August 22, the eighth day of the World Championships.

At about 1:40 p.m., nearly 10,000 spectators gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate, waiting for the figure that was getting closer and closer in the distance.

The police and the staff of the organizing committee who are maintaining order on the street are constantly sweeping the crowd on the street to maintain order and prevent reporters or spectators from suddenly breaking into the street.

The women's marathon, one of the highlights of the World Championships in Berlin, is now on the streets, starting from the Brandenburg Gate, passing through Unter den Linden, Pariser Platz and several other attractions before returning to the Brandenburg Gate again.

The women's marathon started at 11:15 a.m. and has now passed more than two hours, and the runners who have circled the entire course should now be returning to the finish line.

The streets were crowded with people waving red flags and holding cameras, all waiting to see who would cross the finish line first.

Ye Qin stood in the middle of the crowd with a peaked cap, Zhang Peimeng, and Su Bingtian, also watching the women's marathon near the finish line.

He now basically does some simple makeup when he travels, so as not to be recognized in public and cause a big sensation. Fortunately, there are many people on both sides of the street, and many people are slightly blind to Asian faces, so as long as he is not particularly noticed, he will not be immediately recognized.

Tonight is the men's 4×100m relay heats, although the time is very tight, but the people who should practice have not stopped from the beginning of the country to the first few days in Berlin.

By now, tonight was already preparing for the preliminaries, and during this time, the entire relay team did not stay at the station, but came to the Brandenburg Gate.

One is to cheer for the Chinese women's marathon runners, and the other is to avoid being too nervous before the race, and walk around appropriately to feel the atmosphere of the race.

And in the previous World Championships, everyone also came out to watch the marathon together, and Zhou Chunxiu won a silver medal at that time, so everyone simply followed the old example and came out together to adjust the tense mentality.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

Zhang Peimeng, who was standing beside Ye Qin, stood on tiptoe and looked at the street in the distance, and suddenly shouted.

Ye Qin and Su Bingtian suddenly perked up and hurriedly looked towards the street in the distance.

The sound of car horns sounded, and on the street in the distance, white film cars were slowly driving from far to near.

There was a professional cameraman in the car, with a huge camera, shooting in the back, and if he didn't know that the other party was a camera, he could mistake it for a military vehicle with a machine gun.

"Who's running ahead?"

Among the several people, Su Bingtian was relatively short, pulled the shoulders of several people, and asked again and again.

"It shouldn't be Zhou Chunxiu."

Gu Kai glanced into the distance and replied casually that although he usually wears glasses during competitions, his eyesight is not particularly good.

However, in the marathon event, even if there have been several outstanding women's marathon athletes in China in recent years, it is not easy to break the encirclement and interception of the Ethiopian and Kenyan legions.

In a long-distance event such as the women's 10,000m, domestic or other athletes can compete with these two countries in East Africa, in the marathon, there are very few athletes from other countries who can make up for them.

Of course, there are still a few Chinese and Japanese athletes, but it is still a little difficult to compete for the championship

"That's not right!"

As soon as Gu Kai's words fell, Su Bingtian next to him had already shouted excitedly, "It's our team member." ”

"Our athletes?" Gu Kai, who was still negative just now, instantly came to his senses, "It's Zhou Chunxiu, I know that she will definitely avenge the runner-up of the last World Championships." ”

"It's not Zhou Chunxiu, it's Bai Xue, it's Bai Xue!"

Zhang Peimeng didn't care about Gu Kai's attitude at the moment, and he changed and shouted loudly.

On the street in the distance, behind the camera car, a thin figure wearing a red tracksuit appeared in front of everyone.

When Ye Qin shouted to a few people, he also recognized the figure, it was none other than one of the female athletes they participated in the Berlin World Championships this time, Bai Xue.

As the camera car and Bai Xue got closer and closer, everyone also saw a player behind Bai Xue at this time, who was also not a black athlete from an East African country, but a Japanese female athlete, who was struggling to catch up with Bai Xue in front.

"It's really Bai Xue!" Gu Kai almost saw the player's appearance clearly at this time.

"Brother Kai, you should change your glasses!"

Seeing Bai Xue's appearance, a few people next to him smiled at Gu Kai and quipped.

"Yes, yes, I'll quickly change it when I return to China, and this degree seems to have deepened."

Gu Kai replied with a smile, he was also excited in his heart, but he didn't want to give himself too good expectations, lest he be disappointed when the final result came out.

