Zizhao Chuan: The Biggest Sportsman

Chapter 354 The Dawn Has Come
On August 8, the 23th World Athletics Championships officially kicked off at the Stade de France in Paris, France.

For this World Championships, the media from all countries are unanimously pessimistic before the start of the tournament. Everyone thinks that this will be a mediocre World Championships.

First of all, except for Guo Zizhao who still maintains a huge lead in the four individual events this year, the other competitors are all weaklings.

Obikveru retired due to injury, and the performances of Maurice Green, Montgomery, Chambers, Campbell, Fredericks, Collins and other old people this year are also lackluster.However, newcomers such as Gatlin, Powell, and Brown are still too immature, and there is a huge gap with Guo Zizhao in terms of personal strength and competition experience.

So this year's men's sprint event is probably Guo Zizhao's solo performance.

Secondly, there are also many famous players who failed to participate in other events.Jones, the female trapeze artist, just gave birth to a son for Montgomery this year and has not returned yet.Radcliffe, the first in the women's middle and long distance race, withdrew due to injury, and Edwards, the No. 1 triple jumper, also withdrew due to injury.This has dimmed the starlight of this World Championship a lot.

Finally, according to the weather forecast, the weather in Paris was around 35-38 degrees Celsius during the period when the World Championships started.Such a hot climate is also not conducive to the performance of the players.

Therefore, the media were not optimistic about any exciting games in this World Championships before the game.

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The Chinese team also sent a strong team of more than 30 people to participate this time.Chen Yanhao, Liu Feifei, Chen Haijian, Shen Yunbao, Yang Yaozhou and Xu Ziyu in the men's sprint event are also all present.

In the men's 110-meter hurdles event, Shi Dongpeng also reached the A standard.However, in the face of the strong strength of the other three, Xiao Shi's level is still far behind!In addition, Shi Dongpeng didn't have much competition experience, so Feng Shuyong could only reluctantly give up.

Alas, I didn't expect that our Chinese track and field team would also have a day when there were too many qualified players!Feng Shuyong suddenly felt that this could be considered a kind of happy trouble...

In addition to participating in four individual events this time, Guo Zizhao will also lead the relay team to participate in the men's 4x100m relay competition.Judging from the current strength of the relay team, the hope of hitting a medal is still not small.

However, before the start of the competition, Guo Zizhao was doing warm-up exercises while chatting with the system in his mind about the launch of the new project.

"Have you decided? Just start the swimming event as your second phase of the task?" The system also confirmed to Guo Zizhao again.

"Well, let's go swimming. I've been waiting for almost two years, and now I'm finally convinced. I'm going to start killing in the swimming pool next year, and it's just right to start now." Guo Zizhao also said excitedly, " After this World Championships is over, I will have the swimming skills given by the system, so why should I be afraid!"

"Okay. Just make your decision." The system nodded in agreement, "What about the specific event? The 50-meter and 100-meter freestyle that you decided before?"

"Well! This time I will do the 100-meter freestyle first, and next time I will do the 50-meter freestyle. In next year's Olympics, I will add two more gold medals! Haha..."

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It turned out that just a month ago, the [-]th World Swimming Championships came to an end in Barcelona, ​​Spain.

The performance of the Chinese swimming team in this World Swimming Championships can be described as mixed.

In the women's event, relying on the excellent performance of the "Frog Queen" Luo Xue, she won the world championship of the 50 frogs and 100 frogs.He also cooperated with his teammates to win the 4x100m mixed relay championship.

同时，女队还在200自、200蛙、200混合泳和4x200米自由泳接力上，拿下了四枚铜牌。

This time the harvest of 3 gold and 4 bronze made Zhang Dongya, the person in charge of the women's team and Luo Xue's head coach, very happy.

However, compared to the great achievements of the women's team, the men's swimming team is still in a bleak situation.Apart from the fact that two men's events had reached the finals, there was nothing to be proud of.In the end, the men's event was still nothing.

