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

Chapter 94 The strength of 100-meter butterfly Chen Shu!

This year's Swimming World Cup has 313 athletes from 25 countries.

China obviously has the most participants, because it is the host, so there are 53 people participating, including nearly 10 coaches, rehabilitators, team leaders, etc.

There are 43 athletes, in addition to the national team, there are also many mobile athletes from provincial teams.

The second place is of course the United States, followed by Australia. This time the two countries are coming with great momentum, obviously to wipe out the shame of being ranked second and third in the Olympics!

Not only some Olympic medalists are here, but there are also many new faces.

The talented young players of the two countries who missed the Olympics before also appeared in the Swimming World Cup this time!

Chen Shu didn't recognize many of them, but several old opponents, Dressel and Chalmers, were among them.

After the athletes from each country entered the venue, there was a grand opening ceremony.

About 2 hours later, the athletes, led by their respective team leaders, walked into the swimming competition venue of the Oriental Sports Center.

Although Chen Shu has trained here for no less than 30 days this month, he obviously feels different now.

Because the next step is to start the official competition.

The first thing to do is the women's 1500m preliminaries. In addition to Li Bingjie, the domestic long-distance sister, there is also a 16-year-old young player Gao Weizhong participating. She is also the second long-distance athlete in the Paris Olympics besides Li Bingjie.

"Come on, Sister Bing!"

A group of swimmers cheered on the sidelines.

Li Bingjie's performance in the Paris Olympics was not good. She won the silver medal in the 800m freestyle event twice in the World Championships, the bronze medals in the 400m and 1500m, and the bronze medal in the 400m in the Winter Olympics.

But she only ranked sixth in the finals of the 1500m in Paris, and did not even make it to the finals of the 800m.

She did not make it to the finals of her strongest event, the 400m.

So this time, she must have tried her best to get a good ranking.

Moreover, compared to the long pool in the World Championships and the Olympics, Li Bingjie has a strong dominance in the short pool.

Compared to the long pool, her strength in the short pool is stronger.

This is because her underwater turns are very good.

She created the world record for the women's 400m freestyle short pool. She won two championships in the 400m and 800m in the short pool world championships.

The short pool has always been her strong point.

Without any suspense, Li Bingjie and Gao Weizhong both advanced.

Li Bingjie ranked second in the group, and Gao Weizhong grabbed the last qualifying spot. After all, 1500m is not Li Bingjie's strongest event, 400m and 800m are her main events.

So the host country's advantage is still obvious as they ranked second in the group in 1500m.

Next, it is the men's 1500m freestyle group competition.

Huaxia SchoolIn addition to Fei Liwei, Sun Yang's successor, there is also the 16-year-old young player Zhang Zhanshuo.

780 two people also advanced.

"Ledcky and Fink are really fierce!"

"This is more than 10 seconds?"

Looking at the competitions in several preliminaries, although the Chinese teammates have advanced to the finals tomorrow morning, the United States has indeed shown absolute dominance in the long distance.

Both world record holders advanced strongly with the first place in the preliminaries.

The male is Fink, and the female is Ledecky. Both are dimensional strikes, leading the second place in the preliminaries by more than 5 seconds.

It can be seen that they seem to be determined to win the first place in the gold medal this time.

"Fink was defeated by Yang before!"

"In the long-distance event, you are ahead and there is no possibility of a comeback!"

"If Yang can go to Tokyo, he will win at least 3 gold medals!"

"Now we can only watch others win!"

Several short-distance athletes sighed. Although the truth is unpleasant, it is true.

The Americans are not afraid of your short-distance burst. If you are strong in the long distance, you can win a lot of gold medals if you maintain it for several Olympic Games.

Look at Ledecky's dominance in the long distance. In Rio, London, Tokyo and Paris, she won 9 gold medals, 4 gold medals and 1 bronze medal in four Olympic Games. She set the world records of 800 and 1500 meters. She won 21 gold medals in the World Championships.

Sun Yang was originally good. He won 11 gold medals in the World Championships, 4 of which were not banned. If nothing unexpected happens, he can still win more.

"So it depends on the tip!"

"Sister Bing needs to work harder!"

"I'm optimistic about Zhan Shuo, he still has a lot to do at the age of 15!"

"..."

Soon, the preliminaries of the 400-meter men's and women's events ended.

Sun Yang, Pan Zhanle and others all advanced to the finals tomorrow morning; and after they finished the finals in the morning, it was Chen Shu's turn to compete in two short distances.

Because the short-distance competition time is short, the competition time is not long, unlike the long distance, often a 1500-meter group competition takes more than an hour, and a 50-meter competition takes dozens of seconds. The time for ten group competitions is not enough for a long distance.

This is also the reason why several long distances should be completed at the beginning.

"Okay, the performances in the preliminaries of several events today were all good!"

"Everyone, keep up the good work tomorrow morning!"

After the competition, Cui Dengrong called everyone to a meeting as usual, and then announced the disbandment.

...

Early the next morning, the audience began to enter the venue one after another.

