"Ready!"

"Ready!"

"Phew!"

The whistle sounded, and four mermaids jumped into the water, splashing a shallow wave.

The athletes worked very hard and began their recovery training the day after their stay in Berlin.

After all, Cheng Tianfang is the ambassador to Germany, and he has a lot of work to do, and there are many high-level Nazi officials to make friends, so he didn't come to hang out with the Olympic delegation anymore.

"Come on, come on!"

Zhang Leyi and Yu Peichen are very passionate, just an ordinary recovery training test, they stand in the audience and shout.

There are seven swimmers coming to the Olympics, three men and four women, and four women are testing at the moment.

Soon, the four mermaids swam all over one after another, Yang Xiuqiong was the first to touch the board, and Liu Guizhen was second, but the difference in results was not big.

The coach pressed the stopwatch continuously and announced the result: "Yang Xiuqiong, 1:24.3; Liu Guizhen, 1:24.8; Chen Huanqiong, 1 minute 25 seconds; Liang Yongxian, 1:25.2. ”

"It's a lot worse than usual!"

"I've been on the boat for a month, and I'm floating when I docked, and I'm not feeling well now."

"Fortunately, I came early, otherwise I would have been able to participate in the rematch as soon as I arrived in Germany."

“……”

The four female team members chattered non-stop, with a little worry on their faces. Their mental pressure is very high, especially Yang Xiuqiong, if she can't achieve good results in the Olympics, she will definitely be sprayed to death by public opinion when she returns to China.

Historically, Yang Xiuqiong returned to China without any gains, and a magazine even published a cartoon called "The Fashion of Eggs", which shows Yang Xiuqiong holding a big duck egg, sitting by the swimming pool in a daze.

In the eyes of the Chinese people, athletes who do not win medals are a shame for the whole of China.

Especially the players who are expected to attract criticism, as the so-called: deep love, responsibility.

At this time, the swimming events were relatively thick, with only breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle. Freestyle is actually "free swimming", as long as you don't use breaststroke and backstroke, you can swim however you want.

By the way, this year's competition has a new rule that allows the use of butterfly technique in breaststroke competitions, which is equivalent to equating butterfly with breaststroke. In the following 20 years, the breaststroke competition was actually the butterfly competition of later generations, because the butterfly was faster, and few athletes used breaststroke technology.

Zhou Hexuan watched all kinds of swimming tests for men and women, and couldn't help but call the coach over and ask: "Coach Yang, is there a diving distance limit in the current swimming competition?" ”

The head swimming coach of the Chinese Olympic team, Yang Xiuqiong's father, Yang Nanzhu, said confusedly: "What is the diving distance limit? ”

"What is the maximum distance that an athlete can dive after entering the water?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

Yang Nanzhu said in a daze: "No, you can dive as long as you want, is there anything wrong with this?" ”

A smile appeared on Zhou Hexuan's face and said, "Coach Yang, I think that after entering the water, the athletes can extend the diving time as much as possible, maybe they can improve their performance in the competition." ”

"Will it?" Yang Nanzhu will be skeptical.

In fact, not only Yang Nanzhu, but also swimming coaches all over the world at this time have not realized the benefits of diving.

Take the "King of Butterfly Swimming" Pankratov, for example, this thing got into the water during the competition, and then it came out to the opposite pool, how do you let the other competitors play? As a result, the rules of swimming competitions had to be changed to limit athletes to 15 meters of diving after entering the water.

That was in the '90s.

The 30s at this time were even more terrifying, and you could dive the whole way. For example, breaststroke, as long as you use the breaststroke position, you can dive and swim back to pass, because there are no corresponding restrictions.

It wasn't until the new China in the 50s that Mu Xiangxiong broke the swimming world record one after another, which led to the first change in the rules of swimming - the official competition was not allowed to dive the whole way, but it was allowed to temporarily dive through the swing of the lower limbs after entering the water.

Asians have the advantage of being flexible and their disadvantage of being short, while snorkeling is the perfect way to play to their strengths.

Although Yang Nanzhu did not agree with Zhou Hexuan's bizarre idea, he still asked the athletes to try it and ordered them to dive for as long as they could.

Then, everyone was dumbfounded......

The best way to dive is breaststroke, and everyone subconsciously uses the breaststroke position. At the end of the four round-trips (100 meters) in the pool, male athlete Ji Zhengliang was the fastest, with a time of 1:13.7; Among the female athletes, Yang Xiuqiong was the fastest, with a time of 1:16.9.

At this time, the men's 100-meter breaststroke world record is 1 minute and 13 seconds, and Ji Zhengliang is close to the world record. As a woman, Yang Xiuqiong is less than 4 seconds away from the men's world record, more than 2 seconds away from the existing women's record.

This is also the result of the athletes not being in good shape and not getting used to diving for a while.

When the athletes recover and adapt to the diving operation, it is estimated that all of them will be able to break the world record.

"This and this, this ......" Coach Yang Nanzhu was trembling when he spoke, and said in confusion, "Can this be done?" It's completely unreasonable. ”

Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile: "Does the International Swimming Federation stipulate that you can't snorkel?" ”

"Nope." Yang Nanzhu shook his head again and again.

"That's not it, no rules are tacit approval." Zhou Hexuan said.

Yang Nanzhu couldn't accept it: "But this is cheating." ”

Zhou Hexuan laughed out loud: "Since you can cheat reasonably, who the still talks about the rules?" ”

"That's just as well." Yang Nanzhu scratched his head and smiled, while rejoicing, he also felt that his three views collapsed.

At the Olympics a few months later, the Chinese swimmers were absolutely a blockbuster, and the referees, coaches and athletes of all countries screamed as painful.

Zhou Hexuan thought for a while and said, "Coach Yang, this way of playing must be kept secret, and no news can be revealed before the game. ”

"That's for sure." Yang Nanzhu said solemnly.

"Also," Zhou added, "with the strength of our men's swimmers, it would be difficult to enter the semi-finals under normal circumstances, and they will only be able to win medals if they use diving at the beginning." However, if diving is used in the preliminary round, it will inevitably attract the attention of other countries and follow suit. ”

Yang Nanzhu said: "From the preliminary round to the finals, it will only take two or three days, and there should be no threat for foreigners to sharpen their guns and learn to dive. ”

"You still need to be vigilant." Zhou Hexuan admonished.

Yang Nanzhu thought for a while, and suddenly smiled: "You can let the athletes try to maintain their strength in the preliminary and semi-finals, and then use their full strength until the finals." Even, you don't have to win the championship in the preliminary and semi-finals, you just need to qualify for the next round. ”

Zhou Hexuan laughed: "Coach Yang, Coach Yang, or you are worse." ”

Everyone present laughed, according to Zhou Hexuan's diving cheating method, the Chinese team in this Olympic Games won the gold medal properly.

It is estimated that after the end of the Olympic Games, the rules of swimming competitions will be changed as a result.