In the past two years, Wei En has traveled extensively in Europe and the United States, and has also been to Qatar, which has a rich Middle Eastern style, but this is the first time he has visited a country like Turkey.

Türkiye is a very strange country.

From a geographical point of view, most of its territory belongs to Asia, but it is also an EU candidate country and is trying hard to squeeze into the European circle.

In the sports world, this is also the case.

Take track and field as an example. Although Turkey will also send teams to participate in the Asian Games and Asian Championships, many of its top athletes prefer to participate in European competitions.

For example, the relatively well-known sprinter in the field of sprinting is Amir Guriev, the men's 200-meter champion at the 2017 London World Championships. He was born in Lebanon and later joined Turkey. He has only participated in European competitions.

After arriving in this metropolis that spanned Asia and Europe and was once named "Constantinople", Wei En did not have time to appreciate the scenery of the city. The day after checking into the hotel, he met Su Bingtian and Liu

Xiang and others went to the Insteinburg Arena to adapt to the venue.

After entering the Unsteinburg Arena, Wei En quickly saw a familiar figure that he had been looking forward to for a long time.

He didn't come forward to say hello, because the two of them had agreed before arriving here that they would pretend to be "passers-by".

Yes, Kulkina is here too.

According to IAAF regulations, each team can send up to two people for each individual event at the World Indoor Championships.

The two female high jumpers sent by the Russian track and field team this time are one is last year's Daegu World Championships champion Chicherova, and the other is Kurkina.

Kulkina's ability to participate in this World Indoor Championships is also due to Wei En's contribution.

After terminating her contract with Gorkov, Kulkina re-selected Djabryan as her coach, but a very important problem is that Djabryan's coaching ability is still slightly insufficient for the time being.

Therefore, during the winter training at IMG Academy, Wei En paid for it out of his own pocket and asked IMG Academy to design a training program for Kulkina that was not inferior to Gorkov's.

Because of this, Kulkina was able to set a new personal best score of 1.98 meters at the Russian Indoor Track and Field Championships. At the same time, she defeated Yinlina Gordeeva and qualified for the Instanbul World Indoor Championships.

"Hey! Wayne, who are you looking at?"

Suddenly someone tapped his shoulder from behind. Wayne didn't hear it at first, so he turned his head and looked, oh - Yohan Blake?

Blake put his arm on his shoulder and looked in the direction of Wayne: "Ah~ So this is the type of girl you like?"

Wayne didn't pay attention to Blake's joking, looked him up and down, and found that Blake seemed to be even stronger than last year.

"Youhan, I'm curious, why did you come to participate in the indoor competition?"

"Is this strange? I participated in the indoor 60-meter competition in 2008."

Wei En rolled his eyes: "As long as you are happy."

Wayne could figure out the reason why Blake appeared here with his toes. It was just for him.

They said they were chasing Bolt together, and in private they were pretty good friends, but in their hearts they were all thinking, "I must not lose to him next time."

"It took me a lot of effort to convince Mills to allow me to come to Instanbul. Although I have not participated in an indoor 60-meter competition this year, I believe that I will be stronger this year than last year.

,I will definitely beat you this time!"

"Hahaha..." Wei En couldn't help but laugh: "I admit that after the Daegu World Championships, your competitive state is indeed a little better than mine, but in the 60-meter event...

.I can only say that you are thinking too much."

Wei En said this on his lips, but in fact he was already feeling jealous in his heart.

Although Blake at his peak will be known as Cheng Sunai, for an athlete of this level, no matter how weak his future is, he is still world-class. What's more, Blake is still a balanced 100-meter athlete, and his level in the first 60 meters at his peak is

Stable within 6 seconds 45.

If I remember correctly, Blake in his previous life even ran the first 60 meters in less than 6 seconds 35 seconds - 9 seconds 69 in the 2012 Diamond League Lausanne.

Of course, if an athlete who has adapted to the rhythm of outdoor 100-meter and 200-meter competitions all year round comes to participate in the 60-meter competition indoors, it is still unclear whether he can adapt to the rhythm.

Wei En estimates that with Blake's state this year, he is almost equal to competing with Su Bingtian in 2018, and may even be half a level better...

Originally, Wayne thought that when he came to Stanbul this time, he was just going to have a fight with Justin Gatlin, but who knew that Blake, the "Cheng Yaojin", would appear halfway through.

That's all, the troops will come to block it, and the water will come and the earth will cover it.

Blake has already appeared here anyway, and there is no way a battle can be avoided.

Before sending Blake away, Wayne didn't forget to get some information about Bolt, and Blake happily shared the "intelligence" with him.

Blake was somewhat complaining when he mentioned Bolt and Mills, because Mills did not come to Instanbul with him this time, and he and Bolt's itinerary has also been arranged for this year.

Blake said that after the outdoor season begins, Mills plans to let him compete in North America, while Mills himself will take Bolt to compete in Europe to avoid them competing before the Jamaican trials.

During training, Mills never conducts formal tests, so Blake is not sure what level Bolt is in now, but it will definitely not be worse than last year.

Yes, it was useless to ask.

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The group stage was a bit boring, at least compared to two years ago, Wei En didn't have the excitement.

The World Indoor Championships are different from the World Championships in that there is no qualifying round to screen out those "experience babies", so you can even see some wild card athletes in the group stage only running for more than 7 seconds.

Even...in the eighth group of preliminaries where Su Bingtian was, a Guinean athlete named alhassaa only ran a time of 8.12 seconds.

No kidding, this is really... you can have sex with you.

Wei En advanced to the semi-finals very easily in the first group of preliminaries with a time of 6.67 seconds. The overall level of opponents in the same group was very weak. No one except him ran under 6.8 seconds.

However, Su Bingtian was a bit "unlucky". He had not fully adapted to the change of pace behind the starting line. As soon as he came up, he met the famous English player Dewan Chambers in the eighth group of preliminaries, as well as the not weak Canadian player.

Player Michael LeBlanc.

The slow response of 0.215 seconds, coupled with the stiff rhythm throughout the whole process, caused Su Bingtian to only run 6.82 seconds, but fortunately, he advanced without any danger.

On the other side, Kulkina performed well and successfully advanced to the women's high jump final with a score of 1.95 meters.

In the evening, the men's 60m semi-final group list of the IAAF Indoor Championships in Instanbul was released, and the first confrontation between Wei En and Justin Gatlin - here it is!
Chapter completed!