Teacher Sun got excited temporarily and went to dinner with an old classmate whom he met by chance, so Yun Duo had to go back to the hotel by himself. Her interview today was fruitless, the only bright spot was Qi Ruifeng's nickname, but thinking about Qi Ruifeng's depressed expression at the time, Yun Duo was really worried that if she broke the news, it would affect Qi Ruifeng's game status, and it would be a sin.
Aside from official business, she turned on the computer and typed in the words "Tang Yibai" on the interface of the search engine.
She was really curious about him.
There are many results, but most of them are irrelevant. It seems that there are many people with the same name as him. Yun Duo added two words in front of "Tang Yibai": swimming.
This time the results are fewer, but also more precise.
At the top of the list are the news just released by some online media, reporting the latest state of the National Swimming Championships. Turning a few pages back, after crossing this topic, the search results are a bit messy. Yun Duo's eyes widened and he searched and searched. After turning over a dozen pages, he finally saw a piece of news.
This news is from three years ago. The content is that China won the gold medal in the 4X100m medley relay in the Asian Games. The winning athletes are: Zhao Yue, Song Le, Tang Yibai, Qi Ruifeng.
The news was accompanied by pictures. Tang Yibai stood with his teammates, holding flowers in one hand and grabbing medals in the other. He was smiling at the camera, his smile was flying, and there was a faint sense of greenness.
It turns out that he won the gold medal three years ago, and the gold medal in the Asian Games is even higher than yesterday's game.
But it's no wonder that Yun Duo doesn't know him. Three years is enough time for a very young professional sports circle to upgrade.
Yun Duo looked back at the list of the four, and was suddenly stunned. This is a medley relay, that is to say, athletes have to play the relay in a fixed sequence of backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle. Tang Yibai ranked third in both the list and the podium position. Obviously, he swam the butterfly.
But the event he won today is obviously freestyle!
Yun Duo couldn't believe her eyes. At first, she thought that the organizer had got the order of the list wrong, but she quickly denied this guess. Because there is another person in the group of four: Qi Ruifeng. The genius had already shined at that time, so the last freestyle must have been him and no one else.
Yun Duo found the theme of that Asian Games, and then she found that Tang Yibai also won a gold medal in the men's 50-meter butterfly in this Asian Games.
That's right, three years ago, Tang Yibai swam butterfly. Judging from the competition results, he was already a mature and promising professional athlete at that time. But this old man, when he has already achieved good results, gave up everything and started all over again and switched to freestyle swimming. This is too messy, right? Not professional at all!
Why on earth would he do this? From any angle, he had no reason to do so.
Yun Duo was dying of curiosity, and kept changing keywords to search, but she was almost blind when she found it, and she couldn't find the reason why he switched to freestyle swimming. More than not finding the reason, since the Asian Games, Tang Yibai has disappeared, and all kinds of competitions—big and small, domestic and international—have disappeared. On the contrary, there are many swimming enthusiasts who have been chasing his traces. Of course, the result is also in vain.
This void continued until this swimming championship.
This gap spans more than three years.
Why has he stopped playing in those three years? Why is there no news at all? Three years may not be a long time for ordinary people, but it may be fatal to the career of athletes.
So, what exactly took away his three years
Injured? Yun Duo first thought of this possibility. However, even if he is injured, there should be news released, because Tang Yibai's Asian Games performance is very good, he is a potential stock, and the media must be watching. In the same way, no matter what other reasons, there should be news.
But in the end, it just didn't.
Being blocked from the door of truth, Yun Duo was so tangled to death that she really wanted to ask Tang Yibai by the collar. And she believes that after the results of today's game come out, there must be many people who want to do the same.
Damn, she has such a big appetite, how can she sleep tonight!
Yun Duo didn't sleep well that night, and Teacher Sun called her up the next day. After breakfast, the two went straight to the swimming pool. As expected by Yun Duo, the discussion of Tang Yibai by colleagues in the media circle has increased significantly today. Obviously, everyone came prepared. Of course, Tang Yibai's popularity is still no match for Qi Ruifeng.
