When the first group of runners in the men's 400m semifinals of this World Junior Championships appeared on the track, the information of the eight athletes was also played on the big screen in the middle of the stadium.

First Lane, Samuel Wilson, Australia;

Second Track, Santiago Christine, Puerto Rico;

the third, Yechin, China;

Fourth lane, Frank Presa, Namibia

Fifth Lane, Yusse-Bote, Jamaica;

Sixth Lane, Alekod-Solzenithi, Russia;

Seventh Lane, Leonard Maklavin, Kenya;

Eighth lane, Otto Martin, Spain;

Yechin is in lane 3, and of the eight players in Group 1 of the semi-finals, only Namibia's Frank Pressa has not done well in the heats, and according to the general rules, he will be in lane 5.

But it's a semi-final, not a final. The finals are generally arranged according to the results of the semi-finals, but in the semi-finals of the preliminaries, the arrangement of the players' paths is not only based on the results of the preliminaries, but also affected by the degree of attention paid to international priorities. Athletes who are focused on by the organizer or the IAAF tend to provide more favorable passes in the arrangement of the passes.

Ye Qin doesn't know many of the default rules in the IAAF, but Ye Lidong on the sidelines, Zhou Bin in the stands and other coaches know these things.

The black Jamaican teenager in the fifth lane, who won the 2002 World Junior Athletics Championships, broke both the 200m and 400m records at the International Secondary School Athletics Championships, and won the IAAF Rising Star Award, is rightfully treated preferentially in the course arrangement.

It's only six o'clock, and it's not dark yet, but in order to make the games more smoothly in the evening, the projection lights in the track and field have been lit.

"Ye Chin, come on!"

"Ye Chin, come on!"

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Standing in front of the starting line, Ye Qin heard the cheering on the sidelines, still in the stands yesterday, and the "cheerleaders" who all added up to ten or twenty people were shouting hoarsely at this moment.

Ye Qin waved his hand to the sidelines, it was a feeling when he stood on the sidelines to cheer for other teammates, but it was another feeling to be on the field, especially in a foreign country, thousands of miles away from home, to be able to hear someone cheering and cheering for him.

Taking a deep breath, Ye Qin shook his limbs, letting the muscles of his body relax slightly, and the whole person's attention was focused on the runway.

He could feel the blood in his body, and it seemed to be boiling a little after he got to the starting line.

He hasn't thought about whether his game is winning glory for his country, and even though the team has been emphasizing this point these days, he doesn't really feel much in his heart.

He just wants to run, he wants to compete with other runners!

It seems that on this runway, he started running, and he found the meaning and value of his existence!

Just as he once felt when he ran in the race, it seemed that only by running, running, he could break all difficulties and break all the reality on this track.

“On your marks！”

The voices of the English voices on the sidelines sounded again.

Ye Qin exhaled twice in succession, clenched his fists slightly, released them again, and walked onto the starting gear.

Leaning over the starting gear, Ye Qin raised his head and glanced ahead, in front of him on his right was a black runner from Namibia in the fourth lane, and the fifth lane was the black teenager who seemed to be deliberately pretending to be injured during the warm-up.

Then, bow your head, adjust your center of gravity, keep your body still, and prepare for the upcoming gunshot!

“SET！”

In front of the starting line, eight runners got up at the same time.

Syllable!

Match guns rang out.

Ye Qin lowered his head and suddenly began to accelerate.

After the first heats, he had already analyzed that if he wanted to reach the finals, he couldn't run exactly like he did in the heats.

His reflexes weren't too fast, and the first half of the 400m run had been a bit tight, but this was the semi-final, and there were only eight places out of the 24. That is, in this group of semi-finals, he must at least run to the second place in the group to steadily qualify.

This is the stage of the world stage, and the strength of the players is very strong, he can't be careless!

Get started, accelerate!

Ye Qin is ready to properly increase his speed in the first 200 meters, not much faster than in the preliminaries, after all, it is necessary to allocate physical strength and speed, but not too slow, falling to the end of all the players, so that even if he desperately catches up in the second half of the race, he may not be able to catch up completely.

10 meters, 20 meters, 30 meters......

Ye Qin adjusted his center of gravity and began to accelerate along the trajectory of the curve!

Suddenly, a figure flickered in front of him, and the corner of his eye swept to the position of the fifth lane in front of him.

Because of the number of stretches, he can clearly see the positions of the runners in the fourth, fifth or six lanes in front of him at the start of the third lane.

It was the particularly tall black boy who had just warmed up, and it seemed that something had really happened, and he had just run no more than twenty or thirty meters before he stopped.

"Was it really injured, or did you deliberately retire?"

A thought flashed through Ye Qin's mind, and when he warmed up, the other party's fake expression, Ye Qin was not too sure in his heart.

However, now is not the time to think about the other party, it is just a momentary thought, and his attention is still quickly returned to the game.

