During the period when Du Ke was interviewed by Su Yun, took the stage to receive the award, and was interviewed by other reporters, Zhou Jianlin met Luo Gui, the head coach of the Nanyue team, and Hu Yucheng, the head coach of Du Ke, in a reception room of the swimming center through the arrangement of the Swimming Association.

As the No. 2 person in the national team, it is not difficult to get to know an athlete who was not well-known before. He made an appointment with Luo Gui and Hu Yucheng today, first, to learn more about Du Ke's recent situation, and second, to send an invitation to the Nanyue team on behalf of the national team, wanting to recruit Du Ke into the national training team to prepare for the Dubai Asian Championships in November.

Face-to-face meetings are more formal than phone calls, and they are more likely to express the importance of the above.

The invitation is actually an instruction, and for the coach of the provincial team, they are most willing to carry out this kind of instruction. It's glorious to be able to send a player to the national team!

Not only honorable, but also potentially beneficial. If a player who is sent up has achieved good results in international competitions, the province where he is registered will also be commended by the Sports Federation or even a higher level organization, and will receive more support and resources.

Fools don't do things that are honorable and beneficial. The coaches are eager to send the whole team to the national team.

The fact that the players of the provincial team can be selected by the national team also shows that the coaches of the province are well guided and the leaders of the provincial sports system are good at management, which is an encouragement and spur for the coaches, and an affirmation for the management of the provincial sports system. The students in a class were all admitted to Tsinghua University of Peking University, and the happiest person was actually the head teacher, right?

Therefore, Zhou Jianlin, Luo Gui and Hu Yucheng completed the meeting in a pleasant and friendly atmosphere and finalized Du Ke's selection into the national team. If nothing else, after this national championship, it is time for Duke to report to the national team.

Du Ke, who is about to be selected for the men's national swimming team, does not know the news for the time being, he returned to the hotel and is sleeping.

Because Du Ke still has to participate in the 4*100-meter freestyle relay competition, in order not to affect him, Zhou Jianlin, Luo Gui, and Hu Yucheng discussed with them, don't tell him first, and then officially notify Du Ke after the relay race.

There are three swimming relay competitions: 4*100-meter freestyle relay, 4*100-meter medley relay, and 4*200-meter freestyle relay.

At 7:30 p.m., Duke prepared for the men's 4*100m freestyle relay race at the swimming center. After the 100m freestyle final, he had an afternoon break, and for a professional swimmer, there was no problem at all with a 100-meter swim after an afternoon break.

In this championship, a total of 34 teams from all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government, and military systems across the country participated in individual events, but only 16 teams were allowed to register for the relay competition. Referring to the comprehensive results from January to August this year, the 16 teams with the best results were selected to participate in the relay competition.

In this national championship, the men's 4*100m freestyle relay competition, the strongest overall team is the eastern Zhejiang team, the southern Jiangsu team, the Shanghai team, and the southern Fujian team, which are the first phalanx. The other teams are all second phalanxes, including the Nanyue team.

Coach Luo's requirements for the Nanyue team are not high, even if he can enter the finals, he will complete the task, and if he can win medals, he will perform at a super level.

The Nanyue team sent Du Ke and three other male players to compete, Du Ke was the youngest of the four players, but he undoubtedly became the backbone of the other three teammates. Duke had just broken the national record in the men's 100m freestyle just a few hours earlier, and he was considered the fastest man to swim domestically in the event.

The 4*100m freestyle relay is a 100-meter swim for each of four people (this seems to be nonsense...... So Duke is undoubtedly the core of the team, and the sports arena speaks by results.

The 16 teams participating in the men's 4*100m freestyle relay are divided into two groups of eight, with two preliminaries and the top four in each group reaching the finals.

The Nanyue team was divided into the first group, located in lane 7, and the strong teams in the same group were the southern Jiangsu team and the Shanghai team.

The relay race is different from the individual race, and it is difficult for a team with one strong and three weak players to win against a team with four upper-average players.

Therefore, the strongest team in this group, the Sunan team and the Huhai team, basically booked two finals seats, unless they make mistakes.

The teams in this group with the same level as the Nanyue team include the Xigui team, the capital team, the Xiangnan team, the Ludong team, and the Xichuan team.

That's when the race begins!

The first player of the Nanyue team is Du Ke, who started his jumping stunt and set off!

In the relay race, the strongest team is often placed in the first or fourth bat, suppressing the lead at the beginning, or sprinting with a fierce sprint at the last to complete the stunner.

Director Luo didn't think about it, so he arranged for Du Ke to swim the first stick, he was afraid that if the first three sticks were too behind, and the last stick arranged for Du Ke to sprint, Du Ke probably didn't want to swim......

And let Duke swim first, lay some leads, and also have psychological encouragement for his teammates in the next three sticks.

In sports competitions, sometimes psychological advantages are also quite important.

In the first 100 meters, he was the first of eight to touch the wall and handed over a half-body lead to his teammate in the second team.

The second baton player of the Nanyue team was quite encouraged, and after entering the water, he began to hit the water fiercely, but his strength was still slightly inferior, and when he handed over to the third teammate, he had fallen to second.

The teammate on the third batter was good, and he did his best to keep the second position.

The fourth-best teammate entered the water and began to sprint, he was the second strongest player in the team, but the last player on the team was the strongest on his team. The fourth sprint player of the Nanyue team gave up his old life, he played with his life, and the flame of revolution could not be destroyed in our hands!

After his tenacious struggle, he was finally surpassed by only one person and retained the third place, making the Nanyue men's 4*100m freestyle relay team enter the final round.

There were no words that night, and the next day, the last day of the national championship.

After the women's 800m freestyle and men's 1500m freestyle finals, the first relay race to start was the men's 4x100m freestyle final.

Before the start of the game, the coaching staff mobilized the four players who participated in the competition.

Hu Yucheng said to Du Ke: "It's the last one, have a good swim, many people are paying attention to you." ”

Duke flicked his arm: "Yes." He didn't know that he was about to be selected for the national team, and he didn't hear Hu Yucheng's words, but there are indeed many people who are paying attention to Du Ke, and the most important person is the national team coach.

Hu Yucheng: "No matter how many places our team gets in the end, you must do your best." ”

Du Ke felt that Hu Yucheng was a little verbose: "Coach Hu, it seems that I didn't do my best in the preliminaries?" I was on fire last night! ”

Hu Yucheng nodded: "I know, if you hadn't been full of firepower last night, the first stick would have laid a big advantage, and we wouldn't have been able to swim in the finals today." All in all, what I mean is, it's the last game anyway, and you're just enjoying the game and letting go, you know? ”

"Yes." Du Ke said, and then he and the other three teammates put their hands together, cheered each other on, and shouted in unison: "One, two, three!" Let's go! ”