Today is the first day of the real open day of the Swimming World Cup. CCTV Sports will also broadcast the whole process live, and the commentator will still be Niu Yinhao from the Paris Olympics.

At 8 am, the battle for the first gold medal began.

As the host, China did not embarrass the athletes from Europe, America, and Australia, which Chen Shu sometimes complained about.

The quality is too high.

Just look at the Beijing Olympics. Phelps won 8 gold medals and treated all athletes in the world equally, as if doing so would win the favor of foreigners.

And he never played any tricks or made any small moves, for fear that he would be scolded and lose face if he did.

In fact, these have nothing to do with athletes. Athletes are in the competition. What's wrong with your officials or relevant personnel doing something that is beneficial to their own athletes?

No!

Foreigners can come to participate in the competition, as if they have given them face.

What matters is the demeanor of a great country.

Not to mention putting some pressure on athletes from other countries in the Paris urine test, even the accommodation is provided with the best facilities.

So in the first women's 1500m freestyle final, Ledecky won the first gold medal for the US team with undisputed strength.

Then, it was the American team again. Fink broke the 1500m freestyle short-course world record of 14.06.88 set by German swimming star Welbrock at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Swimming Short Course World Championships in the United Arab Emirates with a time of 14.05.71.

2 gold medals in 2 events!

Fei Liwei and Li Bingjie won bronze medals respectively.

In the next 400m freestyle, the 20-year-old American Aaron Shaker won the men's championship, and Fei Liwei won another bronze medal.

In the women's event, Li Bingjie won a silver medal with a slight disadvantage of 0.87 seconds.

The champion is the gold medalist of the 400m freestyle event at the Paris Olympics, the famous swimmer Titmus from Australia!

"Damn, the United States has three gold medals and one bronze medal, and the competition is not over in one morning!"

"Australia has one gold medal and one silver medal!"

"Damn!"

"How did the officials in this Magic City arrange the competition?"

"Why is the long distance on the first day?"

Countless Chinese athletes were complaining.

As the host country, China currently has one silver and three bronze medals, ranking third.

Although everyone knows that the long distance is the world of the Americans, they still feel quite unhappy that they won three gold medals in this morning.

In the key 400m freestyle event, neither Pan Zhanle nor Sun Yang won a medal.

One ranked sixth and the other eighth, there is still a gap with the world's top. Sun Yang is because of his age and too short a time to come back, otherwise he would be the champion of this event. After all, the world record is still held by him.

Pan Zhanle has not yet completely switched to the middle and long distances. He still wants to stabilize the short distance events.

"We need to boost morale!"

"Are there any events we are good at next?"

"Brothers!"

Pan Zhanle walked out from the backcourt and looked at several teammates who were preparing to warm up and go on the court, and asked loudly.

He is an athlete who pays great attention to winning and losing, and is actually a bit like Sun Yang.

Chen Shu is also among these people, because next, there are his 100m butterfly event. (To read the exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

The last event at noon is the 50m freestyle, with exactly 1 hour and 23 minutes between them.

"Yes, Haiyang and Xiaodong can both do the 100m breaststroke, and Yufei can do the 200m butterfly, but the most stable one should be Shu's 50m freestyle!"

"But it's the last match at noon!"

Xu Jiayu is also ready to go on stage, and he will compete in the 200m backstroke.

Compared to his 100m backstroke, his strength in the 200m is also average; then the women's 50m backstroke, the women's 200m butterfly, and Chen Shu's (cgbh) 100m butterfly!

In one morning, there will be 10 individual events.

The last four are the men's 100m breaststroke, the women's 200m breaststroke, and the men's and women's 50m freestyle!

"Whatever, let's go!"

"Everyone, give it a try, don't get discouraged!"

Wang Shun encouraged everyone, while Cui Dengrong was instructing Zhang Yufei who was about to play. []

The first preliminaries was the women's 50m backstroke.

Australia's Kelly McKeown is the absolute powerhouse of this event, so she easily advanced to the first place in the preliminaries.

This event is not available in the Olympics, only in the short pool and the World Championships.

But McKeown, she won gold medals in the 100m and 200m backstroke at the last Tokyo Olympics, and broke the Olympic record twice; this time in Paris, she also defended two gold medals and broke two Olympic records; she is the world record holder for the 50m and 100m backstroke at the World Championships.

In the women's backstroke event, McKeown is in a class of her own.

She is the kind that has no rivals, and the gold medal is almost certain to win, and she will win first place!

And she is only 23 years old.

If she doesn't win first place, who will? !

"Too strong!"

"Damn!"

"Is this schedule arranged according to Americans and Australians?"

In the 50m backstroke, all Chinese women were eliminated, and no one entered the finals. After all, the ultra-short distance of 50 meters is the home court of Europe, America and Australia.

In all these years, except for Chen Shu who won a gold medal in the ultra-short distance of 50 meters freestyle, only Fu Yuanhui from China won the gold medal in the 50m backstroke in the World Championships.

In the ultra-short distance, the competition is about explosive power and speed; in the short pool, it is even more difficult, and a turn is required.

Then, in the men's 200m backstroke, Xu Jiayu was eliminated as expected.

