Sun Yang cried with excitement after his comeback debut! Interview choked up: The support of my family is what keeps me going to this day

In the men's 400-meter freestyle preliminaries of the 2024 National Summer Swimming Championships that ended on the morning of August 25, Beijing time, Chinese star Sun Yang, who appeared in the 11th group, won the first place in the group with a time of 3:54.98 and successfully advanced to the final in the evening.

After the game, Sun Yang was excited and shed tears in an interview. He said bluntly: "It really depends on the support of my family that I can persist to this day." Sun Yang's tears are not only the excitement of returning to the game after four and a half years, but also the efforts of himself to stick to his dreams all the way over the years.

This competition is the return of 32-year-old Sun Yang after 1680 days, and he only reported the men's 400-meter freestyle to "test the waters" for his comeback. Sun Yang, who was born in December 1991, also became the oldest athlete in this event, with a 22-year difference from the youngest contestant, Zhu Hongjun.

In the preliminaries, Sun Yang appeared in the 4th lane of Group 11. After 100 meters, Sun Yang began to gradually throw off all his opponents and take the lead. In the end, Sun Yang finished in 3:54.98, leaving the second place in the group by more than 1 second.

Sun Yang also successfully entered the final with the second place overall. Although it was nearly 2 seconds slower than Xu Haibo, who finished first in the preliminaries, considering that this was Sun Yang's first time competing in four and a half years, such a result was quite rare.

And it can be seen from the live broadcast that Sun Yang did not get up in the last 50 meters of sprint, obviously with reservations, which can't help but make people look forward to his performance in the final tonight. According to the schedule of the National Summer Swimming Championships, the final will start at 18:30 today, and the men's 400m freestyle is scheduled for the third place.