The performance of the Chinese swimming team at the 2022 Budapest World Championships was unsatisfactory, and the men's team was even more unsatisfactory, creating the worst result in recent world championships. You know, at the Tokyo Olympic Games a year ago, the Chinese swimming team played well, and many team members created very satisfactory results.
In the face of such a dilemma, many netizens began to miss Sun Yang, who was still in the ban period, and Ning Zetao, who had retired for several years. In fact, before them, there was already a player who achieved enough results in the world competition to make him a benchmark figure in the Chinese swimming world, and he was Zhang Lin, who was known as the "Chinese swimming brother". At the 2008 Olympic Games, Zhang Lin, who was only 21 years old at the time, won a valuable silver medal in the 400-meter freestyle, creating the best result of a Chinese male athlete in the Olympic swimming event.
At the World Championships in Rome a year later, 22-year-old Zhang Lin once again amazed the world, winning the 800-meter freestyle with a feat of breaking the world record, becoming the first world champion in the history of Chinese men's swimming. Just when everyone was very excited to think that Zhang Lin would become a milestone figure in the history of Chinese swimming and would create glory in the future swimming career, fate played a big joke with him. Zhang Lin was diagnosed with a strange disease - sports asthma, which made his performance decline off a cliff, and finally had to choose to retire.
After retiring, Zhang Lin's transformation began to understand, perhaps because of the distance from high-intensity training, Zhang Lin is now seriously blessed, and the former male god has become the current uncle. Although he had no choice but to retire, Zhang Lin had a smooth ride in love, and his love story with Xue Chen, the goddess of sand rows, made everyone very envious. At the end of last year, the 34-year-old Zhang Lin successfully proposed to the 32-year-old Xue Chen, and the two are now making meticulous preparations for the wedding. I hope that this former "Chinese swimming brother" can lose weight and succeed and marry his beautiful bride.