August 20, 1995.

The last weekend before the closing of the 18th Universiade is also the first weekend since Gu Kun took the field.

The Kitakyushu Swimming Center, located in the busiest area of ​​Fukuoka City, heard bursts of explosive noises, confusing the ordinary Japanese people passing by outside.

The Japanese have always been very reserved and restrained, and are afraid of causing trouble to others. If a neighbor comes to give him a piece of watermelon, he would like to return a plate of cherry tomatoes the next day, and he will feel comfortable if he can repay the favor quickly.

Such a national character made the shouting and hooting loud in the venue to the point of disturbing the neighbors. The elderly Japanese "gentlemen" outside the venue all shook their heads and lamented the deterioration of the world.

"Isn't it just a sports meeting for college students? It's such a surprise."

"But I'm really curious about what's going on. Why don't you buy a ticket to go in and have a look?" Some passers-by who happened to have some time to do wanted to join in the fun.

No one has thought about the problem of sold-out tickets, because except for the Olympic Games, it is impossible to sell out the tickets for other events as long as they are not football or baseball.

There are all racing competitions in the swimming pool, how can it be sold out?

However, this time the Japanese people miscalculated one after another.

"Damn it, the tickets have been sold out, but you can go around to the back square and there will be a big screen broadcasting the live action in the venue." The conductor explained very politely.

"Is it really gone?" A young man who looked like a junior high school student in the crowd was very frustrated when he heard this. He anxiously jumped in line and squeezed to the window. After confirming the bad news, he couldn't help shouting in the queue,

"I saw on the TV news that someone broke the breaststroke world record in a row and took the Shinkansen from Tokyo overnight to watch today's competition! Does anyone have tickets that are willing to transfer? I'll pay 5,000 yen! 10,000 yen will do!

"

The original price of a ticket for this kind of swimming competition is only 1,500 yen.

The staff at the ticket window wanted to remind him: it is wrong to dump tickets.

But looking at the anxious and eager look of the middle school student, no one had the heart to stop him. Soon, a man who was wandering around secretly sold the ticket to him.

The boy got the ticket and rushed into the arena.

There was also a middle-aged woman who came with the boy. It seemed that there was a mother-child relationship. She was probably worried that her junior high school child would travel thousands of kilometers away. Because there were not enough tickets, the middle-aged woman followed the others who could not buy one.

All the ticket holders, together, went to the back square of the swimming center to watch the big screen.

Other spectators who were watching the fun naturally wanted to ask her: "Did something unexpected happen during this competition? Is it worth it to come over from Tokyo to watch it? What does your son do? He is very interested in swimming."

The woman nodded and responded: "Inuko Kitajima Kosuke practices breaststroke and is more concerned about news in this area. Yesterday I saw someone breaking the 100-meter breaststroke world record three times in one day on the sports section of the Asahi Shimbun and the NHK sports channel.

, so I couldn’t help but come to watch it on the spur of the moment - I heard that there will be that great master’s 200-meter breaststroke competition today.”

"Si Guoyi! Let's watch it quickly!" All the Japanese present were shocked by the news. Even if they didn't care about sports before, they still wanted to witness the miracle.

The important thing is not the sports, but the heroic feeling of participating in witnessing history.

In this world, how many times in a lifetime can a normal person get the opportunity to watch the birth of a world record at close range?

If we add another qualification, that world records are set frequently and continuously, then no one has ever seen it.

If you don't watch it, you will regret it for the rest of your life.

The curious cheers gathered in the square and became louder and louder.

…

The jubilation inside the venue was certainly greater than that in the square outside.

The young boy Kosuke Kitajima, who had the chance to become the Frog King of Asia or even the Frog King of the world, found his place with great excitement.

In the two minutes he was looking for a seat, another world record was broken in his ears.

"GU~GU~GU~"

“CHINA NO.1! CHINA NO.1!”

"Onii-chan's bastard! Si Guoyi!"

"It's broken, it's broken, it's broken! It's the 20th time!"

"No, you can count wrongly? This is the 21st time!"

Kitajima Kosuke heard the people around him chattering in Japanese, English and Chinese respectively. He couldn't help but feel excited and regretful. He thought to himself: "What? Didn't we only win 7 gold medals and 19 world records last night? I am still late today? I missed it.

Today’s first world record? This is too efficient!

This is unscientific. According to Kun's pace, he only needs two world championships to surpass Bubka, right? I remember that Samaranch of the International Olympic Committee once joked: The number of world records can only be broken by sustaining

Pole vaulters are uniquely endowed. When will swimmers be able to compete for honors in this area?"

Kitajima Kosuke recalled the news he saw last night in his mind, and still felt his head was buzzing.

Last night, NHK Sports Channel took stock of Gu Kun's event history: As of August 19, Gu Kun won a total of 50m/100m/200m/400m freestyle, 100/200m in the 18th World Universiade.

Seven gold medals in seven events including backstroke and 100-meter breaststroke.

The most exaggerated thing is that every time he has an opportunity to play, he almost breaks a world record! He only made a slight mistake in the 50-meter freestyle. His semi-finals were not better than the preliminaries, so he only broke them twice.

As for other events of 200 meters and below, which allow three rounds, Gu Kun failed three times in a row! Only the 400 meters only had two rounds, so the total was 3721 minus 1.

