Zizhao Chuan: The Biggest Sportsman

Chapter 629 Contest with Phelps
在本届京城奥运会上，郭子昭一共是参加了8个项目的比赛。除了男子100米、200米、400米、110米栏之外，还有游泳项目中的男子50米、100米和200米的自由泳项目。最后，就是男子4x100米短跑的接力了！
而菲尔普斯这次的参赛项目跟郭子昭预计的一样，同样也是参加了8个项目的比赛，分别是男子100米和200米的蝶泳，200米和400米的混合泳，200米的自由泳，还有4x100米自由泳接力、4x100米混合泳接力和4x200米自由泳接力！

Therefore, the only event where the two have overlap is the men's 200-meter freestyle.Since the competition between Guo Zizhao and Phelps was exposed, who can win the most gold medals in this Olympic Games has also become the focus of all media discussions.

Both of them were originally super overlords in their respective fields, and both were super gold medal harvesters.However, since Guo Zizhao suddenly crossed the border to play swimming at the Athens Olympics, everything has changed.

At the Athens Olympics, Guo Zizhao, like Phelps, won 6 Olympic gold medals, and together became the athlete who won the most gold medals in that Olympic Games!However, at that time, there was still no intersection between the two competitions.

But from the media's point of view, since Phelps made a high-profile announcement last year that he would win 8 gold medals in the Beijing Olympic Games, it seems that Guo Zizhao has been stimulated.

In the domestic Olympic trials at the beginning of this year, Guo Zizhao quietly added a 50-meter freestyle event in addition to participating in the 100-meter and 200-meter freestyle events.And this event is also one of the events that Phelps will compete in the Beijing Olympic Games!

Hiss... All the sports media got excited after seeing Guo Zizhao's move.

This is a challenge!This is Guo Zizhao's silent challenge!With Guo Zizhao's personality, since he dared to participate in the competition, he must be sure of winning the Olympic Games!In the end, Guo Zizhao's time of 1:42 won the championship, which also amazed the world swimming world...

This time, there is a good show to watch!

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And Phelps was also depressed after seeing Guo Zizhao's results in the men's 200-meter freestyle a few months ago.

I have practiced ambitiously for a year or two, and finally selected 5 personal events that I am sure to win the championship. I didn't expect Guo Zizhao to do such a trick for me!

The 100-meter and 200-meter butterfly strokes, and the 200-meter and 400-meter medley are all my strongest events, and they are also the events I am absolutely sure of winning. Since the last Athens Olympics, I have won the four-person event Basically never lost.But my advantage in the 200-meter freestyle event is not so obvious!

In the last Athens Olympics, I only won a bronze medal in the 200-meter freestyle event, and lost to Thorpe and Hoganband, who were in full swing at the time.

Just after the Athens Olympic Games, Phelps has achieved an absolute advantage in the butterfly and medley events, so he began to focus on the freestyle events, from 50 meters to 400 meters freestyle events, Phelps Tried all of them.

Even, in order to test his performance, Phelps also participated in the 2005m, 100m and 200m freestyle events at the 400 Montreal World Championships.However, what makes Phelps depressed is that he was eliminated in the preliminaries in the 400-meter freestyle, and although the 100-meter freestyle entered the final, under the strong strength of Guo Zizhao, he could only be Desperately took the last place.

Therefore, Phelps stopped thinking about competing with Guo Zizhao in the short-distance freestyle event, and focused on the 200-meter freestyle event that Guo Zizhao did not participate in.

In the past two years, with the gradual improvement of his strength, coupled with the retirement and aging of Thorpe and Hoganband, Phelps has also achieved very good results in the 200-meter freestyle event, even He also won two world championships and set a new world record.However, Phelps also knew in his heart that in this event, he did not achieve absolute dominance like butterfly stroke and medley stroke.

Now that Guo Zizhao did such a trick suddenly, Phelps is secretly regretting it.Sigh... I blame myself for being too complacent after winning the championship. I actually forgot that there is such a monster as Guo Zizhao in the Chinese team!If I have nothing to do and clamor to win 8 gold medals in this Olympic Games, isn't that slapping Guo Zizhao in the face?
This is great, Guo Zizhao actually signed up for 8 competitions, and there is another competition that is the same as his own, which is the 200-meter freestyle, which is his weakest strength, which makes him feel a little bit embarrassed!

尤其是郭子昭在200米自由泳项目上1分42秒10的惊人成绩，不但是打破了自己去年刚刚创下的世界纪录，还把这个世界纪录提高了近2秒啊！

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Hiss... Thinking of this, Phelps also felt a little headache.Phelps has never doubted Guo Zizhao's strength in the short-distance freestyle event.

Although Guo Zizhao has not participated in many international swimming competitions, every time he takes a shot, he must break the world record.Phelps even suspected that if Guo Zizhao took swimming as his main event, he probably would have nothing to do with him.

The visitor is not good!Maybe, this time I guess it will be the same as the last Athens Olympics, and my dream of winning 8 Olympic gold medals will be shattered again!

At this time, Phelps was also staring at Guo Zizhao who lit the torch at the opening ceremony, his eyes were full of envy and a hint of fear.If only I had such a glorious day in the future...

Hmph... Although you, Guo Zizhao, are powerful, I won't give up so easily! At the World Championships in Montreal three years ago, I lost to you in the 3-meter freestyle event. This time, let’s compete again in the 100-meter freestyle event!

On August 8th, the competitions of the Beijing Olympic Games will officially kick off, and the first to start are still shooting, weightlifting, judo, cycling, fencing and swimming.

For other games, Guo Zizhao didn't care too much this time.Hehe... According to the memories of my previous life, in this year's Beijing Olympic Games, Chinese athletes won 51 gold medals in one fell swoop, and for the first time they climbed to the top of the gold medal list with a huge advantage!What else do you have to worry about...

No, in this life, it should be said that this is the second time that the Chinese team has successfully won the first place in the gold medal list!In the last Athens Olympics, with my help, the Chinese team has historically won the first place in the gold medal list!
Hehe... This time in the Beijing Olympics, it will be much easier for the Chinese team to take the first place again...

According to the schedule of this Olympic Games, the swimming competition will start on the evening of the 9th and end on the 21st.However, the three projects that Guo Zizhao participated in started on the evening of the 3th and officially ended on the morning of the 9th. On the morning of August 15, there was only Guo Zizhao’s 8-meter freestyle final.

The track and field competition also happened to start on the morning of the 15th and end on the 22nd.Moreover, the morning of the 15th is the preliminaries for the men's 100-meter sprint.

Although the competition schedule of the day overlapped, there was still more than half an hour between the men's 100-meter sprint preliminaries and the 50-meter freestyle final.Moreover, the distance between the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube is only about 5 minutes away, so this is no problem for Guo Zizhao.

Hmm... Just think of it as a warm-up before the finals!

Moreover, the swimming competition in this Olympic Games is different from the previous competition schedule.That is, in this Olympic Games, the preliminaries of swimming competitions are arranged in the evening, while the semifinals and finals are arranged in the morning.This is exactly the opposite of the arrangement of previous international swimming competitions.

Therefore, all the contestants have to start adjusting their state one or two months in advance, and strive to adjust their best state to the morning, so as to swim better results.

At 8:9 on the evening of August 06th, the swimming competition of this Olympic Games officially started.The first start was the men's 30-meter individual medley preliminaries, and Phelps took the lead...

(End of this chapter)