Chapter 429: World Flyer
First lane, Madik Osovnikar, Slovakia;
second, Kurandi-Martina, Netherlands Antilles;
third, Asafavil, Jamaica;
Fourth, Yechin, China;
Fifth Way, Jason Gaby, USA;
Sixth lane, Derek Atkins, Bahamas;
Seventh, Marlon Devenish, England;
Eighth Lane, Orusoki-Fasuba, Nigeria;
When the information of the eight finalists, in the voice of Mu Jiang's introduction in front of the live radio and TV, showed their faces one by one on the TV set one by one, everyone was already in high spirits.
Before this final, Ye Qin just kept smiling at the camera, pointing to the icon of the sprint suit on his chest towards the TV camera, and then remained silent.
With wave after wave of noise and cheers on the field, he could faintly feel the throbbing of his heart.
The two people on his left and right at the moment, Asafavil and Jason Gaby, are currently the two fastest in the men's 100m, and he is about to compete with them for the men's 100m world title.
This was something he had never thought of before, starting with the men's 100m, the original purpose was just to break the 10-second barrier and try to do one more event, but now, it has a completely different meaning.
Former coach Randy Hunter said he lacked that strong desire for championship in sprinting.
Only this desire can push the athlete to keep moving forward, so that he can make greater progress and never stop.
In the past, Ye Qin chose the runway and kept running hard in order to change his life and destiny, in a sense, this is his persistence, his obsession.
Constant training, continuous competition, so that his vision, so that his vision is no longer simply limited to the past, he can no longer stop his steps, every time he stands on the runway, he seems to be able to hear his inner voice, a little harder, a little faster, maybe we can do a little better.
As long as I do well enough in all aspects, the record will be mine and the championship will be mine!
Since entering the national team, Ye Qin has always been very grateful to Randy Hunter, unlike Yan Ning Nie Fangping's enlightenment guidance, Randy Hunter has given him an international perspective, as well as the mentality adjustment in sports psychology.
The reason why Randy Hunter did not continue to coach Yechin is actually very simple, it is not that he is unwilling, or that there is something wrong with the national team.
The root cause is actually the difference between running and jumping, although the top sprinters and the long jump actually have a lot in common, both of them are very explosive, and the speed is helpful for the height and gliding time, but in fact, there is still a certain difference between the two running and jumping in the real sense.
Especially for athletes who have reached a high level, there is still a slight difference in the training of the main muscle groups used in sprinting and long jump, such as the gluteus maximus. Geniuses like Carl Lewis are a minority, and most sprinters may do well in the long jump, but the real desire to reach the top depends on the innate conditions of the body. In addition to explosiveness, the coordination and lightness of the body is an important condition.
With the likes of Asafaville and Jason Gaby being very strong and exploding in muscles, it's not easy to really stand out in the long jump.
Randy Hunter was targeted and meticulous enough after guiding Yechin for a year, but in the later stages, he could already feel that Yechin could not need his special guidance in this regard, and his attention returned to the long jump.
But most importantly, Randy Hunter taught him what it takes to be a top athlete.
In the face of any competition, any opponent, have a strong enterprising spirit, set goals from the bottom of the heart, and work 100% for it.
Seeing the higher mountains and farther scenery in the distance, after he can achieve something, he can still calm down, not be arrogant or impatient, and clearly understand himself.
Nie Fangping's guidance made Ye Qin understand the significance of why he stood on the runway. Randy Hunter gave Yechin the heart of a strong champion.
"I'm not afraid of challenges, I'm not afraid of pressure, I'm not afraid of any opponent, come on!"
Ye Qin took a long and deep breath, calmed down some ups and downs, his spirit and attention were highly concentrated, his eyes were blazing at the runway in the distance, and he slowly walked onto the runner under the command of "On your marks".
Asafavir, who was standing on Ye Chin's left, frowned slightly, and at the moment when the commands sounded in place, he seemed to feel his heart twitch slightly, and an inexplicable emotion seemed to spread in his heart.
"Asafa, you are the number one in the world, you are the world record holder!"
Asafavir's lips moved slightly, and he muttered silently.
Last night he stayed up until almost 5 a.m. before he could barely sleep, but fortunately there was no competition for him this morning, and the semi-finals and final of the men's 100m were held in the evening.
He was able to sleep until the morning, and although he did not appear to be physically tired, he was still a little restless mentally.
