Chapter 320 05 World Championships Men's 400m Final (I)
“…… Audience friends, the men's 400m final will start soon, and my country's Ye Qin will appear in the final. This is Ye Qin's second final after winning the men's 200m last night.
Michael Johnson, a legendary sprinter in athletics history, won the men's 200m and 400m world championships at the 1995 World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.
And my country's Ye Qin has also become one of the few athletes in the world who can advance to the finals in both the men's 200m and men's 400m events.
And it was with such a dense schedule and such bad weather conditions.
Before the race, I communicated with the coaches of the track and field team, Ye Qin ran the men's 200m final yesterday, and then today's 400m final may have physical problems, but it doesn't matter, Ye Qin has created the best result of Chinese athletes in the track and field field, and every step he takes now is making history. No matter what kind of results he finishes running, he is already worthy of a Chinese athlete......"
At 21:25 local time in Helsinki, when the last group of women's 4×100m preliminaries in the track and field field left, Mu Jiang's voice began to appear on the TV.
Many old track and field fans looked solemn at this time, frowning tightly, among the many broadcast games they watched, it was still rare to hear the commentary give everyone such a vaccination before the game.
But looking at the schedule of Ye Qin's previous few days given by Mu Jiang, many people were a little relieved in their hearts, the schedule of this World Championships is really not very friendly, at least for Ye Qin.
The men's 200m and men's 400m races are serious, Ye Qin participated in the men's 200m semi-finals and semi-finals, the men's 400m semifinals, and three races a day on August 10.
You must know that when "Forrest Gump" won the 200m and 400m championships at the World Championships, there was no conflict between the two events at all. But Ye Qin encountered a high-intensity competition such as three matches in one day.
But even so, after Ye Qin just won a gold medal in the men's 200m, the audience squatting in front of the TV at this moment still has a sense of anticipation.
Especially many spectators who had not paid attention to Ye Qin's 200-meter race before, after learning all kinds of news from the media and various channels during the day, they stayed up late tonight to watch the competition, and the sense of expectation in their hearts was naturally even stronger.
“…… Okay, the players have appeared on the field, Ye Qin is in the second lane, it seems that although after a day's rest, his mental state is not bad, this men's 400m final, the United States team is three athletes in the final, still showing unparalleled dominance in the track and field field......
First of all was British's Timothy Benjamin, who ran a personal best of 44.75 seconds today...... In the third lane is the men's 400m and men's 4×400m champion at Athens 2004, Jimmy Warner, who is currently the world's No. 1 man in the men's 400m and the first white runner to win the sprint event, finishing first in 44.20 seconds at this year's USATF Championships...... Fourth Course: Taylor Christopher......"
As time progressed, the picture from the camera lens on the scene had already appeared eight runners standing on the 400-meter starting line, and in Mu Jiang's commentary, a list of runners information box suspended on the TV screen also appeared in front of everyone.
First Lane, Timothy Benjamin, UK;
second single, Ye Chin, China;
Third Lane, Jimmy Warner, USA;
Fourth Way, Taylor Christopher, Canada;
Fifth Way, Darrod Williamson, USA;
Sixth lane, Brandon Simpson, Jamaica;
Seventh Way, Andrew Luke, USA;
Eighth lane, Chris Brown, Bahamas;
"Jimmy Warner?!"
Ye Qin stood in the second lane position, looking at Jimmy Warner in the third lane not far in front, this is a white man with a round inch, slender and strong, even in the arena at night, the other party is wearing a pair of brown sunglasses, with a cold and arrogant expression.
At last year's Athens Olympics, Jimmy Warner and Liu Yangyu won the championship in the 400m and the 110m hurdles, which became the most sensational thing in the field of athletics at that time.
Both men represent their own populations of color and have achieved the highest achievement in athletics, breaking the shackles of almost exclusively black domination in the sprint sprint.
Ye Qin also wanted to run with Jimmy Warner for a while in his heart, and wanted to challenge each other, even though the ending may not be good, but this desire in his heart is very strong.
As an athlete, constantly competing against faster and stronger opponents has always been a dream of him.
Sometimes Yechin wonders if he can't make progress in the 400m as well as the 200m, and one of the reasons is not because he has met too few opponents in the 400m.
After all, although the 400-meter is also a sprint event, there are far fewer people who actually practice than the 1,200-meter at home and abroad, and even fewer can produce results.
Like the 200 meters, although the gap between the domestic and world levels is still very large, there are many people who practice, and many athletes in the 100 meters will practice 200 at the same time, and he has at least in the entire growth era, and the challenges encountered in the 200 meters are more.
The same is true after stepping into the international arena, starting with the World Junior Championships and the World Junior Championships, and the level of the 200m runners he has encountered is significantly higher than the 400m.
