"The Helsinki World Athletics Championships is imminent, Feng Shuyou, deputy director of the Athletics Management Center, introduced the preparations of the Chinese track and field team today, and pointed out the five major tasks of the Chinese team in this World Championships, but Feng Shuyou still stressed that there is no gold medal and no medal goal, because there is no point in imposing goals. The vast majority of the participating team members will become the backbone of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games,...... Starting next year, Chinese track and field will increase the number and frequency of training in Europe and the United States, learn from each other, let the team members get used to the competition scene, and make substantial progress psychologically......"

"The 10th World Athletics Championships——— the most important sporting event of the year, kicks off tomorrow in Helsinki, Finland. Nearly 1,900 athletes from more than 200 countries and regions gathered at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium for the next nine days to compete for the highest honours in athletics. As in two years ago, the Chinese track and field delegation, which sent only 36 athletes, also made a low-key trip. Although there are Olympic champions such as Liu Yangyu and Xing Huina in the team, and Ye Qin, a newly rising track and field newcomer, the overall low level and the unstable state of the key gold players make the Chinese team lack confidence. If ——— World Athletics Championships are compared to a feast, this tone has clearly shown that the Chinese delegation has "modestly" put itself in the position of "just a few cups of soup......

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"The weather in Helsinki is really cool!"

On August 4, at the exit of Helsinki Airport, Zhuang Wei pushed a huge suitcase and just stepped off the plane, and couldn't help but take a light breath and feel extraordinarily comfortable.

"It's probably ten degrees lower than Yanjing, and it's up to the temperature of the usual air conditioner."

Chen Zhongzhou also pushed his suitcase, feeling the oncoming breeze, with a little humid air unique to seaside cities, and sighed in the same way.

In August, Yanjing is the hottest time of the year, and when you arrive in Helsinki, a European Nordic city, you suddenly feel as if you have just passed through a sauna and suddenly been baptized by a cool breeze.

Especially after a long international flight, the feeling of stepping on solid ground is very different.

"Ye Qin, Yang Yao, you should be more comfortable competing in such weather, right?"

Zhuang Wei walked in front and glanced back, Ye Qin and Yang Yao, who were following Chen Zhongzhou and Randy Hunter, and joked with a smile, "Think about when you were in Yanjing, hehe, if you train outdoors for a while at night, your underwear can be wrung out of water." ”

"Brother Zhuang, you are the one who is most afraid of the heat." Ye Qin was looking at the Helsinki Airport from a distance, listening to Zhuang Wei's vulgar words, he turned his head and replied with a smile.

"The weather is good, but it doesn't rain." Yang Yao looked up at the somewhat heavy clouds in the sky, and said with the same smile.

"Not really." Zhuang Wei also glanced at the sky, "At most, it will rain in the past two days, and there are still a few days before your game." I did my homework when I came, Helsinki is one of the most livable cities in the world, and it shouldn't rain, it won't rain. ”

"If it rains, it will have an impact on the game." Yang Yao looked at the gloomy sky, thinking about the next game schedule, and frowned slightly.

"I hope it's sunny!"

Ye Qin was also a little worried when he heard this, after all, when traveling abroad, the competition is imminent, and the athletes should pay more attention before the competition to adapt to the climate and venues.

This year's World Championships will be held from August 6th to August 14th, and now it is the 4th, and it will still affect the athletes' state of competition if it rains.

Fortunately, his own competition is still a few days away, and the competition will only start on August 9, so he can only hope that the weather will improve by that time and there will be no rain. If it does rain, it really won't be wonderful.

This time, the Chinese track and field delegation went out in a low-key manner, and there were only 36 athletes participating in the World Championships in track and field.

On August 2, a batch of major middle-distance running events, these races are relatively early, and athletes can better adapt to training by arriving a day or two early. The other is today's Yeqin and their batch of August 4th.

Liu Yangyu originally came in the same batch as them, but because of the limited number of places on the business jet, Liu Yangyu's participation in the men's 110-meter hurdles event was relatively late, so it was one day late.

On this matter, there are still domestic media hyping Liu Yangyu because of the lawsuit, and there is no way to get out.

Ye Qin now feels more and more that even after athletes become public figures with their personal performance, many things that do not exist can extend to all kinds of strange topics.

As Randy Hunter said, he needs to look at these things with a calm mind, not to be blown by the media for a few words and not to be timid, and not to be denied a few times and be timid.

Athletes, with their achievements, are accompanied by attention and pressure. For example, he met Usse Bot at the New York Grand Prix, who was once expected by the whole of Jamaica and was hailed as Michael Johnson's successor, a talented player.

But once you lose at the Athens Olympics, criticism and skepticism will flood in, and no one will be exempt.

The same is true of himself, his life and his experience have been shown in front of everyone as they are, but there will never be a lack of strange voices.

Feeling the moist breath in the air, looking up at the signs that were very different from the domestic Chinese characters and the somewhat crowded airport, Ye Qin couldn't help but clench his hands clenching the suitcase.

He is no stranger to going abroad, he will not be as cautious as he was when he first went abroad to compete, he knows his ability and level, and he also knows what he wants.

If you choose sports competition and track and field, you must keep going, no matter how many difficulties exist on this road, he must overcome them one by one!

No matter how difficult it is, it won't be sad that it was so powerless again!

I'm strong, I'm capable of facing it, I'm going to solve it!

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Coming out of Helsinki Airport, there is already a bus waiting for the pick-up there.

This has been arranged in advance by the organizers, and in the past few days, because of the World Championships, Helsinki has seen thousands of tourists enter Helsinki every day, and the whole airport has become a bit noisy.

Ye Chin was not too surprised by this situation, compared to last year's Athens Olympics, the current situation is good. The World Championships are just a track and field event, and the many events of the Olympics attract more tourists.

Before coming to Helsinki, the track and field delegation also did a brief science popularization and some precautions about Helsinki.

Helsinki is the capital of the Nordic country of Finland and the largest economic port center, adjacent to the Baltic Sea, is a city that combines classical beauty and modern civilization, and was selected as one of the nine cultural cities in Europe in 2000.

Interestingly, the 2005 World Athletics Championships were held in 10 years, and the first World Athletics Championships in 1983 were also held in Helsinki.

Prior to this, Sweden and the Netherlands had hosted one World Championships in Athletics in 1976 and 1980, but these two competitions were not recognized by the IAAF due to the size of the competition and some special reasons. The first World Athletics Championships recognized by the IAAF was the first competition that began in Helsinki in 1983.

Speaking of Helsinki's ability to host the 10th World Championships this time, Yechin still remembers an interesting story told by the team at that time.

Initially, the IAAF announced that the winning bid for the 10th World Athletics Championships in 2005 was London, England, but after evaluating it, the British government felt that the cost of hosting the World Championships in London was too high, and wanted to change the host city from London to Tangu Stadium in Sheffield.

Holding an international competition is a lot of financial pressure on the host city and the country.

For example, before 1984, the Olympic Games were criticized for not bringing any benefits. It wasn't until the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics that a large number of advertisements were introduced and made a profit, that it changed from a "hot potato" to a "fragrant bun" that everyone coaxed.

Although the competition specifications of the World Championships in Athletics are high, there is naturally a big gap compared to the Olympic Games.

Naturally, the IAAF did not accede to Britain's request, and Britain became the first time since 1976 that a developed country gave up the right to host a major international sporting event.

In the IAAF's second bid, Helsinki, which had hosted the first World Championships, won the 2005 World Championships from Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Moscow and Rome.