In the starting area, the eight competitors of the men's 50 breaststroke final are gathered here, and the final will begin immediately, and they are waiting for the live host to read their names.

The eight competitors wore swimming caps of different colors with their names and the flag of their country emblazoned on them.

The white man in the dark green swim cap was South Africa's Van der Berg, who also holds the double world record in the men's 50m/100m breaststroke.

The Asian in the white swimming cap is China's Du Ke, who finished second in the semi-finals, and he is also the world record holder in the men's 50 free, 100 free, 200 back, and 200 mixed events.

Other finalists include Springer (Australia), Solsi (South Africa), Lima (Brazil), Gomez (Brazil), Sanders (New Zealand) and Damir (Slovenia).

Africa, South America and Oceania each had two finalists, while Asia and Europe each had one finalist.

It was rare for the U.S. team not to make it to the men's 50 breaststroke final, and their team's Cordes was supposed to have the final quality, but the dude was disqualified for a jump in the heats.

In the men's 50-meter breaststroke final, there was a chaotic pattern in the world, with the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America singing the leading role, European and American players reduced to a supporting role, and only Springer represented the Australian team to continue to defend the honor of the traditional strong team in swimming.

"Hi, Duke of China." Vanderberg suddenly took the initiative to greet Duke in English.

Duke was a little surprised, Vanderberg such a dragged character would actually condescend to take the initiative to greet me?

Duke responded, "Hey, Brother Frog King. (King-of-breaststroke, Duke was quite polite to the South African frog king, he called Vanderberg the king of the breaststroke)

Vanderbergh laughed: "You can break records every day. ”

Du Ke also smiled: "Yes, why not? ”

Vanderberg: "Good luck, isn't it?" His smile gradually became a little playful, even a little defiant.

Doucle nodded, "yes, u-can-u-up." (Yes, you can do it)

Vanderberg was a little puzzled, he didn't understand, but he quickly added: "But good luck will run out one day, will it be tonight?" ”

Du Ke shook his head: "You, it's still too young, too simple." ”

Vanderbergh was speechless, Duke said all these English words correctly, but the combination made Vanderbergh listen to the clouds.

It is also unknown if Vanderbergh can fully understand Duke's words, and the frog king seems to be somewhat hostile to Duke. There is direct competition between the players, the international arena is dominated by the players of all countries, the Olympic spirit before the 80s, its emphasis on participation is very pure, with the commercialization of sports increasingly mature and rich commercial returns, who does not want to win a gold medal? But there is only one gold medal, and I don't have it if you take it.

Vanderberg seems to be provocative, but in fact he is treating Duke as his strongest competitor, and he is arguing with Duke Ke.

From Vanderberg's second sentence, Duke smelled a smell of provocation,

Also World Champion, Lochte is hungry for victory, but he will also have genuine respect for his opponents. Vanderbergh, on the other hand, has a stronger utilitarian mentality, often sneaking a few butterfly legs in the breaststroke competition, and this trick of stealthily fouling is not a secret, and Vanderbergh himself admits that he did.

"If you don't, you're going to fall behind. Of course, it wasn't a glamorous thing, but I didn't want to sacrifice my results and four years of hard training! That's Van der Bergh's exact words, which he did at the London Olympics and can be found on major websites.

Duke and Vanderbergh glanced at each other, their fighting spirit was born, and both of them had a strong desire. Hope, that is to kill the other party. Vanderbergh and Duke were the first and second finishers in the semi-finals, and they were each other's strongest competitors.

"Lane 4, South Africa, Cameron Vanderberg!" The host read Vanderberg's name at this time.

Vanderbergh glanced at Duke again, and then walked out of the aisle and appeared on the stage.

"Lane 5, China, Doucle!" The host continues to read the names of the contestants in the order of the swim lanes.

Duke put on his goggles, walked out of the aisle, stood behind the 5th lane jump, and waved to the stands on either side in preparation for the race.

