The 2008 6th IAAF World Athletics Finals lasted for two days, from September 13 to September 14, which is the most important track and field competition of the year, in addition to the Olympic Games.

On the one hand, Ye Qin returned to Europe after the Olympics to participate in the competition, on the one hand, in addition to improving his points and ranking in the event, another important reason is also to adapt to the venue and competition, and welcome the IAAF World Athletics Finals.

This is the first time that Ye Qin has participated in the IAAF World Athletics Finals, and in 2006, due to his lack of personal participation, Ye Qin did not participate in the IAAF World Athletics Finals, but participated in the 10th IAAF World Cup as a representative of the Asian team the following week.

He was very impressed with the IAAF World Athletics Finals, most notably because it was the year of Jason Gaby's rise in the men's 100m.

Switching from the 200m to the men's 100m, Jason Gaby made a spectacular performance that year, becoming the second American leader in the sprint event after Jax Thelin.

Jason Gaby and Asafaville lost in the men's 100m, but Jason Gaby did well in the 200m, becoming the first man in the men's 200m with a time of 19.68 seconds.

Even if Ye Qin won Jason Gaby that year and had a gold medal in the 05 World Championships, he was still slightly inferior to the other party in terms of personal best results and the degree of optimism from the outside world.

Jason Gaby's strong rise made it even more difficult for Asafarville to try to face Jason Gaby in the men's 100m event at the IAAF World Cup a week later in order to ensure his undefeated record in the 100m throughout the year.

Returning to Stuttgart this time, Ye Qin is no longer a spectator, but the title of the world's No. 1 sprinter, and almost from before the race, the local media and many international media have been full of anticipation for Ye Qin in this IAAF World Athletics Finals.

The famous American track and field magazine "Athletics News" once made a special introduction to Yechin after the Olympic Games, and after the Olympics, after the Lausanne Super Grand Prix, the Brussels Golden League and the Letti Grand Prix, Yechin was once again on the cover.

The cover of the magazine has a paragraph that says: "...... He broke the world's definition of race monopoly in the project, and his speed has become the most brilliant term for the sprint event of this era, and no one has ever been able to completely monopolize the sprint event like him...... He's running, and the strongest opponents of his time are making a series of athletics storms on the planet, and maybe this will be the best era for us to sprint......"

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September 13, Stuttgart, Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

The stadium, which has always been sponsored by the Daimler Group, was previously named after its founder, Gottlieb Daimler, but since 2008 it has been renamed Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

In the stadium of more than 50,000 people, many spectators entered the tense waiting part from the moment they entered the stadium at noon.

Especially in the men's sprint event, this time the IAAF World Athletics Finals men's 100m, 200m and 400m events, Ye Qin will participate in the competition.

For many track and field enthusiasts who have already watched the Yenching Olympics and last year's World Championships in Osaka, this will be a great opportunity to see up close what Michael Johnson has become the new world sprint king, who has already surpassed Carl Lewis.

In the stands, two female spectators with blond hair and long legs, holding aloft boards of Ye Qin's photo, were standing in the front row of the audience and beating wildly.

Every time he swayed the KT board in his hand, his bumpy figure attracted the attention of many male viewers around him.

In China, most of the people who like sports, especially sprinting, are still male. In the past few years, after the frenzy set off by Ye Qin in one competition after another, a large number of female fans began to pay attention to track and field. Much of it was through the subtle craze of the media, from chasing Yechin personally, and then turning to sports, athletics and sprinting.

In contrast, in the West and Europe, the popularity of sports stars is very high, and many women are not weaker than men in understanding sports, and a large part of them know athletes from the sports, so they gradually appreciate more and more, and then turn into personal fans.

This is the case with these two female spectators, both of whom are well-known models in Germany, who made a special trip from Berlin to Stuttgart to see Yechin in athletics up close.

In competitive sports, it is arguably the most able to blur skin color and nationality, whether black, white or yellow, and ultimately your performance on the field determines your status.

People will only see your grades, not your skin color.

Of course, athletes of the same color in their home country and with the same color are naturally more likely to be the focus of attention if they achieve excellent results.

"I really can't believe it!"

In the stands, Zhuang Wei looked at many KT boards with Ye Qin's name and photos in the audience, and even some foreigners even picked up a small five-star red flag, with a shocked expression on his face.

He has been working with Ye Qin for a long time, but Ye Qin has not been able to make such a sensation even if he has competed in various countries before. At that time, the largest number of supporters of Ye Qin were local Chinese and international students, although there were also some foreign audiences who paid attention to Ye Qin, but they had never reached such a height.

At that time, Ye Qin was just one of many top athletes, with good grades and great talent, which made people recognize Ye Qin as a person.

But now, it's completely different from before.

"That's the effect of the Olympics."

Yuan Guohua had a bright smile on his face, stretched out his hand and gently patted Zhuang Wei's broad shoulder, and an indescribable sense of pride surged in his heart.

