Chapter 436: Difficult 200-meter semi-finals

"In 20.03 seconds, Jamaica's Yusse Bot was in excellent form, and it was obvious that he didn't run hard in the second half of the race! He will be one of Yechin's toughest opponents in the 200m at the World Championships, the other two being Jason Gaby and Wallace Spearmon, who ran 20.05 seconds in this group ......

On the media commentary seat, after the men's 200m semifinals began, Mu Jiang and Guan Chengfei had already taken their respective positions and started the work at hand.

The 400-meter semi-finals of the Central Fifth Channel were not broadcast, but the 200-meter semi-finals were broadcast, as the first sprint event to win the championship at the World Championships, there was a race in Ye Qin, not to mention the preliminaries and semi-finals, at least the semi-finals will definitely be there.

At this time, Mu Jiang commented on the just-concluded men's 200m semi-finals group 1 competition, from Jamaica's Yusse Bote easily won the first place in the group with a time of 20.03 seconds, and successfully advanced to the final that starts tomorrow.

Second place went to Wallace Spearmon with a time of 20.05 seconds, and in the final stages of the race, Euse-Bolt clearly began to let go, and Wallace Spearmon followed up with his ability in the second half of the race, making the two very close.

The third and fourth places were also very close, with Rodney Martin of the United States running 20.18 seconds and Kurandi Martina of the Netherlands Antilles running 20.20 seconds. The result of the four runs is basically half of the lineup for tomorrow's 200m final.

At 22:28, the second group of players in the men's 200-meter semifinals appeared in front of the starting line, and the list of players in this group was also played on the big screen at the scene.

First Lane, Padrak Johnson, Australia;

second, Brandon Christie, Antigua and Barbuda;

Third Way, Paolo Hecien, Italy;

Fourth Way, Jason Gaby, USA;

Fifth Dao, Yechin, China;

Sixth lane, Marvin Anderson, Jamaica;

Seventh Path, Anastasia, Greece;

Eighth Lane, Christopher Williams, Jamaica;

"I don't know if Ye Chin's state will be affected!"

Standing in front of the men's 200-meter starting line, the other seven athletes competing in the same field all knew that Ye Qin had just participated in the semi-finals of the men's 400-meter and ran a good time of 44.49 seconds.

For Ye Qin to participate in the men's 400 meters and then appeared in front of the 200 meters starting line, the players present will have some guesses in their hearts, not knowing what Ye Qin's performance in this group of competitions will be like this.

There are only four places in the men's 200m final in this group, and if one more person grabs it, they will have one less chance to advance to the final.

When Jason Gaby met Ye Qin in the check-in area, he also thought about whether Ye Qin's state would be a problem in this game, compared to the other players' fear of Ye Qin's amazing strength, Jason Gaby was much more confident and confident.

The final is not a problem, all he cares about is Yechin's state.

Although he lost the men's 100m final a few days ago, the gap is not huge, not to mention the other 200m races that the previous two faced, and to some extent Jason Gaby can feel that his strength should still be above Yechin.

He attaches enough importance to Ye Qin's strength, but he is also confident enough in himself.

It's just that Ye Qin has a trait, that is, a real big competition, the more important the big game, the more stable and full play of his full strength.

Jason Gaby is not afraid of a challenge in all kinds of competitions, a belief he has held since he stepped onto the track as a teenager, but he can feel that he is not yet at his best in the big races.

But for the next 200m, he feels that his personal form should be better than Yechin's. After this 200m semi-final, everyone successfully qualified, and in tomorrow's 200m final, after two more 400m runs in the past two days, he feels that Ye Qin's condition should not be maintained at a very high level.

On the other side, Marvin Anderson in lane 6 and Christopher William in lane 8 will always glance at lane 4 behind them when they get on the track.

Just now, they bet that Ye Qin's 400-meter performance should not be particularly good, and it is very likely that he will go directly through the motions and then be eliminated, and then go all out to prepare for this men's 200-meter race, after all, compared to the 400-meter, Ye Qin is the champion of the last World Championships, and is obviously stronger in the 200-meter event.

