The minutes ticked by, and it was 11:42.

After an hour of rest and relaxation, Ye Qin and the eight athletes in the fifth group of the men's 200-meter preliminaries once again appeared in front of the men's 200-meter starting line at Nagai Stadium.

When it was noon, there were not many spectators in the stadium, the temperature under the scorching sun was very high, and the attractiveness of the preliminaries was not high.

Ye Qin didn't pay too much attention to the situation in the stadium stands, standing on the starting line, he gently relaxed his muscles and joints, and immersed his body and mind in the upcoming game.

Among the players in this group of competitions, most of the players are still relatively unfamiliar to Ye Qin.

Slightly familiar is the American Rodney Martin, who has been in good form this year, improving his performance very quickly, and is the third person in the men's 200m event in the United States after Jason Gaby and Wallace Spearmon.

It is also a normal situation for the two to encounter in the preliminaries, after all, although events such as the World Championships and the Olympics are basically reasonably allocated in the preliminaries and semifinals, there is still a high probability that the better athletes will be divided together.

After a single gunshot, the game officially began.

Different from the men's 400-meter preliminaries, this time in the men's 200-meter preliminaries, Ye Qin did not take the way of running a little in the first few hundred meters as Fang Cai, after all, the men's 400-meter distance is relatively long, and he is still very sure of his sprint ability in the last few tens of meters.

200 meters is different, 1200 meters such a distance, if the other competitors really have a clear lead, the whole situation will be out of control.

Therefore, after Ye Qin started from the start, he quickly ran out of the advantage. After entering the straight in the corner, Ye Qin completely confirmed his position as the first in the group, and then led until the last few dozen meters before he began to release water properly.

20 seconds and 45 seconds!

In the final group of preliminaries, Ye Qin qualified for the promotion with the second place in the group, and the first in the group was Rodney Martin, who followed Ye Qin in the last two or three meters and achieved the first crossing line.

However, for Ye Qin, as long as he can advance now, it doesn't matter much as he ranks in the group.

After running the two preliminaries in the morning, Ye Qin qualified for the semifinals and semifinals in both the men's 200m and 400m events.

The men's 200m rematch starts at 20:10 tonight, and as for the semifinals, the men's 200m semifinals and the men's 400m semifinals will all be played tomorrow, August 29.

In the evening, the atmosphere at Nagai Stadium is noticeably much warmer than in the morning.

This World Championships was not expected by the IAAF and the organizing committee to be cold among the people of Osaka, but as the competition progressed day by day, it finally began to gradually become enthusiastic today.

Especially after the men's 100m final, Ye Qin became the first Asian men's 100m champion at the World Championships, which became another feat he completed after breaking the 10-second barrier.

Even in Japan, it still attracts the attention of many track and field enthusiasts.

"Hirano, there are so many people, are we running so far just to watch a Chinese race?"

From the entrance of Nagai Stadium, a young Japanese man of twenty years old who looked a little fat yawned, seemed to have not woken up, and his tone was lazy.

Standing in front of some fat young people was a well-proportioned flat-headed young man, full of energy, who had been busy constantly looking at the facilities of the Changju Stadium.

Hearing some complaints from his companion behind him, he suddenly turned his head and said with a smile:

"Mitsuda, you haven't been out for a long time, it's not okay to stay at home like this, when you used to be in middle school, you were still an athlete."

"You remember that!" The fat young man wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled, "That was a long time ago. ”

"Where there is a long time, only seven or eight years ago." The flat-headed young man said with a bright smile, "Koji Ito, our idol at that time, won the gold medals in the men's 100m and 200m at the Asian Games in '98, and ran the 10-second mark at that time, and was our idol all over Japan at that time.

Mitsuda, at that time, you idolized Koji Ito's predecessors, and said that one day you would become a sprint star like him. ”

"It's been a long time since I've run." Mitsuda Linyou looked at his stomach with some embarrassment, and scratched his head again, "Hirano, you should be a member of the land athletic club in the school now, right?" ”

In middle school, especially in junior high school, Mitsuda Linyou was still a sportsman in the school at that time, and he was very good at running and jumping sports, but in high school, he slowly began to indulge in comics and games, and gradually participated in various outdoor sports less and less.

By the time I got to college, my sports foundation, which was originally good in junior high school, had been squandered, and my body had gradually gained weight due to long-term lack of training.

"I'll be the vice president next semester." Shota Hirano straightened up slightly, and replied with a slight pride in his tone.

"That's really congratulations, Hirano." Mitsuda Linyou said enviously.

"The day before yesterday, Koji Ito's predecessors commented on the men's 100-meter race, Ye Qin won the championship, I don't know if you saw it. Although he is a Chinese, he has achieved unprecedented results. Shota Hirano looked at the crowded crowd around him, and then said with some sighs, "I heard several seniors say that after the Asian Games last year, everyone in the Japanese team began to focus on the men's 4×100m relay cooperation, hoping to make a breakthrough in this collective event. ”

"I see!" Although Mitsuda Linyou is homely, he has actually heard Ye Chin's name through the Internet and TV, especially after the World Championships last year and last year's Asian Games, Ye Chin's fame in Japan can be said to have exploded, even if he can't understand it, but he can still learn about it from various channels.

Shota Hirano asked him to watch the game before, but he was actually a little resistant in his heart, the weather was hot, the place was far away, and it was not better to have this time to watch anime at home and play games.

I don't know why, but Shota Hirano said with envy that in addition to a world-class sprinter in China, he once aimed at Shingo Sueji when he was a teenager and galloped on the track, and there was a faint throbbing in his heart.

"At that time, I was called the most talented athlete in the school, and many of the senior students couldn't outrun me, what if...... If I had kept going, I might have had the opportunity to become an athlete now. ”

Now twenty-two years old, about to graduate from college, thinking of the dreams of his youth, and the partner who followed him, Mitsuda Linyou somehow has a feeling called regret and regret, which spreads in his heart.

"Mitsuda, I'm not talking about you, although I also like manga and games, but it's not good to continue like this. You should exercise more, you were very popular in middle school, but you didn't have a relationship with a girl in college. ”

"Alas...... I know. Mitsuda Lin You wiped the sweat from his forehead again, and followed the bustling crowd towards the Nagai Stadium, "I really didn't expect that there would be so many people watching the track and field competition." ”

"Haha...... I heard that in today's 200m event, two Japanese athletes advanced to the semi-finals, but I don't know if they can continue to advance to the semi-finals and finals. Shota Hirano exclaimed with some excitement, "Although the 200-meter record of Shingo Suesu's predecessor was broken by Ye Qin, he was also the first person in Asia in the 200-meter, but I don't know how the state of this World Championships is?" ”

"I think we might have a chance in the 4×100m relay event that Hirano said."

Mitsuda Linyou recalled the scene when he was watching sports competitions a few years ago, "This event is a test of the tacit understanding of the athletes, and if the players of the Japanese team have trained hard, they may have a chance." For personal projects, I'm afraid it's not easy to say. ”

"Yes, in this World Championships, the Japanese team did not perform very well in all events. Everyone came to watch the game today, many people came for Ye Qin, a Chinese player, although he is not from our country, but he actually represents the limit that we yellow people can reach, I really hope that there will be such players in Japan in the future......"