Chapter 564: 400-meter semifinals
The next day, August 19th.
"Jason Gaby went to the Berlin hospital last night for an urgent check-up?"
When Ye Qin received the news at the station, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and turned to Chen Zhongzhou beside him and asked, "So, he may miss the men's 200m semifinals tonight?" ”
"Possibly." Chen Zhongzhou nodded, "Several reporters from foreign media are reporting that he may have a groin strain again, so he may miss the game." Well, of course, there are some media outlets who think it may be that Jason Gaby is afraid to face you and Eusse Both, so he is making an excuse for himself to avoid the game. ”
"That can't be."
Ye Qin shook his head, "If Jason Gaby doesn't want to face me and Yusse Both, he can just retire in the first round of preliminaries." ”
Saying that, Ye Qin groaned slightly again, and continued, "Jason Gaby is a rather tough person, even if he may have various ideas in the face of pressure, but retirement should not be his first choice. ”
"That's just as well!"
Chen Zhongzhou echoed that since Jason Gaby stepped onto the track and field field, he has experienced a lot of turmoil, such as the World Championships in Helsinki in 05, in the men's 4×100m relay, Jason Gaby and Leonard Scott made a mistake in handing over the baton. and last year's Yenching Olympics, Jason Gaby and Davis Barton's baton handover mistakes, the problem is not entirely Jason Gaby, but he generously stood up in front of the media and admitted that he failed to do a good job.
After losing the Yenjing Olympics last year, he also expressed his disappointing speech in front of many American track and field fans.
In general, Jason Gaby is not active in his influence, and occasionally speaks loudly, but it is a manifestation of the athlete's absolute confidence in himself, in fact, in the words of the Chinese, he can be regarded as a man.
At the same time, at the Jamaican team's station, Yusse Bot also received the news.
Usse Bot was a little confused about the news at first, and then faced Glenn Mills and others, still feeling that the opponent might return to the court.
For no other reason, a competitor who wants to challenge and compete against Ye Qin in the 100m, 200m and 400m, he does not think that the opponent is cowardly and fled.
Of course, if it's really because of the injury, then there is nothing to say.
In Eusy-Bot, he doesn't want Jason Gaby to quit the men's 200m race, and he has played against Jason Gaby many times in the previous years, losing to Jason Gaby in the 200m event many times. After his rise to prominence, he has yet to run a good run against Jason Gaby in the 200m, and he hopes to have that chance.
The time in the outside world, the various gold medal news reported by the media, and some unpleasant encounters of the athletes.
It was fast evening and the hustle and bustle of the Berlin Stadium was still brightly lit.
The World Championships have entered their fifth day, and the prelude to various attractive competitions is gradually kicking off, and the frenzy of athletics competitions has completely ignited the city.
The broadcast rights to the tournament were sold to 213 countries and regions, setting a new record in the history of the World Championship. Every day, the tournament is watched by 5 million people in Germany.
In the men's 100m final and women's high jump final, the average audience reached 9.9 million and 8.6 million respectively, while the average audience size in France was 3.5 million to 4 million, the United Kingdom was 2.5 million to 3.5 million, and Japan was 400 to 5 million. As for the Chinese side, it is not yet fully counted, but basically everyone can guess that it will be an astronomical number.
The IAAF website received a record number of page hits, with more than 100 unique IP visits per day.
After the men's 100m final on August 16, both the IAAF and the organizing committee of the event expected a new round of ratings and online hits.
Because from the 19th, the men's 400m and men's 200m events will enter the semi-finals.
As the current number one superstar in the men's sprint event, countless people are paying attention to his performance in the two semi-finals, as for the finals in the next two days, it is natural not to mention, especially the 200m event, everyone believes that it may not be lower than the men's 100m ratings.
In the 2008 Yenching Olympics, Ye Qin's defeat in the men's 200m event left everyone regretted not only the Chinese audience, but also many track and field enthusiasts in Europe and the United States.
The matchup they hoped for at the highest level in the world could not be staged at that time, so they had to wait until this year.
At 18:15 in the evening, the men's 400m semifinals officially began.
Ye Qin is in the third group of the men's 400m semifinals tonight, and the time of the race is 29 August.
After finishing the men's 400m semi-finals with him, there is basically less than an hour to rest before moving on to the next men's 200m semi-finals.
