Boom!

The electronic starting gun rang out.

The noisy stadium suddenly erupted into an uproar.

Despite being a set of preliminaries, the men's 400m was still very spectatory, and the run around the track was just enough for the entire audience to see all the athletes.

The moment the gunshots rang out, Ye Qin rushed out of the starting line at the fastest speed.

It's the 400m heats, but it's the Olympics, and with his current results, he'll only be eliminated in one heat.

In the men's sprint event, he, Yang Yao, Chen Jian, these players have no other exceptions, and the preliminaries are to run and fight as finals!

You don't have to keep it, you don't have to think about the back, you can run as fast as you can, and you can work as hard as you can.

Moreover, he is in lane eight, and from the start he can't see his opponent, he can't see where everyone else is.

For him, this preliminaries can be regarded as running with himself, showing his best condition and running with all the strength he has accumulated.

Fifty meters, one hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters, two hundred meters......

The figures of the runners on the track are like lightning, showing their speed to the fullest in the blazing atmosphere of the scene.

"Ye Chin, come on!"

Standing next to Yu Weili in the stands, Yang Yao, who also came to watch the game, couldn't help shouting loudly after the gun rang out and watched Ye Qin rush out of the starting line.

Although this cheering sound was completely drowned out in the noisy atmosphere of the scene, it could not hinder his mood of cheering for Ye Qin at this moment.

If he remembers correctly, this is the first time that a Chinese athlete has participated in the men's sprint 400m event. Compared with the men's 100m and 200m, the 400m, which requires both speed and endurance, is more difficult for domestic men's sprinters.

According to the training of professional teams, athletes like Ye Qin, although the start and acceleration are weaker, but the absolute speed is good, the greatest possibility is to practice 100 meters and 200 meters, after all, these two events have received much higher attention. is only from a non-professional team like Ye Qin, so he will start from 400 meters and practice 400 meters very well.

Although it is not yet a record breaking like the 200m, in Yang Yao's view, with Ye Qin's growth, it is a matter of time before he becomes the best men's 400m athlete in the country.

Yu Weili also subconsciously touched his shiny head after the gun sounded in the game, which was a subconscious action when he was nervous after he stopped growing hair in middle age.

The national team does not have any requirements for Ye Qin's performance in the Olympic Games, after all, it is the World Youth Championships that meet the standard, and he is very young, and Ye Qin can run this result after only two years of sprinting in the strict sense, and the potential is unlimited.

He himself is a 200m and 400m athlete, and when the results of the World Junior Championships came back last year, he paid attention to Ye Qin, and he wanted to wait a little longer, but what he didn't expect was that Ye Qin's growth rate far exceeded his expectations. In a year's time, by the time of the World Junior Championships, they had already reached the Olympic standards, and such a talent had to make those of them who were coaches happy.

On the one hand, the World Youth Championships have just ended, and the body still needs to adjust and rest, and the other is mainly the tacit understanding between him and Feng Shuyou.

However, even if this Olympic Games, Ye Qin's goal is just to exercise, but in the end, I still hope that he can perform better, not to mention entering the finals, but if he can enter the semifinals, it will also be a big breakthrough.

This is also human nature, things that originally did not have too many thoughts, when there is a little bit of light, it is inevitable that there will be a little more expectation.

Similarly, for many other athletes whose strength has not yet reached the top, they will also use all their strength to compete in the preliminaries, hoping to get a place in the finals.

The cheers on the field became more and more enthusiastic, and in the blink of an eye, the distance of more than 300 meters passed, and the runners rushed through the last corner and began to forge ahead towards the straight.

At this time, other people in the audience were also able to see Ye Qin's position clearly.

Yechin fell to sixth place.

The five runners in front of him all overtook him in the first 300 meters.

And it was only after entering the straight that Ye Qin really felt the distance between himself and the other competitors.

He is the eighth lane, and the first 200 meters are almost all running alone, although his first half of the race is not fast, and he has a controlled rhythm when running, but the distance brought by the number of forward stretches is still invisible to him except for a Tunisian athlete in the seventh lane.

It was only after entering the straights that he was able to judge his place in the group.

And just after entering the straight, Ye Qin began to accelerate the sprint, which is the stage where he excels and the stage where he can catch up and overtake the other competitors.

With 80 metres to go, he was sixth from the bottom.

After twenty meters, he ran to fifth, after fifty meters, he ran to fourth, and after seventy meters, he ran to third.

The last ten meters......

Ye Chin's speed is still very good, he is in front of Jamaican Brandon, and the first runner is Derrick of the United States, and the absolute strength of the two completely crushes the other players.

Yechin seized the last chance to catch up with Brandon in Jamaica as much as possible. In the men's 400m qualification rules, each of the eight preliminary groups only has two stable promotion places, and the remaining eight places depend on the final results, which is a rather dangerous thing.

