: The war begins

The annual student sports meeting of Cologne Institute of Physical Education is like a grand festival for all teachers and students of the college. After the annual comprehensive assessment, students who have no pressure to study and teachers who have completed teaching tasks can devote themselves to this three-day competition and strive to cheer for the contestants they support. At that time, dozens of large and small competition venues in all events in the college will ignite a fierce "war".

"Okay, there is the last round trip. Hurry up, accelerate,... use all your strength!" In the small swimming pool in Cologne, Zhang Lin was holding a stopwatch in his hand and moving along the pool with Li Tian's speed of moving in the swimming pool. From time to time, he paid attention to the time on the stopwatch in his hand and reminded loudly.

Three days passed quickly. Although the training time was short, Li Tian’s progress in swimming events had allowed the three swimming elites to completely subvert their previous cognition. Looking at Li Tian who was struggling in the swimming pool, even they themselves couldn’t believe that he was just a ‘outsider’ who had never received any professional training three days ago. Even though Li Tian was trained by them, a series of technical movements were done very well. Although the details were a bit rough due to the short training time, it was basically qualified in general. With his outstanding athletic talent and excellent physical fitness, he was enough to compete with some professional players.

"Xiaotian, come on! This time I will definitely refresh my best results again!" Three members of the "Four-man Group" were cheering on the shore. Because Walter will also go to the 'battlefield' tomorrow, today he had to go to the bowling alley to find his feelings. Although he is confident in his level, this is a major event that concerns the final annual comprehensive assessment, and he has to pay attention to it.

"Fight!" In the final stage of 1500 meters, Li Tian's arm strokes became faster and faster. In this case, he could still have enough physical energy to lift his speed and sprint. I believe that it is extremely rare in the entire swimming world. The longest distance among all swimming events in 1500 meters is also the most physically consuming, but it is also an event that can maximize Li Tian's physical strength. The results obtained in several 1500 meters tests this afternoon made everyone present feel extremely excited.

"Hu...hu... how many...!" After touching the wall with his right hand, Li Tian started to start from Shuiliung, breathing fresh air in big mouthfuls, while constantly asking Zhang Lin and others about the results of this test.

"15 minutes, 14 seconds 27! More than a second faster than the best one before! Xiao Lin, it seems that your 1500-meter throne is becoming more and more unstable!" Zhang Lin could only smile bitterly at Ouyang Kunpeng's words. He believed that the things that surprised him in his life were not as much as these three days. From the initial 15 minutes, 40 seconds 11 to the current 15 minutes, 14 seconds 27, in just three days, Li Tian shortened his 1500-meter freestyle score by 26 seconds. What a terrible number. His score when he won the championship in the "10th National Games" last year was only 15 minutes, 14 seconds 06. Although there is still a not small gap from the Asian record of 15 minutes, 00 seconds 27 that he maintained, this is enough to show that Li Tian has already initially challenged himself in long-distance events like 1500 meters.

"Yeah!" Hearing Ouyang Kunpeng's results, Li Tian clenched his fists excitedly and smashed them hard towards the water. In the past few days, in order to learn more about the events he was going to participate in, Li Tian searched for a lot of relevant information online during the evening break, including various record data for freestyle events, and finally understood the true level he has now.

"I didn't think it before, but now I'm so harsh about the word 'genius'. The so-called genius in front of this kid can only be considered an ordinary person." Wu Peng sighed a little annoyed. For him, who broke the Asian record at the age of 15, he has heard such praises as "genius players" before, and now he has to redefine the word.

"Okay, don't sigh here. I, the biggest victim, didn't even say anything, you are here to make a big spoil." Zhang Lin seemed particularly calm in the face of Li Tian's serious "threat".

"Xiaotian, let's practice here today. Stay up well at night. The 50-meter game tomorrow will be a fierce battle!" Li Tian asked Li Tian to come out of the swimming pool, and Zhang Lin announced that she would end today's training in advance.

