On the afternoon of September 9, 2007, the Raul-Gido Badi Stadium, which had been deserted for a period of time, was full of people, but the audience was full of more than 5,000 spectators, almost after noon.

Today is the day of the Le Ti Grand Prix, as Italy with two IAAF world tour events with both the Gold League and the Grand Prix, the public's love and attention to the track and field competition has been far more than some other ordinary countries.

The IAAF Grand Prix Leti, originally known as the Letti Games, was organized by Sandro-Jovanelli, a member of the IAAF Competition Commission, proposed by Sandro-Jovanelli, a member of the IAAF Competition Committee.There have been six world records in this stadium.

Although the World Athletics Championships have just ended less than a week, the number of participants in this year's Letti Grand Prix is very large, and the total number of men's and women's events exceeds ten competitions, attracting many of the world's top famous athletes to participate.

Among them, the number of men's 100 meters in the event is much higher than the general Grand Prix, with 15 people, and divided into two parts: preliminaries and finals.

And the men's 100m, as the only project with preliminaries and finals in this Grand Prix, the first one to debut at the beginning of the Grand Prix this afternoon is the 100m preliminaries.

In the waiting area of Raul-Gidabadi Stadium, Asafaville looked blankly at the athletes who had walked the men's 100 meters from a distance from the front.

“Michael Flat, Wallace Spearmont, Marvin Anderson, Brandon Christie...”

Some of these people he and are familiar with, Michael Flat and Marvin Anderson, both of whom are Jamaican track and field athletes, and his partners with a lot.

Wallace-Spearmont is no stranger to him, as the world's first men's 200 meters special athletes, although he does not know why he participated in the men's 100 meters in the Ledi Grand Prix, but it is nothing more than trying to be like Jason Gabi and Ye Qin.

“As for the others...”

Asafaville could not help but shake his head, if it was a change of hand, except for a few athletes, he would not care who the other opponents were.

Especially these people are not in a group with him in the preliminaries, and some of the people he just noticed are the first group of the preliminaries, he is the second group of the preliminaries.

Even if he really wants to be vigilant and pay attention to his opponent, he will be in the final before.

But this game, he did not know why he inadvertently began to pay attention to these people, pay attention to their names, and will think of their best results, whether they will be a threat to themselves.

"Don't think so much, Asafaville, you need to be firm in your faith."

Gently adjusting his breathing, Asafaville re-opened the warm-up track and did another start-up exercise.

His warm-up had not been taken so seriously before, but since the Osaka World Championships, he had always felt an unprecedented pressure.

It seemed that he could feel the players who were waiting for the second preliminaries together, and his eyes were on him.

Not only players, but media reporters should be around him after they want to come out.

In particular, the next game he did not do well...

Just like in Osaka before, he came down from the men's 100 meters, and the media reporters interviewed him no less than he had won the championship before, but these people did not come to congratulate him, but with a little tangle.

"Yeqin and Jason Gaby put a lot of pressure on me after the game, when I was 80 meters faster at the end of the time to see Ye Qin catch up, my perspective in the afterglow noticed that his feet were already in the same position as me, I was a little panicked.I didn't join the final gold medal race, I gave up in the race, and I stopped running at that moment."

—— On August 27, 2007, in the face of an interview with the British BBC Television, the Jamaican general and world record holder admitted that he lost his mentality in the 100-meter final, rather than his personal strength.

Former American sprinter Michael Johnson was critical of Asafaville's performance and said: "In the men's 100-meter matchup at the World Championships, every athlete should be given all the distractions, but we can clearly see Asafaville he is thinking, I want to lose, I will lose, and then he gave up the game at that time."Winning and losing is not the most important thing, the real disappointment is that he bowed his head against his opponent!”

Asafaville stood silently on the warm-up track, haunting his mind with many of the criticisms he had seen during the week.

He admitted that he was not enough, and his mentality was not adjusted well enough.

But even so, no press conference let him go, let a world record holder in the world championship men's 100 meters final track was defeated by other players this news.

He understood that what Michael Johnson said was true, the other side looked very thoroughly, and he was on the 100-meter track of the final of the world championships, and the short moment of thinking was all to be analyzed.

But inside, he still felt pain and anger!

“I’m going to break my own world record in 2007 and yes, I promise everyone that I’m in good shape and I have that strength!”