In the stands on the sidelines, the coaches of this group of players who participated in the game saw this scene, but couldn't help but clench their fists lightly.

Yusse Both, a rising star in world athletics in 2002, has attracted a lot of attention since his appearance at the University of Sherbrooke University Stadium.

Now that he has given up the 400m race and only has two direct qualifiers in the semi-finals, there is no doubt that his chances as an athlete are much better.

Only McNeil, the coach of the Jamaican youth team, who looked like a big basket killer on the sidelines, kicked the mineral water bottle in front of him, his lips moving, and he was babbling about something.

The game is going on.

Ye Qin was still running steadily, and he was always controlling his speed.

He can't name the Namibian player in lane 4, but he remembers that he was one of three people who had a better time than him in the preliminaries, and he was able to run 48 seconds in the preliminaries, which was enough to show that the opponent was very strong.

In addition to maintaining his own rhythm in the first half of the race, Ye Qin firmly controlled the speed and tried not to be pulled away by the other party.

The first corner ends quickly, and the corner goes into the straight.

The fourth Namibian player suddenly began to accelerate, and Ye Qin clearly felt that the distance between himself and the opponent was slowly being widened.

The straight stage is the easiest way to gauge the position of the runners.

Nie Fangping once told him that starting from 400 meters onwards in the middle and long distance races, many experienced players compete in a variety of ways, the most of which is to change their own speed and like to disrupt the rhythm of their opponents.

In the 1200-meter sprint, because from the start, it is basically not to start the sprint with all your strength, and the situation of chaotic rhythm often occurs at the moment of starting. At the distance of 400 meters, a certain amount of speed needs to be allocated, and many competitors will disrupt the rhythm of other competitors by changing speed at this stage.

Obviously, the Namibian athlete is a bit of that right now.

Ye Qin could feel that after the opponent began to accelerate, the sixth, seventh, and eighth runners seemed to have been affected to varying degrees.

The feeling of pressure brought by the close pursuit of competitors from behind can easily make athletes inaccurate in their grasp of their speed.

The effect of being led by a player to run the rhythm, except for the athletes in the field, unless they are particularly experienced old coaches outside the field, or use post-game video analysis, ordinary people basically can't see it.

Of course, the top first-class masters with special experience in competitions will basically run according to their own inherent rhythm and will not easily follow the rhythm of other opponents, but most of the athletes in the arena are still teenagers, and they are far from reaching the level of top players regardless of competition experience or psychological adjustment.

Ye Qin's speed also increased, but this was his plan before the game, and the rhythm was still steady and undisturbed.

But the second and first lanes behind him, Puerto Rico and Australia, also received the influence of his acceleration and began to pick up speed.

It's the semi-finals and everyone wants to fight for a place in the rankings.

The 200 meters flashed by, and soon reached the second corner, at which time Ye Qin obviously noticed that except for the Namibian runner in lane 4, whose speed was still maintaining well, the speed of the other runners seemed to have decreased slightly.

The first 200 meters were faster, and Ye Qin also felt the feeling of soreness in his body earlier than usual, but fortunately, he was prepared at the beginning.

In the blink of an eye, the third corner is coming to an end and the corner enters the straight.

At this time, in the stands on the sidelines, whether it is the cheerleading teams of the various countries participating in the competition, or the local spectators in Canada, they can clearly see the changes in the stadium.

In first place was Namibia's Frank Presa, followed by Yechin.

After entering the straight, the gap between the two is almost only a difference of more than one position, and after the two, the other five players have a gap of one or two meters at this time, and this gap seems to be widening.

Ye Qin had been keeping an eye on the Namibian player in the fourth lane, and after the corner entered the straight, he also felt that the opponent's speed could not be maintained, and his body was obviously in a tired stage.

The sudden increase in speed in the first half of the race led to the other runners, but the physical energy he consumed was also very huge.

At this time, everyone began to compete completely with speed and endurance.

Whoever can maintain their speed better will win!

Eighty meters, seventy meters, sixty meters......

Closer and closer to the finish line.

By the last forty meters, Ye Qin also felt that he was almost at the limit, his steps were heavy and his breath was short, but he still desperately gritted his teeth and burst out the last little bit of physical energy he had accumulated.

Although Namibia's Frank Prissa knew that Ye Qin in the third lane next to him was biting him all the time, his running style in front of him was basically at the limit, and he could only watch the opponent around him overtake.

47.86 seconds!

At the moment when Ye Qin crossed the finish line, he saw the results on the yellow timing board next to him.

Namibia followed him with a time of 47.94 seconds, and as for the rest of the runners, with the exception of Yusse Both, who retired in the fifth lane, the best time was Russia's Alekod Solzenithi, who clocked 49.02 seconds! And this result is not far from his time of 48.49 seconds in the preliminaries.

But Ye Qin successfully advanced to the finals!