July 10, 7 p.m., Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy.

As one of the more famous stops in the IAAF Golden League, the Golden Athletics Competition in Rome has always attracted a high degree of attention.

On the indoor warm-up track, Jason Gaby, who had already completed the warm-up, looked at the athletes walking back and forth around him, and his expression was slightly dazed for a while.

"Jason, hold your breath, it's just the preliminaries that will start!"

Lance Blauman looked at Jason Gaby's expression from the side, seemed to see his heart at a glance, handed Jason Gaby a bottle of mineral water next to him, and whispered.

"I watched this game, and in addition to Yechin and Asafavir, Daniel Bailey from Antigua and Barbuda seems to be in good form lately."

Jason Gaby glanced left and right around the track and field arena to see one of the athletes who was quite handsome above the black people, and turned to whisper to the coach next to him.

"I ran the 10-second mark in May and June this year, and the momentum is good, a bit like Derek Atkins in the Bahamas in '07." Jon Drummond, Jason Gaby's other starting coach next to him, nodded and spoke.

Bahamian Derrick Atkins had a strong upward trajectory in '07, and although he was still some distance away from Jason Gaby, he ran under 10 seconds in major races on several occasions, and many Grand Prix finishes were just below Jason Gaby, Asafavir and Yechin.

At that time, many in the international athletics world began to pay attention to the Bahamian sprinter, but unfortunately the opponent's good form only lasted one season, and after '08 it began to decline.

At that time in '07, Lance Brauman had not yet been released from prison, but as a track and field coach, he basically paid attention to the athletes who participated, and said: "I heard that he was a training partner of Yusse Bot before, so it's not surprising that he has this level and ability. However, he is not the focus of Jason's attention, you are still aiming for Yechin and Asafavir, so you don't have to meet both of them in the preliminaries, which is a good thing, and this kind of schedule allows you to put more energy into the final later. ”

"Hmm." Jason Gaby nodded solemnly.

Just swept his eyes on the warm-up track again, and several familiar figures came into view, due to the large number of participants in the Golden League in Rome this year, it did not adopt the format of Group AB like other stations, but the format of the preliminaries and finals.

Jason Gaby is in Group 1 of the heats, and his two biggest opponents for this match, Yechin and Asafavir, are both in Group 2.

"Alright, let's get ready to play!" Lance Brauman could see what Jason Gaby was paying attention to, and reached out and gently patted the other man on the shoulder.

He knows the pressure on Jason Gaby, but he also believes that the best student in his entire coaching career will definitely produce amazing results.

On the other side, on the indoor warm-up track, Ye Qin was leaning over and squatting on the running aid, silently reciting the familiar starting rhythm in his heart, and then quickly rushed out of the running assistant, ran more than 20 meters in one breath, and did the second start practice.

Next to Ye Qin, the same figure followed him and ran quickly, and the two of them basically stopped at the same position.

"Asafa, you're not going to compete with me during this warm-up, are you?"

Looking at Asafavil beside him, Ye Qin smiled and said hello to the other party. The friendship between everyone is not particularly deep, but since 05 because of the relationship between Usse Both, we have met in various large and small events, and we are relatively familiar.

Asafavier showed a faint smile, reached out and shook Ye Qin's hand, and said with a smile: "Beat you in the warm-up first, so that I can be more motivated when I wait for the competition." ”

"Hahaha, are you sure there's no problem, man?" Ye Qin replied with a smile, "How have you recovered recently?" ”

"You'll know when you play." Asafavil smiled, "I won't disappoint you, I want to beat you and Yusse Bot at this year's World Championships in Berlin." ”

"I'm sure you can." Ye Qin nodded, and then added with a smile, "Well, it's definitely no problem to win against that guy from Yusai-Bot." ”

"Hahaha......" Asafavil laughed heartily.

Since the end of June, Asafavil has not been in particularly good form in the men's 100m races, failing to run 10 seconds in two or three consecutive races.

However, in the past few days, he feels that his personal form is picking up after passing a few games, not to say that he will definitely win against Ye Qin, but at least it should bring some trouble to the opponent.

Everyone is an old acquaintance, competing in the track and field arena, and occasionally visiting opponents in extremely important positions in private, but it is still easy to say a few words in person.

……

At 19:30 in the evening, in the Olympic Stadium in Rome, the crowd was surging, and more than 70,000 spectators were waiting in the stands.