After Slovenia's Damir in lane 8 came out, the preparation order sounded and the eight finalists took to the platform.

The start order sounded, and the men's 50m breaststroke final began!

Duke takes off in the air in a conventional way, and there is no stunt to open, so he can only jump regularly.

Fortunately, the reaction time of 0.69 seconds is relatively sensitive, and Du Ke did not suffer in the starting stage with a good hard jump.

However, after the underwater glide was over, Vanderberg entered the swimming phase, but unconsciously overtook Duke's arm distance and led the swim in the first position.

The South African frog king began to stealthily foul again, and he did what he admitted to as a "dishonorable thing".

After jumping into the water, there is a period of underwater gliding, during which the player's body is completely submerged in the water. FINA rules stipulate that in breaststroke competitions, when a competitor is fully submerged in the water, he is only allowed to do one downward butterfly leg and then one breaststroke leg push, otherwise it will be considered a foul.

Van der Bergh quickly hit the butterfly leg a few times in the underwater sliding stage just now, and with the strong boost power of the butterfly leg, Van der Bergh overtook Duke in the gliding stage, and after coming out of the water, he led the way and continued to accelerate the sprint.

Someone said, is no one caring about this kind of foul play? Is there still a law, is there still a royal law? Are the referees blind?

It's not that no one cares, it's that it's hard to catch it red-handed. The referees are all on the shore and look into the water from the shore because the refractive index of light in the water will bring visual differences, and it is impossible to see so clearly.

Moreover, FINA allows a downward butterfly leg movement followed by a breaststroke leg press, and Van der Berg, a veteran of many battles, has a lot of experience on the spot, and he is taking advantage of the loophole, secretly hitting the butterfly leg a few more times with a small high frequency in the butterfly leg that is allowed, which is difficult to detect with the naked eye.

Underwater refereeing in swimming competitions, like goal-line sensing on a soccer field, has been mentioned many times, but so far there has been no follow-up.

Duke also said that the Van der Bergh too young, too simple Tucson is broken, compared to the South African frog king, he is pure like a schoolboy, he uses the standard breaststroke skating action, did not hit the butterfly leg more than once, so he is behind.

After 30 meters, Van der Berg was still ahead.

Duke did not give up the pursuit, there was no big waterwheel to use, he used what little energy he had left, he fought hard to paddle and kick, and pursued Vanderberg with all his might.

With 10 metres remaining, Duke narrowed the gap with Van der Bergh a little bit.

In fact, Van der Bergh's explosiveness is very strong, and he can hold two breaststroke world records, which will not only be opportunistic. Even if he doesn't opportunistically foul and snatch those butterfly legs, he still has a strong ability to win the championship, it can only be said that this guy's desire to win is too strong, and he will not hesitate to use all means to chase the championship.

Duke, who was physically strapped and had no stunts to play, ultimately failed to surpass the physically energetic Vanderberg.

Vanderberg was the first to hit the wall, winning in 26.79 seconds, Duke was second in 26.90 seconds, and Australia's Springer was third.

Duke won a silver medal in the men's 50m breaststroke, and his achievements at this World Championships have so far been two golds and one silver. He didn't know that Van der Bergh used foul tricks in the skating stage, and Duke still had some regrets about the silver medal, if he had more fitness, even if he could only do one stunt, he would have the confidence to catch up with Van der Bergh by 0.11 seconds or even surpass the South African frog king.

At this time, Van der Bergh, the 50 breaststroke champion who had just come out of lane 4 next to Doucle, swam to the buoy line, and Van der Bergh said to Douc with some pride: "Look, Duke, your good luck has run out." ”

Duke is a little annoyed with Vanderbergh now, provocative before the game, whipping the corpse after the game, you are so annoying! Do you have a bit of a champion demeanor?

"Let's see you 100 frogs, I won't show mercy when the time comes." Douc said, and went ashore. (To be continued.) )