On May 4, the athletics field of the General Administration of Training.

It was only nine o'clock in the morning, and the inside and outside of the training ground were already lively. Several sports venues of the General Training Administration are full of scenes of athletes training.

With the pace of the Olympic Games quietly approaching, more and more athletes have been actively preparing for the competition, not only track and field events, but also many other sports under the General Administration of Sports, all of which have entered a state of winding up and ready to meet the big game.

This Olympic Games started from the successful bid for the Olympic Games in 01, almost the whole country invested in building the best sports competition stage, and now the stage is about to be built, it is time for them athletes to show the spirit and level of Chinese sports competition.

The sound of fast footsteps flew across the track, and the figures of one athlete after another sweated like rain, competing with each other fiercely and cooperating with each other, all showing 100% focus and hard work.

"Ready! Run! ”

A command sounded in one of the athletics fields of the General Training Bureau.

Five or six young figures quickly rushed out of the starting line and completed another set of half-lap speed training around the track of the track and field.

Ye Qin stood on the track, crossed his hands on his waist, and slowly walked to the sidelines, where a box of mineral water that their training athletes drank was placed.

I opened a bottle of water, took a small sip, moistened my throat, and looked up at the whole field. In the past two months, except for the occasional day or two of rest and outing, the main athletes of the Chinese men's 4×100m relay team have been training here.

Eat and live together, compete and train together on the men's 100-meter and 200-meter tracks, and at the same time, cooperate with each other in the 4×100-meter relay events to improve the tacit understanding between each other.

After a group of 200-meter speed and endurance training, Yang Yao gasped and sat on the track next to him, facing Ye Qin, who was on the sidelines, sipping mineral water, and said in a hoarse voice: "Give me a bottle too." ”

"And then."

Ye Qin put down the mineral water in his hand, first threw a bottle to Yang Yao, and then threw a bottle each to Zhang Peimeng, Su Bingtian, and Gu Kai.

"Cool!"

Yang Yao took a sip of water in his mouth, moistened his smoking throat, put down the mineral water bottle, and let out a long breath of turbidity.

In the past, if he had trained to this point, he might have really poured half a bottle of water into it, which would naturally be damaging to his body, but he hadn't particularly cared about it before, but in the past two years, he has trained with Ye Qin a lot, and these small details have been affected unconsciously.

And among these athletes who train together, Yang Yao thinks that Zhang Peimeng and Su Bingtian may be able to run until they are in their thirties in the future, and the two are obviously better than him in terms of training habits.

"I really don't know what kind of results we can run in this year's Olympics?"

After drinking a sip of water, Yang Yao slowly put down the mineral water bottle in his hand, looked at Ye Qin, Gu Kai, Zhang Peimeng, and Su Bingtian, and said with emotion.

"It's not going to be worse than the World Championships." Zhang Pei Meng sat paralyzed on the runway, heard Yang Yao's emotion, and replied by shaking the sweat stains on his head.

"Then we'll have to work harder." Yang Yao took a light breath and sat up slightly straighter, "I heard that the Japanese relay team is also focusing on the relay event now, and the players of their current relay team, except for Ye Qin, the strength of others is higher than ours. ”

The current lineup of the Japanese relay team is Shimogo Suesue, Nobuji Asahara, Shinshi Takahira and Naoki Tsukahara, compared with the Chinese relay team, only the fourth strength of Ye Qin is far behind, and the strength of the other batters is slightly stronger than the Chinese team.

Japan is one of China's main opponents, along with teams such as Great Britain, France, Nigeria and Trinidad and Tobago. As for the United States team and the Jamaican team, at present, these two teams are more than one notch.

Of course, this refers to strength. In fact, there are many other factors in the 4×100m relay, and the U.S. team has had several mistakes and was overturned.

Therefore, everyone in the relay team has not dared to relax in training, last year's World Championships has been unusually fourth, only one step away from the medal, this year the relay team up and down, in order to be able to win a medal.

It's a realistic goal, but even if it's possible, it's fraught with challenges.

"The Japanese team is still very strong, and many of them should have reached the standard in the individual event they participated in this time."

Hearing Yang Yao talk about the situation of the relay team, Ye Qin put down the mineral water in his hand, sat on the track with everyone, and asked Yang Yao: "By the way, Brother Yang, what are your recent 100-meter and 200-meter results?" ”

Recently, they have been training together, but the results of the men's 100m and 200m have not been seriously tested in the team, and Ye Qin is not particularly clear about Yang Yao's results for a while.

