Tonight Duke will compete in three races, the 50 Breaststroke Semifinals, the 50 Free Semifinals, and the 200 Back Finals.

Which of these three projects is more important to Duke?

Of course they are all important.

If you have to rank it, for tonight, Doucle's position is: 200 back/50 > 50 frogs.

The 200 backs have already entered the finals, so there's no reason not to fight.

In the 50 free, Duke's sharp knife event, he equaled the world record in the afternoon 50 free preliminaries, and the 50 free/100 free is the most watched in the events of all distances in the major swimming styles, which can be seen from the largest number of applicants in the 50 free/100 free. So there is no reason for 50 to give up.

In this way, does 50 frogs have to give up strategically?

"No, I can't give up 50 frogs." Du Ke hesitated for a few seconds, and finally decided that the three events, including the 50 frog semifinals, the 50 self semifinals, and the 200 back finals, should be brushed all of them, and none of them should be missing.

The Chinese men's team and women's team, in the 50-meter breaststroke event, only Du Ke broke into the semi-finals, not only for the honor of the Chinese team, but also for Du Ke himself, he can't give up the 50 breast, and he can't deliberately retain his strength in the 50 breaststroke semifinals to cope with the next two games.

Moreover, this 50 frog is Duke's first race of the night, and after a more than two-hour break in the afternoon, he is currently full of energy. Therefore, Du Ke's strategic thinking is that the 50 frogs and 50 self-semifinals can reach the finals, and it is OK to enter the top eight, and there is no need to stumble to the death to brush the record.

50 frogs, not Duke's sharpest knife project, in yesterday's 50 frog preliminaries, he has already broken the Asian record, even if he can refresh the Asian record again, the reward point for breaking the Asian record is only 1 point (3 months to repeatedly refresh the same event and the same level record, the system only gives out 1 reward point). Breaking the world record of 50 frogs does not seem to be so easy at the moment.

In 50, Duke equaled the world record in the afternoon heats, and his world record of 20.91 seconds was also the latest Asian record. Therefore, in the 50 free event, the only way to get a record-breaking reward is to break the world record.

The strategic thinking has been drawn up, and the specific tactical play is as follows:

50 frogs, drive a stunt, big water wheel.

50 self, open two stunts, jump thousands of miles + 8 legs.

There are a lot of fierce people in 50 frogs, but Du Ke is confident that it should not be too difficult to add a big water wheel with full physical fitness to brush the Asian record of 27.02 seconds again.

If he could beat the Asian record by a hundredth of a second faster than the Asian record, he would have surpassed Conniedras, who finished fourth in Group 1 of the semi-finals, and the Greek had a semi-final time of 27.02 seconds, so Duke should be able to finish between 6th and 8th in the semi-finals to qualify for the final. If he can swim three percent faster and swim to 27 seconds, Duke's semi-final finish in the top five is not a big problem.

This is the case in the 50-meter race, which often has to be counted to a few hundredths of a second.

50-meter freestyle, there are more fierce people, although Duke is also good at 50 free, but because after the 50 breaststroke semifinals, he has to compete with the 50 self semifinals in less than half an hour, so he left two stunts to jump thousands of miles + 8 legs to correspond to the 50 self semifinals.

The strategy and tactics have been drawn up, and now let's start executing them.

The eight competitors in the second group of the men's 50 breaststroke semi-finals have all entered the zone, and they are lined up waiting for the preliminary order.

Doucle finished third in the 50 breaststroke heats and was placed in lane 5.

The runner in lane 4 is Australia's Springer, who finished second in the preliminaries.

In lane 3, Van der Bergh's teammate, another South African player, Solsi.

In lane 6, Lima, one of the Brazilian breaststroke stars, is the double.

The three players in lanes 3, 4 and 6 were Duke's strongest opponents in the group.

Combined with the results of the first group of the semi-finals, as well as the strength of Springer, Solsi and Lima, as long as Duke can outperform one of these three players, the probability of advancing to the final is more than 90%.

At this time, the preparatory order sounded, and the 8 competitors got on the jumping platform.

The start order sounds, and the race begins!

Duke takes off in a regular way, adjusts his position in the air, and then dives into the water.

Of course, the regular start was not as far as a jump, but Duke's regular start was not a setback, and after entering the water, he was tied for second with Lima and Sweden in lane 2, and Springer and Solsi went straight for first.

The breaststroke is the slowest of the four strokes, which can be seen from the records of the four major strokes, such as the world record: men's 50 free world record, 20.91 seconds; 50 butterflies, 22.43 seconds; 50 up, 24.04 seconds; 50 frogs, 26.67 seconds.

The world record of the 50 frog is 5.76 seconds slower than the 50 self, and the 50-meter race distance is 5.76 seconds.

Of course, this has to do with the technical characteristics of each swimming style, the short freestyle emphasizes explosiveness, and the breaststroke is the most technical style.

But it's not that the relative speed of the breaststroke is slow, we have to swim slowly.

50-meter breaststroke, as soon as you enter the water, you have to rush forward with full firepower!

After Duke came out of the water, he adjusted a round of ventilation, and immediately started the big water wheel and began to sprint!

After 30 meters, Duke threw off Brazil's Lima and approached Springer and Solsi in front.

Australia's Springer, who made his debut in the medley and switched to breaststroke after the '08 Olympics, is considered by the Western media to be one of the most promising to kill the frog king Van der Bergh.

Springer and Douc are in adjacent lanes, and he feels that Douc in lane 5 next to him is chasing fiercely.

In the last 10 meters, Duke has caught up with the Australian giant, and the overtaking is imminent.

Springer sped up to the wall of the pool as Duke gave him an inexplicable mental pressure.

In the end, Springer was unable to withstand Duke's strong pursuit.

Duke overtook Springer in the final five meters and touched the wall first.

Duke finished first in the second group of the men's 50 breaststroke semifinals with a time of 26.89 seconds.

Springer finished second in the group with a time of 26.97 seconds.

26.89 seconds, which was enough to ensure that Duke qualified for the men's 50 breaststroke final. And this 26.89 seconds broke the 50 frog Asian record of 27.02 seconds set by Duke just yesterday. However, the record-breaking bonus point is only 1 point, and after Duke earns 1 bonus point, the balance bonus point is 59.

After the second group of the men's 50 breaststroke semi-finals, the results of all 16 semi-finalists were arranged:

The first semi-final result, South Africa's Van der Berg, 26.87 seconds;

second, China's Du Ke, 26.89 seconds;

third, Saunders of New Zealand, 26.95 seconds;

fourth, Australia's Springer, 26.97 seconds;

Fifth, another South African athlete, Solsi, 26.99 seconds.

All five players swam under 27 seconds in the semi-finals, and none of them were very far apart.

It is foreseeable that in the men's 50m breaststroke final, there will be a more fierce battle.

After advancing to the men's 50 breaststroke final, Du Ke reserved a spark for the Chinese team that is expected to set the prairie on fire.

However, he has no time to think about tomorrow's 50 final, and in about 20 to 25 minutes, he will have to play in the semi-finals of the men's 50 free......

? (To be continued.) )