On the evening of August 3, Beijing time, the swimming competition of the Olympic Games, the preliminaries of the last two mixed relays, and finally the Chinese men's and women's teams performed well and successfully advanced, and in the finals in the early morning of August 5, Beijing time, the Chinese two teams had the opportunity to impact the medals and even win the championship.
In the men's 4x100m medley relay preliminaries, the Chinese team sent the strongest combination, four athletes are Xu Jiayu (backstroke), Qin Haiyang (breaststroke), Wang Changhao (butterfly) and Pan Zhanle (freestyle), these four also lived up to expectations and finally won a final seat for the Chinese team.
In the first stroke, Xu Jiayu played in the backstroke, and he turned first in the first 50 meters, but in the last 50 meters, he was gradually overtaken by the France behind him, and finally landed second, 0.59 seconds behind his opponent.
In the second bat, France sent Marchand, who won 4 Olympic gold medals, while the Chinese team was Qin Haiyang. In the previous few individual competitions, Qin Haiyang was in a sluggish state, and many viewers also sweated for him. However, it turns out that Qin Haiyang has adjusted, and in the first 50 meters, he actually overtook Marchand and turned first, leading his opponent by 0.31 seconds. In the last 50 meters, Marchand gradually exerted his strength, and the result regained the advantage, while Qin Haiyang was 0.07 seconds behind and arrived second. In other words, in the 100-meter breaststroke, Qin Haiyang's time (58.51 seconds) actually surpassed Marchand (59.03 seconds) and was 0.52 seconds faster than his opponent, which is likely to have a decisive impact in the relay race. I have to say that Qin Haiyang is indeed not easy, I hope this result can greatly enhance his confidence and strive to find the best version of himself in the finals.
In the third stick, Wang Changhao competed in the butterfly, although he worked very hard, but he still fell to third place. Fortunately, the last stick was Pan Zhanle, as the world record holder in the men's 100m freestyle, he fought hard to catch up in the competition, and finally helped the Chinese team to finish second.
In this preliminary round, the Chinese team scored 3:31.58, 0.22 seconds behind the France team overall, and finally ranked second and successfully advanced to the final. In the final, the United States team and the France team are undoubtedly the strongest opponents of the Chinese team. However, if Qin Haiyang can regain his form, the Chinese men's team will definitely hope to compete for the championship.
In the women's 4X100m medley relay preliminaries, the Chinese team also performed well, among which Wang Xueer swam 59.75 in the backstroke, Tang Qianting in the breaststroke in 1:05.74, Yu Yiting in the butterfly in 56.60 seconds, and Wu Qingfeng in 54.25 seconds.
In this preliminary round, the Chinese team ended with the first 3 sticks and tightly bit the Australia team, but unfortunately in the final freestyle, we were completely thrown away, probably because we had just participated in the preliminaries of the 50-meter freestyle, Wu Qingfeng had physical problems, but fortunately, we finally finished third with a total score of 3:56.34 and successfully advanced to the final.
From the current point of view, in this project, the Chinese team has the strength to compete for the top three, but it is too difficult to win the championship, because the Australia team and the United States team are too strong. If the Chinese women's team can get a medal in the final in the early morning of the day after tomorrow, I believe we will be very satisfied!