Arsenal has not made any big moves in the summer. Most of the personnel adjustments have been made in its own youth training echelon. Future stars and powerful players such as Martin Keown, Tony Adams, Michael Thomas, David Rocastle, etc. will officially be promoted this season.

If they join the first team, they will get more playing time.

But after mid-August, the popularity of football in various places has declined. The biggest sports hot spot during this period is "swimming", and the biggest focus person in swimming is naturally Shen Lang, who has the title of "Prince and Emperor of Swimming"

Already.

Shen Lang is known as the "Prince of Swimming" in China. This is mainly because he is not very old. Shen Lang, who was born in 1966, is actually only 20 years old. Prince is naturally a more appropriate nickname.

But according to Western media reports, Shen Lang, the number one swimmer in the world who won six Olympic Games titles and broke his own record in every competition, must of course be dubbed the "Emperor."

If football kings can be divided into different eras, then Shen Lang's achievements in the past few years are unprecedented since the birth of swimming.

This year's fifth World Swimming Championships will be held in Madrid, Spain. This time, in addition to swimming, diving, and high platform diving, women's water polo has also become an official event. A total of 1,253 athletes participated in the competition. The Chinese swimming team sent 42

people participated in most formal projects.

China naturally attaches great importance to this swimming team going to Spain, but it is still not as good as the Men's Basketball World Championships in September, or even the Men's Basketball Club World Cup in August.

But in European and American news and public opinion, the influence of this swimming team, with the blessing of Shen Lang, is actually more valued than the Chinese men's basketball team.

The performance of the Chinese swimming team also deserves this attention. The first thing to be held at this World Championships is the diving event, which is also one of the main events for China to win gold in the Olympic Games.

For the women's team, 16-year-old newcomer Gao Min won the women's three-meter springboard championship. Her 582.42 points became the highest score in the history of the World Championships; 17-year-old Chen Lin won the women's ten-meter platform championship; Gao Minhe

14-year-old Li Qing also won a silver medal in the women's three-meter synchronized springboard; 14-year-old Yan Yingying and 15-year-old Ding Feng won a bronze medal in the women's synchronized platform.

The men's team did not stretch their hips this time. Tan Liangde, the second oldest player in the competition, finally won the three-meter springboard championship before retiring; Li Kongzheng won the men's ten-meter platform championship.

In addition, the newly added women's water polo event, the Chinese women's water polo team also won a bronze medal after their debut.

These results prove that the Chinese diving team was not a flash in the pan at the Olympic Games two years ago, but their outstanding performance did not attract much attention because most of the attention on water sports was swimming.

When it comes to swimming, the focus of the world will automatically fall on one person, and of course that person is Shen Lang!

At this World Swimming Championships, everyone is paying attention to how many events Shen Lang will participate in? How many gold medals can he win? Will he break his own world record again?

Shen Lang himself doesn't care much about this. What he is most satisfied with is the random inspection of this World Championships.

During the entire World Championships, the World Anti-Doping Agency only randomly tested him three times, but you must know that this was on the premise that he participated in a full 7 competitions, so the frequency of random testing was higher than before and after every game in the Olympic Games.

It's much better to pee once.

Of course, FINA and the World Anti-Doping Agency are not so easy to talk to, but when I think about Shen Lang's six gold medals two years ago, he still hasn't got them back, and at the Asian Swimming Championships in June this year, Shen Lang obviously didn't go all out.

He once again won individual championships in 6 events, and once again narrowly broke his own world record, so we knew that this guy was unlikely to take drugs.

Of course, the Chinese football protests at the World Cup, the occupation of FIFA by alien fans, and the uproar of "accidental deaths" all make FINA and the World Anti-Doping Agency afraid to

Let’s deliberately embarrass Shen Lang again, because these are lessons learned from the past!

Those alien fans are certainly scary, but the swimming emperor's fans are not easy to mess with either.

The other identity of their swimming emperor is a world-renowned cartoonist, and his fans may not be worse than those of aliens!

