Arrival one after another

"Coach Zhao, what is the set goal of the Chinese swimming team in this World Championships this time? Faced with the challenges that will come in three days, are the Chinese team members ready to prepare?" The one-month full-closed training has almost completely isolated the entire swimming team from the outside world. Even the many media reporters with great powers have failed to dig up some valuable news, which has caused them to hold back in the past month. Now that the training camp has ended, the reporters who have been impatiently waiting immediately gathered at the National Swimming Team Training Center to strive for first-hand news.

"After this month's joint efforts of all the Chinese swimming team members and coaches, basically all the contestants have adjusted to an excellent state. Moreover, the players have trained extremely hard during this period, and everyone has made considerable progress, especially the men's team. Many of them have already had the ability to challenge the world level. Our swimming team is very confident in completing the competition tasks assigned by the General Administration of Sports, winning two to three gold medals, and getting as many tickets to the 2008 Beijing Olympics swimming event as possible." In the past month, the head coach of the swimming team Zhao Ge is undoubtedly the happiest person. In the years of being in charge of the national team, the team's strength has never been so strong.

The team not only has world champions like Qi Hui and Luo Xuejuan in the women's 50m and 100m breaststroke events, but also Qi Hui himself has great gold-for-growing skills in the women's 400m medley. He also has a group of world-class players like Yang Yu and Pang Jiali in the freestyle event. If they can fully exert their personal strength, it is entirely possible to win medals and even gold medals. Even the Chinese men's swimming team, which has always been the most headache for him, finally gave him hope this time. Wu Peng's strength has improved rapidly in recent years and has won good results in world competitions many times. This time his 100m and 200m butterfly stroke is also the biggest gold-for-growing points of the Chinese men's swimming team; Zhang Lin has the strength to enter the finals in the mid- and long-distance events of freestyle,

As long as he can reach the finals smoothly, winning the medal will become his next goal; and the person who cannot make the most judgment by coach Zhao Ge is Li Tian. This super newcomer who has just joined the swimming team for a month has shown everyone in the team his jealous potential and terrifying learning and absorption ability. During the month of training, he has made progress almost every day, just like a dry sponge constantly absorbing the various knowledge and skills taught by the coaches, and quickly transforming it into his own things. Now he has successfully replaced his teammate Huang Shaohua's number one position in the national team in the short-distance event of freestyle, and the men's relay team has also increased its strength due to his joining. Zhao Ge now has every reason to believe that this World Championship will become a new starting point for China's swimming revitalization.

"Coach Zhao, can you introduce Li Tian to us? Many sports fans are eager to understand his current situation." Since Li Tian returned to China, he has "hidden" into the national swimming team after he founded the first individual sports foundation in L City, and many interview plans have to be stranded. More than half of the reporters who arrived today came for Li Tian. His first swimming tournament journey is the topic of interest to many news media and sports fans. Unfortunately, after the training camp, Li Tian took leave from the team, and these reporters had to focus their attention on head coach Zhao Ge.

"Li Tian is a very outstanding athlete. Whether on the track and field field or in the swimming pool, after more than a month of hard training, his swimming level has made great progress. The scale of progress is far beyond our expectations of him at the beginning. Therefore, after repeated research by the coaching staff, he decided to make some adjustments to his participation events. In addition to participating in the four events of men's 50m, 100m freestyle, 4x100m freestyle, 4x200m freestyle relay, Li Tian will also replace Huang Shaohua, Ouyang Kunpeng, Wu Peng, and Zeng Qiliang, and play in the 4x100m medley relay competition together." Coach Zhao Ge's words immediately attracted the attention of some careful reporters.

"Are you saying that Li Tian will replace Huang Shaohua to play in the 4x100-meter medley relay? So can we understand that Li Tian's strength in the 100-meter freestyle event has surpassed Huang Shaohua?" As a reporter asked, most of the reporters finally reacted suddenly and recalled that there was indeed this meaning hidden in Coach Zhao's words just now.

When Li Tian was recruited into the swimming team to replace Liu Li's vacancies in the freestyle relay event, it was not surprising that he appeared on the freestyle relay list, but it was very interesting to appear on the medley relay list. According to the general routine arrangement, the candidates participating in the 4x100-meter medley relay are the strongest players in their respective events. Before this, the freestyle players were always Huang Shaohua or Chen Zuo. Huang Shaohua has been in very good shape for the past six months, so he gradually stood firm in this position. Now Huang Shaohua has been replaced by Li Tian. The only reasonable explanation is that Li Tian's strength in the 100-meter freestyle has surpassed other teammates in all aspects.

"As for the short-distance freestyle event, Li Tian's current strength is indeed the strongest in the team." After receiving Coach Zhao's affirmative answer, the scene was in an uproar. Everyone knew that Li Tian was already at a good level in the national swimming team, but he successfully "snatching the shift and seizing power" in such a short time was beyond the expectations of everyone. Then the reporters tried every means to inquire about Li Tian's specific performance data, but they were all blocked by Coach Zhao. As the secret weapon of the Chinese swimming team's trip to the World Championships, Li Tian must retain a little mystery.