"Look, maybe he's tired after running 400 meters!"

With this in mind, the two quietly waited for the start of the game.

“On your marks!”

On the sidelines, the starter's voice rang out.

Ye Qin slowly walked onto the running aid, and after almost an hour of rest, he felt that his physical strength had basically recovered.

The intensity of the men's 400m race is much higher than that of the 100m and 200m, and he basically only has reservations in the last 400m, not to mention 100% performance, but the physical energy consumed is still not ordinary.

Fortunately, Zhuang Wei, a physiotherapist, has always been with him and can provide him with enough relaxation for his muscles. However, Ye Qin did not dare to be careless, after all, he had just finished the high-intensity competition, and now in this 200 meters, he also needs to face an extraordinary challenge.

Jason Gaby is the strongest athlete in the men's 200m today, while Christopher Williams and Marvin Anderson are both strong in the 200m, as well as Greece's Anastasi and Antigua and Barbuda's Brandon Christie.

If you want to finally advance to the 200m final, in this semi-final, Ye Qin feels that he must run at least 20.30 seconds to have a chance, and it is safe, preferably within 20.10 seconds.

After a gunshot, Jason Gaby's speed was indeed faster than Ye Qin thought, and almost a few dozen meters after the start, Ye Qin felt that Jason Gaby in the fourth lane behind him was rapidly approaching him.

In terms of starting acceleration, Jason Gaby still has a certain advantage over him, although he is not far behind Asafavil's unique starting style.

“…… It's game on! Ye Chin's start was not particularly fast, but it was as steady as ever, and the speed was increasing...... Jason Gaby next to him is very fast......"

After the start of the men's 200m second group semifinals, Mu Jiang's voice was transmitted to thousands of households in China through electronic signals on the media commentary seat.

At this time, it was almost 11:30 in China, which was relatively late, but compared to the upcoming game, many people were still willing to take this time to enjoy a speed showdown game.

Especially with Ye Qin in this game, as long as Ye Qin participates in the game at this time, no matter how late it is, the ratings will rise sharply.

In the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2005 World Championships, although Ye Qin already had a certain influence in China at that time, with Liu Yangyu Zhuyu in front, he was not particularly outstanding and could cause a sensation.

But since winning the men's 200m gold medal at the 2005 World Championships, Ye Chin's influence in China has grown day by day, especially after the Asian Games broke the 10-second mark last year.

By the end of this year's IAAF competitions, he broke the 10-second mark one after another, set a new Asian record in the men's 100m, and won the gold medal in the men's 100m at the World Championships a few days ago.

This men's 200-meter race, although it is only the semi-finals, is enough to make domestic track and field viewers and enthusiasts excited and excited.

In particular, Fang Cai Mu Jiang mentioned in the commentary that Ye Qin had just finished the semifinals of the men's 400 meters and advanced to the final with a time of 44.49 seconds, which made many people feel regretful, and they almost scolded the Central Fifth Channel for not broadcasting the game.

Looking at Ye Qin on the TV screen, after a gunshot, countless track and field fans sitting in front of the TV at the moment clenched their fists and stared at the athletes' every move excitedly.

"You kid, you can't make a mistake here!"

In an apartment building next to Xiushui No. 2 Middle School, Nie Fangping's expression became extremely serious after the game began.

Although he did not talk to Ye Qin on the phone, and he didn't know what Ye Qin's specific state was now, the news of the men's 400-meter semi-finals that had just ended was still very clear from the commentary.

It seems to be a casual sentence, but for an old track and field man like him, he knows how difficult it is to do what he wants to do. After running a 400m race with the world's top athletes, it takes less than an hour, followed by a men's 200m semi-final, and even if you have the strength to advance, it will definitely not be easy to run.

He knew that Ye Qin had participated in many events in this World Championships, and he had no opinion on this situation, Chinese track and field talents are too scarce to this day, and it is too rare to have such a top athlete who has outstanding performance in several events.

With his understanding of Ye Qin, he also knew very well that unless this kid was really incapable of doing it, otherwise, as long as he had the slightest opportunity, he would never let go.

