"Come on!"

"Come on!"

At noon on August 9, the check-in area of the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki.

After Ye Qin fastened the carry, he jumped two steps on the spot, looked at the notice not far away that was ready to start the check-in, and turned around and smiled at the people behind him.

With a smile on his lips, Randy Hunter stood next to him and didn't say much, but there was a bit of expectation in his eyes at this time. Behind him, Chen Zhongzhou and Zhuang Wei all applauded Ye Qin and shouted cheering slogans.

"Come on, Ye Chin!"

Yang Yao, who was warming up on the indoor warm-up track, saw that Ye Qin was about to play, so he also ran over in a few steps, stretched out his palms, and lightly struck each other.

"Brother Yang, see you on the field when you go back."

Ye Qin smiled and nodded, he was the first group of the men's 200m preliminaries, and Yang Yao was the eighth group of the men's 200m, the time of the group competition was almost eight minutes apart, and there was still a gap in time overall.

Leaving the warm-up area, Ye Qin walked directly in the direction of the game check-in.

Just halfway through, he suddenly felt someone next to him gently tap him on the shoulder, turned his head and forgot about it, it was a slender and tall black man, grinning at him.

"I've seen you a long time ago." Ye Qin looked at the black man who came over and was not surprised at all.

The person standing in front of him was none other than Yusse Both, and the two had met when they were warming up on the indoor warm-up track, but they were focused on the warm-up at the time, and everyone did not communicate.

"Come on, run hard, don't be eliminated!" Yusse Bot bared his white teeth, "I'm going to win you in the final." ”

"Then you just have to wait!"

Ye Qin smiled, stretched out his right fist and made a fist punching motion with Yusse-Both, without stopping long, turned around and walked directly towards the check-in.

And behind him, the eyes of the tall black Jamaican youth burned as if a flame was burning.

He lost to Yechin at the New York Grand Prix in May, and now that both are on the World Championship stage in August, he has been waiting for a long time.

When he arrived at the check-in port, Ye Qin first followed the on-site staff, checked his information, completed the final roll call and check-in procedures, and soon the players in his group gathered together and lined up in a column.

The men's 200m at this World Championships was a four-shot victory, with more than 60 athletes participating in eight preliminary groups in the preliminary stage.

The rules for advancing to the semi-finals in the preliminaries are still the same as in other competitions, with the top three in each group advancing directly, and then the eight best results will be supplemented, with a total of 32 players participating in the semi-finals.

Ye Qin is in the first group of the men's 200m heats, and although it is the first group, it is a very ideal group for Ye Qin.

Because he still has the men's 400m preliminaries to run around 14 o'clock, the interval between the preliminaries of the two races is not particularly long, and he can finish the men's 200m preliminaries earlier, he will be able to spare more time for physical recovery.

Although Ye Qin was ready to give up in the 400-meter race, if it was not a last resort, he still wanted to give it a try.

Under the methodical pre-game guidance of the on-site staff, at 12:15, Ye Qin followed the other seven players in his group through the athletes' entrance passage.

After staying in the indoor check-in area with a small line of sight for a while, the moment he crossed the corridor, Ye Qin only felt that his eyes lit up, and the entire Helsinki Olympic Stadium was in sight.

Although the light was much better than indoors, the sky was still cloudy, and although it was not raining at this time, it was still not sunny.

The more than 50,000 seats in the stands were mostly full, and many spectators carried ponchos with them, and even if the rain didn't fall at this time, they still didn't take it off.

Looking at the past, the ponchos of various colors are green, quite a bit of a feeling of flowers.

At the same time, the buzzing noise rang in my ears, and the shouts of Finnish, Swedish, English and other languages were endless.

This is a world-class competition!

That's the big picture!

The World Championships, the two highest stages in athletics and the Olympic Games.

In an instant, Ye Qin could feel his heart shrink slightly, and the blood in his body seemed to boil.

Compared to many previous competitions, only the atmosphere at the Athens Olympics can be compared to the moment, although the men's 200m race at the Athens Olympics was booed, the atmosphere was not too good, but compared to other events, although the audience was enthusiastic, but the level was not enough, and the mood always seemed to be worse.

After Ye Qin and other famous athletes walked to the starting line, the information of the men's 200m preliminaries also appeared on the big screen at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.

