[Competition] The Road to Champion of the Seventh Prince of the Dragon Palace

To get Fu Xingtu to say a few words of comfort from that mouth is probably more difficult than the blossoming of an iron tree.

Usually when someone loses a game, he doesn't have a few sarcasm, which is already considered kind. How could he say "it doesn't matter", "it's okay" and "come back next time".

Today is also a rare occasion, even if it is comfort, it is still calm.

But Ao Ling was indeed comforted that he was the one who played the game. If he lost a game, someone must be responsible for it, and it must be him, the athlete himself, not his coach.

But what Fu Xingtu said made him feel a lot better.

After thinking about it, I participated in the National Swimming Championships for the first time and won gold, silver and bronze medals, so I have no regrets.

The little dragon cub who lost the game is really sad, and he has a good way of comforting himself.

That drop of tear had been blown dry by the wind long ago, if not, it would have already rubbed on the clothes of Director Fu.

When he raised his head again, he was that heartless Seventh Prince of Dragon Palace again.

He asked Fu Xingtu: "Have you ever lost a game?"

"Of course I have lost, often lost, especially in international competitions, and also in domestic competitions."

This is true. Fu Xingtu has always been a person who dares to try and overcome difficulties. For athletes of their level, events such as the National Swimming Championships are just a practice match.

In fact, except for major events such as the Olympics, Asian Games, National Games and the World Swimming Championships, for the national team members, other competitions are training.

他会给自己报许多诸如100米仰泳、200米蝶泳、200米自由泳这些非主项项目，目的就是为了提高副项成绩，为更加全能的200米或者400米个人混合泳打基础。

"Little Seven, remember that winning or losing in competitive sports is very important, but losing does not mean failure. After losing, you can sum up your experience and win back next time. Sometimes, losing a game is still a strategy."

The little dragon cub blinked, as if digesting his words.I understood the previous sentence, but I didn't understand the last sentence.

But it doesn't matter, the Seventh Prince patted his chest and assured his coach: "In the future, I will never lose again."

The corner of Fu Xingtu's mouth showed that half-smile again: "Little friend, I advise you not to talk too much, after all, you still have a relay race."

"..." Xiaolong Cub went up to the top for a while, not thinking thoroughly enough.

After all, the relay race is a competition involving four people, with more variables and more complicated technical aspects. He cannot decide the result of the entire competition by himself.

"That..." Director Fu chatted to death again, Ao Ling could only smile awkwardly but politely, gritted his teeth while laughing, feeling that this coach would not be able to take it sooner or later, "That's right, there is one more game at the end." Relay, I have to go back and recharge a little bit."

Fu Xingtu nodded: "I'm hungry again."

"..."

I don't know if Shen Fei brought his stapler when he came out to compete, Director Fu needs to borrow it.

At this time, the voice of introducing the participating athletes faintly came from the radio-the men's and women's medley swimming competition is about to start.

Ao Ling turned around and walked into the swimming pool: "I want to go back and cheer for my brothers and sisters!"

In the men's and women's medley relay, there is no suspense in Province C's loss. Province R is really strong. All four swimming styles are players who have won gold medals in this competition. Inside, the other three strokes were completely defeated.

Xiaolong cub propped his hands on the railing, and the last sentence "Come on" got stuck in his throat, so he didn't shout out.Youyou sighed: "Next time, send me a women's swimsuit."

"???"

Li Sichen turned his head in shock, saw his face, swallowed the sarcasm on his lips, and changed his words: "It's not... no."

Fu Xingtu rolled his eyes at them, as if he was looking at two idiots.

The men's 4×100m medley relay is the last competition of this year's National Swimming Championships and will be held at 11:[-] noon.

The four players from province C participating in the competition are Qi Yi, Liang Fan, Ao Ling and Shen Fei.

当初组队的时候，男女4×100米混合泳接力、男女4×100米自由泳接力、男女4×200米自由泳接力和男女混合4×100米接力，一共七个项目，其中五个都没什么争议，很快就将人选定了下来。

There is only men's and women's 4×100 medley relay. Several coaches want to arrange the players under their hands as much as possible, arguing endlessly in the office. The men's team is fierce, and the women's team is even more fierce. It's hard to beat. The provincial c swimming team has only one female coach, but she is more graceful than those male coaches.

After arguing with Shen Xingguo so much that his head was going to explode, he finally gave them an idea.

"Since it's a medley relay competition, apart from the speed, it also depends on the cooperation between several people. I think everyone's level is similar. You all want your own players to participate, so you can form a team freely. On the day of the team test, who will win? Who will go?"

