The picture shows Sun Yang interacting with fans after winning the championship. Taken by China News Agency reporter Ma Yuanhao
Zhongxin news agency, Qingdao, March 30th issue: insist on playing in the championship 1500 since Sun Yang: “start-up” project will never give up
author Ma Yuanhao
“at the beginning, there are only three entries indeed, but I can’t put down the 1500-meter freestyle. If I don’t compare it with what seems to be missing, I am very reluctant.” Sun Yang, the captain of the Chinese swimming team and the Olympic champion, said after the 1500-meter freestyle preliminary of the Qingdao National Swimming Championships held on the morning of the 30th, with a total score of 15 minutes 14 seconds and 21, the first advance to the final.
Compared with playing “workaholic” in the last Taiyuan National Championship and challenging Mi 5 games from 100 meters to 1500, Sun Yang, 28, only reported 200 meters at the beginning of this Qingdao Championship, 400 m and 800 m freestyle. But after some inner struggle, Sun Yang still resolutely played the 1500-meter freestyle.
This project is a long-distance project of Sun Yang come to fame in an activity. The world record is 14 minutes 31 seconds 02, which is from the London Olympics. However, after 2015, Sun Yang’s monopoly advantage on the project gradually lost: the Kazan world championship withdrew due to heart discomfort, the Rio Olympic preliminary match was out of the cold, and the Budapest World Championship withdrew again due to heart discomfort.
During the winter training in 2018, Sun Yang joined hands with the meritorious coach of the Chinese swimming team and the Enshi Zhu Zhigen again, and the Enshi also gave him a prescription of “restoring oxygen first.
After a year and a half of cooperation, Sun Yang said frankly that his aerobic capacity was well consolidated, and he attributed his contribution to winning the gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle in the Championship to Zhu Zhigen and his foreign teacher Dennis. “The biggest feeling is that it is easier to travel than last year’s Asian Games. I am still the world record holder of this project. After recovering my ability, my psychological construction of this project has also been greatly improved.”
“This is my ‘start-up’ project. If you don’t swim, you will really give up. Director Zhu asked me to practice on behalf of the competition. Don’t care about the results, regard the competition as a self-challenge, and work harder.” Sun Yang said.
Zhu Zhigen also said that taking the 1500-meter freestyle as a training method can play a vital role in winning the gold medal of the 800-meter freestyle in the new Tokyo Olympic event.
“Sun Yang has traveled 1500 years since he was 12 years old. This project has helped 200 meters, 400 meters and 800 meters freestyle greatly, which is a challenge for him. He also wants to play an example for the old players.” Zhu Zhigen said frankly that athletes like Sun Yang who can persist in swimming for 200 meters to 1500 meters freestyle for many years are also very rare in the history of Chinese swimming. “Sun Yang participated in the” Challenge Impossible “program, and we tried to make impossible possible.”
There were 72 players participating in the 1500 m freestyle preliminary match on that day. Sun Yang is the only “veteran” who is over 25 years old and still fighting in this project “.
“This project is too tough. For Singapore foreign training, I had to finish eight or nine thousand meters in two and a half hours. I couldn’t swim until the fourth week of training. I was desperate in the water and remembered the water. The coaches criticized me and urged me to speed up. In the short term, it is still acceptable, but it is difficult for outsiders to experience it year after year. Therefore, many people gradually changed from long distance to short distance, and fewer and fewer people could stick to it. This time, only me and Wang Yifan were in the competition in our group.”
“No matter how hard the preparation process is in the future, as long as I don’t leave the pool, I think I may stick to it all the time.” Sun Yang said. (Finished)