After returning to China, the head coach Zhao Ge also felt that his face was shameless, so he voluntarily resigned as the head coach of the swimming team and returned to Guangdong Province to become the head coach of his Guangdong swimming team.The deputy head coach Zhang Dongya is temporarily acting as the head coach, and it is estimated that he will have to rectify it in the next year.

At the same time, the performance of the Chinese diving team in this World Championships was not satisfactory. Only 10 of the 4 diving gold medals were won, and the only men's gold medal was not an Olympic event.Compared with the last Fukuoka World Championships, when the Chinese diving team won 1 gold medals, it is a step back a lot!
In the end, at this World Swimming Championships, the Chinese team dropped from the second place in the previous gold medal list to the fourth place this time with 7 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 8 bronze medals.

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It's okay to drop in rankings, but judging from this World Championships, the swimming strength of other countries has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years.

In addition to the established powers the United States and Australia, countries such as Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands have also made great progress in strength.Even neighboring Japan has made rapid progress in men's events in the past two years.

Moreover, young talented players from various countries are also taking the stage one after another.American teenager Phelps broke the world record 5 times in this World Championships.Kosuke Kitajima, a young player from Japan, also won two breaststroke gold medals.

All of this made the travel management center feel a little stressed.

The Athens Olympics is less than a year away, and now there is an urgent need for a stable gold spot!Since Guo Zizhao wants to participate in the swimming competition, let him come.Who cares if he can get the gold medal?Treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor...

Therefore, the tourism management center also responded to Uncle Li.Guo Zizhao is welcome to participate in next year's National Swimming Championships as an outsider. If his performance is outstanding, he may consider representing the national swimming team in the Athens Olympics next year.

Now that the tourism management center had expressed its position, Guo Zizhao quickly climbed up the pole and agreed directly.Haha... Lao Tzu's swimming event is finally about to open, and it's not in vain that I've been waiting for almost two years.

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The first few days before the start of the World Championships are all preliminaries for various events, which is not difficult for Guo Zizhao.

Chen Haijian and Shen Yunbao also successfully passed the men's 100m preliminaries.However, Xu Ziyu was eliminated in the men's 400m preliminaries.

Xiao Xu's performance has been unstable since he was injured in last year's Asian Games.In addition, among this group of new players, he has the least competition experience, so being eliminated this time was expected.

In the next semi-finals, Shen Yunbao also failed to break through.After all, Shen Yunbao is also 27 years old this year. Although his explosive power is still good, he is a little lacking in physical strength.In the end, we could only stop at the semi-finals.

Chen Haijian played well this time, and was lucky enough to get into the final with a time of 10 seconds.This also made everyone on the representative team ecstatic.In addition to Guo Zizhao, the Chinese team has finally entered the finals of the men's 12-meter flying race!
But what everyone didn't expect was that a few minutes later, in another group of semi-finals that Guo Zizhao participated in, something ridiculous happened.

"Hi...Guo Zizhao, you are my idol! I decided to become a professional athlete after watching your game!" Just before going on the field, Powell, a rising star from Jamaica, ran up to Guo Zizhao and said excitedly up.

"Oh... Powell? Hehe, you Jamaica is a place where the world's top sprinters are produced! You have to work hard!" Guo Zizhao looked at the big black man in front of him, and he was stunned for a moment, and then said meaningfully arrive.

"Well! I will be a top player in the future!" Powell said excitedly at this time, "I can finally compete with you today, and I want to challenge you! Although I may not be your opponent now, But I also want to let you see my strength!"

"Oh..." Guo Zizhao also looked at this young man with great interest, hehe, in the past few years, even Green has not dared to be so arrogant in front of him.Boy, how dare you say that...

"Okay! Then run well later, let me see your strength..." Guo Zizhao also said with a smile, but he didn't expect that a few minutes later, Powell would be tragic in front of people all over the world...

(End of this chapter)