Last week, the 2020 National Swimming Championships and Tokyo Olympics Championships concluded in Qingdao, a competition that has been controversial because of the link between qualification and physical performance. On September 26, the first event on the first day of the preliminaries was the men's 50m freestyle preliminaries, and Guangdong's Yu Hexin ranked first with a time of 21.79 seconds, breaking the national record of 21.91 seconds held by Ning Zetao and reaching the Tokyo Olympic a-mark, which was only 0.12 seconds away from the Asian record.
But what is surprising is that Yu Hexin did not enter the final.
The reason is that according to the competition regulations, the top 16 athletes in the preliminary round are sorted according to the physical fitness test score, and the top 8 athletes in the physical test can enter the final, and Yu Hexin just ranks 9th.
In the men's 100m freestyle preliminaries on September 29, Yu Hexin swam 48 minutes and 44 seconds, ranking first again and reaching the Olympic a-standard, but he did not qualify for the final because of the physical fitness test.
Born on January 1, 1996, Yu Hexin won the gold medal in the men's 50m freestyle at the 2018 Asian Games. Because he looks exactly like the artist Chen Weiting, "Breaking the Circle" has attracted more attention.
Yu Hexin
Chen Weiting
Interestingly, in the past, Yu Hexin's chest and arms were full of personality tattoos, and the painting style was like this
In 2016, guangzhou daily reported that "Yu Hexin admitted that the tattoo of love on his chest was written for him, but refused to disclose the specific circumstances." ”
However, in this year's championship, careful netizens found that Yu Hexin's tattoo was completely gone, full of clean.
Presumably, this may be related to the relevant regulations. For example, since 2018, when the national football team competed, Zhang Linpeng, Wei Shihao, Gao Lin and many internationals began to cover the tattoos, such as wrapping bandages and wearing long-sleeved linings. Ge Manqi, a dashing beauty in the track and field team, has a deer tattoo on her abdomen, but in the past two years of participating in domestic and foreign competitions, she has covered this tattoo with tape.