August 28th.

The World Championships in Osaka is on its fourth day, and the daily competition schedule can be basically divided into two periods, the preliminaries and qualifiers for most events in the morning, and the semi-finals and finals in the evening.

This arrangement will allow you to stagger the summer heat in Osaka, and on the other hand, you will be able to attract more spectators to watch the game in the evening directly at Nagai Stadium or in front of the TV after the weekday is completed.

There are only four events in the morning race on the 28th, two of which are the men's 400m and men's 200m heats.

At this year's World Championships in Osaka, the men's 400m is a three-shot tiebreaker, preliminaries, semi-finals and finals, and the 200m is a four-shot tie-breaker, preliminaries, semi-finals, semi-finals and finals.

For the sprint event, the men's 400m and men's 200m heats are arranged so closely, which is actually rare in a large competition.

For many sprint athletes, many of the best athletes will compete in the men's 100m and 200m, or the men's 200m and 400m.

The schedule of the event will basically keep the 100m, 200m and 400m at the appropriate time as much as possible, if they can't all be placed on a separate day, no matter how bad it is, there may be a gap between the morning and afternoon, or a few more hours, so that some athletes can rest during this period and perform well in both events.

At the World Championships in Osaka, there has been enough time reserved for the men's 100m and 200m events, but the 200m and 400m events are very tightly arranged.

At 10:10 a.m. on the 28th, the men's 400-meter preliminaries began, and an hour later, at 11:10, followed by the men's 200-meter preliminaries.

Ye Qin stood on the indoor warm-up track of Changju Stadium, after a simple warm-up at the venue next to the hotel in the morning, and a series of stretching activities after arriving at the venue, his physical condition has basically been adjusted to the best.

Yesterday, I and the rest of the relay team carried out a period of relay cooperation, mainly to hand over the baton training, and the running time was not particularly much, and the body has not been affected in any way until now, both physically and mentally.

Facing the upcoming two preliminaries, Ye Qin also knows in his heart, with his current level and ability, he will consider the physical distribution of the following games after the two preliminaries, probably according to his own state.

At 10:10 a.m., the men's 400m preliminaries officially began.

There were seven preliminaries in the 400m heats, and 60 athletes participated, including nine athletes in four heats and eight athletes in the other three groups.

Ye Qin is in the third group of the 400m preliminaries, when he stood on the competition field, the time has reached 10:24, the organizing committee gave the 400m preliminaries an average of a group of 7 minutes, and after the end of the entire 400m preliminaries, it is just right to continue the men's 200m preliminaries that start at 11:10.

Yechin was familiar with only one athlete in the 400m heats, Alain Francia, from Granada.

The pair have previously played each other at both the Osaka Grand Prix and the Eugene Grand Prix, most recently at last year's World Cup, when Yechin was the winner, runner-up was Sean Merritt and third was Gary Kikaya, where Alleyne Francia finished fourth.

Among the other players, some Ye Qin may have met each other, but some of them have basically no special impression because of their skin color, language, etc.

After the gun rang out, the runners in the third group of the preliminary round quickly rushed out of the starting line.

Ye Qin is still very clear about his 400-meter rhythm, basically within the range of ability, basically as long as he wants to run, he can run. The ups and downs won't be too big.

According to Ye Qin's estimate, he should be able to advance to the semifinals if he prepares for this set of preliminaries in about 45.50 seconds.

However, contrary to his expectations, his group is not low, not to mention Granada's Alleyne Francia, who is a fourth-place finisher at the Olympics, as well as France's Leslie Geron and Jamaica's Ricardo Chambers. In addition, there was a British athlete, Andrew Steele, who followed Yechin closely in the first 300 meters.

When he reached about 80 meters in the final straight, Ye Qin saw that he was almost in fifth place, and had to raise his speed a little to make the final sprint.