Ye Qin doesn't want to finish third in the group, he still wants to work hard to fight for the second place in the group, and only by getting the top two in the group can he get a stable qualification.

But this is the Olympic arena, and the top two athletes in each group are almost all the strongest men's 400m athletes in the world at the moment.

At this time, Jamaican player Brandon, who was running second in front of Yechin, saw that he could not win the first place in the group and could not catch up with the American player Derrick, and was already ready to continue to release the water, but suddenly felt an inexplicable threat, and his speed increased again.

In the action of lightning and flint, the three runners have reached the finish line one after another.

Rush the line!

On the timing board, Derrick of the United States won the group with a time of 45.41 seconds.

Immediately afterwards, the second place in the group appeared on the big screen of the scene.

Is that...... Brandon of Jamaica clocked 45.61 seconds.

Ye Chin was third in the group with a time of 45.90 seconds.

After watching the results on the timing board, Ye Qin almost collapsed to the ground.

Tired, the tiredness of the body has reached the extreme.

The 45.90 seconds was a little slower than the 45.88 seconds he ran in the final 400 metres of the World Junior Championships, but he knew it was his best performance at the moment.

But his personal best is still far from the current top 400m, and in the final catch-up stage, he can clearly feel how easy it is for the group leader Derrick of the United States.

The first half was far away, and even the second half of the race that he was good at, there was an obvious gap between him and the other party.

……

"Ye Qin, be mental, run very well!"

After getting off the field, Ye Qin came to the stands on the sidelines, and as soon as he saw Yu Weili, he gave him a hug with a smile and praised him with a smile.

"Coach, can you make the cut?" Ye Qin asked the question he wanted to know the most.

The time of 45.90 seconds probably exceeds the qualification for the Olympic standard B, and it can be said that the athletes who come to participate in the competition can basically run.

But being able to run out, after all, is not the same as what can be achieved in this preliminaries.

The personal best results created by athletes depend on the state, Ye Qin's own results in the preliminaries of this Olympic Games are not as good as his final at the World Youth Championships, and other athletes are naturally the same.

"That's right, Director Yu, can Ye Qin advance?" Yang Yao, who was standing next to him, looked at Ye Qin and smiled, and then asked.

Although Ye Qin's performance did not finish in the top two of the group, it was still very infectious for a Chinese athlete. Even if it's a preliminaries, even if it's just a third place, it's a rare step.

"Don't think too much about it, just play to your level." Yu Weili smiled and replied.

As he spoke, he looked at Ye Qin and Yang Yao's gaze at him, shook his head a little helplessly, and continued, "The game is not over yet, and I can't be sure, in the first three groups of preliminaries, in addition to the top two in each group, there are already three players with better results than Ye Qin in the other players, 45.34 seconds, 45.46 seconds, 45.57 seconds, all of which are top levels." There are still four preliminary groups behind, which are a bit hanging, but Ye Qin, relax, your performance is good enough, far exceeding my expectations. ”

Yu Weili comforted with a smile that Ye Qin's current results are not sure whether he can enter the semifinals, but it is basically certain that there is no chance in the finals. There is not much difference between the first round and the second round, not to mention that Ye Qin still has a 200-meter race in the back, so it is not necessarily better to save more physical strength.

The key is that Ye Chin's performance in the competition exceeded his tone, only 0.02 seconds slower than the World Youth Championship final, which is a seventeen-year-old young man, on a stage like the Olympic Games, the performance and psychological quality of this kind of competition have greatly exceeded Yu Weili's imagination.

Ye Qin looked at Yu Weili's expression, and probably understood in his heart, judging from Yu Weili's experience, he probably had little hope of advancing to the semifinals.

However, before the preliminaries ended, the three were actually still waiting.

When Britain's Benjamin, who finished third in the eighth group, clocked 45.69 seconds, all three had a look of regret on their faces.

In addition to the top two in each group, Ye Qin is ranked 10th among the remaining athletes, and according to the admission rules, the top eight players will advance to the semi-finals, while Ye Qin will not be able to qualify for the semi-finals of the next round of the men's 400m.

After all the results appeared, Ye Qin stood in the stands for a few minutes.

Although there was some regret in his heart, Ye Qin did not have much of a lost look on his face.

In this 400m heats, he has gone all out, and 45.90 seconds is his second best time. Even if you have regrets and unwillingness, as an athlete, you must recognize the gap between yourself and others.

This is the Olympic Games, and none of the athletes present are extremely talented, and which one of them has not undergone a long period of professional training, and with his age, the time he has been training and the level at which he is at this level, he is far from being able to compete with the best athletes in the world.

But this was only temporary, and Ye Qin was not discouraged, four years later he would be 21 years old, and eight years later he would be 26 years old.

It's just getting started!