"Ready!"

"Run!"

In a track and field field at the Shenghai Xinzhuang Training Base, in front of the men's 200-meter starting line, Nie Fangping looked at the two people leaning over in front of the starting line with his hands behind his back, and suddenly waved his raised right hand, and shouted out the password with full anger.

The two figures on the third and fourth lanes of the starting line suddenly got up and accelerated, and the sound of fast footsteps suddenly sounded, and they rushed out in front of the starting line.

After Nie Fangping shouted the order, he had been observing the rapid pace of the two players, and his eyes had been locked on the moving figures of the two.

5 seconds, 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds......

The difference between the two men in the track and field from the front and back of the stretch after the start was followed by the first corner, then the straight, the second corner, and the last straight.

The speed is very fast, if there is a sharp-eyed coach here, you will probably be able to know that the two of them are basically running at the top level in China.

On the track, the two of them have completely different running styles from the start.

There are slight differences in stride length, cadence, starting acceleration, and speed control during the run. One of them was firmly locked in the advantage in the first 300 meters, he was tall and long-legged, and his stride was very advantageous, and it was not until the last corner into the straight that his speed slowly decreased. On the other course, the speed was very well controlled, and in the final corner into the straight, the latter suddenly made a force and began to catch up gradually.

Thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters......

Rush the line!

The two figures crossed the finish line one after the other, their steps gradually slowing, their chests and abdomen rising and falling violently, and they gasped for air.

"Brother Yang, I won this trip!"

Ye Qin walked slowly on the runway for a while, and after his rapid breathing calmed down a little, he walked to the side of Yang Yao, who was holding his knees with his hands and sweating, and said with a smile.

"I can't run you in 400 meters, and I really can't rush in the last tens of meters."

Yang Yao slowly straightened up and watched Ye Qin walk in front of him, a smile appeared on his sweaty face. As he spoke, he turned his head to Nie Fangping on the side and smiled, "Coach Nie, you can't continue to catch me and Ye Qin to run 400 meters, and if you lose, I will have a psychological shadow on Ye Qinke in the future competition." ”

"What?!" Nie Fangping shook his head and smiled, "Ye Qin is still far from you, you haven't focused on training on 400 meters in recent years, you have been focusing on the 1200 meter event for a long time, and you haven't mastered the physical fitness well, if you have a special training of 400 meters, it is certain to enter 46 seconds, maybe the national men's 400 meter record will have been broken for you a long time ago." ”

"Don't ......" Yang Yao shook his head again and again, and said with a smile, "I'm still running 200 meters, trying to break the 200 national record, I want to run 400 meters, my coach has to kill me." The national record of 400 meters, I think it is better to wait for Ye Qin to break it! ”

"Then Brother Yang, what if I break the 200-meter record first?" Ye Qin suddenly interjected on the side, "Then aren't you going to run 100 meters?" ”

"Hey, Ye Qin, you see that I have been a training partner with you for two months, and you treat me like this. 400 and 200 don't leave me, leave a hundred meters for me? ”

"The 100 meters is the crown of athletics...... Ye Qin smiled.

"That's what you said, if you can break the national record in the 100 meters, it will definitely be more influential than the 200 meters and 400 meters." Yang Yao smiled, and then said, "Ye Qin, when will you come to run a hundred meters, I think in a few years, you will kill 100, 200 and 400 men, and shoot all of us to death on the beach." ”

"Haha......"

There was a burst of laughter in the athletic field.

"Yang Yao, if you have problems with your coach in the future, you must communicate well, now is winter training, the most important time of the year to improve, you are going to participate in the Olympic Games next year, and the details will be strengthened."

After laughing for a while, Nie Fangping talked to Yang Yao about his training with some seriousness.

In the past two months, according to the situation of the competition that Yang Yao is facing now, it stands to reason that he needs the coach's hand-in-hand guidance to make a breakthrough before the Olympic Games as much as possible.

But the reality is that since a few years ago, Yang Yao's relationship with his coach has not been particularly harmonious. In 2000, Yang Yao was able to set a new national men's 200m record with a time of 20.86 seconds, but the improvement in the next two or three years was very slow.

Saying that Ye Qin broke the national men's 400-meter record, this is a joke, there is still a long way to go, at least a year Nie Fangping has not dared to think about Ye Qin breaking the national record, but Yang Yao is basically touching the edge of the national men's 200-meter record, and he is also the most promising athlete to break the national men's 200-meter record.

Last year's Asian Games ran a time of 20.58 seconds, but Nie Fangping also observed that Yang Yao's systematic training plan may have encountered some minor problems.

During this time at the Shenghai Xinzhuang Training Base, Yang Yao basically came over to train with Ye Qin every two or three days, which can be said to be a training partner together. But Nie Fangping saw him once when he met other coaches except for the first day he came, and he didn't see anyone at any other time.

This is a ceiling period for athletes, Yang Yao can basically run into 21 seconds casually, but except for the Asian Games track of 20.58 seconds, it is basically concentrated in the stage of 20.7 seconds and 20.8 seconds, which is difficult to break through.

This period brings the athlete the feeling that a talent has come to this point, and it may be useless to train and work hard, in addition to the athlete himself, the most important thing in this period is the coach's training plan to help him get out of this predicament.

Nie Fangping also had a more detailed observation, Yang Yao's 100 and 200 results are very good, he starts to accelerate quickly, his acceleration ability is good, and because of his height, under the premise of having a good cadence, there is also an enviable large stride.

