Chapter 256: Dark Horses (2/3)
"You're in London?"
Tang Hao replied to a message and went back, waited for a while and didn't see a reply, he was really sleepy, so he didn't wait, threw his phone aside and went to sleep. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The next day he woke up early and looked at his phone.
Yan Bing had already sent him a message, they were a group from the school to watch the Olympics, so they didn't tell him because they were afraid of affecting his competition.
In this way, it is normal for Tang Hao not to find Yan Bing, this kind of group basically wears uniform clothes to watch the Olympics, and the position will not be too high.
He looked at the time, it was still early, put his phone in his pocket, and went straight to the swimming pool after washing.
The Olympics entered the fifth day of competition, and on this day, Tang Hao will participate in the preliminary finals of the 200-meter backstroke, as well as the 200-meter breaststroke and men's archery.
For him, the London Olympics has a taste of rush.
When he arrived at the locker room, he happened to see Xu Jiayu changing clothes there, and when he saw him come in, the latter greeted, "Brother Tang, are you here?" ”
Tang Hao nodded, and then began to change his clothes.
"Brother Tang, you have to be careful of a few people in the 200-meter backstroke." Xu Jiayu said while changing clothes.
Tang Hao turned his head to look at him, in the swimming competition, compared with butterfly and freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke received much less attention, for Tang Hao, this is also a "side job", he did not raise too much to understand the competitors in this area, in contrast, Xu Jiayu, who specializes in backstroke, is obviously more familiar than him.
"The strength of the island native is very good, and he has a good chance of hitting a medal, even a gold medal."
Ryosuke Irie Tang Hao knows that when he was in the World Championships before, Kosuke Kitajima and Ryosuke Irie, the top two sticks of the island national team, were both outstanding.
"But your favorite is your old rival Lochette, who is the best in all four strokes, except for the medley, his strongest is the 200 backstroke, which is the favorite to win the Olympic Games." Xu Jiayu said emphatically.
"I'll just swim my own." Tang Hao nodded, then put on his clothes, but looked at Xu Jiayu and said, "You also strive to enter the finals first." ”
"Brother Tang, don't worry, with you as an example for me, it will be difficult for me not to enter the finals." Xu Jiayu said with a smile.
Tang Hao nodded, changed his clothes, put on his swimming goggles and said, "Let's go." ”
Coming out of the locker room, there were already other players training in the pool, and Tang Hao saw Rochette, who was chatting with his teammate Tyler Clary.
After looking at the pool, Ryosuke Irie, who came out of the first group preliminaries, was hurrying to make the final preparations.
Tang Hao and Xu Jiayu also went into the water to train soon after arriving.
Seeing Tang Hao go into the water, Rochette came over to say hello to him, the two have already played against each other in the World Championships and the Olympic Games, and they can be regarded as old acquaintances.
After a while, the competition was about to start, and the players got up from the pool and went to the arena.
The swimming competition has entered this stage and has entered the halfway point of the competition, and the audience in the preliminaries has been much larger than in the opening days.
The appearance of the 200-meter backstroke player made the atmosphere of the scene reach a small climax.
When Tang Hao went out, he happened to see Ye Shiwen who had finished participating in the 400-meter medley preliminaries.
Ye Shiwen's face was serious, and this seemed to have become her royal expression.
"Brother Tang!" But as soon as she saw Tang Hao, she immediately put down her tense face, ran over and said with a smile.
Tang Hao nodded, habitually reached out and touched Ye Shiwen's head.
Ye Shiwen rubbed it in Tang Hao's hand, looking very enjoyable.
"Let's go back and change our clothes." Tang Hao said and withdrew his hand.
"Brother Tang, come on!" Ye Shiwen nodded, waved to Tang Hao, and then trotted into the passage.
"Brother Tang, you are so amazing, I basically can't see Xiao Ye smiling in the national team, and I only do it when I see you." Xu Jiayu said with emotion.
Tang Hao smiled and didn't speak, Ye Shiwen's current personality is similar to that of her previous life, and it is also a good thing that he can bring some happiness.
After the players arrived, the preliminaries kicked off quickly.
As expected, Ryosuke Irie in the first group performed well, not only winning the first place in the group, but also achieving a good time of 1:55.21.
They were followed by the second group.
None of the players in this group are well-known, but Rochette's teammates Clary and Xu Jiayu will be featured in this group.
"Come on." Before Xu Jia came on the field, Tang Hao encouraged him.
"Great!" Xu Jiayu nodded excitedly, and then went on the field.
The second group of preliminaries began soon, and Tang Hao watched the game in the pool on the side as a teammate.
As soon as he set off, Xu Jiayu grabbed the first place among all the players, and it could be seen that he was motivated at the beginning.
However, it was clear that motivation alone was not enough at the Olympics, and after leading 50 metres, he was overtaken by Clary in the lane next door.
In the next 150 meters, Clary led the race, and his time was also eye-catching, the 21-year-old clocked in 1:54.96, and his preliminaries were even better than Ryosuke Iriko.
Tang Hao couldn't help but glance at this Clary again.
One of the biggest features of this Olympic swimming event is the frequent emergence of dark horses, although basically the championships have been won by him, but without him, this gold medal is also other dark horses and not those celebrities.
When Xu Jiayu's game was over, Tang Hao also stood up from the pool.
In the third group, it was his turn.
His appearance attracted another small climax from the audience.
However, Tang Hao didn't want to be too eye-catching in the preliminaries, he basically played the whole process with eighty percent of his strength.
But even so, he easily won the first place in the group with a time of 1:55.10 and basically secured a place in the semi-finals.
When he came out of the pool, Tang Hao waved his hand to greet the enthusiastic cheers of the audience, and at this moment, he noticed a familiar figure in the front row of the audience.
Alison Stoker, the girl who said she was going to watch him play yesterday, was really waving at him along with a few of her teammates.
Tang Hao stretched out his hand to respond, and then walked towards the player's passage.
After the 200-meter backstroke preliminaries, there is still an archery individual round of 16 waiting for him.
The individual archery competition entered the round of 16, and those who remained were the top two players in competitive archery.
Like Tang Hao, this round was the 12th-ranked Northern Dynasty player Li Chengxuan, who was the core of the Northern Dynasty team and was the top 8 in the individual archery competition at the Kyoto Olympics.
Somewhat similar to Tang Hao, Li Chengxuan's biggest characteristic is stability, and there are basically few results below 9 rings.
This can be seen from his last round of elimination, the average number of rings in the four rounds is 28.2.
The same is true for the match with Tang Hao, his results in the three rounds were 28, 29, and 28, and he played quite well.
At any Olympic Games, this result would have been enough for him to qualify for the last eight.
The only misfortune is that his opponent is Tang Hao.