On July 30, Beijing time, on the third gold medal day of the Paris Olympic Games, a number of swimming finals were staged: in the men's 200-meter freestyle final, Popovich won the gold in 1:44.72, only 0.02 seconds ahead of the second place Richards, which can be called the ultimate lore! The Chinese swimming team, on this competition day, is infinitely close to the first gold, the women's 100-meter breaststroke final, Tang Qianting led all the way, but suffered a big loss in the technical touch, and was finally overtaken by South Africa's Smith on the side, winning the silver medal in 1:05.54.
The confident Chinese swimming team, in this Paris Olympics suffered setbacks one after another, in the previous competition, the men's team, the women's team of the two aces Qin Haiyang, Zhang Yufei are all gold failure, of which Qin Haiyang's performance is even more sluggish to be unbelievable, you must know that last year's World Championships, Qin Haiyang still created history and became the first person to win the first gold medal in the breaststroke 3 events at the same World Championships.
Coming to the third competition day, Xu Jiayu was the most optimistic Chinese player to hit the gold medal, because Xu Jiayu advanced to the men's 100-meter backstroke final with the first place in the semifinals, but in the final, Xu Jiayu's physical energy was unevenly distributed, the future was too fast, resulting in a weak back, and was finally overtaken by Italy's Chekong, and finally won a silver medal, Xu Jiayu expressed his regret after the game, thinking that he was ready, but unfortunately the result did not meet his expectations.
In fact, the closest to winning the gold is the young Tang Qianting, in the women's 100-meter breaststroke final competition, Tang Qianting is still in the lead in the final stage, looking to be the first to touch the wall to win the gold medal, but did not expect to suffer a big loss when he reached the side, Tang Qianting, who was half a beat slower, was preemptively touched by South Africa's Smith, if Tang Qianting did not collect the action and went forward directly, perhaps the gold medal belonged to Tang Qianting.
In the men's 200m freestyle final without Chinese athletes, the gold medal battle was also staged at the moment of touching the wall, Romania's Popovich touched the wall first to win the gold medal, only 0.02 seconds ahead of the second place United Kingdom star Richards, and the third place United States Hobson was only 0.07 seconds behind the champion Popovich!