Chapter 155: Kick off

In recent years, the performance of the Chinese swimming team has taken the lead in the world, which has made the country's investment in this piece increase year by year.
Take this World Championship for example, the Shanghai Stock Exchange invested nearly 2 billion for the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, which is specially constructed for this swimming World Championship, and can accommodate up to 15,000 spectators. The venue is close to 350,000 square meters. , And some of the bird nest in Kyoto.
In addition, the Shanghai Stock Exchange team paid much attention to this swimming world championship. Volunteers recruited nearly 5,000 people, and set up several hotlines that can translate in 16 languages, providing public information consulting services and help 24 hours a day. Guidance service, even if it is the Internet problem that the audience is most concerned about, a powerful unlimited WIFI is also set up in the venue to fully meet the needs of the audience during the game.
Including the accommodation of athletes, all are done in accordance with the standards of the Kyoto Olympics, which shows that the government attaches great importance to this World Championship and also shows that Shanghai’s wealth is rich.
Tang Hao didn't have time to experience it in the Water Cube when he was in Kyoto, but he was also inexplicably excited when he came to a sports center that was completely worthwhile.
Compared with the 3,000-scale small pavilion in the championship game, it was exciting to watch this place in front of you. When you think about the game, more than 10,000 people watched your game. That kind of picture is enough to make people excited.
In addition to the main hall, there are several training halls on the side. After the national swimming team arrived, it soon began the adaptive training of the stadium under the leadership of Song Xiaocheng.
Because the freestyle events have met the requirements of the World Championship A standard, Tang Hao this time is equivalent to registering all freestyle events unprecedented, including the 100-meter relay race (200-meter relay race was abandoned because of the schedule conflict), he will participate in total The eight-item competition is exactly the same as Phelps's project at the Kyoto Olympics.
These 8 events, the 400-meter and 4X100-meter freestyle relays, are played on the first day, and the winner will be decided that day, which is definitely a challenge for Tang Hao.
After all, in the international arena, his opponent's strength must be absolutely stronger.
Take the first 400-meter freestyle he is going to participate in. The life-time enemy of the previous generation, Sun Yang, Park Tae-hwan is an absolute champion. As the gold medalist of the 400-meter event of the Kyoto Olympics, he still maintained The top 400m level.
In addition to Park Tae-hwan, German Paul Biddleman is definitely the best player from the freestyle in the past two years. At the World Championships in Rome 2 years ago, he broke the world record and won the championship, which officially laid his freestyle middle distance status. .
In addition, American Pete van der Kay and Tunisia's Kosia Meroli are all strong players, and they have already proved themselves in the competition.
It is definitely not easy to stand out among so many star players.
After attending the opening ceremony, Song Xiaocheng separately found Tang Hao and Sun Yang to let them calm down.
The two people had enough psychological preparations during the training, this time mainly to adjust their mentality, just like the night before the college entrance examination.
After spending one night at the opening ceremony, the Shanghai World Swimming Championships, which were attended by more than 5,000 athletes from more than 180 countries, officially opened in the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center.
On this day, more than 2,000 journalists from all over the world followed up and reported in the venues, and the venues were seated early, highlighting the popularity of this World Championship, which is definitely the highest-profile event in recent years.
The 400 meters were divided into the preliminaries in the morning and the finals in the evening, with Sun Yang in the first group and Tang Hao in the fourth group.
Coincidentally, the two lifetime enemies of Sun Yang and Park Tae-hwan met this time directly in the group stage.
This makes the preliminaries look full.
Tang Hao naturally did not miss this good opportunity.
In the end, the 400m first group preliminaries ended in the cheers of the audience. Sun Yang finally won the group first with a score of 3:44:07, while his old opponent Park Tae-hwan only swam for 3 minutes 46 The score of 21 seconds was finally ranked third in the group.
This result greatly increased the confidence of the audience on the spot, and the expectations for Sun Yang also climbed straight up.
However, Tang Hao, who is also a melon-eater, was very thorough. Park Tae-hwan clearly retained his strength in the first 200 meters of the preliminaries. Although this result was somewhat unexpected, the Koreans certainly are not at this level in the finals.
Compared to the game itself, what he really paid attention to was the enthusiasm of the audience on the spot. The cheers of more than 10,000 people were deafening, which made people feel bloody.
There was no big surprise in the second group and the third group. Van der Kay and Biddleman all won the first place in the group, and they were basically sure to get the places for the evening finals.
What is exciting is that at the end of the three groups, Sun Yang ranked first among all players, which means that he will get the excellent position of the fourth lane in the evening finals, which makes him finally take The hope for the next gold medal has greatly increased.
Tang Hao appeared as the last group of buzzers.
At this time, the basic celebrity game was over, and because it was the last game before noon, many people left early to eat.
At this time, it was either Tang Hao's fans, or if Tang Hao's fans were pulling the audience to watch together.
Although Tang Hao won the gold medal of 400 meters from Sun Yang in the championship game, in terms of overall strength, Tang Hao is not so impressive in the middle distance project.
In fact, the players who had stayed to observe their opponents and had already finished the game all left after the third group game ended, leaving Sun Yang still in the nearby pool, waiting for him to go back together.
The sudden sudden drop of attention made Tang Hao a little uncomfortable, but it also calmed his emotions slowly.
After all, 400 meters is a middle-distance project~EbookFREE.me~ If it is really bloody, it will be difficult to say in the second half.
The players boarded the platform at the referee's signal.
After taking the stage, Tang Hao turned to look at Merori who was across the lane from himself. The Tunisian should be the main opponent in this group.
After the referee signaled that everyone was ready, Tang Hao and other players were ready to take off.
Looking at the pool of water in front of him, he was actually looking forward to it, looking forward to what kind of achievement he would have in the competition.
"Oh!"
With a gunshot, the players rushed into the water at almost the same time.
Tunisia Merori showed a strong opening and directly grabbed the first position.
Because of his height, Tang Hao ranked fourth among all players after the water came out. (To be continued.)