In fact, for Adidas, there is an international super sports superstar like Guo Zizhao as an endorsement, and Guo Zizhao himself is known for resolutely resisting high-tech swimsuits, so the impact of Speedo's fourth-generation swimsuit on it is actually not great.

Guo Zizhao can also defeat all opponents in a traditional swimsuit, and also maintains the title of "the world's No. 1 flying fish" all year round, with such an invincible positive image, Adidas's ordinary swimsuit sales have always been very gratifying.

After all, for the majority of swimming enthusiasts, mid-to-high-end traditional swimsuits are the best choice for everyone, and professional and expensive high-tech swimsuits are just the choice of those top professional athletes. Therefore, with such a golden sign as Guo Zizhao, there is no need for Adidas to invest heavily in the development of more advanced shark skin swimsuits.

What if it was developed? The question is for whom? Guo Zizhao definitely won't wear it! That is worn by other athletes, but it still can't win against Guo Zizhao who is wearing an ordinary swimsuit, isn't that just a slap in the face! So, in the past, Adi didn't care about Speedo's high-tech swimsuits!

But now, Guo Zizhao is about to retire! Without Guo Zizhao, who would be able to fight those perverts in high-tech swimsuits in the pool! Phelps, in particular, is the most powerful spokesperson for Speedo swimsuits! Therefore, in order to ensure the future interests of his company after Guo Zizhao's retirement, Adidas naturally fully supports Nike's proposal.

In this way, with the cooperation of these two top international giants, Guo Zizhao estimates that the fate of high-tech swimsuits in this life should be no different from the previous life, and in the end, they will not be able to escape the end of being banned.

But that's fine, high-tech swimsuits are banned, and for the Chinese team, the impact is not great. The national team also accepted this aspect relatively late, and was influenced by Guo Zizhao in this life, so basically no athletes in the national team use high-tech swimsuits.

Moreover, thanks to Guo Zizhao's participation, the current domestic swimming environment and the overall strength of athletes are also much better than in the previous life. In the next few years, the overall performance of the international swimming world will also drop significantly due to the ban of high-tech swimsuits.

If the national team can seize this opportunity and try to catch up, maybe there will be a chance to catch up. At least, there must be a few more geniuses like Zhang Lin, Sun Yangyang and Ning Zetao in this life, so that they can be regarded as worthy of Lao Tzu's influence in this life!

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Guo Zizhao's idea is very good, but the reality facing the Chinese team is still very cruel.

In the evening, a sad news came from the swimming venue. Zhang Lin, the original favorite of the Chinese team, missed the final of the men's 400-meter freestyle.

Although Zhang Lin swam an excellent time of 3:41.35 this time, a little faster than his winning result in the Beijing Olympics last year, this result is obviously a little overwhelmed at this year's World Championships in Rome. In the end, Zhang Lin only won a bronze medal.

In the men's 4x100m freestyle relay that followed, Phelps led the United States team to win his first gold medal at the World Championships.

In an interview with the media after the competition, Phelps also proudly said, "In last year's Beijing Olympics, although I failed to win the most individual gold medals, I was the athlete with the most gold medals in swimming. In the recent World Swimming Championships, I have always maintained this honor, and in this World Swimming Championships, there is still no one who can surpass me in the total number of gold medals! Even Guo Zizhao can't do the same! ”

The media reporters on the field were a little unimpressed by Phelps's words, although Phelps's achievements in the swimming event are obvious to all, but in the men's 100m and 200m freestyle events, he has never been Guo Zizhao's opponent. What's the point of just comparing the total number of swimming gold medals won with Guo Zizhao? Guo Zizhao's main event is track and field, not swimming!

And the next day, when Guo Zizhao was asked the same question by the media before the game, he also said indifferently, "Hehe...... What's the analogy with this? If Phelps is interested, he can also try his hand at track and field. I won't talk about anything else, if Phelps can win a world championship in track and field, even if I lose! ”

I'll go......

Hearing Guo Zizhao say this, all the media reporters couldn't help laughing. Let Phelps compete in track and field? It's a really good idea, but I don't know if Phelps has the talent, will he choose the sprint event or the field event? If you want to win another world championship in track and field, it will be a shame for Phelps......

And everyone's minds suddenly came up with the famous cross-border challenge between Guo Zizhao and Thorpe after the Sydney Olympics that year, hehe...... With Thorpe's experience, Phelps wouldn't have jumped into the pit stupidly......

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On the morning of the 27th, the preliminaries of the men's 200-meter freestyle officially started. This event is also the only meeting between Guo Zizhao and Phelps at this World Championships.

In this World Swimming Championships, although there is only one chance to win the system reward in the 50-meter freestyle, Guo Zizhao still chose to participate in the men's 50-meter, 100-meter and 200-meter freestyle events. Anyway, with his current strength, he can easily win, and it doesn't matter if it takes two or three more days.

In this World Championships, in addition to participating in the relay competition in three events, Phelps only participated in the men's 100m, 200m butterfly and 200m freestyle in the individual event.

For Phelps, he also hopes to beat Guo Zizhao in the 200m freestyle once, so as to save the face he lost at last year's Beijing Olympics. However, what Phelps did not expect was that a day later, he would suffer his biggest defeat at this World Championships.

In the morning preliminaries, Guo Zizhao did not show all his strength at all, just with a "shocking" skill, Guo Zizhao swam an amazing result of 1:42.80. This preliminaries not only frightened all the contestants, but also dealt a heavy blow to Phelps.

At last year's Beijing Olympics, Guo Zizhao also did not use any equipment in this event, and only relied on three skills to swim a world record of 1:42.00. And Phelps, who won the second place at that time, although he also swam his personal best, but it was only 1:42.90!

However, with this time of 1:42.90, Phelps also became the second athlete in the international swimming world besides Guo Zizhao to swim under 1 minute and 43 seconds. And so far, although this year's international swimming results have risen sharply, but in this event, only Guo Zizhao and Phelps can swim in 1 minute and 43 seconds.

Therefore, Phelps originally thought that he still had the opportunity to challenge Guo Zizhao in this project. But I didn't expect that Guo Zizhao actually swam 1:42.80 in the preliminaries, which was 0.1 seconds faster than his best result! Your sister, how can this be compared......

And all the media reporters at the scene were also a little gloated after seeing this achievement.

Hey...... You Phelps deserve it, yesterday he was still screaming in front of everyone, saying that Guo Zizhao did not win as many gold medals in swimming as you. Now it was cleaned up by Guo Zizhao in the preliminaries!

Tut-tut...... 1:42.80, Guo Zizhao's score in the preliminaries was nearly 3 seconds higher than Phelps! Based on Guo Zizhao's competition habits, Phelps is completely out of action in the men's 200-meter freestyle event at this World Swimming Championships......

However, in addition to Guo Zizhao and Phelps, there is another player whose results have also attracted great attention, that is, the young player from Germany. Biederman.