your male or female swimmers first.
first. Who do you field first?
Is there any fatigue for the
swimmers involved?
swimmers involved? So many questions to be
answered.
answered. It is a genuine ballots of
calculations, no the just about
the qualification.
the qualification. But, for gold, silver and
bronze.
bronze. The eight finalists.
This is going >> to be a race in which you
cannot, absolutely cannot,
despite massive leads, you
cannot assume that any team is
going to win or has gained
enough of an advantage to win.
At any given
>> time it is truly anyone's
race.
race. Right now going out you have
the person in first, but just
think about all of the
different factors in comparison
to the able bodied mixed relay.
You not only have gender, but
varied ability within the class
and across the different
classes.
classes. Each classification, there's a
range of disabilities, it's a
point system.
point system. Then the question is, do you
use an S3 or an S5?
Do you want the higher and the
lower or two of the middle.
It's really anyone's game.
Then it's a question of
fatigue, how someone is a relay
swimmer?
swimmer? Where in the programme does
this fall?
this fall? It's more than just a
calculation that you can spin
out on your computer.
This is this
>> is a hand-over, Yuan,
spectacular dolphin dive.
Some of the handovers happen in
the pool.
the pool. Exactly, when you
>> deal with the lower
classifications, you have a mix
of starts, some from the blocks
and some from the water.
The ones who are starting from
the water sometimes need
assistance, and sometimes they
don't.
don't. But look at this right now,
look at the Chinese, look at
this kick.
this kick. He's just moving.
This has been
>> set up by China, and Lu Dong
has been given the opportunity
to bring it home but she'll be
in the water against some very
quick male swimmers, some
swimming in higher
classifications and will be
significantly quicker in the
pool.
pool. But China do seem to have a
significant lead.
significant lead. The battle now is really for
silver.
silver. Any one of four teams could
realistically hit the wall in
second place.
second place. So far ahead of the world
record now.
record now. Zhang Li set it up.
China smash the world record
and get gold.
Italy get the silver medal.
Bronze, the battle is on, it's
Brazil in three.
Glock just overcame his rivals
from Ukraine.
from Ukraine. That is the finish that Brazil
wanted.
wanted. They wanted another medal.
Daniel Dias has 27 Paralympic
Games medals now, a third
bronze medal in just two days
of competition at Tokyo 2020.
For Italy, a very fine silver,
as they went out with two
female swimmers, an S7 in Terzi
and S3 but for China, they went
with the simple S5s, but they
have such ability in that
class, they could put out the
two finest freestylers in the
women's classification.
women's classification. They romped to victory in world
record time.
record time. Yes, you saw
>> the start.
There's such a wide range of
starts.
starts. Some are out of the water, some
are in.
are in. Right now China, he slams into
the touch bad with his head.
Then the next swimmer comes
off.
off. Look at the power of the
underwater kick and hands it
off to the final leg and slams
into the touch pad, again with
the head.
the head. The Chinese, the strategy of
using four S5 swimmers to
maximise that kick.
Remember, it's only 450, so
your arms aren't really going
to tire out.
That's brilliant.
That's brilliant. I think it
>> really is.
While they took, there is Diaz
in the background having a good
laugh.
laugh. The legend Glock, he brought it
home for Brazil as he managed
to jut sprint two in the pool
to deny both Spain and Ukraine
a medal.
a medal. .
. No team has ever gone sub 2.
18.
18. Won't worry about taking a
second or tenths or hundreds of
a second off here - no, we'll
take almost three seconds off
the previous world record!
China in 2016 had two S3
swimmers