After a summer vacation, a classmate became an Olympic champion?

Chapter 117 The Miracle of Lane Zero!

"I think we should wait until they finish their individual events!"

Shi Mingbo said calmly, but Zheng Kunliang beside him shook his head.

"Chen Shu has two more individual events tomorrow, plus the men's medley, which means he has to swim 5 shots a day!"

"He can't swim the sixth shot of the mixed men's and women's event anymore, right?"

"Don't get hurt, or it won't make up for the loss!"

Zheng Kunliang expressed his concerns: "Physical fitness aside, the World Cup gold medal is important, but Chen Shu is more important!"

"He is only 14 now, and it is the time for him to grow up. You can't do this!"

"So, we have to talk to him, after all-"

"He knows nothing. You said he would definitely swim. You can't see that this kid has a strong sense of honor!"

"I don't agree!"

"5 shots are the limit..."

Zheng Kunliang was talking there, and all the coaches were helpless.

In fact, everyone knows that what Zheng Kunliang said is right, but when it comes to the gains and losses of a gold medal...

"Forget it, Lao Zheng is right, let's be more cautious!"

"Okay, let's execute it according to the original plan!"

Finally, Cui Dengrong finally made a decision.

After all, compared with Chen Shu's future, a gold medal in the Swimming World Cup is really nothing!

The key is to let Chen Shu transition to the Los Angeles Olympics in a healthy manner.

The group chatted for a while and then returned to their rooms.

No words all night.

The next morning, on the 24th.

The last day of the Swimming World Cup, the final battle.

Chen Shu has two individual events this morning - men's 50m butterfly and 200m freestyle.

Besides, he will be the second to compete in the men's 50m butterfly. In front of him, there is only one women's 100m butterfly qualifier besides two men's and women's 400m mixed finals.

So Chen Shu has to start preparing early.

And the men's 200m freestyle is the second to last qualifier, and there is more than 2 hours between the two competitions.

With such a competition arrangement, physical recovery is more than enough!

"Come on, Brother Shu!"

"Try to win another gold medal!"

"The 100m butterfly is so strong, the 50m butterfly should be even stronger, right?"

"The super late race is too invincible!"

A crowd of people were blowing rainbow farts in Chen Shu's ears, but Chen 04 was sitting there, watching the live broadcast on TV in the backfield lounge.

What was being broadcasted right now was the men's 400m mixed final.

No player from China was shortlisted.

This event is currently dominated by white people.

After all, mastering four swimming styles and a 400-meter middle distance is a great challenge for swimmers!

However, there are two Japanese players in the final.

Chen Shu's words were still too early.

Seto Daiya, Matsushita Tomoyuki!

AndThe two also had very good results in the preliminaries, ranking second and third, second only to the French star, Marchand, the three-time gold medalist at the Paris Olympics.

Among them, Seto Daiya is the world record holder for this event, and his strength is still very strong.

He won fourth place in the 400m individual medley at the Paris Olympics.

Team member Matsushita Tomoyuki won the runner-up, and the two have the world's top strength in this event.

So this shows that Asian athletes can also have the possibility of competing for gold medals in this event.

"The reason why our medley looks average is that many athletes only practice single events!"

Cui Dengrong once talked about this problem with Chen Shu.

The Chinese Swimming Team has always followed a rule, that is, "insurance does not guarantee the whole"!

First, insure the single event, then the all-around.

This is different from all countries in the world.

For example, in Japan, many athletes practice all four swimming styles, just like gymnastics all-around, so Japanese gymnastics all-around is very strong.

And some Chinese gymnastics single events are very strong.

But gymnastics regulations require all-around athletes, so Chinese gymnastics is getting worse year by year.

But in swimming, there is no hard and fast rule of all-around.

If you are good at a single event, you can get a medal.

And medley is just one gold medal.

So compared to practicing four swimming styles, it is obviously more cost-effective to practice only one swimming style.

"In fact, medley athletes are the most pitiful!"

"They are not very outstanding in all four events, and they practice very hard, and the more mediocre they are, the better results they can get!"

"Being biased in one subject is actually more disadvantageous!"

This is why many medley athletes are not very famous.

However, there are also examples.

For example, Phelps is very strong in medley.

"If you are extremely biased, that's fine!"

Phelps' bias is that he is very fast in freestyle and butterfly, so even if his backstroke and breaststroke are average, his overall speed is still very fast.

The reason why Cui Dengrong told Chen Shu this is because... he should be the most suitable player in the current Chinese swimming team to impact the medley event.

He is just like Phelps, a genius with a super bias.

The only martial arts in the world that cannot be broken is speed.

When two of the four medley events are at a level that can break the world record, then the other two events are not so good.

After all, there is no one in the world who is so good at all four swimming styles. Many are mediocre in four events, but the sum of their strengths is outstanding.

