July 17, National Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium.

"Brother Yang is early!"

"Morning!"

At seven o'clock in the morning, the daytime temperature in Yanjing has not yet fully risen, and the track and field training ground in the gymnasium of the Olympic Sports Center has already started training in twos and threes.

Yang Yao said hello to several members of the track and field team along the way, changed his clothes and shoes on the sidelines, and began to warm up briefly around the track and field track.

The Olympics are approaching, and his recent training volume has also fully increased, and this time in the morning is also taking advantage of the temperature is not too high, so he seized the time to do a period of adaptation training outdoors.

After all, the Olympics will be in another month, and he has already learned about the weather in Athens in advance, although the temperature in summer is not necessarily higher than that of Yanjing, but it is still necessary to have proper outdoor training, so as not to train indoors for a long time and suddenly be unable to adapt to outdoor competitions.

These are all trivial things, Yang Yao actually doesn't care too much, the main thing is that he still likes to train outdoors in the morning, his vision is broad, and the mood of people will be opened, and the effect of training is much better than indoors.

The list of participants of the Chinese team at the Athens Olympics has basically come out, and in the men's sprint event, there are only two people, he and Chen Jian, one participating in the men's 100-meter event and the other participating in the men's 200-meter event. Among the current domestic track and field athletes, only two of them can run up to the standard.

Lao Shen is about to retire, and participating in the Olympics is also his biggest dream. However, from last year's Asian Championships, to this year's national Grand Prix and trials, I have participated in all competitions, but both 100 meters and 200 meters are a little short of the B standard, and now it depends on whether the National Track and Field Grand Prix in track and field on August 1 can seize the opportunity. However, when you think about it, it should be difficult.

The Olympics is a stage that every track and field athlete wants to go to, even Xu Zhiyu, after breaking the national men's 400-meter record in 2001, may be due to injury and condition, he switched to the men's 200-meter, and this year's trials also ran a time of 20.76 seconds, but it is still a little short of the Olympic standard. Among the others, Gu Kai and Jing Ke, the newcomers in the later period, are even worse than Lao Shendu, and there is no hope for them to go to the Olympics.

Thinking of this, Yang Yao slowly ran on the runway to warm up, but he couldn't help but feel sorry for He Jun.

A few days ago, he had heard that He Jun was injured in training, and he heard the news that it was very serious, and he didn't know if he could recover smoothly, and it would be a pity if he couldn't fully recover.

He Jun is one of the most potential and hard-working athletes he has seen in the national team in recent years, and the scene of participating in the World Championships together last year is still vivid, according to He Jun's age, he has steadily improved himself step by step in recent years, and in the 08 Yanjing Olympics, he must be one of the main forces, and it should not be difficult to reach his Olympic participation standards at that time.

Now in this situation, Yang Yao doesn't know what He Jun will be like in the future, he has been busy with training recently, and he has no time to see He Jun, so he can only wait for the Olympics to talk about it.

"Yang Yao, you're here early enough!"

After a 400-meter warm-up run, Yang Yao stood on the sidelines and was stretching his muscles and joints, when he saw Chen Jian next to him wearing a sprint suit on the track.

"Come over early to warm up." Yang Yao kicked left and right on the spot, "First in outdoor activities, practice strength in the afternoon, you came quite early today!" ”

"It's a bit stressful, you wait for me first, I'll go for a run, and I'll practice with you later."

Chen Jian said hello with a smile, jumped lightly twice in place, and went directly to the track to start trotting to warm up.

Seeing Chen Jian get on the track and start trotting to warm up, Yang Yao didn't rush to start accelerating or other running training, but continued to move his muscles and bones slowly next to the track.

Both of them are the only two Chinese athletes who can participate in the Athens Olympics in the sprint event, and they are old acquaintances, and basically the recent training camps have been put together.

