Chapter 568: Before the 400-meter final

"Three world records in individual men's sprinting, Ye Qin has achieved unprecedented results!"

"From Helsinki to Berlin, Yechin won the men's 200m triple crown at the World Championships!"

"The legend is unfolding, Ye Chin, my speed knows no bounds!"

"The king of omnibious speed performs a miracle of human speed in Berlin!"

"9.55 seconds, 19.15 seconds, there's never a limit to speed!"

"Ye Qin, the world's No. 1 flyer deserves his name!"

"The heroes retreat, there is no opponent, Ye Qin is crowned the king of the world!"

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Almost immediately after the men's 200m World Championships, for the first time, from Europe to the Americas, from the sea to the land, many media reports around the world, from entertainment and sports, to social and financial reports, all revolved around a name.

The two world record results draped in red flags and standing on electronic timing boards have made headlines on almost every newspaper network.

Fresh reports are all about the first young athlete in the history of human athletics to win three world records in the men's sprint event.

The video of the men's 200m final of the Berlin World Championships and the previous men's 100m video were played back and forth on TV, and there was a sprint race about Ye Qin, from the earliest World Junior Championships, to the later World Youth Championships and World Championships, the number of hits is rising rapidly every moment.

Countless people who were not interested in track and field before, or who didn't know much about Ye Qin, have once again learned about his past through various channels under various reports and publicity.

Some people are amazed, incredulous, and pinnacle when they see him running step by step with such amazing results......

But all the growth records are placed in front of everyone's eyes little by little, clear and high, and in the interviews of some reporters, many people have seen the growth of this world's top athlete.

At the same time, after these few days, both Ye Chin's economic team and the field management center received snowflakes of interviews and endorsement invitations at the same time again.

This happened when Ye Qin won the double gold medal at the World Championships in Osaka in '07, when Ye Qin broke the men's 100m and 400m world records at the Olympics, and this year it surpassed the previous two times.

With his achievements, Ye Chin's commercial value has continued to rise, and has attracted more and more of the favor of top international brands.

His agent, Max Eschenbad, had dreamed of one day pushing Yechin into the top 10 of the world's athlete earnings rankings, and now it was all beckoning him, and the end result was even smoother than he had expected.

IAAF President Ranmini Diack has repeatedly made public announcements that track and field events can once again attract the world's attention, and Yechin has played a very significant role.

Moreover, because of the emergence of Yechin, it has greatly promoted the development of track and field in Asia, especially in China. It was the emergence of Yechin that allowed international athletics to quickly get out of the Balk Lab scandal and focus the world's attention on this young athlete from the East.

It's August 21, the seventh day of the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Championships.

When Ye Qin broke the men's 200-meter world record and personally swept the men's 100, 200 and 400-meter world records, a new day began again in the Berlin Chinese track and field team.

At 10 a.m., a training ground at the track and field team's station.

In the anticipation of many reporters, Ye Qin and several athletes from other relay teams quietly appeared on the field.

Ye Qin wore a new national team jersey, rested and adjusted all night, his face had already faded from the excitement of winning the championship and breaking the world record last night, and instead devoted his whole body and mind to the simple stretching and warm-up exercise in the morning.

At 10 p.m. tonight, Ye Qin will face the final of the men's 400m, his last single event at the World Championships.

For outside reporters and many track and field fans, it no longer matters whether Ye Qin can win the championship in the next competition and what kind of results he can run.

But for Ye Qin and everyone in the Chinese track and field team, tonight's men's 400m final is still the top priority.

So far, the Chinese team at this World Championships has won only one gold medal in the men's 20km race walk, a silver medal in the women's 20km race walk, and a bronze medal in the women's shot put, except for Ye Qin's two gold medals in the men's 100m and 200m.

Tonight's men's 400m gold medal is still a very important gold medal for the Chinese team.

Compared with the 05 and 07 World Championships in Osaka, the overall level of the Chinese track and field team is still going high. This is thanks to the performance of Ye Qin and Liu Yangyu. Ye Qin, in particular, has the competitiveness of gold medals in several concurrent events.

However, in the face of the current wave of track and field in China, both the track and field management center and the audience hope to have more outstanding results.

As for Ye Qin, he has already won the gold medals in the men's 100m and 200m, and he hopes to win the last gold medal in the men's 400m.

Now that he has reached the final and has such ability, it is naturally impossible for him to give this gold medal to others.

After a simple warm-up in the track and field arena, Ye Qin did not stay too much, although the spectators and reporters outside the fence on the sidelines did not rush up to disturb directly, but in the face of the growing crowd, he still chose to leave temporarily.

"Jimmy Warner hasn't been in great shape this year, and if you want to win this game, you should still have a good chance!"

Coming out of the track and field, Chen Zhongzhou and Ye Qin chatted about the opponents they faced tonight, among which Jimmy Warner was naturally one of the most important competitors.

"He seems to have been unable to keep up with the decline in his performance at the Yenching Olympics last year."

Yechin has also previously noted Jimmy Warner's 400m results this year, and Jimmy Warner is said to have returned to his former coach Clyde Hart after the Yenching Olympics.

It's just that at the moment, the effect of the training is not satisfactory.

Compared to Jimmy Warner's dominance before 2008, Jimmy Warner's form in the past two years has shown a downward trend.

Chen Zhongzhou nodded slightly, thought about it and said: "2007 should be his peak, on the one hand, it is due to the injury factor, and on the other hand, after he changes the coach, he may not be as tacit as the original coach." ”

Jimmy Warner is not very old, strictly speaking, he is only 25 years old this year, but according to the peak state of track and field athletes, it is actually not much different.

