Setting new records, Li Bingjie bid farewell to Paris melancholy

Xinhua News Agency, Shenzhen, May 21 (Reporters Gao Meng and Zhao Ziyu) "Congratulations, I have won another PB (personal best result)." Since the start of the 2025 National Swimming Championship, Li Bingjie has participated in three finals, won three gold medals, and set three personal best results, including an Asian record and a competition record.

In the women's 200m freestyle final held on the 20th, Li Bingjie won the championship with 1 minute 55 seconds 52. In the women's 1500m freestyle competition held on the 19th, she broke the tournament record set by Wang Jian Jiahe with a time of 15 minutes, 43 seconds, 94. On the first day of the game, she set a new Asian record in the women's 400m freestyle competition with 3 minutes 59 seconds 99.

Although her outstanding results, after the game, this 23-year-old girl often showed a "light" side. In the mixed-collection area, she almost only analyzes her grades and rarely expresses her emotions.

After becoming the first Asian female player to break the "4-minute mark" in 400 meters freestyle, she calmly analyzed: "It's now 3 minutes, 59 seconds, 99. I hope I can keep it, but I still think it's best to swim in 59 seconds so that I can be competitive when playing against other players in the World Championships. If it's in the international competition, Ledetsky and the others might have rushed out very far. If so, no matter how I chase it in the future, I may not have the advantage on the psychological level."

After breaking through the women's 1500 meters freestyle record, she said: "I hope to rewrite the (Asian) record of the 1500 meters freestyle. The competition reflects my own There were still shortcomings in training before, and there were speed drops. I hope that this problem can be made up for in the subsequent training. Only in this way can it be closer to the record." After the women's 200m freestyle competition, she said: "I am average in my performance in this game. My idea is to swim the '200-element' within 1 minute and 55 seconds early, which will help improve the '400-element'. I still have a 4X200-element freestyle relay, so I also hope to create better results from my own stick to bring some advantages to the team."

A simple sentence reveals her long-term thinking and rational planning for her various events. And the small outbreak in this championship game actually originated from a period of dormant after the Olympics.

In 2021, 19-year-old Li Bingjie won the women's 4X200m freestyle relay gold medal and the 400m freestyle bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

At the Doha World Swimming Championships held in early 2024, she led the young lineup and turned the tide to win the women's 4X200m freestyle relay gold medal and 400m freestyle silver medal.

But only a few months later, the 2024 Paris Olympics seemed more like a nightmare to Li Bingjie. The hour hand points to the end of July. When people are looking forward to Li Bingjie's further breakthrough in the Ladfense swimming pool, she suffers a lot of blows. Li Bingjie missed the final in the women's 400m and 800m freestyle events. "Maybe I was hit by some blow at last year's Olympics. I feel that I am not on the same level as them, not on the same level." In the mixed-raiser area of ​​this competition, Li Bingjie revealed her voice.

"Before the Olympics, I might have been a little fishing for three days and two days of drying the net when I was training. Once I entered a state of fatigue, I might give up. But now, I feel that I have changed a lot during this period." Li Bingjie cleaned up her mood, reviewed and adjusted her condition, and continued to accumulate "small confidence." She said: "Confidence must come from daily training. Only when the training is in place can you have confidence in the competition; only when the competition has good results can you be more confident in the face of the competition."

"Next, I will focus on the World Championships and National Games." When talking about the next plan, Li Bingjie said: "Through this competition, my confidence has been improved and I enjoy the competition more. I think this will give me more courage to compete with my opponents in the World Championships." (End)