From the Paris Olympic gold medal to the World Championships to the preliminary round! What is the problem with the men s 4×100 mixing?

On August 3, the Singapore World Swimming Championships entered its final day. In the men's 4×100m medley preliminaries in the morning, the Chinese team was ranked 9th and unfortunately missed the final. From the gold medal in this event at the Paris Olympics to the end of the preliminary round of the World Championships, what happened to the Chinese team in just one year? Is

our opponent has made progress? Let’s compare the promotion lines of the Paris Olympics and this World Championships. The 8th place in the men's 4×100m medley relay preliminaries of the Paris Olympics was the German team, with a score of 3 minutes, 32 seconds, 51. The 8th place Korean team in this year's World Championships was 3 minutes, 32 seconds, 54. The promotion line is almost flat, and the problem does not occur to the opponent.

The famous swimming media SwimSwam immediately listed the comparison between the Chinese team's four-bat score in this World Championships and the finals of the Paris Olympics, and analyzed the reasons for the Chinese team's elimination.

Paris Olympics vs. World Championships Chinese team segment comparison

First, Xu Jiayu was the best player in the Chinese team's World Championships. He swam 53.14 seconds in the semi-finals. However, in this relay preliminary match, the Chinese team did not choose to send Xu Jiayu, but chose veteran Wang Shun. Wang Shun's score of 53.96 seconds is not bad for a veteran.

The Chinese team in the second breaststroke chose the frog king Qin Haiyang, who won 100 frogs and 200 frogs in this World Championships. During the final of the Paris Olympics last year, Qin Haiyang swam 57.98 seconds in segments. In the preliminaries of this World Championship, the difference between the results of the two is more than 1.5 seconds.

Xu Fang's third butterfly stroke score was 51.39 seconds. Sun Jiajun sent the third ball to the Chinese team at the Paris Olympics last year. At that time, his segment score was 51.19 seconds. Considering the difference between the preliminary and finals, and the butterfly stroke has always been a relatively weak segment for the Chinese team, Xu Fang's segment results have completed the competition task very well.

The fourth bat Pan Zhanle is the holder of the world record of 100m freestyle. He reached an astonishing 45.92 seconds in the Olympics last year. At this year's World Championships, Pan Zhanle missed the final in the 100m freestyle single event. His score in the relay event was 47.76 seconds, which is a nearly 2 seconds gap between the two.

Comparing the World Championships preliminaries with the Paris Olympic finals may be misleading. Then, we can directly compare the segmented results of the Olympic and World Championships preliminaries, and we may be able to see the problem more intuitively.

The Chinese team in the preliminaries of the Paris Olympics ranked second in all teams in the preliminaries of the Paris Olympics, with the results of the four bases being Xu Jiayu 53.58, Qin Haiyang 58.51, Wang Changhao 51.75, and Pan Zhanle 47.74 respectively. The results of the four bats in this World Championships were Wang Shun 53.96, Qin Haiyang 59.58, Xu Fang 51.39, and Pan Zhanle 47.76 respectively.

How to allocate the lineups in the preliminary and finals, the fatigue level and status of athletes during the competition, outsiders cannot understand these situations, and the coach needs to make comprehensive considerations and make decisions. Take this medley relay as an example. The lineup of this preliminaries is very strong on paper, but what is the actual state of the players?

We analyze and compare here, not to blame an athlete for the problem of being eliminated. Instead, it was eliminated from this World Championship. At the same time, we must realize that our strength is not strong enough to be able to gather and play freely in the game. Even in the preliminary round, we should do our best and we cannot "leave the water" at any time. This applies not only to relay competitions, but also to other individual events.