Combining these factors, but in Nie Fangping's opinion, Yang Yao's potential in the 100 and 200 meters should not be at the end yet, and the key is that it should be tapped like this. The other is that if Yang Yao had focused on the 400 meters from the beginning, his results might be even better than his current 1,200 meters, and the national record could really be broken in his hands.

However, sometimes this is the case, in the sprint event, if you have the strength to run the 100 meters and 200 meters, the athlete will focus on this, after all, attention is not a level.

"I know, Coach Nie." Yang Yao smiled and nodded, he first came to chat with Ye Qin after seeing Ye Qin that morning, and got to know him, after a few days Nie Fangping followed, he didn't see outside, and directly followed the two of them to train together.

Although Nie Fangping is just a retired old coach of a sports school, in Yang Yao's eyes, looking at this old man really has a lot of shining points.

He has experienced professional training for a long time, and it can be seen that Nie Fangping's professionalism is definitely not bad, and more importantly, the enthusiasm for the athletes he brings can infect him.

It is also a warm-up trot in the morning, he and Ye Qin don't need much time to appear, Nie Fangping will basically appear on the sidelines, not to mention pointing or not, the kind of person who is accompanied by him, no matter when he looks up, he can see an old man with a slightly white beard and walking slowly on the sidelines with his hands behind his back, that feeling is particularly reassuring and steady.

He is a professional athlete, he can understand how difficult it is for a coach to do this, coaches are also people, have families, children, have their own lives, but it is just a job, and can devote himself to cultivating a person, to be honest, in addition to parents, it is very rare for an outsider to be able to do this.

His own coach basically doesn't care too much about him now, and many of the coaches he has seen are still very attentive in training, but they care about all aspects of the players, which is too little.

So far, in addition to Nie Fangping, he has only seen the head coach of the same Shenghai 110-meter hurdles player, since the year before last, the two masters and apprentices have no assistants and no translators, and they applied for funds, and went abroad from low-level indoor competitions to Grand Prix, one after another, and ran out like this with competition training. During the period, from registering for the competition to staying in a hotel to find a venue for training, all kinds of difficulties and hardships are not enough for outsiders.

"By the way, Coach Nie, Ye Qin, are you going to go back?" Yang Yao suddenly asked.

"Well, I'll be back tomorrow." Ye Qin nodded.

Today is January 6th, Xiaohan, the time has stepped into 2004, and there is not much time before the Spring Festival. Since Ye Qin arrived at the Xinzhuang training base in early November, two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

In addition to Yang Yao, he also met the player who ran the 110-meter hurdles, and also took blood for physical examination in the national team, X-ray fluoroscopy, and pasted a lot of sports patches for running to test the body data.

On the whole, in addition to the accommodation conditions, training venues, and physical monitoring, Ye Qin did not particularly feel that there was anything special about this national team's training camp, relatively speaking, it should be relatively pure training. There are not too many people and things to disturb, no classes, no need to meet a lot of people, and the time every day is full of training. Follow the training plan, one by one.

It's a bit monotonous and boring, but the effect is actually obvious, this is the second time that Ye Qin has trained without distractions after training at the provincial sports school in the summer.

"Okay, then I'll invite you to dinner in the evening."

Yang Yao sent an invitation to the two, and then turned his head to look at Ye Qin, "Ye Qin, May is the trials, but there are still more than two months ahead, and there are still seven or eight months left for the Olympic Games, you can come on, I am still waiting for you to follow me to the Athens Olympics!"

In the past two months, Yang Yao also learned about Ye Qin's situation, Ye Qin is going to participate in the World Youth Championships in July this year, but Ye Qin is still some distance away from meeting the Olympic standards, but it cannot be said that there is no chance.

The National Athletics Championships on May 23 this year is the Olympic trials, a nationwide selection for Olympic athletes.

But the situation at home is different from that of the United States.

U.S. track and field athletes who participate in the Olympics and the World Championships need to go through the selection stage, and no matter how good their previous results are, or even have a world record, if they lose in the trials, they will not be able to participate in the Olympics. There are only three athletes competing in a single event in the Olympic track and field event, and the competition is fierce. The U.S. Olympic track and field trials are even known as the "Little Olympics."

The nature of the domestic trials is like this, the difference is that the domestic track and field events are relatively weak, and the three places of the Olympic track and field event A or one place of the B standard, often only one or two people in the country reach the A standard, or some events do not even reach the B standard. This means that if you can basically run up to the standard, you will basically have a chance to be selected for the Olympic squad.

Speaking of which, Yang Yao also found that his situation is actually a bit similar to Ye Qin, in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he was once working hard for the qualification of the Olympic AB standard, but unfortunately he still failed to meet the participation standards in the end.

That year, he competed at the World Junior Championships in Santiago, Chile, where he ran 20.96 seconds in the 200m, placing 10th at the time.

And this time, it's up to Ye Chin.

The 08 Olympics are at home, and it is of course best if you can participate, but the career of athletes is short, and you can't say anything, if you have the opportunity, you can get the qualification earlier and meet the world's top players, which is naturally a better choice.

"Hmm." Ye Qin nodded, since Nie Fangping first asked him if he wanted to go to the Olympics, the master and apprentice had not talked about this topic again, but once this idea came out, it had been fermenting in their hearts.

It's 2004!

There's the World Junior Championships, there's the Olympics!