Qin Haiyang, who had proudly claimed to win four gold medals at the beginning of the Paris Olympics, failed in the 200-meter breaststroke again, and this time he didn't even enter the final, and the overall score in the semifinals was only 10th, why is he in such poor condition?
Coupled with the previous X-endeavor testing turmoil, it is certain that this young player from the mainland will be in the storm of public opinion for a long time to come.
Presumably, after all the swimming fans saw that Qin Haiyang failed to enter the 200-meter breaststroke final, they were already unspeakably uncomfortable, and many swimming fans who didn't know the inside story didn't even know what was going on.
From the look on his face after the game, you can see that he looks very out of shape, it can be said that he is full of fatigue, like he said, because he wanted to win too much, in two days, he only slept for 5 hours.
Not getting enough sleep is disastrous for a top athlete at such a high level, and his time of 2:09.96 is better than the previous round of the semi-finals, but it can't even reach the final.
You must know that Qin Haiyang won three gold medals in the 50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke at the Fukuoka World Championships, according to the previous conjecture, these three gold medals can be said to be in his bag.
Now the results are getting worse and worse, and the conjectures of some people with ulterior motives are more confirmed, and it is conceivable how fierce the storm of public opinion will be in the future. At that time, I am afraid that it will not be a sentence that "I wanted to win so much that I had a problem with the rhythm in the second half of the race," which will be brushed aside.
Now that the swimming schedule is coming to an end, the Chinese swimming team, which was once the favorite to win gold by the Chinese people, failed to win even a gold medal, and Zhang Yufei, the favorite in the women's 100-meter butterfly, finally won only one bronze medal, and her results in this event were also at this level in the previous year.
Just because the opponent was too good, the first and second place results improved by leaps and bounds in just six months, which is also very rare in the history of FINA. We dare not speak without conclusive evidence.
Xu Jiayu, who was not in the scope of winning the medal, gave the mainland swimming team a surprise and won a rare silver medal in the 100-meter backstroke, which exceeded the expectations of the coaching staff.
If the above two are normal and a little unexpected surprise, then Qin Haiyang, as the triple champion of Fukuoka, has failed in the 100m and 200m breaststroke one after another, and judging from his previous performance, these two competitions are no opponent.
With his poor form, he still has one more race in the 4x100m medley, which is also a gold-winning advantage, given that his mentality has gone awry, would the coaching staff dare to take that risk?
Now the Chinese swimming team's gold medal point is only Pan Zhanle's 100-meter freestyle, even if it wins the championship, this year's Chinese swimming team can be said to be the worst in history.
The most urgent thing at hand is how to face various public opinion storms in foreign media in the next few days, as can be seen from many previous reports, Qin Haiyang has improved by leaps and bounds because of the change of coaches, and now Coach Cui Dengrong and his two disciples Zhang Yufei and Qin Haiyang will become the center of this public opinion storm.
Zhang Yufei's best butterfly time in this Olympic Games is 56.21 seconds, which is much slower than the Tokyo Olympics 55.64 seconds. WADA and FINA, who have always been strong supporters of the Chinese swimming team, are definitely the top ones now.
Before the Paris Olympics, the National Swimming Management Center also boasted that it would use its results to defeat all the doubts of foreign media, and now that the schedule is coming to an end, the National Swimming Management Center's pre-game rhetoric seems so pale and powerless.
After Zhang Yufei won the third place in the 100-meter butterfly, he was questioned by the fourth-place German athlete, although the athlete did not name him, but from the tone of her words, the spearhead is directly aimed at Zhang Yufei, after all, in 2021, the drug test failed to pass is also true, although the anti-X drug organization has come forward to clarify, but the bad impact has appeared, and it is impossible to recover.
Now Qin Haiyang has another chance to prove himself, that is, in the next 4X100m men's and women's medley, he will show his former world's No. 1 level, there is an old saying in this mixed event that the breaststroker wins the world, proving that Qin Haiyang's 100-meter breaststroke is very important, he plays well, the gold medal is basically in hand, and then the doubts about him dare not disappear, at least not under so much pressure from public opinion.
Do you think that in this competitive event where results speak, can Qin Haiyang redeem himself? Brothers who know the inside story are welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss.