May 9, Osaka, Japan.

Today the sun is shining, the air is exceptionally clean, and the blue sky is like a jewel, and there are hardly many clouds to be seen on it.

The stadium was in full swing at this time, and the more than 47,000 seats of the audience were almost all filled by the crowd of spectators, and the atmosphere was incredibly warm.

"I don't think there were so many people at the World Championships, right?"

In the rest area of the stadium players, Zhuang Wei listened to the earth-shattering shouts outside, and a trace of incredulity flashed on his round face.

"There weren't so many people at the World Championships in Osaka."

Chen Zhongzhou, who has personally experienced the World Championships in Osaka, immediately laughed when he heard Zhuang Wei's words, and replied, "Although the organizers of the Osaka World Championships at that time were quite well prepared, the Japanese team's performance in the World Championships was too poor, which made many Japanese viewers not buy it, resulting in except for a few games such as relay races, most of the other races, the audience at that time was not particularly large. ”

"And there are so many people at this Grand Prix?"

Zhuang Wei shook his head slightly, as if he couldn't figure out what the problem was.

Although more than half a year has passed, but the atmosphere of the domestic Olympic Games has not completely dispersed, some time ago the Laureus Sports Award nominations were announced, and the Chinese Olympic team also won the best nomination, think about the domestic atmosphere at that time, it is really a prosperous feat.

Comparing the World Championships in Osaka at that time, I feel that the Japanese people's enthusiasm for track and field events is really not too enthusiastic, many spectators are not present, and there is a lot of redundancy in tickets for some unpopular events.

However, the Olympics are high enough to be a world-class feast. So far, there has been no World Championships in China, but looking at the sidelines, it should be more enthusiastic than the Osaka World Championships.

It's just that what makes Zhuang Wei feel a little strange now is that there were not so many spectators at the original Osaka World Championships, but the Osaka Grand Prix that there is every year makes the audience very enthusiastic, which can't help but think about it.

"This Osaka Grand Prix is still different after all."

Chen Zhongzhou seemed to know the doubts in Zhuang Wei's heart, and then explained again, "The IAAF has confirmed the change of the schedule some time ago. The World Athletics Tour, which began in '05, ended in 2010 and was changed to the IAAF Diamond League and the IAAF World Challenge. ”

"Diamond League and IAAF World Challenge?"

Zhuang Wei was a little curious when he heard Chen Zhongzhou say this.

The various IAAF events have undergone many changes, and the most popular in the past few years since '05 is undoubtedly the IAAF World Tour, which includes the first level of the IAAF Golden League and the IAAF Super Grand Prix, and the second level is the IAAF Grand Prix and regional licensed events.

In the past few years internationally, the Golden League and the Super Grand Prix, as well as the Grand Prix in various countries and cities, have been praised as very successful competitions by various countries.

For most athletes, being able to participate in regional licensing competitions and Grand Prix competitions is already the threshold for entering international competitions.

Being able to compete in the Grand Prix and the Golden League basically means being among the top athletes.

Zhuang Wei is just a physiotherapist, but he didn't know that the IAAF about the restructuring of the event had been launched, so he asked Chen Zhongzhou a few words about the Diamond League and the challenge.

Then, under Chen Zhongzhou's explanation, I probably understood the competition system of the IAAF after the restructuring.

The restructured IAAF Diamond League is an annual elite athletics event at a high level to replace the Golden League, which began in 1998.

Although the Golden League was originally established to enhance Europe's world-leading image of athletics, after so many years of development, there has been some discord.

The goal of the new Diamond League is to increase the attractiveness of global athletics, and in addition to the original five-event Golden League (in addition to Berlin), the Diamond League has added several tournaments from several countries, including China, Qatar and Morocco, as well as the United States.

In short, the original Shenghai Gold Grand Prix in China, the Doha Grand Prix in Qatar, the Monte Carlo Grand Prix in Morocco and the Eugene Grand Prix in the United States, plus the five Golden League competitions, form the new Diamond League.

This is the IAAF Level 1 competition, while the IAAF World Challenge is the Level 2 competition, which is intended to replace the original IAAF Grand Prix.

On the premise that this restructuring is about to take place, although this year is 2009 and there is still one year left before 2010, there is only one Osaka Grand Prix left.

And after this edition, the Osaka Grand Prix was not merged into the second division of the IAAF World Challenge, but was replaced by the Kawasaki Gold Grand Prix in its own country.

This kind of world-class track and field event is about to leave itself, and for Osaka, a city with a strong track and field atmosphere, many people are quite reluctant to do so.

"I see."

After listening to Chen Zhongzhou's explanation, Zhuang Wei showed a sudden realization. If the Shenghai Gold Grand Prix is suddenly replaced by cities such as Linzhou, Yangcheng or Yanjing, even if it is still in China, it will still feel a little pity for people who like track and field in local cities.

This is still the atmosphere of domestic track and field events in the past few years, if it is like Osaka for many years of track and field atmosphere precipitation, not to mention the reluctant feelings.

"You really listen to Xiao Chen's nonsense!"

Yuan Guohua, who had been paying attention to the warm-up on the indoor runway, couldn't help but shake his head and laugh when he saw Zhuang Wei's nodding look.

"Huh?" Zhuang Wei was slightly stunned, "Isn't it?" ”

"That's definitely true, the IAAF restructuring has already come out, and even the previously discussed zero-run will be implemented from the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha, but it's not because so many spectators are here to see the Osaka Grand Prix in the future."

Yuan Guohua smiled and pointed to Ye Qin, who was warming up, "You see it every day, you really don't know who the audience is for?" ”

"You mean Ye Chin?!"

Zhuang Wei followed Yuan Guohua's gaze and looked over, his mouth slightly wide, "Isn't it, so many viewers are all rushing to Ye Qin?" ”

This answer undoubtedly surprised Zhuang Wei more than Chen Zhongzhou's statement about the restructuring of the event.

After all, he knows the influence of Ye Qin in domestic competitions, there is no doubt about it, if Ye Qin goes to the national championship, it is estimated that the crowd will be around the stadium outside the stadium three times, but this is in Japan.

Ye Qin's influence in Japan must also be very great, and his outstanding performance at the Osaka World Championships in 07 was almost inseparable from him in the media discussion of the Japanese track and field world at that time.

But thinking about it, so many Japanese viewers would be completely crazy about a Chinese athlete, this kind of thing still sounds a little incredible.

"Yestin, of course."

Yuan Guohua nodded without hesitation, if it was said that before the Yanjing Olympics, Ye Qin was a world-class top sprinter, many foreign audiences had heard of this person, or could recognize it.

After the Yenching Olympics, it was a completely household name.

In particular, the storm caused by the wonderful duel between Yechin and Yusse Both, the battle for the world's No. 1 flyer, who will be the first to break the world record, and other topics, almost the entire track and field event has jumped from a somewhat depressed situation to the point of attracting attention.

The astonishing speed of breaking world records one after another, as well as the challenge of the most powerful opponents, made the previous sport of sprinting explode into an extremely powerful force after '08.

Yuan Guohua knew that Ye Qin was not going to Osaka to participate in the Grand Prix this year, and the team's plan was for Ye Qin to go to Qatar to participate in the Doha Super Prix, and the two events were very close to each other, May 8 was the Doha Super Prix, and May 9 was the Osaka Grand Prix.

The Doha Super Grand Prix is a step higher than the Osaka Grand Prix, and the men's 100m has a better line-up.

For the first game of the 2009 season, both Ye Qin himself and the whole team hope to have a good start.

But in the end, it was Osaka who offered a price that Ye Qin and the track and field team couldn't refuse, and compared to the appearance fee when competing before 07, this time the appearance fee for the participation increased more than ten times.

And Ye Chin's arrival, under the deliberate publicity of the Osaka Grand Prix organizers, has also achieved satisfactory results for everyone.

Tickets were sold out five days in advance, and there were many more track and field enthusiasts who were rushing online to buy tickets for this year's Osaka Grand Prix.

