At 12 noon, the first round of the men's 400-meter freestyle preliminaries ended.

The referee announced the results of the preliminary round of all the players, as well as the list of 32 players who advanced to the second round of the preliminary round.

Hu Yucheng's qualification line was accurately estimated, and Du Ke ranked 16th out of all 98 competitors with a time of 4:29.11 and entered the second round of preliminaries.

The second round of preliminaries will be held at 6 p.m. today, with the 32 qualifiers having an afternoon to rest and adjust.

After Du Ke changed into civilian clothes, he went back to the athletes' dormitory at Jinmen University. Hu Yucheng told him not to do anything in the afternoon, take a nap, go to the net or something, and come to the swimming pool at 5 p.m. to prepare for the second round of preliminaries.

One afternoon wakes up, it is already past two o'clock in the afternoon, and Duke sees a teammate in the same room returning. This teammate from Southern University of Technology collapsed on the bed with a depressed face after entering the room, muttering: "Hey, Lao Tzu has a hard life, he was eliminated in the first round." Ma Dan's, now the players in Group A are so strong? ”

Seeing this teammate complaining so hard, Du Ke cautiously comforted: "Brother Feng, are you competing in breaststroke today?" We are engaged in sports, and victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, and we want to open up. Didn't you also sign up for butterfly swimming, and if you lose the east corner of the harvest, you still have a chance. ”

Brother Feng: "Hey, breaststroke is my strength, and I don't even expect butterfly stroke." Okay, Duke don't comfort me, I know you're a warm man, but please let me pretend to be deep and melancholy for a while, thank you. I suggest you go out for a walk, don't be affected by my moldy head, you have to come on, you must do it. Explode them, enter the finals, and give my brother a hate! After saying that, he made a gesture of pinching his neck with both hands and not staring.

"Okay, okay, you can adjust it well, don't give up tomorrow's butterfly, you still have to have ideals in life, in case it is realized." With that, Duke left the dormitory.

As soon as he walked downstairs to the dormitory, Su Yun sent him a WeChat message, without text, it was a collection of emoticons sweating, crazy, crying, and hitting the wall.

Okay, Du Kexin said, Su Yun is estimated to have been eliminated.

sent a message of condolences to Su Yun to comfort her that the sun is always in the wind and rain, and Du Ke walked around the campus of Jinmen University, trying not to think about the news of his teammates being eliminated.

After strolling around for a while, Du Ke took the shuttle bus of the Universiade Organizing Committee to the Tianjin University of Science and Technology Natatorium to prepare for the second round of preliminaries.

It was now more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and Hu Yucheng stayed in the swimming pool as a coach for a day and never left. He didn't say anything to Du Ke, and asked Du Ke to change his equipment and prepare to enter the second round of the 400-meter freestyle preliminaries.

Du Ke could see that Hu Yucheng's mood was a little lost, and he learned from the assistant coach that up to now, 10 of the 26 members of the Nanyue Provincial Swimming Team have been eliminated in the preliminaries of each event, more than one-third. What a not-so-satisfying start.

After the entry was completed, Du Ke entered the standby area, and Hu Yucheng was surrounded by several team members, and he was teaching the team members face-to-face.

After a month of intensive training together, Du Ke and the other team members also got acquainted with each other and understood their strength.

The Nanyue team is about to play Xu Wenlin, who participated in the men's 400m freestyle group B competition. Compared with his calm and confident appearance at the Provincial Universiade, he now looks a little nervous.

The 400m freestyle in Group B is divided into 8 groups with only one round, and the first place in each group advances to the final. The number of players in Group B is smaller than that of ordinary players in Group A, and the level is higher than that of ordinary athletes in Group A.

In the previous Universiade Group B competitions, players who have achieved good results may be concerned by the national team, and the Universiade venue is also a test field for the national team to inspect reserve talents in various events.

Xu Wenlin was placed in Group 6 and is about to play. He rubbed his hands together consciously or unconsciously, as if to divert his nervousness.

Du Ke punched him in the chest and said, "It's not enough to kill people, Xiao Xu, you're nervous!" You will only intimidate me in the province, and you will become like this when you leave the province? I'm telling you, you have to go to the finals, or I'll look down on you. ”

"Cut." Xu Wenlin glanced at Du Ke and walked towards the starting area, and the referee team had already begun to broadcast: "Men's 400-meter freestyle preliminaries, the players in Group B Group 6, please be in place." ”

The starting signal sounded, and the men's 400m freestyle preliminaries Group B Group 6 competition began. After Xu Wenlin entered the water, he did his best, and he had to win the first place in the group to enter the finals.

