Chapter 351: A Big Event
On March 14, the Chinese team, which had finished the Moscow Indoor Track and Field Championships, began to return to China.
Along the way, Yechin was in a good mood, and even had a smile on his face a little more than when he won the first World Championship in Helsinki.
The 400m Indoor World Championships was Yechin's first international championship, and he started training in the 400m event, but Yechin's personal results were always compared to the 200m.
There have been many voices that have made Ye Qin consider whether to give up the 400-meter event altogether, after all, Ye Qin's 400-meter is competitive in China and Asia, but it is not the top in the world.
Compared to his 200m competitiveness in international athletics, anyone with a discerning eye can see that his 400m is much weaker.
Ye Qin was also a little skeptical for a while, and occasionally in the jokes of several coaches, he also considered switching to the men's 1200m event, with the men's 200m as the main and the 100m as the supplement, maybe the results will be even better.
And this men's indoor track and field World Championships 400m gold medal dispelled the little doubt in Ye Qin's heart, and he is still a very competitive athlete in the 400m event.
Yechin's current situation is only due to age and muscle tolerance, at this stage, the improvement in the 400m is not as pronounced as he is in the 200m, and it is certain that if at the age of 30, if he still has both the men's 200m and the men's 400m, then by that time, his 400m will be a little better than his 200m.
After returning to China, there are still many reports in the media about Ye Qin winning the only gold medal at the Moscow Indoor World Championships, but naturally it still cannot be compared with last year's World Championships.
After all, it is the Indoor World Championships, and many ordinary people have probably only heard of it, and there are many that they have not even heard of.
The wind of track and field in China slowly blew after the Athens Olympics, and many spectators began to understand it carefully and gradually understand the levels of various competitions.
Rao is like this, this time Ye Qin is in the limelight alone. When Liu Yangyu failed to participate, he won a gold medal and saved the face of the Chinese team.
The day after returning to China, at the track and field field of the Yenching Training General Bureau.
Ye Qin, who was training daily, saw Liu Yangyu and Feng Yun, who had just broken the women's 60-meter hurdles in the indoor competition, appear on the training ground.
"Didn't you say that you would go back to Shenghai tomorrow?" Ye Qin glanced Liu Yangyu up and down, and when he saw him wearing sportswear and sneakers, he was a little surprised, "Why are you still running the track and field?" ”
"Let's do some basic training." Liu Yangyu stood on the runway and did a simple muscle stretching movement, "I still want to keep my body in shape." ”
"Are you sure it won't aggravate the injury on your foot?" Ye Qin looked at the shoes on the other party's feet, but fortunately, he didn't wear spiked shoes.
"At the moment of running, there is still a little pain in the ankle, after all, it is a twisted tendon, fortunately it does not hurt the bones, it is not a big deal, and after a week or two of recovery, I should be able to wear spikes. I'll go back to Shenghai tomorrow afternoon, do you want to go to Xinzhuang to train with me? ”
"Not for now." Ye Qin shook his head, "I've been staying at school these days and training with the sports department. ”
"That'll do fine." Liu Yangyu nodded in understanding.
Ye Chin's original coach Randy Hunter's focus has shifted to the long jump, and the time to guide Ye Qin is not much, and then, Ye Qin can also train with the sports department and the school team at Mizuki University, where the level is not low, and several professors and directors of the sports department are track and field coaches of the national team. It just so happens that you can also take classes and train at the same time, which is naturally better than following to the Xinzhuang training base to train.
Thinking of this, Liu Yangyu suddenly smiled, "I'll go run two laps first." By then, the Japanese Grand Prix in May should be fully restored, and it will be my first race of the year. ”
"Anyway, your mission is to recover, take your time."
Ye Qin followed and said in the back, and he also knew in his heart that Liu Yangyu was still nervous about physical recovery, but the Osaka Grand Prix in Japan on May 6 was still more suitable as the first stop of this year.
In the following days, Ye Qin usually trained with Gu Kai and Zhang Peimeng from the Physical Education Department at Shuimu University, as well as attending classes at school, and occasionally returned to the General Training Bureau to test and do various examinations, and lived an orderly life.
However, this is also a quiet day at the beginning of this year's season, Ye Qin is not going to compete in the Osaka Grand Prix in Japan this year, but at the end of May, according to the team's arrangement, he will go to the United States to participate in the Grand Prix in Eugene and New York.
Last year, there was no men's 200m event in Eugene, but this year there is, and after all, the level of track and field athletes competing in the United States is relatively high, and competing there has also improved Yechin greatly.
On May 6, the news of the Osaka Grand Prix in Japan was transmitted back to China, and after Liu Yangyu missed the Indoor Track and Field Championships due to injury, the first race in 2006 lived up to expectations and won the Osaka Grand Prix with a time of 13.22 seconds.
When Ye Qin heard the news, he was still training with Coach Li Qi at Shuimu University, and he was feeling that Liu Yangyu's injury should not have much impact, and it looked like he had fully recovered.
From the end of the East Asian Games last year to the first race in May, there has been an interval of more than five months, and it is enough to see that the state is still very good.
However, a few days later, after Ye Qin heard a new news from Gu Kai, his heart twitched violently.
"The fastest man in the world" ——— May 15, 2006 "Football Sports" news:
Until Friday, the title would have been less convincing if it were to be added to the Olympic and World Championships men's 100m double champion Jax Thelin. Because his two championship times were 9.85 seconds and 9.88 seconds respectively, and the world record of 9.77 seconds in the 100m was held by Jamaican Powell. And Jax Thelin's World Championship title was also won in the absence of Asafavir due to injury. But at last Friday's Doha International Athletics Grand Prix, Jax Thelin set a new world record of 9.76 seconds!
Prior to this, the world men's 100m record was 9.77 seconds set by Asafavir at the Athens Grand Prix last year.
However, less than a day after Ye Qin was shocked by the news that Jax Thelin had broken the 100m world record again, the IAAF made a surprise announcement.
Jax Thelin's men's 100m world record of 9.76 seconds set in Doha on May 12 was invalid because the IAAF verified that the statistical methods at the time were not accurate.
On May 12 in Doha, the Jax-Theling 100m race was 9.766 seconds in 1000 seconds, and the organising committee announced a new world record of 9.76 seconds. However, according to IAAF regulations, this time should be set at 9.77 seconds, not 9.76 seconds.
In this way, Jax Thelin at least equaled the previous world record in Jamaica's Asafaville.
It was after this that the media suddenly became lively.
Asa Favir and Jax Thelin have engaged in a verbal battle in the media, and the competition for the men's 100m world record is full of gunpowder, and for a time the matchup between two of the world's fastest runners has attracted the attention of track and field fans around the world.
Jax Thelin and Asafarville first met this year at the International Classic in Eugene, Oregon, USA, on May 28, but they won't be competing together: Jax Thelin only competes in the 100 meters, while Powell only runs the 200 meters.
The following week, on June 3, Jax Thelin will travel to New York, while Powell will travel to Oslo. In this way, the first meeting of the season between the two will be at the IAAF British Grand Prix in Gateshead, England, on June 11.
Ye Qin saw a smile on his face when he saw the whole schedule come out.
Asafavil, before talking to Jax Thelin, seems to be going to run with himself first.