Born to Run

? August 28.

The Osaka World Championships has reached the fourth day of the competition. The daily competition schedule can basically be divided into two time periods. The preliminaries and qualifying competitions of most events in the morning, and the semi-finals and finals in the evening.

This kind of game arrangement, on the one hand, can stagger the hot summer weather in Osaka, on the other hand, it can also allow time to enter the workday, attracting more spectators at night, or go directly to the Nagai Stadium, or watch in front of the TV. game.

There were only four events in the morning competition on the 28th, two of which were the men's 400m and men's 200m preliminaries.

The men's 400 meters of the current Osaka World Championships will be a three-shot tiebreaker, preliminaries, semi-finals and finals, and the 200 meters will be a four-shoot tiebreaker, preliminaries, semifinals, semi-finals and finals.

For the sprint event, the preliminaries of the men's 400m and men's 200m are arranged so close, in fact, it is rare in large-scale competitions.

For many athletes in sprint events, many capable athletes can compete in men's 100 meters and 200 meters, or men's 200 meters and 400 meters.

The schedule of the event is basically to keep the 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters staggered as much as possible. If they can’t be put on a single day, it may be separated in the morning and afternoon, or there may be more than one. The hour gap is used to allow some athletes who are also able to take a break during this period, and they perform well in both events.

For the Osaka World Championships this time, enough time has been reserved for the men's 100m and 200m events, but the arrangements for the 200m and 400m events are very tight.

The men’s 400m preliminaries started at 10:10 am on the 28th. One hour later, at 11:10, the men’s 200m preliminaries followed. This schedule is suitable for both 200m and 400m contestants. , The schedule can be said to be very unfriendly.

Yeqin stood on the indoor warm-up track of the Changju Stadium. After a brief warm-up at the venue next to the hotel in the morning, and just after arriving at the stadium, a series of stretching activities have basically been adjusted to the best physical condition.

Yesterday, I had a period of relay cooperation with other members of the relay team, mainly focusing on handover training. The running time was not particularly large. So far, the body has not been affected in any way, regardless of physical ability or spirit.

Facing the upcoming two preliminaries, Yeqin also knows his mind. With his current level and ability, he will consider the physical distribution of the following games based on his own state after the two preliminaries.

At 10:10 in the morning, the men's 400m preliminaries officially started.

There are a total of seven preliminaries for the 400m preliminaries, with 60 players participating, four of which are nine athletes participating in the preliminaries and eight for the other three groups.

Yeqin was in the third group of the 400m preliminaries. When he was standing on the field, the time had reached 10:24. The organizing committee gave the 400m preliminaries an average of 7 minutes. The entire 400m preliminaries ended. After that, just can proceed to the men's 200m preliminaries starting at 11:10.

Yechin's 400m preliminaries in this group, he knows that there is only one Alain Francia from Granada.

The two had previously played against both the Osaka Grand Prix and the Eugene Grand Prix. The most recent one was in the World Cup last year. At that time, Yechin was the champion, the runner-up was Sean Merritt, and the third was Gary Kikaya. , Alain Francia finished fourth in that game.

Other players, some Yeqin may have seen each other, but some because of skin color, language, etc., he basically has no special impression.

After the gunshots rang out, the third group of preliminaries quickly rushed out of the starting line.

Ye Qin is still very clear about his 400-meter tempo. Basically, if he wants to run, he can run out of his performance within the range of his ability. The fluctuations will not be too large.

According to Yeqin's estimation, he prepared this group of pre-races in about 45 seconds and 50, and he should be able to advance to the semi-finals.

However, contrary to his expectations, the strength of his group of players is not low. Needless to say, Alain Francia of Granada, this is a strongman who can get fourth in the Olympics, and Lay from France Both Sley Geron and Ricardo Chambers of Jamaica are extremely good. In addition, there is a British player Andrew Steele, who has been closely following Yechin in the front 300 meters.

When he reached a position of about 80 meters on the final straight, Ye Qin saw that he was about to fall to the fifth position, and had to raise his speed slightly for the final sprint.