At the beginning of the year, when the interview with reporters seemed to be in the picture, but after the world championships failed miserably, some people took out the words he said to ridicule him.

In the face of Yechin and Jason Gaby's positive challenge, he lost, the loser naturally did not deserve sympathy, even if he held the world record.

The men's 100m world record of 9.77 seconds, he ran for the first time at the 2005 Athens Grand Prix, breaking Maurice Green's previous world record and reaching the 100-meter Flyer's throne.

Then, in 2006, he twice ran 9.77 seconds to tie his world record in Gatshead and Zurich, but after the World Championships, it seems that the honour has lost its former light.

“I don’t want to be a laughing stock.”

Asafaville clearly felt his blood rushing, his whole body was hot and hot, and the depression and loss a week after the end of the world championships, before the Retty Grand Prix, he could no longer suppress it.

At the world championships, his fourth baton performance was very good, from the baton to the fourth position, chasing to the second place, for the Jamaica 4 × 100 meters relay team to a silver medal, and breaking the Jamaican men's 4 × 100 meters national record.

I lost to Ye Qin and Jason Gabi in the men's 100m face-to-face match, but I still ran within 10 seconds, and I couldn't say much in 9.9 seconds.

I just didn’t play well!

“Asafa, Asafa...”

A low cry interrupted his reverie.

Asafaville turned around and saw himself in Jamaica 4×100m teammate Dwight Thomas calling himself.

“It’s time to go!”

Dwight-Thomas beckoned to Asafaville, indicating that the time had come for the game.The first group of players in the men's 100m preliminaries ended, and the second group of players arrived at the time of play.

“Hi Asafa, are you okay?”

Dwight-Thomas looked at Asafaville in a silent look and asked with a somewhat concerned tone.

He is two years older than Asa Faveil, is a special men's 100 meters and men's 110 meters hurdles for the Jamaican track and field team, before the rise of Asafaville in the men's 100 meters, he helped the Jamaican track team win many of the Central American Caribbean waters in various events.At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he won the fifth place in the 200m.

However, although the strength of Jamaican athletics at that time was not weak, the overall level was not particularly prominent compared with other Caribbean countries, and the gap was far from the United States.

The Jamaican sprint project really qualified to challenge the U.S. team, or start with the rise of Asafaville.After breaking the world record held by Maurice Green for six years in 2005, Asafaville brought unprecedented confidence to Jamaican athletics.

Although many people have questioned Asafaville's ability to compete during this time, and the poor mentality of the competition, as the same track team teammate, Dwight Thomas and Usain Bott and some other Jamaican athletes are willing to stand behind him and support him.

Running is never easy.

Especially world-class competitions, the pressure to bear is unimaginable to outsiders.Asafaville could not bear the burden of the competition, although they felt sorry, but they were able to understand deeply.

Men's 100 meters world first throne is not so easy to sit, a little careless, play mistakes, will become the object of everyone's attack.

“It’s all right, Dwight!”

Asafaville shook his head slowly, still a little cold.

Dwight-Thomas has a good relationship with him, the two were teammates in the Jamaica Relay team in 2002, but there are some things that can only be tasted alone and cannot be shared with outsiders.

“Relax, Asa!”Dwight-Thomas gently patted Asafaville on the shoulder and smiled with white teeth, "Although the world championships are big scenes, but man, it is just a game after all."It's normal to win or lose, but you look at you're on the track again, you're on the track, and you're going to have a lot of games to play, and if you're always immersed in the past, your whole sports career is over."

Asafaville was slightly silent, looking at Dwight-Thomas, suddenly a smile in the corner of his mouth, and held out his fist and gently touched the other person, "Brother, you are right!"

The match of the World Championship has passed, whether it is scolding me or ridiculed, the game is over.

From the moment I saw Ye Qin on the track chasing me, the moment I was panicked, the race was over.

What I need to face now is not what has passed, what I need to face is what is coming.

I came to Italy to participate in the men's 100 meters race, not for this?

A game is important, as a professional athlete, lose, but I have the back of the game, there are a lot of games behind.

It seemed that much of what had been thought in mind had become clear after Dwight Thomas had spoken clearly.

No need to feel sorry for yourself, the game continues!