"Andrew, this will be my last time participating in the academy sports meeting. I decided to submit a professional athlete application to the National Swimming Association after this competition and become a formal professional player. I have always hoped to represent the German team in international competitions and win honors for Germany. Last time, I participated in the national team trial training by the academy, which made me realize the gap in my level, but the national team coach also recognized my potential. I also believe that I will definitely be able to occupy a place in the German swimming world in the future with my own abilities." Jack and Andrew lived in the same student apartment. After dinner, Jack, who was lying on the sofa to rest, told Andrew about his future plans.

"When I started practicing swimming, I was just out of my interest and did not plan to become a professional player in the future. When I entered the academy, I hoped to become a sports economist in the future. However, the last national team trial made me change my initial decision. I always believed that I would be the best swimmer in Germany, but in the end I couldn't even stay in the national team. If I don't defeat the national team, this guy would choose to quit. I will never be willing to do so, so I also plan to submit an application after this competition and compete with him after becoming a professional player." Both of them are just now

Although the members of the school swimming club have already surpassed ordinary professional athletes, they have never joined the professional swimming scene in order not to affect their college studies. However, the national team journey has given them great excitement and prompted them to make up their minds to join the ranks of professional athletes, so that they can participate in various domestic and foreign competitions more easily to improve their level. However, once their application is approved by the German Swimming Association, they will no longer be eligible to participate in swimming competitions next year's college sports meet. Therefore, they all hope to leave a beautiful memory at this sports meet.

The next day, the college indoor swimming pool became one of the most popular venues at this sports meet. At 8 o'clock in the morning, the entrance of the hall had just opened. Students who had been waiting outside for a long time flocked in and quickly filled the stands with nearly 4,000 seats. More than half of them came to watch Li Tian's performance in the swimming pool. I believe Li Tian would not disappoint them.

The swimming competition officially started at 9 a.m., and the opening match of the entire swimming competition was the men's 50-meter freestyle, which was participated by two heavyweights from the academy. At 8:30, Li Tian walked into the swimming pool accompanied by Zhang Lin, Wu Peng and Ouyang, which immediately made many students who supported him excited.

A total of 40 players signed up for the 50-meter freestyle competition, most of whom were members of the Academy Swimming Club, represented by "Flying Fish" Jack. 40 players will preliminaries for five groups. The 16 players with the best preliminaries will participate in the semi-finals in the afternoon, and the eight players with the best results in the semi-finals can enter the final tomorrow morning. Through previous understanding of his strength and previous academic competition results, Li Tian believes that it is not difficult for him to enter the finals. When he is about to face the preliminary competition, he seems particularly relaxed. He also talks with Zhang Lin and others around him from time to time, and all this makes Jack on the side see it.

"Andrew, do you think those people over there look familiar?" While paying attention to Li Tian, ​​Jack suddenly became curious about the other three Chinese young people around Li Tian. As far as he knew, there were no characters like them in the academy, and Bi Xian's Chinese are definitely very conspicuous here.

"Who?"

"It's the three Chinese people standing next to Li Tian!" Andrew followed the direction of Jack's eyes and saw the figures of Zhang Lin and the other three.

"Hey! It looks familiar, it really seems to have seen it somewhere!" Looking at the direction where Li Tian and the others were, the two of them fell into deep thought for a moment.

"Chinese..., when did I see Chinese?...Ah! I remembered it, it turned out to be them. No wonder I think they look familiar." Andrew said suddenly.

"Do you know? Who are they?" Jack always cared about these three strange Chinese youths.

"Do you remember we went to Munich to watch the World Cup Short Pool Series last week? They were the three Chinese swimmers at that time." Andrew's words immediately made Jack's mind clear. They went to watch the World Cup Short Pool Series held in Munich last week. At that time, there were watching the three of Zhang Lin and the others. They also paid attention to the several Chinese male players who achieved good results in the competition, especially one of the three opposites. Now Jack can be completely sure that he was the champion of the men's 100-meter backstroke in the last competition.
Chapter completed!