"You...... You are...... Yechin? ”

Standing in front of Ye Qin was a brown-skinned black girl, not very good-looking, wearing a British national team uniform, looking at Ye Qin with big eyes.

Ye Qin pressed the baseball cap on his head, and was a little helpless to be recognized, so he had to spread his hands and nodded with a smile and replied, "Yes, it's me." Who are you? ”

"It's really you Ye Chin!" The black girl was very excited and excited, and then quickly introduced herself in British English: "Judy, my name is Judy Williams, and my God, I can't believe I saw you in the audience at Bressennon." My fan, I've seen pretty much all of your games, well, the ones I could find. It's a pity I didn't get to see yesterday's game in the Rome Golden League, I also had a game here yesterday and I heard that you ran 9.66 seconds and won against Jason Gaby and Asafavir, you are really strong! You are the only athlete in the world who has twice run 9.70 seconds......

I've watched your footage of the World Championships and Olympics in Osaka many times over and over again, and you're really strong! It doesn't feel like there's going to be anyone on the planet who can run faster than you. It's a pity that you rarely travel to the UK to compete, otherwise I would have been there to cheer you on......"

The black girl seemed to be very emotional, Ye Qin just casually asked what the other party was called, but the girl crackled and said a lot, almost completely unable to stop.

Ye Qin listened patiently at first, and waited until the black girl's words paused slightly, then pointed to the team uniform on the other party's body, and then pointed to the track and field outside and asked, "Judy, Judy Williams is right, it's nice to meet you." Are you a member of the British team at the World Junior Championships? ”

"Yes!"

The black girl nodded heavily, "I'm a sprinter like you, I'm a runner in the women's 100m and 200m. ”

"Then our project is the same." Ye Qin smiled, he had met many people in Europe who liked him, and of course there were some who didn't like it. However, relatively speaking, there were more cheers and applause for him.

"Judy won the women's 100m yesterday and will compete in the women's 200m tomorrow."

At this moment, a girl who was also wearing a British team uniform came out of nowhere.

"Wow, congratulations!"

Ye Qin was a little surprised, but he didn't expect that the black girl standing in front of him was still the champion of the women's 100m at this World Junior Championships, and continued with a smile, "I'm sorry, I was in Rome yesterday and I couldn't see your competition live. If it's tomorrow's women's 200m, I'll be here. ”

"Great! Thank you, Yechin! The girl picked up happily and shouted Ye Qin's name in an unequal accent, "I will win another women's 200-meter championship, please cheer for me then." ”

"Of course."

Ye Qin smiled and nodded, tomorrow is the last day of the World Junior Championships, and he has already determined that he will watch the 200-meter final of the teenager named Xie Zheng in the Chinese team, and the women's 200-meter should be a few games before the men's 200-meter, and he will not miss it.

In fact, when he met fans who liked him, Ye Qin was also very happy in his heart. Especially when the other party is an athlete, which is different from the teenagers and girls in the Chinese delegation, Ye Qin's influence on them is very direct, and will be set as a goal by coaches and parents to let them learn and surpass.

And the fact that a female sprinter in Europe would have such an enthusiastic performance is completely representative of the influence that he is slowly showing in the international athletics world.

"Thank you, thank you, Ye Chin!" Seeing that Ye Qin was about to leave the arena, as she was leaving, the girl thanked Ye Qin again, "I will learn from you and become the best female sprinter on the planet." Yes, the best one! ”

"Come on!" Ye Qin smiled and encouraged faintly.

After saying goodbye to the black girl, Ye Qin followed Chen Zhongzhou back to the hotel.

At night.

Ye Qin casually talked to Chen Zhongzhou about meeting the black girl during the day, and Chen Zhongzhou quickly checked through the IAAF's official website and found information about the young female sprinter of the British track and field team named Judy Williams.

"Yechin, this Judy Williams, despite her young age, is definitely amazingly talented in the women's sprint event."

"Really?"

Ye Qin, who was sitting on the sofa in the hotel, was a little interested when he heard Chen Zhongzhou say this, "Her grades are very good." ”

"It's not just good." Chen Zhongzhou shook his head with a smile, "In yesterday's women's 100m event, she won the World Junior Championships with a time of 11.39 seconds, and broke the age record. ”

"11.39 seconds? That's a pretty good result, isn't it? ”

Ye Qin was also slightly taken aback when he heard this result, he didn't know much about the women's 100-meter sprint, but it was all a sprint event, and he still knew something about it.

A time of 11.50 seconds is a great time. In the Asian Games and National Games, it is possible to compete for the top three or even the championship.