"I can't lose to Jason Gaby, I can't lose to Yechin, I'm going to prove myself at the World Championships, the title is mine, the world record is mine."
Asafavir looked blankly at the finish line in front of him, and in another silent self-suggestion, he gently adjusted his breathing, leaned over, and pressed his fingers on the plastic track in front of the white starting line.
"Jason Gaby, it's time!"
On the other side, Jason Gaby raised his hands in the air and pointed his index finger to the sky, as if to announce to everyone that he would be the champion and the first in the group.
On the angular and rough face, the expression was silent at this moment, but there was a strong dedication to the championship and a strong confidence in his own strength in his eyes.
"Since I was a teenager, I started to practice track and field running under the guidance of my mother, and my opponent at that time was my sister, who was three years older than me, and I lost to her again and again, and then I slowly started to win again.
After that, my opponents were the opponents of the track and field team in my school, I was younger than them, and I still lost a lot, but by the time I stepped into my senior year, in my middle school, in my state, there was no one who could win against me. I won the state championship in the men's 100m.
I didn't do well academically and didn't meet the criteria for admission to a sports academy, but luckily I met coach Lance Brauman and followed him into Barton County Community College, where I met Veronica Campbell Brown from Jamaica and I trained with her as a training partner.
After that, the coach went to work at the University of Aksas, and I followed in his footsteps into Aksas, where I met more opponents and challenges, and I only finished fourth and fifth in the NCAA indoor 60m and 200m, which made me feel frustrated and painful, and after half a year of hard work, I finally won the men's 100m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in June, with a time of 10.06 seconds, and set a school record.
I missed out at the trials at the 2004 Olympics because of dehydration and I had cramps in the middle of the race, and I saw Jax Thelin in the race, and I got a new training partner, Wallace Spearmon, who was younger than me, but very talented, and faster in the second half than I was.
I kept training hard and the memory of being bullied by my senior sprinters at the 2005 World Championships is still fresh in my memory, but it doesn't matter, I know I'm going to get stronger day by day.
Jax Thelin, Maurice Green, John Capel, Wallace Spearmon, Yechin, Sean Crowder, Asafavil have beaten my opponents one by one, and I will finally beat you all on this runway, standing on the highest podium, and receiving the applause and cheers of the champions......"
In Nagai Stadium, the lights at night seem to be like daytime.
After the command to take the position of the players sounded, the tens of thousands of spectators in the stands, the sound gradually became quieter at this moment.
Everyone is eagerly awaiting the most exciting speed showdown on the planet.
The countless viewers sitting in front of the TV in China stopped their movements at this moment, staring at the screen quietly, listening to the words from Mu Jiang in the TV speaker:
“…… This is a historical moment, Ye Qin feels very focused, his whole spirit has always seemed to be immersed in the competition, this is the mental quality that a top athlete needs to have before a competition, he has completely entered his own fighting mode...... Come on, the audience is already cheering...... This is the first time that an Asian athlete has stood on the stage of the men's 100m world-class competition...... We are looking forward to another miracle for Yechin like the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki......"
“SET!”
Before the starting line, when the eight athletes bent down and kept their bodies still with their feet on the running aids, the starters on the sidelines shouted the prepared password.
Eight runners raised their legs and got up and did the key movements of the squatting start.
At this moment, both the audience and the commentary on the TV remained strangely quiet.
Syllable!
Match guns rang out.
The third Asafavir suddenly moved his whole body at the moment when the gunshot rang out, and his nearly 1.9 meters tall and extremely strong muscles burst out with amazing power at this moment.
His feet almost creaked on the pedals of the runner, and his whole body was like a heavy-duty pickup truck pressing the accelerator to the end, rushing towards the track.
The explosive start of the world, the pedaling force of each foot is terrifying, the swing arm speed is fierce, the front foot lifts the leg quickly, the back foot sticks to the ground to keep up quickly, and the sole of each step has full contact with the plastic runway ground.
This way of starting is the result of talent and long-term training, and the strong reaction force brought to him with each step pushes the strong body to accelerate forward quickly.
Jason Gaby in lane 5 was almost in sync with Asafavil in his starting reflexes, and Jason Gaby was faster than Asafavil in the first few steps. Jason Gaby is also strong and lean, with only half of his foot landing on the ground with each kick he takes from the start, giving him faster step and leg lifts, and in the first two steps, he is no weaker than Aszafaville.
