20 August 1995.

The last weekend before the closing of the 18th World Universiade was also the first weekend after Gu Kun took the field to compete.

Located in the most lively area of Fukuoka City, the Kitakyushu Swimming Center is filled with explosive noises, which makes ordinary people passing by outside feel quite confused.

He said that he has always been very reserved and introverted, and he is afraid of causing trouble to others. belongs to the kind of neighbor who came to give him a piece of watermelon, and he hated to return a plate of cherry tomatoes the next day, and he felt comfortable by paying off the favor quickly.

Such a national character, but let the sound of shouting and coaxing in the field resounded to the extent of disturbing the neighbors, and the elderly "gentlemen" outside the field all shook their heads and sighed that the world was declining.

"Isn't it just a college sports day? ”

"But I'm really curious what's going on, why don't you buy a ticket and go in and have a look?"

Everyone didn't think about the problem of selling out tickets, because except for the Olympics, as long as it is not football and baseball, it is impossible to sell out tickets.

The swimming pools are full of racing races, how can they be sold out?

However, this time, the passers-by miscalculated.

"Dead Nimasse, the tickets have been sold out, but you can go around to the back square, and there is a big screen broadcast live in the venue. "The conductor explained very politely.

"Is there really no more?" A young man who looked like a junior high school student in the crowd was very depressed when he heard this, and anxiously cut the queue to squeeze to the window, and after confirming the bad news, he couldn't help but shout in the queue.

"I saw on the TV news that someone broke the world record in the breaststroke and took the Shinkansen from Tokyo overnight to watch today's race! Does anyone have a ticket that they want to transfer? I'll pay 5,000 yen! 10,000 yen!"

The original price of a ticket for this swimming competition is only 1,500 yen.

The staff at the ticket window wanted to remind him that the inverted ticket was wrong.

But looking at the anxious and eager appearance of the middle school student, no one could bear to stop him, and soon there was a man who was originally hovering next to him and secretly sold the ticket to him.

The boy got the ticket and hurriedly rushed into the arena.

Along with the teenager, there is also a middle-aged woman, who seems to be a mother-son relationship, and should not worry about the children of junior high school going thousands of kilometers away. Because there were not enough tickets, the middle-aged woman followed other people who had not bought tickets and went to the back square of the swimming center to watch the big screen.

The other melon-eating crowds who watched the excitement naturally asked her: "Did you encounter something unexpected in this competition? Is it worth rushing from Tokyo to see what Ling Lang does?" ”

The woman nodded and responded: "Kosuke Kitajima is a breaststroke practitioner, and he is more concerned about the news in this area, and yesterday I saw on the Asahi Shimbun sports page and NHK Sports Channel that someone broke the 100-meter breaststroke world record three times in one day, so I couldn't help but come to see it temporarily-I heard that there is also the 200-meter breaststroke race of that great god today." ”

"Si Guoyi! Then let's take a look!" All the people present were shocked by this news, even if they didn't care about sports before, they still wanted to witness the miracle.

It's not sports that matter, it's a sense of heroism that participates in the testimony of history.

In this world, how many times can a normal person get the opportunity to watch the world record up close in his life?

If you add a qualification, and the world record is born frequently and continuously, then no one has ever seen it.

If you don't look at it, you will regret it for a lifetime.

The cheers of curiosity gathered more and more loudly in the square.

……

The jubilation inside the stadium is certainly better than the square outside.

Kosuke Kitajima, a teenager who had the opportunity to become the Asian Frog King and even the World Frog King, was excited to find his place.

In the two minutes he was looking for a seat, another world record broke in his ears.

“GU~GU~GU~”

“O.1！O.1！”

"Oni sauce dry daddy!

"Broken, broken, broken, broken! 20th time!"

"No, you can count wrong? This is the 21st time!"

Kosuke Kitajima heard the people around him make noise in Japanese, English and Chinese, and couldn't help but feel excited and regretful, and secretly thought in his heart: "What? Didn't I only have 7 gold medals and 19 world records last night? I was still late today? I missed today's first world record? This is too efficient, isn't it?"

This is not scientific, according to Gu Kun's rhythm, he only needs two world championships to surpass Bubka, right? I remember that the International Olympic Committee's Samaranch note ridiculed: The record of the number of world records is only awarded to pole vaulters. When will swimmers still be able to fight for this honor?"

Kosuke Kitajima recalled in his mind the news he saw last night, and he still felt his brain buzzing.

Last night, the NHK Sports Channel took stock of Gu Kun's event: as of August 19, Gu Kun won a total of seven gold medals in the 18th World Universiade 50m/100m/200m/400m freestyle, 100/200m backstroke, and 100m breaststroke.

The most exaggerated thing is that he almost broke the world record once every time he played! only made a slight mistake in the 50m freestyle, and the semi-finals were no better than the preliminaries, so he only broke them twice.

In other events of 200 meters and below, Gu Kun is allowed to race three rounds, and Gu Kun is all eaten and wiped clean three times in a row! Only 400 meters itself is only two rounds, so a total of 3721 minus 1 50 meters 1 time 400 meters, breaking 19 times.

