Born to Run

"Yechin!"

On the evening of October 25th, in the warm-up area of ​​He Long Stadium, Ye Qin, who was warming up before the game, suddenly heard someone nearby shouting at him.

Ye Qin was doing accelerated running exercises. He stopped when he heard the sound. The voice was familiar, but he didn't realize who was calling him for a while.

Following the direction of the sound, Ye Qin turned his head and looked around, and Ye Qin could see the person.

The one who called him was a tall, sturdy teenager with a bit of childishness on his face, but his figure was quite eye-catching even in the crowd of athletes with relatively outstanding physiques.

"Wu Jiang, are you there?" Ye Qin felt a bit of joy on his face when he saw the tall boy appearing on the sidelines.

"How fresh, of course I can come if you can come to the game."

Wu Jiang said with a smile, walked to Ye Qin's side, stretched out his hand and gently beat him. The two were roommates in a dormitory when they participated in the World Junior Championships in Sherbrooke, but since returning to China after the World Junior Championships, they have basically disconnected. After a few months, they did not expect to ran into each other at the Helong Stadium in Star City.

"Yeqin, awesome! World Junior Championships won the bronze medal, last night's 400 meters again won the bronze medal. The coach said that you won the medal is actually nothing, the key is that your results improved very quickly. I also watched your game last night. Now, it’s really amazing. The results have improved by more than 0.6 seconds compared to the world championships."

Wu Jiang's eyes are quite envious. Obviously he looks a little enthusiastic about Ye Qin's progress. Track and field athletes can make such a huge improvement, generally only when they just start professional training in the early stage, but soon, their performance reaches a certain level. There will be a critical point of stagnation. It takes a lot of training and a little bit of hardening to make progress.

Ye Qin's current situation obviously hasn't reached this critical point, and progress is still very rapid, which in a sense represents the upper limit of talent.

"I've been training." Ye Qin smiled, feeling praised face to face. Even a teenager of about the same age, he was somewhat uncomfortable. Looking at Wu Jiang in front of him, he seemed to think of something. Suddenly He asked, "Wu Jiang, you are here... have you entered the final tonight?"

Today’s game schedule, Yeqin’s men’s 200-meter preliminaries started at 19:40, and at point 40, it was the last game of the day, the men’s shot put final.

Ye Qin never thought that his other friends from the World Junior Championships would also come to participate in the competition. However, seeing Wu Jiang, he suddenly realized that the gold and silver medal winners in the World Junior Championships were compared to the national team after the age of 20. Some may not have enough strength, but in youth games like the City Games, they really have the strength to fight.

"Just for tonight's finals, are you watching?" Wu Jiang nodded with a smile, and then seemed to be a little embarrassed. "I don't know if I can get a card, but it is Xiao Juan. She is in the women's javelin again. Broke the world youth record."

Hearing that Xiao Juan had broken the world youth record, Ye Qin couldn't help but start to follow. Everyone went to participate in the World Junior Championships together. He made good progress, but there are not no people who are better than him.

As for watching Wu Jiang's shot put final at night, Ye Qin pointed to Nie Fangping not far away, "I have to ask the coach."

On the other side, Nie Fangping and Wang Shouyang just shook hands and were greeting each other with a smile.

"Guide Wang, after everyone came back in Yanjing last time, they walked too hurriedly. I haven't had time to thank you for taking care of Yeqin when you were in Sherbrooke."

"Coach Nie, it's too polite." Wang Shouyang smiled and looked at the young man who was also talking not far away. "Ye Qin is a very talented young man. Although I have not taken Ye Qin, I watched his performance in the game. , I think this young man has a great future."

"Guide Wang, you can't let that kid hear you praise." Nie Fangping couldn't help narrowing his eyes as he listened to Wang Shouyang's praise, and he was really happy.

Wang Shouyang is the current youth coach's leading gold medal coach. In throwing events, from the World Junior Championships to the World Middle School Students Competition, you can see Wang Shouyang leading his disciples to win honors in the competition. It is indeed very happy to be praised by such a gold medal coach.

"What a talent!"

Wang Shouyang sighed softly again. Yesterday he watched Ye Qin’s 400-meter final. Although the rhythm of the final half was still a bit chaotic and the physical fitness distribution was not particularly ideal, in terms of results, Ye Qin was compared with the World Championship. Up a step.

Both he and Nie Fangping are coaches from sports schools. For athletes, talent is sometimes really unreasonable.

What is talent in competitive sports? Everyone is talking about who has talent and who can't, so how can we be called talented?

The famous German track and field coach Helmar has such an explanation in the book "The Long-term Training Process of Track and Field Athletes from Elementary to Advanced". Athletes with talents generally have the following characteristics:

The training is fruitful, the ability to accept is strong, with rich experience and knowledge in the development of functional conditions, with a good state of the game, can produce a better response to training stimuli, through the same content of training can achieve higher than others Competitive ability.

Wang Shouyang did not bring Ye Qin's training, but only from Ye Qin's pre-match state, psychological adjustment, and active learning and observation performance, we can basically draw some conclusions.

After Yeqin's World Youth Championship in July, three months have passed, and the effect of training improvement is obvious, which is also corroborating his words.

After simple greetings between Wang Shouyang and Nie Fangping, they left first. Wu Jiang's game time tonight is still early, so I can take a good rest at this time to prepare for the men's shot put finals.

"Coach, can you stay longer after the game tonight?"

After Wang Shouyang and Wu Jiang left, Ye Qin walked to Nie Fangping and asked.

"What's the matter?" Nie Fangping glanced at Ye Qin.

"I want to watch a game and then go back."

"The match?" Nie Fangping was puzzled for a moment, and then said, "The last 9:30 men's shot put final tonight?"

Ye Qin's voice was slightly lowered, "It's the shot put final of Wu Jiang just now."

Nie Fangping frowned slightly~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Ye Qin had told him about some World Junior Championships when he came back. He and Wu Jiang, the athlete who just led by Wang Shouyang, were in the same dormitory during the World Junior Championships. They spent a few days getting along with him. Human friendships sometimes come very quickly.

However, the men's shot put finals starting at 9:30, at least after 10 o'clock when the match is over, and then back to the hotel resident, washing and so on, it will be about 12 o'clock.

After Yechin finished tonight's men's 200-meter preliminaries, tomorrow will be two men's 200-meter semi-finals and finals. The intensity is definitely not small.

"Tomorrow is the 200-meter semi-finals and finals. Are you so confident?" Nie Fangping thought for a while, paused, and suddenly asked Ye Qin.

Without waiting for Yechin’s answer, he continued, “If you are confident that the champion will come back tomorrow, it’s okay to stay for a while after the preliminaries tonight to watch the shot put final. If you can’t get it, Yechin, you owe me a national champion Up."

Listening to Nie Fangping's words, Ye Qin pressed the corners of his mouth slightly and couldn't help laughing.

The coach seemed to be concerned about him when he returned to Chong'an Airport in the World Junior Games and said he was going to give him the gold medal for the national championship! 8)