Chapter 199: 200m rematch
In the Olympic Stadium, the crowd looked up at the list of players in the third group of the semi-finals on the timing board:
First Course, Bu** - Christine, Antigua and Barbuda;
the second, Ye Chin, China;
Third lane, Dominique de Merritt, Bahamas;
Fourth Lane, Jax Thelin, USA;
Fifth Lane, Sebastian, Germany;
Sixth lane, Christian Malcolm, UK;
Seventh Lane, Madik-Osovnikar, Slovenia;
Eighth Path, Asa-Favir, Jamaica;
It seems that due to the previous ban of Greece's Kentris, after entering the stadium, Ye Qin vaguely found a lot of seats in the stands of the men's 200m rematch tonight, and there seemed to be occasional boos.
The players in this group of semi-finals are all athletes from all over the world, and they did not encounter local Greek players as in the preliminaries, so the emotions on the scene can be imagined.
After the starter reminded him to get on the runner and get ready to start, Yechin didn't care about the emotions of the Greek crowd at the scene, and now all his minds were immersed in the upcoming race.
“SET!”
The orange-red renovated runway is particularly clear and dazzling in the night light, as if exuding a red halo.
The moment Ye Qin heard this word in his ears, his body subconsciously was like a spring that had been squeezed for a long time, and he slowly stood up from the squatting and put on a squatting start.
Syllable!
Inside the Olympic Stadium, a crisp electronic starting gun rang out.
The hustle and bustle of the audience is even hotter!
Ye Qin got up from the front of the starting line and accelerated, and almost used all his strength to start rushing forward.
In the men's 200m heats, he has already learned how terrifying the first half of the world's top sprinters can be, and he has a much stronger opponent in the semi-finals, although he does not have Bernard William.
Jax Thelin, the new men's 100m champion, Asa Favir, retired in the men's 100m final, but still ran an astonishing time of 9.95 seconds in the men's 100m semifinals.
But it was in the face of such an opponent that Ye Qin not only did not retreat and hesitate, but broke out with unprecedented fighting spirit.
Being able to stand on the stage of the Olympic Games and run with such the world's top men's 100-meter runner is a dream for many people who practice track and field sprinting, and he now has this opportunity.
He wants to work harder, fight harder, and see if he can improve himself a little more.
Absolute strength may not be enough, but all the way from the cinder runway to today, everything is not out of reach.
With a fast cadence and a powerful stride, Ye Qin accelerated and sprinted with the power of total victory from the moment he rushed out of the starting line.
Compared with the men's 400m or men's 100m races, he has always felt that he likes the men's 200m more, because the 200m distance can be let go from the start to run, and there is no need to control the rhythm and speed like the 400m, and it is far less hard than the 400m, and it does not require a strong first half of the explosiveness like the 100m, and there can be almost no mistakes at the start.
200 meters, for Ye Qin, the front is to accelerate, and then the back is to rush all the way to the end, the faster the acceleration, the better the speed in the second half of the race, the better the result.
10 meters, 20 meters, 30 meters......
The speed of the competitors on the field is increasing rapidly, and from the start, the first horse is the eighth lane of Jamaica's Asa Favir, and the super fast starting speed is even more vivid.
Located in the eighth lane, he ejected from the moment the gun rang out, and rushed directly forward in a dustless manner. At this moment, if you put aside the relationship between the number of forward extensions, you can still see that Asa Favir can be called a perfect start, with strong explosiveness, fast cadence, and large stride, and can open up the gap with other opponents within a few steps. In this year's men's 100m, Asa Favir has made a name for himself and has run under 10 seconds nine times in a row, making him a rising late-stage sprinter.
On the other side, Jax Thelin, who was in the best lane of the race, was also very fast, his starting reaction was not particularly fast, but after rushing out of the starting line, his unique running attitude and large stride made his acceleration very fast and powerful, and as the distance progressed, the speed continued to climb.
The speed of the two top men's 100-meter runners in just a few tens of meters was on full display.
Ye Qin didn't know the direction of the other opponents at the moment, he lowered his head, his body was facing forward, and his eyes were only on the runway ahead at the moment.
As soon as the gun rang out, he shot out of the starting line, and he felt that he had a very good start, and the long start reaction training in the course of several runs in a row has allowed him to grasp the rhythm more and more.
From the beginning of this game on the runway, he didn't think about where the other opponents were, and he didn't want to pay attention to it, and he didn't dare to be distracted, no matter whether he admitted it or not, how strong his personal will was, and many objectively existing gaps could not be smoothed out.