In addition to the annual Golden League, the 04 World Youth Championships and this year's World Junior Championships have been the organizers, attracting many people to watch.

For tonight's men's 100m race, it has become the focus of the organizer's publicity before the game, and it is also the most anticipated event for the audience.

When the nine runners in the first group of men's 100m heats entered the stadium and stood at the starting line, almost the audience applauded enthusiastically.

Jason Gaby stood in the ninth lane, listening to the cheers of the audience boiling in his ears, and only felt that his blood seemed to be boiling.

This is the first time in more than a year that he has competed in Europe since last year's US Championships. Because he is now in the men's 100m rankings, this race, his pass is arranged to be the most marginal.

The ninth.

Since Jason Gaby entered athletics, there have been very few passes on such fringes, but he doesn't particularly care about that.

It's just a preliminaries.

After the preliminaries, he believed that by the time it came to the final, he would soon be back in the middle lane.

In addition to the two Italian sprinters, he had four Americans, himself, Travis Padgett, Mark Jakes, Michael Rogers, and a few others worth his attention, Daniel Bailey, who was mentioned to the coach before the race, as well as Michael Flatt of Jamaica and Kurandi Martina of Andris.

Not to mention a few American players, the other strong ones are old opponents he has played against, and Jason Gaby has a good idea of their strength.

After a gunshot, the game was quickly underway!

Jason Gaby didn't have a particularly good start reaction when he crossed the starting line, but he started to take the lead as soon as he got into the mid-way acceleration session.

50 meters, 60 meters, 70 meters...... Jason Gaby is getting faster!

The audience only saw the outermost path of the ninth lane, and a figure was as fast as lightning, quickly surpassing the other players.

"Prepare to cross the line!"

Seeing that Jason Gaby was about to become the first in the group without too much effort, at this moment, suddenly a figure from behind followed, as if he grasped a few steps before Jason Gaby crossed the finish line, relaxed, and followed from behind.

9.96 seconds!

When the audience saw this result, they all threw warm applause at the runners on the finish line, and if they can run into the 10-second mark in the preliminaries, then the final will definitely be better than this result.

However, when this set of preliminaries results appeared on the big screen at the scene, Jason Gaby frowned slightly, and his eyes wandered among the other finishers.

The first and second place in the group were both 9.96 seconds, and the difference was in the thousandths of a second. It's just that it's not him who comes first, it's Daniel Bailey, the Antigua and Barbudan player he noticed before the game, and he did very well.

Since he was on the edge of lane 9 and didn't pay much attention to the position of the other runners, he was overtaken after a few last steps.

Fortunately, even the second place in the group can also advance to the final, Jason Gaby just reminded himself again in his heart.

After the first set of heats, the second race of the men's 100m heats was soon welcomed at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.

Compared with the first game of the preliminaries, it was obvious that the applause of the audience in the second game was much warmer.

Jason Gaby was once the top athlete in the men's 100m, but he was two years ago. The audience was naturally more looking forward to the match between Yechin and Asafarvir in the same preliminary group.

Especially Ye Qin, as the first person in the current men's 100m event, his face can be easily distinguished in the eyes of many faceblind European and American audiences.

The qualifiers also featured nine players, two from Italy, two from Trinidad and Tobago, three from Jamaica and one from Japan.

Among the several players, in addition to Asafavir, there are two other players who have caught Yechin's attention, one is the Japanese player Shinshi Takahira, who is rarely met in the Golden League, and the other is an extremely strong young Jamaican athlete, Yuhan Blake.

The Jamaican teenager, who had played at the Yenching World Youth Championships in '06, has fully begun to grow up after three years and has begun to step into the stage of the high-level Golden League.

However, Yechin didn't take Yuhan Blake to heart, and now there are only a few people who can really make him feel wary.

After the gun rang out in the race, Ye Qin took the lead and quickly rushed out of the starting line.

Ye Qin did not go all out to run this preliminaries, after so many events, athletes of his level have been able to fully grasp the current overall level of the men's 100m.

In the end, Yechin easily won the first place in the group with a time of 9.97 seconds, followed by Asafarville with a time of 9.98 seconds.

Seeing the final results come out, Ye Qin can obviously feel that Asafavir's pre-match form is recovering, not just talking.

In the previous game, Asafavil failed to run into the 10-second mark with all his might, but this contest with him was in the preliminaries, and it is conceivable that the opponent's condition is definitely not bad.