The head coach has made such a decision, and the others have nothing to say.

Although Shen Fei swims mid-distance freestyle, his short-distance freestyle is actually not weak.

As soon as the four of them stood there, the tacit understanding between them for a long time was naturally revealed. After the test results came out, everyone was shocked.

Everyone's excellent speed was even faster when they were swimming in the single event.

In the end, the four of them qualified for the men's 4×100 meters, and the No.2 group became a substitute.

Before the end of the training session every day, the four of them will stay alone to practice the relay race, mainly to practice starting, turning and handing over the baton.

Swimming is not track and field, there is really a stick in your hand.The ideal situation is when the first player touches the wall of the pool and the second player's feet leave the starting platform.

But this is just a theory. In actual competitions, examples of jump jumps abound.If you want to achieve seamless connection as much as possible, you need to practice a lot in training and strengthen the close cooperation between the four athletes.

In addition to training, before going to bed at night, the topics discussed in bed are all related to the relay race, from technology to tactics to tips, whether to swim first to gain an advantage, or to sprint to overtake at the end.

Of course, the final strategy was still decided by Fu Xingtu, the domineering president.

Participating in the relay race with the three seniors is the event that Ao Ling is most looking forward to before the race. From the beginning of the inspection, he seemed very excited. He took all the number cloths by himself, and then neatly pasted them on the clothes of the other three The last photo was taken on his chest.

After entering the arena, Province R on the side, Province G on the other side, and other teams from other courses... At a glance, they were all acquaintances.

In the past few days, from the preliminaries to the semi-finals to the finals, everyone has competed together for countless times, and they are more or less familiar with each other.

At this time, not only the skills, physical fitness and mentality of the athletes are tested, but also their strategy, tacit understanding and unity.

After the introduction of the athletes, Shen Fei hugged Qi Yi and Ao Ling one by one, and Liang Fan on the other side also surrounded him. The four of them put each other's shoulders together, and formed a circle with their heads together.

"1, 2, 3, come on!"

Liang Fan's backstroke was in the first stroke. He walked to the starting platform and before he got into the water, he turned around again, raised his right hand, placed his index and middle fingers between the eyebrows, and waved to his three teammates: "Brothers, Look at mine."

Once a person who is usually idle is serious, it is simply a nightmare for the opponent.

From the start, Liang Fan was in the leading position, and he didn't give himself any leeway, treating the 100-meter race as a 50-meter sprint.

After turning around, his speed didn't decrease but increased, and he actually got away from the players of the R and G teams next to him by half a body.

You know, these two were his opponents in the 100-meter backstroke individual event. At that time, he lost to the R provincial player.

To get closer, he failed to swim past these two in the men's and women's medley relay just over an hour ago.

But at this moment, he is in very good condition and has always maintained a leading position. Even if his physical strength declined in the final sprint stage, he did not slow down at all.

Before the competition, they had discussed countless times. Although Shen Fei's 100-meter freestyle is not bad in the team, it is not the main event after all. If it is won nationwide, it will not be very competitive.

Therefore, the three of them must swim for the captain in the first three bats and relieve his pressure.

In the second breaststroke, Qi Yi and Liang Fan's handover was perfect. It was just a start, and once again widened the gap with the two opponents next to them.

Qi Yi's breaststroke has always been reassuring. The technical movements are standard and the speed is very fast. Before finishing the 100 meters, he has already thrown away the No.2 province R by half a body.

Ao Ling turned her head and nodded to Shen Fei, then stood on the starting platform, still a seamless handover - the moment Qi Yi's hands hit the touch panel, Ao Ling's feet just left the starting platform.

The loss of the 50-meter butterfly in the morning made Ao Ling feel like a thorn in his throat. He is still holding a breath in his heart, and wants to compete with Fan Yuhao in the medley competition.

However, Fan Yuhao did not participate in this event at all—the third butterfly swimmer in Province R was He Jiaxuan.

Three months have passed, and the twin brothers who were evenly matched with Ao Ling at the beginning are no match for him now.

Without Fan Yuhao, there is no one in the eight swimming lanes in the swimming pool who is Ao Ling's opponent.

He fought harder than Liang Fan and Qi Yi, on the one hand he wanted to give Shen Fei a little more advantage, on the other hand he was still angry with himself.

Not long ago, he told Fu Xingtu that he would not lose any more games.

Even if it's a relay race, he doesn't want to lose!

After the third butterfly stroke, Province C has already swam one position ahead of the other teams.

Shen Fei entered the water, and his old opponents in the stands were a little surprised.

