Born to Run

"Lao Mu, what do you think, what exactly does Ye Qin think of this 400m semi-final?"

Guan Chengfei sat next to Mu Jiang in the media commentary booth of the Changju Stadium with a look of worry on his face.

Today’s men’s 400-meter semi-finals were not broadcasted on Channel Five. After all, it’s not a men’s 100-meter race, just broadcast the finals.

His director and Mu Jiang's commentator are now sitting and watching the game, but since sitting down, his **** is like a needle stabbed, and he is uncomfortable.

"I have talked with Director Yu and Coach Yuan before, Ye Qin..." Mu Jiang rubbed some disheveled hair, his voice grew longer, "He probably won't give up 400 meters."

After speaking, Mujang paused, and then said, “Before the guide Yu and I relayed Ye Qin’s meaning, the men’s 400 meters event was the first time he started to practice, although because the results are not as good as the 200 meters, he is now influential. It's not even more than 100 meters, but the 400 meters race still needs someone to participate.

Like the 2004 Athens Olympics, we can all qualify for the 100m and 200m, but for the 400m, no one has ever reached it in these years. Moreover, because of the influence and the difficulty of training, there are basically fewer athletes who choose this event.

Ye Qin wanted to start, no matter whether it was at one hundred or four hundred, he would take part in the test and show a way for the people behind. As for the final result, it is of secondary importance. "

"Oh..." Guan Chengfei sighed, "I knew it would be like this. I also think Ye Qin will not be absent from the 100, 200, 400, and relay relays, but this pressure really makes me all Feeling a bit out of breath.

Tell me, after running the 400 meters, it will be 200 meters in less than an hour. Can this body stand it? This is the semi-final. The level of the players is all top. If there is a slight gap and the two ends are lost, then on……"

Guan Chengfei didn't say the following words, but Mu Jiang was able to understand what he meant.

This scene is a bit like the 2005 World Championships. At that time, there were two events. In addition, due to the bad weather, there were many voices in the team that Yeqin gave up an event, even Feng Shuyong, the head of the track team. The coaches have all come forward.

In the end, Yeqin withstood the pressure, and both projects performed well.

But that time was still different. On the one hand, the 200m and 400m races at the Helsinki World Championship were not so close at the time. At least there was a buffer of several hours. In addition, Yechin did not participate in the men's 100m. There is even a relay race behind.

At that time, Ye Chin was just a fledgling and had no fame, but by this year Ye Chin is already the leading sprint superstar in Asia and even the world. If he makes a mistake, he will always cause serious criticism.

What track and field team does not regard athletes as human beings, forcing Yeqin to participate in many events. Yeqin is blindly arrogant, and he is indispensable to challenge the two kinds of sour and stinky words.

However, Mu Jiang also knows one thing in his heart that Yeqin's unprecedented victory in the 100m event this time should be able to absorb a lot of criticism and pressure.

The angle between him and Guan Chengfei is not because of this. The main reason is that Yeqin has missed the 200m gold medal. The 2005 World Championships 200m championship is a boost for the Chinese track and field team's sprint event, allowing the Chinese people to see the outstanding performance of our athletes on the world stage.

For the 200-meter project, he has the same plot as many others. This is Yechin's first event on the final track in the Olympic Games and the first sprint event to win the World Championships. Everyone hopes that Yeqin will be able to win again.

It is because of the 400 meters that affects the performance of the 200 meters, it is impossible to win the championship and to advance to the finals.

However, Mu Jiang has contacted Ye Qin more or less several times, and learned about him from some side news.

Including the reason why Ye Qin first embarked on sprinting, this athlete has always had a stubborn energy.

There are some choices that are easy to draw conclusions in the eyes of others, but it will always become unwise to people when it comes to him.

But along the way, it was Ye Qin's stubbornness that made people feel a little silly, and he didn't weigh the weight, that made him who he is today.

...

In the long-stay stadium, the first group of men's 400m semi-finals have appeared before the starting line.

Ye Qin looked calm, standing in front of the starting line and gently relaxing his body. In the 400-meter semi-finals, there were three groups with a total of 24 contestants. He wanted to compete for the qualifications of eight people to advance to the final. It was naturally more intense than the preliminaries. I don't know how much it is stronger.

Each semi-final group advances to the top two, and then the two best performers will make up for the entry. The probability is one-third. At this time, both the top athletes and those who have the opportunity to enter the finals will take it seriously. stand up.

In the 400-meter preliminaries, Ye Chin estimated that it would be about 45.50 seconds to enter the semi-finals, but in the semi-finals, if you want to enter the finals, Ye Chin is basically certain that you have to run at least 44.50 seconds to have a chance. .

Among the players in this group of men's 400m semifinals, the strongest are American's Angelo Taylor, Sweden's John Wisman and Bahamas' Iward Merck.

Angelo-Taylor Yechin had a fight with the opponent before. The American star born in 1978 was originally a 400-meter hurdle athlete. He won the men’s 400-meter hurdles and the men’s 4×400 at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The gold medal of two items.