Hu Yucheng, Du Ke and other teammates are silently sweating for Xu Wenlin on the shore, a month ago, Du Ke and Xu Wenlin were still opponents, but now they are teammates. It's okay to tear up behind closed doors at home, but everyone has to unite when they leave the province.

The coaches and teammates on the shore looked more and more solemn, and Xu Wenlin, who didn't like to be led by others, was thrown behind as soon as he entered the water, and there were three leaders in front of him. After 200 meters, Xu Wenlin fell to fifth place. After the last turn, Xu Wenlin was still fifth, and it seemed that he had no skills to return to the sky.

In the end, Xu Wenlin only finished fifth in the group, and was eliminated by a large disadvantage behind the players in front.

Du Ke and Xu Wenlin have competed twice in the official competition, and they have been training together for a month. But such a professional player was completely blown up in the preliminaries of Group B of the Universiade, which shows that this Universiade is really a strong player.

The level of Group B is almost equivalent to the level of the National Swimming Championships at the reserve level, which is equivalent to the difference between the Chinese Super League and the Chinese Football League.

If the tide rises, the level of Group A will not go anywhere.

After Xu Wenlin went ashore, he returned to the standby area of the Nanyue Provincial Team, and the others were just about to comfort him, but he suddenly beat Du Ke's chest: "I lost, there is nothing to say." Du Ke, you have to enter the finals, otherwise Lao Tzu will look down on you! After that, he went back to the locker room.

Du Ke spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders and said to everyone: "It seems that this kid is fine, I thought he was glass-hearted, but I didn't expect him to be so tenacious." ”

Hu Yucheng kicked Du Ke's ass lightly: "Don't talk nonsense, warm up, it's time for you to appear, you are the first group." If you can't get into the finals, you can buy a ticket to go back to Nangang by yourself. ”

Scolding and scolding, Hu Yucheng still deployed the tactics of the second round of preliminaries with Du Ke.

In the second round of the 400m freestyle group A preliminaries, the 32 finalists were divided into four groups, and the top two in each group entered the finals. The second round is the sprint competition, and the ranking is not scored.

Du Ke was placed in Group 1 of the second round of preliminaries, in fact, there was no special tactical deployment, let go of the swim is, there is no need to retain the strength, and swim as fast as he can.

At 6 o'clock, the second round of the men's Group A 400m freestyle preliminaries began.

The eight men in Group 1 lined up in the starting area, with Duke being placed in lane 3 and finishing fourth out of eight in the group with a time of 4:29.11 in the first heats. The runners in lanes 4, 5 and 6 were all faster than him in the first round of heats.

Preparing for the long sound, Du Ke stood on the jumping platform and bowed down to make a jump. [Attack on the Champion], for 30 reward points, and for the honor of the champion, I'm coming, Attack!

The start order is screaming, Douc jumps into the pool, and the race begins!

In the first 100 meters, he did not retain his strength, nor did he rush with joy, but swam according to the most conventional 400-meter freestyle rhythm.

The first 100 meters remain stable, the middle section of 100-300 meters begins to gradually rise, and the rear course after 300 meters is full of firepower and sprints, which is the most conventional 400-meter freestyle pace.

When the strength is a little weaker, you can make surprise moves and attack the opponent by surprise. Once his own strength increases, there is no need for Du Ke to make dangerous moves.

Duke was not familiar with the opponents in the group, and he kept a steady pace for the first 100 meters to test the game.

After the second turn, it was midway through the middle section, where Duke was in second place. At the end of the trial, Duke knew that he began to rise, increasing the frequency of his arm strokes, gradually speeding up to overtake the first-placed competitor.

The player who is temporarily ranked first is in lane 4, and he is a local player from the Tianjin team. As soon as he made his third turn, he noticed that Douc in lane 3 had caught up with him.

Duke's momentum continued unabated, and he continued to accelerate his upward trajectory, and after the fourth turn, he was already in the first place.

The three players in lanes 4, 5 and 6 were narrowly behind Duke and were in hot pursuit.

In the shore standby area, Zeng Xiaoying, the assistant coach of the Nanyue provincial team, is both excited and a little anxious, she is Hu Yucheng's assistant and is mainly responsible for leading the women's team.

