Chapter 716: Turning to the World Championships in Rome
"18.96 seconds! 9.52 seconds! Guo Zizhao's London Super Grand Prix ended successfully! ”
"Losing the American Legion and the Jamaican Legion in a row, Guo Zizhao's corpses are all over the field!"
"The 400-meter human limit has been broken, but will the 100-meter and 200-meter limits be far away?"
"Deciphering Guo Zizhao's big stride sprint running method, even Guo Zizhao doesn't dare to use it easily!"
Guo Zizhao made a bold statement that he would always be the "king of speed"! ”
"Usain Bolt has made another great achievement, but the successor will always be the successor!"
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Early the next morning, the headlines of the world's major sports media were once again dominated by Guo Zizhao's performance at the London Super Athletics Grand Prix.
In addition to the two amazing achievements created by Guo Zizhao this time, Guo Zizhao's last few words in an interview have also become the focus of heated discussions.
Usain Bolt will always be just Usain Bolt! And he, Guo Zizhao, is the unique "King of Speed"!
Guo Zizhao's words, in addition to showing his self-confidence and domineering, have also been over-interpreted by many media.
Does Guo Zizhao think that Usain Bolt will never break his own world record? Or does Guo Zizhao think that no matter how powerful Bolt is, he will only be a temporary hero in the future, and he will not be able to achieve his monopoly position in the sprint event?
Or does Guo Zizhao think that Bolt is not a qualified successor, after all, Bolt is currently only following Guo Zizhao's footsteps in the men's 100m and 200m events, but in the men's 400m sprint, Bolt is still just a scumbag. As for the 110m hurdles event, Usain Bolt didn't touch it at all.
Even when Bolt was asked by the media about such a topic, he was a little depressed and said, "Guo Zizhao is a unique existence in international athletics, but I will also let everyone remember that Bolt in the future is also unique!" ”
Isn't there also the 400m and 110m hurdles? Bolt also pondered a little unpleasantly, humming...... My main event was the 200-meter and 400-meter sprints? After Guo Zizhao retired, he had no opponents in the 100-meter and 200-meter events, so can he pick up the 400-meter sprint again......
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Just when the international athletics world was stirred up by Guo Zizhao's words, Guo Zizhao and his entourage quietly came to Rome, the capital of Italy, the next day.
The 13th World Aquatics Championships kicked off in Rome a week ago. The Chinese delegation also started the journey of this World Swimming Championships here early.
In the just-concluded diving and synchronized swimming competition, China's diving "dream team" also set off a gold frenzy again. In the end, the Chinese team ranked first in the overall score with 7 gold, 5 silver and 7 bronze medals, and whether it can hold the top spot in the gold medal list depends on the next performance of the Chinese swimming team.
Today, July 26, the swimming competition of this World Championships has officially kicked off, and in the next week, Guo Zizhao will also lead the Chinese swimming team to start the gold battle.
The current Chinese swimming team can also be said to be strong. In addition to Guo Zizhao, Zhang Lin and Liu Zige, the two gold medalists in the Beijing Olympics, also took on the responsibility of winning gold in this World Championships again. And Sun Yangyang, Chen Zheng, Gao Chang, Chen Jing, Lu Zhiwu and a large number of other players who performed well in last year's Olympic Games also appeared in Rome again.
It's just that this time, in addition to the deputy director of Shang Xiutang, the head coach of the swimming team has been replaced by another old acquaintance of Guo Zizhao, head coach Yi Zhengli.
After the Spring Festival this year, Zhang Dongya, the head coach of the former swimming team, also chose to retire bravely and easily after successfully completing the important task of winning gold in the Athens Olympics and the Beijing Olympics. Now, head coach Zhang Dongya has returned to Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College as the dean, and the deputy head coach of the former national team, Yu Zhengli, was promoted to head coach at the beginning of the year.
As soon as he took office, he was faced with the test of this year's Rome Swimming World Championships, so the head coach of Yi Zhengli also felt a lot of pressure!
