I am waiting for you in Rio

On June 6, Yang Yang set off for Australia for training again, and Park Shin-joong officially started training in Coach Lu's swimming classroom on this day. After so long, he finally showed a smiling face.Things finally started to develop in a good direction. After that, the days passed smoothly and hurriedly, and soon it was the World Championships in Kazan.

Yang Yang, Xu Jiayu, Lin Yongqing, Wang Kecheng and other teammates arrived in Kazan a week ahead of schedule. This time he reported four individual events of 200 meters, 400 meters, 800 meters and 1500 meters, which was the most world-class competition since his debut. In the big competition, whether his physical strength can withstand such an intensive schedule is the first challenge he faces.

What can't be ignored is that his opponents in this competition are younger and more powerful, such as the Australian rookie Horton, who is ranked first in the 400m and 800m and second in the 1500m so far this year. The 19-year-old is unstoppable and vowed to regain the dominance of Australia's long-distance freestyle from Yang Yang; the other is Italian player Partrinelli, who is 21 years old and is also very young. The 13m bronze medalist at the Barcelona World Championships in 1500 is also ranked first in the world in this year's 1500m.In addition to rookies, very powerful players such as Cochran, Jagger, and McBloom will also participate in the competition. There are many strong players, and Yang Yang is facing a more severe test than the previous World Championships.

August 8 is the first day of the swimming competition, and the men's 2-meter freestyle is still scheduled for this day.In the preliminaries in the morning, Horton broke the biggest upset of this year. This Australian kid who was originally regarded as Yang Yang's strongest opponent in this World Championships failed to advance to the final with a total ranking of 400th and was eliminated. , which surprised everyone.But Yang Yang lived up to expectations, he advanced to the final with the overall ranking first, British player Gay second and Cochran third.

In the evening finals, Yang Yang was in the fourth lane, and Cochran and Gay were in the third and fifth lanes respectively, forming a two-sided attack on him.The preparatory whistle blew, and Yang Yang and the other seven players boarded the starting platform. He habitually turned his head and looked at the position beside him. Guy...the familiar figure was gone, but this powerful opponent in front of him was even more exciting. With his fighting spirit, he is confident that he will be able to get this gold medal.

Take your mark, duh!When the starting signal sounded, Yang Yang took off and jumped into the water. His reaction time was 0.75 seconds, and he performed very well.In the first 50 meters, Gay took the lead with a slight advantage, followed by Yang Yang and Cochrane.After turning around, Guy continued to take the lead until 300 meters, Yang Yang began to accelerate, his ability to backtrack was unparalleled, and when he turned around at 350 meters, he had overtaken Guy by 0.43 seconds.In the last 50 meters, Yang Yang kicked his legs and sprinted to gradually increase the distance between him and Gay. In the end, he won the gold medal with a time of 3:42.Gay won No.58 in 3:43, and Cochran was third.

Yang Yang raised his arms and roared in the swimming pool. This is the first gold medal for himself and the Chinese swimming team in this World Championships.At this time, Park Xinzhong was watching the live broadcast at home. He couldn't help but leaned over and touched Yang Yang's face through the screen. What he liked most was his energetic appearance after winning the championship. I'm really happy for him.But he was happy, but he was still a little disappointed. 400 meters is his first main event. He used to stand on the top of the world with this event. At this time, the fierce competition ignited his blood for fighting, but he could not compete with those masters.He still clearly remembers that in Incheon last year, surrounded by reporters with long guns and short guns, Yang Yang said earnestly and expectantly: "I hope to see you again in the World Championships next year." But there is a screen in between, so how can he not feel sad?

On the first day of the competition, Yang Yang won the first gold medal, which greatly boosted the morale of the Chinese team. Xu Jiayu and Lin Yongqing, who lived with him, were also very happy.Different from the situation of staying in hotels in previous World Championships, this time the Kazan World Championships is the first time to build an athlete village. All athletes are treated equally, and they live in rooms with two bedrooms and one living room or three bedrooms and one living room. By.After returning from the game that night, after Yang Yang finished his treatment, the three gathered around for a midnight snack. Yang Yang ordered with his mobile phone while eating.Xu Jiayu sat close to him, and saw the words "Baby, go to bed early" on his screen at a glance, and then clicked the send button.

"Oh! Brother Yang!" Xu Jiayu yelled, startling both Yang Yang and Lin Yongqing. "Brother Yang, do you have a girlfriend?" Xu Jiayu said excitedly.

"It's nothing, tell me, why are you so young?" Yang Yang said while putting away his phone.

"Brother Yang, you already call him baby, how dare you say you're not a girlfriend? Do you dare to take out your phone and show us?"

"Turtle turtle, what do you see?" Lin Yongqing finally came to his senses, and hurried to gossip.

"Brother Yang, he sends text messages to people, calls them baby, and says to go to bed early, who else can you say is not a girlfriend?"

"Really? Brother Yang, can you deny this? Show us the photos for us to see?" Lin Yongqing said.

"By the way, Brother Yang, what does sister-in-law do? A flight attendant?" Xu Jiayu said.

