After going ashore, Du Ke left the departure area and prepared to return to the preparation area of the Chinese team.

The players in the second group of the semi-finals also began to enter the area one after another, Du Ke saw a white man with a height of nearly 1.9 meters walking towards him, the white man walked up to Du Ke, stopped, and took the initiative to greet Du Ke with an authentic American English accent: "Du, hello, it seems that we will meet in the final." ”

The white man is Rochett, captain of the U.S. men's team, the former 200 mixed world record holder (which was broken by Duke in April). Unlike most of the dragged American players, Lochette is humble and courteous, and he is never associated with off-field scandals.

Lochette has competed in three Olympic Games and has five Olympic gold medals. His World Championships record has been even more impressive, with a total of 12 World Championship gold medals in the last four World Championships. Lochette loves his fans very much, he has given most of his gold medals and medals to fans, as long as fans dare to ask him for them, he dares to give them gold medals.

To be honest, Duke actually respects Rochette as a superstar, and it is better to be famous than to see it, but in reality, Rochette is really an alternative American, he is a courteous and gentle American. Rochette wasn't pretending, Duke could feel it.

"Okay, then we'll see you in the final." Duke also said politely to Rocht. Rochette gave Duke a good impression that the American superstar was much more qualified than the South African Van der Berg.

Rochette suddenly became serious and said, "Du, you broke my 200 mixed world record, didn't you?" ”

"......" Du Ke was stunned, and said in his heart, why did he suddenly change his hexagram, could it be that he saluted first and then soldiers?

Rochette then laughed again: "You almost broke Phelps' 400 pounds, and Perthall's 100 and 200 backs, well done, man, I've wanted to kill them both for a long time." And now, I want to kill you more than anything else. ”

Duke: "......" American humor?

Rochette said sincerely: "May God bless you, my friend, and see you tomorrow." "After that, I went into the zone and prepared for the game.

Duke looked at Rochette's back, and there was a sense of urgency in his heart to be studied.

Duke is the current men's 200 mixed world record holder and has broken the original world record held by Lochette, who knows this is normal.

In the afternoon 200 heats, Doucle swam 1:51.99, not far from Persol's world record of 1:51.92. It's normal for Lochet to know that, because he's also at the World Championships.

However, Duke came close to breaking the 400 mixed held by Phelps and the 100 backing world record held by Persall, just over three months ago at the National Championships.

Although Doucle is the current Asian record holder in the 400 mixed and 100 back, Americans rarely care about Asian records, because most Asian records are not as fast as American records.

This shows that Rochette studied himself?

"Lao Luo, you don't underestimate the enemy, you are really a difficult opponent." Duke looked at Rochette, who had already entered the district, and muttered to himself.

Rochette is a powerful opponent and will study the opponent (or possibly the information collected by Rochette's think tank), which is really difficult to deal with. Lochette's ability to win so many championships and honors may have something to do with the fact that he never takes the enemy lightly.

This also shows from the side that Duke, who broke the world record in the men's 100m freestyle, has entered the watch list of top swimming superstars like Lochette.

Duke added Rochette to his kill list, and it looks like Rochette is doing the same.

Duke returned to the preparation area and began to watch the second semifinal of the men's 200 back, and Rochette studied him, and of course he had to study Rochette.

However, Duke did not find any new valuable information, and Lochette played his cards according to the usual routine, and swam smoothly through the semi-finals of Group 2 in the 200 back.

In the end, Lochette ranked first in the men's 200 back semifinals with a time of 1:52.03, Duke was second with a time of 1:52.05, Clary was third, Ryosuke Irie was fourth, and Poland, Germany, and Canada were ranked 5-7.

Another player in the Chinese team, Xu Jiayu, reached the final with an eighth place in the semi-finals, and he will hit the men's 200 back final with Du Ke.

Today's race is all over, and tomorrow there will be two rounds of finals, 400 free, 200 back.

On the women's side, none of the Chinese women's teams advanced to the 400 self and 200 back finals.

On the men's side, Sun Yang, Hao Yun, Du Ke, Xu Jiayu and other four people will be full to participate in the 400 self and 200 back finals, and the men's team coach conservatively estimates that Sun, Du, Hao and Xu will play in the finals and bring back at least two medals.

Looking forward to tomorrow's final, there is still some finishing work to be done today.

Duke was supervised by a group of FINA referees and arrived at the urine testing center. He broke the world record in the men's 100m freestyle and is sure to be the focus of attention.

In the preliminaries and semi-finals, not every contestant is required to take a urine test.

