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Chapter 132 Encounter in the swimming pool

"Since that's the case, I'll send you there in person. Now you can prepare the tools needed for swimming training! I will explain to you later to the coach on the spot. I will report to Assistant Cai of the Athletic Association for media to see if he can be asked to coordinate on behalf of the Athletic Association. You don't have to worry, just concentrate on training." Although I don't know what the connection between swimming and track and field training is, since Li Tian mentioned it, Coach Luo did not object.

"We can set out now. I always put all the equipment needed for training together in this carry-on sports bag." Li Tian smiled and patted his beloved NIKE sports bag and said.

"Okay, I'll say hello to Director Wu of the swimming pool first." Coach Luo took out his cell phone and called Director Wu. After talking to the other party for a few casual words, he made an OK gesture to Li Tian.

At this time, the other players of the track and field team who arrived at the training ground according to the prescribed training time were surprised to find that the outdoor training ground was only described as crowded. The lively scene yesterday afternoon was simply a small matter compared to tomorrow. More than 3,000 onlookers blocked the entrance to the training ground, and the entire venue was shrouded in a hustle and bustle. Since after entering the National Youth Team, in order to make the players concentrate, they were mostly disturbed by the outside world, and almost all of them cut off their contact with the outside world. It is impossible for newspapers to appear in the National Youth Team. Therefore, all the players knew nothing about the amazing news that appeared in the Sports Weekly this morning. They were just a little worried when they looked at the tide of reporters and sports fans, for fear that they would immediately be "catched the camera" by the reporters waiting on the sidelines after they were not careful.

"This player, when will Li Tian come to the training ground?" Several team members who were about to enter the training ground were stopped by several reporters who had been waiting for Li Tian for a long time.

"Uh...! I just saw that he had already walked out of the contestants' dormitory. It should be right behind. It's coming soon! Can you let me go? We're about to start training." As newcomers who have never received media attention, these young contestants have no experience in facing reporters. They nervously pushed the crowd away and rushed into the training ground like they ran away.

From some of the informed team members, Li Tian was coming here, and many people stood on tiptoe and looked up at the direction of their coming. However, five minutes passed and ten minutes passed again, and the figures that everyone was looking forward to did not appear as imagined for a long time. The people who were still patient began to stir up, and various questions began to spread among the crowd outside the training ground.

"Old Luo, I haven't seen you come over for a long time and I've been sitting here. My chess addiction has started to develop recently!" Coach Luo and Li Tian appeared outside the gate of the National Swimming Pool, and the person who greeted them here was Wu Jiang, the director of the Swimming Pool.

"Old Wu, you also know that I am busy with this national youth team recently, so I can't find it anymore. I have no time to come to you to drink and play chess! Let me introduce you to Li Tian from our track and field team." The two of them are drinking friends and chess friends for many years, and they talk casually.

"Hello, Director Wu, I'm going to bother you this time."

"It's okay, this is all a small problem. Being able to see you, the rising star of Chinese track and field with your own eyes, can help you, this is also the honor of me, the old boy! Let's go in first." Director Wu led the two into the swimming pool.

The swimming pool is much larger than the one at the Cologne Sports Institute in Germany, and the facilities are more complete. It is one of the most important venues for the training of the Chinese national swimming team. However, since these days are just the day when the national swimming team goes to the Asian Swimming Championships, the entire venue seems particularly deserted. When the three people entered, there was not even a single player in the training.

"Because most of the swimming team members have gone to Japan to participate in the Asian Championships, there are only a few injured players in China. They may come here to do some simple recovery training this morning. You just need not disturb their practice. There are many free swimming lanes here, and you can choose any one to train." Then Director Wu also gave Li Tian a brief introduction to the important facilities and precautions in the swimming pool.

"Xiaotian, you can train here with peace of mind. I have to go back to the base to deal with those things. Lao Wu, Li Tian, ​​please take care of you here." Coach Luo was still thinking about a large number of reporters outside the training ground. If the team members did not solve this situation earlier, they would definitely not be able to calm down to train.

"Well, coach, please go and help you! And explain it to the on-site coach." Li Tian nodded and said.

"Xiaotian, I still have some things to deal with immediately. You have no problem training here yourself, right? If you have any questions, you can go to the office on the second floor to find me." Director Wu pointed to the director's office on the second floor, which was on the lights on.

"I know, I won't have any problems here!" Director Wu once again explained the important precautions in the museum and left. Only Li Tian was left in Ruoda's training hall.

"It's time to start!" Li Tian stretched out his body and walked into the men's locker room with a sports bag. He soon wore flat-foot swimming shorts and a pair of swimming glasses on his eyes. After carefully performing warm-up preparations before entering the water, he jumped into the calm swimming pool with a squirting cry, and a wave splashed.