Since you want to grasp it in your hands, let's do everything to the extreme, so that people can't find thorns, and there is nothing to say!

Nie Fangping sighed silently in his heart, his eyes staring at the rushing sound tightly, and his heart gradually rose with the speed of the players.

On the field, accelerating thirty or forty meters in a short corner, Ye Qin could feel the huge pressure brought to him by Jason Gaby behind him.

However, he was also very fast, and Jason Gaby, who was behind Yechin, could see Yechin's form when he looked up, as if he had not been affected by the fact that he had just completed the 400 metres.

In terms of age, Jason Gaby is now in his prime, and Yechin is four or five years younger than him.

More than 100 meters of corners, the players in the arena chase me, and they pass by in a flash.

Seventy or eighty meters ahead, Ye Qin felt that he was still in very good shape when he ran, but when he reached the stage of turning into the straight, he felt a little wrong.

It seems that the body is a little heavier than usual, and the running fluency is not as high as the 200 meters before.

The after-effects of running the 400 meters were still evident at this time, and if he had only run 100 meters or 200 meters and had an hour's buffer, he would definitely not have felt anything special.

But it was the 400m, the most tiring of the sprints. Even if he took the time to rest and adjust, at this time, compared to a bunch of world-class 200m athletes, it still made people see that something was wrong.

“…… Jason Gaby came from behind and passed Yechin on the corner into the straight......"

Mu Jiang, the on-site commentator, also saw it, his voice trembled slightly, Ye Qin's seventy or eighty meters in front of him were still in very good condition, with strong explosiveness, full acceleration, and running on the way was also very good, but at a position of about eighty meters, compared with Jason Gaby and his distance, it was obvious that Ye Qin was a little tired, and his speed seemed to have slowed down a little.

The final corner was about to enter the straight, and Jason Gaby overtook Yechin and ran to the front of the line.

At the same time, Marvin Anderson in lane 6 and Christopher Williams in lane 8 both surpassed Yechin at this time, and even Antigua in lane 2 and Barbuda's Brandon Christie were both outpaced by half a position at this time.

At this moment, the audience who could see Ye Qin's location clearly, as well as the many domestic track and field enthusiasts in front of the TV, couldn't help but pinch their hearts.

Ye Qin was the world champion in the men's 100m, but he was clearly behind after the corner into the straight.

There are only four places to advance to the semi-finals, and at this time Yechin has Jason Gaby, Marvin Anderson, Christopher William and Brandon Christie in front of him, and Yechin is almost neck-and-neck with Greece's Anastasi, which is already extremely bad for Yechin's form.

"No, man, you're the 2005 200m champion, and I want to challenge you in tomorrow's final, you can't be out!"

Eusse Bot and Wallace Spearmon, who had already completed the first group of the 200m semifinals, were both standing on the sidelines watching the game, and Yusse Bot was also slightly shocked when he saw Ye Qin being overtaken by four people.

He doesn't have the idea that other players might have a chance to run a better ranking if Ye Qin is missing Ye Qin in the final, and he is at least worried that Ye Qin will really be eliminated in this semi-final.

Wallace Spearmon's face is also extremely solemn at the moment, his form in the 200m event this year is not too good, compared to last year's personal peak time of 19.65 seconds in Daegu, South Korea, his current strength has dropped several notches.

For him, it may be a bit difficult for him to win the men's 200m, after all, he has lost a lot of matches against Jason Gaby and Yusse Bot this year, but he still has a chance to fight for a medal if Yechin is out.

It's just that, as a good top 200m runner, his pride also tells him that pinning his trust on the enemy to make mistakes is the behavior of the weak.

In the face of a strong man like Ye Qin, even if he is defeated, it is an honor.

He, like Yusse Bote, also doesn't want Yechin to be out.

Eighty meters, seventy meters, sixty meters......

In the swept camera, Ye Qin's face was already a little distorted.

At this moment, he seemed to feel as if he had just returned to the scene when he had just stepped on the international stage, participating in the World Junior Championships and World Junior Championships, and he was also like this at that time, and he was largely left behind at this stage.