According to the practice of the World Championships, medal winners and record-breakers are mandatory, and other players are sampled.

Duke couldn't avoid the urine test, he didn't drink medicine, and he didn't have a ghost in his heart, so after providing urine according to the procedure, he called it a day and returned to the team, and went back to where he lived.

On July 28, the first day of the swimming competition of the World Championships in Barcelona, it can be described as a wonderful and high-rise competition.

On the first day of the preliminaries, two world records were broken.

Russia's Efimova set a new world record in the women's 50m breaststroke, and it wasn't long before Brazil's Cielo swam an astonishing 46.98 seconds in the men's 100 free group 7 heats.

Five minutes later, Duke set a new world record of 46.88 seconds in the men's 100 group 8 preliminaries.

The explosive start has made the World Championships more and more concerned.

July 29 is the second day of the swimming competition.

Today's schedule is 200 Butterfly Preliminaries, 50 Back Heats, 50 Free Preliminaries, 50 Frog Semifinals, 50 Free Semifinals, 400 Back Finals, 200 Back Finals.

Starting at 1:30 p.m., there will be 200 butterfly preliminaries, 50 back preliminaries, 50 self preliminaries, and after the preliminaries round, there will be a break in between, starting at 19 o'clock in the evening, the 50 frog semi-finals, 50 self-semi-finals, 400 self-finals, and 200 backs finals.

Yesterday's urine test results have come out, and Duke has a negative urine test, indicating that he is not taking illegal drugs.

Duke didn't sign up for the 200 butterfly and 400 free, and he will compete in five races today in addition to the 200 butterfly and 400 free.

For Duke, the highlight of the day is, of course, the final of the men's 200m backstroke.

But other competitions can't be relaxed, such as the men's 50m backstroke heats he will participate in.

Before the 50m backstroke heats, the 200 butterfly heats were held.

The Chinese women's team sent the double Olympic champion combination of Liu Zige and Jiao Liu Yang to participate in the women's 200 butterfly preliminaries, and there is no more reassuring combination than the pair of Olympic champions.

There were no surprises, and the two women, Liu and Jiao, successfully advanced to the semifinals in the preliminaries.

Wu Peng and Chen Yin of the Chinese men's team also advanced to the semifinals of the men's 200 butterfly with the 3rd and 7th places in the preliminaries.

Both the men's and women's teams got off to a good start in the 200 butterfly preliminaries, and hopefully this is a good sign.

After the 200 butterfly preliminaries, the women's 50m backstroke preliminaries began.

The Chinese women's team once again sent a double insurance combination, Fu Yuanhui and Zhao Qing, the two female players were really safe enough, and they advanced to the semifinals with the first and second results in the preliminaries.

The smell of good signs is getting stronger.

Subsequently, the men's 50m backstroke preliminaries began.

Du Ke and Xu Jiayu once again joined hands to attack the men's 50 back, there are a total of 5 preliminaries in the men's 50 back, Xu Jiayu is in the first group of the preliminaries, and Du Ke is in the 5th group.

At this time, there was a sudden turning point, and the good omen of the Chinese team came to an abrupt end.

Xu Jiayu in the men's 50 back group 1 preliminaries, only won the 7th, the result is 25.11 seconds, this result is quite dangerous, if the next four groups of players can not play abnormally, Xu Jiayu is basically hopeless to advance to the semifinals.

The probability of the 4 groups collectively performing abnormally...... It's probably less than 5%, which is a small probability event.

As a result, after the men's 50 back group 2 preliminaries, Xu Jiayu changed from 7th to 15th in the preliminaries, and the eight players in the second group were all faster than Xu Jiayu. Xiao Xu's luck is not against the sky, the small probability event seems to have nothing to do with him, there are still 24 players in three groups, and if two more are faster than him, he will be eliminated.

In fact, Xu Jiayu's swim of 25.11 seconds is not an abnormality, and Du Ke's 50 back national record is 24.90 seconds, which is not much slower than Du Ke's best 50 back time. It can only be said that the other players in various countries are too cruel.

After the men's 50 back group 3 preliminaries, Xu Jiayu ranked 20th and was out.

After the preliminaries of Group 4, 12 of the 32 competitors who have already competed have swam faster than 24.90 seconds.

That said, there are 12 competitors who are faster than the 50-back national record held by Doucle.

The 12 players include American star Greaves, one of the French Three Musketeers Straves, two of the French Three Musketeers Lecourt, Israeli wizard Banea, and Great Britain's Alain Benoult "Little Tancock...... It's pretty fierce anyway. (To be continued.) )