The US-Macao pool "Dragon Tiger Fight" and "Dream Team" diving lead the way

Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, July 21 Title: The "Dragon and Tiger Fight" and "Dream Team" diving in the Us-Macao swimming pool lead the way

——Prospect of swimming at the Tokyo Olympic Games

Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhou Xin and Xia Liang

As a major Olympic gold medalist, Tokyo Olympic swimming includes swimming, marathon swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo. In the pool, the American team will play against the Australian team, the European teams have their own strengths, and the Chinese team will also have the opportunity to win gold; in the diving project, the Chinese team will continue to defend the reputation of the "Dream Team".

American swimming has always been full of talents, the Rio Olympics pool battle won 16 gold, silver and 9 bronze, and the Tokyo Olympics sent a huge team of 49 people, ranking first among the teams. In this year's world rankings, American players occupy the top three in 20 events, and 8 events are ranked first. As a representative of American swimming, Ledecki is the hegemon of the women's middle and long distance events, ranking first in the world in the 800m and 1500m freestyles this year, and second in the world in the 400m freestyle. Drexel is the biggest highlight of the men's team, he won 7 gold and 6 gold medals at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships respectively, and his specialty events are 50 meters and 100 meters freestyle, 100 meters butterfly and relay, which is expected to become the tokyo Olympic gold king. In addition, Murphy, Lily King, Husk, etc. also occupy the top spot in their respective projects.

The Australian team won 3 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze in Rio, and the Olympic Games sent 35 people to play, holding nine world rankings, and the women will be particularly tough: Titmus leads the 200m and 400m freestyles, beating American swimmer Ledecky; McKean's 50m and 100m freestyle, McGuin's 100m, 200m backstroke and 200m medley are all Australian team gold points.

In addition, the United Kingdom, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Canada, Russia and other European teams also have star athletes, which is expected to break through the confrontation between the United States and Australia.

The Chinese swimming team sent a capable force of 30 people to strive to rewrite the record of 1 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze in the previous session. The team's biggest gold medallist is Zhang Yufei, her 200m butterfly this year's world best, 100m butterfly world second. However, zhang Yufei needs to adjust the physical distribution of the preliminaries, semi-finals and finals and control the rhythm of the game. Zhang Yufei is also the main force of the men's and women's 4× 100m medley relay, she and Xu Jiayu, Yan Zibei, Yang Junxuan set a new world record in the national championships held during last year's National Day, this time in Tokyo, they will be the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and other strong teams "hard to head".

Yang Junxuan and Li Bingjie ranked third in the world in the women's 200m and 400m freestyles, Wang Jian Jiahe ranked third in the 1500m freestyle, and ranked sixth in the world in the 800m freestyle.

In the men's area, Xu Jiayu, who won two consecutive championships at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships, failed to squeeze into the top five of the world in this year's 100-meter backstroke competition, but after pre-competition adjustments, he strived to achieve the Olympic champion dream with rich competition experience. Famous Wang Shun will also launch a medal in the 200m and 400m medleys.

Statistics show that the top five athletes in the world before the Olympic swimming competition finally won 86% of the Olympic medals, and half of the world's no. 1 athletes won the Olympic gold medal.

The diving project is the territory of the Chinese team. Since participating in the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984, the Chinese diving team has contributed 40 Olympic gold medals to China, and the Tokyo Olympic Games will continue to write brilliantly. During the epidemic, the team has organized in-team tests and Olympic selection competitions many times, and the status of athletes has always remained "online". Led by three Olympic champions Shi Tingmao, Chen Aisen and Cao Yuan, as well as world champions Xie Sibei, Yang Jian, Wang Han, Chen Taoxi and Zhang Jiaqi, a total of 10 people, the strength team will launch an impact on the goal of winning 8 gold medals.

In addition, the Chinese women's water polo team, which competed as the champion of the Asian Games in Jakarta, was in the same group as the American team of the generals who were always victorious, the European powerhouses Hungary, Russia and the host team Japan, and the task of qualifying from the group was arduous.

In the synchronized swimming event, the gap between the Chinese team and the hegemony Of Russia is decreasing, and they will use the Chinese elements of the song to conquer the opponent and move the world. Rio Olympics double runners-up Huang Xuechen / Sun Wenyan will compete in the double and collective events.

China's "only seedling" Xin Xin has grown rapidly in the marathon swimming event, ranking fourth at the Rio Olympics and winning the first place at the 2019 World Championships. In Tokyo, she will try to stand on the podium to make up for missing the Olympic medal five years ago.

Source: Xinhua News Agency