In recent years, the performance of the Chinese swimming team has been rising in the world, which has also made the country's investment in this area increase year by year. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Take this World Championships as an example, Shanghai has invested nearly 2 billion yuan in the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, which was specially built for this World Swimming Championships, and can accommodate up to 15,000 spectators, with a venue land of nearly 350,000 square meters, which is a fight with the Bird's Nest in Kyoto.

Moreover, the Shanghai team attaches great importance to this swimming World Championships, volunteers alone have recruited nearly 5,000 people, and several hotlines that can translate 16 Chinese languages have been opened, providing public welfare information consulting services and help and guidance services 24 hours a day, even if it is the Internet problem that the audience is most concerned about, the venue has also opened a powerful unlimited WIFI to fully meet the needs of the audience in the interval between competitions.

Including the accommodation of the athletes, it is made according to the standards of the Kyoto Olympics, which shows that the government attaches great importance to this World Championships, and also shows that Shanghai has a lot of money.

When Tang Hao was in Kyoto, he hadn't had time to experience it in the Water Cube, but when he arrived at this sports center of complete scale, he was also inexplicably excited.

Compared with the 3,000-scale small restaurant in the championship game, the scene in front of me is exciting, and when you think about the game, there are more than 10,000 people watching their own games, and that kind of picture is enough to make people's blood boil.

In addition to the main hall, there are several training halls on the side, and after the national swimming team arrived, they soon began the adaptive training of the venue under the leadership of Song Xiaocheng.

Because the freestyle events have met the requirements of the World Championships standard A, Tang Hao has signed up for all the freestyle events for the first time in history, counting the 100-meter relay (the 200-meter relay race was abandoned due to schedule conflicts), he has to participate in a total of 8 events, which is exactly the same as Phelps's project at the Kyoto Olympics.

These eight events, the 400-meter and 4X100-meter freestyle relays, were held on the first day of competition, and the championship had to be decided on the same day, which was definitely a challenge for Tang Hao.

After all, when it comes to the international arena, the strength of his opponent is absolutely stronger.

Take the 400m freestyle, the first event he wants to participate in, Sun Yang's lifelong rival Park Tae-hwan in his previous life is the absolute favorite to win the championship, as the gold medalist in the 400m event at the Kyoto Olympics, he still maintains the top 400m level three years later.

Apart from Park Tae-hwan, Germany's Paul Biedermann is definitely the best freestyle athlete in the last two years, and he broke the world record at the World Championships in Rome two years ago to win the title, officially establishing his status in the freestyle middle distance.

On top of that, American Peter van der Keiyi and Tunisia's Kosia Merori are both strong players and have already proven themselves in major tournaments.

It's definitely not easy to stand out from so many star players.

After participating in the opening ceremony, Song Xiaocheng found Tang Hao and Sun Yang alone and asked them to calm down.

The two of them have been mentally prepared when they are training, and the main thing at this time is to adjust their mentality, just like the night before the college entrance examination.

After the night of the opening ceremony, the Shanghai World Swimming Championships, which had nearly 5,000 athletes from more than 180 countries participating, officially kicked off at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center.

On this day, a total of more than 2,000 reporters from all over the world followed up and reported in the venue, and the venue was already full, highlighting the popularity of this World Championships, which is definitely the most concerned event in recent years.

The 400m was divided into the morning preliminaries and the evening final, with Sun Yang in the first group and Tang Hao in the fourth group.

Coincidentally, Sun Yang and Park Tae-hwan, two lifelong enemies, met directly in advance in the group stage this time.

This makes the preliminaries also look full of highlights.

Tang Hao naturally didn't miss this good opportunity.

In the end, the preliminaries of the first group of 400m ended with the cheers of the audience, and Sun Yang finally won the first place in the group with a time of 3:44.07, while his old opponent Park Tae-hwan only swam 3:46.21 and finally ranked third in the group.

Such a result greatly increased the confidence of the audience, and the expectations for Sun Yang also rose sharply.

However, Tang Hao, who is also a melon eater, has seen it thoroughly, Park Tae-hwan obviously retained his strength in the first 200 meters in the preliminaries, although this result is somewhat unexpected, but in the final, the Koreans are definitely not at this level.

Compared with the game itself, what he really paid attention to was the enthusiasm of the audience, and the cheers of more than 10,000 people were deafening, making people feel enthusiastic when they listened to it.

There were no big surprises in the second and third groups, with the likes of Van der Kye and Biedermann all topping the group and almost confirming their places in the evening's final.

It was heartening to see that at the end of the three groups, Sun Yang was ranked first among all competitors, which meant that he would have a great position in lane 4 in the evening final, which gave him a great hope of winning the gold medal.

Tang Hao appeared as the last group of whistles.

At this time, the basic celebrity game has ended, and because it is the last game before noon, many people left the field early to eat.

At this time, those who are still left are either Tang Hao's fans, or Tang Hao's fans are pulling the audience to watch together.

Although Tang Hao won the 400-meter gold medal in the championship, in terms of overall strength, Tang Hao was not so impressed in the middle distance.

In fact, the players who had already finished the game who had stayed to observe their opponents also left after the end of the third group of games, leaving Sun Yang still in the nearby pool, waiting for him to go back together after the competition.

The sudden drop in attention made Tang Hao a little unhappy, but it also made his boiling emotions slowly calm down.

After all, the 400m is a middle distance event, and if you really rush at the beginning, it will be difficult to say in the second half.

The competitors boarded the starting platform at the signal of the referee.

After taking the stage, Tang Hao turned his head to look at Merori, who was across the lane from him, and the Tunisian should be the main opponent in this group.

After the referee signaled that everyone was in place, Tang Hao and the other players prepared to jump.

Looking at the pool of water in front of him, he was actually looking forward to what kind of results he would have in the competition.

"Quack!"

With a single gunshot, the players rushed into the water almost at the same time.

Tunisia's Merori started the game strongly and grabbed the top spot.

Tang Hao ranked fourth among all the players after coming out of the water because of his height. (To be continued.) )