125 Learning Curve

The official beside Shen Qing turned and said to him.

"Sir...he's beat the...Asian record..."

In the 100-meter freestyle, the Asian record belonged to the Japanese swimmer Fujii Taro. He broke the previous record and improved on the previous time of 49 seconds 48 that was originally held by the Chinese swimmer Chen Zuo.

The new record was 49 seconds 36. No one had managed to break this record in the past two years.

Despite the development and popularity of high-tech swimsuits in the past two years, the record had remained elusive and this speed seemed to be the limit of Asia.

What no one had thought or expected was that a no name in the swimming world would break this record in a test match.

And Tang Yan even made a major mistake when turning around.

If they set him up with a high-tech swimsuit, and corrected his mistake....

Shen Qing was beaming and trembling in excitement realising this.

Whilst it didn't count as an official record, the fact that he had managed to even beat the time was enough.

He would have to replicate it at a FINA recognized event for it to take effect.

He suddenly felt that taking on Tang Yan was the most sensible decision he had made since he became the head coach of the provincial team.

The strength of the Zhejiang Province was strong.

Some people even called the Zhejiang Provincial Swimming Team the Chinese National Swimming Team.

But in fact this was mostly in middle and long distance events.

Shorter distances had always been their weaker side.

Tang Yan was the perfect complement to this shortcoming of the Zhejiang Province and even the Chinese swimming team!

Tang Yan didn't react, and when everyone else went to shore, he followed the swim lane on the far side and grabbed the guardrail to climb up.

"Brother Tang, you're amazing!" Ye Shiwen screamed with excitement and ran up to him.

Tang Yan reached out and patted her head with a small smile.

"Tang Yan, that was a strong performance." At this moment, Lu Zhibin also walked over and commented.

"Hahaha thank you, hopefully next time I don't slip like that." Tang Yan smiled and replied.

When he heard this, Lu Zhibin showed a bitter expression and shook his head.

He didn't say anything further but turned and left.

Tang Yan looked extremely puzzled seeing his inexplicable move and turned to look at Ye Shiwen.

"Brother...you need to watch your words, your words are too hurtful" When Lu Zhibin walked away, Ye Shiwen poked him and warned.

"What?" Tang Yan looked puzzled at Ye Shiwen.

"You just broke the Asian record and then complained about it and how you made a mistake. He's the main swimmer of the 50 and 100 meters freestyle." Ye Shiwen whispered.

"Ahh?" Tang Yan showed clear surprise all across his face. After realizing the meaning of Ye Shiwen's words, he pointed to his time on the big screen. "I've broken the record?"

"Yeah, you didn't know?" Ye Shiwen said with amazement.

"....Hahaha...." Tang Yan was speechless for a while, then broke into joyful laughter before suppressing it remembering Lu Zhibin.

"Hahaha look at you, your beaming. This is the most emotions you've ever shown." Ye Shiwen said  teasing Tang Yan.

"Hahaha is it, anyway, don't you have a race to prepare for, off you go!" Tang Yan smiled and quickly sent Ye Shiwen to the pool. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www.novelhall.com for visiting.

The test trials were two days long and the first day for the freestyle event there was only the 50m and 100m.

Then there was the medley competition, which was Ye Shiwen's main event.

Waiting to send away Ye Shiwen, Tang Yan shook his head helplessly.

"Tang Yan, take a shower and then come to my office." At this moment, Shen Qing walked over to him.

Going to his office again?

Tang Yan smiled and followed with a nod.

He headed to the showers. At this time, many of the contestants were already inside. When they saw him coming in, they all came together and smiled.

There were still a few gazes that seemed to hold unpleasant feelings towards him.

But a lot of people's attitudes seemed to have taken a huge 180 degree turn.

For this kind of fake enthusiasm, Tang Yan held no affection for it.

But he remained polite and conversed with them, then went off to shower, after which he went directly to Shen Qing's office.

When he got to the door, he knocked on the door and heard "come in".

He opened the door and went in.

There was a laptop on Shen Qing's desk on which he seemed to be looking for something.

He looked up when he heard Tang Yan enter.

"You can take a seat, wait a second while I sort this out."

Tang Yan nodded and walked to the side. Because the laptop was facing opposite him, he couldn't see the screen.

After sitting down, he couldn't help but ask: "Coach, can I participate in the other three styles?"

"Hmmm?" Shen Qing glanced at him and then shook his head.

As soon as he saw Shen Qing's attitude, Tang Yan's originally expectful eyes disappeared instantly.

After a while, Shen Qing turned the laptop around.

Tang Yan looked up with a disappointed gaze and saw on it was an enlarged video of his race just now."

"I saw your 100m"

Shen Qing smiled and followed by moving the mouse to further enlarge the video:

"This is the close up view of your turn, the action is actually not difficult, flipping forward, turning over, touching the wall, kicking the legs. But the speed and distance at which you do so is important."

Shen Qing looked up at Tang Yan and saw that he was listening intently.

He continued: "Your turn today, your technique was good but you were too close to the pool wall.

Your coming in with a lot of speed much faster than the average person, if you don't want to reduce your speed by too much then account for that by turning ahead of time."

Listening to Shen Qing's words, Tang Yan took it to heart.

"As for after the flip turn, have your arms above your head when your feet touch the wall. No waiting, no fumbling around under the water to get organized, just a lovely little streamline already in place and ready to push off with." Shen Qing continued.

"Wait after today's training session, I will guide you."

"Thank you coach." Tang Yan didn't expect a one to one session with Shen Qing.

"You need to perform well when the World Championships come around, strive to bring home gold. That is the best way to thank me." Shen Qing said with emotion.

Tang Yan nodded hard.

Shen Qing had said the World Championships instead of the National Championships, showing his recognition.

Leaving his office, Tang Yan didn't leave immediately, but returned directly to the pool, and up now was the women's test match for the 200m medley.

Ye Shiwen was in the second group.