In the men's 800m freestyle final of the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, China's Sun Yang finished fifth with a time of only 7 minutes 48.87 seconds due to the physical exhaustion of the previous competition, and did not qualify for the championship.
It can be said that the men's freestyle 800 meters is China's strong point, as early as 2009 Zhang Lin won this world championship, since then Sun Yang in 2011, 2013 and 2015 three world championships will be this championship in the pocket, can be said to be the king of this distance, so Sun Yang is still very concerned about this championship! Therefore, in the interview after the game, Sun Yang covered his face several times and cried (did not see the national football team lose the cry like this), and even kept supporting on the fence, saying that he had done his best, and he really couldn't swim! Sun Yang registered for the freestyle 200, 400, 800, 1500 and 4*100 relay events at this World Championships, and each project has been compared from the preliminary round to the final, and finally to defeat the world's top players, to face a huge test of physical, mental and physical fitness, the difficulty can be imagined. The failure of 800 meters is likely to be the limit of 26-year-old Sun Yang's physical fitness, will he swim at 1500 meters?
Australian Horton, who was born in April 1996 and is five years younger than Sun Yang, decisively abandoned the 800m race after not reaching the final in the 200m. He said to the Australian media interviewed that the 800 meters is an extremely physically demanding event, and he wants to launch a attack for the gold medal in the 1500 meters freestyle, and it is right to abandon the freestyle 800 meters. In fact, he was afraid of Sun Yang's 800 meters, after all, Sun Yang was the three-time world champion of this project, but he was still very happy to see Sun Yang participate in the 800, because this project really made Sun Yang "tired". After Horton lost the 400m freestyle, he has been holding his breath to defeat Sun Yang in the 1500m, and he has always stressed that Sun Yang in the Rio Olympics is afraid of him (in fact, he did not win the championship in 1500), hoping to beat Sun Yang in Hungary this time!
The men's world record of 1500 is indeed the 14 minutes 31 seconds set by Sun Yang at the 2012 London Olympic Games. However, in recent years, with the rise of Italian player Partrinelli, Sun Yang and Horton are difficult to say that it is easy to win the championship, Sun Yang of the Kazan World Championships chose to withdraw from the competition, and Sun Yang, who was unwell at the Rio Olympic Games, did not break into the final, but the last to win the championship was Partrignelli, and there was nothing about Horton (he only won the fifth place in the Olympic Games 1500).
With the passage of time, the 26-year-old Sun Yang has been unable to maintain such a lasting high physical fitness in the World Series, after all, his opponents are all young people in their 20s, and many people are not like him to participate in so many competitions (even if he registers, he chooses to withdraw according to the situation). Even these young men who are just 20 years old can't hold back, Sun Yang, you are already very good, selective abandonment is not a confession, 2 gold medals are enough! 1500 meters to the Italians to clean up Horton! How to kill chickens with a cattle slaughtering knife, just by virtue of the Italian Paltrinelli's state, Horton this kid estimates that this year's World Championships a gold medal will not be obtained! The mountains are high and the water is far away, Sun Yang does not cry! See you in Tokyo!