On the evening of October 17, Jinling Olympic Sports Center.

Unlike the previous days, more than 30,000 tickets were sold for the Olympic stadium on the night of the 17th.

Many people do not hesitate to travel from dozens or hundreds of miles away just to catch a glimpse of their idols, and this is only Ye Chin's first appearance in the men's 400m event.

The day before, after a media in Jinling City learned of the hot sales of tickets for today's Olympic Sports Center, the editor-in-chief personally went into battle to write an article, talking about China's sports calling for more stars.

“…… In the past, although track and field events attracted attention in the domestic sports venues, there was a big gap in popularity compared with other sports. One of the biggest reasons is that there are no top charismatic track and field athletes.

After the Athens Olympics and the World Championships in Helsinki, with the outstanding performance of track and field athletes such as Liu Yangyu and Ye Qin in the international arena, many people's enthusiasm for track and field events has finally awakened. …… People have a deeper understanding of the essential laws of sports, and the inspiration and enlightenment produced by sports stars is also an intangible spiritual wealth.

The halo on the body of sports stars is condensed with sweat, blood and tears, and it is obtained by tenacious struggle, without the 'faster, higher, stronger' fighting spirit of sports, the halo will gradually lose its luster, the star will fall, and the worship will disappear.

Star worship, for sports, is a good thing. Looking back on history, when we were weak and backward, we had no stars in the sports world, let alone worship. In the past, we used to worship other people's stars, and when our own stars rose, worship began to return, and when our sky was full of stars, this kind of worship formed an infinite motivation to inspire Chinese people to work hard, star effect, nothing else. For a more brilliant tomorrow for Chinese sports, we call for stars and worship. ”

Ye Qin participated in a total of three events in this National Games, men's 200m, men's 400m and men's 4×400m. Among them, the men's 100 meters and men's 4×100 meters are very popular, but due to time and Ye Qin's own considerations, they did not participate in this National Games.

Although this situation inevitably disappointed some viewers, more people were able to express their understanding. After all, although the media has given Ye Qin the title of "King of All-Habitat Speed", but people are not extreme, from the 17th to the 22nd, a total of only six days of competition, so many events, there are many conflicts in the middle, if you participate, no one can fully cope with the physical fitness and physical intensity.

More than 30,000 tickets for the Olympic Sports Center were sold early tonight, just because the time of Ye Qin's competition had been announced in advance.

At 19:40 on the evening of October 17, the men's 400m preliminaries;

At 21 o'clock in the evening of October 18, the men's 400m final;

At 20:30 on October 19, the men's 4×400m relay preliminaries;

At 9:55 on October 20, the men's 200m preliminaries;

At 9:50 on October 21, the men's 200m semi-final;

At 20:40 p.m. on October 21, the men's 200m final.

At 20:50 on October 22, the men's 4×400m relay final;

In terms of the timing of the entire schedule, it can be said that Ye Qin is almost perfect, except for the men's 200m event, which has two semi-finals and finals on October 21, and the interval is morning and evening, the other races are only one day.

It is also because Ye Qin's competition covers almost the entire track and field competition time, because the organizing committee is almost a little out of the way, in addition to the 400-meter preliminaries on the first day of Ye Qin's appearance, more than 30,000 tickets were sold, and the next five days of competition tickets were more than 40,000, especially on the 19th, 20th and 22nd, and the tickets reached more than 50,000.

On the 19th, the men's and women's 4×100m preliminaries and the men's and women's 4×400m preliminaries, in addition to the men's 110m hurdles preliminaries, Liu Yangyu's first game in this Games. On the 20th, although Ye Qin only had one preliminaries, there was a final of the men's 110-meter hurdles in the evening, and his popularity was still undiminished.

At 19:45 in the evening, when Ye Qin appeared in the second group of the men's 400m preliminaries, the scene began to jubilant.

