At around 11 a.m. on August 10, a minibus departing from the Chinese team in the athletes' village slowly stopped at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.

"Ye Qin, you are really lucky, it didn't rain today."

As soon as he got out of the car, Zhuang Wei looked at the sky that had cleared up a lot, with a happy smile on his face, and shouted to the other people who got out of the car.

"Compared to the previous few days, the weather was really good." Chen Zhongzhou and Yang Yao walked down from the car together with a briefcase, Yang Yao was wearing a casual suit because there was no competition today, and it seemed that he was giving Chen Zhongzhou a hand.

As a professional athlete, even if he has been eliminated, the opportunity to watch the game live like the World Championships is rare after all, and it is always necessary to observe more, analyze the technical characteristics of some players, and combine himself to see if he can learn from each other's strengths.

Ye Qin followed behind Randy Hunter, and the last one got out of the car, and looked up at the sky outside the stadium, the look that had been tense since the morning couldn't help but feel a little relieved now.

Probably because of the heavy rain last night, although the sky is still a little cloudy, the weather is obviously much clearer than before.

Yesterday, when Ye Qin was running the 400-meter preliminaries, it only began to drizzle, but later, the rain became heavier and heavier, which gradually affected the progress of some races. Especially at night, due to the heavy rain, several competitions were temporarily suspended, emergency power outages, protection timers, meters and some broadcasting equipment, etc.

Many athletes who were participating in the competition could only look at the rain curtain outside the window in the lounge in the stadium, and two of them were urgently moved from last night's competition time to today.

Seeing that the sky is a little clearer now, Ye Qin's mood has also improved a lot, and he has been thinking about today's game since the morning.

The men's 200m semi-finals start at 13:45, the semifinals start at 18:40, and the men's 400m semifinals start at 20:15. But the semi-finals of the semi-finals, after all, are not as many groups as the preliminaries, and the difference in the game time between the three and four groups is only 20 minutes at most.

Therefore, for Ye Qin, the most difficult thing is after the 200-meter semi-finals, and then the 400-meter semi-finals, the two games are too close, although the time of the two events is relatively close during the preliminaries, but the semi-finals are not preliminaries after all, and many players will basically not make more reservations at this time in order to compete for the final finals.

And in the men's 200m preliminaries yesterday, Ye Qin felt the pressure after the results of one group came out.

The sixth group of yesterday's preliminaries was amazingly good, and all seven players in the entire group advanced to the semi-finals.

The group was led by an American named Jason Gaby, who ran 19.99 seconds in the 200m heats. The second and third places were followed by 20.14 seconds, and the sixth and seventh places were both 20.37 seconds and 20.40 seconds.

Excluding the timing error in the equipment, this is almost the highest level of the men's 200m preliminaries in history, and it is not inferior even in many major finals.

Although the results in the preliminaries do not represent the performance in the finals, as long as the contestants see the results of this group, few do not feel pressure.

However, the good news, at least for now, the weather factor can be ruled out.

The weather has affected the players a lot in the past few days, and the temperature of the venue once dropped to about 15 degrees, and waiting on the field for a few minutes in shorts and vests can almost make people feel blue from the cold.

It took a lot of time to warm up the body, and under such temperature and rain, it is easy to tighten again, affecting the state and performance, and serious movement deformation and muscle strain are common.

After Ye Qin arrived at the Olympic Stadium, he also began to warm up for a long time, today's weather is clear, and the temperature has returned a lot, but compared with China or other northern hemisphere cities at this time, the temperature is now low, and the natural warm-up time is longer.

The first group of the men's 200m semi-finals started at 13:45, and Ye Qin was in the fourth group of the semi-finals at 14:06.

At 14:03 in the afternoon, Ye Qin stood on the track of the rematch, and the enthusiasm of the audience in the stadium was still there.

Although the rain for several days has brought a lot of inconvenience to many spectators at this World Championships, the rare event still makes many people willing to brave the rain to watch the game.

Although there is no rain today, the weather looks like it will be a little clearer, but many spectators are extremely well prepared, and after standing on the runway from the corridor, you can find all kinds of colorful ponchos in the stands at a glance. At the same time, the applause of the spectators in the stands and the noise of various cheering drums sounded.

Ye Qin stood in the fourth lane, but he didn't feel anything unexpected about these sudden boiling noises.

He knew who the cheers and applause were for, and the biggest name in his group, apart from Jamaican veteran Christopher Williams, was Jax Thelin, the men's 100m champion at Athens 2004, who won the gold medal again in the men's 100m at the end of the day before yesterday. With Sean Crowder not present at last year's Olympic men's 200m champion, many are optimistic that Jax Thelin will win the 200m again. Replicating the American sprinter Maurice Green's 100m and 200m gold medals at a World Championships.

On the other hand, in addition to several well-known players, the most important thing in this group is that there is also a Finnish player Tommy Hatton in lane eight, as the host athlete, he naturally has an advantage.

Although there were many spectators and tourists from other countries who came to Helsinki to watch the game in the stands, the home stadium was still the Finnish crowd, and it would undoubtedly get more attention and applause to see the athletes of their own country in such a match.

Finland's Tommy Hatton may not be well-known internationally, but he is the Finnish national record holder in the men's 100m and 200m, having won the Finnish men's 100m in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004, including a Finnish national title in the 400m.

His personal best time in the 100m was 10.21 seconds and 20.47 seconds in the 200m. In yesterday's men's 200m preliminaries, it was with a time of 20.59 seconds that he successfully advanced to the final. It can be said that Tommy Hatton's participation in the event is also one of the few events that is extremely popular with the local Finnish audience.

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