Chapter 260: Forrest Gump
"Not bad!"
Randy Hunter was smiling, and he was more satisfied with Yechin's 200m test than at the Osaka Grand Prix.
Ye Qin has not seriously run the outdoor 200 meters a few times this year, but he can score about 20.09 seconds when he is in hand, which proves that Ye Qin has almost reached the level of about 20.30 seconds.
Moreover, this is because I just flew from Osaka to the United States, long-distance flight, jet lag, the climate and environment are not suitable in all aspects, and I have not trained for a period of time to recover.
This is enough to prove that Ye Qin's strength has reached a certain level, and what is lacking is at least the atmosphere of the tournament and the stimulation and stimulation of top players.
Of course, the results on the training ground are often not fully representative of Ye Qin's achievements, but they are still very clear for reference.
"What's your opinion?" Randy Hunter asked with a look of pride in his tone as he glanced at Clyde Hart.
"The second half was excellent and the speed was great!"
Clyde Hart chuckled, unabashedly appreciative, "And whether it's the first half or the second half, there's a lot of potential to be tapped." In the race in which Michael set the world record, he was able to achieve a time of about 10.1 seconds in the first 100 meters and around 9.2 seconds in the last 100 meters.
Randy, as long as you can improve the first half of Ye to within 10 seconds 4, Ye will be able to enter 20 seconds, for an Asian athlete, an athlete who is not yet twenty years old, this talent is already the top, no wonder you are willing to go so far away in China, if there is such a disciple, I will really fly to China to coach. ”
Clyde Hart has seen many top sprinters, but not many young athletes can do that on the training ground.
It's impossible to tell what level he might be in the future, but for a coach, the talent he has shown so far is enough to get him to pay attention to.
Randy Hunter laughed, "That's impossible, Clyde, you're going to go over there to recruit and make their money, but you definitely wouldn't want to go straight to China to coach like I did." You're not me, you're just one person. You have a family, you have a partner and children, you can't do that, Clyde. ”
"You're right, Randy." Clyde Hart nodded, "But if I meet earlier, I can take him back to the United States to train." Think about Yao in the NBA now, he can also gain a foothold in the United States, and there is a huge market behind him. ”
For U.S. track and field coaches, the commercial value of competitive sports is definitely the first motivation for coaches, and the reason why Clyde Hart cooperated with the athletics management center, in addition to the cost of the athletics management center, is not to consider that if he can train excellent track and field athletes, he will reap more commercial benefits in China.
"I'd like to be able to see the 400 meters of the leaf again, how about it?"
Clyde Hart looked at the finish line, the few people who had finished the race, Yechin had just finished the 200 meters on his face, but he didn't see much fatigue, and then made a suggestion to Randy Hunter.
"Of course." Randy Hunter smiled and said, "I actually came here to hear from you about Leaf's problem in the 400 meters, but Leaf is not in the best condition, and I think if you have time, it would be better to go with us to Eugene." ”
As a well-known coach in the long jump, Randy Hunter has led athletes who also run the men's 100m 200m, he is no stranger to this, but the 400m event, although he is richer than the average coach, but Clyde Hart, who has guided several Olympic men's 400m champions, believes that there is still a certain gap.
"June 4th is the IAAF Grand Prix in Eugene, right?" Clyde-Hart asked, then pointed to a man who walked by as they were talking, "I may not be able to go, but I'm sure he meant it." ”
Randy Hunter looked in the direction of the other man's finger, and a tall black man with a somewhat thin face walked over slowly.
"Long time no see, Coach Randy!" The black man walked over and gave Randy Hunter a hug directly.
"How's you doing, Michael?" Randy Hunter hugged the black man with an equally bright smile and gently patted him on the back.
"Not bad."
The black man smiled and nodded, and as he spoke, he glanced at a few Chinese athletes who had just finished 200 meters near the finish line, and said with a smile, "That young Chinese athlete, Ye, is now the athlete you coach, right?" ”
"What do you think?" Randy Hunter smiled and nodded.
"It's very potential, I've seen the footage of his World Junior Championships and the Olympic finals, and I have to say, Randy, after you left the United States, you also picked up treasures in other countries."
The black man smiled and said that although he had not been retired for a long time, as the world's top athlete, he could not miss the Olympic men's sprint competition, and even several television stations in the United States invited him to be a guest commentator.
The middle-aged black man who spoke was none other than Michael Johnson, the current men's 200m and 400m world record holder, the American "Forrest Gump", a true sprinter trapeze.
"It's not just the United States that has talented athletes."
Randy Hunter smiled, at this stage, the sprint event was almost exclusively monopolized by black athletes, and he recognized the differences in race, black athletes did have an advantage in this area of talent over other races, but not only black athletes can dominate the athletic world.
Many of the sprint coaches in the United States are black, and most of them are former professional athletes who retired from the military and became coaches.
But many of the top coaches are white. Some of them used to be athletes, and some of them graduated from professional sports universities and related majors, and have rich theoretical knowledge, combined with advanced training methods, and are more able to tap the potential of athletes.
"Let's take another 400 meters, I can't wait!"
Clyde Hart said with a smile after seeing Randy Hunter and Michael Johnson greetings.
His knowledge of race is as clear as Randy Hunter's, that black athletes have advantages, but not absolutely. In the men's 100m, black athletes are 100 percent dominant, but in the men's 200m, it drops to 90 to 95 percent, and in the men's 400m, it drops even more to 85 to 90 percent.
The reason why Clyde Hart dares to speak up is that last year's Athens Olympic champion and the current 400m king of the United States, Jimmy Warner, is a talented athlete, he is a white athlete.
And in the men's 110-meter hurdles at last year's Athens Olympics, Chinese athlete Liu Yangyu won the championship with a world record in this event that took both speed and skill, which also shocked many people's eyes.
For coaches like them, who are at the forefront of the industry, they are very sensitive to such changes. It may be that in general, white and yellow runners may not be able to compete with athletes of black descent in West Africa in the sprint events, but the individual talent of the athletes is still very competitive.
To put it simply, in the eyes of these coaches, in the track event, the absolute competitive speed is dominated by black athletes of black descent in West Africa, in the absolute competition of endurance, it is the black athletes of black descent in East Africa who dominate, and in the event of speed and endurance, or the combination of speed and skill, white and yellow athletes will have a certain opportunity to challenge both.
Although such athletes are rare, a look at the results of the Athens Olympics shows that it is not for nothing.