I often see him in the 4×200m freestyle relay, but this is the first time I have seen him in the 4×100m medley relay.

Everyone is discussing that others save the strongest players for the last stroke, because freestyle is the fastest stroke, and it is easy to further increase or narrow the gap.

In international competitions, examples of relying on freestyle comebacks abound.

Province C wanted to do the opposite. The first three rounds were all players who could at least rank among the top five in the country in short-distance events. In the last round, a non-main event player was arranged to swim the last round.

However, after Shen Fei came out of the water and swam, everyone realized that his speed was not slow. In the first 50 meters, Qin Xiao who was next to him couldn't catch up much.

After turning around, everyone entered the final 50-meter sprint stage. Qin Xiao's speed immediately increased, and in a blink of an eye, he regained the distance of less than half a body.

After going ashore, Ao Ling came to the side of the two senior brothers, stretched his neck nervously and looked at the other side of the swimming pool.

The three huddled together, holding each other's hands, all sweating for the captain.

As the captain, Shen Fei's biggest advantage is his calm personality, no matter what the time is, he never has stage fright.

Even though Qin Xiao was catching up quickly, he didn't panic at all, and always accelerated, sprinted, and reached the side according to his own rhythm.

In the end, Qin Xiao was unable to turn the tide, and only recovered half of his position, and finally won No.2 by one second.

At the end of the game, when Shen Fei came to the side stage, Ao Ling wished he could stick half of his body out of the pool, and was glared at by the referee at the side, the little dragon cub stuck out his tongue, and retracted his body again.

Ao Ling stood there with his hands behind his back, like a kid who has done something wrong, pointing his toes and trying to look into the swimming pool. He looked so cute. Many spectators in the stands just stared at him instead of watching the game.

When he saw Shen Fei being the first to the side, he still couldn't hold back, jumped up and threw himself on the two senior brothers.

They won, they are champions!Together with his three brothers, he won the gold medal in the 4×100m medley relay! ! !

In Xiaolongzai's heart, there is nothing more gratifying than participating in the relay with the three senior brothers.

If there is, it is to stand on the championship podium with the three senior brothers!

It's a pity that some people didn't pass the human body test, and they could participate in the competition but couldn't accept the award on stage.

Liang Fan was sitting alone in the stands, the left and right seats were empty, and the three teammates were receiving the award. When Liang Fan looked at them, besides his sincere blessing, he was also somewhat disappointed.

But he was not the only athlete who was persecuted by this fucking physical test, and there were many other teams.

The 38 participating teams, from provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, to various military forces, universities, and clubs, were not spared, and more or less some people overturned in the physical test.

In the relay races of many representative teams, they either had temporary substitutions, or just like them, won the ranking but could not receive the award.

Anyway, the General Administration of Sports is determined to focus on physical fitness. No matter how much the leaders, coaches and athletes of each representative team have opinions, it will not work. The next competition will still have physical fitness tests, and these events will still be the same.

Either go back and practice hard, or be mentally prepared not to win a medal.

On the rostrum, Director Song looked at Shen Xingguo beside him: "I didn't expect that Shen Fei could swim so well in the short-distance freestyle."

Shen Xingguo showed a noncommittal smile, and he didn't know whether he was happy or unhappy: "It's far away."

He thought for a while, and added: "I used to swim short-distance freestyle when I was young, but I changed it later."

Director Song patted him on the shoulder: "I know, for more than a year, you have been under a lot of pressure because of Fu Xingtu's retirement. Now these children have grown up slowly, and they are all very good. Go back and take good care of them , in the near future, all of them will be the pillars of the country."

He turned his head to look at Yang Bin again: "And you, Province R is the talent pool of the national team. Fan Yuhao, Han Xinyan, and Qin Xiao are all our gold medals in the Asian Games."

He stood up and faced the crowd: "Next year is the Asian Games, and the training of the provinces must not be slack at all. Alright, this year is almost over, see you next year!"

On November 11th, the eight-day National Swimming Championships officially ended. Province C ranked third in terms of total points, adding up points to the second-ranked host province G.

On the plane back, Shen Xingguo looked at No.3 on the trophy, and sighed to Fu Xingtu: "There is a long way to go, not to mention comparing with Province R, even compared with Province G, it is still a few points behind."

Fu Xingtu looked at his master in surprise, he is really old Versailles, that's it, still not satisfied?

"Last year we took fifth place. This year, we surpassed city B and province S. We took third place. You can be content."

Shen Xingguo touched him with his elbow: "There is some gossip, do you want to hear it?"

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