The next day, May 6, the Asian Games City Natatorium. Today, the swimming finals of this year's Provincial Universiade will be contested.

The provincial Universiade swimming event only set up swimming competitions, and diving and water polo did not set up competitions due to insufficient registration. In synchronized swimming, there is an exhibition competition, and a total of two teams participate in the exhibition competition. Open water swimming is naturally not available, this event is similar to crossing the Yangtze River or crossing Poyang Lake, this sub-event is also very non-mainstream in the world, and open water swimming was only set as an official event in the 08 Olympic Games.

The swimming event has two sub-events, freestyle and breaststroke, which are the most widely used and the most popular swimming style. It can be seen that the Provincial Universiade is still based on the purpose of popularization.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, there were more than 1,000 spectators sitting in the swimming pool. The vast majority of these spectators are university students, but there are also a few nearby residents who buy tickets to enter.

One reason why a college student competition in the province can have so many spectators is because it is a rest day today, and today is still in the May Day Golden Week. The second is because there were a few exciting games in yesterday's preliminaries, and many repeat customers continued to watch the excitement today.

There were three or four hundred spectators who came to watch the game, which was slightly more than the number of spectators in the preliminary round yesterday.

Nearly 1,000 college students were asked by the schools to come to see today's swimming final. Because today's scene is a leader, the leader comes to the scene to guide the work, and someone has to support the scene, so it can't be too deserted.

There was a difference in the costumes between these forcibly brought college students and those who came on their own initiative, and they all dressed uniformly, and each of them wore white T-shirts printed with the words "Nanyue Provincial University Games". For every college student wearing a white T-shirt, the organizing committee will distribute a bottle of pulsation, a small fan, and a mobile phone case, plus this cotton white T-shirt, which can be regarded as a welfare. These benefits are averaged to each person, dozens of dollars.

At 9:15, the host said passionately: "Students, please welcome Zhang Weiguo, Director of the Provincial Department of Education, with the warmest applause!" ”

There was a figure sitting on the rostrum, and in the middle was Director Zhang Weiguo, who was actually the deputy director of the Provincial Department of Education, and was the highest-ranking official among the many leaders on the scene. Anyway, the leader present was the biggest official, so the host removed the subordinate.

Director Zhang, who is in his fifties and wears glasses, said in a tone that is unique to leaders: "Good morning, students, athletes! In the field of higher education, we have always advocated the unity of knowledge and action, all-round development, and college students in the new era need to study hard in their studies to lay a solid foundation for the realization of the Chinese dream and the realization of our great national rejuvenation. At the same time, it also needs a strong physique, and the combination of civil and military forces is expected to be ......"

Director Zhang spoke very well, he talked about national fitness from culture, science and education, from Confucius and Shen Kuo to the father of the two bombs, and then to Liu Xiang and Da Yao and other stars in the Chinese sports world in the 21st century.

After Director Zhang's speech, a quarter of an hour passed.

In the face of this official speech in the style of eight-strands, some college students have almost fallen asleep, and more are bowing their heads and playing with their mobile phones.

Immediately afterwards, the leaders of the Provincial Sports Bureau and the Provincial Communist Youth League also delivered speeches respectively, encouraging college athletes to work hard and strive for good results, so as to contribute to the upcoming Ninth National Universiade and the London Olympic Games in more than two months.

In the audience stands, Hu Yucheng frowned and said, "Where is this?" Is it still related to the London Olympics? How can these college students add bricks and bricks to London? ”

Du Dewei and Hu Yucheng met to watch the game today, and he said: "With Chinese characteristics, this is not the first time you have listened to a leader's speech. ”

"Athletes work hard, compete for gold and silver, and the credit has become the leader, hey, Chinese characteristics. Lao Du, I'm not suitable to be an official, so I haven't been to the government unit, and I am free to be a coach in the city team. Don't be embarrassed, you're almost fifty years old, that is, you were assigned to the sports lottery center as a small section chief, or deputy. In fact, you are not suitable to be an official, and your political consciousness and adaptability to officialdom are far worse than your wife. ”

Hu Yucheng pointed to the rostrum and said, "Look, how energetic Director Ke of your family is, sitting on the rostrum." At the next Provincial Universiade, maybe it will be her turn to speak. According to convention, there must be a woman in every leadership team, so Director Ke still has room for improvement, and he is much more promising than you, the deputy section chief. ”

Du Dewei was not annoyed, he just smiled: "Everyone has their own ambitions, I don't bother to be a big official if you give me a big official, the official responsibility is also big, and the idle clouds and wild cranes are actually quite leisurely." Also, don't stir up the relationship between our husband and wife, the game will start soon, watch the game! ”

Swimming and track and field are major events, and the track and field finals have not yet begun, so many leaders of the event organizer departments came to the natatorium today, which can be regarded as expressing the importance of the official departments in the province.

At 10 o'clock, the swimming finals officially began. The first to take place was the breaststroke competition, with a total of four men's and women's breaststroke finals, the 100m and 200m. Duke had already finished the final entry, and he and Jiang Zhigang watched the game in the athletes' standby area together.

In the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststrokes, the time to enter the water is one or two minutes. At 11 o'clock, the four breaststroke finals were already over.

Of the four breaststroke championships, the team of Nangang Sports Institute won three, which shows the strong strength of the sports institute.

After the breaststroke competition, a concise award ceremony was held, and the relevant leaders of the organizing committee awarded gold, silver and bronze medals to the top three athletes. Gold medals are gilded, and it is impossible to award a real gold medal at a university sports meeting at this level.

It's almost 12 o'clock, and the freestyle competition will take place. The freestyle competition sequence is 400 meters, 200 meters, 100 meters, and 50 meters. The 50-meter and 100-meter swimming competitions are equivalent to the 100-meter run in the track and field competition, which is the finale.

The men's 400m freestyle final was the first freestyle competition to take place, and it was Doke's turn.

The eight finalists walked to the jump, ready to try. Doucle was placed in lane four, where he finished second in the heats. Xu Wenlin, who finished first in the preliminaries, was in lane 5 and will continue to defend the HKSI's honour.

Duke and Xu Wenlin are in adjacent lanes, which is the unspoken rule of swimming, and the fourth and fifth lanes are generally reserved for the strongest players, and the less favored players are assigned to the lanes, closer to the sides.

At this time, the referee blows a long whistle to indicate that the player can go on stage.

Eight players stood on the jumping platform, the referee sounded the preparation order, ten seconds later, the start order, the eight players jumped into the water, and the game began!