Among them, the acceleration run, the short-distance 40-meter sprint, and the 100-meter or 150-meter speed training, the two have a companion when they practice, and there is a bit of competition, at least it will not be too boring.

Athletics training is often like this, after athletes reach a certain level, most of the time is one-on-one guidance from the coach, and even the entire coaching staff refines training for various weak points.

When Chen Jian came back from a trip, Yang Yao was not in a hurry, but waited for Chen Jian to carry out several sets of wrist, ankle and ankle joint activities, and warmed up very carefully, he knew that Chen Jian's Achilles tendon had been injured in training a few years ago, and at that time, the warm-up before training was not enough, and then when he ran faster, he was injured because he was too strong.

Athletes actually know that adequate warm-up can avoid injuries during competitions and training, track and field athletes can avoid injuries if their bodies are well protected, not to mention completely avoiding injuries, but injuries that are serious enough to affect their careers can be avoided a lot.

After all, it is not a confrontational competitive sport, and there will be too many accidents on the field. But after all, people are not machines, and it is difficult to do every bit and every drop in place. The boring training day after day is always indispensable for the occasional lazy time, but accidents often visit at this time.

Yang Yao's warm-up is now more delicate, and Chen Jian has also paid more attention to this aspect after suffering the injury in the previous training.

"Ready! Run! ”

On the 100-meter track, because the members of the coaching staff had not yet arrived, the two did not wait for them, and Yang Yao directly began to shout the password, and the two of them first conducted 100-meter speed endurance training.

The 100-meter track runs back and forth repeatedly, and the speed does not need to be too fast, and it is about the same within 12 seconds at the level of two people, and the key is repetition. A group of six trips, one with a break of about one or twenty seconds in the middle, followed by the next trip.

This kind of basic training, that is, in the morning, the two of them take advantage of the weather is not too hot to practice for a while, and in the afternoon and evening, they have to go to the indoor training hall to conduct strength and special training for each other's technical characteristics. But no matter what, basic training can't be left behind.

ran three groups back and forth in a row, the two of them were already sweating profusely, the sprinters on their bodies were completely soaked, Chen Jian was holding his waist next to him and panting slowly, patting the muscles on his thighs from time to time, and the soreness caused by the accumulation of lactic acid in the link.

Although Yang Yao's breathing was also heavier, the soreness on his body was better. Although both of them are sprint events, one is 100 meters and the other is 200 meters, the technical characteristics are obvious, Chen Jian's explosiveness is stronger, the starting reaction is fast, and the acceleration is fast, but the speed is a little unstable in the second half of the middle and second half, and the speed is poor.

Yang Yao's start and acceleration are slightly worse than Chen Jian's, but the speed and endurance in the second half of the race are strong, which is also Yang Yao's men's 100 meters in addition to 200 meters. And the reason why Chen Jian only runs the men's 100 meters and 60 meters.

"You've already completed the first round?"

Just when the two of them finished running three sets of speeds and walked slowly on the track to relax their muscles, a middle-aged man stood next to the venue at some point, holding a document book in his hand, and beckoned to the two with a smile.

"Master, you have been in a meeting for too long, we have time to wait for you, and we have all completed today's speed resistance training by ourselves."

Seeing the middle-aged man appear, Chen Jian grinned and greeted him.

"Preparing for the Olympics is not a trivial matter, selecting athletes to participate, as well as the coaches and other staff who accompany the team, all aspects. The leaders still have to meet to discuss. ”

"There's nothing to talk about in athletics, and there wasn't a tryout in May this year." Chen Jian pouted.