And the level of the men's 400-meter athletes in today's World Championships is the highest level Ye Qin has faced since he started practicing 400 meters.
Ye Qin can feel that the mentality is completely different from yesterday when he participated in the men's 200m race, when he wanted to fight and fight, and today, the mentality has become relaxed, but he wants to see his potential and level in the 400m in such a high-level event.
What Ye Qin didn't notice was that when he appeared in the men's 400m final, the other 400m runners in the same group were also full of wariness of him.
Perhaps before yesterday's men's 200m final, including Jimmy Warner, whom he had just observed, before yesterday's men's 200m final, for an athlete like Jimmy Warner standing at the top of the 400m, he probably knew Yechin as an ordinary Asian athlete, and after Yechin won the 200m title, almost instantly, it aroused the vigilance of the Olympic champion.
Similarly, other 400-meter athletes in the same group no longer dare to take Ye Qin lightly on the 400-meter final field.
The world champion in the 200m, standing in the final of the 400m, no matter what his real 400m level is, just winning this title will put him in the highest category that needs to be paid attention to.
In the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, many spectators watched Yechin appear on the field, and they also did not hesitate to applaud and cheer.
Yesterday, many spectators witnessed how Ye Qin went from the bottom to the front, and finally even the 100-meter flyer Jax Thelin.
And the first appearance of the Asian face, the red sprint suit, made many people in Finland, Europe and the world very interested in him.
In Japan alone, when Ye Qin won the championship in the final and broke the Asian record, it caused a wave of chickens and dogs in Japan.
Japan has been in the first place in the men's sprint event in Asia for many years, and aside from some naturalized athletes from West Asia, Japan is already the best in Asia in terms of finishing strength.
At the end of 2003, Shingo Xu ran the Asian 200m record of 20.03 seconds, which won the national boil, although at the end of the World Championships, Shingo Xu only won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Paris in 20.38 seconds, but this is also the first medal won by Asian athletes in the world-class sprint competition.
Only now, that record is gone.
Ye Qin broke the record of Shingo Suesu, and on a stage like the World Championships in Athletics, whether it is the authenticity of the record, the gold content of the results, and the influence of the championship honor, it is far more than the other party.
In the stands on the sidelines, Liu Yangyu, who was already wearing a coat and clothes at this time, was holding a bottle of pure water in his hand and was watching the upcoming men's 400-meter race from the stands.
Next to him, coach Sun Chaosheng is also watching the upcoming men's 400m final.
Liu Yangyu's competition has ended, and the pair can finally watch a track and field event with complete peace of mind. Sun Chaosheng has long observed Ye Qin, when Nie Fangping was coaching Ye Qin, he proposed to Nie Fangping to let Ye Qin participate in more international events to train and improve himself, but he never imagined that Ye Qin could really win the men's 200m gold medal at this World Championships.
For their master and apprentice, Ye Qin won the championship yesterday, which greatly reduced the pressure on the two. Previously, Liu Yangyu was the only player in the Chinese track and field team who had the hope of winning a gold medal or a medal, but after Ye Qin, he finally had a gold medal, which can be said to be a sharp reduction in pressure.
Of course, the pressure can't be said to be absent, but at least it's not the kind of person who carries everyone's expectations, which is one of the reasons why Liu Yangyu was able to play beyond Sun Chaosheng's expectations in the final and then win the gold medal.
“On your marks!”
Standing in front of the starting line, Ye Qin moved his body slightly, and soon heard the sound of the starter reminding the runners to take place from the sidelines.
Ye Qin adjusted his breathing, walked to the starting line, put his feet on the pedals of the runner, and leaned down to listen to the upcoming gunshot.
“SET!”
Syllable!
The crisp starting gun rang out!
In the stands, which had just quieted down a little in the arena, there was an overwhelming cheer just after the gunshots rang out.
The many viewers who were paying attention to the TV screen in China were also seeing all the players in the TV screen move, and then a gunshot rang out, and then Mu Jiang's excited shout came out: "The game starts ......."
Ye Qin maintained a high level of concentration before the gun, I don't know if it was because of the excitement of yesterday's 200-meter final, he found that his start was very good at the moment the gun sounded, and the starting reaction and starting acceleration seemed to be faster than yesterday's 200-meter run.
The 400-meter race is not as demanding as the 1,200-meter race, but the quick start reaction and acceleration are always an advantage, not a disadvantage.
At the same time, Jimmy Warner, who was in the third lane in front of Ye Qin's right, started to react very quickly, and after the gunshot, his feet slammed on the pedals, and the person was already running out at high speed.
Jimmy Warner's running is light and stretched, but not particularly aesthetically pleasing. Like Michael Johnson, he also studied under Clyde Hart, and in the traditional parlance, he was a bit of a "sitting" runner. This running position is very high for hip lifting, but if fully mastered, it can give people a large stride length and good body stability.