Born to Run

Twenty minutes after the men’s 400m event, the time came to 13:50. On the straight track in Hayward Stadium, there were eight passes, and a total of 10 hurdles for each pass were arranged neatly. Appear on the runway.

After running the men's 400 meters, Ye Qin eased for a while. After his body gradually recovered his strength, he did not leave the field to rest. Instead, he stood on the sidelines with Dayao and others, waiting for the start of the men's 110-meter hurdles.

It is also the first time for Liu Yangyu to participate in the Eugene Grand Prix in Oregon. As the champion of the Athens Olympics, he has set foot on the American track and field powerhouse. He also hopes to have a good performance.

The players in the same group are not weak, Alan Johnson, Trammel, Dominic Arnold, etc. In the men’s 110-meter hurdles, except for the Olympic champion Liu Yangyu who is an Asian player, the other seven are all Is a native American player.

After the gunshots sounded, Liu Yangyu relied on the quick start to accelerate, and smoothly crossed the first hurdle. After three hurdles, he already got the lead. Finally, after crossing the finish line, Liu Yangyu scored 13 The second 06 results won the Eugene Men's 110-meter hurdle champion.

As the former most dominant player in the men's 110-meter hurdles, Alan Johnson, after the start of this group of competitions, failed to complete the game because he knocked down the hurdles.

At this time, people all over the world who are paying attention to the men's 110-meter hurdles can see that after winning the Olympic champion, Liu Yangyu's morale is like a rainbow, and he is completely replacing Alan Johnson as the new ruler of the event.

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The next day, when the Eugene Grand Prix came to an end and the news came back to China, this time, the media craze once again emerged.

The Eugene Grand Prix on June 4 was less than a month away from the Osaka Grand Prix. The sports section and the track and field section, which have just fallen off a bit, are once again attracted by many people.

The winner of the two Grand Prix, Liu Yangyu continued to consolidate and enhance his influence on the people of the country and the world track, and Ye Qin started to become more and more known for riding this ride.

Many media reports, in addition to mainly focusing on Liu Yangyu’s current training and competition, Ye Qin has already begun to occupy some separate pages, and even the reports about the Xiushui No. 2 Middle School where he once studied have also been excavated by many media people. Came out.

With Yeqin’s achievements and achievements, there are naturally many reasons for getting so much media attention. The most important point, needless to say, is Liu Yangyu’s Olympic champion, making many people think that we might be sprinting in track and field. There is a lot to do in the project.

The emergence of Ye Qin precisely meets the key points that many media can hype.

His growth experience is more inspirational and storytelling. In terms of performance, he has two bronze medals in the World Junior Championships, two silver medals in the World Youth Championships, sixth place in the Olympics, and national 200 and 400 meters record holders. The results are sufficient and the topic is also high. .

For a time, there were more and more articles in the media about this new young athlete who has gradually attracted the attention of many people.

"Rural teenager, the second time set the national men's 400 meters record"

"Ye Qin, my middle school nurtured me"

"The world's track and field are emerging, and another track and field genius has emerged. How far can he go? 》

"Two Grand Prix winners, Ye Qin claims to win a fluke"

"The 400-meter event may become the second breakthrough in China's track and field. Experts explain that the white athlete was the champion of last year's Olympic Games."

"Liu Yangyu: Ye Qin's talent is better than me"

"Dayao: The game is very exciting, I am proud of Ye Qin"

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In addition, an article called "The Boy in the Swamp" jumped from the sports section to the social section of the mainstream media, causing a sensation.

"...Many people have been paying attention to a young athlete recently. Everyone knows the competitions he has participated in and the honors he has won. He has never even entered the professional teams such as the city team or the provincial team. He has directly entered the country. Many people are familiar with the process.

On the eve of last year's Athens Olympics, only two men were able to participate in men's sprint events (100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters) in China. One is the 100-meter athlete Chen Jian, and the other is the best athlete Yang Yao in the 200-meter event.

We are all familiar with the performance of Chinese men's track and field on the Olympic stage for so many years. There is a huge gap between my country's sprint events and the world's top sprinters.

Just one month before the Athens Olympics, in the World Junior Athletics Championships being held in Grosseto, Italy, a Chinese teenager emerged suddenly. He won silver medals in both the men’s 200m and 400m events, and achieved both. The AB standard for the Olympic Games, including the men's 200 meters, broke the national record of eight years of silence in one fell swoop.

That is Yeqin.

This teenager from Xiushui County, Haixi Province, had never been trained in a professional team before entering the national team. How did he become the third athlete who can participate in the men's sprint event of the Olympic Games?

……When I visited Xiushui No. 2 Middle School, I found out that Ye Qin changed Xiushui No. 2 Middle School, and Xiushui No. 2 Middle School also tried his best to train Yeqin. It is rare and amazing in the history of Chinese education and even the history of sports.

Now Xiushui No. 2 Middle School has embarked on the road of a strong sports school, Yeqin has also won the honor of outstanding graduates, and the two have never existed alone, they have achieved each other. We have known the term campus sports a long time ago, but to truly become a kind of culture like the United States, it is a long-term task. But no matter what, the model of Xiushui No. 2 Middle School should be worthy of our reference and full attention.

……When I deeply understood Ye Qin’s life and experience, I discovered that Ye Qin is more like most rural teenagers. No, it should be said that his growth experience is more rough than most rural teenagers. ...In the 1980s, the medical conditions in rural areas in China were generally poor. Because of a dystocia, the child who had just fallen to the ground had no mother, and his own father was unwilling to take up the responsibility of raising him and wanted to give him to other people. Raise. The grandparents who couldn't see it felt sorry for their grandson, and with their aging body, they shouldered the important task of raising him to grow up...

The poor life honed his will. The hardship and hardship made him know that life is not easy. I can hardly imagine that this kind of embarrassing growth experience eventually failed to suppress his growth. On the contrary, it was like a rocky cliff. Weeds, indomitable, strong and growing up..."

When this report came out, not many people noticed that the interviewer was a journalist from a sports media in Haixi Province, because Yeqin was the best athlete to appear in Haixi Province in recent years. Many media reporters They all stared at Ye Qin and made a fuss.

Unlike the others, this reporter really spent a lot of effort digging deep. Apart from school, he even made a special trip to Ye Qin’s home. He also did a lot of homework with the neighbors. I also wanted to invite Ye Qin's biological father and stepmother who lives in Xiaoli Town~www.wuxiaspot.com~, but they couldn't find anyone in the end.

In addition to some initial sports newspaper reports, this article quickly attracted the attention of some social pages. The famous "Reader" magazine also reprinted this manuscript and published it in the next monthly issue.

Just as the national media reprinted this inspiring growth experience, a certain southern-based media suddenly broke out several other reports, which caused an uproar.

"Parents' first voice is not abandonment, but a last resort"

"He doesn't recognize us, but we still want him to live well"

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At this time, Yechin, who was in the United States, didn't know that after he broke the national men's 400m record and won the championship at Eugene, many domestic media began to dig and report on him.

On June 6, after the Eugene Grand Prix ended, Ye Qin and Liu Yangyu rushed to New York, USA almost non-stop, where they were the second leg of their trip to the United States.