For example, Seto Daiya, he is a "mediocre person in four events", but it does not prevent him from breaking the world record and winning the championship.

A group of top-quality horses plus three inferior horses are not as good as four medium-quality horses.

But your two super-strong special-quality horses, pulling two inferior horses, can surpass the four medium-quality horses.

However, Cui Dengrong obviously did not know that Chen ShuThe reason why Chen Shu is good at butterfly and freestyle is not because he swims fast, but because the system supports him fast.

So Chen Shu is actually similar to 400m medley and 400m freestyle.

The main difficulty is that he has to be familiar with these four swimming styles.

Once breaststroke and backstroke reach the same level as butterfly and freestyle, medley swimmers around the world will no longer be Chen Shu's opponents.

What is restricted by Chen Yu is never strength, but proficiency!

Only Chen Shu himself knows this.

So whether to practice medley or not depends on whether Chen Shu wants to... practice!

...

"First!"

"Seto Daiya defended his strength as a world record holder. After a year of suspension and cheating, he once again stood on the highest podium of 400m medley!"

The champion of men's 400m medley was finally won by Seto Daiya.

His teammate Matsushita Tomoyuki won a silver medal, just like in the Paris Olympics.

Marchand bronze medal.

This time, he didn't have the blessing of the French host and the swimming pool, and his underwater turns were not as good as Seto Daiya's, with 8 more turns than in the long pool in Paris. Of course, he was no match for Seto Daiya.

"Coach Cui, this is the first gold medal for the Japanese team, right?"

Wang Shun asked Cui Dengrong beside him.

"Yes, the first one!"

Cui Dengrong nodded: "Seto Daiya was also a legend back then. He and Sun Yang emerged at the Barcelona Swimming World Championships in 2013 and were hailed as the twin stars of Asian swimming!"

In the 2013 Barcelona Swimming World Championships, Sun Yang won the championships in the 400m, 800m and 1500m middle and long distance events. In the end, with 3 golds and 1 bronze, he shone in the world swimming arena and was also the best swimmer of that World Championships.

Seto Daiya won the gold medal in the 400m individual medley, breaking the monopoly of white people in Asia in this event.

In the short-course 400m medley, Seto Daiya's dominance is even stronger. He not only holds the world record for this event, but also has won gold medals from then on to now, without exception.

So far, he has won seven consecutive championships, plus the world record again. He is definitely the first person to have a gap in this event!

It's just that this guy has an undisciplined private life and was banned for one year by the Swimming Federation for cheating.

"Still strong!"

"Seven consecutive championships, a 31-year-old veteran!"

Cui Dengrong sighed, glanced at Chen Shu, and said earnestly: "Medley is not more age-sensitive than individual events. When the strength of individual events gradually loses its advantage, you can switch to medley!"

"Of course, it's too early for you now. Let's talk about it after you are 25 years old!"

"Hahaha!"

Everyone laughed there.

This is indeed the truth. Medley is a retirement project.

However, it's different for women.

The next women's 400m medley, the Canadian genius girlSummer McIntosh broke the record again and won the championship.

This is also her third gold medal in this World Cup.

"Only 18 years old... four swimming styles are mastered, amazing!" (To read the exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

Looking at McIntosh, Cui Dengrong thought of her opponent, her disciple Zhang Yufei.

It's a pity that Zhang Yufei's backstroke is average, otherwise, she is actually very suitable for practicing medley.

"Okay, get ready!"

"Yufei, you and Chen Shu are about to start!"

Zhang Yufei will swim the 100-meter butterfly next, and Chen Shu will swim the 50-meter! []

He was doing pre-match warm-up there, and Zhang Yufei had already walked into the player channel.

10 minutes later, Zhang Yufei advanced to the first final in the afternoon with the third place in the preliminaries.

The first and second place were both American players, Walsh and Husk.

It's true that he couldn't swim.

The gap is too big.

The two of them were nearly 1 second faster than Zhang Yufei in the 100-meter butterfly event on average.

"It's up to you, Brother Shu!"

"You have to defend the glory of butterfly stroke!"

"Butterfly King, come on!"

"Butterfly King!"

A crowd watched Chen Shu walk into the contestant channel. This time he was drawn into the first group of the preliminaries, and he didn't know any of his opponents.

However, there were not many players in the 50-meter butterfly, a total of five groups.

My previous opponents in the 100-meter butterfly, Milak and Dressel, were obviously participating.

"Now the whole network is betting on whether Brother Shu can break the world record of men's 50-meter butterfly!"

"The 100-meter butterfly has opened up so much of the previous world record!"

"Referring to his 100-meter freestyle and 50-meter freestyle, if nothing unexpected happens, this record... should be broken!"

"More or less!"

"Haha, are you all so confident?"

"Nonsense, Brother Shu's strength is here..."

"Don't be so toxic, don't open champagne at halftime!"

Pan Zhanle, Wang Shun and others were chatting in the backcourt, looking relaxed.

