"Yusse, aren't you going back?"

In the mixed aisle area of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Steve Mullins looked at Usse Both's eyes still wandering around the track and field field, and had no intention of leaving the field, and immediately shouted in the back.

Both of them qualified for the men's 200m heats in the morning, and now they need to return to the station to rest and prepare for tonight's 200m rematch.

"Wait a little longer, I'll go with my team!"

Yusse Bot took a foothold in the mixed aisle area and waved at Steve Mullins.

In Steve Mullins' puzzled eyes, he saw Usher Bot waiting for an American with dreadlocks who had just finished the race.

That's Wallace Spearmon, and Steve Mullins is familiar with the American men's 200m, who has been a very competitive athlete in the men's 200m, even though he hasn't been in particularly good form for the past two years.

"Hey man, just had a good run."

After seeing Wallace Spearmon appear, Eusei Bott stepped forward and hugged the other party lightly, smiled and stretched out his fist and touched Spearmon together, and said hello.

"Let's go, there probably won't be many seats in the audience."

After exchanging fists with Usse Both, Spearmon draped a thin coat over his body and beckoned to Usse Both.

After passing through the mixed aisle area of the contestants, the two quickly found a spot in the audience.

And then...... The two saw an acquaintance in the stands.

"Jason, I knew you were going to be here."

Wallace Spearmon looked at Jason Gaby, who was sitting on the edge of the bottom row of the audience, walked over a few steps, and sat down next to the other party.

Yusse Bol, who was next to him, looked at Jason Gaby's gaze, raised his eyebrows slightly, and sat down in the vacant seat next to him.

"We've all raced the 200 meters together, but the 400 meters don't seem like we've run together."

After Wallace Spearmon and Eusse Bot sat down, Jason Gaby looked at the track field in the distance, suddenly turned his head sideways, and said to the two of them in a straight voice.

In fact, this is mainly said to Usse Bot, who and Wallace Spearmont ran 400 meters when they were training partners four or five years ago, but when they met Usse Bott in the field, they only ran 100 meters and 200 meters.

"Do you want us to run a 400-meter run together?" Eusse Bot naturally understood that Jason Gaby's words were directed at him, and asked with his chin slightly raised.

"Why not?" Jason Gaby pointed to the upcoming men's 400m race on the track field, "You're the second Michael Johnson." ”

Yusse Bot touched his chin, his face seemed to show a look of thought, and he nodded for a long time, "There are no World Championships and Olympics tomorrow, maybe we can try." ”

For the 400m challenge launched by Jason Gaby, Usse Bot did not feel any intimidation.

This year, several people have actually tried the 400m event, and they all set a new personal PB in the 400m event. His coach once urged him to train in the 400m, but he refused on the grounds that it was too hard and started the men's 100m event instead.

But with the all-out competition with Ye Qin in the field since last year, he has lost to the opponent in the 100 meters, and in the 200 meters, Ye Qin lost unexpectedly last year, and he and Ye Qin may be able to see each other in two days.

It's just that in the 400 meters, he may have been a little insensitive to this event, but now the situation is still different, on the one hand, with the intensification of competition, he can feel that he and Ye Qin in the 100 meters and 200 meters of competition do not necessarily have an advantage, and 400 meters may be a good choice.

The same is true of Jason Gaby's thoughts.

In the face of two strong men, Usher Bot and Jason Gaby, it was difficult for him to reach the top again in the 1200m event, and his eyes were unconsciously aimed at the 400m.

This point has been somewhat thought since the 07 World Championships in Osaka, when everyone watched Ye Qin's 400-meter race on the sidelines.

At that time, I felt that Ye Qin could do it, and they should be able to do it too.

Not to mention that it will definitely break the world record or anything like that, but at least it should be equally competitive. After all, people like Jason Gaby and Usse Bot have not practiced 400 in recent years, but they can run around 45.50 seconds.

If you are willing to take the time and fully compete, it may not be impossible.

Moreover, the 400m event is different from the men's 100m and 200m events, in which athletes are still highly competitive even at the age of 30.

Michael Johnson's best time in the 400m was set in his thirties.

At the beginning of this year, Yusse Bot also said in the media that he might try the 400m event in 2010.

2010 was a year without the World Championships and the Olympics, so it was a year worth trying.