First lane, Andrea da Silva, Brazil;

second, Nabiforti-Fofana, Guinea;

the third, Yechin, China;

Fourth Way, Andrew Howe, Italy;

Fifth Way, Aaron Armstrong, Trinidad and Tobago;

Sixth Lane, Panagiotis-Salis, Greece;

Seventh Way, Stefan-Buckland, Mauritius;

Eighth Path, Hebberviera, Uruguay;

In this group, Ye Qin is most familiar with Italy's Andrew Howe, who was once opponents at the World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy last year, when Ye Qin lost to Andrew Howe in the 200m event and only won the silver medal at the World Youth Championships.

Although at the Athens Olympics a month after the end of the World Junior Championships, Ye Qin far outperformed Andrew Howe, standing on the track of the final and finishing sixth, while Andrew Howe stopped in the rematch. But Ye Qin knew very well in his heart that he was not yet able to defeat this opponent.

Just like beating Usse Bot at the New York Grand Prix, he's always wanted to run another race against Andrew Howe in the Ring in hopes of beating each other.

In addition, the player in this group, Yechin knows a little bit about Stefan Buckland of Mauritius, a veteran born in 1977 and now at the peak of competitive sports.

His personal best time in the 60m was 6.72 seconds, his best time in the 100m was 10.13 seconds, and his best time in the 200m was 20.06 seconds. At last year's Athens Olympics, Yechin finished sixth in the 200m, while Stefan Buckland finished seventh, with a slim difference.

It can be said that in that final, as long as Stefan Buckland played a little better, Yechin may only be at the bottom.

However, a year later, Ye Qin has experienced the experience of the Olympic Games, as well as the domestic indoor championships and three Grand Prix, and his mentality has become more and more mature, and he is no longer in the mood for the top men's 200m athletes such as Andrew Howe and Stefan Buckland.

After the gunshots rang out in the race, the power on Ye Qin's legs suddenly exploded and rushed directly out of the starting line.

He's in the third lane and Andrew Howe is in the fourth.

Eighty meters ahead, Ye Qin found that Andrew Howe's explosiveness was still very good and he ran fast, but after almost eighty meters, Ye Qin found that Andrew Howe's speed dropped all of a sudden.

A year has passed, and the talented 200m athlete who was able to run 20.28 seconds in the men's 200m last year is now showing a state that surprises Ye Qin.

It was as if Andrew Howe hadn't run the 200m for a long time, and he had a huge problem with his pace and rhythm in the second half of the race.

However, Ye Qin also knows that Andrew Howe won the men's 200m and long jump championships at the World Youth Championships at that time, and looking at Andrew Howe's performance in the second half of the race, it is likely that he has shifted his focus to the long jump.

The explosiveness and speed ability of long jumpers are very good, and in the men's 4×100m relay race, there is a shortage of people, and people are often selected from among the long jumpers.

Many long jumpers have very good speeds of 60 meters and 100 meters, but in comparison, if it is a 200-meter event, there are requirements for speed resistance, and if long jumpers do not train, the results may not be very good. After all, athletes like Carl Lewis who can eat all the men's 100 meters, 200 meters, and several events in the long jump are still extremely rare.

Soon, the corners entered the straights.

Yechin easily shone off Andrew Howe and the rest of the race, and the only one who could keep up with him in the second half of the race was Mauritius' black Stefan Buckland.

After entering the straight, the two barely had much effort to lead the rest of the group and run at the front.

Because it is a preliminaries, a veteran like Stefan Buckland will not fight with Ye Qin because of a preliminaries, his main purpose is to qualify and advance to the finals, as long as the top three places are successfully obtained, there will be no problem.

And Ye Qin, considering that there will be a men's 400-meter race at around 14 o'clock, also made a lot of reservations.

In the end, the two won the top two in the first group of the men's 200m heats with a time of 20.89 seconds and 20.92 seconds, while it was Andrew Howe who advanced in third place with a time of 21.10 seconds.

The rest of the runners were all outside 21.40 seconds, and two even ran to 22 seconds.

As the first group of the men's 200m preliminaries, it can be said that the overall level is weak.

Ye Qin also won the first place in the group with a time of 20.89 seconds and successfully advanced to the second round of the semi-final tomorrow.