In fact, Cui Dengrong didn't know why, he also had an inexplicable intuition that Chen Shu should also be strong in the 50-meter butterfly event.

In addition to the confidence that Chen Shu gave him by breaking world records again and again, it should be from the keen experience of a coach.

A player who is strong in the 50-meter freestyle can basically do the 100-meter freestyle.

Similarly, the butterfly stroke also applies.

On the contrary, it is not true.

Just like Pan Zhanle's 50m freestyle is so-so now, but Chen Shu has been a 50m freestyle athlete since the beginning. Which swimming coach in the world doesn't know about his strength in the last half of the race and is not studying it? !

"Come on!"

Cui Dengrong watched Chen Shu walk out of the player channel, still in lane 0, this draw is amazing.

Generally speaking, there are 8 lanes in the finals, and lanes 0 and 9 are not used.

But in the preliminaries, there are 10.

There are ten lanes in standard swimming, 8 of which are used in the finals, and they are named 0-9. There is no such thing as the tenth lane, only lane zero.

"Okay, Chen Shu is already on the stage!"

"It seems that he is very relaxed!"

Niu Yinhao also laughed on TV: "It seems that this is the first time I see Chen Shu swimming in lane zero. I wonder if there will be a miracle in lane zero?"

"Let's wait and see!"

Swish——

Chen Shu, wearing black goggles and a swimming cap, and the other nine players are all in place.

He stretched his whole body, expressionless, swinging his arms and thighs, and stood in front of the starting platform.

Looking extremely cold and full of strong aggression.

It's like silently revealing to the outside world that in this pool, in this event, I am the undisputed number one.

This feeling is very strange.

Just like Sun Yang back then, standing in front of the starting platform, you can feel as if this guy is the champion, no one else.

This actually comes from self-confidence.

Chen Shu is very confident in his 50-meter short distance.

He even plans to save his strength.

Because his skills have been fully upgraded.

Including underwater turning, water entry reaction, acceleration and sprinting.

Chen Shu is now a master.

Even if these skills are improved, they will not actually add much to the final result of the 50-meter butterfly.

Because the world record for men's short-course butterfly is 21.75 seconds!

Chen Shu's sprint at the master level can add 26 seconds, and a few seconds more... So he must not save his strength!

Otherwise, the world record for the men's 50-meter butterfly final in the afternoon will not be broken.

He also wants to break it twice in a row.

"The competition is about to start!"

"We are all looking forward to how far Chen Shu can swim in the men's 50-meter butterfly!"

"His expression now seems to tell us that this lane is for him."

"Will he create an extremely brilliant result like his 50-meter freestyle?"

While Niu Yinhao was commenting, the sound of the first group of the men's 50-meter butterfly preliminaries sounded!

Ding!

The game begins.

Swish——

Chen Shu, who was standing there with his eyes fixed on the swimming pool, was like a flying butterfly, flying towards the No. 0 lane in front of him and jumped into it.

This is an extremely side lane.

So after Chen Shu entered the water, a very strange scene appeared on TV.

0.11 seconds!

This is Chen Shu's reaction time when he enters the water. The other players have not jumped out of the starting board yet.

Only Chen Shu leaps into the water and freezes.

And he is in lane zero, just like jumping out of the sea.dolphin, looks very shocking.

If it is in the middle, it would look like a roc spreading its wings.

But at the edge, it is a unique leading leap, the visual effect and impact are directly maximized, making it look more intense.

"The King's Leap!"

"The leap into the water belongs to the Butterfly King!"

"The limit of 0.11 seconds, I'm afraid only Chen Shu can do it in the world!"

Niu Yinhao couldn't help but praise him, and Chen Shu who entered the water did not disappoint everyone.

He was so fast that when he stretched his arms out in the butterfly stroke, it seemed like he was soaring from the water. Each slide was a long distance in the water!

And the speed was getting faster and faster, and the aura that crushed everything seemed to continue to expand around him as he swam.

Countless female fans were a little climaxed.

This was obviously the first time they had seen Chen Shu like this.

So cool, so domineering.

8.91 seconds!

Chen Shu was the first to complete the underwater turn. The second-placed player couldn't even see Chen Shu's legs, let alone approach the edge of the pool.

"My God, Chen Shu only took 8.91 seconds for this half!"

Niu Yinhao looked at Chen Shu's first 25 meters and shouted.

"Too scary!"

"The second-placed Hungarian player behind him was at least 2 meters behind him!"

"What kind of speed is this?"

It was so fast that all the spectators, the players and coaches of the Chinese swimming team, and the athletes from other countries couldn't help but open their eyes wide, and some even had their eyes almost popped out!

Everyone actually knew that Chen Shu's 50-meter butterfly should be very fast.

But they didn't expect it to be so fast!

He didn’t even reach the 25 meters ahead in 9 seconds?

Finished the swim? ! .