But now, the results have exceeded his hopes.

"Bai Xue, come on! Bai Xue, come on! ”

Seeing Bai Xue running towards the finish line first, when it came to the most critical moment, everyone instantly became excited and shouted loudly.

Many other overseas Chinese students waiting at the finish line next to him also cheered loudly.

It is now in the final few hundred meters of the championship stage, although the distance between the runners is still relatively long, but after a long run, even if it is a little slower at this time, I am afraid that it will be overtaken by others.

Marathons may not be as eye-catching as sprints because of their long duration, but their huge influence and wide participation are unmatched by ordinary track and field events.

The many marathons held every year are able to attract a large number of ordinary track and field enthusiasts. At this time, long-distance running or night running was not particularly popular in China, but in many parts of Europe, marathons have always been the most popular event for many ordinary people.

200m, 100m, 50m......

Bai Xue in front and Japan's Yoshimi Ozaki, who is not far behind her, are getting closer and closer to the finish line......

Everyone's nerves were a little nervous, and finally, in the last fifty meters, Bai Xue didn't give Ozaki a chance and crossed the finish line first.

Before the finish line, the Chinese coaches and staff who had been waiting there for a long time quickly stepped forward to support Bai Xue and accompanied her to walk slowly around the field.

"Wonderful!"

Ye Qin and the others watched Bai Xue successfully win the women's marathon championship, and they couldn't help but applaud warmly.

Bai Xue's age is younger than Ye Qin and Zhang Peimeng, and one year older than Su Bingtian, this is her first time participating in the World Championships and the second time participating in the international marathon, but she successfully won the championship and became the youngest women's world marathon champion in history.

Bai Xue is also the first Chinese athlete to win a marathon at the World Championships, with China's Zhou Chunxiu winning silver at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka and bronze at the Yenching Olympics. Finally, a Chinese runner won the championship in the marathon.

At the same time, Zhou Chunxiu won the fourth place in the marathon, although he failed to win a medal, but the two Chinese runners achieved such outstanding results, which can be said to be quite satisfactory.

Ordinary people may not be particularly able to understand such achievements, but for track and field athletes, they deeply know the meaning it represents.

Bai Xue won the women's marathon, which also means that the total number of gold medals won by the Chinese track and field team in this World Championships has risen to four.

After leaving the Brandenburg Gate, Ye Qin and a few others returned to the Chinese team's station, where they first did a simple warm-up exercise, and then simply ate something and rested.

It was almost 18:30 in the evening that everyone took the bus to the Olympic Stadium.

The match was played in 20 seconds and 10 minutes, and the seats at the Olympic Stadium were already full of people.

This year's men's 4×100m relay preliminaries were divided into three preliminaries groups, with a total of 18 teams participating.

Among them, the United States team, as the men's 4×100m champion at the last World Championships, participated directly with a wild card, Germany participated as the host team, and then 16 other relay teams from the countries or regions with the best results in the world participated.

The rules for advancing to the finals are that the top two teams in each group advance directly to the finals, and then among the remaining teams, the two relay teams with the best results enter the finals.

The six teams competing in the first group of preliminaries are Japan, South Africa, France, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago and Brazil.

In the end, Trinidad and Tobago and Japan finished in the top two of their group with a time of 38.47 seconds and 38.53 seconds, respectively.

As an island nation in Central America, although not as world-famous as Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago also has a strong team with first-class sprinters including Richard Thompson and Mark Burns.

Japan has grown very rapidly in the relay event in recent years, almost with the footsteps of the Chinese team, and the results have been improving steadily. At individual level, the Japanese team may not be as strong as the other relay teams, but they are average and have excellent baton handover skills.

The current Chinese team, if there is no Ye Qin as the fourth baseman, the strength of the Japanese team is only equal, or even slightly inferior.

At 20:18, six relay teams from the second group of the men's 4×100m relay preliminaries took the field, including Poland, Thailand, Italy, Australia, Jamaica and Germany.

Among them, Jamaica, as the 4×100m champion of the Yenching Olympics and the holder of the current world record, is the most optimistic to the outside world, and everyone wants to see whether the Jamaican team can create a miracle to break the world record in the men's 4×100m relay at this World Championships.

In addition, it is the German team as the host.

When the four relay runners of the German team took the field, the audience cheered, and the sense of intimacy and support to be able to see their athletes in their own country was undeniable.

It's just that this preliminaries obviously disappointed many German audiences.