This kind of influence has not been possible before by sprinting superstars such as Morris Green and Al-Safawell.

There are many reasons for this, such as his amazing results at the World Championships in Osaka, where he was the first Asian athlete to break 10, as well as his appearance as a yellow race and the admiration of his country's sprint stars Shingo Sueji and Koji Ito.

What is more important is the national identity of this country, the worship of the strong, although it will not be like another country to talk nonsense to anyone that he is from his own country, but for the first yellow person to make such an amazing contribution to the sprint event, such enthusiasm itself is a matter of course.

On the warm-up track, Ye Qin took the warm-up before the race seriously, felt the long-lost throbbing that the game was about to play, and a trace of excitement surged slightly under his calm expression.

During the winter training, he stopped due to a muscle strain, which almost disrupted the rhythm of training, but after resuming training, his results were not affected.

In the words of the experts at the Athletic Medical Institute, one is that the injury is not serious, and the other is that his body is in the peak state of youth.

If there are no major accidents, the next three or four years will be the pinnacle of his career.

As for how long this peak can be maintained, no one can have an answer.

However, in the best peak era, to create higher results is what everyone is looking forward to.

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3:15 p.m.

Ye Chin's first race at the Osaka Grand Prix was the men's 200m, and he will compete in two races this year, the men's 200m and the men's 100m.

Before the men's 200m starting line, there were only five foreign competitors: Yechin, Rodney Martin of the United States, Brandon Christian of Antigua and Barbuda, Brian Dasingai of Zimbabwe and Chris Berrian of the United States.

The other four are all Japanese players, including Shingo Sueji.

From this point of view, it can be seen that the Osaka Grand Prix is not very attractive to top foreign athletes, and the Japanese side mainly uses these events to improve the level of sprinting competition in their country.

Ye Qin was in excellent form, taking the lead after the start of the race with only 30 metres of distance, and maintained that lead all the way to the end.

The 200m race was the first of the season for Yechin, and he didn't let go too far and certainly didn't give it his all, just running at his own pace as much as he could.

Eventually, when Ye Qin crossed the finish line, the number 19.79 seconds appeared on the yellow chronograph board.

This is the new record for the men's 200m at the Osaka Grand Prix, which was previously held by Namibian veteran Frankie Fredericks.

Amid the excited screams of the audience, Ye Qin waved his hand and walked off the arena.

Before he came to Japan, he didn't expect that he would receive such a warm welcome at the Japanese Grand Prix.

In fact, the situation abroad is similar to that at home, and the influence of the Olympic Games is by no means comparable to that of ordinary competitions.

For a long time, Chinese people did not know much about Asafavir, although the other party repeatedly broke the men's 100m record, but lacked a gold medal in the heavyweight competition, after the world record was broken by others, many ordinary people were not impressed.

More than an hour later.

At 5:30 p.m., the men's 100m race, the heaviest event of the Osaka Grand Prix, began again.

Ye Qin stood in front of the starting line again, and the cheers of the entire Nagai Stadium crowd almost toppled the roof, and the enthusiastic battle, if not listening to the language other than Chinese, made Ye Qin feel like he was competing in China.

In the men's 100m, competitors like Rodney Martin of the United States and Brian Dasingai of Zimbabwe competed in the 200m race and then the 100m, just like Yechin.

Among the nine athletes who participated, there were still four local Japanese players, but this time Shingo Sueji did not play, and it was Naoki Tsukahara and veteran Nobuharu Asahara, who have grown rapidly in Japan in recent years.

After a gunshot, Ye Qin rushed out of the starting line amid the sudden burst of cheers from the audience.

His reflexes and acceleration are now among the best in the world, and he also took the lead in the high-speed part of the 30-meter entry.

The final time of the men's 100m race was 9.88 seconds, which also broke the previous meeting record of 9.91 seconds held by Morris Green.

The second place was unexpectedly won by Japan's native Naoki Tsukahara with a time of 10.13 seconds.

After the Japanese Grand Prix, Ye Qin and his team are preparing to start returning to China to recuperate in preparation for the upcoming World Championships in Berlin.

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