On August 4, the main competition of the 2013 Barcelona World Swimming Championships was over, and all the statistics came out.

Let's take a look at the gold medal list, which is the sum of the gold medals won by men + women in all sub-events such as swimming, diving, swimming, water polo, and open water.

The Chinese swimming corps topped the list with 28 golds, including 19 gold medals in swimming events (17 gold medals for men and 2 gold medals for women), 9 gold medals in diving, and no gold medals in swimming, water polo and open water swimming.

The U.S. Swimming Corps finished second with 15 gold medals, including 13 gold medals in swimming events (12 gold for women and 1 gold for men), 1 gold medal in women's high platform diving and 1 gold medal in open water 5km.

Russia ranked third with 9 golds, and it is worth mentioning that 6 of Russia's 9 golds came from synchronized swimming, and the Russian girl won all 6 gold medals in synchronized swimming, from individual skills to collective freedom. Except for Russia, no country can monopolize all the gold medals in the other four sub-categories, and the beauties of Russia really live up to their reputation, whether it is personal quality or team battle cooperation, Russian girls are at the top level in the world.

The Russian Huayou team is undoubtedly the dream team, and the Chinese diving team, which also has the title of "dream team", won 9 of the 12 diving gold medals.

Among the 10 gold medals in the traditional diving event (1-meter board, 3-meter board, 10-meter platform), the Chinese diving team lost the gold medal of the men's double 10-meter platform, and the 27-meter high platform diving is a very exciting extreme sport, and the Chinese team did not send personnel to participate.

All in all, the Chinese diving team won 9 of the 10 gold medals in traditional diving events, although there is no one pot, but it is worthy of the title of dream team.

Hungary and Spain won the gold medals in men's and women's water polo, and the seven gold medals in open water swimming were divided between six countries, including Germany, the United States, Morocco, Greece, Brazil and Italy, of which the German team won two golds.

Through these data, it can be seen that the world pattern of the remaining four sub-events except swimming is: Russians dominate the flower swimming event, Chinese dominate the diving event, the Europeans still have a clear advantage in the water polo event, and open water swimming is a big fight for people all over the world.

There are five sub-events in swimming, and none of the above four sub-events can hardly be called mass mainstream events with world influence, what is a mass mainstream event? Sports that are easily accessible to the vast majority of ordinary people and can participate in can be called mainstream sports. Flower swimming, diving, water polo, open water marathon swimming, not to mention other countries, let's talk about China, many ordinary people will never try these events once in their lives.

The swimming sub-event is a project that most ordinary people can participate in at any time, and it's okay if you can't swim.

Moreover, swimming racing is highly competitive and spectatorial, so swimming is a mainstream sport with worldwide influence.

In the most internationally influential swimming sub-event, the Chinese men's team + women's team won 19 of the 40 swimming gold medals, ranking first in the swimming sub-gold medal list.

If you break down the list, the Chinese men's swimming team undisputedly occupies the first place in the men's swimming gold medal list with 17 golds, the South African men's team is second (2 golds), and the United States men's team is third (1 gold).

The U.S. women's swimming team continued to dominate the women's swimming world with 12 gold medals, and the Chinese women's team tied for third place with two gold medals from Zhao Qing (50 back) and Liu Zige (200 butterflies).

So the latest pattern in the swimming world is: the American women's team is still strong, and the Chinese men's team is strong.

In this World Championships, the Chinese swimming team won an unprecedented number of gold medals beyond the Chinese diving team, and their 19 gold medals divided by 2 are more than half a piece more than the 9 gold medals of the diving dream team.

In fact, the happiest person is Director Qin, the head of the Chinese Swimming Corps, who has achieved such a brilliant record, and he is estimated to be promoted after returning to China.

