Born to Run

In the Carozekini Olympic Stadium, next to the 400-meter blue, white and gray runway, Nie Fangping and Zhou Bin are standing in the mixed stands of the coach and media seats separated by billboards. [WWW.SuiMеng.lā

"Coach Nie, the form is very serious."

Zhou Bin rubbed his temples that were bounced from time to time in the sun, raised his head and glanced at the men's 400-meter starting line in the middle of the field, his expression a little dignified.

"In the first group of the semifinals, two players entered 46 seconds?"

After Yeqin was preparing to play, Nie Fangping had left the inspection area and came to the stadium. When asked about the level of the previous two semi-finalists with Zhou Bin, he heard a not-so-good news.

When I was outside the field, although I heard someone talk intrusively that an American player had already taken the lead in 46 seconds, but when I came out, I realized that in that group of semi-finals, it was not a person who ran 46 seconds, but Two people.

In the men's 400m semifinals, the first place in the first group of the American player Raun Merritt was 45.84 seconds; the second place was Sudan's Abu Bakr Ali with a score of 45.99 seconds.

Zhou Bin thought of the first group of the semi-finals, and the muscles on his face twitched a little.

In this group, American player Raun Merritt took the rhythm of all the runners almost the whole time. Except for last year's 400m champion Abu Bakr Ali, who was able to keep up, the results of the others were completely horrible. In this group of semi-finals, the third place was 47.42. The fourth place was 47.49. Among them, a Trinidad and Tobago player gave up the game after half the race.

Fortunately, the second group of the semi-finals did not reappear such an abnormal situation. The top two players from Botswana and Australia in the group achieved 46.64 seconds and 46.80 seconds.

Otherwise, Zhou Bin won't have to think about Ye Qin's battle for the medal championship or something. It would be lucky if he can honestly enter the finals.

Nie Fangping's face sank. Yechin defeated Sultan's Abu Bakr Ali in the preliminary round, but from the opponent's semi-final performance, it was clear that his condition was still very good.

Except that Ye Qin ran within 46 seconds in a training record, he hasn't scored 46 seconds in various competitions. According to the current situation, basically the challenge pressure in the finals will be very heavy, not to mention Said that Ye Chin will run the men's 200 meters tomorrow. If the 200 preliminaries go well, there will be 200 semifinals in the afternoon.

"call--"

With a sigh of relief, Nie Fangping looked at Ye Qin, who was standing on the fourth lane before the starting line, and shook his head slightly, "Let’s take a look at this semi-final first!"

It's useless to think so much. Today's game is not over. It's useless to keep staring at the situation that might happen tomorrow. The soldiers will block the water and cover up. The level of strength is there. Whatever it is.

Zhou Bin also nodded slightly when he heard the words. After watching the first group of the semi-finals, he was not in a good mood. Ye Qin was the only athlete he could do well in the men's sprint of this year's World Youth Championship. He had thought Yeqin was able to compete for a medal, but now it seems that the form is very unfavorable.

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On the field, the information of the third group of men's 400m semi-finals appeared on the big screen high in the center of the field.

The first one, Australia, Ben Providence;

The second course, Erkovcek, Croatia;

The third way, Russia, Valentin Kruyarakov;

The fourth way, China, Ye Qin;

Fifth Road, Turkey, Sedar Tamak;

The sixth way, Brazil, Paul-Orlando;

The seventh way, Russia, Maxim-Alexandriko;

Eighth Road, New Zealand, Corey-Innes;

In this group of semi-finals, Yechin was only impressed by New Zealand's Corey Innes. The opponent was in the same group with him in the preliminary round and ranked third. Most of the other players he met for the first time.

In other words, you may have encountered it in the World Junior Championships last year. But if it weren't for the one who won him or caused a huge threat to him at that time, many players may basically not remember it.

There are no players worthy of Yechin's special attention, but it doesn't mean that there may be no opponents in this group.

Ye Qin knows this very well. In the preliminaries, he had some reservations in the end, and the same is likely to be the case for other players.

For world-class competitions, the annual results and historical best results of many players are basically transparent to everyone. Like the Olympic Games or the World Championships, basically before that, everyone can get the data on the competitive and threatening players' competitive status and historical results, and they have a very clear grasp.

For competitions like the World Youth Championship and the World Junior Championships, unless it is a particularly famous player, such as Youssé Bot, who has participated in many international competitions early on, everyone has his past competition data and results. Have a general understanding.

After all, there are so many countries in the world, and other young players, except for their own country’s athletes, are basically blank for everyone else in such an international arena. What you can intuitively understand is the preliminaries, semifinals, and so on. of.

In the first group of semi-finals, Sudan's Abu Bakr Ali participated in the 2003 World Junior Championships, World Championships, All-African Games and Asian-African Games. He showed his face in large-scale competitions. Those who are interested can still know his level.

