On July 13th, the third day of the Lausanne Grand Prix ended.

Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy.

When Ye Qin walked into the stadium, looking at the cheering and thunderous applause in the stands of the audience, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

This is Ye Qin's second trip to Italy, and Ye Qin had a very deep memory here at the World Youth Athletics Championships in Grosseto three years ago, and it was after that competition that Nie Fangping did not continue to coach Ye Qin due to physical reasons.

Grosseto's World Junior Championships was an extremely important turning point for Yechin's entire career, and indeed his entire life.

It was precisely because Ye Qin ran in the men's 200m and 400m events at the World Youth Championships that he was urgently recruited by the national team to participate in the team, making the biggest breakthrough in the Chinese men's sprint event in the Olympic Games, and finally a player was able to stand on the track of the sprint final.

Now, three years have passed, Ye Qin is no longer the nobody who has entered and exited the international athletics arena, and has completely grown into a first-class star among the world's sprinters. Revisiting the old place made him feel a little emotional for a while.

Today's match is the Rome leg of the IAAF Golden League and the last leg of Yechin's European tour ahead of this year's World Championships in Osaka.

After this race, he will immediately return home. Liu Yangyu and others, who also came to Europe to compete, did not participate in this Golden League, but went to the United Kingdom to participate in the British Grand Prix held on July 15.

Similarly, the likes of Jason Gaby, Spearmon and Eusse Bot are all absent from the Golden League, and their choice will be the British Grand Prix, which has been played by several people in recent years, and in the UK they are much more enthusiastic than Yechin in terms of the enthusiasm of the organisers and their popularity.

However, today's Golden League in Rome will not be too lonely.

There is no men's 200m event in the Rome Golden League, so Ye Qin will still participate in the men's 100m.

The opponents he will face are basically not much different from the Golden League in Oslo, and the strongest contenders are still Asafavil and Derek Atkins.

The full name of the Golden League in Rome is called the "Golden Festival" track and field competition, which first began in 1981, when Primo Nebbiolo, the president of the IAAF from Italy, brought together athletes from the United States and NATO countries to hold a major sporting event in order to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

The main venue of the tournament, the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, is the most famous stadium in Italy, which is usually used for football matches, hosting the World Cup and the European Cup. In addition, it is the main venue for the Italian National Rugby Federation and the Italian National Athletics Competition.

When Ye Qin and the other eight runners in the men's 100m appeared in the Olympic Stadium, the cheers of the audience were already ringing.

The men's 100m race is still the top priority of the Golden League every year.

This match features the current world No. 1 Asafavier, and at the same time, Yechin has completely beaten his name in three or four matches in Europe this year.

In the men's 100m event, Ye Qin is already the top runner in the 10 seconds four times in a row this year, coupled with his outstanding performance in the men's 200m and 400m, Ye Qin at this time is not inferior to last year's Jason Gaby.

Moreover, he also has the honor of winning the men's 200m at the 2005 World Championships, and has also reached the final of the World Championships in the 400m event, and his status in international athletics can now be said to be in the top three and top five.

When the nine players appeared on the field, the information of the eight players appeared on the big screen of the Olympic Stadium in Rome:

First Lane, Derek Atkins, Bahamas;

second, Simon Cleo, Italy;

Third Lane, Nesta Carter, Jamaica;

fourth, Kurandi-Martina, Netherlands Antilles;

Fifth Way, Mark Jakes, USA;

Sixth Dao, Yechin, China;

Seventh Path, Asafarville, Jamaica;

Eighth Lane, Michael Flat, Jamaica;

Ninth Lane, Sean Crowder, USA;

In the men's 100m athletes, except for Simon Cleo in the second lane, who participated as the host Italian athlete, most of the other athletes have basically fought against each other, or can be called familiar.

Although there will be ups and downs with time or the rise of some new athletes, most of the lineup will only be in those 120 or 20 people in a relative period of time.

On the field, in front of the men's 100-meter starting line, Asafavir glanced at Ye Qin expressionlessly.

He had been surprised by the Golden League defeat in Oslo last time out, and he sensed that another Jason Gaby was challenging him for Yechin's rise.

In the men's 100m last year, after Jax Thelin was suspended, Asafavil thought he might not have an opponent.

But at this time, American Jason Gai suddenly broke out and became the fastest rising in the 100m, running under 10 seconds or even 9.90 seconds several times, so that in the last few races, Asafarville began to avoid it in order to maintain the record of consecutive 100m wins throughout the year.

This year, in addition to Jason Gaby, Asafavir feels two more challengers.

One is Ye Qin, as the men's 200m champion at the 2005 World Championships, Asafavir naturally believes that Ye Qin will have enough strength in the men's 100 meters, but he didn't expect Ye Qin's progress to be so rapid, and he ran within 10 seconds in several consecutive games, and his state was extremely stable, making him feel that Ye Qin seemed to have the potential to improve further.

The other is Bahamian player Derek Atkins, a young player who was almost completely unknown in international athletics before, who burst onto the scene this year, first breaking his country's national record, and then running into the 10-second mark in several major competitions in the United States, and the performance in these races is obviously a level higher than other athletes, basically running to about 10 seconds, second only to Jason Gaby and Yechin.

At the Lausanne Super Grand Prix, neither Yechin nor Jason Gaby competed in the men's 100m, with Derek Atkins comfortably beating Leonard Scott and Sean Crowder in 10.04 seconds.

After the previous competition, Asafavil still had to pay attention to Yechin and Derek Atkins, and the honor of the men's 100m top crown was dazzling, but it was also a difficult thing to face the challenges of endless opponents.

Ye Qin can understand Asafavil's heart, after sitting on the throne of the men's 100m world record holder, the pressure is naturally very different, in the past few years, from Jax Thelin to Jason Gaby and other athletes, have been sniping again and again in the men's 100m event.

For a sprinter, the peak era is often only a few years, and it is extremely difficult to ensure that he can win every race, even if he is strong enough, there will inevitably be times when he is not in good shape.

Asafavir's ability to maintain a winning streak of more than 20 100m is already a feat, and the internal and external pressure to defend his first position is very high.

And, more crucially, Asafavil lacks major honours, whether it is the '04 Olympics or the '05 World Championships, Asafavil seems to have been mentally unlucky, resulting in his performance in two major competitions.

With the upcoming 2007 World Championships heading on, Asafavir will need a convincing honour if he wants to prove himself as the number one man in the 100m.

Similarly, Ye Qin won the men's 200m at the 2005 World Championships, and although he defeated a strong competitor, it was nothing compared to the results of many 200m runners in '06 and '07.

Jason Gaby, Wallace Spearmon, and Eusse Bot have improved a lot in the past few years, and even if they lose most of the time against Yechin, they are definitely not willing to only serve as a background board in major events.

On the field, on the runway, who is not going for the first?