Mai Min'an shook his head, and was about to open his mouth to answer, when Yang Yao, who saw it again, also walked over, and immediately said, "Yang Yao, you are just here, I have something to tell you." ”

Yang Yao wiped his sweat, picked up the foam water tank that Mai Min'an was putting in his footsteps, took out two bottles of mineral water from it, threw one bottle to Chen Jian, and turned to Mai Min'an and said, "What's the matter, Coach Mai?" ”

"That ......" Mai Min'an coughed lightly, groaned slightly, and then raised his head to look at Yang Yao and said: "Someone has broken the national men's 200-meter record!" ”

"Huh?" Yang Yao first nodded as if he hadn't reacted yet, and then suddenly raised his head, with an incredible look on his face, "The record is broken?!" Coach Mai, are you saying that the men's 200m national record has been broken? Most...... It doesn't seem like there's been a game lately, right? ”

The national men's 200m record is 20.54 seconds, set by former track and field national athlete Han Chaoming at the 1996 Jinling National Athletics Championships. Since then, this record has stood for eight years, and the closest thing to the national men's 200m record is the 20.58 seconds run by Yang Yao at the Asian Games the year before! He is currently the best men's 200m athlete in the country and the one with the best chance of breaking the national men's 200m record.

At this moment, I suddenly heard that the record I had been trying to break had suddenly been broken by someone else, and the shock in my heart was beyond imagination.

"Well, it's a 200-meter record." Mai Minan looked at Yang Yao's shocked look, nodded slightly, and said, "There are no competitions in China, but there are abroad." ”

"Competitions abroad?" Yang Yao's mind didn't seem to be able to remember for a while that there were players participating in any foreign competitions, IAAF Grand Prix, Golden League, this is impossible, with the level of domestic athletes, even if he and Chen Jian want to participate in the IAAF Grand Prix, they are only barely qualified, let alone others, and for a while, when I think of track and field competitions abroad at this point in time, there are only these few games.

"The World Junior Championships, these two days are the World Youth Championships." Chen Jian, who was next to him, gently pushed Yang Yao, then looked at Mai Anmin and said, "Master, it's the World Youth Championships, right?" ”

"World Junior Championships?" Before Mai Anmin could answer, Yang Yao suddenly thought that these days were the biennial World Youth Championships in track and field, no wonder he didn't pay attention, he also participated in the World Youth Championships in 2000, when he won the tenth place with a time of 20.96 seconds, which is already a rare good result for Chinese players in the World Youth Championships.

And when it comes to the World Junior Championships, a name jumps out almost instantly.

"Ye Chin?! Coach Mai, did Ye Qin break the national record? ”

"Yes." Mai Min'an nodded firmly, "Ye Qin broke the national men's 200m record in the men's 200m final of the World Youth Championships yesterday with a time of 20.49 seconds and won a silver medal for the Chinese team. ”

Speaking of this, Mai Min settled down, and then said, "That's what the team said in the meeting, Ye Qin won the silver medal in the World Youth Championships in the 200 meters and broke the national record, and the 400 meters also won the silver medal with a time of 45.88 seconds, and both of you also know that the Olympic Games are coming, Ye Qin has reached the A standard in the 200 meters, and the 400 meters have also reached the B standard, and now when he returns home from the World Youth Championships, he will urgently call him into the team for training, and then go to Athens with you to compete." ”

Yang Yao was still a little stunned when he heard this, but he didn't expect that the teenager he saw at the Xinzhuang training base last year had broken the national record he had been striving for for more than half a year, and had obtained two tickets to the Olympic Games.

The deadline for reaching the Olympic Games is August 9, 2004, and the Chinese team is naturally not as talented as the American team in the sprint events, although the Olympic trials have been held in May, but in the men's sprint 100m, 200m and 400m events, the quota is still very empty, as long as they can meet the standard, they basically have the opportunity to participate. Now, it is clear that the men's 200m and 400m events in track and field have one more athlete who can compete.

At the same time, the news that Ye Chin broke the national men's 200m record in Grosseto, Italy, also appeared in the newspapers.

The national men's 200m record, which has not been broken for eight years, was suddenly broken by a young athlete just as the Athens Olympics were about to begin, which caused some attention. Although it is only a small part of the crowd, a stone thrown under the Pinghu Lake will inevitably cause a ripple.