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Chapter 167 Resurrection of the Storm (5/5)

In large-scale competitions, players who do not have competitions on the competition day will mostly be arranged to train in the swimming pool next door. However, sometimes, in order to relax the athletes' mentality, they also give athletes some rest time, and the coaches will choose to give the players temporary holidays.

Tang Hao and Sun Yang, two freestyle players, enjoyed this treatment today. They chose to come to the stadium to watch the game and relax.

Their arrival instantly ignited the audience. They won 2 gold and 1 silver together on the first day, attracting fans to sign and take photos.

Tang Hao also truly experienced the feeling of being sought after in the first time.

A little fluttering.

It was not until the game was about to begin that the fans around returned to their original position under the persuasion of the security guard. However, from the eyes that came from time to time, it could be seen that they wanted to sit with Tang Hao and Sun Yang.

The next morning will be held between the men's 50-meter butterfly and the women's 200-meter medley. Zhou Jiawei, Shi Yang of the Chinese team, and Ye Shiwen of the women will all play.

Young player Shi Yang appeared in the first group. This group of more well-known players is Matthew Taggart from Australia, who mainly plays butterfly, but is also one of the players who won the 4x100m freestyle relay championship in Australia's first competition.

Shi Yang's appearance attracted a burst of cheers from the audience, but Taggart's appearance attracted a lot of boos.

From this boo, it can be clearly felt that the audience's dissatisfaction with Taguet or the Australian swimmers.

This boo quickly aroused Taguet's dissatisfaction, and his frowning expression showed that he was trying to control his emotions.

After the contestants finished preparing on the jumping platform, they all jumped into the water with an electronic gunshot.

The audience cheered, and the cheers were deafening.

Tang Hao and Sun Yang both heard this kind of cheer in the swimming pool before. Now sitting in the stands, I felt a tremor of eardrums vibrating, and the audience's enthusiasm was like fire.

Shi Yang's talent and strength were excellent. Amid the cheers of the home audience, he tried his best and finally swam a personal best of 23.67 seconds, ranking second in the group, and successfully entered the semi-finals.

The Australian Taggart won the top spot in the group. After the victory, he looked excited and even lost control. After the game, he kept uttering words starting with f to the audience, venting his inner dissatisfaction.

This soon brought another boo from the audience, but the Australians enjoyed their performance this time and kept nodding.

Tang Hao couldn't help but look serious.

He had already seen the exclusive interview video of Australia yesterday. His words were full of disdain and discrimination against China and even Asian swimmers. He thought that after being exposed online, these people would always restrain themselves, but he did not expect that they would still have the same attitude. It seems that they are like the American Peter Allison who met in the archery competition, and their sense of superiority has penetrated deeply into their bones.

The preliminaries of the 50-meter butterfly swim continued. Veteran Zhou Jiawei performed in moderation and finally only won the third place in the group, missing the next semi-finals, ending the 50-meter butterfly swim early.

After all the group stages of the 50-meter butterfly stroke ended, the 200-meter freestyle preliminaries followed.

Because of Ye Shiwen's appearance, the emotions of the audience were once again ignited.

Ye Shiwen's strength in medley has been fully demonstrated in the championship game. At this moment, she completed the group stage easily and happily, and finally won the top spot in the group with a time of 2 minutes, 11 seconds, 21 seconds, and advanced to the semi-finals.

After the competition, Ye Shiwen waved at the direction of Tang Hao and Sun Yang, which caused another cheer from the audience.

In the morning, there will be competitions between men's 100-meter breaststroke and women's 100-meter butterfly.

Because China's strength in both events was relatively poor, Tang Hao and Sun Yang did not stay on the scene and left the audience before the game began.

Although the coach gave them a day off, in order to maintain the game, they still had to train consciously in the afternoon.

In the semi-finals in the afternoon, young player Shi Yang performed poorly in the game and finally ranked fifth in the boy and missed the final to be held in the evening.

Such a result was expected. Speaking of which, this is also Shi Yang's first time participating in the World Championships, and it is inevitable that there will be fluctuations in his mentality.

However, in the pre-match interview, the Australian who couldn't calm down made trouble again.

The reporters will interview the athletes before the game. During the interview with Taguet, the player who enjoyed the audience's booing twice in the group stage first complained about the audience's disrespect for the players. Then when talking about Shi Yang missing the final, he said bluntly: "This is the strength of Chinese players. Without the help of other things, they can't even enter the final. This is the best proof."

Taggart's word in the interview was "color thing", which refers to things. This thing can be understood as many meanings, but with the exclusive interview video of the first day's competition, it is obvious that this thing is an allusion to stimulant.

Such remarks soon attracted condemnation from netizens, and well-known sports people even directly tagged the China Swimming Federation on Weibo. After fermenting for a continuous period of time, their dissatisfaction had reached a level of **.

It was in this context that when the 50-meter butterfly competition was held at night, the Brazilian swimming star Cesar Siero, who eventually won the championship, became the focus of the audience and netizens, and was even called "Friends of China".

Netizens responded strongly, but at the same time, it also explained from the side that there is no one in Chinese men's butterfly swimming, so they can only rely on such foreign friends who forcibly establish relationships to find some comfort.

Fortunately, in the next 200m freestyle final, Ye Shiwen performed well, defeating Australian star Alicia Coots and American star Ariana Coots to win the first place in the next day's competition for the Chinese Swimming Army, and it is also the only gold medal.

When the national anthem sounded, many people were filled with tears. The Chinese nation suffered humiliation and discrimination in the last century and has now entered an era of rapid economic development. However, in sports, they still suffer from discrimination and unfair treatment from time to time. The lyrics of the national anthem are, in a sense, dissatisfaction with such an experience.

And it is against this background that the World Championships ushered in its third day, and it is also the first multi-event competition day competition.
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