This is the starting style that he has specially strengthened after the new coach, and his standard height of 1.8 meters has a faster cadence than that of large athletes.
However, compared to Asafarville's starting style, after a distance of about three or four steps and ten meters, Asafaravil was still pulled away by a first-line gap.
Ye Qin was between the two, there was no hesitation at the moment when the gunshot rang out, he started and raised his legs, the speed was very fast and fierce, his starting style was a little close to Asafavir, but it was far from the other party's complete explosion in an instant.
There was little difference between the three men in the front 10 metres, but after 10 metres, Asafavir clearly dominated and started to run to the front, with Yechin and Jason Gaby almost neck-and-neck, sprinting towards the front.
Meanwhile, in the other lanes, Bahamian Derek Atkins in lane 6 and Olusoki Fasuba in lane 8 had a quicker start reaction than the three.
10 meters, 20 meters, 30 meters......
With each step, Asafavir gained great strength in full contact with the ground, and his speed became more and more fierce, and he rushed forward like a flying speed.
Although there were people who started faster than him, and the first two or three steps were almost a little faster than he seemed to be, but after twenty or thirty meters the start accelerated, and no one was his opponent.
In this short distance, he is already one position ahead of the others.
Jason Gaby and Derek Atkins are close behind, both of whom are extremely fast pacemakers, who are not weak in the first few steps of the start, but they do not have the powerful running style of Asafavil and can rush faster after a few steps.
With Olusoki Fasuba and several other runners in the third row, Yechin had a strong start and was not slow compared to the top athletes around him.
It's just that there is still a certain gap in the face of Asafavil, and it is also about half a position behind Jason Gaby and Derrick Atkins.
However, even if the distance of the race is only a short 100 meters, in this electric light, everything has only just begun.
Forty meters, fifty meters, sixty meters......
Ye Qin slowly raised his head, looked at the track in front of him, and felt the absolute rapid speed of the two current world's top sprinters on the left and right lanes, and his speed gradually increased.
The lag of dozens of meters in front of him is already a habit for him, although he has been overcoming and improving, but he himself knows that this is not an overnight thing, to be able to reach the level of today, to keep up with other top 100-meter athletes is not weak, it is already the result of enough hard work.
At the 40-meter stage, Asafavir began to get ahead of the others, and the crowd was able to clearly see Asafavir's lead on the track, almost two positions away from all the competitors.
Similarly, Jason Gaby is just as fast and is entering the high-speed phase of the mid-road run.
Fifty meters, Jason Gaby's fast cadence, strong absolute speed ability became more and more evident at this time, and began to bite down tightly on Asafavil, who was chasing Asafavil.
Sixty meters, Jason Gaby is getting closer and closer to Assafavir, from being two positions behind to only one.
Due to the distance between the paths, Asafavir had already felt the opponent around him approaching quickly, but he could not fully confirm the opponent's position yet.
Then at this time, Ye Qin, who had been behind, quickly exerted his strength from the time of fifty meters, and quickly approached to chase after the two. In absolute speed, he is no slouch behind Jason Gaby or Al-Safavir, all he needs is more acceleration.
Seventy meters......
Asafavir's face was hideous, his whole body muscles bulged, and at this moment he already felt that the fifth Jason Gaby seemed to be on the same level as him, but he didn't dare to look at it, and still maintained a high level of concentration.
But at this time, whether it was Jason Gaby or Asafarville, both of them suddenly felt an unprecedented pressure, and the fourth lane between the two, the Chinese, the Asian, caught up.
Yechin is familiar with both of them, and the second half of the race is the best in the current 1200m event, and both Jason Gaby and Wallace Spearmon are weaker than each other, not to mention Asafavil, the world record holder who has been focusing on the 100m.
"What?!"
Approaching the distance of about 80 meters, Asafavil suddenly showed a look of pain and panic on his hideous face, he had played well enough in this group of 100 meters, perfect enough, and he was even confident to run within 9.80 seconds after rushing to the finish line.
But at this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the position of the fourth path, and Ye Qin's feet had already appeared in his pre-emptiveness.
At this moment, the huge panic made him a little overwhelmed.
At the age of 70 meters, he and Jason Gaby staggered a lane, did not deliberately observe the position of the other party, and his mentality was not unbalanced, but at 80 meters, as he saw that the finish line was getting closer and closer, he found that he seemed to be being overtaken or overtaken.