And then......

Ye Qin gritted his teeth and looked at the finish line in front of him, his opponents were moving fast, and in the midst of the noisy cheering noise, he seemed to be able to hear the footsteps flying quickly across the runway.

If you are a lot of players, your mentality may have completely collapsed at this time.

Like Asafavir in the men's 100-meter race, when he saw Ye Qin suddenly catch up and overtake him in the last twenty or thirty meters, his mentality was out of balance almost instantly.

I won't be thinking about continuing to catch up with the four runners in front of me, the gap is widening, and in the sprint race, even if it is only a few positions, it is definitely not so easy to catch up.

But at this time, Ye Qin found that his mind was unprecedentedly clear, he had participated in so many competitions, and he had a deep understanding of his own technical characteristics, as well as the technical level of the overall track and field athletes.

He still has a chance!

After the men's 400m semi-finals, he had a brief physical and state problem, and throughout the 200m race, he felt a little weak mainly in the 780 to 120 meters section.

In the seventy or eighty meters ahead, with the powerful explosive power he recovered, he was not inferior to others. In the middle section, because of the violent outburst, there was a certain decline in physical fitness, which caused other players to overtake.

However, it is now past 120 meters and the final straight stage.

At this time, although his speed was not as fast as in the past, his stamina ability to maintain his speed was not affected too much, or relatively little.

This is the characteristic of speed or endurance quality in track and field competitions, physical fitness and condition will directly affect his outburst, his speed, but still able to keep his speed down.

Eighty meters from the finish line, Yechin dropped to sixth place, and the fifth Greek runner to enter the straight, Anastassi, overtook Yechin.

But when many people thought that Ye Qin's speed would continue to slow down, as a result, at this time, Ye Qin stabilized his speed and began to catch up gradually.

Fifty meters, forty meters, thirty meters......

The finish line is in sight!

When he was forty meters away from the finish line, Ye Qin gradually caught up with Anastasia, and the opponent ran fiercely more than 100 meters in front of him, and by this time, the speed had inevitably declined.

In a short distance of forty or fifty meters, the two almost staged a good show of chasing me.

Twenty meters, ten meters......

At this time, the audience and many track and field fans in front of the TV couldn't help but stand up again.

Many people at this time looked away from Jason Gaby, who was running in front and had obviously begun to release water, and their attention returned to Yechin.

They saw Yechin overtake Greece's Anastasi and, step by step, chase after the player in front of them.

Twenty meters from the finish line!

Yechin's speed didn't improve much, but with his strong speed retention ability, Yechin gradually caught up with Antigua and Barbuda's Brandon Christie, who was in fourth place in front.

The two sprinted towards the front almost side by side.

10 meters ......

Ye Qin's speed was still maintained at a relatively high state, and in the last four steps, Ye Qin suddenly had a forward acceleration and sprint movement.

At the moment when the two of them crossed the finish line almost at the same time, they suddenly overtook them.

Almost in a flash of lightning, eight runners crossed the finish line one after another.

Jason Gaby, who had crossed the finish line first, slowly stopped, and he saw the results on the yellow timing board next to him.

20.00 seconds, a pretty good result.

This group of 200m semi-finals was not difficult for him at all, and in the last 10 or 20 meters, he already had the action to release, relying on inertia to run, and even so, no one could surpass him.

At this moment, Jason Gaby moved his eyes to Ye Qin in the fifth lane, and after he passed Ye Qin some distance before entering the corner, he did not see the other party's figure, at this time he did not know how many Ye Qin ran and whether he advanced to the final.

For him, the two big opponents in this World Championships, Asafavir and Yechin.

In the 100-meter final, he played one move worse than Ye Qin's big game and finally lost the game.

In the 200 meters, he wanted to win back a city, but at this time, he was not sure whether Ye Qin had qualified for tomorrow's race.

In less than an hour, the first 400 meters ran an astonishing time of 44.49 seconds, and it is not an easy task to run another time in the 200 meters to advance to the final.

At least 44.49 seconds, Jason Gaby doesn't think he can run, and none of the top 200m athletes he knows can do.

