In the women's 200m butterfly final of the Tokyo Olympics, China's Zhang Yufei lived up to expectations and won the gold medal in 2:03.86, inheriting the glorious tradition of predecessor Liu Zige Jiao Liu Yang, and breaking the embarrassment of 0 gold for the Chinese swimming team, countering the Associated Press's prediction that there would be no gold for the Chinese swimming Olympics. But to tell the truth, Zhang Yufei still can't cause the shock of the European and American swimming circles, and can't be compared with Sun Yang at that time.
Unsurprisingly, immediately after Zhang Yufei won the gold, a reporter took Sun Yang for the first time to rub the heat, because he could not attract attention without writing Sun Yang, which was also quite pitiful. He Xiaolong wrote: "Zhang Yufei won the championship, which was the first Olympic gold medal in Chinese swimming in the post-Sun Yang era. The chinese delegation's goal of the expedition is very clear, to get a clean gold medal, what is a clean gold medal? It is a gold medal that has nothing to do with banned drugs. Any scandal related to the prohibition of drugs is a smear on Chinese sports. But in fact, even the Fina Federation, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, and the World Anti-Doping Agency did not dare to say that Sun Yang's gold medal was not clean, but only said that the drug test was illegal, and He Xiaolong knew that Sun Yang did not have time to send him a lawyer's letter, so he dared to talk nonsense.
The women's 200m butterfly is really worthy of the chinese swimming reserved and lucky event, Liu Zige won the championship at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Jiao Liu Yang won the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games, Liu Zige maintained the 2 minutes 01 seconds 81 world record, and Jiao Liu Yang held the Olympic record of 2 minutes 04 seconds 06 (just broken by Zhang Yufei). Zhang Yufei continues the glorious tradition of Chinese swimming, but it is not yet a historic breakthrough, because Zhuyu is in front, there is no breakthrough at all.
After the game, there were a lot of Sun Yang's black sub-belt rhythm, saying that Zhang Yufei became the new soul of Chinese swimming, making people forget Sun Yang. In fact, this statement is untenable, the European and American swimming circles actually do not care so much about Zhang Yufei, because after all, it is a women's sport, and the 200 butterfly is the least participating in this Olympic Games, and its influence is relatively limited. And Sun Yang won the world championship from the 200 meters to the 1500 meters freestyle, becoming the first freestyle king in history (freestyle is the fastest swimming style and the most valued), crushing the white superiority theory in swimming, which is a very big blow to Europe and the United States, because they stole their cheese.
Zhang Yufei is good, Sun Yang is great, Zhang Yufei's international influence is very limited, she took away is not the gold medal that Europe and the United States most want to win, she does not have absolute dominance in the butterfly event, whether she can establish a dynasty also remains to be seen, and Sun Yang is the second greatest player in the history of swimming after Phelps, Phelps himself also praised Sun Yang. (This is in stark contrast to domestic well-known journalists)
Phelps drugs in the United States and Thorpe drugs in Australia, but they have medical exemptions or national protection, and Sun Yang is only a procedural violation, which just shows the fear and hatred of Sun Yang in Europe and the United States.