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Tokyo Olympic | hometown hotline: "Butterfly Queen" spread her wings and flew high Cheers came from her hometown

author:China.com

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On the morning of July 29, China's Zhang Yufei won the women's 200m butterfly championship and set a new record, which was the 13th gold medal of the Chinese delegation and the first gold medal won by the Chinese swimming team at the Olympic Games. In the women's 4×200m freestyle relay final, Zhang Yufei united with her teammates to win the championship and break the world record, winning the 14th gold medal of the Chinese delegation.

In Zhang Yufei's hometown of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, Zhang Yufei's mother Zhang Min, enlightenment coach Kong Miao and relatives and friends watched the live broadcast of the event together at the Municipal Sports Bureau, watching the scene of Yufei sprinting with all their might, Zhang Min and Kong Miao involuntarily clenched their fists. In the last 50 meters of the last baton of the relay race, everyone stood up and cheered for the Chinese team with excitement. Seeing that the Chinese team broke the world record and won the championship, Zhang Min, Kong Miao and the group of relatives and friends could not suppress their excitement and jumped up to cheer and congratulate.

"Yu Fei from the fear of two hundred meters in her heart for two years to today to overcome herself to get this gold medal, it is very, very difficult, the child is very good and very good!" Zhang Min said in an interview after the game, "I think Yufei's full preparation in this year, as well as her physical improvement by leaps and bounds, has enabled her to have this result today." Zhang Min also said that she also learned this morning that Zhang Yufei was going to participate in the 4× 200-meter freestyle relay, and she was very excited and surprised to see Yufei drop another gold for Chinese swimming.

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