"Tomorrow's 200m and 400m races are very tight, and when we first arranged the schedule, we made suggestions, but the organizing committee felt that it was not particularly appropriate to adjust the time because of one or two events."

On the afternoon of August 18, in a lounge inside the Bird's Nest Stadium.

Ye Qin was lying on a massage table, performing a pre-match muscle massage. Chen Zhongzhou, who was standing next to him, frowned, and his expression was very dissatisfied with the arrangement of this game.

The two races on August 19 are the men's 200m semifinals at 21:25 and the men's 400m semifinals at 21:45. The two games are completely linked.

"It's okay, Brother Chen." Ye Qin already knew about the men's 200m semifinals and the men's 400m semifinals after the Olympic schedule came out.

He's used to two and three races a day, and this year he doesn't compete in many big races, so he's getting a good fit, and for tomorrow's 200m and 400m semi-finals, he thinks it's a bad time, but he thinks it's acceptable.

After all, he ran 200 meters first, and although 200 meters put a lot of pressure on his body, it was not like 400 meters. If he runs 400 meters first, then the next 200-meter race, with an interval of only ten minutes, Ye Qin feels that he basically has no physical fitness to run again.

Even if you run, you probably won't be able to qualify.

No matter how good his physical reserves are, he has to run the 400-meter final and the 200-meter final in succession, which is too underestimating these top athletes who can participate in the Olympics.

"I think it's probably because I'm afraid that Ye Qin won the gold medals in the 200 meters and 400 meters."

Behind Ye Qin, Zhuang Wei, the physiotherapist who was massaging his calves and thighs muscles, put down the movements in his hand and gestured again, "Coach Yu should have communicated with the Sports Federation before, and also reacted with the Yanjing Olympic Organizing Committee, but in the end, the Olympic Organizing Committee still arranged it like this, I think Ye Qin has strong competitiveness in the 100m, 200m and 400m events." ”

"That's a conspiracy theory!" Chen Zhongzhou raised his eyebrows, seemingly dissatisfied with Zhuang Wei's nonsense.

"Alas, Lao Chen, don't believe it! If you think about it, there have been people who have won gold in the 100m and 200m at the Olympics, like Carl Lewis, who also won the long jump and the 4×100m gold medals.

But there has never been a gold medal in the men's 100m, 200m and 400m at an Olympic Games. Ye Chin's performance at the World Championships in Osaka last year, everyone didn't see it, the men's 100m and 200m gold medals, the men's 400m silver medal, this is completely possible. If Ye Qin really did it, it would be really unprecedented, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to have someone in the future.

You say, if you were an official of the Olympic Organizing Committee or some IAAF gringos, would you really agree to see a Chinese accomplish such a feat? ”

"Alright, don't talk nonsense." Chen Zhongzhou shook his head slightly, and did not answer positively whether he believed it or not, some things were too far away and too far away, and it was not for them to say that they could decide.

just looked at Ye Qin and said very seriously: "I know that you are very confident in your physical fitness, and now that you have won the men's 100-meter championship and broken the record, you have done well enough, and you can consider the rest of the events yourself." There is a premise, and that is within the limits of your body. ”

Saying that, Chen Zhongzhou's tone became more and more cautious, "From the Asian Games to the World Championships, and now the Olympic Games, I don't agree with you to do several events, excellent athletes can achieve good results across multiple events, but in a competition, the time conflict problem is too big, even if you replace 400 meters with long jump, I think it's acceptable." But 400 meters is really not easy to run. ”

"Don't worry, Brother Chen, I know it in my heart."

Ye Qin nodded, and couldn't help but think of a person he hadn't seen for a long time.

He Jun, an opponent he once met in the domestic arena.

Eventually, due to a serious injury, he withdrew from the field and turned to further studies to become a physiotherapist.

For athletes, there has always been a problem, that is, in order to compete for some competitions and honors, they have to go all out to train and compete.

And the result of this, everyone actually knows that it will cause some bad consequences to the body, but personal honor, national honor, competitiveness, and various mentality and emotions that do not admit defeat will always push people to do it.

……

20 p.m.

When the women's 110-meter hurdles semi-finals ended on the track in the Bird's Nest Stadium, and the staff were quickly evacuating the hurdles on the track, the atmosphere at the scene began to heat up.