Some people get up early, maybe in their teens or twenties, and then they go downhill very quickly.

Some people get up late and may have just been great in the early and middle stages of their careers, but in the later stages, they may be able to rise to the top and become super-top.

Of course, there is no shortage of people in world athletics who have risen all the way from their debut, and even at the end of their careers, they are still the top players.

Like Michael Johnson, like Carl Lewis, and so on.

This kind of super-class athlete who can have one or two events is naturally not generalizable.

Including the current Ye Qin, in fact, everyone is also a little worried about whether Ye Qin's next state will slide quickly. Ye Qin's achievements now are too amazing, but if he really starts to eat his old book, or if his mentality is relaxed, it will only be a matter of a few years before he falls off the altar.

Fortunately, judging from Ye Chin's attitude towards the men's 400m final, there should not be such a danger.

Chen Zhongzhou also knows that Ye Qin's biggest goal is to become a legendary track and field athlete and make him an unavoidable figure in world track and field history.

"Still can't be careless, Jimmy Warner is not in great shape right now, but maybe he'll break out in tonight's final!"

After listening to Chen Zhongzhou's evaluation of Jimmy Warner, Ye Qin was somewhat clear about the opponent's situation, but he still didn't dare to relax.

When a top athlete competes in a competition, especially when there is a championship contender, they basically put some effort into getting to know each other.

Adjust your game tactics according to the opponent's state and momentum.

Sprinting seems to be just boring running, but when the runners reach a certain level, psychological games are also a very important part of each other.

"It's possible." Chen Zhongzhou was very satisfied with Ye Qin's attitude, and he expected the enemy to be lenient and would not completely ignore the strength of the opponent because of his own ability, but he mentioned another person, "Merritt should be in better shape than Jimmy Warner this year." In fact, since last year's Olympic trials, Merritt's results have been better than Jimmy Warner's, and before the previous World Championships, Merritt's declared war on you in the media to beat you at this World Championships. ”

"Merritt, ......"

Ye Qin nodded lightly, "His condition is indeed good." ”

He and Merritt came to prominence at the IAAF around the same time. In the men's 400m at the 2004 World Junior Championships, Merritt won the championship with a time of 45.25 seconds, and Merritt had an almost overwhelming advantage over Yechin in the 400m event at that time.

However, the situation here is actually very simple, compared to the growth and development of black people, as well as various training and competition experience, Ye Qin was still a little immature in 04.

It's just a pity that although Merritt had an excellent result, he didn't win the All-American Trials that year and missed the Olympics.

Ye Qin, on the other hand, became the first athlete in China to meet the participation standards in both the men's 200 meters and 400 meters, and was fortunate to participate in the Athens Olympics.

For Yechin, the experience of that Olympic Games was an opportunity for him to really rise in the international athletics arena.

Although the men's 400m was not very good, he was eliminated in the preliminaries, but in the men's 200m event, he finally reached the final.

After the training of that Olympic Games, Ye Qin has a clear understanding of the level of the world's top sprinters, and has a goal to surpass.

At that time, Ye Qin was still very vague about these feelings, and he was full of regret in many aspects. But in retrospect, without the training of this Olympic Games, he would not have been able to play superordinarily in the '05 World Championships in Helsinki, facing the likes of Jax Turling and John Capel, and finally achieved his first world championship.

What a person can achieve is closely related to every step he can take.

It was also later that he became more and more grateful to Nie Fangping, it was the other party who pulled him directly from the small domestic competition to the international arena, which was beyond imagination for his training.

Otherwise, with his talent, he may still be able to run, but it will definitely not be so smooth, and it is impossible to be in such a good state and achieve today's results.

Merritt won the All-American World Championships this year, and has been at the top of the men's 400m rankings in all Grand Prix and Golden League.

Ye Qin has run very few men's 400m this year, and his ranking in this event is far inferior to that of his opponent. But there is no way to do it, although he has multiple events, but when it comes to participating in competitions, he can only focus on one or two events.

Otherwise, it is not realistic to participate in multiple events in various regional events and challenge events of the IAAF to improve their rankings from a physical point of view.

He can feel that his participation in the World Championships this time, although he is better than the previous two World Championships in terms of technical fitness and other aspects, the fatigue and pressure brought to him have not diminished in the slightest.

One of the biggest problems is that the level of challengers is improving, and the men's 100m and 200m finals with Euse Bot and Jason Gaby can be said to be under a lot of pressure in both races, and they are completely full of running at all.

"At the next World Championships or Olympics, I'm afraid I won't be able to compete in the men's 400m anymore!"

Thinking that after this World Championships, there are still two relays, Ye Qin has a relatively clear understanding of himself in his heart.

This is actually Zhuang Wei's suggestion before, he is young now and his health is good enough, but if he wants to prolong his sports life, he still needs to reduce one or two items in the future.

Whether it is training or competition, the 400m has always been the highest in terms of personal fitness and requirements among many sprint events, and participating in a 400m race is much more expensive than running two 200m races.

Now Ye Qin is not particularly confident about his performance in the men's 400m.

As he progresses in the 100m and 200m, he feels like he's going to have to run under 44 seconds again unless he gets back to last year's blast.

But those opportunities are hard to come by, and as you get older, there are some choices that you have to make naturally.

If that's the case, I should take advantage of the men's 400m final tonight.

Ye Qin has now won the men's 100m and 200m at the World Championships and the Olympics, while the 400m has only won once at last year's Olympics.

If the 400m event is inevitably cut back in the future, then this year's World Championships may be the best time for him.