Chapter 240: Dark Horse

The competition is about to start, the players appeared one after another, and Tang Hao's appearance once again ignited the entire swimming pool. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Britain is no longer an imperial country, the hierarchy is still deep-rooted, Tang Hao was awarded, and in the eyes of the British, he is already a member of the aristocracy.

It can be said that his personal charisma has reached a pinnacle in the UK that has never been seen by foreign athletes.

It is said that it is easy to defeat a country, but it is difficult to conquer a country, but Tang Hao conquered this country with real deeds and became a hero of this country.

Tang Hao waved to the audience and followed onto the jumping platform.

"All in place. ”

"Quack!"

With the sound of an electron gun, all the players rushed into the water.

The scene erupted in cheers.

Agnel took the lead and grabbed the first place of all the players, and the dark horses of this group of preliminaries also showed strong competitiveness in the semi-finals.

Closely behind Agonell, Biedermann, the Germans rushed fiercely at the start.

After Biederman, it was Sun Yang and Tang Hao.

It was followed by Fenwick, who grabbed the top five spots in the group.

After swimming 50 meters, the five of them have thrown off more than half of the body with the players behind them, and the difference in strength is quite obvious.

After the first 100 meters, except for Biederman gradually being overtaken by Tang Hao and Sun Yang, there was no change in other positions.

"Fenwick!

"Tang Hao!

After the halfway, the audience began to cheer for the home team's Fenwick, but this time in addition to Fenwick, Tang Hao also enjoyed this treatment.

After 100 meters, Sun Yang began to exert his strength, and he narrowed the distance between him and Agnel little by little.

However, Agnel is not a vegetarian either, and after feeling that he was being chased, he accelerated and actually maintained his position.

This surprised Tang Hao, who was in the swimming lane next door, the strength of this French newcomer is very strong.

The last 50 meters turned.

All the runners start the final sprint.

Agnel still led the way, followed by Sun Yang and Tang Hao, and then Biederman and Fenwick.

Tang Hao has been following Sun Yang, because he has to participate in the 4X200m relay race in the afternoon, he does not plan to go all out in the semifinals.

But at this moment, something happened that surprised him again, the leading Agnel obviously had a slowdown process, and he was overtaken by Sun Yang at once.

Sun Yang ended up leading half a body and touching the wall, followed by Agnel, Tang Hao was third in the group, and Biederman and Fenwick were fourth and fifth respectively.

Fenwick's fifth-placed time of 1:45.41 is already quite good and will likely help him reach the final.

When he went ashore, Tang Hao glanced at Agnel again.

Agnel gasped slightly, but compared with Sun Yang and the others who were panting violently, he obviously had the strength to stay.

This newcomer who suddenly appeared was not a big surprise.

The first group of semi-finals is over, followed by the second group.

In this group, the most competitive are Park Tae-hwan and Rochette, as well as Australian Fraser Holmes.

Tang Hao and the first batch of players who finished did not leave, but went to the pool on the side one after another to soak.

"Don, you're really strong. Tang Hao was chatting with Sun Yang when Fenwick suddenly came over and said.

Tang Hao looked at him with some surprise.

"And what you've done to our country, honestly, I admire you. Fenwick was direct.

"Thank you, you're nice too. Tang Hao said with a smile.

Fenwick smiled and nodded at him, then turned back to the other side to chat with Agnel.

"Your charm is really invincible, I guess if you go to flirt with a British girl, you will hit every shot!" Sun Yang said with half envy and half joking at this time.

"You might think. Tang Hao smiled and shook his head.

"Actually, I think, don't talk about flirting with girls, flirting with men is 100% successful. Sun Yang continued to say with a smile.

"Ahem, I didn't expect you to be such an aries. Tang Hao was speechless for a while.

"Quack!"

Just then, the second group of matches has begun.

They also stopped teasing and looked at the other side of the arena.

Lochette took the lead of all competitors, and although he focused on the medley, he excelled in all four strokes.

Park Tae-hwan was close behind with Holmes and Russia's Nikitov, and the four of them quickly distanced themselves from the rest of the competition.

After 100 meters, the order remains the same.

After 150 meters, it was still in this order, and it was not until the last 50 meters that Park Tae-hwan began to exert his strength, overtaking Rochet, who was weak in the back, and grabbed the first touch of all the players.

The results of the second group of players came out, and the players in the pool had not yet reacted, but the Fenwick here jumped up excitedly.

In fourth place was Russia's Nikitov, who finished in 1:45.51, which was more than Fenwick's, meaning he managed to secure his ticket to the final.

There are five people in a group and three people in a group, which requires some luck in a swimming competition, so it's no wonder he's so excited.

"Congratulations. Tang Hao got up and congratulated him, and then left with Sun Yang first.

In another hour, it's almost time for the 200m heats, and it's time for them to go back and prepare.

After saying hello to Fenwick, the other players also left the pool one after another, most of them relay riders from their respective national teams, and they also had to prepare for the upcoming preliminaries.

This time in the 200-meter relay, in addition to Tang Hao and Sun Yang, the other two people in the Chinese team are Zhang Lin and Jiang Haiqi.

At the 2012 Incheon Asian Games, the Chinese team defeated their old rival island country team to win the gold medal in this event, and the members at that time were Hao Yun, Li Yunqi, Wang Shun and Jiang Haiqi.

Now three of the four people have been expelled from the national team, leaving only Jiang Haiqi alone, but everyone knows that after adding Tang Hao and Sun Yang, the strength of this relay team has increased instead of decreasing.

Like all other men's relays, the Chinese team has never reached the final at the Olympics, and this time, led by Tang Hao and Sun Yang, has a good chance of making history.

This can be seen from the domestic broadcast ratings.

Although there was still about an hour before the game, and although it was already more than 1 a.m. Kyoto time, the ratings of the broadcast had more than doubled.

Spectators stayed up all night just to witness the historic moment that could have happened.

Time flew fast, more than an hour passed in a blink of an eye, Tang Hao and the others also completed the warm-up and walked towards the competition venue together.

Their faces are full of confidence, and this time, their goal is to become a big dark horse.