In the women's 200m butterfly, the defeat of the whole morning was finally redeemed.

Zhang Yufei advanced to the afternoon finals with the second place in the preliminaries. The first place went to Canadian swimming star McIntosh, who was also the champion of the 200m butterfly in the Paris Olympics.

An 18-year-old teenager holds three world records - women's 400m freestyle, 400m medley, and 200m butterfly.

It was also a mess.

"Europe, America, Australia, and now Canada!"

"This is a siege. Forget the gold medal in the morning, there is not even a first place in the preliminaries!"

Chen Shu listened to Pan Zhanle's complaints in the backcourt, but he was wearing a red down jacket and ready to go on stage.

Next was his first event in this World Swimming World Cup - the men's 100-meter butterfly.

China's weakest event.

Wang Changhao and Sun Jiajun were also among the contestants.

However, no one was optimistic about this event.

Because China's long-pool men's 100-meter butterfly is not an advantage event, let alone the short pool; Wang Changhao and Sun Jiajun's short-pool strength is similar, and the most tragic thing is that the time difference between the long pool and the short pool is not much.

Generally speaking, the time in the short pool is definitely better than that in the long pool, but because of underwater turning and explosive power, Wang Changhao and Sun Jiajun are not very good at it.

"Don't have any pressure!"

"Let go of your mind and swim!"

Cui Dengrong didn't say much to the three people, but waved his hand to let them go on stage.

Perhaps even Cui Dengrong himself did not like this event.

There were 4 groups of 100-meter butterfly runners. Chen Shu was in the last group, Sun Jiajun was in the first group, and Wang Changhao was in the third group.

The top eight fastest group players advanced to the finals, and were awarded corresponding points.

Seeing Sun Jiajun appear in the camera, the few people who were not competing in the backcourt immediately started discussing.

"How is Shu's 100m butterfly?"

"I don't know, maybe a little faster than Jiajun and Changhao. Didn't he swim 50.49 seconds in the Paris Olympic relay?"

"It's hard to say, that's the long pool. Now in the short pool, 50 seconds+ is not competitive at all!"

"It should be faster, right?"

"Limited, you saw this guy's underwater turn..."

"Hahaha, Shu's underwater turn is quite bad. If he swims within 50 seconds, he should be able to advance to the finals, right?"

"Only within 49 seconds. Within 50 seconds, he will be eliminated!"

Xu Jiayu has experience and said to everyone: "The 100m butterfly is more than 1 second faster than the long pool. You can see it by looking at the world record!"

"Damn, is it so abnormal?"

The world records for the men's 100m butterfly in the short pool and long pool are both held by Dressel.

47.78 in the short pool, 49.45 in the long pool!

A full 1.67 seconds difference!

You can win the championship in 49 seconds in the long pool, but in the short pool, you can't even make the top eight in the final, let alone the top three.

This is the difference between the long pool and short pool of the 100-meter butterfly.

"Hey~"

Looking at Sun Jiajun's score of 50.80, everyone shook their heads.

Sixth in the group, basically eliminated.

Wang Changhao in the third group is similar. He swam 50.57, fourth in the group, better than Sun Jiajun, but also facing the possibility of passing.

Next, only Chen Shu in the last group is left. Now he can be said to be the only seedling of the Chinese men's 100-meter butterfly!

"Come on!, Brother Shu!"

"The last appearance of men's butterfly stroke!"

"It depends on you to protect it!"

"Hahaha, it's uncertain, I think everyone should not have too high expectations..."

"Brother Shu may be able to enter the finals in the long pool, and in the short pool--"

Wang Shun shook his head, mainly because everyone knew his strength in butterfly stroke. Within 51 seconds, even if the short pool was 1 second faster, the result within 50 seconds was still very uncertain; but 1 second faster was obviously unrealistic, because Chen Shu's underwater turn... It's really hard to describe.

"Okay, Brother Shu is on the stage!"

"Quiet! ”

Everyone watched Chen Shu, who was wearing goggles and a red down jacket, walk into the camera; countless spectators cheered.

Even CCTV commentator Niu Yinhao was bragging about Chen Shu's previous records.

The audience and netizens obviously didn't look at Chen Shu's 100-meter butterfly results. They just thought Chen Shu was very strong because he was the five-gold king.

And Chen Shu stood by the swimming pool and let out a long breath.

It's been 2 months. He has practiced butterfly stroke for 2 months. Although his skills have not improved much, his strength is at least the same as freestyle. It has become a familiar swimming style for him, unlike During the Olympics, he was still in the process of exploring the butterfly stroke and was not very proficient.

So he only managed to swim less than 51 seconds.

Like his freestyle, with the blessing of skills, let alone 50 meters, 100 meters is actually the absolute second in the world.

Even if he can compete with Pan Zhanle, he can still fight.

So compared with butterfly stroke, Chen Shu felt that he should also have the strength to challenge the gold medal.

If it is not enough, then this underwater turn will continue to upgrade!

Ding——

The prompt sound of the men's 100-meter butterfly competition sounded. .