Starting on April 5, the Beijing Station of the Synchronized Swimming World Cup opened.
By the end of the competition on April 6, the Chinese team's performance was a little incomprehensible, and they won 6 gold medals in the 2-day competition, namely: women's single technical selection, women's single free selection, women's double technical selection, mixed double technical selection, collective technical selection, collective free selection. Among them, in the two match days, 18-year-old Xu Huiyan has won 3 golds.
In this World Cup Beijing station, the Chinese team should have sent a second team to participate, such as Guo Muye/Ji Heyue, who won the mixed doubles technical selection, are only 15 years old, and many of them we have not seen in the World Series.
So the question is, why did they win so many titles at the World Cup in Beijing, and people who have just watched the World Championships in Doha in February this year may think that the second team is better than the first team? After all, in Doha, we have not won the gold medal in such a big way.
In fact, the reason is very simple, probably due to two reasons: one is that the master did not come, and the other is that the Chinese second team is not weak.
The masters did not come, for example, the women's singles technical self-selection and free selection, and Xu Huiyan of the Chinese team won the gold medal. At the Doha World Swimming Championships in February this year, Xu Huiyan was the third place in the women's singles technical self-selection and the fourth place in the free selection, and at the Beijing station of this World Cup, the opponents in front of her at the Doha World Championships did not come, and it was natural for her to win the championship.
However, just because the masters did not come, it cannot explain that the Chinese team can win so many championships, because not all the masters did not come, and our masters did not go.
For example, in the mixed doubles technical optional event, the Doha world champions Kazakhstan came to Beijing to compete, but they still lost to the 15-year-old Guo Muye/Ji Heyue of the Chinese second team. There is a reason why they did not play well, and because the level of the Chinese second team is really not weak.
Of course, on the whole, the score of this World Cup in Beijing is generally lower than that of the Doha World Championships. For example, the Chinese twin sisters Lin Yanhan/Lin Yanjun scored 238.8985 points, while Wang Liuyi/Wang Qianyi won the Doha World Championships with more than 266 points. In other words, the level of the second Chinese Huayou team is still lower than that of the first team.
It's a little funny to say, but when the Chinese team came out on the last event on April 6, the collective free choice competition, we found that this was the first team! This is also their first appearance in this World Cup in Beijing. I don't know if it's because the second team hasn't practiced this project yet, or because the second team is so beautiful, the first team can't sit still.