After all, in the seven preliminaries group, the top three in each group are promoted, and then the three best results are added to advance, a total of twenty-four places, which is a little more than one-third of the total number of preliminaries.

In the end, Ye Chin qualified second in the group with a time of 45.09 seconds, won by Granada's Alleyne Francia, who set a 2007 season best of 44.95 seconds, and France's Leslie Geron in third place with a time of 45.17 seconds.

Coming down from the men's 400-meter track, Ye Qin crossed the rest area of the stadium and hurried back to the rest area where the Chinese track and field team was located.

Zhuang Wei and Chen Zhongzhou have been waiting there for a long time, although Ye Qin has reservations to run in the men's 400 meters, but the next thing to deal with is another men's 200 meters preliminaries, no matter what, it is to let the body muscles relax quickly.

"Ye Qin, it's still a bit risky for you to do this."

As soon as he sat down, Chen Zhongzhou next to him came over and expressed his views on Ye Qin's 400-meter race.

"Well, I really didn't expect the level of players in this group to be so high."

Ye Qin nodded, there were some dangers in this group of 400-meter preliminaries, although such dangers were completely within his control, but in the eyes of outsiders, there were still many unexpected factors.

Generally, top athletes have reservations in the preliminaries and rematches, basically in the last few tens of meters, after locking the advantage, they take the way of releasing water.

As for Fang Cai, he saw the opponent around him running in front at the end, and chased after him again, although he also got the quota for appearing, but there were still many unexpected factors.

Seeing that Ye Qin fully understood this point in his heart, Chen Zhongzhou nodded and did not continue to say anything more.

In a few years, Ye Qin has grown into a world-class sprinter, with enough experience and mental endurance to deal with various competitions.

On the other hand, the coaching staff of the Chinese team and many athletes did not come forward to disturb after seeing Ye Qin come down to rest, and everyone was basically not surprised that Ye Qin could qualify for the 400-meter semifinals, including Feng Shuyong and Yu Weili, the two big leaders of the track and field team, are very clear that with Ye Qin's level, even if it is a little risky, there will be basically no problems in the qualification of the preliminaries.

The only thing they are concerned about is that they are worried about Ye Qin's physical consumption and state problems due to successive games, and they are afraid that he will be in poor condition due to fatigue, which will affect the final performance.

However, in fact, this concern has faded a lot after the men's 100m race.

Ye Qin won the men's 100m championship, becoming a veritable world flyer, and at the same time, a time of 9.83 seconds set a new Asian record, which is also the highest ranking in the history of the IAAF men's 100m.

Now that everyone is in Japan, we don't know the specific situation in Japan, but I can imagine it, and I don't know what the excitement is like. Ye Qin once again appeared on the news network, and reported on it for more than a minute.

There is the honor of the 100-meter champion in the end, and the subsequent games are enough to make the coaching staff of the track and field team feel at ease, and the later games can completely let Ye Qin play by himself, and it is of course better to be able to win more medals and honors, even if it really fails, it doesn't really matter.

Of course, with the pressure of public opinion no longer existing, if Yechin can win the 200m event again, he will become the third track and field athlete to win the men's 100m and 200m events at the World Championships after Carl Lewis and Morris Green.

That's going to be another sensation.

Especially in the 400m event, if you go further......

When Ye Qin returned to the rest area, it was about 10:35, when the fourth group of the men's 400m preliminaries had just come on the field and had not yet started the race.

There is almost an hour left before Ye Chin's next men's 200-meter race.

In the men's 200m heats, there are a total of six preliminary groups, with the top four in each group advancing directly, and then the eight best results will be replaced, with a total of 32 athletes participating in the semi-finals.

The preliminaries started at 11:10, and Ye Qin was placed in the fifth group of the preliminaries, and the time was 11:42, which was almost an hour away.

During this hour, Ye Qin basically did not continue to warm up at high intensity, which had been done before running 400 meters, after Zhuang Wei's simple muscle massage to relax, followed by a simple rest.