After the fourth day of competition at the 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Duke was undoubtedly the brightest star, not one of them.

Sports Weekly, the largest comprehensive sports newspaper in China, wrote on the front page: "On the fourth day of the World Swimming Championships, the finals of six events, including the 400 free, 200 back and 50 meters, have ended, and Du Ke won four gold and one silver among the six gold medals in these six events." ”

"He started the 'brush mode' that he is good at in Barcelona, and Du Ke will continue to compete in 8 individual events and 3 relay races, and the newspaper's senior sports editor Nian Youyou conservatively estimates that Du Ke can still brush at least 3 to 4 gold medals, bringing his total number of gold medals in this World Championships to 7-8. 7 gold medals tied Phelps' record, 8 gold medals surpassed Phelps, and the odds of a tie or overshoot were half and half. ”

The portal Sulang.com expressed dissatisfaction: "The traditional paper media is too conservative, 7 gold? 8 gold? Duke himself said that he could brush 7 gold, and he must have left room for it! 100 self, 200 self, 200 mixed, 400 mixed, 100 back, Bai Mengmeng, a senior observer of our station, believes that Du Ke can at least brush 5 more golds, that is, the gold medals in the above five events. Therefore, Du Shuzi can bring at least 9 gold medals back to China at this World Swimming Championships. ”

Somao, the rival of Sulang.com, is certainly not willing to be lonely: "Our station has carried out a simulation competition with a simulation degree of up to 99.999% through the most advanced swimming competition simulation software, and Du Ke will win 10 World Championships gold medals in one fell swoop!" Perceptual guessing is a little LOW, and data speaking is king. ”

Tengxun Sports: "11 gold, proper." ”

Phoenix Sports: "12 gold, a fixed price." ”

Lay's Competition Channel: "12 gold medals in the individual competition + 1 gold medal in the relay race, a total of 13 golds, no need to BB, subject to this." ”

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For a while, how many gold medals Duke can brush at the World Championships has become the latest and hottest topic, and major sports media have joined this prediction game.

Some media say that seven or eight gold, which is the most conservative.

Some media predict about 10 gold, which is the most mainstream.

There are also media optimistic estimates that Du Ke can brush 15 golds, which is the most extreme case, including the three relay gold medals they have all counted.

The camera cuts to Europe to see what the Western media says about Doucle.

In the four days from July 28th to 31st, Duke won four gold medals in Barcelona and set a new world record in three swimming events.

Italian "Corriere della Sera": "Chinese male swimmer Du Ke, because the English spelling of his Chinese name means duke, so he is called 'Chinese duke' by the Western media." The duke from the East performed eye-catching at the World Swimming Championships, and since the first four days, he has won two-thirds of the gold medals alone, which may not be described as eye-catching, it is simply dominant! ”

Corriere della Sera is one of the more objective and neutral media outlets in Europe, and they are basically able to tell the truth about news events.

Of course, there are also right-wing conservatives, such as the Spanish newspaper Marca, the French newspaper Le Figaro, the British newspaper Telegraph and other Western mainstream media.

The view of the French newspaper Le Figaro is representative: "Whether a country is strong or not depends on the overall strength of the country in that sport, not by the individual." A small number of male swimmers in the Chinese swimming team have strong strength, but they only represent individual athletes, but they cannot change the status quo that the overall strength of the country's swimming events is difficult to enter the international top level. We are about to see this in the relay race at the World Swimming Championships. One of the Chinese men's swimming relay teams has already advanced to the final, which is probably the best result they can do. ”

The right-wing European media stopped BB Duke, they changed their thinking and started BB the entire Chinese swimming team. They also know that Du Ke's personal strength is very strong, and it is useless for you to BB him, unless he snorts. If the medicine is checked, then it can make a big fuss, but four days have passed, and Duke has no problems with the urine test. The only urine test positive sample was none other than Arolina of the French women's team.

Therefore, the French media, including most of the European media, are now silent about doping or anything, and their point of view is: everyone is really good, and one person is useless. No matter how strong Du Ke's strength is, it cannot change the current situation that the overall strength of the Chinese swimming team is not strong. Unbelief? Then look at the relay race, the team event can reflect the overall strength of a country. The relay race of the Chinese swimming team? No play!

In terms of their attitude toward China, some of the European media remain neutral, some are overt and ironic, and a few are pro-China.

The European Times, which is also a mainstream media in France, is pro-China, and they admire Du Ke very much, and they also believe that under Du Ke's leadership, the Chinese men's swimming team will usher in glory.

"Under the leadership of Du Ke, the Chinese men's swimming team will win all three relay gold medals at the World Swimming Championships, the process may be difficult, but the outcome must be like this." So says the European Times, they are more optimistic, bolder and more radical than most Chinese media outlets.

