Park Tae-hyun led with an absolute advantage. He maintained the advantage after opening up a half metre lead in the beginning. Neither Biederman nor Van der Kay could surpa.s.s him."Park Tae Hyun is truly strong, Sun Yang is going to need to work harder!"
"There is still a chance. Sun Yang"s speed is excellent as long as he maintains this distance and doesn"t allow them to pull away, there is still a chance to come from behind."
"Yes, Sun ... wait! Tang Yan, Tang Yan has rushed out!"
Nearing the 50m mark, Tang Yan suddenly accelerated over pa.s.sing Romeri and Sun Yang grabbing fifth place.
And he didn"t stop. Before the turn, he had already caught up with Van der Kay.
Tang Yan in the pool was accelerating at full speed. Compared with domestic swimmers, these international swimmers were much better. Because of his inferior height, it took him 20 meters to catch up.
Entering the first turn, he launched into a half-somersault, tucked in, glided and then he kicked off the wall and launched forward.
This series of actions were perfect. After more than a month of hard training, he had mastered the appropriate turn distance.
There was a burst of cheers from the audience, because at this time on the display, Tang Yan had been shown to be the third person to touch the wall.
Tang Yan, an inconspicuous person who was ignored by them, including the media and his opponents was now showing a strong compet.i.tiveness.
After the 50m turn, feeling Tang Yan chasing, Park Tae-hyun and Biedermann both started to accelerate and Van der Kaye also accelerated to keep pace.
"Tang Yan! Tang Yan!"
With the rise of Tang Yan, the Chinese fans switched chants.
The first 100 meters pa.s.sed and everything had settled down, the rankings didn"t change. Tang Yan only led Van Der Kaiy by a slight margin.
Entering the second 100 meters, Tang Yan suddenly kicked it up a gear again. His kick frequency increased 6 to 7 and his speed sharply increased, he began to further pull away from Van Der Kay.
"Hahaha karma! Tang Yan"s gaining on Biedermann!" Shouted one of Tang Yan"s loyal fans with excitement.
"Karma? What happened between them?" Asked the guy beside him asked.
"Didn"t you see the interviews before the race?" The loyal fan asked in shock.
The guy beside him eating melon seeds shook his head.
"You!! Well, listen closely then, he said..." A loyal fan suddenly said with indignation.
The interview with the swimmers was done an hour before the race. Except for those who were dedicated enough to stick around for an hour beforehand know, most people didn"t know what happened.
As word spread, the crowd settled into two camps.
"Come on Tang Yan, Catch him!"
"Come on, Biedermann!"
...
Tang Yan was also enthusiastic at this time. There weren"t many spectators during the preliminaries. Although the emotions of the spectators who stayed were also very high, how could that compare to more than 10,000 people shouting in unison. He sped up and chased Biedermann.
Seeing Tang Yan accelerate again, his fans cheered even louder.
At this time, Biedermann who was trying to catch up with Park Tae-hyun, always had his sights focused on lane 1.
He hadn"t even caught Park Tae-hyun yet and he was being gained on.
And when he saw the swimmer in lane 2, he immediately felt uncomfortable, his coach had pointed out to him who Tang Yan was.
Even though they hadn"t even pa.s.sed the 200m mark he also started to speed up.
As soon as he started speeding up, Park Tae-hyun also started speeding up.
As a result, the 400 meter race which hadn"t even reached 200 meter mark began to look like a 50 meter sprint.
"Crazy! Absolutely crazy! Tang Yan has forced Park Tae-hyun and Biedermann into a sprint and he is still managing to narrow the distance between them. Too fierce! "
"I heard that Tang Yan said he wanted to break Biedermann"s record before the race. When I heard the news, I felt that he was just a newborn calf not afraid of tigers. But now it seems that we completely underestimated Tang Yan and didn"t consider enough his victories at the national champions.h.i.+ps. Maybe he will be our biggest surprise tonight! "
The commentator"s attention had completely s.h.i.+fted from Sun Yang to Tang Yan.
....
Nearing the 300m mark.
Biedermann soon felt the signs of excessive physical exertion. He had been forced to pick up the pace for the last 100m in order to stay ahead of Tang Yan in lane 2.
He was being led into a corner.
After swimming for a while, he felt that this pace was reckless and wasn"t maintainable, so despite Park Tae-hyun pulling away in lane 1 and Tang Yan gaining in lane 2, he began to slow down intentionally.
As he slowed down, the distance between Tang Yan and him narrowed at a speed that was visible to the naked eye. According to this trend, in 50-meters Tang Yan could easily go overtake.
"Amazing! Just incredible!"
The commentator was speechless with excitement.
"I feel like Biedermann has slowed down intentionally, after all, there is still more than 100m left in the race." The guest commentator worriedly interjected .
"That"s right, there are still more than 100 meters left in the race." The commentator replied calmed down by his guest"s words. No matter whether Biedermann intentionally slowed down or was physically weak, the same thing could happen to Tang Yan.
However, the audience didn"t delve into this. When they saw the distance between Tang Yan and Biedermann kept getting closer, their cheers filled the stadium in waves.
Listening to the cheers from the surrounding audience for Tang Yan, Biederman stayed firm and continued to pace himself. He was confident in his sprint and saved his remaining strength for the last leg of the race.
Tang Yan narrowed the distance with Biedermann little by little and when there was less than 10 meters left before the 300 meter turn, he finally got on a par with Biedermann.