"Lao Mu, what do you think, what does Ye Qin think about the 400-meter semifinals?"

On the media commentary seat of Changju Stadium, Guan Chengfei sat next to Mu Jiang with a worried look on his face.

Today's men's 400-meter semi-finals, CCTV 5 did not broadcast it, after all, it is not a men's 100-meter race, and the final final can be broadcast.

His director, the broadcaster, and Mu Jiang's commentary, are now sitting and watching the game, but from the moment he sat down, his butt felt like he had been pricked by a needle, and he was uncomfortable.

"I've talked to Coach Yu and Coach Yuan before, Ye Qinna......" Mu Jiang rubbed his somewhat unkempt hair, and his voice dragged long, "He probably won't give up 400 meters." ”

Saying that, Mu Jiang paused, and then continued, "Before, Director Yu and I relayed Ye Qin's meaning, the men's 400-meter event was the first time he started to practice, although because the results were not as good as the 200 meters, and now the influence is not as good as the 100 meters, but the 400-meter competition, someone still has to participate."

Like the 04 Athens Olympics, we can have people who can qualify for the 100m and 200m meters, but what about the 400m, no one has ever reached it in all these years. Moreover, because of the influence and the difficulty of training, there are basically fewer athletes who choose this sport.

Ye Qin wanted to make a start, whether it was a hundred or four hundred, he would participate in the trial and give a way to the people behind him, but what results he could get in the end was secondary. ”

"Alas......" Guan Chengfei sighed, "I knew it would be like this." I also want Ye Qin to be 100, 200, 400, and no one in the relay will be absent, but this pressure really makes me feel a little breathless.

Tell me, after running 400 meters, the time is less than an hour and it will be 200 meters, can this body stand it, this is the semi-finals, the level of the players is top-notch, if there is a slight difference in the pool, both ends are missed, then it ......"

Guan Chengfei didn't say the next words again, but Mu Jiang could understand what he meant.

This scene is a bit like the 05 World Championships, when there were also two events, and because of the bad weather, there were many voices in the team that asked Ye Qin to give up a project, and even Feng Shuyong, the head coach of the track and field team, came forward.

In the end, Ye Qin withstood the pressure and performed well in both events.

But that time was still different after all, on the one hand, the World Championships in Helsinki were not so close in time to the 200m and 400m races, at least there were several hours of buffer, and Yechin did not participate in the men's 100m race, and there was even a relay race behind.

At that time, Ye Qin was a fledgling and had no reputation, but this year, Ye Qin is already the number one sprinting superstar in Asia and even the world, and if he really makes a mistake, it will always cause a lot of criticism.

What track and field team does not treat athletes as human beings and forces Yechin to participate in many events. Ye Qin is blind and arrogant, and it is indispensable to challenge the sour words of failure.

However, Mu Jiang also knows one thing in his heart that Ye Qin's unprecedented victory in the 100-meter event this time should be able to eliminate a lot of criticism and pressure.

The angle between him and Guan Chengfei is not because of this, but mainly because he is worried that Ye Qin will miss the competition for the 200m gold medal. The 200m championship at the 05 World Championships is a shot in the arm for the Chinese track and field team's sprint event, allowing the Chinese people to see the outstanding performance of our athletes on the world stage.

For the 200m event, he, like many people, has a plot. This is Ye Chin's first event to stand on the final track at the Olympic Games, and the first sprint event to win the World Championships, and everyone hopes that Ye Qin can win again.

It is precisely because of the 400 meters that the performance of the 200 meters is affected, and if you can't win the championship and can't advance to the finals, it will be worth the loss.

However, Mu Jiang had more or less contacted Ye Qin a few times, and learned about the other party from some side news.

Including the reason why Ye Qin first embarked on the sprint event, this athlete has always had a stubborn energy.

Some choices that may seem easy to conclude with others will always become unwise when it comes to him.

But along the way, it is this stubbornness in Ye Qin's body that makes people feel a little stupid and will not weigh the weight, which has made him who he is today.

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In the Nagai Stadium, the runners of the first group of the men's 400m semifinals have appeared in front of the starting line.

Ye Qin's expression was calm, standing in front of the starting line and gently relaxing his body, the semi-finals of the 400 meters were three groups, a total of 24 players, and if they wanted to compete for the qualification of the 8 people who advanced to the finals, it was naturally much stronger than the intensity of the preliminaries.

The top two in each semi-final group advance, and then go to the two best players to enter in succession, with a one-third probability, and at this time, whether it is a top athlete or a level next to each other who has a chance to enter the final, will be taken seriously.

In the 400m preliminaries, Ye Qin estimated that he would be able to enter the semi-finals in almost 45.50 seconds, but in the semi-finals, if he wants to enter the finals, Ye Qin is basically sure that he must run at least 44.50 seconds to have a chance.

The strongest of the men's 400m semi-finalists in this group are Angelo Taylor of the United States, John Weisman of Sweden and Eward Merck of the Bahamas.