He hadn't arrived at the Lausanne Super Grand Prix yet, and I don't know what the situation was, but when he arrived in Brussels, he had already seen the first glimpse of the Golden League, and when he was in Rieti, Yechin had already received a grand cheer from the local Italian audience.

And now that it's time for the IAAF World Athletics Finals, that kind of scene has become like a domestic scene for him, as if the audience is just coming for Ye Qin.

This is the effect of the Yanjing Olympics began to gradually occur, the whole world's track and field fans really saw Ye Qin crowned the world flyer through the Olympic Games, coupled with the waves set off by Ye Qin in the European machine competition after the Olympic Games, so that the entire international track and field, at least in the sprint event, the popularity has not decreased, but continues to rise.

Ye Qin is the most important sports business card for the international community after Da Yao and Liu Yangyu. And this business card was originally in China, in Asia.

But after the Olympics, Yuan Guohua learned from some sources that the IAAF is now in a state of great concern about Ye Qin, because Ye Qin is driving the influence of track and field sprinting in world sports.

This is the second time that track and field has attracted attention and pursuit since the 2006 Balk Lab scandal led to the decline of athletics' international influence.

One wants to see if the sprinter from the East can consistently dominate the men's 100m, 200m and 400m, and what kind of sparks the likes of Asafaville, Yousse Bot and Jason Gaby and Jimmy Warner can spark against Yechin.

Zhang Peimeng and Su Bingtian looked at the boiling arena, and their hearts couldn't calm down for a long time.

Ye Qin has not yet appeared, and the whole arena has become so excited and excited around Ye Qin, this is undoubtedly the highest praise that an athlete can get, even more than a gold medal in a sense.

They and Ye Qin have known each other for a long time, especially Zhang Peimeng has also participated in some competitions with Ye Qin since 05, and it goes without saying much in China, Ye Qin was already very hot at that time, but it is far from the crazy atmosphere in the world like now.

But now, they watched several major competitions that Ye Qin participated in, and the whole of Europe seemed to be fascinated by the track and field events that Ye Qin was going to participate in.

The impact of this stimulation and motivation on an athlete who is also growing is immeasurable.

"That's how a husband should be!"

Zhang Peimeng's mind sounded a passage in his mind about the emotion of Han Gaozu when he saw Qin Shi Huang's car, he could replace him with this kind of words, but the feeling of being like this set off a monstrous wave in his heart.

Su Bingtian was a little excited, his growth background was closer to Ye Qin, he had always been under pressure and motivation, and in such an atmosphere, he would also have strong feelings of envy and self-encouragement in his heart.

"This is the accumulated influence, and it is also the influence of the Olympics that has completely promoted Yechin to the world." Yuan Guohua keenly noticed the emotions of the two young athletes he brought to Europe, and said lightly to the two with a smile.

This is the original intention of taking the two of them abroad after the Olympics, just to let them really feel the environment of the European track and field world, of course, it is also beyond his expectation that there is such a warm atmosphere.

Just when several people were in a little agitated, the atmosphere in the entire Mercedes-Benz stadium suddenly became more enthusiastic.

Hula applause, cheers, whistles sounded, and eight runners participating in the final appeared on the field before the men's 400-meter starting line on the track.

At the same time, on the big screen at the scene, the list of men's 400m races was also played, and it is still the most luxurious lineup of the current men's 400m event:

1st Course, Ganga-Gaba, Germany;

second, Gary-Kikaya, Congo;

third lane, Chris Brown, Bahamas;

Fourth Way, Jimmy Warner, USA;

Fifth Dao, Yechin, China;

Sixth Way, Sean Merritt, USA;

Seventh Lane, Angelo Taylor, USA;

Eighth Way, Martin Rooney, UK;

Standing on the fifth track, Ye Qin first waved to the boiling spectators around him, and after a burst of excited cheers, he refocused on the track and field.

In fact, he himself did not expect that after the Olympics, his popularity in Europe would climb to this point, maybe not only in Europe, but also in the world.

In the first few games, he already felt a little bit about it, but it was Germany that really made him feel the most enthusiastic crowd.

Like many Chinese, his impression of Germans is still rigorous and rigid, and he did not expect that they would be so fanatical in the sports arena.

This is a crazy move that Ye Chin did not know that German fans were capable of, not to mention all kinds of unbelievable actions that fans have done, and the German official committee called the Committee for the Study of the Causes of Fanatical Behavior and Defensive Measures can probably understand that this kind of imposing impression is untenable.

Athletics and sprinting are not as hot as football, but at this time, the Olympics have just ended, and Ye Qin's performance in three world-class competitions from the '05 World Championships to the '07 World Championships, and then to this year's Yenching Olympics, and the amazing performance of the Olympics in Europe is enough to make him comparable to any sports star at this time.

At 15:25 in the afternoon, as the game time approached little by little, the boiling atmosphere of the whole stadium gradually calmed down.

By the time the contestants were seated, there was no more noise in the arena, at least whispering and some buzzing noises.