For a moment, he felt that his muscles suddenly became a little stiff, and the movement of his arm swing lost the quick coordination of Fang Cai, and he gritted his teeth fiercely, trying to calm down the panic of this moment, but the red figure beside him had suddenly rushed up and was neck with him.
“…… Ye Chin had a good start and was very steady. Asafavir is a fast runner with Jason Gaby close behind. Yechin! Ye Chin is chasing! Ye Qin caught up, and the three of them went hand in hand......"
On the media commentary seat at the scene, Mu Jiang's voice went from low to high, one after another, and the whole person seemed to be stimulated by the fierce scene in the arena, and at the end he was already shouting like a roar.
At this moment, both the audience and the audience in front of the TV saw the three figures side by side at the 80 meters on the track, and it was almost difficult to see this scene among the three current strongest players in the men's 100 meters in such a top competition.
As soon as the eighty meters passed, Asafavil seemed to lose speed, and Yechin in lane 4 and Jason Gaby in lane 5 rushed towards the finish line in unison.
The distance of 20 meters is almost a matter of one or two seconds in the blink of an eye for an athlete running at high speed, but in just this two seconds, many things will still happen in many unpredictable situations.
At a distance of eighty meters, Jason Gaby had already felt that Yechin was beside him, but compared to the instant imbalance of Assafavir's mentality, he was unmoved, and along the way, he defeated countless opponents before he finally had the opportunity to climb to the highest podium, he didn't want to lose, he didn't want to lose!
Ye Qin only felt as if his body was about to explode at this moment, the wind was whistling in his ears, he could barely hear other sounds at all, he couldn't see anyone else, and there was only the end of the line in front of him.
"To win, to win! I'm going to be the champion in the men's 100m! ”
A cry kept ringing in my heart.
At 90 meters, Ye Chin and Jason Gaby are still indistinguishable, at least in the naked eye of everyone, there is basically no difference between before and after.
Ninety-one meters, ninety-two meters, ninety-three meters......
The last ten meters are basically a matter of three or four steps for an athlete of this level, and at this moment of crossing the finish line.
With his strong speed retention ability and super absolute speed, Ye Qin suddenly overtook the Jason Gaby line, rushed out before the last two steps, and crossed the finish line first.
There was silence before a loud cheer that almost toppled the stadium's roof.
Countless Chinese viewers sitting in front of the TV to watch this game jumped with excitement one by one!
“…… Ye Chin, Ye Chin crossed the finish line first! Ye Chin won! Ye Qin won the men's 100m championship at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Ye Qin made history, a new Asian record, Ye Chin, made history of the yellow race! 100m world champion, glory to the world, Ye Chin, became a legend ......"
In the media commentary seat, Mu Jiang's crazy screams transmitted signals through electronics, and this moment sounded in the ears of all Chinese, and at this time, everyone would not feel that Mu Jiang's words were exaggerated in the slightest, and they were also so excited that they jumped and jumped.
In the stands, a small number of Chinese spectators who came to Osaka to watch the game almost shouted hoarse at this moment!
"Yechin, World Champion, World Flyer! ……”
On the finish line timing board, Ye Qin saw his results.
9.83 seconds!
In the men's 100m race at the World Championships, he ran into the 9.90 seconds mark!
Before the finish line, Jason Gaby, who also crossed the finish line, gritted his teeth and roared, swinging his right fist hard in the air.
In the last moment, in the last 10 meters, he was overtaken by Ye Qin at that moment.
After crossing the finish line, Asafavir supported his knees with his hands, as if he couldn't believe that he was seventy or eighty meters ahead, but in the end he was overtaken by the two.
On the on-site timing board, at this time, the results of all the runners in this group of men's 100 meters appeared.
1. Fourth lane, Ye Qin, China, reaction 0.152, score 9.83 seconds;
2. Fifth lane, Jason Gaby, USA, reaction 0.143, time 9.85;
3. 3rd lane, Asafavir, Jamaica, reaction 0.145, time 9.89;
4. Sixth lane, Derek Atkins, Bahamas, reaction 0.137, time 9.91;
5. Eighth lane, Orusoki-Fasuba, Nigeria, reaction 0.130, time 10.07;
6. Second lane, Kurandi Martina, Netherlands Antilles, reaction 0.180, time 10.08;
7. 7th lane, Marlon Devonish, Great Britain, reaction 0.149, time 10.14;
8. First lane, Madik Osovnikar, Slovakia, reaction 0.172, time 10.23.