Just as Coach Zhao was tired of dealing with media reporters, Li Tian was already rushing to the Defu Restaurant where Master Wang, the chef of the National Youth Team restaurant of the former Track and Field National Youth Team. After the last World Youth Championship, Li Tian rushed back to Germany before he could tell Master Wang apart, so he rushed back to Germany to prepare for the Golden League. The plan to learn delicious nutritious meals from Master Wang naturally failed to realize. Now, taking advantage of the day's rest time after the training camp, Li Tian planned to visit Master Wang. He would definitely have no time to teach him step by step, but it would be good if he could get the recipe. According to the recipe, as long as he could make half of Master Wang's heat, Li Tian would be very satisfied. At least the taste would be much better than the ordinary nutritious meals he eats now. If he waited until the next time, he would not know that he would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and Horse Month.

Master Wang was very happy about Li Tian's visit. Since he met Li Tian in the National Youth Track and Field Team last time, he had been focusing on researching nutritious meals when he returned to the restaurant. After several months of hard work, Master Wang has developed dozens of dishes based on the original, and the taste is even better. The restaurant also recommended them to customers as special dishes, which received high praise. Master Wang also expected that Li Tian would not have so much free time to learn cooking with him, so he specially recorded the recipes in detail, and this time he handed it to Li Tian. Later, Li Tian made a good dish with this set of recipes, which benefited him a lot.

At 9 o'clock the next morning, a delegation of nearly 100 people from the Chinese swimming team members, coaches and officials of the Swimming Association took a Beijing Airlines flight to Shanghai. Many media reporters and swimming fans rushed to the airport to see them off.

At the same time, international flights carrying the French swimming team landed smoothly at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. This French team led by the beautiful swimming girl Irena has great ambitions for this World Swimming Championships, and Irena is their most powerful weapon to realize their ambitions.

"Xiali, we are really here in China! Is this his motherland? I wonder if I can meet Li Tian here! It should be unlikely. He is studying in Germany now, and the next round of the Golden League is about to begin. He should be working hard to step up preparations!" Irena, who walked off the plane, looked around curiously and said to Xiali beside her.

"Ilena is out...Ilena, I love you...Wow..." When the French team members walked out of the airport hall, there were deafening screams coming from outside. Hundreds of Ilena's loyal FANS were already waiting here, holding Ilena's large poster and calling out her name loudly. Ilena obviously did not expect that there would be so many swimming fans who like her in China thousands of miles away. All of this was an extremely huge market in the eyes of agent Charlie, which strengthened her determination to open up the Chinese market for Ilena.

"Hello Miss Yilena, I am a reporter from Sports Weekly. May I ask..." Outstanding personal strength and youthful and beautiful appearance are destined to be the focus of everyone's attention wherever she goes. Her arrival will naturally attract a large number of reporters. Facing many media reporters Yilena has been learning Chinese for more than a month and showed power. Obviously, they are just some commonly used short sentences, but it can easily narrow the distance with Chinese journalists and win the favor of many people. After accepting twenty minutes of interviews, Yilena was able to leave the opportunity with her teammates.

After the French team left, the lively atmosphere at the airport did not fade. The arrival of the Australian team made swimming fans outside the airport excited, and the reporters worked even harder. As a veteran swimming team, they have many world champions, and among them, Thorpe is undoubtedly the most popular.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the United States, the world's top swimming team, arrived almost at the same time. When the two teams walked out of the airport hall from two passages, an interesting scene appeared. Almost all the reporters and the waiting swimming fans flocked to the Chinese team in an instant. Only three or two kittens were left in front of the United States. Compared with the popular treatments of France and Australia before, it seemed quite sad, which made the arrogant American stars almost burst into anger.

When Li Tian appeared in front of reporters and swimming fans, everyone had only one focus. Li Tian, ​​who had not appeared in front of the media for more than a month, was immediately surrounded by hundreds of reporters, and the swimming fans who were a little excited and crazy were even more excited and kept hundreds of police officers and security guards waiting for the order.

"Michael, who is that guy? It seems to be very popular in China!" A teammate next to Michael Phelps asked in surprise as he looked at the scene of birth on the opposite side. Judging from the reactions of reporters and swimming fans, they were obviously much more interested in that Chinese player than Phelps, the number one star in their team.

"I don't know, I've never heard of such a male player in the Chinese team. Maybe it's just recently." This 21-year-old world champion, known as the "child prodigy" in contemporary swimming, has visited China many times. Last year, he also had an experience exchange with the Chinese team on behalf of the US team and had a relatively good understanding of the characters in the Chinese team. In his impression, there are no particularly outstanding players among the male players in the Chinese team, but now it is the Chinese team that he has never seen before.

"Hmph, the Chinese men's swimmers have never entered the semi-finals of the World Championships and Olympics. No matter how good it is, they cannot be of much interest. How can they compare with our strong American team? In my opinion, that guy is just a fool who is not good at it. The next game will prove this. At that time, those damn reporters will understand who is the real star." Another teammate next to Phelps said indignantly.

Michael Phelps, Ian Crocker, Brendan Hansen, and Grant Hagert, these top experts who are famous in the world swimming are left aside and no one cares about it. Such a cold reception is something that has never happened to this world's top team, and Li Tian was naturally regarded as the "culprit" by the American players.

In an unprecedented cold reception, all the members of the American swimming team quickly boarded the bus arranged by the organizing committee, and Li Tian was remembered by all the American players before the competition started. In the subsequent games, whenever Li Tian met the American players in the game, the opponent was particularly excited, which made him feel confused. It was not until a long time later that he learned the reason and made him laugh and cry.

On that day, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada and other strong teams also arrived in Shanghai one after another. Thousands of the best swimmers from more than 60 countries and regions in the world will compete for a total of 40 championships in the next five-day schedule.
Chapter completed!