Chapter 241: Media Attention
XX sports on March 7, the two-day 2005 National Indoor Track and Field Championships third station of the competition in Yanjing came to an end, because the Olympic champion Liu Yangyu did not participate in the competition, so there are not many spectators in the Bayi track and field hall, and there are few reporters, and the scene is in stark contrast with Tianjin Station. Despite the fact that the arena was a little deserted, the two days of competition were very intense.
The women's pentathlon title was contested between two Qiong provincial athletes, and Wang Lan won the championship with 4,079 points, 76 points ahead of teammate Fu Cheng...... In the women's pole vault competition, five athletes including Feng Ling of Guangdong Province and Zhang Nan of Yanjing all crossed the height of 4.20 meters. The height of the crossbar was increased by another 10 centimeters, and Zhao Xinming, the leader of the Yanjing team, and other coaches and athletes rushed over to cheer. The five athletes also encouraged each other, but unfortunately, none of them crossed the height of 4.30 meters......
The most worth mentioning is that the teenager Ye Qin continued the good form of last year's World Youth Championships and the Olympic Games, and ran 45.90 seconds and 20.89 seconds in the indoor men's 400 meters and men's 200 meters, won the championship of these two events, and once again refreshed the national record of these two indoor events.
In addition, Wen Yongyi from Guangdong Province won the men's 60-meter run championship with a time of 6.61 seconds, and set a new national record in this event......"
"The Next Liu Yangyu? 》
In the just-concluded National Indoor Track and Field Championships, Ye Qin, a teenager from Haixi Province, won three men's 200m and men's 400m championships in a row with amazing results that surpassed the vast majority of athletes.
It is not uncommon to win three championships, and in the same men's 60m event, Wen Yongyi, a player from Guangdong Province, won three championships. But at the same time, he won the championship in both events, which is the first time in the history of Chinese track and field.
It is understood that for the concurrent events that are difficult for ordinary athletes to do, it is not difficult in Ye Qin's opinion. In the 2003 World Junior Championships, Ye Qin won the third place in the men's 200m and men's 400m, and in the 2004 World Junior Championships, Ye Qin went one step further, winning silver medals in the 200m and 400m respectively. And both reached the Olympic standard (200 meters broke the national record) and were selected for the national team. In last year's Athens Olympics, Ye Qin was eliminated in the first round of the men's 400m event, but stood in the final of the men's 200m event and finished sixth, setting a new record for Chinese sprinting events at the Olympics.
Ye Qin came from Xiushui No. 2 Middle School in Haixi Province, and did not join the professional team when he entered the national team, but was guided and trained by the school's coaches and teachers.
Whether he can become the next Liu Yangyu, we look forward to it!
"Our "Forrest Gump"! 》
The first time I noticed Ye Qin, it was in the 03 City Games, as a city games dedicated to youth competitions, most of the players participating in the competition belonged to newcomers trained by local teams at all levels.
At that time, in the men's 400-meter race, Tan Zhongbiao, who won the championship, and Liang Chao, who won the runner-up, although the author does not know much, he has seen it several times in the domestic arena before.
Only the third runner-up is the first time I have seen it. Compared with the athletes who were generally around 19 years old at that time, Ye Qin's still young face told others that he was much younger than others, but the final result was unexpected.
What's even more amazing is that in the men's 200m race a few days later, the youngster from Haixi Province won the men's 200m championship with a 200m result close to the best in the country at that time.
A World Junior Championships and a City Games, Ye Qin began to emerge in the domestic track and field world, but except within the sports system, it did not attract too much attention. According to the author, there are very few reports in the media, almost equal to zero. This was followed by the 2004 National Indoor Men's 400m and 200m races, as well as a series of national Grand Prix, and almost all of the teenagers performed very well (almost all of them were champions and top three and top six).
It wasn't until July last year, when the World Youth Athletics Championships were held in Grosseto, Italy, that Yechin won the men's 200m and men's 400m runner-up again, and both met the Olympic participation standards and was promoted to the team by the national team, which attracted the attention of some sports media.
In the men's 100m, 200m and 400m sprints at last year's Olympics, only two runners were scheduled to compete, including one in the 100m A and one in the 200m A.
Ye Qin reached the standard of standard A in the men's 200 meters and the standard of standard B in the 400 meters, becoming the first runner in China's track and field sprint competition to meet the standard in two events.
In the following Olympics, Ye Qin was eliminated in the first round of the men's 400m, but in the men's 200m race, he ran into the final with extraordinary performance and finished sixth.
This is the first athlete in the history of Chinese track and field men's sprinting to be able to run into the final and achieve such a high result. It's a pity that such an outstanding young athlete, after Liu Yangyu broke history and won the first Olympic gold medal in Chinese men's track and field, was completely obscured, although there were many media reports, but few people noticed the trace of this teenager.
As we all know, China's men's sprinting has always been weak, in addition to the men's 100-meter event that most people pay attention to, the men's 200-meter and men's 400-meter needless to say compared with the world, that is, in Asia, they are slightly weaker than Japan, and have been challenged and impacted by Central Asia, West Asia and other countries.
The emergence of Ye Qin completely made up for our weakness in the men's 200m and 400m events, and created excellent results in the Olympic schedule.
In an interview with this reporter, Director Luo of the Chinese Athletics Management Center said that a super-first-class coaching team and working group have been tailored around Ye Qin, and will continue to train Liu Yangyu, Ye Qin's current head coach is the current world men's long jump record holder Mike Bob's former coach Randy Hunter, the top coach of the United States who never married, gave many solutions to Ye Qin's technical characteristics in the first winter training after taking over Ye Chin.
In the just-concluded National Indoor Track and Field Championships Shenghai, Jinmen and Yanjing, Ye Qin won all three stops in the indoor men's 200m and indoor men's 400m races, and won a record six championships.
It is understood that Ye Qin will participate in the national track and field charter competition in April, and then will go abroad to compete in international competitions and train for competitions, with the purpose of preparing for the World Athletics Championships in August this year.
We'll see.