Two or three hours passed quickly, Ye Qin followed the team leader Zhou Bin to eat something at the University of Sherbrooke to replenish his calories, and then took a brief rest in the lounge, followed by a warm-up preparation, and soon began to enter the check-in process.

The men's 400m race of the World Junior Championships is a three-shot tiebreaker, preliminaries, semi-finals, and finals, and the three competitions are held on three days.

The preliminaries started at 13:55 on July 10, and as the number of participating athletes reached 42, they were directly divided into six preliminary groups, with seven players in each group participating, and the top four players in the group directly advanced to the semifinals.

The semi-finals will start at 18:15 on July 11, with a total of three groups, the top two in each group will advance directly, and then the two best players, a total of eight players will participate in the finals.

The final will be held on July 12 at 5:10 p.m.

Today is the preliminary round, and the times of the five preliminary groups are 13:55, 14:01, 14:07, 14:13, 14:19 and 14:25.

Ye Qin was in the third group of the preliminaries, and after a little trivial procedures such as roll call, at 14:05 local time in Sherbrooke, Ye Qin and the other players crossed the corridor and were preparing to play.

I just happened to meet the seven players who had completed the preliminary round in the previous group and quit, and he didn't know what the results of the previous group would be because they were waiting.

However, the oncoming figure in a yellow sprint suit still surprised Ye Qin a little, it was a black young athlete, who was still a little immature in his face, but he was very tall, a few points taller than Wu Jiang, a discus thrower who lived in a dormitory with Ye Qin in the past few days.

Maybe because of his height, he looks very thin, his limbs are slender, and he feels like he stands out from the crowd.

When passing by the other party's side, the black boy seemed to feel Ye Qin's gaze, and his sweaty face suddenly grinned and made a grimace.

"This Jamaican is kind of funny!"

Ye Qin also smiled, he had just noticed the logo of the sportswear on the other party's chest, and the four black and green inverted triangles were separated by a yellow X thick line.

He studied geography in his first year of high school, and before and after the delegation came to Sherbrooke, he introduced the flags of some other countries, and the standard for the flag on the chest of this black teenager should be Jamaica, a small country in the Caribbean.

Across the track, Yechin and six other runners from the third group of heats were in front of the men's 400-meter starting line at the Sherbrooke Stadium.

At this time, the names, strokes and nationalities of the third group of preliminaries were also played on the big screen at the Sherbrooke Stadium.

First Lane, Nicholas Pace, Germany;

the second, Ye Chin, China;

Third Way, Sateri Guman, USA;

Fourth Lane, Osu Chávez, Canada;

Fifth Path, Karaka-Apalao, India;

Sixth Way, Nick Clytie, UK;

Seventh Lane, Leonard Malakwen, Kenya;

Ye Qin basically didn't remember the names of other players, and it was a preliminaries, and he didn't focus on other players, only knowing that everyone was from different countries.

"Ye Chin!"

"Ye Chin, come on!"

"Run, Yechin!"

……

At this time, there was a sudden cheering sound shouting his name from the sidelines.

Ye Qin looked in the direction of the sound, and at a glance saw a bright red flag swinging left and right in the crowd.

"It should be Wu Jiang who is waving the red flag!"

The distance is a little far, and it doesn't seem so real, but it is a dormitory with Wu Jiang, and after getting along for a few days, he still has some impressions of that figure.

That's where he sat a few hours ago cheering on Liu Feng, the shot putter, and where the head of the Chinese delegation and the players who didn't play were temporarily organized into a cheerleading squad.

Ye Qin waved his hand in the direction of the red flag on the sidelines, and suddenly felt that his heart was filled with an inexplicable emotion.

In such a arena, in many cheers, he seemed to have a different feeling.

He looked up, he didn't care too much about the other players, he didn't know him anyway, he just wanted to take a good look around and see the entire Sherbrooke University Stadium,

Unlike looking at the stadium from the perspective of the audience in the morning, it seems that suddenly it is as if the actors are on stage and become the center of everyone's attention.

The stadium is an outdoor open venue, there are not many spectator seats in the stands, the vision on both sides is transparent, and there are more than ten meters high projection lampposts in the north and south of the stadium, and each lamppost has high-power spotlights shining on both sides. When night falls, these lights are turned on, so that the stadium is free from the weather, making the stadium feel like daylight.

In the middle of the runway, the men's shot put B qualifying round is underway, and on the other side of the runway, in the direction of the bunker, where the long jump qualification round is underway.

"This is the stage of the World Series!" Ye Qin looked at the surrounding environment and sighed silently.

It was almost a year ago at this time that he got the admission letter of Xiushui No. 2 Middle School, and he was still anxious about how to make up the tuition.

Entering Xiushui No. 2 Middle School, he was dragged to participate in the school sports meeting, followed by the city middle school student sports meeting, the provincial youth track and field championships, and several tests.

Today, and now, he is thousands of miles away, competing in world-class matches in the stadiums of a country he once never dreamed of.

Although the World Junior Athletics Championships is only the third edition, it is far from being comparable to other competitions in terms of popularity and competition level, but it is also a world-class competition under the IAAF.

And he, standing here!

"Ye Qin, for many people, practicing sports is entertainment, interest, stepping stone, and means...... But for some, sport is a way to change the course of their lives. ”

In his mind, Ye Qin remembered for no reason what Yan Ning had said to him when he refused the invitation of Coach Zhao of the Avant-garde Sports Association.

If he hadn't stepped on the runway, he wouldn't have been able to make such a big change in his life in one year, with tuition waivers, school subsidies, nutritious meals, and being able to go to Nanxiu City, Zuohai City, Yanjing, and even now abroad.

The first time I flew on a plane, the first time I stayed in a hotel, the first time I went abroad.

If he hadn't set foot on the runway, then he should have been like the rest of his classmates, immersed in hard study, maybe he could have a good future in the future, and after exhausting his strength, he would climb out of the small mountain village.

Maybe he failed in the college entrance examination, but he was just an ordinary part-time worker, like his uncle, struggling to survive in a materialistic society.

Maybe there's a lot of maybe, and he doesn't know.

But now it's only been a year, and a lot of unthinkable things have happened!

"Will sports change my life?!"

Ye Qin asked in a low voice, he felt that he might have found the meaning of running by himself.

……

“On your marks！”

The sound of the starter next to the track reminding the runners to take their positions sounded from the loudspeaker.

The race is on!