The most interesting competition today is the men's 4X100m freestyle relay. There are two reasons: first, there is Qi Ruifeng; second, there is Tang Yibai.
The two are from different provincial teams, and they are the last players in their respective teams.
In the preliminaries and semi-finals, Qi Ruifeng and his team have been in the leading position, copying Qi Ruifeng's performance in the 100-meter self-centering yesterday. Tang Yibai swam peacefully, temporarily unable to see yesterday's domineering. However, at this moment, no one dared to underestimate him.
At the beginning of the final, even Yun Duo, who didn't like swimming, focused on watching the game.
First stick.
Second stick.
The third stick.
In the first two rounds, Qi Ruifeng's team led by a slight advantage, and by the third round, this advantage gradually opened up, and they had a quarter of the body. Tang Yibai faced such a situation when he set off. His opponent is the genius Qi Ruifeng, and he is a quarter ahead of him, which is an insurmountable advantage.
Yun Duo couldn't help clenching his fists. He stared at the pool without blinking, not knowing what he was expecting.
Tang Yibai's movement into the water was swift and smooth, like an arrow off the string. After entering the water, his arms were long strokes, his legs were swaying, and he rowed quickly, like a beautiful and sturdy dolphin, slashing waves under the blue water.
At this time, the pattern in the swimming pool has also been roughly formed. Qi Ruifeng and Tang Yibai are in the first echelon, and the third place is more than one position behind them, so there is basically no possibility of catching up. And the distance between Tang Yibai and Qi Ruifeng was always at a quarter of a position. Tang Yibai tried to catch up twice, but failed. When he accelerated, Qi Ruifeng was also accelerating.
Cloud is a little sad. It's not that Tang Yibai wasn't fast enough, but that they were too far behind before. Although Tang Yibai and Qi Ruifeng's speed are now on the same level, Tang Yibai will still lose.
Finally, when he was about to reach fifty meters, Tang Yibai narrowed the gap a little bit, although it was only a little bit, but at least it could be seen by the naked eye. But soon, after the next turn, this effort was wiped out again.
Go all out, to no avail.
The ending seems to have been announced in advance, and Yun Duo couldn't bear to watch it any longer. She couldn't bear to watch a person struggling in every possible way in a hopeless situation, but it didn't help.
She suddenly hated this kind of competition.
At this moment, Tang Yibai suddenly accelerated again. And Qi Ruifeng, who was in the swimming lane adjacent to him, also accelerated at almost the same time. Yun Duo didn't know if it was a tacit understanding between the swimmers, or if Qi Ruifeng felt Tang Yibai's speeding up in the water. In short, the two speeded up at the same time, like two crazy torpedoes, heading towards a common goal.
This seems to be replicating the first half of the game.
However, not the same! Because the distance between the two is gradually shortening, they are indeed speeding up, but Tang Yibai, faster!
Almost in the blink of an eye, the gap between Tang Yibai and Qi Ruifeng has been shortened to a head, but at this time the distance to the end is only more than 20 meters, no one knows whether he will have time to close the gap.
The cheers in the audience were even crazier, to the point of deafening. Yun Duo didn't have tinnitus this time, she completely ignored the noise and turned all her attention to the swimming pool. She held her breath, her whole body was tense, her fists were clenched tightly, and she stared straight at the two figures. The noise in the audience gradually faded away, and she heard her own intense heartbeat.
The race continues, the gap is still shrinking, but they are getting closer and closer to the finish line. Fifteen meters, ten meters, five meters, four meters, three meters, two meters, one meter...
Touch the wall!
The two touched the wall almost at the same time, and Yun Duo couldn't tell who came first with his own eyes. She was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the electronic screen for the first time. Almost everyone in the audience was doing the same thing as her.
The B city team, Tang Yibai in the last stick, scored 47.88 seconds individually, and the total score of the four sticks was 3:19.20.
The provincial C team, Qi Ruifeng in the last round, scored 48.23 seconds individually, and the total score of the four bars was 3:19.22.