"It's more than that." Chen then pointed to the computer screen and continued, "Judy Williams, since 2005, she has held a four-year unbeaten record of more than 100 games. In the women's 100m event alone, she has won all of them since '07. ”

"No wonder today I am so confident that I want to be the best female sprinter."

Hearing this, Ye Qin laughed, he was able to win almost all the 100-meter and 200-meter events for more than four years from the beginning of 05 to now, even if the competition level is relatively low, but this is not easy.

And with the improvement of the athletes' performance, the level of the competition must be gradually improved, and to be able to have such a performance, it can already be regarded as a seeded player in the British sprint event.

"It seems that this year's World Junior Championships has improved compared to the level of the previous players!"

"That's for sure." Chen Zhongzhou nodded, "With the development and improvement of the scientific level, the overall level of the players is moving forward in all aspects of training and nutrition.

In other words, if you were to be thrown a hundred years ago, you probably wouldn't be much better off than Jesse Owens. If it had been thrown twenty years ago, well, it would have been possible to win Carl Lewis......"

Hearing this, Ye Qin couldn't help laughing.

What Chen Zhongzhou said is actually right in all aspects, for the sprint event, the pursuit is faster!

This is an achievement that has been gradually achieved by generations through the development of human potential and various training methods. Every person who was able to reach the peak of his time was already the best under the conditions of the time.

It cannot be simply said that modern people are necessarily better than previous people, these are all developed and established step by step.

By analogy, it can be regarded as IQ. The IQ of people in this era is not necessarily higher than that of the ancients, but at the level of insight and knowledge, it will develop with the times, the mastery and accumulation of knowledge, and the generational difference of information are completely different.

For example, the development of Chinese track and field, especially sprinting, on the one hand, is due to the improvement of national strength, and the overall quality of the new generation of young people has improved. The other is the popularization of scientific training methods.

From primary and secondary schools, to sports schools to professional teams, better training methods and means have been adopted, and it is difficult to say how much it will be able to rise at the level of the top athletes, but the number of people at the level of other first- and second-level athletes is definitely increasing.

This is just like many sports school students now hearing that Ye Qin's score in the first year of high school was only 12 seconds, and they all feel that it is not difficult to exceed this score.

The start is different, the training conditions and environment are different, only after entering 10 seconds and 50 seconds, and gradually reaching the ceiling, it is extremely difficult to improve every 10 seconds and 100 minutes.

The next day, July 12th.

The last day of the 6th World Junior Athletics Championships (U18).

Because it was the last afternoon of the game, there were almost 5,000 spectators in the audience at the Stadium of Bressenon, the largest number since the start of the World Junior Championships.

Ye Qin sat in the stands of the spectators, and the time reached 14:30, and the first women's 800m final began in the afternoon.

None of the Chinese team advanced to the final round of the final round in this event, and the overall level is not small in Ye Qin's eyes and the level of the top competition, but with the age of the current players, it is still somewhat difficult to determine whether anyone will fully grow up to become a new generation of dominant athletes in three or five years.

After the women's 800m, the men's pole vault event is one of the biggest weaknesses of the domestic men's track and field event, and there is a clear gap with European and American athletes.

At 14:45, the women's 200m final officially began.

Judy Williams, the black girl who greeted Yechin in the stands yesterday afternoon, was in the fourth lane. After Chen Zhongzhou told the other party's information last night, Ye Qin was also a little curious about whether the girl could continue to win the championship in this year's women's 200m event.

After a gunshot, the final officially began.

After the start, Judy Williams, who was in the fourth lane, quickly gained the advantage, and from Yechin's point of view, the opponent has a very good explosiveness, cadence and rhythm among the female sprinters in this age.

However, after the corner, into the straight, Judy Williams' speed dropped significantly.

Although she still had a lead, a black female contestant in the other fifth lane was quickly catching up with her. The opponent clearly had a better ability to maintain speed in the second half.

In the last 50 meters, the two almost started an extremely close competition.

Yechin had already learned that the contestant against Judy Williams was Alison Peter of the U.S. Virgin Islands, who finished second in the women's 100m final behind Judy Williams.

In this women's 200m final, it is obvious that the competition between the two is more intense.

"From 05 to now, more than 100 games in four years have almost all been won, will this little girl be ended here?"

Ye Qin is still quite curious about this answer, it is very difficult to maintain a winning streak in sprint races, which will be affected by the ups and downs of personal form and opponent competition. The only thing he knows of in the men's sprint race is that Asafavir has won more than 40 in a row, and he has not been able to do that himself.

In the end, the two hit the line almost at the same time!

After the live race results appeared, Judy Williams and Alison Peter both recorded 23.08 seconds, but in the end, Judy Williamson won in 1000 seconds to maintain her winning streak.

