Chapter 260 News comes

After a whole night of rest, the Chinese team has calmed down from its original state of excitement. The excitement and ecstasy of last night can no longer be found on the faces of the players. Some are just a faint joy and confidence revealed by their eyes, which makes Coach Zhao Ge, who was once worried that the players would feel arrogance and affect future games, was very pleased.

"Coach, you must have been so excited that you didn't sleep well all night last night!" Early the next morning, Li Tian and Wu Peng walked out of the hotel room together, and met Zhao Ge, the head coach of the swimming team who also walked out of the room.

"Tsk, do you think I will be like you yellow-haired boys? I have been a coach in the national team for more than ten years. I have never seen any storms. Is this something worth my fuss and can't sleep all night? I'm worried that you guys are too excited last night and will let me down at a critical moment today." In front of two beloved players, Li Tian and Wu Peng, Coach Zhao, who has always been known for his seriousness, has a kind smile on his face from time to time.

"Coach, please give me 120 thoughts. We will never have any problems dealing with such small scenes!" It is estimated that Li Tian is the only one who dares to call the world's top event like the World Championships a "small scene".

"That's right, we are at least not so excited that we even mismatched our shoes, haha..." Wu Peng next to him immediately interfered, and his eyes were even more smiling and aimed at Coach Zhao Ge's feet.

"Uh!" With Wu Peng and his two gazes, Coach Zhao noticed that one of his feet was wearing leather shoes, while the other was walking on the hotel slippers, and his old face suddenly turned slightly red.

"These two little bastards!" Looking at Li Tian and the others who were laughing and running away, Coach Zhao couldn't help but laugh and scolded. Then he quickly returned to the room to change his shoes, and then carefully checked his whole body before going out with confidence.

The schedule of the next morning was not tense. There were only seven events including women's 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly, 100m individual medley, and men's 800m freestyle, 400m individual medley (final), 50m freestyle and men's 4x200m freestyle relay. However, it was not easy for the Chinese men's relay team members. Not only did the four of them join forces to play in the 4x200m freestyle relay event again, but before the relay event Li Tian and Chen Zuo The three of them will also usher in the first solo competition of this competition - the men's 50m freestyle preliminary round, while Zhang Lin will then attack the men's 800m freestyle event. In addition, Wu Peng has successfully entered the finals in the men's individual medley. After seeing his friends' excellent performance yesterday, how can he, as the current "male number one" in the Chinese swimming world, let his teammates be more beautiful than before? He will also try his best to break his best results in this event and strive to make a new breakthrough in ranking.

At the team preparation meeting in the morning, Coach Zhao gave specific instructions to the players who were about to play and clarified the goals of the competition. The most concerned one was naturally Wu Peng's 400-meter individual medley final. Judging from the preliminaries and semi-finals, Wu Peng is now fully capable of winning a medal. In the butterfly, he already has the ability to compete for world-class players. In the other three swimming styles, although they are not particularly strong, they win at an average level and have no obvious weaknesses. As the whole team is looking forward to a while, he will perform well in the final. For the men's freestyle relay team, although he just broke the record and won the bronze medal of 4x100 meters and the morale of the team is in high spirits, Chen Zuo and Huang Shaohuayuan's results are far from being as good as those of the 100 meters in the 200-meter freestyle. Relying on the performance of the two young players, Li Tian and Zhang Lin, obviously cannot compete with the world's strongest world powers, so striving to enter the finals has become a relatively pragmatic goal of the Chinese team.

"I'm really unwilling to accept it. If it weren't for the two of us, you could have fought with the United States and Australia on the 4X200-meter relay!" Chen Zuo and Huang Shaohua both knew that it was precisely because of their own reasons that the entire relay team lowered the target by a higher level when determining the target, and the expression on their faces couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

"Brother Chen, how can you have this idea! Our relay team is a whole, and there is no saying that anyone can drag down anyone. We are all working hard for the same goal, right? The 4X100-meter bronze medal is the result of our efforts together. Can Xiaotian and I win this honor alone?" Zhang Lin said in front of Chen Zuo and the others.