The whole world knows that tonight's game will be a challenge for Yechin.
Even many spectators who wanted to see Ye Qin and Yusse Bot face off in the men's 200m event strongly advised Ye Qin to give up the men's 400m race and only participate in the men's 200m, and the absence of an event did not affect his greatness in the slightest.
Of course, this move has also been opposed by many men's 400m enthusiasts, and it is unknown whether Ye Qin can break the world record again in the men's 400m, but his duel with Jimmy Warner and Sean Merritt is also a world-class top competition.
As long as Ye Qin can advance tonight, the next two days will be relatively simple. Tomorrow night is the 200m final, and the next night is the 400m final, so one day is enough time to adjust and recover, which is naturally much easier than tonight's high-density event.
In the Berlin Stadium, from 18:15 in the evening, the entire track and field field was in full swing.
Almost all of the commentators in the media commentary booth were full of witty remarks and commented on the game in an impassioned tone.
The first group of the men's 400m semi-finals did not disappoint anyone, informing the American star Jimmy Warner, who was from 04 to 07, successfully won the first place in the group with a time of 44.69 seconds and successfully advanced to the final.
The first group of semi-finals was not of a high level overall, with Jimmy Warner's time of 44.69 seconds and the second-place Briton at 44.74 seconds.
But in the second group of the semi-finals, Sean Merritt showed some surprise to everyone, and Sean Merritt ran a time of 44.37 seconds without facing a particularly big challenge.
It was the best time of the year in the men's 400m, 0.3 seconds faster than Jimmy Warner, who was in the first group of the semifinals.
18:29 p.m.
With the two semi-final groups of the men's 400m having completed the race, Ye Qin and the other seven runners in the third group of the semi-finals finally stepped out of the corridor and stepped onto the stadium track in anticipation of the audience and the audience in front of the TV.
“…… Good audience friends, Ye Qin is already on the stage! The men's 400m semifinals of this World Championships will start in the third group of the competition. After running this semi-final, Ye Qin will participate in the men's 200-meter semi-final at 19:25, please don't miss it......
The timing of the two semi-finals is very close, which is a serious test of Yechin's fitness. In yesterday's preliminaries and semi-finals, Ye Qin basically ran with a large amount of reservations, and everyone can see that Ye Qin was just rushing to get the promotion place. This is also the first time that Ye Qin has participated in the World Championships and Olympic Games in many years, and it shows Ye Chin's maturity on the field, as well as his careful ...... about the opponents he will face in the 200m and 400m finals in the future."
In the Berlin Stadium, when Ye Qin came out, the cheers and applause of the audience instantly increased several times.
Many Chinese spectators who came to watch the game held cheering sticks, KT boards, national flags, etc., and kept waving them, looking extremely excited.
Ye Qin, who was standing on the runway, waved to the audience, but his expression was extremely calm.
In this men's 400m race, he still has to follow the previous strategy, focusing on qualifying, and he doesn't need to completely mobilize himself to the most excited state.
However, he still has to master a degree, after all, all the sprinters present are top sprinters, and if he wants to advance to the finals with restraint and reservation, and will not let himself be excited too early before the finals tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, these are all things that he needs to control.
After the eight players from the third group of the semi-finals appeared on the field, the information of this group of players appeared on the TV and on the big screen of the scene.
First Lane, Leon Larry, USA;
the second, Ye Chin, China;
third lane, Chris Brown, Bahamas;
Fourth Path, Taliba-Henry, U.S. Virgin Islands;
Fifth Way, John Stephenson, Australia;
Sixth Way, Robert Tobin, England;
Seventh Lane, Ricardo Chambers, Jamaica;
Eighth lane, Kevin Poli, Belgium;
In addition to Yechin, the first man in the men's 400m, there are also Leon Larry of the United States and Chris Brown of the Bahamas who are quite famous in the 400m event.
At the same time, many European viewers are also paying attention to Kevin Polley, a 20-year-old white player who set a new career high in the semi-finals with a time of 44.88 seconds in the semi-finals at last year's Yenching Olympics.
It can be said that he is a relatively talented white athlete who has risen to the top in the men's 400m event.
After a gunshot, the game officially began.
Ye Qin was in the second pass, and since the start of the game, he has been maintaining a relatively large pace of slow acceleration.