After all, in the seven preliminaries, each group advances to the top three, and then the three best performers are promoted. A total of 24 places are a little more than one-third of the total number of preliminaries. For many players who participated in the competition for the first time In other words, it was all the preliminaries and began to go all out to fight.

The result of the final game came out. Yechin got the second qualification in the group with a time of 45.09. The group champion was Granada Alain Francia. He created the best of the 2007 season in this group of preliminaries. The score was 44.95 seconds, and the third was French player Leslie Geron with a score of 45.17 seconds.

From the men's 400-meter runway, Ye Qin crossed the rest area of ​​the stadium corridor, and took the time to return to the rest area where the Chinese track and field team was located.

Zhuang Wei and Chen Zhongzhou have already been waiting there. Although Ye Qin has reservations to run this men’s 400 meters, the next thing he has to deal with is another men’s 200 meters preliminaries, no matter what this time. , All to let the body muscles relax quickly.

"Ye Qin, you are still a bit risky just now."

As soon as he sat down, Chen Zhongzhou, who was next to him, leaned in to express his opinion on Ye Qin's 400-meter race.

"Well, I really didn't expect the level of players in this group of competitions to be so high."

Ye Qin nodded. The 400-meter preliminaries in this group were dangerous. Although such dangers were completely within his control, in the eyes of outsiders, there were still many unexpected factors.

Generally, top athletes have reservations during the preliminary rounds. They are basically in the final tens of meters. After locking the advantage, they will release the water.

And just now, he finally saw his opponent running ahead and catching up again. Although he got the same spot, there were still many unexpected factors.

Chen Zhongzhou nodded, seeing that Ye Qin fully understood this in his heart, and did not continue to say anything.

The current Yeqin is not when he first met a few years ago. In a few years, Yeqin has grown into a world-class sprinter, with sufficient experience and psychological endurance for dealing with various competitions.

On the other hand, the coaching staff of the Chinese team and many athletes did not come up to bother after seeing Yeqin come down to rest. There was basically no surprise that Yeqin could qualify for the 400m semifinals, including Feng Shuyong and Yu. The big bosses of Wei Li's two track teams are very clear that even if it is a bit risky at Yeqin's level, there will be basically no problems in qualifying for the preliminaries.

The only thing they are concerned about is that Ye Qin is worried about Ye Qin's physical consumption and condition problems due to successive matches, and that he is not in good condition due to fatigue, which will affect the final play of the finals.

However, in fact, these concerns have faded a lot after the men's 100m race ended.

Yeqin won the men's 100 meters championship and became a veritable world trapeze. At the same time, his time of 9.83 seconds set a new Asian record. It is also a high-ranking result in the history of the IAAF men's 100 meters.

Now everyone is in Japan, and I don’t know the specific situation in the country, but I can imagine it when I think about it. I don’t know what the crowd is like. Ye Qin once again appeared on the news network, and the only report was for more than a minute.

With the honor of the 100-meter champion, the following games are enough to relieve the coaching staff of the track and field team. The latter games can completely let Yechin play by himself. Of course, it is better to get more medals, even if it really fails In fact, it doesn't matter much.

Of course, when the pressure of public opinion no longer exists, if Yechin can win the championship again in the 200m event, he will become the third man to win the World Championships after Karl Lewis and Morris Green. The track and field athletes of the 100m and 200m champions ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ are about to cause another sensation.

Especially for the 400m project, if it goes further...

It was about 10:35 when Yeqin returned to the rest area. At this time, the fourth group of the men's 400m preliminaries had just started and the competition had not yet started.

It’s almost an hour before Yechin’s next men’s 200-meter race.

There are a total of six preliminaries in the men's 200m preliminaries. The top four of each group will advance directly, and then the eight best results will be added. A total of 32 athletes participated in the semifinals.

The preliminaries started at 11:10. Yeqin was placed in the fifth group of the preliminaries. The time was 11:42, which was almost an hour away.

During this hour, Ye Qin basically did not continue to perform high-intensity warm-ups. These had been done before running 400 meters before. After Zhuang Wei's simple muscle massage to relax, followed by a simple rest.