I haven't seen Li Zhuhao for a long time! When the list of men's 100-meter butterfly competitions at Zhaoqing Station of the Swimming Championships was announced, many swimmers expressed their feelings. But the bigger emotion is still to come: Li Zhuhao reached the final as the first place in the preliminaries of 53.26 seconds yesterday, and today he finished fourth in the final with 54.24 seconds. There is no competitive performance.
In the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, 17-year-old Li Zhuhao, with 51.26 seconds to win the fifth place, and the swimming king Phelps gap is only 0.12 seconds, after the game everyone is a pity: maybe another fight to overturn the King of The Universe. In 2017, 18-year-old Li Zhuhao broke the national record in 50.96 seconds at the World Championships, but the world championships were more fiercely contested than the Olympic Games that year, and Li Zhuhao finished sixth. Pinch your fingers, now Li Zhuhao is also 22 years old, which is the age when athletes are out of their peak state.
But Li Zhuhao, after the heyday of 17 years, has been on the decline. The descent began to accelerate in 19 years, and he raced less and less, so it gave swimmers the impression that they had not seen it for a long time.
In fact, Li Zhuhao appeared at the National Championships last year, and also entered the final of the men's 100-meter butterfly, but because he failed the physical fitness test, he did not qualify for the final. We all know that the physical fitness test of that championship game caused a lot of controversy. Among the victims cited are Wang Jian Jiahe, who broke the Asian record, and Yu Hexin, who broke the national record, and few people mention Li Zhuhao because his results in the final at that time were very average.
From a world-class player of the 50-second level to a 54-second level, it is a pity that it still happened during his own great sports years. As for the injury, the sources show that Li Zhuhao began to be injured in 17 years and 18 years, and he is still struggling to recover. In addition, under the premise that the body is injured and can still compete, the general performance of world-class players will not be bad, and there is a normal decline. Li Zhuhao's distance of 100 meters dropped by more than three seconds, which... The reason is clear only to the parties.
True sports fans only look at the achievement of heroes. The Olympic Games do not say, the Asian Games Chinese team in the butterfly swimming, it is estimated to rely on Hubei athlete Sun Jiajun.