On August 2, Beijing time, the swimming competition of the Paris Olympics continued. In the men's and women's mixed 4X100m medley relay preliminaries that ended in the evening, the Chinese team scored a total of 3:42.26, ranking second in the group and third in the overall score to advance to the final. However, the promotion process of the Chinese team was a bit thrilling, and it all relied on the last 1 Pan Zhanle to turn the tide.
In this preliminaries, the Chinese team adjusted the lineup and did not send male players in the breaststroke as usual. Qin Haiyang, who was not in good shape, was hidden in the snow, but the female player Tang Qianting replaced him in the breaststroke. At the same time, in the freestyle, the Chinese team sent Pan Zhanle, who was in great form, to replace the female player Yang Junxuan.
After the preliminaries began, the first backstroke veteran Xu Jiayu swam 53.16 seconds, while the second stroke, Tang Qianting, swam 1:05.44 in the breaststroke, being thrown away by many men's breaststrokers from other countries. Although Zhang Yufei, the third sticker, tried his best to catch up and swam a time of 56.59 seconds in the butterfly, before the last 1 stroke, the Chinese team still ranked 7th in the group in the preliminaries and was on the verge of elimination.
And what is amazing is that the last 1 stick Pan Zhanle once again contributed a god-level performance, he continued to catch up and overtake his opponent after entering the water, and finally finished second in the group to the side. Poon spent 47.07 seconds in the preliminaries freestyle, which was enough to ensure that he won the 100m freestyle final before.
In the end, the Chinese team scored a total of 3:42.26, ranking second in the group and third in the overall score to advance to the finals. The United States team finished first overall in the heats in 3:40.98 and United Kingdom finished second overall in 3:41.42, and the three teams will compete fiercely in the final.
Pan Zhanle's state fire also posed a problem for the Chinese swimming team, whether he should continue to play him in the finals, or bet on Qin Haiyang to reactivate in the breaststroke.