"The 100m should be 10.20 seconds." Yang Yao pondered a little and replied, "As for 200 meters, it's about 20 seconds and 60 seconds, I can't say it myself." ”

At the 2004 Athens Olympics, he reached the 200-meter standard, ran the second shot in the semi-finals in the 200-meter event, and although Ye Qin ran into the final, his run in the second round is not particularly eye-catching, but it is a remarkable achievement for a Chinese athlete.

In this year's Yenching Olympics, Yang Yao has not yet qualified for the Olympic Games, and when he talks about his achievements, he is also a little unconfident.

He is actually secretly anxious, but at present, the domestic competition has not yet started, and he has no choice but to hold back this momentum and devote more to training.

"Senior brother, what about you?" Ye Qin fell on Gu Kai on the side again, and then looked at Zhang Pei Meng and Su Bingtian, "And Pei Meng and Bingtian, what is your estimate of your results now?"

"I guess if you bring it, if you are in good shape, the 100 meters can reach 10 seconds 25, and the 200 meters may not be now." Gu Kai took the eyes off the bridge of his nose, wiped them casually with his clothes, and replied in a low voice.

As the best sprinter in China who was once second only to Yang Yao, his progress in recent years has not been particularly great, especially compared to Ye Qin, almost no different from standing still.

He is interested in athletics, but he is not an athlete in a professional team, and he did not fall behind much in his courses at Mizuki University, so he is likely to stay on as a teacher in the future.

"I'm about the same as Gu Kai in the 100 meters, 10.25 to 10.23 seconds."

"10.3 seconds is probably a little bit close, but the second half is still a little bit slow."

After Gu Kai finished speaking, Zhang Peimeng and Su Bingtian then spoke about their achievements.

We are all athletes, for what kind of results they can run, in fact, they basically have a number in their hearts, usually training, although they do not use electronic watches to accurately test, but there is still a stopwatch timer, and they can probably understand what level they are at.

"You should be more than that." Ye Qin was slightly surprised when he heard Su Bingtian talk about his results, "Aren't you already able to run about 6.5 seconds in 60 meters this year?" ”

"Hmm." Su Bingtian scratched his head and said a little embarrassed, "I ran in February, mainly because I couldn't keep up in the second half, and the front was okay." ”

In this year's National Indoor Track and Field Championships, Su Bingtian set a new personal high in the 60-meter event, and has run into 6.65 seconds. Originally, there was a faster Wen Yongyi in the 60 meters, but since last year's World Championships, he has been in poor form, and this year there was a strain, and there was less training with the relay team.

"You estimate that you will be able to catch up with me in 60 meters in two years, you have a fast cadence, and you will not be worse than other top competitors in 60 meters." Ye Qin said with a smile.

"Huh?" Su Bingtian was obviously a little surprised, "No, 6.42 seconds, this is the top three results in history, I don't dare to think about it." ”

"It's really okay, you lift the core strength, 60 meters, it's still a small player who has an advantage." Ye Qin thought about it and said seriously, he was not lying, he had gradually gained a different understanding of many things in the past few years of training.

It is not impossible for him to run more than 6.42 seconds in the 60m event, and it may be possible to run less than 6.40 seconds. But there is a premise in this, which is that it has to be in the 100m event.

The 60-meter race distance is short, and many times the performance is still limited, but if you run 100 meters, you may let go and run, but you can run more than your own time.

This is determined by the height and size of the athletes, and unless you continue to work hard to perfect the various details of the 60 meters, there is still a certain degree of difficulty.

On the contrary, a height and body type like Su Bingtian will definitely have enough advantages at 60 meters.

Thinking of this, Ye Qin no longer continued to say 60 meters, but reminded Su Bingtian: "You mainly need to strengthen the second half of the race, and when you start, don't look up too fast, add the speed step by step, and leave the strength for the middle and second half of the race, so that the speed is completely up." ”

It stands to reason that Su Bingtian's performance in 60 meters should be faster in 100 meters, but his second half is still in a weak point now, and he can't keep his speed all the time, so the speed drops very much after 60 meters.

"I'll step it up." Su Bingtian smiled shyly, as if he was a little embarrassed.

Seeing his look, everyone else couldn't help laughing, Su Bingtian was the youngest, and everyone in the team basically took care of him.

