After a summer vacation, a classmate became an Olympic champion?

Chapter 14 The first baton?

Paris time on the 27th, 11 am.

La Défense Stadium.

The swimming and water polo events of the Paris Olympics were held in this venue.

"In a moment, in one hour, the first event will be the women's 400m freestyle. Bingjie and Yashin, go and try out the venue first!"

One hour before each competition, athletes can go into the water and get familiar with the venue in the pool where they will compete. This is very important for the participating athletes; get familiar with the pool, temperature, water depth and flow, and then feel the rhythm of swimming.

Every professional swimmer has almost formed a set of muscle memory movements through daily training, but the rhythm of this set of movements is very critical; if you can play a faster sense of rhythm than usual, you may break many records.

And if the rhythm is disrupted, even if you swim desperately, it is very likely that you will be spinning in place.

Especially in this swimming pool, it is not a standard 3-meter pool. It is very difficult to swim in a 2.3-meter pool. The more powerful the swimming style, the bigger the waves, and the more it will be disturbed by the rhythm.

For example, butterfly stroke and breaststroke.

Actually, this is easy to understand.

For example, if a whale flips a wave in the deep sea, you can't feel it at all on the sea surface; but if it rolls at a position of 100 meters, you are just above it, even on the sea surface, you can still feel it.

The shallower the pool, the bigger the waves, and the ups and downs of breaststroke and butterfly stroke are very large, so they are definitely the two most difficult swimming styles in this pool.

Of course, this does not mean that it has no impact on freestyle, it does, but it is not as outrageous as the other two swimming styles.

Li Bingjie, the top long-distance freestyle swimmer in China, and Liu Yaxin, another female player who practices backstroke and 200m and 400m freestyle, walked towards the competition venue under the leadership of Coach Zhu.

Coach Zhu is the head swimming coach of Zhejiang Province, Zhu Zhigen. This time he also came to Paris with the team.

Unlike the last time he was the head coach at the Tokyo Olympics, he is now the assistant coach. The incident of Sun Yang knocking over the doping test bottle still had a certain impact on him.

"Okay, let me tell you about the preliminaries now!"

"There is nothing much to say about the individual events, the main thing is the relay!"

Cui Dengrong looked at the eight athletes in the women's 100m freestyle and the men's 100m freestyle relay; there were a total of five swimming events today, and the women's and men's relays were at the end.

There were less than two hours left before the start of the competition.

He first told the women about some tactics and opponents, and then looked at Chen Shu and the other four.

"Let me first talk about your main opponents in the qualifiers!"

"This time our draw was better. We didn't play with the two old and strong teams, the United States and Australia, in the qualifiers, but this has both advantages and disadvantages!"

"The advantage is that the psychological pressure is not so great, but the disadvantage is that the top three in the qualifiers may not be safe, and you must be second!"

Because the finals will select 8 teams, there have been 2 qualifiers in history., one team selected 7 teams, and one team won the first place in the group; because the top eight in the finals are determined according to the final competition time.

"And without opponents in front to pull the speed, you may not be able to fight, so don't take it lightly, rush to the first place!"

"The Americans and Australians are likely to use their substitute opponents to save energy, after all, there are many good players!"

"But we can't use substitutes, let's make sure we rush into the finals first!"

There are many swimmers in the United States and Australia, and their 100-meter freestyle swimmers are different from China. China has one in 47 seconds, two in 48 seconds, and three in 49 seconds!

They may have 5 players who can reach 48 seconds at the same time, which means that their average strength is equal.

So even if they don't have top players who won medals in the 100-meter freestyle event, they can still win a relay medal.

The strength is very balanced, 4 48 seconds, before Chen Shu reached 48, Hua Xia's 1 47, 1 48 and 2 49 were no match at all.

But now, it's hard to say.

1 47, 2 48, plus 49, is really on par with 4 48.

"Let's not worry about the Americans and Australians for now. Let's look at the four main opponents in our group. Italy has always been good at relays, as well as Germany, Britain, Hungary and the host country France!"

"Britain has Duncan Scott, the runner-up in the 200m freestyle at the last Tokyo Olympics and the gold medalist in the 200m relay!"

"Relay is his best event!"

"..."

Cui Dengrong told everyone about the main opponents of each country, and then looked at Pan Zhanle and said, "Xiao Pan, who do you think will be the safest to swim the first leg!"

"Me!"

Pan Zhanle raised his hand: "First ensure the advantage and put pressure on the opponent!"

Pan Zhanle's first leg means ensuring that the first person passes the baton and pulls out the advantage, and then the second and third legs stabilize, and the last leg... Pan Zhanle glanced at Chen Shu. According to the tactical arrangement, the two fastest people must be the first and the last.

Chen Shu is definitely the second fastest in the team now.

The first runner speeds up, and the last runner sprints.

But Chen Shu is a young player and may not be able to shoulder this heavy responsibility.

"Xiao Pan, please work hard, the last runner. If the first three runners fall too far behind, you need to catch up to ensure that you advance to the finals!"

After Cui Dengrong finished speaking, he looked at Chen Shu: "Chen Shu, the first runner, do you feel pressure?"