So now he has completely let go of fighting, not admitting defeat, not being reconciled, wanting better results, wanting to enter the next round of the game, these things are useless just by thinking, but to run out and play by himself.
Forty meters later, Ye Qin raised his head, his body gradually maintained a 90-degree perpendicular to the runway as his speed increased, his arms swinged, his feet moved forward quickly, and his movements stretched and fast.
"Ye Chin, come on!"
In the stands on the sidelines, Yang Yao was panting, and the sweat on his forehead had not yet dried, but at this time, all his figures were placed on the field.
He had just completed the rematch and was in the previous group of Yechin, but his results were not ideal.
Perhaps due to the pressure of the tournament or the mentality affected by the strong opponents, he only ran 21.03 seconds, far worse than his performance in the preliminaries, and finished first in the group, missing out on the semi-finals of the next round.
Yang Yao didn't care about the sweat on his body at the scene, he clenched his fists firmly, the muscles on his arms and neck clapped, and his muscles jumped.
Now in the sprint event of the Chinese track and field team, only Ye Qin is left, even if it is an opponent, even if there is a direct competition, he is extremely eager for Ye Qin to run a good result and advance to the next round.
This is not only a breakthrough that Ye Qin can achieve, but also a breakthrough that the Chinese men's sprint can achieve.
He Yang Yao may not be good in other aspects, but in such a matter, he doesn't mind, he has such a heart and bearing to applaud and cheer for his direct opponents and teammates.
……
Nanxiu City, in a residential building in a community outside Guangbei Road.
In addition to the street lights in the community, there is only a little glimmer in the middle of the corridor up and down the residential buildings.
With a click, a light suddenly turned on in a room on the 5th floor of the community.
Nie Fangping staggered out of the bedroom and looked up at the time hanging on the wall of the living room, it was already past 1 o'clock in the morning.
Standing in the middle of the living room, Nie Fangping looked at the time on the wall, seemed to stand stunned for a while, then walked to the living room, turned on the TV, and slowly sat on the sofa in the living room.
His body is still recovering well, it is the summer vacation recently, and Xiushui Er's heat stroke make-up class is over, and he is not in a hurry to rush over, after coming back from this illness, his family is also a little worried, and he is ready to recuperate and rest at home for a while.
Soon the voice on the TV came out, Nie Fangping took the remote control and hurriedly turned down the sound and tuned the TV to the channel of Yang Wu. The TV was flashing as it was the men's 105kg competition.
Nie Fangping held the remote control in his hand and sighed silently, and for a while the whole person fell into a huge loss.
He has been staring at the men's 400m and men's 200m races at this Olympic Games, including daily news and so on. A few days ago, there was no news of the 400-meter runners on TV, and when he watched the 400-meter final later, he didn't see Ye Qin, obviously he had been eliminated.
And 200 meters, he knows the time of the race, and all of them have been converted, Athens and China are 5 hours apart, today is the time for the second round of the men's 200 meters, but at this moment he turned on the TV, but he couldn't see the pictures and shots of his competitors, which made him a little regretful.
"I don't know if I can make it to the semifinals?"
Nie Fangping casually threw the remote control in his hand aside, his eyes seemed to stay in the TV screen, but he didn't look at the weightlifting competition in front of him at all.
Nie Fangping didn't understand the broadcast of the entire Olympic Games, but he had watched it by himself when he was watching the Sydney Olympics before, and then he also learned about the situation with others.
There are many events in an Olympic Games, such as the sprint track event in track and field, from the preliminaries to the final round, there are often three or four shots, and it is impossible to broadcast every round, and only the most important finals will be purchased by TV stations.
"Stinky boy, it's nice to call me back and tell me!"
Nie Fangping muttered in a low voice, since Grosseto returned last month, he and Ye Qin had spoken on several phone calls, but by the time Ye Qin arrived in Athens, he was almost completely unreachable.
Although he complained like this, after going to Grosseto, Italy once, he also knew that domestic mobile phones could not be used abroad, and he had to buy a local mobile phone card or something.
There must be a transatlantic telephone delegation, and the resident officials and accompanying reporters need to send messages and communicate with the country in real time, but an ordinary athlete probably should not have it.
The Chinese team went abroad, Nie Fangping has no news of Ye Qin, and his recent understanding of the Athens Olympics can only be the same as most people, watching TV and newspapers, waiting for foreign news to come.