In the 1980s, my country's recovery and establishment of national sports meets a climax. The once interrupted National College Games and National Middle School Sports Offices recovered, the National Youth Games, the National Ethnic Traditional Sports Games and the National Peasant Games were released one after another.

The City Games is the last national comprehensive sports event to be launched.

In the past, excellent sports teams were mainly concentrated in provincial and above sports committees, so national sports competitions were generally participated in provinces. With the development of the reform of the training system for cultivating sports talents through multi-level and multi-channel, some cities with conditions, especially provincial capitals and cities with independent planning, have successively established their own excellent sports teams. In order to encourage the enthusiasm of urban teams to run teams and promote cities to discover and cultivate more sports reserve talents for the country, the National Urban Sports Games came into being.

The Youth Games were only held for two sessions. After 1989, the exercise of the reserve army was handed over to the City Games, and the events that restrict the age of athletes were further expanded to the entire City Games. In 1991, 1995 and 1999, the Second to Fourth City Games were held successively.

Although the Urban Games have not changed in name, they have been essentially changed to the National Urban Youth Games.

?The Fifth National Urban Games was held in Xingcheng, the capital of Xiaoxiang Province on October 18, 2003. It is the first comprehensive sports meeting held by China with youth as the main participants after Yanjing successfully bid for the 2008 Olympics. The City Games is not only an important training before the Athens Olympics, but also a major review of the reserve forces of the Yanjing Olympics. In order to prepare for the 2008 Olympics, the competition events of this City Games are in line with the Olympics. The major events have increased from 16 events in the previous session to 25 events, of which 24 are Olympic events, covering China's advantageous events, potential advantageous events and basic events.

CCTV Channel 5 will broadcast all competitions of the City Games live. In addition, in addition to CCTV, satellite TV, Jingshi, public channels and sports channels in Xiaoxiang Province will also broadcast all competitions during the City Games live.

When Ye Qin and Zuohai City representative team's track and field contestants arrived in Xingcheng City, Xiaoxiang Province, it was October 20th. Everyone did not catch up with the opening ceremony of the City Games. However, the track and field competition time of this City Games is from the 23rd to the 27th. A total of 43 gold medals will be generated in the five-day competition time.

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"Coach, this stadium is really beautiful."

On a bus passing through Xingcheng District, Ye Qin looked at the scenery of the streets on both sides of Xingcheng District, but what came to his mind was the scene of seeing the venue just before the main track and field stadium of this City Games.

"That's of course, Helong Stadium was the top stadium in the country." Nie Fangping smiled beside him, "This time, for the city games, the stadium also carried out some expansion and renovation. When you were just in adaptive training, I looked at the rank standards of the venue. The ground flatness level of their 400-meter circular plastic track is less than 3 mm, which is already meeting the standards stipulated in international competitions."

The Helong Stadium is specially expanded and renovated for this Urban Games, and was just completed in October.

Although Xiushui No. 2 Middle School has just installed a plastic track and held a county middle school student sports meeting, the degree of precision is naturally huge compared to large sports venues.

Ye Qin didn't have much experience during training competitions, but compared with standard large-scale venue tracks, he could still feel the slight and detailed difference.

"By the way, Ye Qin, this is your first time participating in a national competition. How do you think the atmosphere is like?!" Nie Fangping looked at Ye Qin, whose eyes were lingering on various banners and pedestrians outside the car window from time to time, and said with a smile.

The scale and investment of the Fifth Urban Games were not expected to be so huge before arriving in Xingcheng City, Xiaoxiang Province. It felt like the whole city was mobilized.

"There are a lot of people, it's very lively." Ye Qin nodded honestly, "We saw that there were many people coming to the stadium today, and there were almost more people than I participated in the World Shao Championship last time."

He was still a little shocked at the moment. He, Nie Fangping and other Zuohai City representative teams in the car. He had just gone to Helong Stadium to see the venue. What he saw along the way made Ye Qin feel the hot atmosphere of the top major events in the country for the first time.

The organizational level and participation atmosphere, from competition organization to venue construction, transportation and communications, security, logistics reception, news reports and other arrangements were organized, which was much higher than his participation in the World Cup.

Ye Qin went abroad for the first time and participated in a large-scale competition for the first time, and there was no reference in many aspects. Now, just the City Games made Ye Qin feel the domestic investment in large-scale events.

This time, Xiaoxiang Province invested more than 150 million yuan in the Urban Games, claiming to "mobilize the whole province to organize the Urban Games well". This efficient and efficient activity can be said to create a huge atmosphere.

Although there were many countries participating in the World Youth Championship at that time, reaching more than 160, there were only more than 1,000 athletes, and the competition was just track and field competitions.

This city games is a comprehensive large-scale sports event. Although there are only 57 participating cities, the total number of athletes has reached more than 6,000, creating the highest number of all previous generations.

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On the evening of October 23, more than 50,000 spectators were packed at Helong Stadium. The clamor and noise of applause and noise made the entire stadium extremely lively.

After the opening ceremony on the 18th, after five days of competitions, the track and field events of the Five Cities Club finally kicked off on the 23rd.

In the indoor inspection and recording area of ​​the stadium, Ye Qin was wearing a number sign posted with Zuohai City representative, and was warming up on the track, lunge jumping, raising his legs high, swinging his legs straight and trotting, muscle stretching, etc.

In sprint competitions, each game often only takes less than a few dozen seconds, but often the athletes can warm up for half an hour or even more than an hour.

Today, there are only three competitions in the men's track event, the men's 400m preliminaries, the men's 100m preliminaries and the men's 1500m preliminaries.

The men's 400m preliminaries started at 19:30.

The track and field competition time of the City Games is from October 23 to October 27, and the men's 400 meters and men's 200 meters respectively are:

At 19:30 on October 23, the men's 400m preliminaries;

At 09:25 on October 24, the men's 400m semi-finals;

At 20:10 on October 24, the men's 400m final;

At 19:45 on October 25, the men's 200m preliminaries;

At 10:05 on October 26, the men's 200m semi-finals;

At 20:30 on October 26, the men's 200m final;

The competitions are also full of three shots. For large-scale comprehensive (youth) sports games like the City Games, provincial and municipal teams of various urban sports schools, key high school sports students, university sports specialties, etc., the number of people who sign up for the competition is a very large number.

However, the City Games have requirements for contestants. The age requirement for contestants is to be born after January 1, 1983, and they should meet the standards in the 2003 one-stop indoor competition or one-stop championship designated by the Chinese Track and Field Association.

Therefore, before the Xingcheng City Games competition kicked off, in addition to the National Track and Field Championships in August, a qualifier for the men's group competition in the City Games Track and Field Championships had been held in Tianfu Country.
Chapter completed!