Born to Run

? "Today's preliminaries, Ye Qin will not play. Our four most important goals are to qualify for the finals!"

The second day, August 31, the last day of August, the seventh day of the current World Championships.

Early in the morning in a stadium not far from the Chinese team hotel, Yuan Guohua stood in front of the runway, looking at the six people, Yang Yao, Wen Yongyi, Gu Kai, Zhang Peimeng, Pang Guibin and Su Bingtian, with extremely solemn expressions.

"After the 200m finals ended yesterday, Ye Qin came back and communicated with me. He thought he could participate in today's 4×100m preliminaries, but I refused. Do you know why?" Yuan Guohua asked again.

Yang Yao, Gu Kai, and Pang Guibin were silent and did not speak. Anyway, Zhang Peimeng replied from the side: "Ye Qin is too tired!"

Since the start of the World Championships, Ye Qin has been playing every day, not taking a breather for a day. The 100 meters and 200 meters each ran four races, and the 400 meters also ran two preliminaries and semi-finals.

In addition, he won the 100m and 200m championships in the competitions, making him one of the few athletes who can win the 100m and 200m double crowns in the history of the World Championships. In addition, he also qualified for the finals in the 400m event.

Let alone the problem of physical fitness, a competition with such a high density is enough to make many athletes unable to maintain their best physical condition at all and make major mistakes.

"Yes, Brother Qin should have worked too hard, the intensity of the game has been too strong these days." The young Su Bingtian on the other side followed and echoed, his eyes flashing with excitement.

Ye Qin's performance in the past few days has completely conquered the two youngest athletes in the current relay team. They dare not imagine how Ye Qin did it under such an intensive schedule and pressure.

That requires an extremely strong heart. Whenever they think of their appearance in a stadium of tens of thousands of people, they will be excited, not to mention competing in such a market and defeating other world-class players with their absolute strength. opponent.

Ye Qin, that is a tangible legend among the athletes of their generation, and the legend continues.

In the bottom of their hearts, Ye Qin's status has far surpassed Liu Yangyu, who was almost on the verge of achieving a Grand Slam.

"How should I put it..." Yuan Guohua pondered slightly before speaking slowly, "Actually, you all know that if Ye Qin ran the fourth ball today, there would only be no major mistakes. Our men's 4×100 meters did not make any major mistakes. There is a great chance to qualify for tomorrow’s final. Let’s not talk about physical fitness anymore. The 4×100m run will be 80 or 90 meters on the fourth bat. I believe Yeqin will be fine. But..."

Yuan Guohua said that the ending sound was a bit long, his eyes swept over everyone present, and he paused and then continued: "However, I rejected Ye Qin's proposal to participate in the preliminaries.

Not to mention that he has the 400m final today. Will running the relay affect his performance on the 400m? Even as the head coach of a relay team, I don't want to agree. Relay is a collective event. It can't be driven by a world-class top fourth bar, it can be won. The 4×100m is a competition where four people cooperate and fight together. It is the only group event in track and field. I believe that none of you will be willing to rely on Ye Qin. So, cheer me up tonight. To qualify for the finals, to prove yourself! Did you understand? "

"Understood!" the six people on the court answered in unison.

"That's good! Warm up first, and then do some handover training. Don't do long distance running today, keep fit!"

Yuan Guohua slapped his palms and looked at the six people with high morale.

After the six relay players got on the track and started warming up, the assistant coach Li Qi, who had been standing by, walked up and said with a slight smile: "Old Yuan, you didn't let Yeqin play in the preliminaries tonight. There are a lot of risks. If you can make it to the finals, that's okay. If you can't make it, it is estimated that you will be under greater pressure after returning to China."

Li Qi is the director of the Sports Department of Shuimu University and a member of the coaching staff of the national track and field team. In the relay team, Gu Kai and Zhang Peimeng are athletes led by him. From the sprint team, he proposed the strategy of "relay driving the individual events". Since then, he has started to work with Yuan Guohua to help the opponent improve the level of the national team's 4×100m relay event.

"There must be a risk." Yuan Guohua glanced at the players who were already in the lap from a distance, and his expression became a bit solemn, "but this is a process that can't be helped. The players have never experienced such pressure before. This World Championships is a golden opportunity. If they can really perform at the preliminaries tonight and qualify for promotion, we may have more confidence in the Olympics next year."

As the head coach of the Chinese relay team, Yuan Guohua is very ambitious for the Chinese men's 4×100m relay of the World Championships. This is the era with the largest number of talents in China’s sprint event. Even if Ye Qin is not mentioned, all the other old players are Able to reach the 100-meter level of about 10 seconds 2 and 10 seconds 3, as long as you give full play to your strength and level, you are still very hopeful of qualifying for the finals for the men's 4×100 meter relay preliminaries of the World Championships tonight.

