The Nanyue swimming team arrived in Zhongyuan City, a hub city in central China, 5 days ahead of schedule, not only the entire Nanyue swimming team, but also the senior leaders of the Nanyue Provincial Sports Bureau and the Nanyue Swimming Association also went to the Central Plains with the team, which was both a supervision and an encouragement.

A few days before the start of the competition on April 1, all members of the Nanyue team went to the Zhongyuan City Natatorium for venue adaptation training, which is the venue for the national championship.

In the past two days at the city swimming pool, Du Ke met many acquaintances.

Yesterday morning, he met Hao Yun, a national teammate who represented the Minnan team. Yesterday afternoon, he chatted for a long time with a large group of brothers in eastern Zhejiang Province, Sun Yang, Lu Zhiwu, Wu Peng, Wang Shun, Xu Jiayu, the navy of Zhejiang Province is too strong, and their main force is also the main force of the national team.

Today is March 31st, Duke went down to the pool to swim a backstroke back and forth, to do the last adaptation training, he has to familiarize himself with the venue flag hanging position and some markers, he is the first time to come to this swimming pool, of course, he has to be familiar.

After swimming ashore, Duke met another acquaintance.

This little fresh meat is more than 1.9 meters tall and looks sunny and handsome, he has been staring at Du Ke with a surprised expression.

Du Ke also found Xiao Xianrou, he walked up to Xiao Xianrou, "Hey, Ah Tao, I'm not a girl, why are you staring at me?" If you want to see the girls, you go to the southern Jiangsu team to see, they are all young and invincible little beauties. If you want to do it, go to the Zhedong team to do it, there are many powerful and handsome guys over there. ”

Xiao Xianrou slapped Du Ke's chest: "Who is doing it!" "He is none other than Ning Zetao.

"Duke, I haven't seen you in months since last year's National Championships." Ning Zetao said, also a little envious: "I watched the live broadcast of the Asian Championships, 47.89 seconds, you are too good, Asia's new speed, you are getting stronger day by day." ”

Du Ke also beat Ning Zetao's chest: "Ah Tao, don't be inferior, your physical fitness is so good, you are tall at one meter and nine, and your arms are so long, and you have to draw several meters more than us like us who are more than one meter and eight, I am very optimistic about you." ”

"I also want to draw a few meters more with one arm!" Ning Zetao said with a smile, and he started talking in dialects.

"Huh? Tao, how do you say that the dialect is similar to the accent of the people here? ”

"I was born in the Central Plains City, but I am a soldier and represent the People's Liberation Army."

"Oh, then you're still fighting at home, you have an advantage."

"By the way, how did you swim the backstroke?" Ning Zetao asked curiously.

Duke asked rhetorically, "You just knew?" ”

Ning Zetao looked puzzled: "Yes, aren't you the main freestyler?" ”

Du Ke: "This time I applied for 17 individual projects, and many people know about it. You've just been released from the army, haven't you? ”

"......" Ning Zetao instantly stood in the bunker, and after a while, he asked in shock: "17 items?" That is, all swimming styles, all distances, you signed up? ”

"Hmm." Du Ke nodded calmly, in the past two days, he has seen too many little fresh meat with this kind of fortress-like expression, and even Sun Yang, an Olympic champion who has seen the world, was shocked for a while when he heard that Du Ke had applied for all swimming strokes and all events.

"I also reported three relay races." Duke added.

"Your sister's ......" Ning Zetao, who has always been quite qualified, really couldn't think of any words to describe Du Ke, and after going crazy, he was desperate: "It seems that I can't catch up with you in my life, if I don't take you to play like this, you are going to shake the world swimming world!" ”

"Come on, don't worship my brother. Withdrawn, the swimming association is going to be cleared, the hall closes at 12 noon, and they have to do pre-competition preparations. "Duke doesn't explain it anymore, this situation can't be explained, he can't explain it to anyone, he can only speak with actions.

Ning Zetao is a soldier, he has the optimism and perseverance of a soldier, and in less than ten seconds of despair, he is full of fighting spirit: "Du Ke, I must defeat you this time!" ”

Du Ke smiled: "Okay, what project did you sign up for?" ”

"Didn't I tell you last year, I used to swim in medley, but then I had an injury, and after I recovered from the injury, I switched to short-distance freestyle. This time I reported two, 50 self and 100 self. Oh, and there's a 4*100m relay. Ning Zetao said, "100 self-estimation can't be enough for you, 50 self-guess can't say oh Duke, I've been improving in the past six months." ”

"Then let the horses come." Du Ke liked Ning Zetao's high-spirited passion very much, and he clenched his right fist in a fist shape: "Ah Tao, now we are friends, but as soon as the competition starts tomorrow, we will have to be our own masters." Wins and losses are always there, the base lasts forever, come, touch it, come on! ”

"It's all said that Lao Tzu doesn't do it! Who has a relationship with you! Ning Zetao was driven crazy by Du Ke's teasing again, and then smiled and touched his fist with Du Ke: "Come on, new speed!" When you retire, swimming will be mine! ”

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On April 1, the National Championship officially began.

Zhongyuan City Natatorium, the preparation area of the Nanyue team, Du Ke looked at the schedule in his hand, calculating how to distribute physical fitness and how to arrange tactics.

Today is the first day of competition, and according to the schedule, he will have to swim at least four and at most eight.

Today's schedule is: 50m Butterfly, Back, Frog, Self Preliminaries and Semifinals.

Of course, Duke must have been aiming for eight games, because if he only played four games, it means that he was eliminated in the preliminaries.

The main purpose of Duke to participate in this championship is to swipe the tickets for the World Championships, and equally importantly, he also needs to win as many championships, break records, and brush reward points as possible.

How to brush the tickets for the World Championships?

Take the upcoming men's 50m butterfly as an example, assuming that Duke can reach the final, then he will have to swim a total of three times in the 50m butterfly event, namely the preliminaries, semifinals, and finals, and he only needs one of the three games to achieve a time of 24.05 seconds to qualify for the 50m butterfly event in Barcelona. 24.05 seconds is the ticket result given by FINA.

But even if Duke made a 50m butterfly time of 24.05 seconds, he is only qualified and a candidate, and he may not necessarily be able to register for the 50m butterfly at the World Championships in Barcelona.

Because in the World Championships, a country can only apply for a maximum of two participants in a small event.

Not only did Duke have to set a time of 24.05 seconds, but he also had to make sure that he was at least second, second among all the 50 runners.

The national team has already released its words, this championship will be treated equally, whether you are a world champion or an Olympic champion, if you want to be selected for the new national team and go to Barcelona, the results of this championship will prevail.

Duke thought about it and came to a conclusion, in fact, there is nothing to think about, the countermeasure is actually very simple and clear, that is: swim as fast as you can.

Today, the first race day, was a challenge for Duke, eight races, and he had never swam eight games in a single race day.

Looking at the world of swimming, it is very rare to have eight games a day.

But it's all here, so you can't admit it.

If the overlord is the bow, he has to take it!

At this time, Hu Yucheng came over to inform Du Ke: "It's your turn, the competition in Group 3 of the 50 butterfly preliminaries will start immediately." ”