The second round of the men's 200m rematch is about to begin, and the Chinese track and field team will have three athletes in this rematch, and the most important point is that everyone is looking forward to Ye Qin's performance step by step.

Although the semi-finals are too far from the finals in terms of spectacle and excitement. But all the audience just has that strong momentum, and they are looking forward to it.

There are four groups of eight athletes in each group, and the top three players in each group will directly advance to the semi-finals, and then four athletes with the best results will be replaced, a total of 16 players will participate in the finals.

Yang Yao's performance in the men's 200-meter event has improved a lot in the past two years, and he has even played several times in training to run to about 20.40 seconds, but Yang Yao was not able to perform abnormally in this semi-final, and the final result was 20.56 seconds.

They faced the likes of Usse Bot and last year's Olympic 200m champion Sean Crowder, as well as 2003 World Championships 100m champion Kim Collins and British star Marvin Dronish in the first semi-final group. 20.56 seconds, a time that was almost a national record in China, but in this group ranked seventh in the group and missed the final.

This is also the general gap between this Olympic Games and the last Olympic Games, whether in the men's 100m event or the men's 200m event, the overall level of athletes has improved a lot.

Zhang Peimeng, who appeared in the second group of the semi-finals, also failed to continue to the semi-finals, and his group was also luxurious, with Zimbabwe's Brian Dasingei topping the group, followed by the American Walter Dix in the men's 100m, followed by Jamaican veteran Christopher Williams, Great Britain's Christian Malcolm and Mauritius' Stefan Buckland.

Almost all of the top five in the group ran under 20.40 seconds, and Zhang Peimeng and Japan's Shingo Sueji both scored 20.63 seconds, but they also failed to qualify.

After two regretful matches in which Chinese athletes failed to advance to the semi-finals, the Chinese audience finally waited for the last group of today's men's 200m semi-finals.

When Ye Qin stood on the track and field field, the audience responded with warm applause.

The fourth group of semi-finals has a smaller line-up than the previous group of well-known players, but it still includes Wallace Spearmon and Jamaica's Marvin Anderson.

Probably because of the tense atmosphere at the scene, when the first game gun rang out, the game did not go smoothly.

Paul Hesse from Ireland, probably out of nervousness or something else, got a rush and the race was restarted.

After the second match, Jamaica's Marvin Anderson, who had high hopes before the game, also ran ahead and was eventually sent off and could not continue the game.

It wasn't until the third shot of the race started that the remaining seven players were able to finish the race without any problems.

The end result was Yechin who won the group with a time of 20.22 seconds, followed by Ireland's Paul Hesse and Wallace Spearmon in second and third place, respectively.

All three of them scored within 20.40 seconds, showing the overall strength of the men's 200m runners at this World Championships.

The end of the men's 200-meter semi-finals means that Ye Qin has successfully completed the men's 400-meter preliminaries and men's 200-meter preliminaries and the semi-finals on August 18.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner, and in a blink of an eye, it was the evening of August 19th.

The Bird's Nest Stadium is still brightly lit and bright as day.

The enthusiasm of the audience did not seem to be tired at all, and they continued to cheer for the performance of the players on the field.

At 20:45 p.m., the first event to be focused on was the men's 110m hurdles semi-final.

Liu Yangyu's performance in the preliminaries the day before made many people see that he recovered from injury for a period of time, and his strength did not seem to be weaker than before after he appeared again.

And the technology of changing eight steps to seven steps is a landmark breakthrough.

Tonight's rematch also made the audience highly anticipated, and at the same time, at this time, many viewers also discovered the challenges that Ye Qin will face next.

The men's 200m semi-finals at 21:25 and the men's 400m semifinals at 21:45 are so close that even many spectators who are not particularly familiar with track and field events can basically understand that this is an extremely difficult challenge for athletes.

Yesterday's three games in one day, many media have already appeared a lot of comments after the game, and today's two games in one day are still connected, and the difficulty can be imagined.

After the rematch of the second group of the men's 110m hurdles, Shi Dongpeng, the first Chinese player to appear, successfully advanced to the semifinals with a time of 13.42 seconds.

After that, Liu Yangyu, who played in the third group of the rematch, won the first place in the group with a time of 13.27 seconds.