Hu Yucheng saw the mood swings of his female assistant and said, "A-Ying, calm down." You're excited when the women's team plays, and you're still excited when the men's team plays. You can't hold it if we're behind, and you can't hold it if we're ahead, a bit of a city, okay? Anyway, you are a coach, a commander who leads troops to fight, and you have to stand up to it when the sky falls. ”

Zeng Xiaoying has just been an assistant coach for less than two years, and she is a novice in the industry, she smiled apologetically: "I know, Coach Hu." We are one afternoon behind, ten people were eliminated in the preliminaries, and Duke's performance is very strong and uplifting! I'm happy for him. Actually, I think our team members are ahead of me even more, for fear that he will be overtaken by others in the next second. Let's get the game over quickly, oh my god, it's so tormenting. ”

"Don't worry, this kid Duke won't be overtaken." Hu Yucheng said with confidence that he had been watching Du Ke, and he knew that Du Ke was playing a conventional style of play now, and this guy was now ranked first, and it was useless for him to have a trick in his hand.

As he spoke, the battle in the pool entered the late sprint.

The crisp sprint bell rang, and the last 100 meters were gone.

Duke was still in first place, and he used the gap between the penultimate turns to observe the swim lane rivals around him, and he was not much ahead of second place, half a body. The third and fourth places are almost the same as the second place.

Without hesitation, Duke played a trump card: 8 leg punches.

In the penultimate 50 meters, Duke is firing on all cylinders, as he stacks up the speed stat to 42, and the "8 Kicks" acceleration effect that benefits the speed stat bonus has been increased from 22% to 24%.

With the blessing of the 24% acceleration effect, Duke's legs crackled happily.

This kind of high-frequency leg beating is very ornamental, like a small motor "suddenly", rowing through the waterway and moving forward bravely.

Not only is it ornamental, but it is more practical, and Duke, who is pushing at full speed, is opening up the gap with his opponents behind him, and he wants to settle the battle in advance, and the penultimate 50 meters will establish an insurmountable advantage.

As he wished, Duke was the first to complete the last turn, he didn't use the turn stunt "Dolphin Turn", no longer needed, and by this time he was already two positions ahead of his opponent behind him.

In the case of equal technical strength, whoever leaks more hegemonically, the balance of victory will be more inclined to the unstoppable person.

Duke's domineering spirit had already leaked out a bit, and in one go, he maintained his lead in the final 50 meters, touching the wall first to reach the finish line, winning the group and earning a place in the final.

"Enjoyable, enjoyable! Douc is victorious, well done! Zeng Xiaoying raised her arms and shouted.

"A-Ying, you are excited again, calm down." Hu Yucheng smiled faintly.

"I also want to be calm, but the concubine can't do it." Zeng Xiaoying smiled a little mischievously, in fact, she is only 24 years old this year and has been a swimmer, but because of injuries, she retired at the age of 21.

"After an afternoon of grievances, I finally turned over and became the master, and we finally have someone in the finals...... Doucle, awesome! Zeng Xiaoying made a high-five gesture and looked at Du Ke, who had already come ashore and was walking towards the standby area.

Du Ke walked up to Zeng Xiaoying and clapped his hands with a "snap", and then several other teammates also expressed congratulations and encouragement to Du Ke. Duke entered the final by a large margin, which played an inspiring role. The other teammates also adjusted from a slightly restless state, and the high fighting spirit was filled with their eyes again.

"4:15.03." Hu Yucheng looked at the results on the big screen and said to Du Ke: "Your kid only threw four 2s as bombs, and the two kings are still hidden." Quite confident? ”

Du Ke said: "Isn't there a final, it blew up several times at once, won too much money, and no one will fight the landlord with me in the future." ”

"Haha, you, cunning cunning drops." Hu Yucheng laughed.

Zeng Xiaoying wondered: "What about the two of you?" Still fighting landlords? ”

"Zhang Chi has a degree, okay, Du Ke, you go back to the dormitory to rest first. You've done a good job, and you've given us a shot in the arm. Hu Yucheng patted Du Ke on the shoulder and signaled that he could go.

Du Ke said goodbye to everyone, and encouraged his teammates to let go and fight, then walked to the locker room, and after walking a few steps, he suddenly turned around: "Coach Hu, remember to call someone to air transport high-tech swimsuits overnight." Swimsuits are not needed for tomorrow's 100m heats, and the 400m final the day after tomorrow will be just in time. ”

Hu Yucheng waved his hand to make a driving motion: "Go, go, hurry up, I'll talk about this later." ”

Du Ke was stunned: "You won't fool us, will you?" The city team doesn't have any fancy swimsuits at all? ”

Hu Yucheng ignored Du Ke, and he was planning the next game with the rest of the team......