On July 6, the Chinese swimming team began regular training at a private swimming club in the Montjuïc district, 10 kilometers away from the manor where the Chinese team was staying.

Compared with the national swimming training base in the capital, the conditions of this training hall can only be said to be average, so make do with it.

The venue for the World Championships swimming competition is the Palau-San Hoddy Aquatics Center on Montjuïc, and the competition venue will not train for the teams, but will only allow players from all countries to familiarize themselves with the venue a few days before the start of the competition. Therefore, foreign teams that arrive in Spain in advance have to contact the training hall themselves.

Of course, Spain have the advantage of being at home, which goes without saying. Other European teams can also enjoy the advantage of sitting on the home field of Europe, such as the swimming powerhouse France, France and Spain are neighbors, the climate and environment of the two countries are similar, there is no time difference, the French team can stay in the country to train, and it is no problem to come to Spain the day before the start of the competition.

The United States and Europe are separated by the Atlantic, but the United States eats in Europe, and the best training gym in Barcelona is occupied by the American team. Canada is also more open in Europe than China, and the training hall that the Chinese team originally scheduled for better conditions was robbed by the Canadian team.

Another strong team, Australia, is also far away from Europe, but the relationship between Australia and Europe is not ordinary, and they can also enjoy high-standard treatment in Europe.

Du Ke was a little unhappy to find that even the treatment of the Japanese team was much better than that of the Chinese team, at least the Japanese team would not be driven to another training hall by the Spaniards. They are all Asians, and these European ghosts should be treated differently?

The attitude of the Spaniards towards South Americans is also very good, of course, there are historical reasons for this, and Spanish is spoken in all countries of South America except Brazil. Although Brazilians speak Portuguese, Portuguese and Spanish are both Latin languages and have the same roots, and many Brazilian footballers play in Spain.

The Chinese Legion in Europe, anyway, the treatment is average.

Fame needs to be earned by oneself, respect needs to be earned by oneself, Du Ke secretly decided: this time we must do a good job, let the ghosts know that China has a gold medal brush called Du Ke!

Not only Du Ke, but the entire Chinese swimming corps held their breath, and Director Qin, who was released by the Spaniards, also spoke: "Athletes, fight for breath!" Fight for the motherland, but also for yourself, don't think about anything, let go and fight! ”

Time is moving forward day by day, and the game day is getting closer and closer.

On July 19, the diving competition of the World Championships was the first to start, and the next day, water polo, flower swimming, open water swimming and other events were also competed.

The Chinese diving team is worthy of the title of the dream team, with a single 1-meter half-board, single/double 3-meter board, single/double 10-meter platform, a total of 10 gold medals for men and women, and the Chinese diving team won 9 of them. The only gold medal lost was the men's double 10-meter platform, which can be regarded as a bit of regret.

Oh, there is also a high platform diving in the diving event, the player jumps down from the 27-meter-high diving platform "whoosh~", this is an extreme sport, and the Chinese team did not send players to participate.

In the water polo event, the Chinese women's water polo team played extremely well in the group stage and qualified for the group one round ahead of schedule. Helplessly, the old problem of the unstable state of the water polo girls flared up again, and they were caught up and killed by the Dutch team in the eighth-of-eight elimination round, and were eliminated by 1 point.

The men's water polo team failed to make it out of the group, which is to be expected.

The Chinese Huayou team won 2 silver medals, just one step away from the first gold medal at the World Championships.

In open water swimming, Chinese athletes came to participate with a learning attitude, and the emphasis was on participation, and they failed to win medals.

As of July 27, except for the swimming sub-event, the remaining four sub-competitions have all ended.

On July 28, the highlight of the World Championships was the swimming competition.

Palau-Saint-Jodi Aquatics Centre, Barcelona, Spain.

The swimming competition will take place over eight days from July 28 to August 4 in the 9,500-capacity swimming pool.

Built in 1999 and completed and put into use at the end of 2002, the St. Hoddy Aquatics Center was the venue for the 10th World Swimming Championships in 2003.

In 2003, the St. Hoddy Aquatics Centre was one of the top swimming pools in the world, and of course, 2013 was also a top performer.

Today's schedule is 400 self-preliminaries, 200 back preliminaries, 50 frog preliminaries, 50 butterfly preliminaries, 100 self-preliminaries, and 200 backs semi-finals.

The first day of the competition was naturally dominated by the preliminaries, so there were not many spectators who came to watch the game today, but there were a lot of media.

Canal+, ESPN, BBC, CNN, Sky TV and other well-known radio and television news media in Europe and the United States are in place.

Marca, Bild, Daily Mail, Milan Sport, Reuters, AFP and other established media also sent reporters to the Palau-San Jodi Aquatics Center to follow up on the scene.

China Central Channel 5 sent a live TV broadcast team to broadcast the swimming competition of the World Championships live broadcast.

In addition, sports weekly, speed wave sports, Tengxun QQ, Somao.com, Phoenix and other print media and online media have sent special sports reporters to the Barcelona World Championships to report.

At 2 p.m., the women's 400m freestyle heats were held first.

Shao Yiwen of the Chinese women's team played in the first group of the women's 400 self-qualification round, and she fought hard to finish second in the group with a time of 4:09.16. It is not known whether they can advance to the finals, but the 400 will compete in the first round of preliminaries, and the top 8 players will enter the finals.

Zhang Wenjing, another 400 player in the women's team, played in the second group, and she played averagely, ranking 5th in the group, with a time of 4:14.66, and it was a bit hanging to enter the final.

The women's 400 self-qualification group 3 match will start immediately, and 8 female players will start to enter the zone.

At this time, the few spectators at the scene began to scream, and European and American reporters began to focus on an American female player.

The American woman has a muscular body, and if she weren't wearing a swimsuit, she would have thought she was a male competitor just by looking at her face.

She is Katie Ledesky, 16 years old, who has been hailed as a talented girl in the middle and long distance freestyle. Ledesky is an Olympic champion who won gold in the women's 800 free at the age of 15 at last year's London Olympics.

In the preparation area of the Chinese team, Du Ke said to Xu Jiayu beside him: "Huh? These Europeans are quite knowledgeable, I thought they didn't even know Ledesky. ”

"They only have a cold with European and American players, and they are not interested in us." Xu Jiayu said.

After the 400 preliminaries, Du Ke and Xu Jiayu will play side by side in the 200 preliminaries, so they sat together.

Du Ke said: "Xiao Xu, 200 Yang do a good job, tomorrow's finals, our brothers must do a big job!" ”

Xu Jiayu looked a little lacking in confidence: "Brother Du, you should have the strength to take cards, as for me, I will be satisfied if I can enter the finals." ”

18-year-old Xu Jiayu is participating in the World Championships for the first time, and it is normal to be a little nervous in the face of top international masters.

Du Ke is also participating in the World Championships for the first time, but he looks quite confident, and he encourages Xu Jiayu: "Xiao Xu, be confident, fight the tiger brothers, all reactionaries are paper tigers, so we must believe in our own strength." Come on, give each other a blow! As he spoke, he and Xu Jiayu punched each other and encouraged each other.

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