The competition went to the semi-finals, and basically most of the athletes would go all out at this time in order to fight for a place in the finals.
The good thing is that the attention of the World Championships is not as high as the Olympics.
If it is in the semi-finals of the Olympic Games, then many players may have been preparing for several years, and the level of performance will be significantly higher.
Although the World Championships is the highest level of athletics events, they just experienced the Olympics last year, and many athletes have not reached such an amazing level of individual competition this year.
Soon after the runway, Jamaica's Chris Brown and the U.S. Virgin Islands' Taliba Henry led the race.
From the first corner, it was obvious that the two men in the third and fourth lanes were much faster than the other competitors.
Ye Qin could also feel that he was being pulled away by Chris Brown and Taliba Henry, but he did not accelerate immediately, but adopted his early game strategy, stabilized his position first, and hung behind the two without hurry.
Chris Brown and Taliba Henry steadily increased their speed as they moved into the straights, and their 400m strength was significantly higher than the rest of the race.
After the straight into the corner, the entire 200m race began to enter the second half of the race.
Countless viewers in front of the TV were looking at Ye Qin extremely nervously at the moment.
The semi-finals of the men's 400m consist of three group competitions, with the top two in each group advancing directly to the final and the remaining two best finishers advancing to the final.
Judging from the preliminaries and the 200 meters just now, in the eyes of many spectators, Ye Qin's state is actually unsatisfactory, and he has always been in the middle position, in this case, if the top two are taken away by others, it will be dangerous for him to advance to the finals. After all, the substitution is based on the ranking of the results of the three groups, and if Ye Qin only gets the third or fourth place in this group, he may not necessarily have a chance.
200 meters, 230 meters, 250 meters......
Just as the race entered the middle and second half of the corner, many spectators seemed to notice that Yechin, who was in the inner lane, seemed to be increasing his speed, and the distance between Chris Brown and Taliba Henry in the third and fourth lanes was shrinking.
Corners into straights!
In front of the television, many spectators who could not directly see the position of the competitors in the corner stage suddenly stood up.
In the last straight distance of more than 80 meters, Ye Qin suddenly ran from the back position to the position of the two competitors in front of them in their eyes.
Moreover, Ye Chin's speed is still improving.
Getting closer and closer to the finish line, seventy meters, sixty meters, fifty meters......
Many people know that Ye Qin's strongest point in the 400m event is the final 50-meter sprint.
For now, Ye Qin has been neck and neck with the two players in front of him, and he can't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
However, on the field, Ye Qin did not start to accelerate when entering the last sixty or seventy meters.
His speed remains the same, there is almost no obvious improvement, this 400m is only the semi-final, if he rushes with all his strength at this time, it will have a great impact on the subsequent 200m semi-finals.
Moreover, as they got closer and closer to the finish line, the audience, both at the scene and in front of the TV, gradually discovered that Ye Qin was pulling away from the other two.
After more than 300 meters of running in front, whether it is Chris Brown or Taliba Henry, or Jamaican players such as Riccardo Chambers and Kevin Polley, who are following several people with all their might, their speed is now inevitably greatly reduced.
Ye Qinchong's speed at the beginning of the first half of the race has been relatively good, and when facing players of this level, he has not let go of his speed and run since the first half, and he still has enough physical reserves.
In the last 50 meters, Yechin only kept running at his previous pace, but gradually overtook Chris Brown and Taliba Henry.
Rush the line!
On the on-site timing board, the results of this group of men's 400m semi-finals appeared in the eyes of the audience at the scene and in front of the TV.
44.72 seconds!
A result that is worse than Jimmy Warner and Sean Merritt in front of him, especially compared to Shaun Merritt, this result is much slower.
However, after crossing the finish line, Ye Qin breathed a long sigh of relief.
His body was a little tired, but he was far from the kind of soreness and fatigue that made him particularly sore, and he controlled his speed and physical distribution all the way to win the first place in this group, and he was still very happy in his heart.
On the runway, Ye Qin waved to the spectators next to him again, ignoring the intentions of many reporters who wanted to interview him, and soon Ye Qin left the track and walked towards the passage of the stadium.
He needs to hurry up and rest now, and the semi-finals of the men's 200m are just around the corner!