"Don't worry, there's still a long way to go, mainly to say that let's see how many people can achieve the individual event before the Olympics." Ye Qin didn't say anything more, the road of athletes has to go out by themselves.

Su Bingtian's current results, if he wants to run into the Olympics before the Olympics, it should be impossible to hope. However, he is the youngest of all the people, and the goal can be set in four years and eight years.

Among the other people, Yang Yao and Gu Kai, as well as Zhang Peimeng, are all hoping to qualify for the A standard in the Olympic Games.

In fact, everyone also understands the intention of Ye Qinfang to ask these words, which is to see how many people can meet the participation standards before the Olympic Games.

At the 2008 Olympic Games, the men's 100m was marked with a standard of 10.21 seconds and a standard of 10.28 seconds, the men's 200m was marked with a standard of 20.59 seconds and a standard of 20.75 seconds for the men's 200m, and the men's 400m was marked with a standard of 45.55 seconds and a standard of 45.95 seconds.

According to the rules of the Olympic Games, there can be three athletes from a country who have reached the A standard, and if the country does not have an athlete who can meet the A standard, then the country's athletes will also have a quota place after reaching the B standard.

Because Ye Qin has reached the qualification of standard A in the men's 100m, 200m and 400m events, so standard B naturally does not need to be looked at, and other athletes who want to participate in the Olympics can only focus on standard A.

This is also one of the reasons why several people, including Yang Yao, Wen Yongyi and Gu Kai, were not able to participate in the individual event at the World Championships in Osaka last year, and their best results were able to reach the B standard, but they are still far from the A standard.

Among the people present, Yang Yao is the most promising to run into the A standard in this year's Olympic Games, and last year in a small competition, Yang Yao has already run out of the A standard. However, at that time, the level of competition was low, and it could only be used as a reference result, and could not be regarded as a qualification.

Yang Yao was able to run above and below the A standard in the 100m and 200m events, and what is lacking now is only a heavyweight race.

As for Gu Kai, his personal best time is 10.27 seconds, and after joining the relay team to train together, his strength has obviously improved, but it is a bit difficult to meet the A standard standard for competition.

On the contrary, it is Zhang Peimeng, Zhang Peimeng has made significant progress in the 100m and 200m events in the past two years, just like Yang Yao in previous years. In several games in the team, Zhang Peimeng's handwriting time reached about 10 seconds, which is a very good chance to run into the A standard.

"Time is tight." Ye Qin sat on the track and learned about everyone's respective results before he continued, "I will go to Osaka to participate in the Grand Prix in a few days, and then when I return to China, we will participate in the "Good Luck Yanjing" track and field open together, and then I will press you to see if you can bring up the results." ”

"Okay." Yang Yao and the others all nodded at the same time.

In the past two years, the sprint events of the track and field team, stimulated by Ye Qin, have improved everyone's performance a lot, and they are naturally full of eager hope to participate in the Olympic Games held at their own doorstep.

It can be said that a Chinese athlete, especially a sprinter, can be called a victory when he can step on the field of competition. The difficulty here is by no means comparable to other projects.

At the same time, everyone also understands Ye Qin's intention to participate in the track and field open. If you want to run well in the field, in addition to your own state and the atmosphere of the scene, the stimulation of a strong opponent is naturally very effective.

Moreover, as the time approaches, in addition to the "Good Luck Yanjing" Track and Field Open Championships from May 22 to 25, the only competition that can be suitable for running to meet the standard results in China is to wait for the National Track and Field Championships and Olympic Qualifying Trials at the end of June.

By that time, the time was very close to the Olympics, and there was no guarantee that they would actually be able to make a difference in the trials.

Ye Qin was able to participate in the Olympic Games four years ago, and it was also at the World Junior Championships in Athletics that he seized the opportunity at the last minute, running the 200m and 400m in succession to qualify.

Among the people present, the one who can qualify for the World Youth Championships this year is Su Bingtian.

This year's World Junior Championships in Athletics is in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and in Ye Qin's view, Su Bingtian is likely to win the championship in this year's World Youth Championships, but it may be a bit reluctant to qualify for the Olympic Games.

"You're all here, I just happened to have something to tell you."

While everyone was discussing the achievement of this year's Olympic Games, the head coach Yuan Guohua hurriedly walked over, first glanced at everyone, and then looked at Ye Qin and said, "I just received news from Jamaica that your old acquaintance, Yusse Bote, ran a time of 9.76 seconds in the 100 meters!" ”