This was the first time Li Tian returned to the swimming pool since the half month after the two coaches were instructed by him. This long-lost feeling made him feel the urge to scatter his energy in the water. He seemed to have found the joy of playing in the river as a child. At this time, he had forgotten the training and just imagined swimming in the blue waves like a fish.

"Xiaopeng, you are here too today! How about the ankle injury?"

"It's okay, this is just a sprain, not very serious. After three days of rest, I've been almost healed. I didn't get into the water for a day and my body was itchy." At this time, two tall young men walked into the gate of the swimming pool, and the jackets they were wearing happened to be the uniforms of the Chinese national team.

"I think you came here because you watched Ouyang and the others compete in Japan. You can't calm down and watch the broadcast of the competition! No need to refute, I am the same. When did you get hurt? I just signed up before the competition. It seems that our brothers are really unlucky." The young man who was talking was Zhang Lin, who is one of the representative figures of men's swimming in my country. He was the 200m, 400m and 1 man's freestyle in the last "10th Games" in the men's freestyle in the last "10th Games".

The winner of the 500-meter three gold medal, and the young man who was talking to him was Wu Peng, a Chinese prodigy known as China Phelps. He is one of the leading figures in the Chinese men's swimming world today. At the age of nineteen, he won four gold and two silvers alone in the last "10th National Games" competition, creating a Chinese swimming myth. It can be said that his status in the Chinese swimming world today is no less than that of Li Tian in the Chinese track and field industry.

But it is a pity that just a few days ago, both of them were injured and withdrew from the competition with great regret. The Chinese men's swimming team lacked these two major players, and was suppressed by the host Japanese team in the past two days of competition. Only Ouyang Kunpeng, who is known as the three musketeers of the Chinese men's swimming world, is struggling to support the overall situation of the Chinese team. Today is the final day of many events, and the Chinese team players in many finals were not allowed to enter. Worrying that they could not stand the stimulation of waiting for the game to be broadcast for a while, the two walked to the swimming pool at the same time.

"Hey, why are there people training in the swimming pool today? I remember that there are only two of us wounded soldiers left in the team?" When the two walked into the training ground, the familiar sound of arm paddling came from inside, Wu Peng asked in surprise.

"I don't know this either. Maybe it's a newcomer who has just been drawn from the local team. I heard that the team is going to expand the scale of the selection and training of young players this time and prepare for 2008. I don't know what project it will be. Let's go and take a look." Zhang Lin guessed.

"Oh! It's from the freestyle event. Brother Zhang, you have a new competitor now!" When the two walked to the edge of the pool, Li Tian, ​​who was swimming hard in the pool, did not notice anyone's arrival.

"The competitor is not yet a question. You see, his technical movements are still relatively rough, and many details are not connected properly, especially in the turn, which is very bad. However, the coordination of his body, hands and feet is not bad, and the frequency of his arms is fast and powerful, so he is quite good at speed, but if you want to challenge me, he is still far from it now." Zhang Lin fully demonstrated his confidence as the main member of the Chinese swimming team, and saw at a glance the problems in Li Tian's swimming movements. But he didn't know that the player who was practicing in the swimming pool at this moment was actually a super star in the track and field industry who had never received any special training in swimming. Swimming is just a means of training strength and physical fitness, so there is no need to specifically learn standard technical movements.

"But looking at his technical movements, the training time should be relatively short. If he can get the right guidance, he may become an excellent player." Although he has not specially learned the freestyle skills, Li Tian carefully observed the movements of the freestylers there when he was training at the Cologne Sports Institute. With his outstanding understanding, he quickly learned it. With his excellent physical fitness and good physical strength, his speed is also very considerable.

Five minutes passed, and the two swimming masters who stood by the pool silently observed Li Tian were a little surprised because during this period, Li Tian had swam a distance of 400 meters, but he had no intention of stopping at all, and the speed was maintained at a very stable level. Therefore, the two decided that Li Tian was a player specializing in long-distance events.

After about ten minutes, the expressions on the faces of the two people on the shore gradually changed from surprise to surprise, because the distance Li Tian swam during the period they observed had reached the maximum distance of the swimming pool project of 1,500 meters. If the distance they swam before they came in, it would be more than 1,500 meters. However, Li Tian was still swimming hard, and the speed of his advance did not decrease, but it increased slightly, which was simply unacceptable to the two major swimmers on the shore.

"Oh my god, is he super physically strong? He has been swimming for so long but seems to be tired at all. When will he stop?" Wu Peng's mouth could no longer close.
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