The Athens Olympic Stadium, one of the most important venues for this Olympic Games, has more than 70,000 spectators. The stadium was renovated from 2002 to 2004. It is the venue for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, track and field competitions and football finals in this Olympic Games.

On August 19, the Olympic Stadium was brightly lit at night. The stadium ceiling designed by Spanish designer Calatrava stood directly above the stadium from above the highest-rise auditorium on all sides. The lighting lamps embedded in the ceiling of the skylights lit up, making the entire stadium look like the daytime.

"Ye Qin, stop!"

On the indoor warm-up track, Yu Weili looked at the boy who had started warming up since he arrived at the Olympic Stadium. He couldn't help but shake his head and smile, waved his hand and called him.

"Coach, what's wrong?"

Ye Qin reached out to wipe the sweat from his forehead, turned to look at Yu Weili, and said in confusion.

After entering the stadium for inspection, he started to warm up on the warm-up track. Although it was just a preliminaries, he was more careful and serious than the World Youth Championship finals he participated in before.

"It's OK." Yu Weili walked to Ye Qin, "You have enough time to warm up."

"Huh?" Ye Qin looked at Yu Weili with a little confusion. In the past, his warm-up before the game was not too long, but according to the pace, he has only been doing the same thing now.

"Stay rest and get ready to play." Yu Weili shook his head and smiled, "You have been training and warm-up during the day today, and now your body is warming up."

Ye Qin took a deep breath, nodded, and turned to the remote inspection area. There were many athletes, coaches and staff in the indoor warm-up track, but in comparison, the sounds coming from time to time outside the venue are really exciting.

The men's 400m preliminaries start at 9:10 tonight, with a total of 8 preliminaries and a total of 64 contestants participating.

Similar to Ye Qin's previous three-shot finals, there are 24 players in three groups in the semi-finals. The rules for the promotion in the preliminary round are to directly advance to the top two in the group, and then to win the top eight with the best results among the remaining players.

Ye Qin was in the fourth group of the preliminaries. According to the check-in procedure, after the first few groups of preliminaries finished the competition, Ye Qin followed the athletes from various countries in the same group to queue up and waited for entry.

At 9:25 pm, after the third group of the preliminaries left the court, the fourth group of the preliminaries, Ye Qin was in, passed through the corridor and entered the Olympic Stadium.

The light in the corridor was a little dim, and after just over ten meters, the eyes suddenly became bright, just like the sky light falling. Just now, the shouts that could be heard were vaguely amplified, and at this time it seemed that it had magnified thousands of times in an instant, like waves, surging towards people.

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Standing on the runway, Ye Qin looked up at the dark heads and various flags and slogans around him, using the lights hanging above his head.

He is the eighth way, near the edge of the way, but also closer to the audience and the stands.

Although there was no particularly intense cheering or shouting because it was the preliminaries, as long as the slightest voice reached a scale of 60,000 to 70,000 people, the entire stadium could also create waves of buzzing sounds.

When he passed the corridor from the inspection and reading area and walked onto the runway, Ye Qin felt a little dizzy, excited, nervous, excited, worried, and all kinds of emotions seemed to suddenly surge in his heart.

This is the Olympics!

I am standing in the Olympics now!

Ye Qin looked up and saw that this was a bigger stage than the World Little Championship, the City Games and the World Youth Championship, and the stage that a track and field athlete dreamed of.

On the day he walked on the track and started practicing sports, he never thought that this day would appear in his life, and he would have the luck to go on this stage.

If there is no track and no sports choice, where will it be at this moment?

Maybe it was still at Xiushui No. 2 Middle School. Maybe I could borrow money from various companies by pieced together and barely continue to attend classes. On such a hot summer, I spent my time in school with other classmates, hoping to get into college, and hoping to leave the villages, towns and counties, and gain a future that I can’t see clearly.

Sports, track and field, and sprint completely changed his life trajectory.

He remembered that in the summer before entering high school, he was still catching loaches in the paddy fields of Shangyun Village, picking up snails in the gurgling river, and moving red bricks that had just left the kiln in the brick kiln factory. His grandfather was planning to collect tuition for him. His biological father's indifference made him sad and indignant. His grandmother was thinking of ways to make him a few more dishes to serve.

Coach Nie gave him the final explanation in the ward of Grosseto Hospital, Ye Qin, don’t let the runway down.

He Jun entrusts his Olympic gold medal dream to him at the rehabilitation center.

The girl who grew up with her childhood and teenagers kept shouting at him behind him, "Ye Qin, come on!"

Yan Ning talked to him about his career in the playground of the school, and talking about sports that would change his life.

His original life trajectory should be similar to other teenagers who went to school in rural areas. His grades were not counted. Perhaps he could go to junior college and have good luck to go to junior college. He might be able to complete his studies smoothly after entering school through work-study.

It may also be unable to afford the tuition at the beginning of high school. My uncle may not be able to get married so smoothly. He may leave the school and go north or south with his friends or neighbors in the same village to start working in a foreign land, or work hard at a construction site, live in a small factory to learn some technology, or be a security guard, or something else...

Ye Qin could not predict which path he would take, but he had seen the people around him, those who came from the same background as him, probably from teenagers to young people, were probably the same.

Only this track is the road that is unlikely to appear in his original life trajectory.

From the school sports meeting to the city middle school sports meeting to the provincial youth championship... this seems to be how he ran over along the way.

No matter whether he is cold winter or hot summer, no matter what time or place he faces, he has been training hard and running hard!

And now, he has already entered the Olympics!

I can endure pain because I have more power than pain!

The lights in the Olympic Stadium were intertwined, the noise and noise in the audience seemed to boil like water. There were cameras and cameras he could not count on the side of the field, and their eyes were all in the stadium at this moment.

Ye Qin bent down, gently kissed the thick plastic track, stood up again, his eyes burning, as if burning.

He had never entered a sports school or a professional team before, and had never even thought about choosing the path of competitive sports.

On the field, he has the pursuit of championships, the unwillingness to falling behind others, and the desire to compete with top experts.

But he used to talk about the word Olympics by chance with Nie Fangping, and occasionally there was a little hope, but these things seemed to be as far away from him as the stars in the sky.

And now, I'm here!

I'm in the Olympics.

It seemed that in an instant, all the emotions gradually formed a thought.

Just run away, Ye Qin!

“onyourmarks!”

On the sidelines, a sound of reminding the players to take their seats rang out.
Chapter completed!