Another Chinese player, Ji Wei, was eliminated in the fourth group of the semi-finals with a time of 13.80 seconds and missed the semi-finals of the men's 110m hurdles.

For this result, the Chinese audience present is still quite acceptable, after all, only Liu Yangyu can successfully advance, and the Chinese team still has hope of winning the championship in this event.

After the second round of the men's 110m hurdles, the track and field field will soon usher in the two major events that will start tonight.

In the indoor rest area, where the Chinese team is located, Ye Qin has re-established himself on the indoor warm-up track for several sets of simple stretching activities after a massage by physiotherapist Zhuang Wei.

Yu Weili, Yuan Guohua, Chen Zhongzhou and others have been by Ye Qin's side, and they have never taken their eyes off Ye Qin, as if they are very worried about Ye Qin's performance tonight.

Yu Weili stood on the side of the warm-up runway, touched his big bald head, a trace of complexity flashed on his face, and finally stepped forward to hand Ye Qin a towel, and said with a smile: "I won't say anything superfluous, you control it yourself and do what you can!" ”

In the previous men's 100m race, he had been staring at it from the side, but at that time he understood the challenge Ye Qin had to face, and he never appeared in front of Ye Qin before the race, so as not to add other pressure to him.

The track and field team can be said to be focusing on Ye Qin's performance in this Olympic Games, Ye Qin's strength and the particularity of the project naturally needless to say, at that time Liu Yangyu was injured and re-injured, basically everyone could only wait for Ye Qin's performance.

Fortunately, Ye Qin lived up to expectations and finally won the heaviest and most valuable gold medal of the Chinese track and field team.

As for Ye Chin's performance in the 200 meters and 400 meters, everyone will be able to relax at this time, and then everyone will become acceptable no matter what Ye Qin runs.

Of course, it is natural to continue to compete for the gold medal, but everyone understands that some things are too much, and since Ye Qin broke the world record and won the Olympic gold medal, he has personally risen to the rank of national treasures.

At this time, his body is the most important.

Yuan Guohua on the side also stepped forward and patted Ye Qin on the shoulder, starting from Ye Qin breaking the 10-second mark step by step and winning the world record and Olympic gold medal, he no longer had any thoughts about Ye Qin in the individual event.

The only thing he is thinking about now is the final men's 4×100m relay, which is an Olympic competition, and Ye Qin may not be able to not appear in the 4×100m preliminaries like last year's World Championships.

In athletics at the Olympic Games, it is somewhat unfair to say that there are three gold medals that carry more weight than any other event.

The first is the men's 100m gold medal, which is the world's flying competition, the limit of human speed, the jewel and pearl in the crown, the most dazzling.

The second is the men's 4×100m relay event, which is one of the few team events in track and field, and it is a competitive event in which everyone works together to represent the overall sprinting strength of a country.

The third is the marathon, which is the limit of human endurance and the most important event at the beginning of the Olympic Games.

Among the three most important events, the first human speed limit has been bagged by Yechin, followed by the second, the 4×100-meter relay event.

Ye Qin is now facing at least four more races if all of them are successfully qualified, and two of them are 400 meters that are very great tests for an athlete.

At least Yuan Guohua's worry about standing in the head coach of the relay team did not show on his face, and he still just went up to encourage him.

If an athlete can really win three gold medals in one Olympic Games, and all of them are sprint gold medals, the attraction of such an honor is huge, and it can be said that it is beyond everyone's imagination.

Even if Ye Qin misses this Olympic Games, no one dares to guarantee whether he will be able to do it in the next Olympic Games, and in the next four years, there may be a super strong top athlete in the corner of the world.

"Coach Yu, Coach Yuan, don't worry!"

Ye Qin could feel the mood of several people for the challenges he faced, and he understood that every time he appeared on the stage, it was not a one-man competition.

Many years ago, when he was in middle school, he wrote a sentence in his notebook, and he has been practicing that sentence:

Fate is not something I can choose, but I must shoulder the responsibility; The outcome is not something I can grasp, but I have to work hard.

"Let's play!"

I don't know if it was the staff on the sidelines or someone in the team who shouted this sentence.

Ye Qin nodded towards everyone, turned around and walked in the direction of the arena.