And this is only a few days between the Oslo Golden League and Lausanne Super Prix that Asafavil has participated in.

"Cheer up for the final!"

After coming off the field, Yechin also learned the results of the previous preliminaries group, Jason Gaby and Daniel Bailey both ran 9.96 seconds in the preliminaries, which was a signal.

The final may be harder than he thought!

……

Two hours later.

21:30 p.m.

Inside the Olympic Stadium in Rome, the atmosphere began to enter the climax of this year's Golden League.

The 50,000 spectators came to watch the competition, and although I dare not say that all of them came for the men's 100m, at least more than 80% of them were looking forward to the showdown of the top players in this event.

Yechin, Asafavir and Jason Gaby are the three best men's 100m athletes in the world who are currently going to face off against each other this year.

On the big screen at the scene, the list of 9 players in tonight's men's 100m final appeared in front of everyone:

First Lane, Michael Flat, Jamaica;

second, Richard Thompson, Trinidad and Tobago;

third way, Daniel Bailey, Antigua and Barbuda;

Fourth Way, Jason Gaby, USA;

Fifth Dao, Yechin, China;

Sixth Path, Asafavil, Jamaica;

Seventh Lane, Steve Mullins, Jamaica;

Eighth Lane, Yohan Blake, Jamaica;

The Ninth Lane, Michael Rogers, USA;

In a corner of the audience, a tall figure wearing a baseball cap dressed in casual clothes couldn't help but stand up when he saw the list of players on the spot.

"Yusai, sit down, as soon as you stand up, many people will recognize you."

Glenn Mills looked at the disciple next to him and seemed to be a little emotional, and quickly reached out and pulled the other party's clothes, calming him down and sitting in his seat.

"I regret it, Coach."

Yusse-Both, who sat down again, looked at the warp arena from afar, and his tone was a little gloomy.

"Why do you say that?" Glenn Mills had a warm smile on her chubby face.

"I should have attended." Yusse Bot looked at several familiar names on the field, "Yechin, Asafa, Jason Gaby, to be able to meet so many opponents and I was absent, it made me feel like I was running away. ”

"Don't worry, Yusse, it's July 10th, and you're only a week away from the World Championships in Berlin, so you're going to meet them."

Glenn Mills fully understands the sudden emotion of Urse Both, and this Golden League in Rome is not valued by people before the game.

But now that Yechin, Jason Gaby and Asafarvir have been brought together, it has become different immediately. Especially after the results of the preliminary round came out, basically everyone could imagine that it would be a very exciting game.

Yusse Bot has a strong obsession with the championship, and he failed to appear in such a high-level matchup, which undoubtedly made him feel a little clogged in his heart.

It's a terrible feeling when several of your toughest opponents are competing in a match, and you're on the sidelines!

Yousse Bot is extremely proud in his heart, becoming famous as a teenager, experiencing setbacks, and reaching the top of the competition.

Along the way, although he was a little cynical and faced many people with giggling, he was always committed and serious about the schedule.

And one of the characteristics of athletes is that when they watch a game from the sidelines, they tend to be more excited than the players on the field.

Like many top athletes who retire and become coaches, they will become irritable when guiding athletes to train and compete, and one of the key points is that in the eyes of these top athletes retired coaches, many things are extremely simple and natural, but the people under them just can't fully meet expectations

Looking at the disciples around him who were still a little emotionally uneasy, Glenn Mills reached out and patted the other party's shoulder, and continued to comfort: "We came here this time mainly to see Yuhan's performance, you have to take yourself out of it, and your game will be in Berlin in a month." ”

Yusse-Bot took a long deep breath and nodded, by this time he had noticed that many of the surrounding audience had noticed him after he had just stood up.

He and Glenn Mills appeared in the Rome Golden League and did not sign up, partly to see how Yechin and the others fared in this game, and partly for the sake of Yuhan Blake, a teenager a few years younger than him, whose results have improved very rapidly in the past two years, and in him Yusse Bot even felt a wild beastly aura.

Juhan Blake's major tournament experience is somewhat similar to that of Yusse Bor, both of whom started as teenagers, and the talent and determination of the other party shows that occasionally makes Yuser Bot feel a little intimidated when training together.

Now Yuhan Blake is not fully mature, somewhat similar to his performance in '05 and '06, but Yusse Blake has a feeling that in two years, his junior brother will definitely become another strong competitor in the sprint event.