But the main reason is that I really can’t find anything fishy about Shen Lang. Take this World Championships as an example. The International Anti-Doping Agency officially launched a new testing technology. The result was that Shen Lang had nothing to do with it. Instead, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Germany

Players from Australia, Britain, Canada and other countries have been found guilty of cheating, and many famous players have shown their flaws at this World Championships.

This made FINA very embarrassed. Especially in the men's 100-meter freestyle final, there was a rare situation where only 6 people participated, because two seeded players were disqualified due to previous positive tests.

But for those who only focus on Shen Lang, these are not even episodes, because in a competition where the emperor participates, no matter whether other people's results are good or bad, the final champion will be the same name

, and the gap will be so large that it is impossible to recover even if you take drugs.

In the Olympic Games two years ago, Shen Lang reduced the world record for the 100-meter freestyle to 48.52 seconds. At last year's Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, he further shortened the record to 48.40 seconds. In the past few years, he has also slightly improved the record in Asian competitions.

The record was raised to 48.31 seconds, and the new record he set this time was 48.04 seconds.

As for the second place, his time is still far behind Shen Lang's two years ago, only 48.74 seconds. This 0.7 second gap is already down a notch in the 100-meter event.

Shen Lang has always broken his own record in every competition, so he shortened the world record of 200-meter freestyle to 1 minute, 44 seconds and 38 seconds.

In addition, in the 100-meter and 200-meter butterfly events, he also shortened the new world records to 52.03 seconds and 1 minute 55 seconds 82.

In the 200-meter medley, he also shortened the new record to 1 minute, 58 seconds and 51 seconds, giving no chance of touching the tail light.

But if he only wins these five events, I'm afraid it won't cause too much of a shock. After all, he won all six titles at the Olympics two years ago, the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships a year ago, and the Tokyo Swimming Invitational.

A gold medal, and both can break their own previous records.

If the same script is still used now, and even the 400-meter medley is missing, everyone will be somewhat fatigued.

Shen Lang himself knew this, so he canceled the 400-meter medley at this World Championships, but added the 100-meter breaststroke and 100-meter backstroke individual events, and competed in a real quadathlon.

Now the Japanese and British are depressed, because the best players in these two events in the past two years are Japan's Suzuki Daichi and British David Moorhouse.

But since these two pieces of gold have been spotted by the emperor of the swimming world, naturally there is nothing else to worry about.

In the 100-meter breaststroke, which Shen Lang participated in for the first time, he set a new world record of 1:01.09, which directly shortened the original world record by 0.5 seconds.

This situation is similar in the 100-meter backstroke. Shen Lang also successfully shortened the new record to 52.40 seconds, bringing the best time in this event to within 53 seconds for the first time.

Now even FINA doesn't think there is anything wrong with Shen Lang. The biggest reason is his dominant performance!

The talent of this swimming emperor is really beyond the level of the times. Everyone can see that he is constantly improving. Not only does he break his world record in every competition, but the most terrifying thing is that everyone can see him every time.

There is obvious force reduction and deceleration behavior during the sprint phase.

If you think about it further, he didn't just participate in one or two events. This time he broke the record of participating in 6 events at the same time. He participated in seven competitions alone and finally won all of them in a record-breaking way.

This is really terrifying. In the past, for swimming, a competition that consumes so much physical energy, at most two or three events were registered at the same time, but he won seven gold medals by himself.

This makes people think, if he only signed up for one or two events and went all out, could he expand the world records in these two events to an unattainable level? Where is his limit?

These questions are worth pondering, but at least everyone understands a simple truth. He has never met an opponent at all, and no one can force him to use his full strength, so why should he use external forces to improve his performance?

So FINA is too lazy to test him all the time, so as not to deliberately make things difficult and end up like FIFA, which would be very bad!

Media all over the world were reporting on the godlike Shen Lang during the World Championships, but he himself focused on his teammates.

After Wu Jie became famous, he cared more about the men's football team, and Shen Lang also cared more about his swimming team.

The progress of the Chinese swimming team in the past few years is also extraordinary. This is due to the chain effect brought about by his role as an idol, and also because Wu Jie also fed back most of Shen Lang's profits to swimming projects.