But Director Qin was not carried away by the victory, after the game, he convened all members of the Chinese men's and women's swimming teams to have a brief summary meeting, at the meeting, Director Qin said: "In this World Championships, we have made a major breakthrough, but we have also found some shortcomings. The overall performance of the women's team, I gave it a score of 70, and we retained the gold medal in the 50 back, 200 butterfly and other dominant events, which is commendable. In the medley event, it's a pity, but don't be discouraged, you're still young, so let's start from scratch. Liu Xiang, Shi Jinglin and other young players were selected for the national team to participate in the World Series for the first time, and won medals, which surprised me very much, and I hope you can grow up as soon as possible and take the lead as soon as possible. ”

"I give 99 points to the performance of the men's team, and the reason why I don't give full marks is because I am afraid that you will be too proud."

(Director Qin laughed, and the coaches and all the members of the men's team also laughed)

Du Ke, Sun Yang, Ning Zetao, Lu Zhiwu, Wu Peng, Chen Yin, Xu Jiayu, Wang Shun, Li Yunqi...... You all deserve praise. Ning Zetao and Xu Jiayu would like to give special praise to the two team members, in the 50 self and 100 back finals of the strong players, the two of you worked hard and won a bronze medal each, which is a breakthrough and a major breakthrough. ”

"Sprint freestyle and backstroke have always been shortcomings in my country's men's events, Xiao Ning and Xiao Xu can win medals, I praise you! What the? You say Duke? He is not a normal person, don't compare with him, after Duke retires, the swimming world will be yours. ”

(Director Qin, who was in a good mood, laughed again, and the other coaches and players burst into laughter)

Du Ke raised his hand: "Director Qin, then I will apply for retirement now and let my comrades-in-arms inherit my legacy." ”

"Yo, are you serious? I'm kidding, you're still a red-headed document? Director Qin put away his smile and glared at Du Ke, "Even if you want to learn from Phelps now to play retirement and play the loneliness of what kind of master you can't love, it's impossible." The Sports Federation will not agree, the swimming center will not agree, I will not agree, your comrades-in-arms will not agree, and the people of the whole country will not agree. Got the idea of retiring at the age of 20? Do you ask your relay teammates if they say yes? ”

Ning Zetao, Xu Jiayu and others coaxed: "Resolutely don't agree!" Du Shuzi, let's talk about retirement after you are 40 years old, that's it. ”

"Just talking, hehe, I still want to participate in the Olympics." Du Ke smiled and prevaricated.

Even if the system is in hand and can be extended to other projects, Duke also knows that in the reality outside the system, it is not that he wants to retire and change projects.

Director Qin is right, if Du Ke wants to quit swimming and engage in something else, up to the country and down to the people, almost no one will agree.

Unless, Duke can do the same thing in other areas as he does in swimming, then maybe it's a bit possible.

Moreover, the international influence of the new event cannot be much worse than that of swimming, otherwise no one will agree, such as rattan ball, darts or something such as non-Olympic cold sports, even if Duke can be invincible in the world, it is useless.

Don't swim anymore and go throw darts?

Hundreds of years ago, Xiao Li's flying knife might have been feasible in that era, but now, the feasibility is almost 0%.

At least until the 2016 Rio Olympics, neither the country nor the people will allow Duke to give up swimming and give up this big gold medalist. Without the support of the country and the love of the people, it is not far from hitting the streets.

"Unless I ......," Du Ke thought again, "I won't leave the swimming world, and at the same time take care of other sports, between now and next year's Asian Games, there is still more than a year, and I can do a lot of other meaningful things in this more than year, I can't not participate in international competitions for a year." ”

"It's just that this project needs to be studied carefully, not only linked to the system attributes, but also combined with the actual situation in reality, it is best to be an individual event, not too many events, not too little, and the kind of project that holds an international Grand Prix every few months is the best. Well, the general direction has been set, if you want specific details, let's ask my mother first when I return to China, after all, she is the leader of the sports system and has some internal information. My mother is well-informed, and she will certainly not cheat her own son......" (To be continued.) )