Chapter 349: Indoor 400m Final
"Tonight's women's 4×400m race is at the end?"
On March 12, the last day of the World Championships, Ye Qin felt a little strange when he saw at the Moscow Olympic Stadium at 18:55 p.m. that the last event to be played was the women's 4×400m.
In his memory, the final finale project will usually be more influential, so as to attract the audience to have a sense of anticipation and stay until the end.
And he himself is an athlete in the 4×400m event, so he naturally knows that not to mention the women's 4×400m, but the men's 4×400m is not particularly popular with the audience compared with some events. Not to mention that this is an indoor race, and it is nowhere near as good as an outdoor race.
"This must be the host's arrangement." Sun Chaosheng heard Ye Qin's question, and immediately explained to him, "The Russian women's team broke the women's 4×400m relay world record at the last World Championships, and this intention is naturally obvious, just to make this game finale and be able to have excellent results." ”
The track and field strength of the Russian team has always been extremely strong, and at the last World Indoor Championships, Russia was proud of all countries with 7 gold medals.
Among the current countries, in many track and field events, only Russia can really wrestle with the American team. Especially at the World Indoor Championships, where some of the top players were not present, Russia has a strong competitive strength in some field events, as well as women's events.
In addition, there is the Afrika Korps, in the field of athletics, whether indoor or outdoor, the middle and long-distance running field is basically the basic plate of Kenya, Mozambique, Ethiopia and several countries. Although there have been occasional gold medals in the women's event, most of the time the Afrika Korps have a strong advantage in the region.
"I don't know if the Russian team has more gold medals or the United States team has more gold medals after today's competition." After Sun Chaosheng finished speaking, he sighed again.
Today is the final day of the World Indoor Championships, and the final results will be announced in a matter of time. So far, Russia has led the United States as the host medal, but the difference between the two gold medals is not large, and the answer will not be revealed until the end of tonight.
Thinking of this, Sun Chaosheng couldn't help but glance at Ye Qin again, with a smile of encouragement on his face, "Ye Qin, don't be too stressed, just let go and run at night." An indoor tournament is just an ordinary competition, but it doesn't require us to fight for it to any extent. ”
In this indoor track and field championship, because of the small number of participants, the team was led by Coach Sun Chaosheng, and there were less than 20 athletes plus coaches and staff.
After Liu Yangyu was absent from the men's 60m hurdles, after two days of competition, the Chinese team has so far been in a situation of zero medals, and on the last day of the competition, the most promising player to win the medal is Ye Qin.
However, among the players who came to participate in the indoor track and field championships this time, in addition to a few veterans who have experienced world-class events, such as Wen Yongyi, they are all newcomers who are purely on the international stage for the first time, and more need to hone their ability to participate.
Like Ye Qin, he is the youngest among all the players, but the experience of the competition is almost the most abundant except for Liu Yangyu. Ye Qin participated in fewer domestic events, but he had completely experienced the World Junior Championships, World Youth Championships, Grand Prix, Olympic Games, and World Championships in the world.
Sun Chaosheng is not worried about Ye Qin's competition mentality tonight, he has known and paid attention to Ye Qin for a long time, and when he was in the Xinzhuang training base, he also trained with Liu Yangyu and Yang Yao, and also guided Ye Qin's starting skills.
For Ye Qin's mentality of getting more excited about the competition, even he, a coach who has already taught a world champion, is envious. A good athlete, in addition to talent and diligence, has a good mentality is a very important link.
Because when it comes to the top arena, the difference in the strength of the athletes in the end is not huge, and many times the competition is about mentality, and only with a good mentality can you have a good performance.
At 16:20 in the afternoon, Ye Qin, who completed the pre-game warm-up on the indoor warm-up track of the Moscow Olympic Stadium, carried out the final check-in procedure for the men's 400-meter final under the leadership of the staff.
When the six athletes who participated in the final appeared on the track, the names of the six people and the schedule of the six people also appeared on the big screen of the indoor venue.
First Lane, Milton Campbell, USA;
Second Lane, California-Moorph, Botswana;
Third Way, Davion Clarke, Jamaica;
Fourth Lane, Chris Brown, Bahamas;
Fifth Dao, Yechin, China;
Sixth Lane, Erin Franchick, Grenada;
This arrangement is slightly different from the general outdoor 400m course arrangement, and athletes who have a relatively good chance of winning the championship, or who perform well in the heats and semi-finals, will be arranged in the indoor 400m final in favor of the outer lane.
The reason for this is that the players in the inner lane will have a greater curvature and centripetal force on the inner side of the track, and they do not have as many advantages as the players in the outer lane.
Therefore, the two competitors in the men's 400m final are considered to have the best chance of winning the gold medal, Yechin and Erin Franchick, both of whom are placed on the fringes.
Ye Qin stood on the starting line of the runway, looking at the cheering and boiling audience, and his inner emotions were also rising.
Probably because of today's 400m final, the number of Chinese spectators who came to watch the race in the afternoon was significantly larger than the previous two days, and under the bright lights of the room, he could easily see the eye-catching national flag and a few red banners pulled up to cheer him on from a crowd of high-nosed spectators.
This feeling of being supported and encouraged, being able to be expected and cheered on, has always been a very good feeling for Ye Chin.
Walking on the runway changed his life. To be able to be supported by others, that's what he's after.
Moreover, when he achieved his goal, being able to run with the expectations of more people gradually became one of his many motivations.
At this time, Ye Qin didn't have a lot of nervousness about the competition in his heart, and as an athlete of his current level, the indoor competition can be faced with a relatively calm mind, but the desire for the championship is not a lot at all.
The feeling of winning is wonderful, the moment he crosses the finish line first, leaving the rest of his opponents behind, he is deeply fascinated, this is the competitive arena, he seems to be able to do anything here, it seems that everything can be done at his best.
And......
"This time, because of Brother Yang Yu's injury, the Chinese team still has no results, I need that gold medal, a gold medal to prove myself and my team."
Thinking of Sun Chaosheng's encouraging smile when he was warming up, Ye Qin secretly made up his mind in his heart.
Sun Chaosheng was the team leader this time, and it must have been his disciple Liu Yangyu who shouldered this task, but he was unfortunately injured, which made Sun Chaosheng, as the team leader, a little embarrassed in the situation he faced in this indoor competition.
To break this dilemma, only the men's 400m race that Yechin participated in is now left.
Therefore, this gold medal must not be lost.
Whether it's for yourself, for the team, or for other people who support you, you need to give it your all.
Raising his head, he looked at the veteran of Grenada, Erin Franchick, who was born in 76 and is already 30 years old this year, and is already a thorough veteran in professional athletics.
But in the 400m event, if there is reasonable training and physical maintenance at this age, it is still not to be underestimated. Michael Johnson was 32 years old when he broke the 400m world record.
After Ye Qin learned about the other party's situation from Sun Chaosheng yesterday, he had already paid full attention to it in his heart.
Erin Franchick did not play well at the World Championships in Helsinki last year, but it does not mean that the opponent has no strength, the fourth place in the men's 400m at the 2004 Olympic Games, the result was 44.66 seconds, a little faster than Ye Chin's personal best result in the men's 400m, although there is no guarantee of how the opponent will play in the final, but there is this result here, plus from the preliminaries and semifinals, the opponent's condition seems to be good, then he can't be careless.
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