Yusse-Both's inner resistance to the 400m has actually been touched by Yechin's amazing competitiveness in the 100m, 200m and 400m events at the same time.

Athletes are very competitive, and a few of them sit here, and deep down they all wish they could be champions.

If Ye Chin can do it, why can't we?

While the two were talking, Wallace Spearmon, who had been sitting next to him, finally really understood the gap between him and Usese Bott and Jason Gaby.

He is two years younger than Jason Gaby, and the two used to be training partners, and he once outperformed Jason Gaby in the 200m, he was the NCAA men's 200m champion in '04 and '05, and he also did better than Jason Gaby at the '05 World Championships.

At that time, in terms of talent, no one would think that he was worse than Jason Gaby, on the contrary, the advantages of age and results thought that he might have better results than Jason Gaby in the future.

But since Jason Gaby really entered the professional athletics scene in 2005, it was as if the opponent had taken off, first in the 200m and then in the 100m, and the results have improved by leaps and bounds.

A wider arena and a confrontation with a formidable opponent like Asafavir made Jason Gaby grow up quickly.

As for Yusse Bote, the two know each other in fact, although they are half-hearted in terms of training attitude, Yusai Bot obviously has more attitude than him to compete with strong opponents, and that kind of strong dedication to chasing championships is something he does not have.

While a few people were talking, the men's 400m preliminaries on the field had already begun.

……

Ye Qin didn't know what several of his rivals were discussing in the stands at this time, and even if they did, they wouldn't say anything.

We're all top athletes, so it's normal to want to do a new sport at the same time.

Moreover, the men's 400m event may not be easier to compete than the 100m and 200m.

Not to mention that Jimmy Warner has almost dominated the men's 400m event since '04, even the newly rising Sean Merritt is also extraordinary.

And Sean Merritt also wants to replicate Michael Johnson's old path, having competed in the men's 200m and has played against Usse Bot this year.

When an athlete reaches a certain level and wants to make a breakthrough or compete for more glory, his eyes are always on top of the other disciplines.

Michael Johnson's legend was set by the world records in the men's 200m and 400m, and Yechin's super influence was also formed by the current men's 100m and 400m world records.

Standing on the indoor warm-up track, Ye Qin, along with many other runners, continued to do a little simple pre-race stretching.

Because of the men's 200 meters shortly after running, there is no need to warm up deliberately, but just properly move the muscles and bones to ensure that they will not be injured in the race.

Although the men's 100-meter race has ended, he still attaches great importance to the men's 200-meter and 400-meter and men's 4×100-meter relay.

In particular, the men's 200m and men's 4×100m relay races, one of which was a regret after last year's Olympic Games, and I hope to make up for it today.

The other is that if the relay team lacks him, it may not be so easy to enter the finals, let alone get the rankings.

All kinds of warm-up stretching and massage before and after the game, this point is actually from many advanced training concepts abroad in recent years, and before, domestic athletes paid no attention to this aspect at all.

Ye Qin initially took these things much more seriously under Nie Fangping's guidance. In the back, there are more and more events, and more attention is paid to this aspect, and the distance required for a World Championship competition is actually not as good as the usual training.

In the track training event, regardless of long-distance running and sprinting, you will not run thousands of meters on any day.

It's just that the intensity and pressure of the game are completely different, and you have to produce results, so you need to protect your condition more and more.

As the time approached little by little, the men's 400m preliminaries officially began at 11:05 a.m.

This year's men's 400m is a three-shot tiebreaker, a preliminaries, a semi-final and a final.

There are a total of 53 players in the preliminaries, divided into seven preliminaries groups. The top three players from each group advance directly to the semi-finals, and then the best three players from the remaining players will be replaced, for a total of 24 players to participate in the semi-finals.

Yechin was in the fifth group of the preliminaries, with Sean Merritt in the fourth group of the preliminaries and Jimmy Warner in the sixth group behind him.

As in the 100m and 200m, the organizing committee of the top athletes will try to avoid being in the same group as possible when arranging the appointments, while crowding out the places of other athletes to qualify.

At 11:33, after the first four preliminary groups, Ye Qin's fifth group of the preliminary round finally appeared on the field.

As soon as he appeared, Ye Qin heard the enthusiastic cheers of the audience on both sides.