"That's what you said." Li Qi nodded slightly, he naturally understood Yuan Guohua's thoughts, but Yeqin didn't play tonight, and he was really going to lose. Yuan Guohua, him, and even the entire relay team would be subject to internal and external pressure. .

If you have a world champion, you don't need to, but you have to use other players. On this point, when the storm is on the cusp, many media or the public will not reason with you.

Even if everyone knows, Ye Qin is going to participate in the men's 400m final today. He has gone through many games before, and his body is already a little tired at this time.

But some people are like this. On the one hand, they will scold you for catching a top player like Ye Qin, which is very useful. On the one hand, when you really let him rest, you will say that you have eyes but no pearls, and you obviously have hole cards but you don't use them.

"Our vision still needs to be long-term. A new generation of athletes is growing up. With Ye Qin breaking a path ahead, the hearts of the later players are different."

Yuan Guohua said that he didn't know when his face showed a smile, and pointed to two of the few people who were running laps, "You brought Zhang Peimeng, and Su Bingtian, whom I brought back from Guangdong Province, the talented disciple of the two. They are all very good. They are different from the other players of the previous generation. Watching Yeqin repeatedly set the Asian 100m record, and won the championship in the World Championships, the heart will rise. It will not be the previous batch that can only be done in China. It's horizontal."

Both are veteran coaches and have a thorough view of domestic track and field. In the early years, it was not said that there were no good seedlings in China. There were also a billion people. It was just that at that time, due to factors such as training methods, athletes fell into a bottleneck after reaching a certain level. It was basically difficult to go abroad, even in Asia they would often run into walls.

On the one hand, this is a means of training, and on the other hand, it is also a visible ceiling problem.

However, various experts in public opinion at home and abroad are unanimously saying that it is impossible for you to run for 10 seconds, you cannot run for 20 seconds, and it is impossible to win the black contestant. Over time, naturally, many people have formed the concept of possible truth. The inherent impression that it can't be done.

Why Yang Yao, an athlete from Shenghai, is particularly valued, is that before Liu Yangyu and Ye Qin, he is one of the few players who can not satisfy himself, dare to improve himself, and go to the large-scale competition.

Now, Yechin’s example is already in the front, and the latecomers are obviously able to set higher goals. They will no longer regard the national 100m record of 10 seconds and 17 as the sky, but they will all look at them. The second mark is the goal.

On the track and field stadium, after the warm-up lap, everyone stood on the track and continued to do stretching and warm-up activities.

Yang Yao let out a long sigh, stood in front of a few people, and looked at the people behind him and said: "Tonight's 4×100 meters, everyone knows how important it is. Only four of the six of us are on the court. No matter which four are on the field, I hope everyone can do their best and go all out!

The relay event is a collective event. Yeqin has already won two gold medals. Tonight's 400 meters may still have a good result. There are so many of us. We can't lose all of them just because we are missing Yeqin.

At the World Championships in 2003, I also participated in the 4×100m relay. It was a day trip. We prepared for several months. Five or six athletes flew from Yanjing to Paris and ran one race. This time I don’t think you guys think we are a day trip? "

As the elder brother of the track and field team, even after the rise of Ye Qin and Liu Yangyu, his prestige in the entire track and field team is still very high. When he said something, everyone on the scene knew what he meant.

"I don't want to!"

"I don't want to!"

"We are going to the finals!"

One by one voices came from the few people who were still panting.

I look at something formalistic, but in a small team, a team that works side by side, it has always been like this. They forge and motivate each other.

"Then everyone will be in the best condition." Yang Yao said in a deep voice, squeezing his fists, "We are going to the finals, we are in the finals, Ye Qin will run the fourth at that time, everyone knows Ye Qin's You know how much we can improve when we have him on the field~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Coach Yuan’s goal is to let us advance to the finals. My goal is, we have to get the cards!

You will get a card in this year's World Championships, and you will get a card in the Olympics next year. We don’t need to participate in individual events, and we can’t make it to the finals after participating in the event, but the relay is fine! "

Off the court, Zhang Peimeng and Su Bingtian clenched their teeth, and the body that had just warmed up seemed to tighten again at this moment.

In tonight's final, Zhang Peimeng has already confirmed that he will play. As a reserve player, Su Bingtian has a low probability of playing, but specifically, it is not without a chance.

But in fact, if you don't play, everyone has a fiery heart at this time.

There is a man who has overcome obstacles in his personal project, achieved unprecedented results for Chinese sprinters, and created a series of records. As his teammates, as a member of the relay team, we must not be too bad!

"Come on, everyone!" Yang Yao took a deep breath, clapped his hands, and sincerely shouted at several people again.

"Come on!"