Chapter 128: Championship Match
Ye Shiwen's affair was just an episode in the test match. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the next two days of test matches, Tang Hao was very low-key, although every event was promoted, but basically exceeded the championship A standard.
His idea is very simple, this kind of competition that has no reward for honor points, as long as it meets the standard.
The brightest of the test events was none other than Sun Yang, who won the 200, 400, 800 and 1500 freestyles, and swam 14:37.43 in the 1500m, just two seconds shy of his new Asian Games record.
Such an excellent form also made Shen Qing very happy, and Sun Yang is very likely to win one or more gold medals at the World Championships on behalf of the Chinese army.
After this test match, his teammates' views of Tang Hao have completely changed, and as for Shen Qing, he also has the most basic definition of Tang Hao, a short-distance player with strong explosive power, and the perfect puzzle piece of the Zhedong Swimming Dream Team.
After harvesting this perfect puzzle piece and training for more than a month, the Zhejiang East Provincial Swimming Team also officially embarked on the journey of the national championship.
In this competition, a total of 47 men and women from eastern Zhejiang Province reached the championship A standard, and the mighty team is the most dazzling in all provinces.
Shen Qing is also determined to win this national competition, intending to establish the status of the strongest swimming province in eastern Zhejiang Province in one fell swoop.
This time, the championship was held in Jiangcheng.
Jiangcheng is the capital of Hubei Province, one of the core cities in the west, it is adjacent to the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River and its largest tributary Han water cross from the urban area of the city, dividing it into Wuchang, Hankou, Hanyang three parts, which is also the origin of the name of Jiangcheng city.
It is precisely because of this geographical relationship that the people of Jiangcheng are very good at and love swimming, and the local swimming atmosphere is quite strong, which is why the championship is held here.
Swimming competitions are arranged according to spectators, such as the relay races and freestyle races, which are mostly held at a later time, and the opening race of the first day of the competition is the preliminary round of the men's 200m men's backstroke.
But even so, the Jiangcheng Central Gymnasium has long been crowded, and the swimming pool that can accommodate more than 3,000 people has long been overcrowded.
Tang Hao signed up for freestyle, and he watched from the wall on the first day of the competition and became the front row of spectators.
In the 200-meter backstroke, the domestic star Xu Jiayu from eastern Zhejiang Province competed, although he was only 16 years old, he won the bronze medal in the 200-meter backstroke in the national competition last year, with great potential.
Sure enough, after the start of the backstroke competition, he led all the way, using excellent turning skills to finally achieve a time of 2:02.54, winning the first place in the group and meeting the requirements of the World Championships B standard.
In the preliminaries, he reached the B standard, and if there were no 2 people swimming above the A standard in the semi-finals, he would have won the ticket to the World Championships in advance.
Xu Jiayu got off to a good start for Zhedong Province, which also showed unprecedented dominance in the following matches on the first day of competition, repeatedly grabbing the top spot in the group in various swimming styles.
However, sometimes a good start does not mean a good ending, in the finals held in the evening, the athletes in eastern Zhejiang Province without exception played abnormally, even Xu Jiayu also failed to win the gold medal in the 200-meter backstroke, and finally won only a silver medal, and no medals were recorded in other events.
This performance caused head coach Shen Qing to be furious, and also attracted a series of ridicule from other provincial teams.
The king of the preliminaries and the king of mentality are ridiculously called among the teams.
The most dazzling on the first day of the competition was the Shanghai team, the number of participants was second only to those in eastern Zhejiang Province, who not only won the men's gold medal in the 200-meter backstroke and butterfly in a row, but also broke the national record in the 800-meter women's fast group competition, and became the brightest star of the day.
After the end of the first day of the game, Shen Qing pulled the members of the swimming team to the locker room and scolded angrily, and the scolding revealed through the locker room, which attracted ridicule from other provincial team players.
was scolded for being bloody, but perhaps because the players were young, their mentality fluctuated greatly, and the next day's competition, several players in the women's event did not make it to the finals.
Shen Qing also shook her head while watching from the side, but fortunately, Ye Shiwen performed well, swimming an excellent result of 2:28.20 in the preliminaries of the 200-meter medley, winning the first place in the group, and at the same time, she also met the requirements of the Olympic standard A and won the ticket to the Shanghai World Championships in advance.
Ye Shiwen performed well, but her expression attracted the astonishment of her teammates in Eastern Zhejiang Province, and she kept a straight face throughout the whole process, even if she had already won the ticket, her cold expression was the same as if she had been in the team before.
Tang Hao looked at this scene and was entangled in his heart, and he didn't know whether the words he said to her were good or bad.
The highlight of the day was undoubtedly the 4x100m freestyle preliminaries.
The 100-meter relay is the most popular event in athletics, as is the 100-meter relay, not to mention the most spectacular freestyle.
Shen Qing also has full trust in Tang Hao, although he is a newcomer, he was placed in the lineup of the relay race in the preliminaries and arranged in the second base.
This is also Tang Hao's first appearance in an official competition.
Before the swimming competition, the contestants will be introduced, and when Zhang Lin and other well-known players were introduced, there was a burst of excited cheers at the scene, and when Tang Hao was introduced, the audience, and even the audience in front of the TV were stunned.
Tang Hao was famous in the archery competition before, coupled with the boxing gold medal in the Asian Games, the audience is not unfamiliar with him, why did he come to the swimming pool now? And it is also in the 100-meter freestyle relay race in eastern Zhejiang Province.
Is this to dominate the world of sports, or is it going to make trouble?
The audience was shocked and confused, and even the commentators at the scene couldn't help but talk about it.
"That is Tang Hao, the double champion of archery and the champion of boxing competitions? How did he end up on the list of Zhedong Province? ”
"This is really surprising, when I saw the list of players in Zhedong Province before, I thought there was a person with the same name and surname, but I didn't expect it to be him."
"It's crazy, this is the third national event he has competed in, he won the previous two competitions, and even made history, is swimming the third sport he has conquered?"
"Difficult."
"Is it difficult?"
"It's difficult, it's very difficult, in the previous archery competition, there was no height requirement, and in the boxing competition after that, he also participated in the lowest level of 49 kg, and the lightweight competition has no hard requirements for height, but swimming is different, short people never succeed in the pool."
"It's also said that this is a 4x100 relay race, and the provincial teams are the strongest players in the team, and even if there is a difference in strength between freestyle swimmers, the gap will not be too big, and short people really have no advantage in this kind of competition."
The analysis of the two commentators can be said to be very pertinent, and at this time, the camera was given to the Zhejiang East Provincial Team.
Tang Hao is particularly prominent among the four, not because he is handsome, but because he is 1.70 meters tall, he looks very eye-catching.