This is his second appearance this morning, and there is hardly anyone in the entire Olympic Stadium who will not know Yechin, who had already won the men's 100m the night before.

The first is the men's 100m duel between Yechin and Yusse Bot and Jason Gaby, the second is the men's 200m duel between Yechin and Yusse Both, and the third is whether Yechin can beat Jimmy Warner and Sean Merritt in the 400m event to win the gold medal.

In 2007, Yechin lost to Jimmy Warner, winning only silver in the 400m, and in 2008, Yechin won gold and broke the world record, but he will face no less pressure than Usey Bot and Jason Gaby.

It can be said that the highlights of the most important games are focused on Ye Qin.

As long as Ye Qin appears in the track and field arena, the emotions of the audience can be completely ignited now.

“On your marks！”

As a password sounded for the players to be in place, the boiling scene gradually quieted down.

In the stands, Usher Both, Jason Gaby and Wallace Spearmon, who had come to watch the men's 400m heats run by Yechin, were all staring at the starting line.

They weren't worried that Ye Qin would not be able to run into the preliminaries, but they had just finished the men's 200 meters, and the next rematch was still in the evening, so they didn't delay too much time to see Ye Qin's performance on the side.

The results of the men's 200m preliminaries just now came out, Ye Qin was second in the group, and he was also ranked in Jamaica's Steve Mullins Houman.

There are a total of eight players in Yechin's group, and there are also several athletes he is relatively familiar with, France's Leslie Jerone, who has won many championships in Europe, and has good results in 4×100, 4×400 and long jump.

There is also the Swedish national men's 200m and 400m record holder, Johan Wiesman, whose personal best times in the 200m and 400m are 20.30 seconds and 44.56 seconds, respectively, which is considered a very good result among many white sprinters.

After a single gunshot, the game officially began.

Ye Qin was in the middle of the fifth lane, and after the gun rang out, Ye Qin rushed out of the starting line without hurrying.

Although he is not very old, he has participated in various large and small competitions since 03 and has a lot of experience.

From the beginning of the race, I kept running at a regular pace.

He has participated more in the men's 100m this year, and less in the 200m and 400m. 200 meters is good to say, the requirements for speed and endurance are not as high as 400 meters.

Although he had trained in the national team before, this year's official competition still started from this preliminaries.

For Ye Qin's 400-meter performance this year, in fact, outsiders are also very curious, after all, after breaking the world record last year, Ye Qin did not appear in the 400-meter field again.

This preliminaries is clearly an opportunity to observe.

In the first corner into the straight, Ye Qin was in third place in the group in relative distance, and his current speed in the first half of the race would be basically unmatched by anyone else, but he kept his pace to keep his fitness running.

Soon the straight stage was over and the 400m race entered the second half of the race.

Ye Qin still ran without hurry, just to ensure that he was roughly in the team, and this 400m was also used as a warm-up race to find the feeling of the game.

After entering the second corner, it was Ramon Miller, a Bahamian player who was not familiar with Yechin, who was not familiar with Yechin, who suddenly began to accelerate.

Ramon Miller's instantaneous acceleration even made French veteran Leslie Jeron can't help but start accelerating with him.

However, Ye Qin still stabilized the rhythm.

He could feel that Ramon Miller was fighting for a semi-final chance.

The strength of this player should look good, and for the top players, all they need to do in the promotion game is to play normally, not to foul out, and to ensure qualification.

For many other athletes, it is actually very difficult to qualify in each round of the World Championships, and they need to go all out to fight for a place.

It's clear that this Ramon Miller is doing something like this at this point.

According to Ye Qin's judgment, he should have been able to advance to the semifinals with a time of about 45.50 seconds, but led by this Ramon Miller, he had to speed up slightly in the last 50 meters and finish third in the group.

In the end, the results of the preliminary round of this group came out, and it was as Ye Qin expected.

The Bahamas' Ramon Miller set a new career high with a time of 45 seconds and topped his group. France's Leslie Geron was second in the group in 45.20 seconds. Ye Qin finished third in the group in 45.35 seconds and successfully advanced to the semifinals.

As for John Weisman, who finished fourth, he ran a time of 45.83 seconds, and whether he can advance will need to wait for the end of all the preliminaries to see the results of the replacement.