August 27th.

The penultimate day before the end of the Athens Olympics and the penultimate day before the Olympic athletics competition.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Ye Qin, together with many athletes and coaches participating in this Olympic Games, arrived at the Olympic Stadium and sat in the stands to watch tonight's game.

Today, many events have been completed, even track and field competitions, in the last two days, except for a few collective relay events, they have basically entered the final stage.

In the men's 50km race walk in the morning, the Chinese team sent a total of two runners to participate, including the Asian Games men's 20km race walk runner-up, Yu Chaohong, a Chinese player born in Yunnan Province, ranked fourth with a time of 3 hours, 43 minutes and 45 seconds, and another Chinese Mongolian athlete Alatan Gadasu ranked tenth with a time of 3 hours, 51 minutes and 55 seconds. Both failed to break the breakthrough of zero medals for the Chinese track and field team at this Olympics.

Of the few remaining events that have a chance to win medals, only the men's 110m hurdles and the women's 10,000m are also the two events that the track and field team has the most high hopes for.

From 8 p.m., the men's pole vault final will be followed by the women's long jump final. This was followed by the men's 4×100m relay heats and the women's 4×400m heats.

When the men's 4×100m relay preliminaries were underway, Ye Qin suddenly came to his senses and made a special observation of every team on the field.

Although Ye Qin did not hear Yu Weili talk about the relay event of the Chinese team, when he saw the Japanese athletes appear on the field, his heart suddenly rose with the idea that our own country should also have athletes to compete.

He remembers that in several competitions in the World Junior Championships and the World Youth Championships, he seemed to have seen Japanese players participate in the competition, although the results were not ideal, but at that time, many Chinese teams basically could not send players to the event, and Japan would basically have one or two people to participate.

At this stage, the men's 100-meter Asian record is 10 seconds set by Japan's Koji Ito, the 200-meter Asian record is 20.03 seconds set by Japan's Shingo Suesu, and the 400-meter Asian record is 44.56 seconds set by Oman's Malaki in Budapest in 1988.

To be honest, when Ye Qin knew that the birth of the Asian record was not a few years different from his current age, he really couldn't believe it. However, this also shows that the men's 400m athletes will face a tougher challenge.

Just like in the international athletics world, there have always been people breaking the men's 100m in recent years, but the men's 200m and men's 400m records are basically firmly standing there, and it is difficult for ordinary athletes to get close.

"Ye Qin, observe more of their connection and skills when running in the relay race, maybe you will use it in the future."

When the team of the first group of relay races in the men's 100m preliminaries appeared on the field, Yu Weili turned his head with a solemn expression and whispered to Ye Qin.

"Coach, you're talking about the 4×400m relay, right?"

The men's 4×100-meter relay event is the best to watch, not as good as the men's individual sprint event, and the collective event has high skill requirements.

However, hearing Yu Weili's words, Ye Qin was still a little surprised, it was not that he didn't think about running the men's 100-meter relay, but with his current speed, I'm afraid it's still a little worse, and it is still difficult to be selected by the relay team.

Of course, if it is a men's 4×400m relay event, Ye Qin feels that there is no problem, but Chinese track and field, and even the Asian track and field mentioned above, have a greater gap in the 400-meter event and international athletics, and it is more difficult for the Chinese team to form a men's 4×400m team that can enter the top 16 in the world than to form a men's 4×100m.

After all, the men's 100-meter event has a wide range and high attention, whether it is a local team or a national team, there are enough people who practice this event, and good athletes can always be selected, but when it comes to the men's 4×400m, the attention is low, the athlete level is low, and the difficulty is several times greater.

"You're definitely fast enough, but you're missing a little bit from the start."

Yu Weili replied lightly, didn't say anything, and still paid attention to the first group of preliminaries of the men's 4×100m relay at the scene.

Ye Qin's eyes lit up slightly, but seeing that Yu Weili had already turned his head, he didn't seem to continue to talk about this topic anymore, and he didn't quite understand whether Yu Weili had other meanings in his words for a while, and then he also paid attention to the eight relay teams that took the lead.

The men's 4×100m relay preliminaries are a total of 16 relay teams with the highest international rankings. Divided into two preliminary groups, the top three in each group will advance directly, and the remaining two places will be filled by the two teams with the best results in the remaining teams.

After a gunshot, the first group of the 4×100m relay preliminaries began quickly.

Ye Qin sat on the sidelines and took the lead in observing the first baton of each player, the start is very important, only the first baton has a start in the entire relay event, which is a great test for the first athlete.

The first arrangement of each relay team is usually athletes with strong and fast starts, which is where Ye Qin needs to strengthen his learning, and this is the first time he has seen such a high-level relay team compete live. The technical barrier to entry for sprinting is low, but that doesn't mean there are no skills to speak of.

Then there is the baton handover technique, which is the most important.

The atmosphere of the live match at the Olympic Stadium today was not bad, although there was no Greek team among the 16 teams, but after yesterday's boos, it finally returned to normalcy today, and the enthusiasm of the crowd was very high.

Dozens of seconds passed in a flash, and soon the first group of preliminaries appeared, with Nigeria winning the group with a time of 38.27 seconds, followed by Poland and Australia, and the three teams directly qualified for the final, followed by Trinidad and Tobago, Japan, Germany, Canada and Russia.

When the results of the first group of preliminaries came out, Ye Qin thought that Japan might not have a chance to qualify for the final, but when the results of the second group of the preliminaries appeared, he found that the men's 4×100m relay preliminaries were a bit like the situation of restarting when he ran 200 meters.

Men's 4×100m second group, the team that advanced is the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil, according to the rules of the game, the remaining two promotion places according to the results of the filling, and the results of the first group of the preliminaries are much higher than the second group, although the Japanese team is the fifth in the first group of the preliminaries, but his result is 0.18 seconds faster than the fourth place in the second group Jamaica, and he qualified for the final.

It was only at this time that Ye Qin realized what the reason was for the look on Yu Weili's face, which is also an Asian country, and the racial gap is not large, but Japan's performance in the sprint event is far ahead of China.

In addition to the men's 200m race, he became the first runner to break into the final, and there is a big gap between Japan and Japan in other aspects, whether it is the men's 1200m or the 4×100m relay event.

As a track and field person, like Yu Weili and Feng Shuyou, their eyes naturally cannot only be focused on China, and there is a gap between the sprint event and the world's top, so naturally the best reference object is Japan.

Kou can go, and I can go.

It's probably the deepest thoughts of these people.

……

At 21:30 p.m., after the relay event, when eight runners in the men's 110-meter hurdles appeared on the track, all the Chinese in the stands cheered up.

When the sound of the race sounded, Ye Qin saw Liu Yangyu cross the finish line first, and the whole person almost jumped up from his seat.

At this moment, Ye Qin really knew that although the championship was far away, it was definitely not out of reach, and it could definitely be done!

"Who said that yellow people can't get the top eight in the Olympics, yesterday the men's 200m Yechin won the sixth place, and I will prove to everyone today that I am the Olympic champion!" After Liu Yangyu won the championship, he said in an interview with reporters.

……

Just after the men's 110-meter hurdles final, it was just over ten minutes, and the Chinese track and field team won the women's 10,000-meter running championship in another city!

Asia has me, China has me!