The first round of the men's 400m freestyle heats continued.

After the players of the third group appeared, the cameras and cameras of various media units began to capture a male player.

THIS MALE PLAYER IS FROM THE CAPITAL TEAM, ABOUT 182, 183CM TALL, HIS MOST OBVIOUS PERSONAL IMAGE FEATURE IS THAT HIS EYEBROWS ARE TOO LIGHT, SO LIGHT TO ALMOST NOTHING, SO HE GETS THE NICKNAME "EYEBROWLESS HERO".

This eyebrowless hero is called Zhang Lin, the runner-up of the 400 free at the 08 Olympic Games, and the champion of the 800 free at the World Championships in Rome in 09.

Zhang Lin is the first Chinese male swimmer to win an Olympic medal, he won the 800m freestyle championship at the 09 Rome World Swimming Championships, and broke the world record, and his men's 800m freestyle world record of 7:32.12 holds to this day and has not been broken again.

In 08 and 09, Zhang Lin was the first brother of the national men's swimming team, and it was also the peak of his competitive state at that time. In two months, he will be 26 years old, and for swimmers, 18-23 years old is generally the golden period, and 26 years old is not an advanced age but it is also considered an old age.

After suffering an injury in 2011, Zhang Lin's form began to decline in 2012, and he lost to his teammates at the national trials for the London Olympics in April this year.

Although he didn't go to London, as a world record holder, Zhang Lin's strength and fame are here, so he also attracted the attention of reporters from all walks of life, some viewers also recognized Zhang Lin, and some viewers took pictures with mobile phones. There is no professional on-site host in the preliminaries, and the announcer of the organizing committee will broadcast some information related to the competition through a loudspeaker. In the preliminaries, to find a target, the audience has to rely on their eyesight.

On the way to the starting area, Zhang Lin passed by the referee area, and Du Ke, as a promoted player, was confirming the semi-final entry with the staff in the referee area.

At this time, Zhang Lin was only one meter away from Du Ke, and Du Ke met his middle school idol at a short distance, and he found that the idol was not as tall as himself.

Du Ke took the initiative to greet Zhang Lin: "Brother Lin, come on!" ”

Zhang Lin stopped his pace and glanced at Du Ke, who had been in a hundred battles, and knew that the players who signed in the referee area at this time must have qualified for the next round of the group.

Zhang Lin showed his way down in the capital team's standby area just now, and went back to the locker room. He didn't watch the first two groups of the 400m freestyle preliminaries, and he nodded to Duke: "You also come on, which event do you swim?" "The 400 has also had a 200-meter preliminaries, and Zhang Lin doesn't know Du Ke, and he doesn't know which event Du Ke is participating in.

Du Ke smiled: "Just like you, 400 since, I am from the 2nd group." ”

Zhang Lin also smiled: "Oh? That learns from you. ”

Duke: "Learn from each other. ”

didn't talk much, after learning from each other, Zhang Lin went to the starting area and prepared for the competition.

When coaches take apprentices, they often tell their disciples that "there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people", so the most typical sentence for athletes to meet and greet is "learn from you".

In a friendly atmosphere, Duke completed his first meeting with his former idol, after which he watched the next match in the standby area, learning is one thing, the important thing is to observe the strength of his opponent.

A few minutes later, the competition of Group 3 was over, and to Du Ke's surprise, Zhang Lin only finished second in the group, with a time of 3:59.09, which was a little slower than Du Ke's time just now.

Zhang Lin finished second in the group and secured a place in the semi-finals, and Du Kexin said: "He must be retaining his strength. ”

The matches in groups 4 and 5 were uneventful, and the favored players all got the promotion places.

After the contestants of the sixth group appeared, the on-site reporters began to take pictures of one of the contestants.

This young man who represented Minnan Province was born in Yushu Linfeng, his name is Hao Yun, 17 years old this year, and he is a special sports student of Southeast University.

Hao Yun and Sun Yang fought side by side at the recently concluded London Olympics, and they reached the men's 400m freestyle final together, Sun Yang won the first gold medal of historic significance, and Hao Yun narrowly missed the Olympic medal in fourth place.

In the Olympic swimming competition, in a small event, a country can register for two runners who have reached the A standard. At the Olympic trials in April, Sun Yang got a place to enter the Olympics without any suspense, and Hao Yun's Olympic ticket was snatched from Zhang Lin.

To represent the Chinese team in the London Olympics, Hao Yun's condition is indeed better.

The young and vigorous Hao Yun can play a supporting role for Sun Yang in the Olympic Games, but this time Sun Yang did not come to participate, so this young talent, who has just turned 17 and is still a minor, wants to be the protagonist today.

The game of the 6th group began, Hao Yun made a high-frequency assault as soon as he started, he led all the way, and won the first place in the group with a large advantage, with a time of 3:49.27.

"This teenager is so strong?" Du Ke was a little surprised, his preliminaries time was 3:58.46, and Coach Luo told him that he had to swim within 3:55 in the semifinals to reach the final.

Hao Yun is really fierce, and in the first round of group preliminaries, he rushed directly into 3 minutes and 50 seconds.

Du Ke pointed to Hao Yun, who had just landed, and said to Hu Yucheng beside him: "This kid is very strong. ”

Hu Yucheng: "Nonsense, the blind can see it." Today's athletes, the golden age is coming earlier and earlier. If people can go to the Olympics, it is at least the Olympic A standard. The London Olympics 400-meter freestyle A standard is 3 minutes and 49 seconds, Hao Yun just pressed the line, but his strength is definitely higher than the A standard threshold line, he did not use all his strength, this time the 400-meter freestyle should be the strongest should be him. Zhang Lin, after all, he is getting older, and his state has begun to decline. The sports arena is like this, there will always be juniors to take over. ”

Doucle asked, "So am I still swimming in the semi-finals at 3 minutes and 55 seconds?" ”

Hu Yucheng thought for a while and said: "In the semi-finals, the top four in each group will enter the finals, if you don't get into a group with Hao Yun, you will swim in 3 minutes and 55 seconds." If you and Hao Yun are in a group, you'll have to go a little faster. ”

After a while, the first round of heats in all eight groups of the men's 400m freestyle was over, followed by the preliminaries of the women's 400m event.

The audience suddenly burst into high-decibel cheers, and Ye Shiwen appeared.

The first event scheduled for the women's 400m preliminaries is the 400m medley, and Ye Shiwen is the Olympic champion in this event.

Hu Yucheng looked at the highly sought-after Ye Shiwen and sighed: "Look, another underage child in his golden age." Looking at Ye Shiwen and Hao Yun, sixteen or seventeen-year-old children, I really feel that we are old. ”

"It's not us, don't count me, I'm only 19 years old, uncle."

"Why are you looking old?"

“……”

Fighting with each other, Hu Yucheng and Du Ke are still very concerned about the grouping of the 400 semifinals.

After another half an hour, the grouping situation came out.

Du Ke was in the first group of the semi-finals, and Zhang Lin was in the same group. Hao Yun was divided into the second group.

"Avoiding Hao Yun, it seems that there is a chance to enter the finals." Hu Yucheng was more satisfied with this grouping, but still reminded Du Ke seriously: "There is no one who can come here, you have given me enough strength, even if you can enter the finals, even if you win, the probability of uncertainty in the finals will often increase, and it is not completely impossible to cause an upset, but the premise is that you can enter the finals." Eight out of four, fifty and fifty, you can take advantage of it. ”