At home and abroad, from the East and the West, there are different opinions and predictions, and in this heated atmosphere, the fifth day of the 15th World Swimming Championships is coming.

August 1 is the fifth day of the World Championships, and three days later, on August 4, the World Swimming Championships will come to an end.

From today onwards, the World Championships schedule will become more exciting and more intriguing, as there will be more and more finals.

The schedule for Match Day 5 is: 800 self-preliminaries, 200 mixed preliminaries, 100 frog preliminaries, and 200 self-preliminaries, which start at 11 a.m. and are expected to end at around 3 or 4 p.m.

After 18:30 in the evening, there will be four rounds of finals, including the 4*100m freestyle relay final, the 200 breaststroke final, the 100 butterfly final, and the 100 free final.

Among them, the three finals of the 100 freestyle, 100 butterfly, and 4*100-meter freestyle relay are all "three high" competitions with high ornamentation, high gold content and high attention, which will be the highlight of the three very exciting events.

Duke is going to participate in 3 preliminaries + 4 finals today, and the 100 free, 200 free, and 200 mixed events in his sharp knife event have competition schedules today.

In fact, the preliminaries are relatively easy to correspond, and tonight's four finals are the real test for Duke.

A total of eight finals in four rounds will be arranged in one night, and a total of 8 gold medals for men and women will be decided tonight (let's count as 1 in the relay race), and today is also the competition day with the largest number of gold medals among the 8 competition days of the World Championships.

Yesterday, Duke had a wonderful experience of two golds in one night.

Today, there is an opportunity called "Four Golds in One Night" in front of Du Ke, if you can experience this feeling, you must have doubled the pleasure.

It's better to take action than to start the journey of your dreams.

Of course, before the finals, you still have to match the preliminaries.

The two projects of 200 mixed and 200 self cannot be lost for Duke.

At 11 a.m., the first round was the 800 self-preliminaries, and Duke did not sign up for the 800 self-qualifiers and rested.

Sun Yang and Hao Yun teamed up again to attack the 800 free after the 400 free, and they advanced to the men's 800 free final with the first and fifth places in the preliminaries.

Then, the preliminary round of the 200 mixed began.

Ye Shiwen, the diva of the Chinese women's team, finally appeared, and as the world's top female master in the 200 mixed event, she easily advanced to the semifinals of the women's 200 mixed event.

Du Ke and Wang Shun signed up for the men's 200m medley event together, and Wang Shun took the lead in the second group of the men's 200 mixed preliminaries.

Don't look at the 19-year-old Wang Shun is one year younger than Du Ke, but he has already participated in the 2011 World Championships held in Shanghai, China two years ago, and he also participated in the London Olympics last year, he is actually an old driver.

So Wang Shun was not nervous at all, he played normally, and won the first place in the second group of the men's 200 mixed preliminaries, with a score of 1:57.83, which guaranteed that he was basically sure to enter the semifinals.

Duke was placed in Group 4 of the 200 mixed qualifiers, and it was not his turn to play. He wondered if he would have to brush up on some record-breaking bonus points in the three preliminaries he participated in today.

After winning the championship in yesterday's 50 butterfly final, Duke received 21 bonus points (20 points for the champion and 1 point for breaking the Asian record, because he had already broken the 50 butterfly Asian record once in the 50 butterfly preliminaries three days ago), with a balance of 31 bonus points.

Duke wants to improve his stamina and physique attributes, and he now has both stamina and physique attributes of 80.

The attribute value of 80 is equivalent to the average level of international players. 100 is the upper middle level, and 120 is the international top level.

Tonight's four finals, every game is very important, one after another, if you want to complete the great dream of four gold medals in one night, you must keep up with the physical fitness.

In the past, Duke gave priority to stacking explosive power and speed, and later piled up the skill attribute to 111, these three attributes are considered combat attributes, and endurance and physique are equivalent to logistics support attributes.

The schedule of this World Championships is more compact than imagined, Du Ke originally wanted to rely on the endurance of double 80, physique can grit his teeth and carry it, after four days of personal experience, he feels that the hard shoulder can be carried, but in case of any accident can not be carried out, the loss will be heavy. From tonight onwards, every final, including the semi-finals, is very important, and it is necessary to improve the stamina and physique to improve the physical reserve and recovery speed.

Duke still has 31 bonus points, and these 31 points are smashed into the stamina and physique attributes of double 80, which is not enough, and if you want to increase one of the attributes to more than 100, you will need at least 33 bonus points.

Therefore, in the three preliminaries of 200 mixed, 100 frog, and 200 free, Duke needs to brush up points. (To be continued.) )