July 10 at 19 pm, Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy.x.

As one of the more famous stops in the IAAF Golden League, the Golden Track and Field Competition at Rome has always paid great attention to it.

On the indoor warm-up track, Jason Gaby, who had finished warming up, looked at the athletes walking back and forth around him, and his expression was slightly dazed for a moment.

"Jason, keep calm, what will start soon is the preliminaries!"

Lance Broman looked at Jason Gaby's expression, as if he could see his heart at a glance, and handed Jason Gaby a bottle of mineral water and whispered.

"I watched this game. In addition to Ye Qin and Asafaville, Daniel Bailey from Antigua and Barbuda seems to be in good shape recently."

Jason Gaby glanced around the track and field stadium and saw one of the athletes who looked quite handsome above the black man. She whispered to the coach next to her.

"I ran into the 10-second mark in May and June this year, and the momentum is good, a bit like Derek Atkins of the Bahamas in 2007." Jon Drummond, another starting coach of Jason Gaby, nodded and said.

Bahamas player Derek Atkins was very strong in 2007. Although he was still a certain distance from Jason Gaby, he had been running in major events many times within 10 seconds, and many Grand Prix rankings were only below Jason Gaby, Asafaville and Ye Qin.

At that time, many people in the International Field World began to pay attention to the Bahamian sprinter, but unfortunately the opponent's good form lasted for only one season and began to decline after 2008.

Lance Brownmann was not released from prison at that time in 2007, but as a track and field coach, he basically paid attention to the athletes participating in the competition, and then said: "I heard that he was Yusé Bott's training partner before, and it is not surprising that he has this level and ability. However, he is not the focus of Jason. Your goal is Ye Qin and Asafaville. You don't have to meet them in the preliminary round. This is a good thing. With such a schedule, you can devote more energy to the finals later."

"Yes." Jason Gaby nodded solemnly.

But my eyes swept over the warm-up track again, and several familiar figures came into view. Since there were many players in the Golden League at Rome this year, the A-group competition system did not adopt the same as other sites, but the preliminaries and finals.

Jason Gaby was in the first group of the preliminary rounds, and he had two opponents he had to face most in this game, Ye Qin and Asafaville were in the second group.

"Okay, get ready to play!" Lance Broman could see what Jason Gaby was paying attention to, and reached out and patted the other person's shoulder.

He knew the pressure Jason Gaby was under, but he also believed that this most outstanding disciple in his entire coaching career would definitely achieve results that amazed the world.

On the other side, on the indoor warm-up track, Ye Qin was leaning over and squatting on the runner, silently chanting the familiar starting rhythm in his mind, then quickly rushed out of the runner, ran for more than 20 meters in one breath, and did the second starting exercise.

The same figure followed Ye Qin and ran quickly with him. The two of them basically stopped at the same position.

"Asafa, aren't you going to compete with me during this warm-up?"

Looking at Asafaville beside him, Ye Qin smiled and greeted the other party. The relationship between us was not particularly deep, but we started to meet each other because of Yusai Bot in 2005, and we met in various competitions later, which was quite familiar.

Asafaville smiled faintly, reached out and shook Ye Qin, and said with a smile: "Beat you during the warm-up first, so that I can be more motivated when the game is later."

"Hahaha, are you sure there is no problem, man?" Ye Qin replied with a smile, "How is your condition recovering recently?"

"You will know when you come on the court." Asafaville smiled, "It will definitely not disappoint you. I also want to defeat you and Yusé Bott in this year's World Championships."

"I believe you can." Ye Qin nodded, then added with a smile, "Well, that guy who won Yousai Bot must be fine."

"Hahaha..." Asafaville laughed heartily.

After paying for injuries at the end of June, Asafaville was not in very good shape in the previous men's 100-meter races, and he failed to run into 10 seconds in two or three consecutive games.

However, in the past few days, he felt that after several games, his personal condition was recovering. Not to mention that he would definitely beat Ye Qin, but at least it should cause some trouble to the other party.

We are all old acquaintances and compete in track and field competitions. We occasionally visit our opponents in an extremely important position in private, but we can still say a few words in person.

...

At 19:30 pm, in the Olympic Stadium in Rome, there were surging crowds. In the audience of more than 70,000 people, there were already 50,000 spectators waiting.

The track and field atmosphere in Italy has always been quite good. It has hosted many track and field events. In addition to the annual Golden League, the World Youth Championship in 2004 and this year's World Youth Championship have been hosted, attracting many people to watch.

Tonight's men's 100m competition has become the focus of publicity for the organizers before the game, and it is also the most anticipated event for the audience.

When nine players from the first group of men's 100m preliminaries entered the stadium and stood at the starting line, almost everyone applauded enthusiastically.

Jason Gaby stood in the ninth position, listening to the cheers of the audience in his ears, and only felt that his blood seemed to be boiling.

After injury at the US Championship last year, it was more than a year since he came to Europe to compete again. Because he is now ranked in the men's 100 meters, his passes were arranged to be the most marginal in this game.

The ninth route.

Since Jason Gaby entered the track and field, there have been few passes on such a margin, but he didn't care much about this.

It's just a preliminaries.

After the preliminary round ends, he believes that in the finals, he will soon return to the middle pass.