Ye Qin leaned over and stepped on the runner, eliminating all distractions, and quietly waiting for the gunfire to come.

This time, at the IAAF World Athletics Finals, Ye Qin will compete in three events during the two-day competition.

The first day was the men's 400m and men's 100m at 15:25 and 17:15 respectively, and the second day was the men's 200m.

The interval between the men's 400m and men's 100m races is not long, only about an hour, but the finals are only a one-shot victory, and there is no preliminaries.

After a gunshot, the eight runners in front of the starting line rushed out of the starting line at high speed.

This men's 400-meter race is also a duel between three peak 400-meter athletes. Yechin, Jimmy Warner and Sean Merritt, although the 400m event is nowhere near the men's 100m in terms of attention, but all three are top sprinters, and their ability to appear in one race is already the biggest surprise of this finals.

Jimmy Warner has almost completely monopolized the men's 400m event since '04 and has become the veritable number one in the world in the 400m.

But after Jimmy Warner's change of coach in 2008, his results were not as good as he could have been, first losing to Sean Merritt at the National Olympic Trials, and then to Yechin and Merritt at the Olympics, for whom the IAAF World Athletics Finals at the end of the year was the most important third race, and if he lost again, it would have almost declared the collapse of his dominance in the men's 400m.

Sean Merritt is completely eyeing Yechin as an opponent and a target, and this year's Jimmy Warner knows that the opponent is not in great form, and he has clearly spotted this at the Olympic trials and running the 4×400m relay.

And now if he wants to become the first person in the 400m, the opponent he needs to beat the most is Ye Chin.

From the beginning of the game, on four, five, six and three passes, Ye Chin, Sean Merritt and Jimmy Warner started the pinnacle duel.

Ye Qin's start was good, and the acceleration was also very fast, and the enthusiasm given to him by the audience in this game, although it was not as enthusiastic as the Bird's Nest Stadium, was enough to make his blood boil and devote himself to the game.

And he now gradually feels that the reason why Asafavir has always been able to refresh his results in these competitions is that when an athlete comes to a lower level after carrying too much competition pressure, the psychological pressure seems to be completely cathartic, and he can feel the enthusiasm of the audience to mobilize his emotions, but not the strong pressure that is breathless.

This feeling made the whole race easy for him, and he could let go of the run instead of worrying about the final result.

Ye Qin did not have the certainty of winning this match against Jimmy Warner and Sean Merritt, although he wanted to be in this mentality all the time when he went to the court, but mature athletes are probably able to calmly analyze their own problems.

His focus is now on the men's 100m and men's 200m, the men's 400m has been practiced very little, and the Bird's Nest Stadium was able to break the world record, which was a complete accident. The day's form was really good, and the loss in the first 200m made it his best ever run in the 400m semi-finals. And when it came to winning Sean Merritt in the final later, he almost tried his best, and he couldn't stand up after running.

In this 400-meter race, what Ye Qin wants is to let go and run, don't think too much, he will have a men's 100-meter race an hour later. Yousse Bot didn't participate, but Asafavil is still there and he can't relax too much if he wants to win the title.

The cheers and applause of the crowd grew louder and louder, and Yechin ran relaxedly, and at first he didn't feel much about how good Shaun Merritt and Jimmy Warner were in sixth lane.

But after running 200 meters, Ye Qin gradually found that he had begun to approach Sean Merritt in lane six, and suddenly woke up a little.

By the time we entered the second corner between the 200m and 300m sections, it became clearer and clearer as Shaun Merritt was overtaken by him around 250m and Jimmy Warner was unable to catch up.

After competing in the Olympics and other competitions, it was clear that the 400m race was not in great shape.

Corners into straights!

After Yechin took the lead into the straight, he already felt himself running to the first position, with Sean Merritt and Jimmy Warner both behind him.

This is the final championship contest!

The highlight of the 400m race is often the straight, and many runners experience severe speed drops and fatigue when they run here.

Ye Qin felt that he didn't run particularly hard, so he still made appropriate reservations, originally thinking that maybe the two of them might break out in the second half of the race, and he would also follow for the final sprint.

But slowly the finish line is getting closer and closer, Sean Merritt and Jimmy Warner never followed, and Ye Qin rushed directly to the finish line in one go.

On the on-site timing board, this group of men's 400-meter results appeared in front of everyone!

44.31 seconds!

This is Ye Chin's final victory!

Sean Merritt and Jimmy Warner, who had high hopes from many spectators, finally crossed the finish line almost at the same time, with a time of 44.50 seconds and 44.51 seconds respectively.

The entire Mercedes-Stadium was instantly plunged into a frenzied atmosphere.

Although the final result was not particularly good, Ye Qin still won the championship under the attack of the two top 400m runners, which was enough to make his supporters excited!

Moreover, this is the first race, and many people are still waiting for Yechin's 100 meters!

In the face of Asafavil's challenge, can Yechin continue his unbeaten run in the men's 100m this year, and what kind of results can he ultimately run? When will Ye Qin be able to run 9.60 seconds again?

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