The Chinese team was stationed in an apartment building in the University of Sherbrooke, and when the more than 20 members of the delegation got off the bus, more and more young athletes of all colors from various countries could be seen.

Many local Sherbrooke University volunteers were guiding the way in French and English from time to time, and the young Chinese young athletes in the delegation were obviously much more silent during the short distance from the car to the apartment building, and there was no longer any excitement in the car.

Although the scale of this World Junior Championships is not as large as that of the World Youth Championships and the World Championships, more than 1,400 players from 161 countries and regions came to compete.

Including Ye Qin, the sixteen young athletes who came to participate in the World Junior Championships, almost none of them have experienced such a big scene before, even if Liu Feng and Wu Jiang have participated in many more sports competitions than Ye Qin, but the highest level is the National Track and Field Grand Prix has been taken by the coach to participate in a few stops, and the world has risen.

Ye Qin, who was in a trance all the way in the car, seemed to be infected by a somewhat dignified atmosphere at this time, and the hesitation and dazedness in his heart were gradually replaced by tension and depression, and the whole person's spirit was unconsciously tensed.

For the first time on the international stage, there are few people who can have a super big heart and don't care about it at all. Especially for young people of this age, the rush of the atmosphere before the big game is enough to make them excited and nervous.

"Let's pack up in the room first, and after half an hour, we will have a meeting in the conference room downstairs."

After arriving at the apartment building, team leader Zhou Bin assigned rooms to everyone, and notified everyone in advance to wait for the meeting to come down. This is the norm for the Chinese delegation, and there is a mobilization before every competition.

I went upstairs and found my room. The room was for two people, and Ye Qin's roommate was Wu Jiang, who was sitting in the same seat as him on the bus.

The two of them went to the room and put down their luggage, and after Ye Qin washed up briefly, he came out and found Wu Jiang sitting on the bed in a daze, his face was a little tense, and he was a big man of more than 1.9 meters and more than 200 pounds, looking quite depressed.

"Don't be nervous, you are such a big guy, didn't Coach Wang say it, you and Liu Feng are not necessarily worse than those athletes in Europe and the United States in terms of physical condition, and among all athletes, they should be considered better."

Wu Jiang exhaled lightly and shook his head slightly, "That's what the coach said, Liu Feng and I should have a chance to win medals this time, you haven't looked at the schedule yet." The discus throw event of my competition is July 13th, Liu Feng, Jiang Minli, Xiao Juan are all No. 10, No. 12, I am the last day, if their results are good or bad, my pressure will be even greater. ”

"It's not like there haven't been a game yet, why do you want to do so much?" Ye Qin casually comforted, "Go wash up, wait for the meeting." ”

"It's better for you, you're alone!"

Because there were only two people in the room, Wu Jiang did not hide his worries, patted Ye Qin's shoulder, and followed a simple wash.

Ye Qin actually has some understanding of what Wu Jiang said, the four of them are all athletes led by Coach Wang Shouyang, and they are also the four most powerful players in the team this time, and they have been optimistic that they may be the players with the best chance of winning medals in the Chinese team this time.

But the higher the expectations, there will inevitably be pressure and emotions, especially if the four people are from the same sports school, if the other few people have achieved results, they are too poor, this kind of is not very acceptable.

After a brief wash in the bathroom, the two went downstairs directly to the first floor for a meeting.

The content of the meeting is not complicated, in addition to emphasizing safety, unified action, and precautions if you get lost and have an unexpected situation, the main thing is to mobilize everyone, adjust and rest well these days, put down the burden, the team has no requirements for everyone's ranking, as long as you play your personal best.

After the meeting, Ye Lidong and Zhou Bin and a few coaches chatted with the athletes separately to guide everyone out of the nervous psychological shadow.

Since arriving in Sherbrooke, the head of the group, Ye Lidong, and the team leader, Zhou Bin, have noticed that the atmosphere in the delegation is a little dull, and the main purpose of this internal small meeting is to relieve the pressure of all the athletes

After all, he is not a veteran who has been in the arena for a long time, and at such a time, it is inevitable that they will be psychologically nervous and need some guidance.

For the next few days, all the athletes were mainly jet lag, as well as simple adaptation training on the well-connected track and field.

The fatigue caused by long-distance travel, the adverse reactions caused by jet lag, the adjustment and unaccustomed diet, and although it is July, the temperature is much lower than in China, and the weather is not necessarily good.

Ye Qin didn't get used to it in the first two days, but after all, he was a young man, and after resting for a while, he slowly adjusted.

He has no other coaches to guide him in the adaptation training in the past few days, except for the occasional team leader Ye Lidong and Zhou Bin and Wang Shouyang, the rest of Ye Qin are all in accordance with the plan made for him by Nie Fangping when he came, and it is still a short time and an efficient way to adjust his condition to the best as much as possible.

A few short days have passed in a flash.

On July 9, the 2003 World Junior Athletics Championships officially opened.

On the first day of the opening, the opening ceremony took place at the University Stadium in Sherbrooke.

The opening ceremony was not complicated, and the process was normal in the first place, but at the end, the performance of the students of the University of Sherbrooke attracted a lot of whistles and applause.

After more than an hour of opening ceremony, at 20:05 p.m., the women's 3,000-meter run, the first track event of the championship, officially kicked off at the University Stadium of Sherbrooke.

"Jin Xue, come on!"

"China, come on!"

On the spectator stand of Sherbrooke Stadium, a bright red five-star red flag was unfurled, and the crowd suddenly burst into cheering in Chinese.

The head of the group, Ye Lidong, personally organized the cheerleading team, and the team leader Zhou Bin served as the captain of the cheerleading team, cheering for a Chinese girl in the middle of the field on the sidelines.

China's Jin Xue, as the first athlete to participate, stepped on the starting line of the track and field field.

Compared to many well-known stadiums, the Sherbrooke University Stadium is designed to be extremely open, purely outdoor, with no walls and no roof, and you can see the night sky overhead through the light curtain of floodlights from the spectators.

There are only more than 3,000 seats in the north and south stands in the entire stadium, but this design makes the spectators and athletes very close, and almost when the cheering sound in the stands sounds, Jin Xue, who was wearing a red sprint suit in front of the women's 3000-meter starting line, also turned her head, looked at the red flag in the stands, took a breath, and focused her attention back on the track again.

Ye Qin sat in the audience on the sidelines, looking at a thin little girl he had seen in the past few days, standing in the middle of a bunch of tall players with different skin tones, about to start officially entering the competition, and he felt a little agitated in his heart for no reason.

Tomorrow, the men's 400m preliminaries he participated in will also start here!