"Yes, we are all a close whole. We will take responsibility for both honors and failures. We can put so many world-class teams under our feet on the 4X100m. I don't believe that we can only do nothing in the 4X200m. Even if we cannot achieve the expected ideal results this time, we will definitely have a second, third, or even more opportunities to wait for us in the future. This time we regard it as a rare opportunity for us to measure the gap with world-class teams. Only by recognizing the gap will we have more motivation to catch up. Do you have no confidence in yourself?" Li Tian's time shocked Chen Zuo and Huang Shaohua. The two of them did not speak again, but the high fighting spirit in their eyes had already shown their determination.

Due to the excellent performance of the Chinese team on the first competition day, Shanghai citizens also showed greater enthusiasm. The 'scalpers' who had never appeared in front of the swimming competition venues also sprung up like mushrooms. Although they knew that the ticket prices in their hands were two to three times higher than the original one, there were still a large number of spectators without tickets flocked to them. The popularity of the competition site and the orderly organization of the event made several World Swimming Federation executive members who came to examine the organization of this World Championships praised it repeatedly, because it was difficult to see it in the United States and Australia, where swimming levels were extremely developed.

Although many spectators spent a lot of money to enter the competition, shortly after the competition began, these spectators couldn't help but shout that they were worth the price. As the first competition event arranged this morning, the most popular audience in the women's 100-meter freestyle was undoubtedly the French "swimming princess" Irena. Her outstanding personal strength and bright appearance, as well as the rumored identity of Li Tian's girlfriend, made her quickly have a large number of supporters in China. At the competition, she was also the most popular foreign player among Chinese audiences, and she quickly used her efforts to give her a surprise to the audience who supported her.

In the third group of the women's 100m freestyle preliminaries, Irena, who was in the fourth lane, quickly established her lead after entering the water. When she completed the 50m in the first half, the second player had been left behind by her almost two positions. After turning around, she was faster. When her fingertips touched the pool wall at the finish line, the electronic timer showed a new world record - 53.22 seconds! This result set a world record of 53.52 seconds set by Judy Henry, a famous Australian female freestyle player, at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and increased it by 0.3 seconds. It is also the first world record broken in this World Championships. The sensational effect caused on the scene can be imagined.

The sensation caused by Ilena made the competition for other events a little dull. It was not until the men's 400-meter individual medley final that Wu Peng participated in began, and the enthusiasm of 15,000 spectators were rekindled. They gave all their support to Wu Peng, who stood on the final stage without reservation. Before Li Tian joined the Chinese swimming team, Wu Peng was always recognized as the closest swimmer in China to the top level. This time he refuted such words with his own actions because now

He himself represents the world's top level. Inspired by the audience and teammates, he successfully stepped on world famous players such as Rochet, Kuka, and Cossen in the final. Although he lost to Phelps, who had the highest pre-match championship at a weak disadvantage, the second place in the World Championships was the best result of China Swimming in men's events, which really made his teammates, coaches and the audience on the scene excited. Until the 50-meter freestyle preliminary round participated by Li Tian and others, he had not calmed down.

The 50-meter freestyle is a very suitable event for Li Tian, ​​who has excellent explosive power. Although he has only participated in the first two official competitions in total, everyone has seen his extraordinary strength. The preliminary round obviously cannot pose any obstacles to him. He easily won the first place in the group and entered the next round of the rematch. There is no suspense about Chen Zuo and Huang Shaohua entering the next round.

Just as the audience was waiting for the Chinese relay team to perform again, a small commotion broke out in the stands, and it was the hundreds of journalists from various countries who caused the commotion, and their cell phones rang almost at the same time.

"Hey, Lao Wei, how is your situation there?...oh, come out...really? Are you sure?...Okay! OK! Don't worry, I will keep a close eye on him..." A domestic reporter looked excited after receiving the call, and his red eyes stared at Li Tian who was standing with his teammates.

"What! Are you sure it's this number?" Another Australian reporter who was answering the phone jumped out of his seat. The loud voice was enough to make the people around him look at him.

"Of course, it is certain that this price was announced by Ms. Sandlin, president of Adidas Greater China. Can there be any fake ones? We are almost in a state of trouble. The five-year contract signed by Adidas and Li Tian is much higher than the four-year contract of US$28 million signed with Thorpe. It is truly the first sky-high contract in today's swimming world!" The other party's excited voice came from the phone, and the reporters at the scene also received this important news at the first time.
Chapter completed!