Born to Run

? January 10, 2008, not far from the Spring Festival time.

In China, at this time, except for a few areas in the south, the country has basically entered a large-scale cooling. The city of Bradenton in Florida is still warm and sunny.

"I really don't want you to leave. I think that during this period of training, you have surpassed my imagination."

In the IMG Academy, on the track and field, Haydn Kerm and a group of Chinese track and field team members sat under the pergola, chatting.

"Haydn, if you can't bear it, you can come to our national team to teach, just like coach Randy Hunter."

Yang Yao put on the t-shirt again. After the training, he was still sweaty. Although the temperature in Florida is not low, the wind is not small at this time. You still need to pay attention to keeping your body warm.

"It's a good idea to coach in China." Haydn-Kom replied with a smile after hearing Yang Yao's words, "Yang, if you can make it to the 200-meter final in the Olympics, no, it's the semi-final, I Just agree to your request and I can lower my salary."

"Then you should bet with Ye Qin." Yang Yao curled his lips. The Olympic men's 200-meter semi-final is still possible at his current level, but the semi-final, according to the current men's 200-meter level, still has a certain distance. .

"He?" Haydn-Kom pointed to Yeqin after hearing Yang Yao's words, "he can only win the championship, no, it should be the record of breaking Michael Johnson, I can agree."

With that, Haydn-Kom yelled at Yechin, who was standing outside the pergola, stretching again: "Hey, Ye, do you think you can break the Michael Johnson record this year?"

"It's definitely possible. Yeqin was close last time."

Su Bingtian on the side raised his ears and listened with some effort to the conversation between Haydn-Kom and Yang Yao. After Yeqin ignored this, he stammered and replied in English.

"100 meters is also possible." Zhang Peimeng also replied in English on the other side.

In the past few months, in addition to training, the two have been desperately studying English, probably because of the change of their native language environment, and the progress has been very obvious.

I have been able to go from being completely incomprehensible, to being able to carry out simple oral communication, and even occasionally asking some more professional questions.

"Of course, if the game performs well." Haydn Kerm watched several people replied swearingly, with a smile on his face. This situation is really not impossible.

Standing outside the pergola, Ye Qin had just finished stretching after training with the help of coach Yuan Guohua, and walked up to a few people naked, "Heim, what were you talking about?"

Haydn-Kom looked up and down Ye Qin, then suddenly turned his head and asked Yang Yao, Zhang Peimeng, and Su Bingtian, "Hey, have you found it?"

"What?" Yang Yao replied somewhat puzzled.

"Yechin is a lot stronger than before." Haydn-Kom said with a smile, "muscle quality is improving."

Ye Qin took a look at his body. In the past few months in the United States, he was indeed much stronger than before. Then Ye Qin raised his eyes to look at the other people, "It's not just me, but they are also much stronger."

"Yes. Guys, your physical fitness is very good, better than some of the black boys I have trained." Haydn Kerm nodded, and recently guided the Chinese track and field team so that he clearly discovered that the physical fitness of the yellow race is not the same. Not bad, especially these top athletes, they are all quite outstanding.

"I have confidence in you now." Haydn Kerm stood up and walked to Yechin, gave him a light blow, "I will go to the Olympics this year to watch your game. Remember that you have to win at least two gold medals."

During Ye Qin's time at IMG Academy, except for a two-day trip to California on the way, there was a short interruption in training, and the rest of the time was training under his guidance.

During this period of time, Yeqin's progress was also very rapid. After temporarily setting aside the 400-meter training, he focused on the men's 100m and 200m. Yeqin's strength improvement was very obvious.

However, in just a few months, the training can have obvious results, and it has been quite difficult.

In track and field, athletes who want to improve their performance are basically not achieved overnight. On the one hand, it needs to improve the physical fitness, and on the other hand, it is to optimize the skills, so that the athletes can improve their performance through the optimized skills in the original physical fitness.

Although Yeqin is already at the pinnacle of the current men's sprinter, it is reasonable to say that it is not easy to improve performance, but Yeqin is still improving.

The distribution of Yechin's muscles he observed, the proficiency of fast contraction white muscles is obviously rising, which means that Yechin's short-distance explosive ability is getting stronger.

Of course, the corresponding Ye Qin's fast-twitch red muscle is decreasing, reducing endurance training, which makes his performance in the 400-meter event or longer distance event will definitely appear a stagnation, or even decline.

"The selection result is out!"

A few people were resting and chatting in the pergola. Outside the pergola, Haydn Kerm's assistant coach, a tall and thin white young man ran over with a magazine in his hand.

First glanced at the people in the pergola, then looked at Ye Qin, "Ye, you won the 2007 Track and Field News Athlete of the Year."

"Wow!"

In the pergola, everyone suddenly exclaimed.

They all know that Yeqin went to California before and received an interview with Track and Field News. Yeqin is very likely to be selected as the best athlete of the year, but when the news was confirmed, they couldn't help but marvel.

Haydn-Kom even snatched the magazine from the assistant and looked through it carefully.

On the cover of the magazine, there are photos of Yeqin's men's 100 meters cross the finish line in the 2007 World Championships, but there are some special editions in it, but there are fashion photos of Yeqin's special makeup and styling.

"Tsk tusk, Ye, look like this, you are really very handsome!"

"Wow, I really don't dare to recognize it!"

Yuan Guohua also leaned in front of a few people, and then looked at a selection list on the inside page of the magazine, his expression agitated.

Ye Qin won the 2007 Track and Field News Athlete of the Year, which is of great significance.

This is the recognition of Yeqin's achievements in the United States and the world, and it is also an important step for China's track and field to go global.

Track and Field News Athlete of the Year. So far, there are only three Asian athletes who have won this award, and Ye Chin is the third.

The first two, the first one can be traced back to 1963. Yang Chuanguang, a Taiwanese athlete known as the "Asian Iron Man", has won the men's decathlon gold medal in the Asian Games in 1954 and 1958, and 110 meters. Silver medals in hurdles and long jump, and bronze medals in 400-meter hurdles. In the 1956 Summer Olympics, Yang Chuanguang ranked eighth in the decathlon competition. He also participated in the high jump competition ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is an excellent track and field athlete who can compete in multiple track and field events.

The second place is Oriental Deer, who won the Track and Field News Female Athlete of the Year in 1993.

Yeqin is the third track and field athlete from Asia. Even Liu Yangyu, who won the Olympic champion and broke the Asian record, did not achieve this. In 2004 and 2005, the best athlete of the year in track and field news was awarded by Ethiopian legendary long-distance runner Koneni. Sa Bekele won.

In 2006, he was almost unbeaten in the 100 meters, tying his men's 100 meters world record twice with Asafaville.

For Yuan Guohua, a coach who is dedicated to improving China's track and field at the international level, there are some Chinese athletes who can be selected as the best athlete of the year in track and field news. There are goals that they have worked hard and achieved for generations.

Ye Qin looked at the noisy crowd and stood in front of the pergola. He was not too surprised by this result.

He just walked out and looked at the track and field in the distance, “It’s been 2008, and I’ve waited for four years, and finally waited for the Olympics again! This time, I will no longer be the background board for others.”