Angelo Taylor, a former 400m hurdles athlete who won gold medals in the men's 400m hurdles and men's 4×400m at Sydney 2000.

At this year's U.S. Championships and World Championships trials, Angelo Taylor set a career-best time of 44.05 seconds, finishing 15th in the 400m all-time.

Another Swedish player, Johan Weismann, is a white athlete who won silver medals in the 200m at the 2004 Indoor Athletics Championships and the 2006 European Indoor Athletics Championships.

As for Bahamas' Eward Merck, not to mention the strength of the 78-year-old veteran, who won the men's 400m and 4×400m at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, and ran a season's best of 44.85 seconds at this year's Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a personal best of 44.64 seconds.

Ye Qin had already seen the career data of several people before the game, and he didn't check the specifics, but he still needs to understand.

Although the 400m has always been dominated by the United States, there are not many top athletes of various races in other countries. Compared with the 1200m event, the 400m is also a sprint event, and apart from black West African runners, the event is most likely to have top athletes of all skin colors.

After a gunshot, the game officially began.

Yesin is in the second, third and fourth lanes, and it is the two strongest men in the group: Switzerland's John Weissman and America's Angelo Taylor.

Since last year's World Cup, Ye Qin has not met a top 400m athlete in the men's 400m event for a while because he has participated in the 400m event a lot, in fact, it is not that he has not encountered it.

It's just that the general Grand Prix Super Grand Prix is completely different from the World Championships at the moment. Grand Prix and various small events, many athletes have the mentality of training by competition, and adjust their state through competition, and many small events may not play too well.

In a competition like the World Championships, from the preliminaries to the semifinals, the players who can participate spend a lot of time preparing for the competition, and as soon as they get on the court, they will basically force themselves to fight and fight in the best condition.

After Ye Qin started, there was no distraction in his mind, not thinking about the men's 200m semi-finals, which would be played in about an hour, and by this time he was completely immersed in the race.

Steady and sufficient acceleration, rhythmic running, 100 meters ahead, Ye Qin is basically inconspicuous, and he is in the second lane at this time, and the rest of the audience basically can't see his specific ranking.

It wasn't until around 200 meters that the straight entered the corner, and at this time, many experienced track and field fans, or some people engaged in sprint track and field-related projects, probably saw the difference.

"Oh, Christopher, you're going to lose!"

Under an LCD TV before the indoor warm-up run, Marvin Anderson exclaimed excitedly.

Christopher Williams, who was on the side, did not reply at this time, and devoted himself to the fierce game.

Yusse Both, who had been following the game, suddenly became solemn when his eyes fell on the TV screen.

After the first two hundred meters, Yechin began to accelerate, and his style of running was closer to his technical style than the previous years of his running compared to what Yusse Bot knew.

Instead of overwhelming people with momentum as soon as he came up, he used his strong way to drag other opponents, but hung unhurriedly in the middle, and only began to gradually accelerate after two hundred meters.

The advantage of running in this way is that Ye Qin can more fully observe the state of other players in normal competitions, and then adjust his strategy to more fully retain his physical fitness.

In the blink of an eye, the distance of three hundred meters passed, and the last corner entered the straight.

Yechin was already running in second place by this time, almost neck-and-neck with Angelo Taylor.

Eighty meters, seventy meters, sixty meters from the finish line......

Just when many people thought that Ye Qin would kill his opponent with the second half of his master, Ye Qin did not suddenly speed up, and kept pace with Angelo Taylor.

The two crossed the finish line almost at the same time!

In the media commentary seats in the stands, Mu Jiang and Guan Chengfei applauded excitedly as soon as Ye Qin crossed the finish line.

Ye Qin's group of semi-finals ran too well, they have been following Ye Qin for many years, and they can see that Ye Qin is obviously preserving his strength, and he even feels a little comfortable running.

And the final results came out, which were also very good.

Angelo Taylor, who won the group, ran a good time of 44.45 seconds, while Yechin clocked 44.49 seconds to qualify for the 400m final the day after tomorrow with the second place in the group.

Meanwhile, Sweden's Johan Weisman was third in 44.56 seconds, behind Angelo Taylor and Yechin, setting a new national record in the men's 400m. In addition, Bahamas' Eward Merck also ran 45 seconds, and the final time was 44.86 seconds.

In addition to Angelo Taylor and Yechin, who directly qualified for the first and second place in the group, John Weissman and Eward Merck have good results, but they still need to wait for the results of the other two semi-final groups to come out before they can finally advance to the final.

Before the finish line, Ye Qin saw that after he advanced, he didn't stop long, and soon returned to the rest area of the Chinese team.

In this group of 400 meters, he didn't seem to run particularly hard, but 44.49 seconds was already one of Yechin's best results in the 400 meters, and he was actually not as easy as outsiders thought.

Now he needs to hurry up and rest and recover as much as possible, and it will soon be the semi-finals of the men's 200m.

Another challenge awaits him!