After running this result, Ye Qin, if he wants to say how good his physical fitness and condition are, he doesn't believe it.

Everyone is an athlete, and the difference between the 200m and 400m events is well understood.

Otherwise, there would be no such thing, the 100m semi-finals and the final are compared together, the 200m semi-finals and the final are held on two separate days, and in the 400m, the semi-finals and the final need to be separated by one day.

The purpose of such a competition arrangement is to allow the players to get enough rest and have a fuller state to create better results.

On the track before the finish line, Ye Qin stopped, his hands on his knees and looked at the big screen at the scene, he was waiting for the final results to appear.

In the final sprint, his mind was completely empty, he didn't know where his opponent was, and he wanted to know what kind of result he had run.

Make the cut, or be eliminated.

Soon, on the big screen, the results of this group of men's 200m semifinals began to appear one by one:

1. Fourth lane, Jason Gaby, USA, reaction 0.157, time 20.00;

2. Sixth lane, Marvin Anderson, Jamaica, reaction 0.163, time 20.06;

3. Eighth lane, Christopher Williams, Jamaica, reaction 0.143, time 20.24;

4. Fifth lane, Ye Qin, China, reaction 0.161, time 20.31;

5. Second lane, Brandon Christie, Antigua and Barbuda, reaction 0.139, time 20.33;

6. 7th lane, Anastasia, Greece, reaction 0.151, time 20.36;

7. 3rd lane, Paulo Hessin, Italy, reaction 0.154, time 20.50;

8. First lane, Padraic Johnson, Australia, reaction 0.151, time 20.73;

"Qualified! Ye Qin successfully qualified for tomorrow's 200m final, and Ye Qin made history again, qualifying for the 400m and 200m semi-finals on the same day, which were only an hour apart, with excellent results...... Regardless of the results of tomorrow's 200m final and the day after tomorrow's 400m final, Yechin has already outperformed the likes of Carl Lewis, Maurice Green and Michael Johnson. It's a bit unbelievable to be able to deliver such a satisfying answer sheet in such a competitive competition of this intensity......"

Many viewers in front of the domestic TV set, at the moment when Ye Qin crossed the finish line, everyone was waiting for the final results to appear.

And when on the TV screen, accompanied by Mu Jiang's high-pitched and excited voice, the results box of this group of men's 200m semifinals appeared on the TV screen, everyone shouted excitedly.

At this moment, the General Administration of National Training, the dormitory building of the Physical Education Department of Shuimu University, the Longyue Community in Linzhou, the teacher's apartment building of Xiushui No. 2 Middle School, and many people distributed all over the country, as long as they pay attention to this game, they can hardly hide the joy in their hearts at this time.

In particular, the more you know about track and field sprinting, the more you know how difficult it is for Ye Qin to do this.

Feng Shuyong, Yu Weili and Yuan Guohua and other members of the coaching staff on the sidelines, when they saw the results of the game, even the descendants felt that they seemed to have weak legs and were unstable on their feet.

This 200-meter race is really a short time of 20 seconds, but it gives people ups and downs of psychological pressure.

In front of the finish line of the on-site runway, at the moment when he saw the results coming out, Ye Qin gasped heavily, and the strength supporting his body seemed to be emptied, lying directly on the runway, looking at the lights above the stadium, with a smile on his face.

"We've qualified!"

Compared with the men's 200m race he had participated in before, this one was the most laborious for Ye Qin.

He had anticipated the challenges he might face directly, but when he actually got on the field, he found that it was much more difficult than he thought.

The 400-meter run was 44.49 seconds, which was more farther away than he thought, and he didn't feel much when he started running, but after seventy or eighty meters, the short muscle explosion passed, and that section really made him feel a little struggling.

Thankfully, he was able to maintain his speed and mentality, and he persevered until the last 20 meters of the sprint, where he narrowly defeated his opponent by 0.02 seconds and qualified for the 200 meters.

As for tomorrow's game, he didn't think that much about it at this point.

The key to today's difficulty was that the interval between the two games was so short, and with a day of rest, he believed he could fully recover.