Time 50 meters and time 400 meters, broken 19 times.

Kitajima Kosuke was still in a daze, but a spectator sitting in the stands next to him seemed to have noticed that he had just arrived, and said proudly:

"This classmate, are you late? Just before noon, he broke again in the preliminaries of the 1,500-meter freestyle. Gu Kun's physical strength is really amazing. After swimming 1,500 meters before noon, he still ranked first in the 200-meter breaststroke preliminaries in the afternoon, and he still broke

record!

We all thought that if Gu Kun failed to create a miracle once, it would probably be this time, and he might be exhausted, but it seems that we have no need to worry. "

The audience member he was chatting with spoke fluent Japanese. But Kitajima Kosuke looked at the other person's proud expression and was still a little unsure: "Are you Chinese?"

The other person looked at him with a strange look on his face and replied matter-of-factly: "Why do you think so? Of course I am Japanese!"

Kitajima Kosuke scratched his head: "But...why are you so proud that a Chinese has created history again?"

The other party was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly and patted Kitajima Kosuke on the shoulder: "Little brother, I see you are also a person who loves swimming. Keep reading and you will understand. When you know how to feel this atmosphere, you will not

Would you care about the other person’s nationality? What’s more, Gu Kun is not a Chinese, he is a Chinese, a Lanfang nationality, and he is just an international student in a Chinese university.”

"That's right, I'm narrow-minded." Kosuke Kitajima was gradually moved by the atmosphere and trembled slightly. He laughed at himself and was relieved.

At this level of the competition, nationality no longer matters.

…

While the nearly 10,000 Japanese spectators represented by Kosuke Kitajima shouted sincerely, Gu Kun's classmates and coaches must of course be more sincere.

Qin Ke finally won a silver medal, while Luo Haili returned without a medal. All the other teammates had no competition today, so they came to watch Gu Kun and cheer for him.

"200-meter breaststroke preliminaries, 2 minutes, 8 seconds 32, which is 0.22 seconds faster than the previous world record of 2 minutes, 08 seconds 54." Luo Haili put down the electronic sign in her hand from the viewing position in front of the swimming lane.

, secretly took out a small notebook over there to keep accounts.

As Gu Kun's teammates, they are the ones who know the best about Gu Kun's current strength and ability to control the rhythm of the game.

After finishing accounting, Luo Haili smiled proudly and said to her senior brother as if making a bet: "Look, I said that Xiao Gu's ability to control the rhythm is getting better and better, and his potential is still far greater.

This is the 11th time that he has controlled the record-breaking progress within 0.3 seconds - whether he is swimming 100 meters, 200 meters or 400 meters, he has just broken 0.2 to 0.3 seconds, which shows that he was simply recuperating in the last period.

It’s fish.”

Qin Ke stared at the pool for a long time before sighing: "You are right, I just don't want to believe that there are such human beings in the world. In fact, I should have seen it when we were 1500 meters away - he

He could have swam to the 14:35 mark, breaking the world record of 14:43 by seven or eight seconds at once!

But when he was still seven or eight meters away from the edge of the pool, he actually paused, looked back at his opponent, and his subsequent strokes also slowed down. This slowed him down by at least three or four seconds! In the end

He only swam a time of 14 minutes, 38 seconds and 9 seconds, breaking the world record by 4 seconds. That's it. I guess he worked hard just to be the first to swim 14 minutes and 40 seconds, otherwise he would at least get stuck again.

Second rhythm."

"There's no way. Since he wants to be the one to surpass Bubka, it's reasonable, right? A 1,500-meter swim consumes so much energy. It would be a waste not to ensure that he breaks through every time." Luo Haili was already smiling so much that she had a wrong outlook on life

It seems that sportsmanship is not important anymore, seeing the juniors create miracles is the most fun.

The key is that it's not just the Chinese players and coaches who think so.

Even the Japanese audience in the venue, and even the English-speaking foreign audience who accounted for only 10% or 20%, thought this was very reasonable.

Half an hour later, when the semi-finals of the 200-meter breaststroke began, no one cared about who came first and who came second. They only cared about how many records Gu Kun could break.

"Slow down, it doesn't matter, this speed must be broken."

"Save your strength, let's watch the world record breaking in the finals later!"

“You can see four world records with one day ticket, it’s worth the price.”

Gu Kun did not disappoint the tens of thousands of spectators, and only reached 2:08.03. Finally, he left the opportunity to break through 2:08 to the final before the show ended in the evening.

"2 minutes, 7 seconds and 66 seconds! It really lived up to expectations. Well, I've finished reading the last world record today and let's go."

"After watching the 1,500-meter finals tomorrow, you can throw away your coupons."

When Gu Kun finished the 200-meter breaststroke final, there were actually two other butterfly events to compete with.

But who told Gu Kun that he had never practiced butterfly swimming and missed the original registration competition.

Without Gu Kun's appearance, the number of spectators in the stadium quickly dropped to the level of enthusiasm that an ordinary Universiade event would have.

The stands were mostly empty after just a few clicks.

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(PS: Seven or eight gold medals, twenty world records, I have to write about it. I don’t think it’s enough to solve it in one chapter. As for book friends who like to read this part of the plot, please understand that this competition is not very important.
Chapter completed!