The gold medal content needs to be discounted! From Pan Feiyu to World Pan, there is still an Olympic champion in between

To be fair, Pan Zhanle's three gold medals, especially in the men's 100m freestyle, were discounted – neither the Australian Swimming Association nor the Japan Swimming Association held separate World Championships trials before the Games, and the Japan Swimming Association sent only 12 people to participate this time, and the United States Swimming Association also announced the list and said that it would focus on preparing for the Paris Olympics. In China, Zhang Yufei, Qin Haiyang, Wang Shun, Xu Jiayu and other famous generals are also absent.

In the swimming world, 19-year-old Pan Zhanle has always been known for his "fast talk" and "cute and invincible".

"I'm not very satisfied with the time of 47.53 seconds", after winning my second World Championships gold medal at the Aspire Stadium in Doha (and winning the third individual gold in the 4x200m relay on February 17), the new 100m switched from world record holder Pan Zhanle to Sheniu mode. I block some comments on the Internet most of the time, hoping that they won't deliberately elevate me because I won the gold medal, and don't ...... because of my poor grades."

The project with great ornamental power and market appeal, the world record of 50 years of Chinese swimmers, the label of urban youth after the post-00s, and the huge market expectations after Sun Yang and Su Bingtian stayed away from the arena, almost all the information points to such a conjecture: Is a new superstar already born?

Before answering all this, we need to look at Pan Zhanle's achievements objectively.

In a traditional sense, Pan Zhanle should have created an unattainable peak in the 100-meter freestyle in Chinese swimming, and also filled the gap in Chinese men's swimming in this competitive event for a long time. Therefore, our interpretation is based on two dimensions: First, like the men's 100m dash in athletics, the men's 100m freestyle competition is also known as the "crown jewel". Because this is the most basic of all swimming events, and it is also the most intuitive test of a swimmer's ability and speed limit, the 100-meter freestyle final has always been known as the "Shura field" in the swimming world, and it has been dominated and monopolized by European and American athletes in the past. Pan Zhanle knocked on the door with a world record-breaking attitude, which also created the second highest peak for Chinese and Asian players in this event; second, this gold medal is an important crystallization of the Chinese army's longing and hard work.

Since Ning Zetao won the 100m freestyle title at the 2015 World Championships, but crossed like a shooting star, Chinese swimmers have been looking forward to the rise of the event. In other words, the Chinese flying fish's rapid progress, the growth of Chinese men in the men's 100-meter freestyle event is still traceable: in the 2022 World Championships in Budapest and the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, Pan Zhanle won the fourth place, narrowly passing by the podium, and in the men's 100-meter freestyle final of the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, Pan Zhanle won the championship with a time of 46.97 seconds, which not only created a new Asian record, but also the fifth best record in the history of the event;

On the first day of the World Championships in Doha, Pan Zhanle and Wang Haoyu swam 46.80 seconds for the Chinese team in the men's 4x100m open, setting a new world record and helping the Chinese swimmers win the gold medal in the men's 100-meter freestyle relay at the World Championships for the first time.

But to be fair, Pan Zhanle's three gold medals, especially the gold medal in the men's 100m freestyle, are still discounted to a certain extent - due to the impact of the epidemic, the Doha World Swimming Championships were held in winter for the first time, which had a great impact on the preparation rhythm of European and American athletes. Prior to the Games, neither the Australian Swimming Association nor the Japan Swimming Association held separate World Championships trials, and the Japan Swimming Association only sent 12 participants this time, and the United States Swimming Association also announced the list and said that it would focus on preparing for the Paris Olympics. In China, Zhang Yufei, Qin Haiyang, Wang Shun, Xu Jiayu and other famous generals are also absent.

It can be said that Pan Zhanle won a big victory this time, but he only got a pass to the 100-meter Flying Fish Club. To truly become a world pan, there is also a Paris Olympics in between.

There is a world of difference between the Olympic Games and the World Championships, both in terms of the level of the event and the importance of the Chinese people. Judging from the information obtained so far, due to the strong rise of the Chinese swimming team in various events, the swimming competition of the Paris Olympics will become one of the most gold and highest-rated competitions in the history of the Olympic Games. Specific to the much-anticipated men's 100-meter freestyle, Australia's Chalmers, the United States' Jack Alexi, France's Grussey are in hot shape, former world record holder Romania's Popovich is finding his best form, and South Korea's Hwang Sun-woo is also eager to try, all of which indicate that the 100-meter competition at that time will be a real Tianwang Mountain showdown, and it is also a purgatory that Pan Zhanle must experience on the road to transformation. Moreover, the Olympic competition needs to go through the preliminaries, semi-finals and finals of the three shots of the hard bridge and hard horse competition. It should be emphasized that due to the close strength of the contestants, the gap is between millimeters, and it is the norm for famous players to fall and break world records, so every shot requires the players to go all out. Therefore, the one who can really win the event must be the one with the best overall strength in terms of physical strength, experience and strength.

If Pan Zhanle achieves good results in the Olympics at that time, and it is best to break the world record, then what awaits him will be a superstar's Pandora's box, and the world Pan will be a god. Of course, whether he can really become the one who explodes in the short video era depends on whether he shows the characteristics of being out of the circle on the public platform.

But everyone is looking forward to it.