Chapter 168 The 100m Contest
In the championship game, Tang Hao became the first Asian to swim for 48 seconds. Even Ning Zetao also stimulated his potential in advance, swim for 48 seconds and 23 seconds, and they both entered the World Championships.
It is no exaggeration to say that the 100-meter freestyle competition in this World Championships is the most popular event in history.
Of course, in addition to Tang Hao and Ning Zetao's participation, Australian star James Magnusson, the first person to question Chinese players in the exclusive interview, also attracted much attention.
In the group stage in the morning, Tang Hao and Ning Zetao performed well and successfully entered the semi-finals in the afternoon. However, in the semi-finals, Ning Zetao had the same situation as Shi Yang. He performed poorly in the adjacent lane with Magnusen, and finally ranked 10th among all the players. Unfortunately, he missed the finals to be held at night.
In this way, Tang Hao, who swam 48 seconds and ranked 13 seconds in the semi-finals, entered the fifth place in the evening final, became the only expectation of the audience.
More importantly, this is completely different from last night's 50-meter butterfly. Yesterday, the audience could only find foreign friends to express their feelings, but today, they can place all their emotions on Tang Hao, especially Tang Hao's first day's competition has proved that this expectation is completely worth it.
The 100-meter freestyle was arranged to be the third single-event final in the evening. Before that, the famous Chinese female star Liu Zige won a precious bronze medal in the 200-meter butterfly, which gave the Chinese Swimming Army a good start in the evening final.
It is also worth mentioning that in the men's 200m medley competition, American celebrities Rochet and Phelps won the first and second place. They are both the main opponents of Tang Hao in the 200m freestyle the day after tomorrow.
After the men's 200-meter medley race, the 100-meter freestyle battle that the audience had been looking forward to for a long time.
Amid the cheers of the audience, the contestants appeared one by one.
American star Nathan Adrian, French star Flybury Gritt, Manardo Jr., Brazilian star, Siero Jr., who had won the 50-meter butterfly championship, and Canadian star Bright Hayden all appeared in the finals at night. Including Magnusson and Tang Hao, the 100-meter freestyle battle is full of stars.
The contestant's appearance attracted cheers from the audience, but without surprise, although the organizers called on the audience to restrain themselves before the game, Magnusson's appearance still attracted boos.
During the day, the China Sports Bureau made its first statement, asking the Australian swimming team to apologize for the discriminatory remarks of Chinese and Asian players, and urged the Australian Swimming Federation to make progress in the incident.
But the result is that both the Australian Swimming Team and the Swimming Federation chose to deal silently.
The audience’s idea is actually very simple. If you don’t apologize, we naturally don’t need to respect you. It’s a simple and fair approach.
Magnusson's face was gloomy, obviously dissatisfied with such booing, but what made him vomit even more was that he was the second to last, when Tang Hao finally appeared, the cheers of the audience formed a strong contrast with the previous booing.
The Australians were so angry that they vomited blood before the game began.
After Tang Hao appeared, he turned around from time to time to look at Tang Hao in the swimming lane next door. It seemed that he was preparing to vent these unhappy emotions by defeating or even crushing Tang Hao.
The contestants were conducting the final warm-up before the game, and the live commentator also started commenting at the first time.
"Tonight's 100-meter freestyle war is full of experts, and three to five players have the ability to win the championship. For example, Siero, Jr., who just won the 50-meter butterfly championship, famous players Adrian and Manardo Jr., this is destined to be a wonderful and fierce competition." The commentator said immediately.
"Yes, it's more worth mentioning that this is the first time in the history of the Chinese team that a player has entered the final of the 100-meter freestyle competition in the World Championships!" The commentator also looked excited.
"Tang Hao swam 47.91 seconds in the championship game, and is also the first Asian player to swim 48 seconds. His performance tonight will definitely affect the attention of all China and even the entire Asia. Coach Lin, what kind of performance do you think he will perform tonight?" The commentator said and turned to look at the guest, former female swimming star Lin Li.
"It is difficult to predict the performance of young players in the competition. After all, they are all facing world-renowned celebrities. If they are too psychologically stressed, they may perform abnormally. But if they leave behind their psychological burdens, they are not impossible to perform abnormally. Tang Hao is a swimming genius. He has already brought us surprises in the first day of the competition. I believe he will also bring us surprises again in the finals." Lin Li said excitedly. As a former swimmer, he naturally hopes to see China's swimming development get better and better.
"Well, being able to enter the finals has shown strength. In fact, as long as you win Magnusen in the next lane, he will be our biggest surprise."
"Yes." Lin Li nodded, then looked at the swimming pool in front of her.
Accompanied by the audience's cheers, the contestants had completed their pre-match preparations and then stood on their respective start-up platforms.
The assistant referee also stood behind the player as soon as possible.
The 100-meter freestyle battle is about to begin.
At this time, Ye Shiwen, Fu Yuanhui, Shi Yang and others, who were in the stands, were also looking nervously at the swimming pool in the stands.
In fact, it was not just the audience. In front of the TV, countless Chinese people were waiting in front of the TV to see the first 100-meter battle with Chinese people participating.
The scene suddenly became quiet and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.
"Everyone takes your place."
With the electronic prompt sound, all the contestants arched.
“Qua!’
With a gunshot, all the contestants jumped into the water.
As soon as the contestant got into the water, the cheers on the spot exploded.
After Tang Hao entered the water, he directly turned on the fast water fetch mode.
Faced with a group of world-renowned generals, he no longer retained his strength.
After quickly fetching water, he was in a relatively forward position after he was out of the water, and his height disadvantage was compensated.
"Let's go! Siero Jr. is in the lead position, followed by Manado Jr. Adrian is in the third position, Magnusson is in the fourth position, Tang Hao is in the fifth position for the time being, the players are very close at the opening distance, and the gap between them will not exceed 0.5 seconds. This is definitely a even-match game!" The commentator was excited from the beginning.
In the first 10 meters after the attack, the distance between the players remained basically the same. The only change was that Magnussen overtook Adrian and rose to the third position.
"The Australians performed well tonight and seemed to have hope of hitting a medal or even a gold medal." The commentator said.
Chapter completed!