Chapter 464: First in the Semifinals
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At 17:30 in the afternoon, the men's 60m semifinals continued.
Compared with the preliminaries, there were as many as 8 preliminaries in the semifinals, and the semi-finals have obviously eliminated players above average, with only three preliminaries groups and a total of 24 athletes participating.
In the preliminaries, Ye Qin easily won the first place in the preliminaries with a time of 6.50 seconds and advanced to the semifinals, but after the semifinals, Ye Qin still understood that although the 60-meter athletes who came to participate in the indoor World Championships were absent from the top ones, the athletes present were just as strong.
If it is the 100m final, at this time, there will not be too many competitors who can compete with him, but in the 60m, he wants to win the championship, which is really not necessarily at present.
At least with a time of 6.50 seconds, there is still a certain danger.
Yechin was in the first group of semi-finals, along with British star David Chambers, who had been briefly banned from banned drugs, and European men's 100m record holder, Francis Obikweru, and Leroy Dixon, who finished fourth in the men's 4×100m for the USA team at last year's World Championships.
Ye Qin and several people have played against each other, although the impression is not particularly impressive, but I probably know that these athletes, if they are in good shape, there is still a certain threat to whether he can win more indoor World Championships 60m championships tonight.
In the same semi-final group, other athletes also felt great pressure when they saw Ye Qin standing in front of the starting line.
The World Indoor Championships are generally not very attractive to the top sprinters as the first few races of the season. Top sprinters who hold world records, Olympic champions and world championships compete when they don't have major honours, but they rarely come afterward.
At the World Indoor Championships, people like David Chambers have been coveting the title for a long time, and although he made a comeback in 2006 and returned to competition, there is still a layer of prohibition on him that has not been lifted.
That is, he was not allowed to compete in the Olympics between 2006 and 2012, which was a huge setback for a once-glamorous sprinter.
He was supposed to compete at the World Athletics Championships in 2007, but by then he had already signed a professional contract with the German side of the National Football League, the Hamburg Seadevils.
Unfortunately, the NFL closed the Europa League on June 29, 2007, Chambers lost his job again, and then paid as a TV personality on the TV show Masireek, but unfortunately the reputation of the medicine jar was extremely bad and not popular.
By 2008, David Chambers was back in athletics.
At this time, David Chambers received widespread criticism in the media and in the British athletics community, and even the British Athletics Committee banned him from participating in the World Indoor Championships, and only got his chance with the affirmation of the IAAF.
It can be said that David Chambers was in a very difficult situation at this time, a sprinter with a reputation for taking illegal drugs, and he hit a wall everywhere.
This indoor track and field championship is particularly important for David Chambers, because it may be a relatively high-level competition that he has been able to participate in in recent years.
If he can win the 60m at the World Indoor Championships, David Chambers knows that even if there are all kinds of scandals on his body, real results can still make him much better on the road of sports in the future.
In addition, Francis Obikviru, who participated in the same group, was also full of curiosity about Yechin.
He is a 30-year-old athlete in the men's 100m and men's 200m, and his personal form has declined sharply, and he is no longer the runner-up at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
He is no stranger to Ye Qin, although the number of head-to-head matches is very small, but in recent years, he has almost watched Ye Qin, an athlete from China, leap to the top and become a world champion.
In the past, the outside world has always had the impression that Ye Qin has a strong speed ability, outstanding speed and endurance in the middle and second half of the race, and has very strong strength in the short distance of 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters.
But at 60 meters, not too many people thought how strong Ye Qin could be. But a 6.50 seconds in the preliminaries still surprised Obikviru.
As for the other American player Leroy Dixon, he only played against Ye Qin during the relay, but his teammates were strong at that time, and the last stick was almost completely leading, and he did not have a very intuitive feeling about Ye Qin's strength.
But he is well aware that the top riders who can beat Jason Gaby in both the 100m and 200m events cannot be taken lightly, even in the 60m.
Ye Qin stood at the starting line, but at this time, he was recalling the feeling of running 60 meters in the noon preliminaries.
He competed in the 60m race, which was technically the fifth, but it felt completely different from the 100m. It's the kind of time you've just increased your speed and you've reached the finish line, and a lot of times it doesn't give you room to play to the fullest.
He had an exchange with Yuan Guohua before the race, and the 60 meters and 100 meters seem to be sprints, but for the top sprinters, there is still a slight difference in running style.
After all, the distance of 100 meters is longer, the start should be fast, and the acceleration should be fast, but there is still enough distance acceleration to fully increase the speed and enter the second half of the victory.
In the 60 meters, it is more necessary to strengthen their starting acceleration, to completely burst out the speed in front, and to start more neatly, only in this way can we create better results.
Ye Qin thought so, and did the same when he was playing.
However, long-term training habits and what you are good at cannot be done immediately just because you have an idea.
In many cases, athletes will pay special attention to the start, so that they suddenly exert force at the start, which affects the center of gravity.
Ye Qin just wants to fully improve his speed in the first half of the 60-meter indoor race, and only when there are high-level athletes in the competition arena can he completely force his potential out.
The afternoon match at the Louis Pugue Stadium attracted more attention than the noon, after all, there was no match in La Liga at this time, and it was still worth paying attention to for an indoor track and field championship.
“On your marks!”
Beside the starting line, the sound of each person in place sounded again.
The noisy arena was quiet again, and in front of the starting line, eight runners stepped onto the runner one by one.
Ye Qin glanced at the cushion outside the 60-meter finish line, pursed his lips slightly, landed his feet on the running aid, and assumed a posture ready to start.
The 60-meter race is a race that he can't fully control at the moment, so he will be extra solemn in the face of the field. Especially after entering the semi-finals, the level and strength of the players have risen to a new level, and he doesn't want to miss the regret of not advancing to the finals because of a mistake in his performance and missing the championship competition.
For the game, it is natural to give it your all.
“SET!”
Syllable!
The crisp gunshots rang out in the indoor gymnasium.
Ye Qin's body moved suddenly, and the powerful pedaling force exploded instantly, and the runners under his feet seemed to emit an overwhelming creaking sound, and Ye Qinren had already shot out.
His starting reflexes were no worse than he had been in the preliminaries, and after a lot of training and various races, his start was now very stable.
The start acceleration was much faster than the preliminaries, almost at a distance of more than 20 meters, Ye Qin began to raise his head and run on the way to the high speed.
In the 100m or 200m event, looking up too early will affect the athlete's good momentum, and the speed may not be increased to the maximum, or there will be a lack of follow-up in the second half of the race.
But this is 60 meters.
What you want is to be able to increase the speed as quickly as possible.
Similarly, in this group of Ye Chin's opponents, Britain's Chambers is very fast, almost twenty or thirty meters in front of this and Ye Qin is not far behind, and the two are almost running at a level of speed.
But thirty meters later, Ye Qin's speed suddenly increased, and he quickly got rid of Chambers and went directly to the first position.
Forty meters, fifty meters......
Ye Qin made a big move and directly maintained his advantage to the end.
In the eyes of the audience, almost a brief moment when their eyes opened and closed, the eight runners had already reached the position near the finish line.
On the live timing board, the results of this group of champions appeared again!
6.47 seconds!
Ye Qin played better than he did in the preliminaries, running a time of 6.50 seconds to win the group.
Chambers followed him with a personal best of 6.55 seconds, a step faster than the others.
Obik Viru and Leroy Dixon, who were on Yechin's radar before the race, only ran 6.66 seconds and 6.75 seconds in this group of semi-finals.