Summarize valuable experiences at the Paris Olympics, and a compound team helps the Chinese swimming team prepare for Los Angeles

At the Paris Olympics, the Chinese swimming team achieved good results with the hard work of all personnel, winning 12 medals in total, 2 gold, 3 silver, 7 bronzes. 19 of the 31 athletes from the Chinese swimming team won medals, accounting for 61%, which is twice as high as in the Tokyo Olympics. Among the 4 new world records, China set one (men's 100m freestyle) and one (men's and women's medley relay), breaking two Asian records and one national record. The most outstanding thing is that all 7 relay events entered the finals, winning 5 medals in total, including 1 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronzes and 2 fourth place. These data mark the overall strength of the Chinese swimming team is reaching a new height. At the National Swimming Project Training Work Conference held on the 14th, Cheng Yan, Zhou Xiaodong, Wang Mingbo, Liang Chen, Yu Liang and Qiao Qiao, heads of the National Swimming Team's compound team, spoke from the aspects of "scientific monitoring of the National Swimming Team's Paris Olympics", "Key Points of Swimming Project Technical Development", "Thinking on Swimming Physical Training", "Experience Exchange of Medical Security for the National Swimming Team's Paris Olympic Cycle", "Experiment of Nutrition Security for the National Swimming Team's Paris Cycle Cycle", and "Injury Management of Athletes".

During the Paris Olympic cycle, the scientific research team improved Pan Zhanle's breathing ability and corrected the deformation of Pan Zhanle's right shoulder pain caused by technical movements. The underwater video real-time feedback equipment was used to take thousands of underwater technology video samples for athletes participating in the Olympic Games such as Zhang Yufei and Pan Zhanle, and compared and analyzed them with top international athletes, optimizing water technology from the perspectives of body posture, paddling route, action synergy point, and force sequence. During the preparations for the Paris Olympics, the scientific research team focused on collective projects. It is reported that before the Paris Olympics, the scientific research team conducted 1,608 relay training tests for 22 athletes, ensuring zero mistakes in the Olympic relay competition and achieving good relay results. At the Doha World Championships, Pan Zhanle broke the men's 100m freestyle world record and won 4 gold medals. Pan Zhanle's physical training focuses on muscle building training and maximum strength training. Since the Fukuoka World Championships, Pan Zhanle has conducted systematic physical training. His weight in the Doha World Championships has increased by 4.5 kilograms compared to the Fukuoka World Championships. His 100-meter freestyle score has increased from 47.43 seconds at the Fukuoka World Championships to 46.80 seconds at the Doha World Championships.

From 2023, the General Administration of Sports of China has organized clinical experts, doctors, nurses, examiners and detectors to form a working team, establish an effective working mechanism, coordinate internal and external resources of the sports hospital, conduct physiological and biochemical function testing and daily internal and surgical medical services for athletes in the national swimming team, and successfully complete the medical security work during the Paris Olympic cycle.

Compound teams also used scientific means in sports nutrition protection, and provided guarantees in both nutrition during the training period and nutrition during the competition period. The main goal of nutrition work during the training period is to maintain the growth and development of athletes and their physical health through reasonable nutrition intake, maintain sufficient energy reserves, support training courses of different intensities, help the body recover quickly, and efficiently complete periodic training tasks. Nutrition protection during the game period has a complete set of scientific plans, from pre-match energy reserves to energy maintenance during the game, and then to quick replenishment after the game. In the future, the nutrition team will also work more closely with coaches, scientific research, physical fitness, rehabilitation, psychology, medical and other teams, comprehensively considering training load, psychological state and nutritional needs, and provide athletes with more accurate overall solutions.

Injury problems have always been the "natural enemy" of athletes. Effective injury management is inseparable from the collaborative intervention of a compound team. The team has established a scientific and efficient multi-professional collaboration mechanism, which can respond quickly when athletes experience early pain and closely cooperate with various professional roles.

At the Paris Olympics, the Chinese swimming team achieved a historical breakthrough in the number of medals, and the Chinese swimming results in the past five Olympics have always remained at the forefront of the world's second swimming camp. Although the overall strength has improved, there is still a clear gap in the total number of gold medals and medals with the United States and Australia. The Los Angeles Olympic swimming event has added 6 short-distance competitions, and the Chinese swimming team has opportunities and challenges. If you want to narrow the gap in the Los Angeles Olympics and enter the first echelon, the Chinese swimming team will still face huge challenges in training, scientific research and preparation.