In the indoor track and field field of the General Administration of National Training, Ye Qin, who had just finished a group of recovery training, saw Liu Yangyu wearing and appeared in the training ground, and immediately walked quickly to his side and looked at the other party's bare feet.

"How did you get hurt?"

In late February 2006, Ye Qin had returned to the Yanjing National Team Training Center a week ago after a warm holiday in Xiushui for the Spring Festival, ready to start preparing for the 11th IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships.

"It's just that I relaxed after training a few days ago, and I accidentally stepped on a step and broke my left foot." Liu Yangyu's face was slightly gloomy, and he pursed his lips to reveal a reluctant smile, "It wasn't very serious at the time, I didn't care about it, and it was swollen at night." ”

"And how are you recovering now?"

In Ye Qin's memory, Liu Yangyu started practicing sports, and he didn't seem to have any injuries until now, and he occasionally missed games a few times, also because of a cold or something.

"I guess it's not that fast." Liu Yangyu shook his head, "The past two days have been better, but I shouldn't be able to participate in the indoor championships next week." Today is to jog to keep your body functioning, and then do strength training. ”

Saying that, Liu Yangyu smiled again, "I'm injured, it's up to you for this trip to Moscow." You should also be careful, don't get hurt carelessly. ”

"Well, I'll be careful." Regarding the injury, Ye Qin has always been very cautious, and when the warm-up was basically unambiguous, he asked Liu Yangyu, "Then are you going to Moscow this time?" ”

"Yes." Liu Yangyu thought for a while and replied, "I am already on the list, and I have no problem acting now, mainly because I can't compete." I can go over and cheer you on when the time comes. ”

"Okay, you can cultivate well." Ye Qin laughed, "Then it's up to us, haha, it's a rare thing to be able to let the world champion only cheer us in the stands." ”

"You kid...... Okay, I'm going to move first, and my body functions still have to be maintained. ”

It can be said that a professional athlete does not have to be long, and if he does not exercise for one or two months, the body fat rate will skyrocket, and the competitive state will at least decline several grades.

Watching Liu Yangyu walk onto the track and begin to move his body slowly, Ye Qin also had some lingering palpitations about the injury.

Seeing Liu Yangyu injured, he couldn't help but think of He Jun, and also thought of some cases that Nie Fangping and Randy Hunter told him before.

Athletes must usually protect their bodies, and if they are accidentally injured, it will be very troublesome. Especially for professional athletes, it is difficult to fully recover from injuries unless they have a particularly long rest.

It's like a thousand-mile embankment destroyed in an anthill, as long as there is a loophole, it will always be easy to recur in the future. Because of the intensity of training and competition, many times I feel that I am completely fine, but the above intensity of training will lead to the recurrence of injuries again, and many new symptoms will be extended.

Especially before the age of twenty-five, because of the strong recovery ability and fast metabolism of the body, many things are still not visible, but after the peak of the career, some problems will naturally come out.

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On March 6, 2006, China sent 13 track and field athletes, including Ye Qin and Liu Yangyu, to Moscow, Russia, under the leadership of Sun Chaosheng, deputy head coach of the track and field team.

The 11th IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships will be held in Moscow, Russia, from March 10 to March 12, though

Although the World Indoor Athletics Championships is not as influential as the World Championships, as a world-class event at the second level of the IAAF, the requirements for athletes from all countries are still very high.

It is still a small minority of athletes who can meet the AB standards set by the competition. However, due to time constraints, there are also some athletes' personal status and schedule planning, and the athletes participating in the competition are not as star-studded as the World Championships and the Olympic Games, and some of the top super-famous masters may not be able to see the World Indoor Track and Field Championships.

After seven or eight hours of flying all the way, when Ye Qin got out of the hatch, he really experienced the bitter cold of the Russian winter.

At this time, in the northern region of the country such as Yanjing, the weather is still quite cold, but compared with Moscow, it is really a mountain and a mountain high, and the head is muscular and bone, what does it feel like to blow on the skin like a knife, Ye Qin is an eye-opener.

After leaving the airport, he was arranged by the organizing committee to settle into a hotel, and for the next few days, Ye Qin and several other athletes were in an indoor training hall in Moscow for post-arrival acclimatization training.

Ye Qin competed in the men's 400m this time, and the IAAF cancelled the men's 200m event after the 2004 World Indoor Athletics Championships.

Because indoor tracks are narrower than outdoor tracks and often have only four or six tracks per lap, the top sprinters are reluctant to compete in order to prevent collision injuries at high speeds.

Ye Qin has a deep understanding of Ci, in the men's 200m race at the National Indoor Track and Field Championships last year, he can feel that when running, the centrifugal force is very large, and it takes more physical energy to control the center of gravity of the body.

Moreover, if an athlete is classified in the inner lane in the preliminaries, he is very likely to run and smash, or commit fouls (stepping on the line, channeling). At the 2003 World Indoor Championships, 25 people committed fouls in the men's 200m in the heats, including American favourite Sean Crowder.

Eventually, the IAAF cancelled the men's 200m event at this year's World Championships, and the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Budapest became the last World Indoor Championships to have 200m.

Although Ye Qin only participated in the men's 400m race at this World Championships, the schedule of the competition just took up three days of the indoor World Championships.

The men's 400m heats will be at 17:55 on March 10, the men's 400m semifinals at 18:15 on March 11, and the men's 400m final at 16:30 on March 12.

On March 10, the guns of the 11th IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships officially began at the Olympic Stadium in Sco.

The Moscow Olympic Stadium is a large-scale indoor sports complex, which hosted the first indoor World Championship of ice hockey in 1989, and the semi-finals of the EuroBasketball League last year in 2005, as well as being one of the main venues for several basketball and boxing events.

A total of 28 athletes from all over the world participated in the men's 400m race, which were divided into five preliminary groups.

The top two players in each preliminary group will advance directly, and then the two players with the best results among the remaining players will be replaced, for a total of 12 players, to participate in the semi-finals of the next round.

This year's world's best indoor 400m result was set by Yechin's old rival, another talented 400m athlete in the United States, Sean Merritt, on February 15 this year at the Randall Tyson Indoor Track and Field Hall of the University of Axel in Fayetteville, USA, which is also the second-best indoor 400m time in world history. The first was Michael Johnson's 44.63 seconds set in Atlanta on March 4, 1995.

Sean Merritt, the American athlete who defeated Yechin at the 2004 World Junior Championships and won the men's 400m at the World Junior Championships, has always been very impressed. In last year's Helsinki Athletics World Championships, although the opponent did not qualify for the World Championships, he still played in the men's 4×400m relay later.

Half a year later, the opponent showed an amazing state at the beginning of the 2006 competition. The indoor 400 meters can run in 45 seconds, which is basically about 0.5 seconds when placed outdoors.

However, probably because of his participation in the indoor track and field championships in the United States, Sean Merritt did not come to Moscow to compete this time, and it is unlikely that Ye Qin wants to compete with the opponent again.