Kosuke Kitajima was still sluggish, and a spectator sitting in the stands next to him seemed to notice that he had just arrived, and said with honor:

Just before noon, the preliminaries of the 1500-meter freestyle were broken again. Gu Kun's physical strength is really amazing, he swam 1500 meters before noon, and he can still be the first in the 200-meter breaststroke preliminaries in the afternoon, and it is still a record!

We all thought that if Gu Kun couldn't create a miracle once, it was probably this time, maybe he would be physically exhausted, but it seemed that we were all worried. ”

The audience who talked to him was fluent in Japanese. But Kosuke Kitajima looked at the other party's proud expression, and was still a little unconvinced: "You are from Huaxia?"

The other party looked at him strangely, and replied very naturally: "Why do you think so? Of course I am myself!"

Kosuke Kitajima scratched his head: "But...... Why would you be so proud of a Chinese man who has made history again?"

The other party was stunned for a moment, then laughed and patted Kosuke Kitajima on the shoulder: "Little brother, I see that you are also a person who loves swimming, read on, you will understand." After you know how to feel this atmosphere, you won't mind the other party's nationality - what's more, Gu Kun is not from Huaxia, he is of Huaxia nationality and Lan nationality, and he is just an international student at a university in Huaxia. ”

"Again, I'm narrow-minded. Kosuke Kitajima was also gradually trembling slightly by the excitement of the atmosphere, and he was relieved to laugh at himself.

The competition has reached this point where nationality no longer matters.

……

While nearly 10,000 viewers represented by Kosuke Kitajima were shouting sincerely, Gu Kun's classmates and coaches were of course more sincere.

Qin Ke finally won a silver medal, Luo Haili returned without a card, and all the other teammates had no games today, so they came to watch Gu Kun and cheer for Gu Kun.

"The 200m breaststroke heats, 2:08.32, 0.22 seconds faster than the previous world record of 2:08.54. Luo Haili was in front of the swimming lane, put down the electronic card in his hand, and secretly took out a small notebook over there to keep accounts.

As Gu Kun's teammates, they are the ones who know Gu Kun's current strength and ability to control the rhythm of the game.

After finishing the account, Luo Haili smiled proudly, and said to the senior brother in a betting attitude: "Look, I'll just say that Xiao Gu's ability to control the rhythm is getting better and better, and his potential is far great."

This is the 11th time that he has controlled the record-breaking progress within 0.3 seconds - whether it is swimming 100 meters, 200 meters or 400 meters, he just broke 0.2~0.3 seconds, indicating that he was simply releasing water to raise fish in the last period. ”

Qin Ke stared at the pool and stared at it for a long time before he sighed: "You're right, I just don't want to believe that there are such human beings in the world." Actually, when I was 1500 meters ago, I should have seen that he could have swam into the 14 minutes and 35 seconds mark, seven or eight seconds faster than the world record of 14 minutes and 43 seconds!

But when he finally left the pool with seven or eight meters left, he actually paused, and there was a movement to look back at his opponent, and the subsequent strokes were also slowed down, which was at least three or four seconds slowdown! In the end, he only swam a time of 14:38.9, breaking the world record of 4 seconds. That's it, I guess he worked hard to be the first to swim into the 14 minutes and 40 seconds mark, otherwise at least he would be stuck for another second or two. ”

"No way, since he wants to be the one who surpasses Bubka, this is also reasonable, 1500 meters swim consumes so much physical strength, don't make sure that it will be more wasteful every time. Luo Haili has already smiled like a flower to the extent that her three views are not correct, it seems that sportsmanship is not important anymore, and it is the most fun to see the junior create miracles.

The point is that it's not just the Chinese players and coaches who think so.

Even the audience in the venue, and even the English-speaking foreign audience, who only accounted for one or two percent, also felt that this was very reasonable.

Half an hour later, when the semifinals of the 200-meter breaststroke began, no one cared about who was first and who was second, only how many records Gu Kun could break.

"Slow down, it doesn't matter, this speed must be broken. ”

"Let's save some strength, let's see the final again to break the world record in a while!"

"Four world records with a day ticket is worth the ticket price. ”

Gu Kun really did not disappoint tens of thousands of live audiences, and only brushed 2 minutes and 8 seconds 03, and finally left the opportunity to break through 2 minutes and 8 seconds for the finals before the end of the evening.

"2:07.66! Well, the last world record today is over, and it's scattered. ”

"After watching the 1500m final tomorrow, the joint ticket can also be thrown. ”

When Gu Kun swam the 200-meter breaststroke final, there were actually two other butterfly events to compare with.

But who made Gu Kun not practice butterfly swimming much and missed the original registration competition.

Without Gu Kun's appearance, the number of spectators in the competition venue quickly decreased to the heat that an ordinary World Universiade event should have.

The stands were more than half empty.

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(PS: Seven or eight gold medals, twenty world records, always have to be written, a chapter to solve I don't think it's water.) As for book friends who like to watch this part of the plot, please understand, this competition is not very important, after all, it is not the Olympics. In the future, I will write some tricks from a different angle)