45.92 Seconds! Pan Zhanle Is 0.48 Seconds Faster! Today Is Pan Zhanle's 20th Birthday, and He Staged a Stunning Comeback
Beijing time on August 5, 2024. In the just-concluded Paris Olympics men's 4x100m medley relay swimming competition, the Chinese swimming team staged a great comeback, defeating the United States to win the championship! This championship broke the U.S. team's 40-year monopoly on this title. This championship wrote a new legend for Chinese swimming!
This Olympic Games has seen the creation of too many new histories: The Chinese table tennis team won their first-ever mixed doubles gold medal. Zheng Qinwen won China's first women's tennis championship. Pan Zhanle made a major breakthrough, winning the men's 100m freestyle with a time of 46.40 seconds, setting a new world record —— and then, today, just now, Pan Zhanle and his teammates created another legend in the 4x100m race!
Chinese swimming, cutting through the waves! Chinese swimming, forging ahead! Chinese swimming has been subjected to too many drug tests: Tan Haiyang frankly said: I have to be called up at 6 o'clock every morning, which seriously affects our training and competitions —— well! We are determined to surpass our opponents in terms of results and show them what we can do! Just as Pan Zhanle said after winning the championship: We are the champions, and it should be others who are upset!
Pride, Pan Zhanle! Pride, Chinese swimming team!
Olympic competitive sports always have a few events that are the jewels in the crown, such as the 100m and 4x100m relay sprints. For example, the 100m freestyle and the 4x100m medley relay. —— These are the most exciting and suspenseful events! Chinese athletics has Liu Xiang's 110m hurdles victory in 12.91 seconds, and Su Bingtian's entry into the final with a 100m time of 9.83 seconds! —— Chinese swimming has Pan Zhanle's 100m freestyle victory in 46.40 seconds, and the 4x100m medley relay result of 3 minutes and 27.46 seconds!
What about the United States? They have been the strongest in this event for 40 years, but this time in Paris, France, their throne was taken by the Chinese swimming team! The U.S. finished with a time of 3 minutes and 28.01 seconds!
Third place: France, 3 minutes and 28.38 seconds!
Fourth place: Britain, 3 minutes and 29.60 seconds!
Fifth place: Canada, 3 minutes and 31.27 seconds!
As for Australia, considered one of the most traditional swimming powers, they finished sixth in the 4x100m with a time of 3 minutes and 31.86 seconds, more than four seconds slower than the Chinese swimming team!
Arrogant! Cathartic! Generous!
The Chinese swimming team, four young men! Xu Jiayu, 52.37 seconds! Tan Haiyang 57.98 seconds! Sun Jiajun 51.19 seconds! —— After the third leg, China was trailing, but it didn't matter because Pan Zhanle was on the fourth leg!
Pan Zhanle has shown Chinese and world audiences what it means to "fight for honor"! Don't look down on us? Then use our results to fight back!
Pan Zhanle's own achievement this year in February was: 46.80 seconds!
Then on July 31, Pan Zhanle broke his own record: 46.40 seconds —— a full 0.40 seconds faster! In the blink of an eye during the 100m swim, being so much faster is so shocking!
However, today: August 4, Pan Zhanle broke his own record created just four days ago again: 45.92 seconds, another 0.48 seconds faster —— although this time does not count as breaking the record since it was achieved in the fourth leg. But the time of 45.92 seconds is enough to shine! Enough to make Chinese swimming proud and honored! Enough to show those who always think the level of the Chinese swimming team is not good enough: What is talent + effort + seriousness + fighting for honor equals breaking records!
In addition, today is also Pan Zhanle's 20th birthday. What is the young man's birthday wish? Birthday wishes are usually not spoken, but it is estimated that Pan Zhanle's wish has already come true.