The difference between the two scores is twenty milliseconds, or one-fifth of a second. One fiftieth of a second is just an instant, even shorter than an instant. However, it was this short moment that decided the title of the champion.
Tang Yibai, the champion!
Yun Duo's heart hangs for a long time, and now he is finally loose, leaning on the guardrail around him and panting heavily.
Really, too nervous and too exciting | exciting!
The fans in the audience who were desperately cheering for Qi Ruifeng were silent, on the contrary, the media area was immersed in a beam of joy. These people are happy, not because they support Tang Yibai, but because "Tang Yibai's last shocking reversal overwhelms Qi Ruifeng" is obviously more interesting than "Qi Ruifeng plays a stable and smooth championship".
At this time, Yun Duo could not understand the technical connotation of the last game. She looked towards the pool and saw that Tang Yibai and Qi Ruifeng had been pulled ashore by their teammates. Both of them were very tired, their chests heaving violently, and they didn't even have time to speak.
The reporters are all gearing up to interview these two, and Mr. Sun has led Yun Duo to prepare for the interview position again.
Then, everyone watched helplessly, Qi Ruifeng and Tang Yibai on the other side of the swimming pool, these two competitors who had just fought to the death in the swimming pool, now like a pair of good friends, supporting each other towards the athlete passage.
Damn don't go (Erkang's hand)...
The profession of reporter belongs to Xiaoqiang, and their enthusiasm will never die. After watching the two major talking points leave, the group of people secretly prepared for an interview at the end of the award ceremony. Teacher Sun arranged a task for Yun Duo: in a while, the old man will go to grab Tang Yibai in person, and Yun Duo will go to grab Qi Ruifeng. You must go all out to grab it!
Yun Duo listened to Teacher Sun's arrangement with sweat, and always felt that this posture was like going to rob a relative.
Fortunately, Tang Yibai and Qi Ruifeng couldn't be absent from the award ceremony, so they couldn't run away this time. When they took the stage to accept the award, the athletes were already dressed. This sportswear is sponsored by a well-known domestic clothing brand, and the design of the clothes is a bit ugly. Fortunately, Tang Yibai looks neat and bright, so he can hold such ugly clothes, and wears a unique style.
As for Qi Ruifeng, no matter what clothes he wears, he always looks like "I'm number one in the world". Besides, everyone often sees him taking off | light, so he can ignore the clothes.
After the award ceremony, Yun Duo responded quickly this time and grabbed Qi Ruifeng in front of him.
Qi Ruifeng also recognized her, he nodded solemnly, "As expected of my fan, you are about to plunge into my arms."
Yun Duo: "..." I really want to turn around and leave!
At this time, the surrounding reporters were already asking questions, Qi Ruifeng did not answer, just looked at the clouds, "I allow you to ask the first question." That look, how stinky and stinky it is, makes people very uncomfortable. There was an urge to beat him violently.
In the face of his insolence, Yun Duo suddenly wanted to bully people, so she said with a smile, "Excuse me, how does it feel to lose to the same person twice?"
The surrounding reporters looked at the clouds in shock. This girl is so brave!
Qi Ruifeng's face fell instantly, "Next question!" Seeing Yun Duo just about to speak again, he quickly said, "Shut up, I won't answer your question." There was undisguised anger in his tone, and A touch of sadness.
Cloud stuck out his tongue and pushed the crowd out. Anyway, she didn't want to interview this genius with a magical brain circuit, she was going to see the situation on Tang Yibai's side.
Tang Yibai was also surrounded by many people, and as Yun Duo expected, many people were asking what Tang Yibai was doing in the past few years.
"Training." This was his answer.
"Why choose freestyle?"
He took it in stride, "Because of freedom."
"Uh..." What kind of answer is that! The reporter was sweating and asked, "Then why haven't you participated in the competition for three years?"
"not sure."
At this time, a man suddenly shouted and asked: "Mr. Tang Yibai, please explain the incident that you were suspended for taking doping three years ago."
When this statement came out, everyone was in an uproar.