"Cough..." Yang Yang was eating, and almost choked on this mouthful, "Turtle, I beg you, don't make wild guesses, okay? Return sister-in-law..." Yang Yang couldn't help laughing when he said this, his mind came up Out of Pu Xinzhong's angry and smiling face.

"If you don't call it sister-in-law, what's it called? Sister?" Lin Yongqing made a stab, and Yang Yang couldn't laugh or cry even more.

"Daqing, how do you know it's my sister? Maybe I'm not as old as us, so I have to call her sister."

"You stupid turtle, brother Yang likes older than himself, the whole world knows it."

"Lin Yongqing, Lin Yongqing, are your skin itchy? Isn't it?" Yang Yang moved his knuckles, and both Lin Yongqing and Xu Jiayu laughed.After a while, Yang Yang became serious. He said, "Daqing, turtle, I really don't have a girlfriend. Don't think about it, really."

"Brother Yang, you're still stubborn after this happens." Xu Jiayu said contemptuously, "This may be your true destiny, and if you have the ability to marry, you will keep it from our brothers."

"Marry..." It would be great if we could really get married, Yang Yang thought, he suddenly felt a little sad.

"Okay Brother Yang, can't we stop talking?" Xu Jiayu and Lin Yongqing saw that he suddenly froze and didn't speak, thinking that his joke was too much.

"It's okay, it's nothing to do with you." Yang Yang said, "Eat quickly, and go to bed after eating, there is still a game tomorrow."

"Oh."

So the three of them stopped talking and continued to eat supper.

In fact, if Xu Jiayu could take another look just now, he would have seen that the person Yang Yang sent the message was "mypark".Yes, Yang Yang finally got Park Xinzhong's cell phone number, and the two contacted him every few days. In fact, Yang Yang really wanted to call him and send text messages every day, but Park Xinzhong refused to let him. The competition was coming soon, and he was afraid of affecting him. his training.Of course, these few days are an exception, Park Shin Joong will encourage him and cheer him up every day during the competition.At this time, it was early morning in Seoul, and Park Xinzhong had to get up early for training the next day, so after chatting a few words just now, Yang Yang sent the message "Baby, go to bed early" that Xu Jiayu saw.

Although he was happy to win the gold medal on the day of the competition, the challenges ahead were even more severe. On the second day, August 8, Yang Yang swam the 3-meter preliminaries and semi-finals, and finally entered the final with No.200. On August 5th, this was the most difficult day for Yang Yang during the entire World Championships. He had to swim the 8-meter preliminaries in the morning, which was the last of all preliminaries. Among them, the 4 meters is the first event, which means that after he swam the 800 meters preliminaries, it was less than 200 hours before he was about to play again for the 800 meters decisive battle.All his relaxation, treatment, eating, rest, recovery, warm-up, etc. between the two programs must be completed within a few short hours.

Faced with such a situation, Yang Yang was well prepared. When he set off for the stadium at 7 o'clock in the morning, he brought a piece of pizza from the athletes' village. Since the temperature in Kazan was only ten degrees at that time, he also brought a quilt.The 800-meter preliminaries in the morning went well. In order to preserve his strength, Yang Yang advanced to the final with No.6.At noon, he only had one hour to eat and rest, and he didn't have time to go back to the athletes' village. He didn't dare to eat the things outside for fear of prohibited substances, so a teammate brought him a bowl of noodles. The weather was more than ten degrees, After walking for 10 minutes on the road to the arena, the noodles were already cold.After Yang Yang ate the pizza and the bowl of cold noodles, his stomach felt a little uncomfortable.But he was so tired, tiredness overcame the discomfort in his stomach, that he fell asleep in a chair.Later, when his assistant saw that he was nearly two meters tall sitting on such a small chair, it was uncomfortable to look at, so he found a cushion and spread it on the ground, and let him lie on it to rest.It's a pity that he only lay there for a short while, and he was about to start preparing for the afternoon game.

At 5:200 p.m. local time in Kazan, the 800-meter decisive battle began. Yang Yang was in the second lane, Lochte in the fourth lane, Gay in the fifth lane, and Biederman in the seventh lane.Due to the tight schedule of the day, Yang Yang's condition was not very good. Among the eight finalists, he was the only one who participated in the 200-meter preliminaries in the morning. But he was already tired, and the [-]-meter freestyle competition has always been the most competitive among all swimming events, and this time is of course no exception.

After the start of the race, Lochte started to accelerate just after 50 meters, and he took a temporary lead. Gay, Yang Yang and Biddleman all followed closely behind him. Lochte was the first to turn around at 100 meters. At this time, Yang Yang also started to accelerate. He gradually overtook Lochte and turned first at 150 meters.In the last 50 meters, everyone started to sprint. At this time, Guy caught up. He overtook Lochte and Biederman, and caught up with Yang Yang at the last moment. The two touched the wall one after another with a very small gap. Guy 1:45 Second 14 won the championship, Yang Yang was only 0.06 seconds behind and finished second, Biddleman was No.3, and Lochte was fourth.