“Come on, Dwight, go!”After recalibrating his mind, the heavy color of Asafaville's face gradually faded, and there was no longer hesitation in his eyes, replaced by the former first-world fighting spirit.

...

“On your marks!”

In Raul-Gidabadi Stadium, the men's 100m preliminaries begin in the second group.

Asafaville stood on the sixth track and turned a deaf ear to the various sounds in the grandstand on the sidelines.For the various cameras raised by reporters on the right side of the runway, completely ignored.

The opponents who stood beside him were all he knew, Mark Burns of Trinidad and Tobago, Kim Collins of Saint Kitts and Nevis, his own teammate Dwight Thomas, and two players from the unfamiliar home of Italy, from Hank Palmer of Canada and others.

But now it doesn’t matter.

This race, this track, unless there is Jason Gable and Ye Qin in, the others will not be in his eyes.

He took a breath, walked slowly up the runner, and leaned over and waited.

“SET!”

Bing!

The shooting of the match.

Asafaville almost rushed out of the runway almost at the sound of the gunfire, a powerful pedal, an instant muscle burst, just a start, Asafaville showed his top start-up explosive strength.

Close to a meter nine height, nearly two hundred pounds of body size, strong muscle strength, at this moment through a short start to accelerate the show.

The seventh track, Trinidad and Tobago Mark Burns, started also very fast, but after only two steps from the start, Asafaville was overtaken by Asafaville.

And the fifth track of the Italian Alessandro Guazi, who is on the left side of Asafaville, feels that he has just lifted his head and is ready to accelerate, and the Asafaville around him has already "buzz" like a sports car.

10 meters, 20 meters, 30 meters...

Asafavir rushed out of the starting line and ran to the first position of the eight players in just a few steps, and continued to improve the speed.

In a short accelerated running stage, the other players have been separated by one or two positions.

Forty meters, 50 meters, 60 meters...

The faster Asafaville ran, he almost emptied everything in his mind, and his eyes were only on the finish line ahead, whether it was the opponents around him, the reporters and the audience on the sidelines, or the various media reports and criticisms of those time, at this time, these things were left behind by him.

He just wants to run!

Run with all your strength!

70 meters, 80 meters, 90 meters...

Asafaville was like a flash of lightning, and behind him Kim Collins and Dwight-Thomas, Mark Burns, these world-class fear athletes, almost felt a little incredible at this moment.

Asafaville is too fast!

After the start, like a flash of lightning, rushed out at once!

This is the preliminaries!

And it's just a preliminaries of the Grand Prix, shouldn't top players like Asafaville save their strength and run a good result while waiting for the final?

Asafaville, who was running at the speed, also seemed to hear the voices of his opponents behind him, in the position of ninety meters, approaching the finish line, as if he had just returned to God, and he was running a men's 100 meters preliminaries.

The thoughts in Asafaville's mind flashed, maintaining a state of high-speed galloping while slowing down, and the body crossed the finish line with inertia.

Crossing the finish line, slowly trotting to slow down, Asafaville subconsciously looked at the timing plate on the side of the court, and for an instant, his whole person was somewhat stunned.

9 in 74 seconds!

9 in 74 seconds!

“I broke my own world record again.”

Asafaville almost implausibly looked at the results on the timer card, he did not think that he actually ran 9.74 seconds in this group of preliminaries, and this is his last few steps obviously divided, put a little water results.

“Ah!”

Before the finish line, Asafaville roared!

He did it!

At the beginning of the year, he said that he would break the direct world record this year!

A week after the Osaka World Championships, he used a new world record again to correct his name!

Raul-Gedo Badi Stadium, more than 5,000 Italian spectators at the scene saw the results on the timer card, listened to the broadcast sounded this men's 100 meters game, Asdefavill broke the world record again, almost everyone did not react.

Because it was the first race of the Letti Grand Prix today, many people seem to have just sat down as their ass and have not fully entered the state of watching the race, but in the blink of an eye, a new 100-meter world record has been born before their eyes.

...

Two and a half hours later, when the whole Italian audience stared at the men's 100 meters final, waiting for Asafaville to perform a miracle again, breaking the world record of 9.74 seconds set in his preliminaries.

But this time the miracle failed to play again, Asa Favier failed to break the new world record set in his preliminaries again, but won the Men's 100m championship at the Letti Grand Prix with a staggering score of 9.78 seconds.