After the start of the game, the German team's players played very steadily in the first base, and the second team players played well in front of many spectators, but unfortunately when the second and third sticks were handed over, the German team made a major handover mistake.

In the entire Olympic Stadium, there was a huge exclamation for a while, which was almost heartbreaking.

In this group of preliminaries, the final group leader was won by Italy with a time of 38.52 seconds.

The Jamaican team advanced to the final with the second place in the group, with a time of 38.60 seconds, although the result was not particularly good, but in this group of preliminaries, the two core figures of the Jamaican team, Yusse Bote and Asafavir, were only watching from the sidelines and did not play.

The Jamaican team relied entirely on two substitutes and two regular players to achieve this result, and its strength can be imagined.

At 20:26 in the evening, the third group of the men's 4×100m relay officially began.

Ye Qin stood in the handover area of the fourth baton and began to measure his steps carefully, and there were many spectators on the sidelines shouting his name, but he was not distracted except for the initial wave of surprise.

This group of relay preliminaries, according to the original plan of the track and field team, is to hope that he will not play and can get rest.

But after the group came out, Ye Qin took the initiative to play, because the strength of this group is very strong, if he does not play, the Chinese team is likely not to get the chance to advance to the finals.

In his group of preliminaries, the eight relay teams were the United States, the Netherlands, Canada, Portugal, Great Britain and China.

Such a lineup is gathered in one group, and the level of attention received is no less than that of other groups.

The other five teams are all quite strong, especially the United States, the last World Championship champions, and Great Britain at the Athens Olympics, both of which have won the championship in the past, with strong average strength and excellent relay skills.

Only the top two in the group will directly enter the final, facing the lineup of the United States and the United Kingdom, if Ye Qin does not play, it is likely that the Chinese team can only get the third or fourth position.

This is very dangerous for the Chinese team to enter the final round.

The first baton of the Chinese team is Su Bingtian, the second batter is Zhang Peimeng, the third batter is Gu Kai, and the fourth batter is Ye Qin.

In this group of preliminaries, Ye Qin also noticed that the United States team did not send Jason Gaby on the field, and his four bats were, the first Trammell, the second Michael Rogers, the third Shaun Crowder, and the fourth Davis Barton.

After a gunshot, the game officially begins!

Su Bingtian, the first stick, has been trained in the 07 World Championships, the 08 World Youth Championships and the Olympic Games, and now his personal starting acceleration has entered the first-class level, and the speed is very fast.

The handover of one and two sticks is also perfect. After the start, Zhang Peimeng was second only to the United States and Great Britain, and tied with Canada's second-best runner.

Then there was the handover of the second and third sticks, and the third stick of the Chinese team was Gu Kai, at this time the Chinese team fell slightly in the overall and was in fourth place, slower than the Canadian team in front.

Ye Qin was in the handover area of the fourth baton, and had been waiting quietly.

Soon on the corner, the third player of the six teams appeared quickly.

The third batter of the U.S. team is Sean Crowder, a veteran who has finished fourth in the men's 100m and first in the 200m at the Athens Olympics.

The first to enter the relay area to complete the baton handover, but at this moment, Sean Crowder seemed to slow down due to the speed of the fourth, and Davis Barton in the fourth baton had a major baton handover error!

For a moment, the atmosphere in the arena seemed to freeze, and countless American spectators at the scene and in front of the TV couldn't help but hug their heads in frustration, and Jason Gaby on the sidelines pinched the mineral water bottle in his hand even harder.

The U.S. team is strong in the 4×100 meters, but their skills in the baton handover have always been flattering. The members of the relay team have always been ranked according to the results of the national tryouts, so that they have always had significant technical deficiencies in the baton handover.

Ye Qin also noticed the mistake of the American team at this moment, but before he had time to think about it, Gu Kai had already run towards him quickly.

The fast start accelerated, and after getting the baton handed over by Gu Kai, he immediately rushed towards the finish line.

At this time, the U.S. team had no chance to continue the game due to a mistake in handing over the baton, and the original British team and Canadian team ran ahead.

However, Ye Qin showed his outstanding sprinting ability at the end, and soon caught up with Canada's fourth baseman Brian Barnett after the start.

Then, two or three meters before the finish line, he caught up with Harry Aikin, the fourth batter of the British team.

In the end, the Chinese team won the first place in the group with a time of 38.08 seconds and successfully advanced to the final, while the British team ranked second with a time of 38.11 seconds.