“On your marks！”

In front of the men's 200-meter track at Icahn Stadium, a white starter wearing a baseball cap shouted the order to the players to take their positions.

Ye Qin was standing on the third runway from a distance, glanced slightly sideways at the many spectators on the sidelines, exhaled lightly, and strode to the front of the runner.

It is not easy to win this game, compared to the competition in Eugene, the players participating in this competition are generally young athletes, and in terms of personal PB, Ye Qin does not seem too inferior.

In Eugene, he was the last one in terms of personal PB, but in that race, he played well and won the men's 400m championship in Eugene.

But the men's 200m race in New York is different, Ye Qin's current personal best in the men's 200m is 20.39 seconds set in the Olympic final last year, which is not the bottom one compared to many of the athletes present.

But when it comes to the real competition, it's completely different. Young athletes at this point in time, according to the annual track and field season, many young athletes are in better shape than many veterans at this point in time.

It's not that the level of older veterans is not good at this time, but many young athletes have participated in many more competitions than many veterans since the second and third months of the new year.

Various indoor competitions, championships, regional games, etc., young athletes who want to compete at a high level need to produce good enough results in this time period. Every time you compete, you need to constantly squeeze your potential in order to get the chance to compete at a higher level.

Veterans who have already made a name for themselves are relatively less interested in lower-level competitions, and they can be directly invited to various tournaments.

In a year without the World Championships and the Olympic Games, even many athletes would just start to warm up moderately and mention their rankings and points.

Ye Qin mentally understands that in the track and field field, no matter how top athletes are, it is impossible to keep themselves in the best condition at all times, and win all kinds of major competitions.

Even if it's as strong as Michael Johnson, there are times when they are humiliated.

After the 1997 Atlanta Olympics, Michael Johnson and 100m champion Donovan Bailey had a 150-meter duel that was broadcast live around the world under the influence of sports bigwigs.

The appearance fee, Michael Johnson and Donovan Bailey are $500,000 each, and if they win, they will receive another $1 million.

The race track is a 75-meter curve in the front and a 75-meter straight in the back.

Each of the two participants was under a lot of pressure, like boxing, bordering on hand-to-hand combat.

After the start of the game, Pele in the inner lane quickly overtook Johnson in the outer lane and gradually took the lead, while Johnson stopped, covered his legs and abandoned the game, and simply didn't even want second place.

In the end, Pele crossed the line with a time of 14.99 seconds, and he finally turned his head to look at Johnson. After the game, he unceremoniously sprayed: "Johnson is not injured at all, he is a weak chicken, afraid of losing." I really want to do it again so I can kick his ass again. ”

In the post-match press conference, Johnson was silent about the injury and refused to even respond to Pele's insults.

It is unknown whether Michael Johnson actually retired due to injury in that game, but Johnson did not participate in the All-American World Championship trials that year because of a left quadriceps strain.

Fortunately, the IAAF formulated a new policy just before that: the champion of the previous edition automatically got a "wild card" for this year. In this way, Johnson was able to go to the World Championships in Athens after recovering from injury and won the men's 400m gold medal again.

At that World Championships, Pele missed the gold medal - the new generation of American flyer Green began to rise, he not only won the 1997, 1999 and 2001 World Championships, but also broke the men's 100m world record in 1999, which happened to break Pele's record, Green ran 9.79 seconds.

Therefore, in the track and field field, athletes' injuries, physical conditions, and psychological factors are all absolute factors that affect performance.

Before the start of this competition, Ye Qin could feel that he was in good shape, through the three indoor competitions in China this year, and then to the national track and field charter and two Grand Prix, his physical condition seemed to be constantly improving as the weather warmed up.

But again, in this game, Eusse Bot, Walter Dix, Wallace Spearmon and others are basically similar to his trajectory, and even if there is a gap between them, the gap is very small.

But the more this is the case, the stronger Ye Qin's desire to win becomes.

It's a wonderful thing to win a championship, and it's rare for him to win a championship at international level, and this year's two Grand Prix titles have once again ignited the fire in his heart.

Be sure to win!

There are many reasons to take revenge on Yusse Bote, not to disappoint the coach and to let the Americans know him...... But in the end, there is only one simple one, and that is that he wants to win.

As long as it's a race, as long as it's standing on the starting line, I want to win!

I will also do my best to win!

On the sidelines, the noise and noise in the stands gradually subsided, and everyone began to wait with bated breath.

Ye Qin habitually raised his legs left and right in front of the starting line, slowly leaned over, squatted, lowered his head, and made a move to prepare for the start.

The two referees checked the various passes before and after, and all the players remained still, and then signaled to the starter on the sidelines that they were ready.

“SET！”

The starter's voice rang out.

Ye Qin changed from a squatting to a squatting starting state, and his movements were done in one go, and he was extremely skilled.

Syllable!

Guns!

All the runners on the eight tracks moved almost at the same time, and the subtle differences in starting reactions were almost impossible to discern to the human eye.

Ye Qin pressed his feet on the pedals almost simultaneously, and then he took a big stride and accelerated forward quickly.

He was in the third lane, which was very good compared to his path in Eugene, and the start of the corner was all too familiar to him, as soon as the gun rang out, the brain barely needed to give too many instructions, and the body naturally moved.

One step, two steps, three steps, a quick start to accelerate and rush out.

In the men's 200m race, the starting requirements are lower than those of the men's 100m, but compared to the 400m, there is still enough speed to impact.

There's no pace, just as fast as you can, and then you go all the way.

10 meters, 20 meters, 30 meters......

Ye Qin felt that his starting reaction was good, after a winter training time, as well as his own deliberate starting training, his current starting reaction can basically be controlled within 0.2 seconds, and even about 0.15 seconds in good times, which is already a relatively excellent level in the 200-meter event.

But in the acceleration stage, Ye Qin was still able to feel a strong pressure.

Walter Dicks, the American in lane 4 in front of him, also started very fast, and it was only 30 meters away, and the gap between the two sides did not close at all due to the number of forward stretches. In this season, Walter Dix's 100-meter level has been able to reach 10.06 seconds, and the acceleration of just a few tens of meters makes Ye Qin feel the gap.

Behind him, he could feel Trinidad and Tobago's Mark Burns catching up in the second lane, with Mark Burns' 100m time also reaching around 10.20 seconds.

Although Ye Qin's starting reaction and starting acceleration have improved, he is still slightly weaker when encountering athletes of this level.

However, there is only a short distance of more than 30 meters, and there is a number of forward stretches in the corner, and the pressure brought by such a strong opponent is more of Ye Qin's subjective feelings. Unless it is replayed in slow motion after the game or the speed of each stage is tested, the audience at this time will not be able to see much.