Although Duke is a newcomer to the national team, he is outgoing and good at communicating, and he is funny with several young female players, and the relationship has also become a little closer.

Bidding farewell to the female players, Zhou Jianlin took Du Ke to continue to familiarize himself with the training base.

Du Ke learned from Zhou Jianlin that the young girls just now were indeed very young.

Among the six girls, the eldest Tang Yi is the same year as Du Ke, 19 years old. Ye Shiwen was 16 and a half years old, Du Ke knew, but what he didn't expect was that Ye Shiwen, who was 16 and a half years old, was actually the second oldest of the six girls.

The girl who is more than 1.8 meters tall is called Shen Ze, she is from Changzhou, she was born at the beginning of 97, and she is only 15 and a half years old this year.

Zhang Yufei, who has a cute Lori face, is from Xuzhou, she is younger, 98 years old, and she is still a few months away from turning 15 years old.

The girl who only likes to laugh and not talk is called Shi Jinglin, a fellow villager of Shen Ze, who has just turned 16 years old.

The girl who is very quiet and always squints is called Fu Yuanhui, she is Ye Shiwen's hometown, a few days younger than Ye Shiwen, and she is also 16 and a half years old.

The ages of these six girls are listed in the order of 19 years old, 16 and a half years old, 16 and a half years old, just 16 years old, 15 and a half years old, and 14 years old.

Du Ke said to Zhou Jianlin: "Coach Zhou, I think the Chinese women's swimming national team should be renamed and renamed 'Chinese Women's Swimming National Team'." Of the six girls I just met, five were minors. ”

"Rare and weird." Director Zhou looked accustomed to it, "Girls mature earlier than boys, and the current training methods are also very advanced, what is so unusual about entering the national team when you are a teenager?" It's 20 years ago, at the Barcelona Olympics in 92, a legend in the swimming event, a female diver, she was a few days away from turning 14 years old when she won the Olympic championship, she was Sister Mingxia. ”

"20 years ago, the hardware and software of the national team were not as advanced and developed as they are now, so we can also tap and cultivate young champions. The female team members just now are from East China, where swimming is extremely developed, and the youth selection and training mechanism in East China is very perfect in swimming events, and the coverage rate of swimming venues is the highest in the country. It is normal to select a few young good seedlings from areas with developed swimming. ”

Du Ke nodded: "That's right." The six female team members, three from southern Jiangsu Province, two from eastern Zhejiang Province, and one from Huhai City, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and East China are really worthy of their reputation, and the talent pool is very high-quality and deep. The national team doesn't even let go of young girls in East China, doesn't this violate the "Law on the Protection of Minors"? ”

"Go, go, go! I find you very poor. Zhou Jianlin scolded with a smile, and then explained: "It is not easy for ordinary people to learn swimming, swimming is not like some events, such as long-distance running, just pull a team to the suburbs, and if you play basketball, you can find an open space and put two basketball hoops to play." To practice swimming, you have to have a regular swimming pool, and the open-air pool can only be used improvised, and you can't practice in bad weather, so you have to build a large number of closed swimming pools. ”

"The cost of building a regular swimming pool is quite high, and it has to be maintained, and the maintenance fee of the venue over the years is a large financial expense. Therefore, the level of swimming in areas with developed economies and not so cold climates is generally higher, which is almost the same. Don't tell me anything that you can practice swimming in the rivers, lakes and seas, and the water is good and you can't drown and participate in swimming competitions are two different things. Of course, there are also folk masters, and many professional swimmers can't hold their breath underwater without holding their breath. If you go to winter swimming, even if you pull Sun Yang to winter swimming, he will have to freeze and faint. ”

As he spoke, Zhou Jianlin took Du Ke to the door of room 202 on the second floor of the athletes' dormitory building, and he gave Du Ke a door key and said, "You will live here for about 20 days." You go to rest your luggage first, give you a little time to rest, familiarize yourself with your room, and change your gear to the pool area in half an hour. There are no special circumstances, no permission from me, no permission to leave the training base, okay, that's it, see you in half an hour. ”

Duke took the key, opened the door and entered the room, this is a single room, similar to the layout of the hotel room, the indoor area is not large but there are all the facilities that should be there. He put down his luggage, simply familiarized himself with the room, tried the TV, water heater, air conditioner, lighting and other facilities were available, and then took his swimming equipment and went out.

Du Ke changed his equipment and came to the pool training area within half an hour, and under the introduction of Zhou Jianlin, he met Qian Zhenglong, the head coach of the men's team.

Qian Zhenglong briefly confessed two sentences, and then entrusted Du Ke to Zhou Jianlin.

Zhou Jianlin took Du Ke to meet with the other male team members first, so that he could get acquainted with everyone.

Duke and these male nationals are actually not strangers, they just met at the National Championships last week. Not only have we met, but I have also competed in the pool.

After a few pleasantries, everyone was very busy and had training tasks, so they went to practice their own activities.

Not long ago, Du Ke defeated Lu and Hao in the 100 and 400 finals of the National Championship and snatched the championship.

At that time, they were each their own master, fighting hard in the pool, but now they are under the same head coach, and they are together for the same dream, the background setting is different, they have changed from opponents of the provincial teams to teammates of the national team, and their friendship has been further deepened.

Du, Lu, and Hao are all attacking the short and medium distance in freestyle, Du Ke has proven his strength in the 100 self and 400 self events, Lu Zhiwu is the main attack on the 100 self and 50 self, Hao Yun is actually very comprehensive, he can swim from 200 to 1500 self, and is known as Xiao Sun Yang in the team.

Before the three of them went down to the pool for training, they exchanged their experiences in the short- and middle-distance freestyle events on the shore of the pool.

At this time, "Little Sun Yang" Hao Yun's eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at a tall and fierce man who appeared not far away. This macho man is indeed very burly, his height is close to 2 meters, in reality he is more upright than on the TV, he is Sun Yang.

Sun Yang's official height data is 198CM, his height and legs are long, his arm span is amazing, and his good physical condition makes many white players in Europe, America and Australia sigh to themselves. With talent, foundation, and hard training, it's hard for him to think of results.

Sun Yang is now a well-deserved first brother of the men's team, and as soon as he appeared, many team members gathered around him to greet Brother Yang, including Lu Zhiwu and Hao Yun beside Du Ke.

Sun Yang's side instantly gathered a bunch of people.

Lu Zhiwu and Wu Peng, the two veterans of the team, attacked freestyle and butterfly respectively, and they plus Lai Zhongjian, the frog king who has not yet been reported, are the only three remaining post-80s in the men's team. Another post-80s generation, the former first brother Zhang Lin did not participate in this training team, he lost to Du Ke and Hao Yun in the national championship 400 free-to-final, and he only reported the 400-free one event. The registration rules for the Asian Championships stipulate that a country can register a maximum of two players in a small event, and this time it is Du Ke and Sun Yang who represent the Chinese team in the men's 400 free event of the Asian Championships. Even Hao Yun didn't have a chance to participate in the 400 self event, and he planned to participate in the 200 self and 1500 free events.

Except for Lu, Wu, and Lai, the three post-80s and three elders, the other male players are all post-90s. With the birth of Sun Yang, he has led a group of younger post-90s male players to thrive, and the Chinese men's swimming team has entered a new era of upgrading.