After this game, Ye Qin did not pay any attention to this female athlete who could be regarded as his fan, but chatted carefully with Chen Zhongzhou beside him about the situation of women's sprinting in China in recent years.

China's women's track event is relatively strong in middle-distance running, and it is not a problem to wrestle with strong countries such as Ethiopia and Kenya at their peak.

But in the women's sprint event, the strength is weaker. The best female sprinter ever produced before Ye Qin was Li Xuemei.

The opponent's performance at the same age will not be weaker than Judy Williams, who has just played, or even more talented.

Li Xuemei still holds the Asian records of 10.79 seconds in the women's 100m and 22.01 seconds in the 200m, which can be called a generation of legendary female athletes.

However, it is a pity that many of Li Xuemei's competition records have been completed domestically, and she has not been able to achieve special results in the international arena, and she has participated in the World Championships twice and was unfortunately eliminated in the first round. The best performances were only gold medals in the 100m and silver medals in the 200m at the Asian Games.

But in any case, in 97-98, Chinese women's sprinting ushered in a good momentum of development, and other female sprinters such as Liu Xiaomei in addition to Li Xuemei had excellent performances in the field.

Just as Ye Qin and Chen Zhongzhou were chatting, discussing and watching the game, time passed little by little.

At 15:30 in the afternoon, the men's 200m final of this World Junior Championships began.

This is the most important item for Ye Qin to watch the World Junior Championship team this time, and he wants to see what amazing performance the teenager named Xie Zheng can do in this game.

While a final may not be a complete representation of an athlete's strength, athletics has always been a result-based hero.

In the absence of injury, it is the first time to participate in such a world-class competition, and to be able to have an extremely outstanding performance, at least it represents that the opponent definitely belongs to the excellent category in terms of competitive mentality.

Just like when Su Bingtian participated in the World Youth Championships last year, Ye Qin once said to the other party.

In the face of foreign players of all colors, there is no need to be afraid of them. When your grades and level are enough, it is they who need to be afraid of you.

It's a competitive mentality, and in a way, something more important than individual talent.

There is no shortage of athletes in international athletics who have amazing results in small competitions, but when they get to the big stage, they will languish.

In the past, many domestic players actually had good results and performances, but what they lacked was self-confidence, the confidence to dare to compete with the world's top players.

Yechin learned a lot from foreign coach Randy Hunter, but many times when I look back, it is actually this kind of confidence that Randy Hunter gave him.

No matter how strong the opponent is, no matter what country he is from, no matter what kind of achievements he has achieved before, don't be afraid of challenges and competition.

After a gunshot, Xie Zheng, who was in the seventh lane, quickly rushed out of the runway.

The moment the gunshots rang out, Ye Qin couldn't help but stand up and watch the opponent's performance in this game.

The start was good, not particularly fast, but the pace was steady and the pace was completely maintained.

Thirty meters later, he gradually began to enter the stage of running on the way, and Ye Qin could see from the sidelines that Xie Zheng's cornering skills were still a little lacking, and his speed did not add up quickly.

It doesn't matter, though.

In the junior level competition, the 200-meter race, the requirements for speed and endurance are relatively obvious, as long as you can stabilize the rhythm and enter the straight, it is completely possible to catch up.

Seventy meters, eighty meters, ninety meters......

Xie Zheng has always been in the third or fourth place on the field, and he is facing the top group of sprinters in his age, and there is not much difference between them.

When it came to the straights, it was inevitable that the eight finalists would have a drop in speed.

Xie Zheng's speed maintenance ability is good, and he gradually caught up from the fourth place behind, and when he was close to the final finish line, he rushed to the second position.

"Second, the silver medal!"

Ye Qin and Chen Zhongzhou both applauded.

Xie Zheng's performance was even better than the two expected, and in this level of competition, he was able to win the silver medal, which was something that Ye Qin failed to do in the World Junior Championships that year.

Soon, the results of this group of men's 200m finals appeared on the big screen on the scene.

The title was won by Grenada's Killarney James with a time of 21.05 seconds, which is basically the normal time for the men's 200m champion at the World Junior Championships.

Except for the 2003 edition, when he encountered the anti-sky Eusse Bote, who won the championship with a time of 20.40 seconds, the subsequent World Junior Championships were basically around 21 seconds.

Xie Zheng ran 21.30 seconds in this race, 0.03 seconds faster than Spain's Alberto in third place, and finished second.

"What do you think? I think this is a very promising result. ”

Looking at the results on the big screen, Chen Zhongzhou glanced at Ye Qin next to him with a smile and said.

"I should talk to Coach Yuan about it when I go back, I can join the team for training, if I have made rapid progress in the past few years, I can run to about 20.70 seconds before the London Olympics, and he is indispensable for the relay team."