"Guo Zizhao, let's not talk about the superfluous, you can rest well today, tomorrow morning will be the preliminaries of your 200-meter freestyle. In this World Championships, none of your 3 gold medals can be missing! After Guo Zizhao reported, Coach Mi also smiled and assigned tasks to Guo Zizhao.
"Huh...... Rest assured, guide. Look when I missed! ”
"Haha...... That's good! However, this year's results in international swimming have improved a lot! The performance of the other players in the national team still makes me a little uneasy! Coach Yi Zhengli also frowned and said, "In the men's 400-meter freestyle event that just ended in the morning, Zhang Lin successfully entered the final in the evening, but Sun Yangyang was eliminated. The strength of the opponents is not weak......"
"Hmm...... This is also very normal, this year's World Championships is estimated to be the last madness of high-tech swimsuits, everyone wants to work hard to get a good result before high-tech swimsuits are banned! Guo Zizhao also pursed his mouth disdainfully, "But when it comes to next year, it is estimated that the results of the international swimming world will fall again!" ”
"You're right! Hehe...... But it's a good thing for our national team. Anyway, that thing is too expensive, and we can't afford it......" Coach Yi Zhengli also laughed when he said this, "You are still prescient, haha...... Never wear a high-tech swimsuit, which is also free for others to say irritably! ”
"That is, with my strength, it is not difficult to win the championship, and I still need to wear a shovel high-tech swimsuit?"
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What Guo Zizhao and head coach Qi Zhengli discussed was a major event that happened to FINA this year. That is the news that the high-tech swimsuit, represented by the sharkskin swimsuit, may be banned by FINA soon.
Earlier this year, FINA and FINA submitted a proposal to FINA to ban the use of high-tech swimsuits in major international competitions. At the FINA executive meeting held in March this year, in addition to the United Kingdom, Germany and other 15 countries also issued the same proposal, Adidas, Nike and other top international sports equipment manufacturers also jointly began to put pressure on FINA.
The reason is simple: last year, more than 100 world records were broken by athletes wearing high-tech swimsuits because of the reason for preparing for the Beijing Olympics. Although there are also players like Guo Zizhao who always insist on wearing traditional swimsuits, but still swim amazingly, this is still rare.
It is now widely believed that the proliferation of high-tech swimsuits has made swimming competitions lose their original meaning, and athletes are no longer pursuing hard training to improve their performance, but instead competing for the level of their equipment.
In particular, sports equipment manufacturers such as Adidas and Nike hate Speedo, the leader in today's high-tech swimsuits.
Since the release of the fourth generation of high-tech swimsuit by Speedo at the beginning of last year, this swimsuit has quickly swept the entire international swimming scene with its excellent speed lifting function, and even reached more than 80% of the global high-tech swimsuit sales share. This time also caused Nike and Adidas to lose a lot of market share.
What makes these two industry giants even more unbearable is that on the eve of last year's Beijing Olympics, many athletes under Nike and Adi abandoned their endorsed swimsuit brands and chose Speedo's fourth-generation high-tech swimsuits in order to achieve better results.
This is simply a naked slap in the face of Nike and Adidas! If this continues, not only will these two giants fail step by step in swimming equipment, but they may even shake their supremacy in other sports equipment fields.
Although under the circumstances at the time, Nike and Adidas also pinched their noses and admitted it, allowing their athletes to freely choose swimsuit brands. But by the end of the year, the two companies began to use their various relationships to start attacking FINA. These two international giants are the main sponsors of FINA competitions!
Therefore, in the face of the excitement, FINA also made a decision at the Dubai meeting in March this year to consider banning the use of high-tech swimsuits in official international competitions next year. Of course, this is only a preliminary decision, and the official decision will be formally voted on by the Executive Committee after the World Swimming Championships.
However, with the capabilities of Nike and Adidas, since a preliminary resolution has been passed, it is not a problem to pass a formal resolution.
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