But the American player Ron Merritt, who ran for 45.84 seconds, almost dragged down the entire group. In a hurry, under current conditions, it was still difficult to fully grasp the opponent's level of strength.

As long as it is not a record-breaking result, for athletes from another country, who cares about the other country's winning six high school championships in Virginia.

"Onyourarks!"

The voices of the on-site starters in their positions sounded.

Ye Qin let out a sigh of relief, focused his attention completely on the game, and slowly stepped onto the starting blocks.

In this semi-final, he was slightly disturbed by someone saying that someone ran into 46 seconds, but at this moment his mood has calmed down.

The level of the World Youth Championship is not low, and the pressure on people is much greater. However, in the year after the World Youth Championship, he has grown a lot in both training and competition.

I was born as a calf when I was in the World Junior Championships. I am not afraid of tigers. I have never thought about the pressure of the game. Up to now, I have not had more confidence, but after a lot of training and competition, I have seen many opponents. With an intuitive understanding of strength, he has more confidence.

After Ye Qin leaned down and kept his body still, the stadium of more than 10,000 people gradually became quiet.

"Set!"

Snapped!

The starting gun sounded suddenly.

At the moment when the gunfire sounded, Ye Qin suddenly got up and accelerated, and quickly rushed out of the starting line.

He is in the position of the fourth track, which is considered a comparative advantage in the sprint competition. By stepping together, he can basically grasp the track of the players in front of him and then make adjustments.

More than two hundred meters ahead, on the first corners and straights, Ye Qin still stabilized his speed and rhythm. He didn't get away from other players too quickly, but he didn't let himself fall behind.

In the 400-meter race, the competition itself is the second half. In the first half, except for some athletes whose technical characteristics tend to be explosive, basically everyone will control the speed.

"Not bad!"

From the start to the run to more than two hundred meters, Nie Fangping and Zhou Bin on the sidelines breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Especially Zhou Bin, letting go of a big stone in his heart, although he is still a little worried about tomorrow's final, but seeing this in the game, he probably feels a little bit in his heart.

In the first two hundred meters, Yeqin did not lead the other players, but was similar to his pre-race, basically ranking in the top three positions among the competitors in the same group.

Because it is the semi-final, the competition is for the last eight places in the finals. The strong players will not hide too much in the early stage, and the weaker players will try their best.

In the first half of the men's 400-meter semi-finals, the speed of this group is actually faster than that of the preliminaries, and Ye Qin has also improved slightly in the first half.

And the key is that in this group of competitions, there was no situation like the American player Ron Merritt in the first group of the semi-finals flying the whole field, and based on the understanding of Yeqin and Nie Fangping, there was no situation in the first 200 meters. Being pulled away at an absolute speed, basically there won't be too many accidents in the second half of the journey.

Of course, the game is not over yet. Although the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, their expressions were still tense.

Straight into the curve, at 250 meters, Ye Qin began to accelerate again.

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

The second corner came to an end, and the form on the court gradually became clear.

Turn into the straight!

The atmosphere in the audience gradually became warmer.

The first to run into the third lane was the Russian player Valentin Kruyalakov. The opponent's technical characteristics are very simple, with long legs and large steps, and the absolute speed is not that fast, but the victory is average.

The rhythm is well controlled. The difference between the first three hundred meters and each 100 meters is not too much, but the average effect brought by the uniform speed makes him the first to enter the stage of knowing after 300 meters.

Yechin was the second player to enter the straight. He was two positions slower than Valentin Kruyarakov, and the difference was not too big.

Since he was only on the second corner, he had already felt that this Russian player was running very steadily, not rushing, and he was more than him in speed control and rhythm.

The situation is similar to that of his encounter with Sudan's Abu Bakr Ali in the preliminary round, but it is the semi-final after all. Compared with the first half of the preliminary round, the speed has improved somewhat, so the situation reflected in the final is quite different.

From entering the last straight ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Yeqin only passed 30 meters, and when he was about 60 meters from the finish line, he overtook Russia's Valentin Kruyarakov and ran directly to it. The first position.

Even if the speed of the first three hundred meters is well controlled, the speed of Valentin Kruyalakoff will inevitably decline by this time, and there is a trend of exhaustion, which can be seen. This is close to the opponent's best level of play.

After Yechin passed Valentin Cruyalakoff, he paid a little attention to his position. At this time, other players besides Valentin Cruyalakoff had been thrown away.

The top two of the semi-final group advanced directly. In the final 50-meter sprint, Yechin controlled the speed and did not desperately make the final sprint, but firmly pressed Valentin Kruyarakov two or three. The distance of each position crossed the finish line smoothly.

46 seconds 34!

On the on-site timing card, Ye Chin's score, who crossed the finish line first, was already in sight.

On the sidelines, Zhou Bin and Nie Fangping applauded excitedly. Although they will face a huge challenge tomorrow, they can successfully advance to the finals is the prerequisite for meeting this challenge.