At the time of the championship, because there were not many players, the players were divided into two groups: fast and slow, but the World Championships was different, after the number of players increased, the two groups obviously could not meet the demand, and naturally there was a group stage. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The presence of Tang Hao and Sun Yang, a former world record holder and a current world record holder, has brought extra attention to the 1500m event.

When warming up before the game, the two naturally couldn't escape the pursuit and interception of reporters.

Tang Hao also had to participate in the relay race of the medley in the morning, so he mainly warmed up during training, and went ashore after swimming two laps.

As soon as he came ashore, he was surrounded by reporters, most of whom were domestic journalists, but there were also many foreign journalists.

"Tang Hao, today you are going to participate in the preliminaries of the 1500 and 4X100m medley relays in a row, will there be any problems in terms of physical fitness?"

"Tang Hao, many netizens and sports people have suggested that you selectively give up a certain project, what do you think about this?"

"Don, your opponent at night is mainly teammate Sun, who has beaten you in your trials before, are you confident that you can defeat him, or are you ready to strategically give up, leave this gold medal to Sun, and then leave your stamina for the 4X100 medley relay?"

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Tang Hao was not too interested in these questions from reporters, but the last reporter's question made him frown.

He looked at the reporter who was the last to ask the question.

It was a foreigner with a press card on her chest indicating that she was a journalist from Australia.

Because of a series of practices by Australian players and the government after the start of the competition, all Chinese, including Tang Hao, are quite unhappy.

At this time, in the face of this question, Tang Hao's answer was also unceremoniously.

"The biggest charm of competitive sports is competition, a better opponent inspires a stronger self, is it because the opponent has his own teammates, do you have to give up? Or because there are Australian players in the game, I have to beat them a lot? ”

The Australian reporter frowned, but before she could answer, Tang Hao continued: "Obviously not, because this does not meet the basic requirements of competitive sports, and the most important point is, why do you have the illusion that I don't have the physical strength to complete the 1500 and 4X100 relay races at the same time?" ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately attracted the surprised eyes of the reporters.

1500 meters requires long-lasting endurance, and the 4X100 relay race requires super explosiveness in a short time.

How confident is this to be able to speak like this!

But after the initial stunned, a strong sense of pride involuntarily appeared on the faces of Chinese reporters.

Confidence, the source is strength, which Chinese dared to speak in front of the media like this before? But now that Tang Hao has said it, and there are already 4 gold and 1 silver medals, no one will think that he is talking big.

It's definitely a feeling of exaltation.

The Australian reporter was speechless for a while, she originally hoped to use this to provoke the relationship between Tang Hao and Sun Yang, or to get some negative news about the Chinese swimming team, but Tang Hao's self-confidence made his plans all come to naught.

Coincidentally, Sun Yang, who came out of the pool later, also seemed full of confidence in an interview, when the reporter relayed what Tang Hao said in the previous interview, he expressed the same statement as Tang Hao, competitive competition, the core is competition, stronger opponents will only inspire their better game state.

What the two Chinese players said during the interview also made netizens praise, compared with the continuous complaints and doubts of the previous Australian players, this is the purest sports competition!

There are four groups in the 1500m group stage, and according to the rules, the best eight runners advance to the final in the evening.

Sun Yang was assigned to the first group, while Tang Hao was in the fourth group.

Maybe it was because of the pre-race interview, or maybe it was because he didn't have to participate in the relay competition of the 4X100m medley, or because he played in the first group, Sun Yang chose to go all out in the preliminaries, and his outstanding performance also attracted extremely excited cheers from the audience.

In the end, his time of 14:35.35 was just one second away from the new world record he set in the championship.

Such an outstanding performance also made netizens and sports people fry, and they have already decided that Sun Yang has won the gold medal in advance.

The second and third groups were a bit uneventful compared to the first group, with the players selectively retaining their strength in the matches, with Canada's Ryan Cochran and Hungary's Gergi Kish all advancing to the evening final.

In fact, Tang Hao's playing in the last group is also the best thing for him.

Because the previous three groups of players have finished the competition and the results have come out, he only needs to ensure that he enters the finals, so that the physical exertion can be minimized.

With a time of 14:45.23, he finished second in his group, finishing seventh among all competitors to advance to the final in the evening.

After the 1500m heats, Tang Hao had a period of physical recovery time, and at the end of the afternoon, he also ushered in another crucial qualifier.

In swimming, the relay event tends to attract more attention than the individual event, because the relay event reflects not only the individual level, but also the overall level of a country.

Among the three relay events, the relay competition with the highest attention and the highest viewing is the 4X100 medley.

Because it includes four swimming strokes, if you want to win the gold medal in this event, you must have relatively good star players in all four swimming styles.

Like Australia, Canada, France are among the representatives.

Of course, there are exceptions, the most typical of which are the island nation team and the United States team, the former is the world's top level in the backstroke and breaststroke, often able to achieve an advantage in the first 200 meters, while the American team quietly reversed, they basically rely on the butterfly and freestyle of the last two poles to achieve the final victory.

There are two groups in the 4X100m medley relay, and the top four teams in the group will qualify for the finals in the evening.

And unfortunately, in this grouping, the Chinese team is in the same group as the United States, Japan and France, and it is more difficult to advance to the finals.

"In the medley relay, we are not a strong team, in the freestyle relay, we are not a strong team either, but we won a gold medal in the end, which proves one thing, if you don't work hard, you won't have anything, but if you work hard, everything is possible." Song Xiaocheng cheered for the players before the game, and after he finished speaking, he glanced at Tang Hao.

The meaning is obvious, the freestyle relay relies on Tang Hao to win the card, and now in the medley relay, Tang Hao is also there. (To be continued.) )