In this year's National Championships and World Championships trials, Angelo Taylor created the best time of his career, 44.05 seconds, becoming the fifteenth in the 400 meters best time ever.

In addition, a Swedish athlete, John Weisman, is a white athlete who won silver medals in the 200-meter events of the 2004 Indoor Track and Field Championships and the 2006 European Indoor Track and Field Championships.

As for the Bahamas player Iward Merck, not to mention his strength, he is also a 78-year veteran who won the 2001 Edmonton World Championships men’s 400m and 4×400m champions, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this year. In the Pan American Games, he ran a season best of 44.85, and his personal best was 44.64.

Ye Qin had probably looked at the career statistics of a few people before the game. He didn't check the details, but the general idea still needs to be understood.

Although the 400m has always been dominated by the United States, in comparison, there are not many top players from various races in other countries. Compared to the one-to-two hundred-meter event, the 400-meter event is also the sprint event. Except for West African black athletes, the most prone to top athletes of various skin colors.

After a gunshot, the game officially began.

Yeqin was on the second lane. The third and fourth lanes were the two strongest Swiss players John Weisman and the American player Angelo Taylor.

Since last year's World Cup, Yeqin has been less involved in the 400-meter event. He has not encountered a top 400-meter athlete in the men's 400-meter event for some time. In fact, it is not true that he has not encountered it.

It's just that the general Grand Prix Super Grand Prix is ​​completely different from the World Championships at this moment. In the Grand Prix and various small events, many athletes have the mentality of playing for the game and adjust their own state through competitions. Many small events may not perform well.

In competitions like the World Championships, from the preliminaries to the semi-finals, the players who are able to participate spend a lot of time preparing for the competition, and basically force themselves to come up with the best form to fight and fight.

After Ye Qin started running, there was no distraction in his mind. He did not think about the men's 200m semi-final that was about to be played as a child. By this time, he was completely immersed in the race.

Accelerating steadily and fully, running in a rhythmic way. In the first 100 meters, Yeqin basically did not show the mountains and leaks. He was in the second lane. At this time, everyone in the audience basically couldn't see his specific ranking. .

Until about 200 meters, the straight road enters the curve. At this time, many experienced track and field fans, or some people engaged in sprint track and field related projects, probably saw the difference.

"Wow, Christopher, you are going to lose!"

Marvin Anderson exclaimed excitedly under an LCD TV before the indoor warm-up run.

Christopher Williams, who was on the side, didn't reply at this time, and he devoted himself to the fierce game.

Youssé Bot, who has been watching the game, has his eyes on the TV screen and suddenly becomes solemn.

After passing the first two hundred meters, Yechin began to accelerate. Compared to Yechin, who Yousei Bot knew, his running style in this race was closer to his technical style in previous years.

He didn't use his power to overwhelm others as soon as he came up. Instead, he ran to drag other opponents with his mighty power. Instead, he hung in the middle unhurriedly, and began to accelerate gradually after two hundred meters.

The advantage of running this way is to allow Yeqin to more fully observe the state of other players in the normal game, and then adjust his strategy to more fully retain his physical fitness.

In a blink of an eye, a distance of three hundred meters passed, and the last corner turned into a straight.

Yeqin was already in second place at this time, almost on par with Angelo Taylor.

Eighty meters, seventy meters, sixty meters from the finish line...

While many people thought that Yeqin would kill his opponent in the second half of the game, Yeqin did not speed up suddenly and kept keeping pace with Angelo Taylor's speed.

The two finally crossed the finish line almost at the same time!

In the media commentary on the stands, Mu Jiang and Guan Chengfei clapped with excitement as soon as Ye Qin crossed the finish line.

Ye Qin ran so well in the semi-finals of this group. They have been following Ye Qin for many years, and they can see that Ye Qin is obviously preserving his strength, and he even feels comfortable in running.

The final results are also very good.

Angelo Taylor, who was the first in the group, ran a good time of 44.45, while Yechin's time was 44.49. He qualified for the 400-meter final the day after he was second in the group~www.wuxiaspot.com~ at the same time. , Followed by Angelo Taylor and Yechin, the Swedish player John Wiesman ranked third with a time of 44.56 seconds, and with this result broke Sweden's national men's 400m record. In addition, the Bahamas player Iward Merck also ran in 45 seconds, and the final result was 44.86 seconds.

In addition to Angelo Taylor and Yechin who directly qualified for the first and second place in the group, John Weisman and Iward Merck had good results, but they still need to wait for the other two and a half. Only when the results of the final group are released can it be determined whether they will be able to advance to the final.

Before the finish line, Ye Qin did not stop after seeing his promotion, and soon returned to the rest area of ​​the Chinese team.

He did not seem to be particularly strenuous in this set of 400 meters, but 44.49 seconds is already one of Yechin's best results in 400 meters. He is actually not as easy as outsiders think.

Now he needs to seize the time to rest as soon as possible to recover his physical strength as much as possible, and soon it will be the men's 200m semi-finals.

Another challenge is waiting for him!