Coinciding with the critical period of winter training, famous swimmers are absent from the Doha World Championships, and the new generation of teenagers will go out to compete.
Chao Xin News On January 3, the Chinese Swimming Association announced the entry list for the Doha World Swimming Championships. 21 athletes will participate in swimming events and 4 athletes will participate in open water swimming events.
After the list was announced, netizens were surprised to find that Olympic and world champions such as Wang Shun, Zhang Yufei, Qin Haiyang, Yang Junxuan, Ye Shiwen and Xu Jiayu were not on the list.
Why are famous players absent from the World Championships?
In fact, the current Doha World Swimming Championships are only half a year away from the last Fukuoka World Championships. For most athletes, the preparation time is short, and the competition time happens to be during a critical period of winter training for athletes, which may have a negative impact on the preparation pace for the Paris Olympics. Make an impact. Therefore, the absence of famous players has long been expected by insiders.
At the Jinan Swimming Championships, the trials for the Doha World Swimming Championships held last month, many athletes politely stated that they would not go to Qatar.
This can also be seen from the projects that many players signed up for. For example, Xu Jiayu, whose main event is backstroke, signed up for the 400-meter freestyle, Ye Shiwen, whose main event was medley, participated in the 200-meter freestyle, and Yan Zibei, whose main event was breaststroke, tried the medley competition. None of the events they signed up for were their main events, not even their secondary events. Some were participating purely out of interest. In the post-match interview, “competition as a substitute for training” became a hot topic.
Not only did many domestic celebrities give up competing at the Doha World Swimming Championships, the reporter learned that other national swimming associations also lowered their participation levels, and many foreign star athletes did not participate. Romanian star Popovich said in an earlier interview that in order to focus on the Paris Olympics, he will not participate in the Doha World Championships. Among the 28 participants announced by Swimming Canada, famous athletes McNeil and McIntosh are not among them. In addition, according to Japanese media reports, the Japanese team only sent 12 players to participate in the World Championships this time. The United States Swimming Association also stated when announcing the list that it would focus on preparing for the Paris Olympics.
The veteran is absent and the youngster is out. As the first competition of the new year, it is an excellent training opportunity for young athletes. On the list announced by the Swimming Association, many new generation swimmers such as Li Bingjie, Yu Yiting, and Pan Zhanle appeared one by one. In addition to Yu Yiting and Pan Zhanle, six young players from Zhejiang, including Mao Yihan, Lu Yue, Fei Liwei and Xu Yifan, challenged themselves on the stage of the Doha World Championships.
Although it lacks the support of famous athletes, the Chinese swimming team also has the hope of winning gold in Doha. Pan Zhanle, who was born in 2004, became famous in the men’s 100-meter freestyle final of the Hangzhou Asian Games, breaking the Asian record with a time of 46.97 seconds and winning the gold medal. Li Bingjie has also been the leader in Asia in women’s middle and long distance freestyle.
It is worth mentioning that Zhejiang teenager Mao Yihan will participate in the open water swimming event of the Doha World Swimming Championships. Previously, Mao Yihan won the runner-up in the women’s 800-meter freestyle final at the 2023 World Youth Swimming Championships in 8 minutes, 33 seconds and 66 seconds.
Faced with the young players who need to take the lead alone, Zhang Yufei also used her own experience in earlier interviews to encourage them not to be nervous and not to be afraid of failure. In her opinion, everyone is experiencing failure, and success may only be occasional. He also believes that the Doha World Championships is a good experience and hopes that the young players will: “Cherish this opportunity and regard it as the starting point of your career.”
At the same time, the veterans who are not participating in the World Championships in Doha are conducting winter training at their own pace and focusing on preparing for the Paris Olympics. Xu Jiayu, a two-time Olympic runner-up, also said in his first Weibo post of the new year: See you at the top in 2024.
2024-01-04 12:25:00
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