Two months have passed since the World Championships in Helsinki, and in the past two months, Ye Qin's popularity has soared, first in the men's 200m and 400m events at the Asian Championships, and then at the Shenghai Gold Grand Prix on September 17, he once again set a new personal best in the men's 200m, which is the Asian record.

After winning the world at the World Championships, the news network also broadcast the news of his match again. The news flash of just one or twenty seconds made Ye Qin jump directly into the field of vision of the vast number of people in thousands of households with an unstoppable attitude.

Coupled with the popularity accumulated in several international Grand Prix this year, which dominates the national men's 200m and 400m records, the popularity and limelight are no longer below Liu Yangyu.

Most of the 400-meter preliminaries in this group are not familiar to Ye Qin, and his domestic competitions, except for the year of the City Games, are actually relatively few.

There is only one Jiang Bo, and he knows it.

Before going to the United States to participate in the New York Grand Prix this year, the other party was training there with Yang Yao, and several people also ran 200 meters and 400 meters together. In the national team and local teams, they are already relatively optimistic young athletes in the 400m event.

When checking in, Ye Qinyou had a brief chat with the other party and talked about the technical problems of the 400-meter run. In Ye Qin's opinion, Jiang Bo is still a little soft when he runs.

I don't know if it's because after putting the main event on the 400 meters, I neglected the power. Endurance is actually pretty good, but explosiveness and speed ability are far behind.

It feels a bit like when Ye Qin participated in the World Junior Championships, because he has not done strength training, his speed is not fast enough, and he is relatively soft to run.

However, this is also from Ye Qin's point of view, domestic athletes can now say that the 1200-meter event is quite acceptable in Asia, but the 400-meter event is really not a few people can train.

The talent is there, and the training is hard, even if you can really get a good result, the benefit is less than that of 1200 meters, and many athletes will consider switching events after 400 meters. Either 1,200 meters, or 800 meters and 1,500 meters.

Like Xu Zhiyu, who once set a national record in the 400 meters, he switched to the project and began to practice 200 meters. On the one hand, it was because of the injury and condition, but on the other hand, there was no desire to achieve better results in the 200m.

The game starts soon!

For domestic competitions, Ye Qin's mentality is relatively relaxed now, and without the stimulation of high-level athletes, it is not easy for him to break his better results.

As soon as the gun rang out, Ye Qin started running at his own pace, and although he had reservations, there was still a clear gap compared to the other runners.

It is no exaggeration to say that at this time, among the 400-meter athletes in the National Games, there is basically hope for the final if they can run 47.50 seconds, and if they can score 47 seconds, they are basically about the top six.

Ye Qin's level was there, even if he was running, after 200 meters, he had already opened up a distance of several meters with others, and finally when he reached the sprint finish line, the distance was widened again.

The final result was 46.12 seconds, a result that Ye Qin can say has rarely run in recent times, but it is already more than 1 second faster than Jiang Bo, who is second in the group. The opponent's time was 47.35 seconds.

In the stadium of the Olympic Sports Center, the audience cheered excitedly after Ye Qin crossed the finish line.

Although this result was not particularly ideal, everyone present could tell from Ye Chin's relaxed performance that Ye Qin did not do his best. And there is no harm if there is no comparison, Ye Qin's performance on the world stage is in everyone's eyes.

When you really get to the arena in your own country, you can feel that huge gap, which almost makes ordinary players despair.

This is just like Liu Yangyu's performance in the men's 110-meter hurdles in China at this time, running a time of about 13.10 seconds, for Liu Yangyu, it is just a normal level of performance.

But below him, Dashi, who is already the second person in the 110-meter hurdles, may score about 13.3 or 13.4 seconds, and then the third place is basically 13.7 seconds away, and the average player may be able to enter the top eight after running for 14 seconds.

Ye Qin's first appearance in the 10th Games ended here, Ye Qin himself was very calm about the game, but he felt the enthusiasm of the audience.

After the Grand Prix in Shenghai Station and today's 400m heats, he has begun to gradually have a preliminary understanding of his influence in China.