In recent years, the performance of Chinese swimming teams has emerged in the world, which has also increased the country's investment in this area year by year.?

Take this World Championships for example. For the Shanghai Stock Exchange Oriental Sports Center specially built for this World Swimming Championships, the Shanghai Stock Exchange has invested nearly 200 million yuan in a huge venue with a maximum capacity of 15,000 spectators. The venue land is nearly 350,000 square meters, which is comparable to the Bird's Nest in Kyoto.

Moreover, the Shanghai Stock Exchange team attaches great importance to the World Swimming Championships this time. Volunteers alone recruit nearly 5ooo people, and has opened several hotlines that can translate 16 languages, providing public welfare information consultation services and help and guidance services 24 hours a day. Even if it is the Internet issue that the audience is most concerned about, a powerful unlimited IFI is opened in the venue to fully meet the audience's needs during the game.

Including athletes' accommodation, they are all done according to the standards of the Kyoto Olympics, which shows that the government attaches importance to this World Championships, and also shows that the Shanghai Stock Exchange is rich and powerful.

Tang Hao had not had time to go to the Water Cube to experience it when he was in Kyoto, but when he arrived at this sports center with a total scale, he was inexplicably excited.

Compared with the oo-scale small hall in the championship game, the scene in front of me is very exciting. Thinking about the competition, there were more than 10,000 people watching their own games, and that kind of scene is enough to make people excited.

In addition to the main hall, there are several training halls next to it. After the national swimming team arrived, they soon started adaptive training in the venue under the leadership of Song Xiaocheng.

Because all the freestyle events met the requirements of the World Championships A-level, Tang Hao signed up for all freestyle events this time with unprecedented signing up for all freestyle events. Including the 1OOM relay (the 2OOM relay was given up due to schedule conflicts), he had to participate in a total of 8 events, which was exactly the same as Phelps' event at the Kyoto Olympics.

These 8 events, the freestyle relays of 4oo meters and 41oo meters are held in the Japanese competition, and the title of the championship will be decided on the same day, which is definitely a challenge for Tang Hao.

After all, when he is in the international arena, his opponent's strength must be absolutely stronger than the next level.

Take the 4Om freestyle in the first event he is going to participate in. In his previous life, Sun Yang's lifelong rival Park Tae-hwan was an absolute favorite to win the championship. As the gold medalist in the 4Om event at the Kyoto Olympics, three years later, he still maintains the top 4Om level.

In addition to Park Tae-hwan, German Paul Bidelman is definitely the best player in freestyle in the past two years. At the World Championships in Rome two years ago, he broke the world record and won the championship, officially establishing his position as middle distance in freestyle.

In addition, American Pete van der Kei and Tunisian Cocia Meroli are both powerful players, and they have proved themselves in the competition.

It is definitely not easy to stand out among so many celebrity contestants.

After attending the opening ceremony, Song Xiaocheng found Tang Hao and Sun Yang alone to calm their minds.

The two of them had enough mental preparations during the training camp. At this time, they mainly adjusted their mentality, just like the night before the college entrance examination.

After spending the opening night, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Swimming World Championships, which have nearly 5ooo athletes from more than 18o countries, officially kicked off at the Shanghai Stock Exchange Oriental Sports Center.

On this day, more than 2ooo reporters around the world conducted follow-up interviews and reports in the venues, and the venues were full, highlighting the popularity of this World Championships and is definitely the most watched event in recent years.

The 4oo meters were divided into the morning preliminaries and the evening finals, Sun Yang was in the first group, and Tang Hao was in the fourth group.

Coincidentally, Sun Yang and Park Tae-hwan, two lifelong enemies, met in advance this time in the group stage.

This makes the preliminaries look interesting.

Tang Hao naturally didn't miss this good opportunity either.

In the end, the preliminaries of the first group of 4oo meters ended with cheers from the audience. Sun Yang finally won the first place in the group with a time of 3 minutes and 44 seconds, while his old opponent Park Tae-hwan only swam for 3 minutes and 46 seconds, and finally ranked third in the group.

This result greatly increased the confidence of the audience, and their expectations for Sun Yang also rose sharply.

However, Tang Hao, who is also a melon-eating crowd, saw it thoroughly. Park Tae-hwan obviously retained his strength in the first 20 meters in the preliminary round. Although this result is a bit unexpected, in the final, the Koreans are definitely not at this level.

Compared with the competition itself, what he really paid attention to was the enthusiasm of the audience. The cheers of the more than 10,000 people were deafening, making people feel excited when they listened.

There was no big surprise in the second and third groups. Van der Kei and Biderman all won the top spot in the group and were basically sure to get the quota for the evening finals.

What is exciting is that after the three groups of competitions, Sun Yang ranked first among all the players, which means that he will get an excellent position in the fourth lane in the evening, which greatly increases his hope of winning the gold medal.

Tang Hao made his debut as the last group of buzzer-bearing players.

At this time, the game of the famous players was basically over, and because it was the last game before noon, many people left the court for dinner early.

Those who were still left at this time were either Tang Hao’s fans, or those who were left to watch together.

Although Tang Hao won Sun Yang in the championship game and won the 40-meter gold medal, in terms of overall strength, Tang Hao did not have that deep impression on the middle distance event.

In fact, the players who had already left to observe the opponent who had already finished the competition also left after the third group of games, and only Sun Yang was still in the nearby pool, waiting for him to go back together after the competition.

The sudden drop in attention made Tang Hao feel a little unhappy, but it also made his passionate mood calm down.

After all, 4oo meters is a medium-distance project. If you really have too much enthusiasm and rush hard at the beginning, it will be hard to say in the second half.

The players boarded the jump platform at the referee's instructions.

After taking the stage, Tang Hao turned around and looked at Merori, who was separated from him in a swimming lane. The Tunisians should be the main opponent in this group.

After the referee signaled everyone to take their place, Tang Hao and other players prepared to take off together.

Looking at the pool of water in front of him, he was actually very excited, looking forward to what kind of results he would have in the competition now.

"Qua!"

With a gunshot, the contestants rushed into the water almost at the same time.

Tunisia's Meroli performed strongly at the beginning and directly grabbed the position.
Chapter completed!