What Wu Jie values ​​​​is not just football. What he wants is for all sports in China to become world-leading like football.

In recent years, Shen Lang has used the income he earned to help the Chinese swimming team train and strengthen a group of new members.

So this time at the World Swimming Championships, he is no longer a mere commander, and a younger generation has finally begun to emerge behind him.

But what is more embarrassing is that except for Shen Lang, the Chinese athletes who took the stage to receive awards at this World Championships were all female athletes, and there was not even a single male.

15-year-old Qian Hong helped the Chinese swimming team win the first women's medal in the 100-meter butterfly final. She was also the first Chinese female swimmer to stand on the podium of the World Championships, even though it was only a bronze medal.

But at 15 years old, she is old enough to show her potential to the world.

14-year-old Zhuang Yong and Yang Wenyi are even younger. Although they failed to stand on the podium in their own events, the results of both girls swimming into the finals are still worthy of the industry's attention.

The 16-year-old Huang Xiaomin was even better in terms of results. She won a history-breaking silver medal in the 100-meter breaststroke. In addition, in the 200-meter breaststroke, she only lost by a narrow margin to the East German stars Kesselring and

Bate, but once again stood on the podium.

If these achievements were placed in front of Shen Lang, it would naturally be difficult for people to raise eyebrows.

But in the eyes of professionals from various countries, especially Japan, the former number one swimming country in Asia, the results of these little girls have seriously threatened themselves. They are even now capable of defeating Japanese female swimmers because of their

Their results exceeded those of Japanese players in this World Championships.

But there is one person who really made the whole world look at him again. This person is naturally Zhang Tianxin, a true one of his own.

On the podium of the 100-meter women's breaststroke, Huang Xiaomin stood in the runner-up position, but the person standing in the championship position was still not an outsider. There was still a Chinese athlete, her name was Zhang Tianxin.

This is also a genuine person. Zhang Tianxin, who was born in 1972, is only 14 and a half years old. Normally at this age, female swimmers have just entered the period when they start to achieve results, but winning the championship is still a miracle.

Generally speaking, male swimmers cannot start to show results until they are at least 16 years old. This is already considered a very precocious super genius.

However, due to the advantages of physical development, female swimmers can start to achieve results as early as 14 years old. But if Zhang Tianxin really won the World Championships at the age of 14, or won the championship by breaking the world record, then it would really be wrong.

It smells a little like Shen Lang.

The Western media was indeed shocked by Zhang Tianyun's age. Especially after seeing that she also signed up for the 100-meter breaststroke, 100-meter backstroke, and 100-meter freestyle, how could they not think in Shen Lang's direction?

But it was also because of Shen Lang's magic in front of him that Zhang Tianyun shocked the whole world, but soon felt that it was reasonable, because as long as one thinks of Shen Lang's cheating performance since his debut, it would be obvious that Zhang Tianxin debuted on a similar trajectory.

It's no longer unacceptable.

Zhang Tianxin lived up to her five-star talent. Not only did she win the championship in all three events, she also won all of them by breaking world records.

This is exactly the same as Shen Lang's trajectory after his debut. Media all over the world couldn't help but ask a question: Why does the Chinese team have so many incredible talents?

This is true in football, basketball, volleyball, and now it is even more extreme in swimming, because after the birth of the "Emperor of Swimming", even the "Queen of Swimming" will also be produced in China.

This girl is only 14 years old. Everyone can see that her potential is far from being tapped. Maybe in the Olympic Games two years later, she can sign up for five or six events like Shen Lang.

But this is not unreasonable speculation. The most speechless thing about Zhang Tianyun is the same as Shen Lang. She actually deliberately withdrew her strength during the sprint phase.

Isn’t this too similar?

Just be awesome if you are awesome, who are you looking down on by deliberately waterproofing?

Chinese sports obviously had no sense of existence ten years ago, so how come it suddenly became known to the whole world and shocked the world?

The Japanese media also gave overwhelming coverage to Zhang Tianyun, but the focus of their reports was different from that of the Western media. Most of the focus of the Japanese media was on Zhang Tianyun's appearance.
To be continued...