting Abu Bakr-Ali firmly and preventing him from pulling away.

The level of the two in this group is obviously higher than that of the other players, and they quickly entered the straight, only 80 meters, 70 meters, 60 meters from the finish line...

Abu Bakr-Ali already felt that other players around him were thrown away by him. For him, it is almost not a problem to get the first place in the group in the preliminaries at the level of the World Youth Championship.

He has a clear understanding of himself. He feels that his condition is very good. After he participated in the World Junior Championships last year, he also participated in the World Youth Championships. At that time, he ran well, but at the highest level like the World Championships. One of the track and field stadiums, with many masters, only participated in the preliminary rounds at that time, ranking 43rd.

However, he has confidence in himself in a competition like the World Youth Championship. After more than a year, he has also made considerable progress. The goal of this World Youth Championship is also very clear. It is to be the same as last year’s World Youth Championship. Won the championship.

Fifty meters, forty meters, thirty meters...

Abu Bakr-Ali felt that he was getting closer and closer to the finish line. After running more than 350 meters ahead, he felt that his body had begun to enter the more difficult final stage.

He knew very well that his pre-races in this group were very good, even better than he ran in the preliminaries of last year’s World Championships, and in the same group, these young players who hadn’t participated in the World Championships, at this stage, either Pulling far away, or almost unable to run, he can easily get the first place in the group.

"It should be possible to put a little bit."

After all, it is the preliminary round. At this stage, Abu Bakr Ali feels that no other players can pose a threat to him. He has always won the second half of the speed and endurance. After the corner has accelerated, he should be the first in the group. One. There are semifinals and finals later, and he doesn't need to fight too hard in the preliminaries.

But at this moment, suddenly, he felt something wrong.

The yellow race player who has been just following him from the second corner accelerating, has not slowed down.

"Is he Japanese?"

Abu Bakr Ali raised this question in his heart, and he did not realize that this player had ever had a game with him in the World Junior Championships.

It is not surprising to think that the opponent is a Japanese. He didn't pay much attention to the results of other players in the World Championships last year, but he watched several games in the World Championships last year.

In one of the men's 200m races, a Japanese athlete from an Eastern Asian country won the bronze medal at the World Championships in an unprecedented 20.38 seconds.

He had a profound influence on this game. Therefore, at this time, he felt that the fifth player was still chasing him. The thought that came out of his mind was not that he had seen each other, but that he suspected that the other party was famous. Japanese players.

At the beginning of the new millennium, in the sprint events of the international track, the Asian players were basically Japanese players who were able to show up in the international arena. In addition to the short sprint events of the past few years, Chinese players continued to emerge in various Grand Prix Golden Leagues. Except for Liu Yangyu, the others basically have no sense of existence at all.

Suddenly...

Abu Bakr-Ali only felt that the Asian player who was following him reached the final thirty-meter stage, and instead of being thrown away by him, he suddenly felt that the figure around him swayed.

Suddenly overtake the front!

After entering the straight from the corner, Yeqin has been clinging to Abu Bakr Ali. He remembers the 400 meters in the World Junior Race last year. The opponent had a good first half speed and took the lead almost from the start, but the same What is outstanding is the ability to maintain speed in the second half.

After being led by Abu Bakr Ali, he almost maintained the advantage and rushed to the finish line.

And this time in the preliminaries, Ye Qin obviously felt that the opponent's running rhythm and style had not changed, but he himself was not thrown off by a lot in the first half as before. Instead, he has always stabilized his speed and style. Position among the seven players.

Finally reached the final straight stage, where Ye Qin was best at, he began to chase and sprint with all his strength.

Abu Bakr-Ali's speed and endurance in the second half of the journey is indeed very good. From the 80 meters he knows, Yeqin is only two or three positions away from the opponent, but he chased until the last 30 meters before he surpassed it. To each other.

Thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters...

After Yeqin passed Abu Bakr-Ali, he firmly controlled his speed.

In the last ten meters, Ye Qin had a clear sense that he could get the first place in the group, and he took a sigh of relief and increased his stride. He did not continue sprinting desperately, but rushed past his body's inertia Finish line ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Abu Bakr-Ali, who is behind Yechin, looked a little annoyed when Yechin passed him, but he did not sprint with all his strength. Instead, he paid attention to the movement of the left and right players. The two were obviously It is faster than other players by more than one measure. Since it hasn't surpassed this time, there is no need to go all out. After all, the qualifications for the group stage are three people.

46 seconds 58!

On the time card on the spot, there was the result of the first runner to cross the finish line in this group of men's 400 meters.

Yeqin didn’t seem to be surprised when he saw this result. His group basically went all-out since the start. Only after surpassing Abu Bakr-Ali at the end, he remembered what Nie Fangping said, don’t fight too much. Ruthless, only to relax.

Similarly, Abu Bakr Ali also showed the strength of last year's World Junior Championships. Without Yechin's sudden victory, his 46.68 preliminaries would be among the best among all the players.

After the two people, the third place to cross the finish line again was New Zealand's Corey Innes. His score was 47.31. According to the promotion rules, he also qualified for the semifinals. 8)