In his group of competitions, in addition to two Italian sprinters, four American players, including him, himself, Travis Padgett, Mark Jacks, Michael Rogers, and several others worthy of his attention were Daniel Bailey mentioned before the game and coach, as well as Michael Flat of Jamaica and Kurandy Martina of Andres.

Not mentioning several American players, the other powerful ones are all old opponents he has ever faced. Jason Gaby knows their strength.

After a gunshot, the game began soon!

Jason Gaby's starting reaction to break out of the starting line was not particularly outstanding, but soon after entering the acceleration link of the run on the way, Jason Gaby gradually began to lead.

Fifty meters, sixty meters, seventy meters... Jason Gaby's speed is getting faster and faster!

The audience only saw the ninth outermost path, and a figure was as fast as lightning, quickly surpassing other contestants.

"Prepare to cross the line!"

Seeing that Jason Gaby was almost trying hard to become the first in the group, at this moment, a figure suddenly followed behind, as if he had grasped the steps before Jason Gaby crossed the finish line and relaxed from behind.

9 seconds 96!

When the audience saw this result, they all gave warm applause to the players on the finish line. If the preliminaries can reach the 10-second mark, the finals will definitely be better than this result.

However, when this set of preliminary results appeared on the big screen on the scene, Jason Gaby frowned slightly and glanced at the other players on the finish line.

The first and second in the group were both 9.96 seconds, the difference was that it was in the first tens of minutes. However, it was not him, but Daniel Bailey, the Antigua and Barbuda player who he noticed before the game, performed very well.

Since he was the ninth road at the edge and did not pay special attention to the position of the contestants on other roads, he was still overtaken after taking a few steps in the end.

Fortunately, even the second-place finish in the group was able to advance to the finals, Jason Gaby just reminded himself again in his heart.

After completing the first set of preliminaries, the Rome Olympic Stadium soon ushered in the second game of the men's 100m preliminaries.

Compared with the first game of the preliminaries, the applause from the audience in the second game was obviously much warmer.

Although Jason Gaby was once the top player in the men's 100m event, he was two years ago after all. The audience was naturally more looking forward to Ye Qin and Asafaville in the same preliminaries group.

Especially Ye Qin, as the first person in the men's 100m project, his face can be easily distinguished in the eyes of many face-blind European and American audiences.

In this group of preliminaries, there are also nine players, two Italian local players, two Trinidad and Tobago players, three Jamaican players and one Japanese player.

Among the several players, in addition to Asafaville, there were two other players who attracted Ye Qin's attention. One was the Japanese player Shenshi Gao Ping, who rarely met in the Golden League, and the other was a very strong Jamaican young athlete, Yuhan Blake.

This Jamaican boy who once fought at the 2006 Yanjing World Youth Championship has completely begun to grow up after three years of growth and has begun to step into the stage of a high-level Golden League.

However, Ye Qin did not take Yuhan Blake to heart. Now there are only a few people who can really make him feel alert.

After the gunfire sounded, Ye Qin took the lead and quickly broke out of the starting line.

Ye Qin did not go all out to run this preliminaries. After experiencing so many events, athletes at his level can fully grasp the current level of the men's overall 100 meters.

In the end, Ye Qin easily won the first place in the group with a time of 9.97 seconds, followed by Asafaville, with a time of 9.98 seconds.

Seeing the final result come out, Ye Qin could clearly feel that Asafaville's condition was recovering just before the game, not just a word.

In the previous airport competition, Asafaville failed to run into the 10-second mark without all his strength. In this match with him, he ran into the 10-second mark in the preliminaries. You can imagine that the opponent's condition is absolutely not bad.

This is just a few days apart from the Oslo Golden League and the Super Grand Prix at the Lausanne Station where Asafaville participated.

"Get up in the finals!"

After getting off the court, Ye Qin also learned about the results of the previous preliminaries. Jason Gaby and Daniel Bailey both ran 9.96 seconds in the preliminaries, which is a signal.

The finals may be harder than he thinks!

...

Two hours later.

21:30 pm.

In the Olympic Stadium in Rome, the atmosphere began to enter the highest level of this year's Golden League.

Fifty thousand spectators came to watch the game. Although I dare not say that they were all for the man 100 meters, at least more than 80% of them were looking forward to the showdown between the top masters in this event.

Ye Qin, Asafaville, Jason Gaby, three of the world's best male 100m athletes will have a head-on showdown this year.

On the big screen on the scene, the list of 9 contestants in the men's 100m final tonight appeared in front of everyone:

The first route, Michael Flat, Jamaica;

Second, Richard Thompson, Trinidad and Tobago;

The third route, Daniel Bailey, Antigua and Barbuda;

The fourth road, Jason Gaby, United States;

The fifth way, Ye Qin, China;

The Sixth Path, Asafaville, Jamaica;

The seventh way, Steve Mullins, Jamaica;

The eighth road, Yuhan Blake, Jamaica;

The ninth road, Michael Rogers, United States;

On a corner of the audience, a tall figure dressed in casual outfit with a baseball cap couldn't help but stand up when he saw the list of contestants appear on the scene.

"Yusai, sit down, as soon as you stand up and wait a lot of people will recognize you."
To be continued...