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

Chapter 23 Breaking the World Youth Record!

There will be a shining ceremony for the finals.

Everyone will have a few seconds of action close-up at the entrance of the passage.

Athletes can do various celebrations.

Behind them is the national flag logo on the big screen.

Chen Shu and Pan Zhanle walked out of the passage and made a handsome victory pose in front of the screen, and then the camera was frozen there.

"Mom and Dad, look, it's him!"

"Chen Shu!!!"

Zhang Jingyu put the bowl on the coffee table and the rice in his mouth sprayed out.

Dad and Mom Zhang looked at the figure wearing sunglasses and the red national team uniform on the TV.

"It seems like it's really that Chen Shu!"

"He's grown a lot taller!"

"He's about 1.7 meters tall, right?"

"He must have grown!"

Dad Zhang's last sentence made Mom Zhang laugh.

"I remember when he came to my house last year, this kid was almost as tall as me!"

"That's amazing. He's become an Olympic athlete?"

"Look at you, brat...don't you feel ashamed?"

"If I were your classmate, I would definitely not play with you anymore!"

Dad Zhang didn't forget to complain about his son before he even finished.

How can he bring everything up to himself!

Besides, how could Chen Shu not play with me?

How could a junior high school student have such a concept?

Zhang Jingyu rolled his eyes, but he was too lazy to bother with the two of them.

They didn't even know the brotherhood between him and Chen Shu!

"Stop arguing, let's start!"

Zhang Jingyu was tough for once.

Looking at Chen Shu on TV, he was exercising and slapping his whole body as he walked onto the starting platform.

"When did this guy develop such a body of muscles!"

"So awesome!"

Looking at Chen Shu with eight abdominal muscles and two pectoral muscles on his upper body, it would be a lie for Zhang Jingyu to say that he was not envious.

Wearing swimming goggles and a swimming cap, matched with the white swimming trunks of the national team... it was so cool!

Zhang's father and mother also stared at Chen Shu on TV without blinking.

"Okay, the men's 100-meter freestyle relay is about to begin!"

"We see that the first runner is Chen Shu, a young Chinese athlete who performed very well in the preliminaries yesterday!"

"He will compete with Australian star Flynn Southam and American backstroke world champion Hunter Armstrong for the first runner position!"

"I don't know if Chen Shu can perform as well as he did yesterday in the final!"

"Let's wait and see!"

"Okay, the race has begun!"

There was only a beep, and then everyone was ready to go.

Ding!

The starting gun sounded, and Chen Shu, the first runner in the fourth lane, jumped directly into the water.

0.68!

Chen Shu's reaction time at the start.

He was the slowest among the eight players.

The fastest was Hunter Armstrong of the US team. He had won the 100m backstroke gold medal at many World Championships and was also the champion of the mixed relay at the last Tokyo Olympics.

0.48!

It was almost the limit of human reaction.

He was 0.2 seconds slower at the start!

"Okay!"

"This start is the best start time for Chen Shu!"

Looking at the reaction time popping up on the big screen, Cui Dengrong, who was watching the live broadcast of the game in the background... clenched his fists tightly.

Obviously, he was also very nervous.

After all, this was the final!

It was about the competition for medals!

Chen Shu was still too young.

Compared with the players from the other seven countries, he was not only the youngest...but also lacked competition experience.

It is normal that the reaction time ranks last.

But!

Just when Cui Dengrong was worried that Chen Shu would lag behind everyone in the first leg.

Several Chinese swimmers who were also watching the live broadcast screamed.

"Third!"

Zhang Yufei, who had just finished the 4*100m women's freestyle relay, raised her arms: "Xiao Shu, come on!"

"Faster!"

Everyone was shouting, watching Chen Shu, who ranked third the moment he came out of the water.

"Third?!"

"This kid is so fast?"

Cui Dengrong obviously couldn't believe what he saw!

After all, he had been training Chen Shu for half a month, and he knew exactly what kind of player Chen Shu was.

He is a super late-stage player.

The further back you are, the faster you will be!

At the beginning, he was always the last one in the swimming team.

It was not until he turned around at 50 meters that he began to show his speed in the latter part.

He began to overtake his opponents one by one.

Even in the 50-meter freestyle, Chen Shu also exerted his strength in the latter 25 meters.

But now, this kid is ranked third as soon as he got out of the water, second only to Australia and the United States? !

"It's bad, this kid is swimming blindly!"

"The rhythm is all messed up, rushing so fast at the beginning?"

Cui Dengrong could only think of one possibility, that is, Chen Shu used all his strength in the latter part in this front part.

He didn't know at all that Chen Shu now had a time to activate the acceleration skill throughout the whole process.

So the moment he jumped into the water, he activated the skill directly.

"I forgot to tell this kid!"

Cui Dengrong was thinking anxiously.

He only had one guess now, Chen Shu had risked his life for this final.

He wanted to exert his full strength at the beginning and then confirm the advantage...

But this guyIf so, then in the later part, then——

"Hmm?"

Cui Dengrong looked at Chen Shu, who had only swam 20 meters, and now... he was actually in the first place.

First place?

"When did he overtake two people?"

"Hunter Armstrong's freestyle speed is not bad, right?"

Cui Dengrong couldn't help but speak out his thoughts.

Zhang Yufei on the side hurriedly said: "Just now, he overtook one in 10 meters and one in 20 meters!"

"So fast, Xiao Shu is swimming so fast!"

"I feel faster than Wang Haoyu!"

Yes!

This time, Chen Shu's speed was so fast that no one could imagine it.

Even the three teammates who were relaying with Chen Shu on the sidelines... were frightened by Chen Shu's initial momentum.

At 25 meters, he had already fully confirmed his advantage.

And… this advantage is still expanding.

"This guy must have taken an aphrodisiac today!"

"But it's hard to say!"

"Is he using all his strength from the back end to explode in the front end?"

Pan Zhanle and others had the same idea as Cui Dengrong.

But the facts proved that… Chen Shu's speed was getting faster and faster!

There was no slowdown or effort.

Half a body length, half a body length… When Chen Shu turned around at 50 meters underwater, he was half a body length ahead of the first-place American team.

Hunter Armstrong, an Olympic champion and World Championship champion, could only watch as the young player in the next lane widened the gap with him.

Although he is good at backstroke, his freestyle is not slow either. But compared with Chen Shu, who specializes in 100 meters and has cheats, Hunter Armstrong is obviously not good enough.

"Okay!"

"Our 13-year-old Chinese athlete Chen Shu... He is completely ahead in the first leg!"

"It's incredible. Everyone thinks he is a substitute!"

"But we can clearly see that he is the absolute main force of the men's 4*100 meters!"

"He withstood the difficulties of the first leg... He is half a body ahead of Hunter Armstrong of the American team!"

"And the gap is still widening!"

The commentator of CCTV shouted excitedly.

"Chen Shu is 0.3 meters per second faster than the second-place American team and Australia!"

"Oh my God, he's still accelerating!"

"He left the second place behind by a whole body length!"

"What kind of speed is this!!"

"He simply replicated the miracle of Pan Zhanle's last leg yesterday morning!"

"Reach the edge!"

"Our Chinese team reached the edge first, leaving the second-place American team behind by nearly 2 meters!"

"Ahhh, 47.20 seconds!"

"Chen Shu swam 47.20 seconds in the first leg!"

"He broke the 18”

“Ahhhhhhh!!!”

The commentator was so excited that he could hardly control himself.

It was not until a few seconds later that she said: “Chen Shu pushed this record forward by 0.1 seconds!”

“A full 0.1 second improvement!”

The world champion Fu Yuanhui who was in charge of commentating the final.

At this moment, she spoke this long paragraph in a broken voice.

He was really too excited.

“A 13-year-old swimmer!! Broke the world youth record! ”

47.20 seconds!!

A new world youth record for men’s 100m freestyle!

Previously, the record was 47.30 seconds set by Romanian world swimming star David Popovich at the European Youth Swimming Championships in Rome on July 8, 2021!

Chen Shu remembered it wrongly.

Because in this European Youth Championship, Popovich was also the first baton in the men’s 4*100 freestyle relay and swam 47.56 seconds!

Break the record set by Russian athlete Minakov in 2020 47.57 world youth record.

And in the finals later!

He broke it again, 47.30!

One event, two world youth records.

But now...these two records have become a thing of the past.

Because the new world youth 100m freestyle champion...is born!!

He has an extremely resounding name!

13-year-old swimmer from Sucheng, China - Chen Shu!