After Zhang Lie was expelled from the national team for 'disciplinary issues', he took an old swimming pool, three eliminated sparring partners and a retired veteran coach Shen Nanxing to form a team that didn't even have swimming trunks. Four years later, in the men's 4×100m medley relay final of the Asian Championships, this wild team beat the all-star national team. In the last 50 meters, Zhang Lie surpassed three people in a row despite the recurrence of his shoulder injury, and was the first to hit the wall with a result that broke the Asian record. After three seconds of silence, the audience erupted into deafening shouts - and what was even more shocking was yet to come: Han Meng released a recording of the national team's forced match break in the post-match live broadcast, and the reform plan submitted by Zhao Qinglan overnight was urgently approved by the General Administration. Zhang Lie stood on the podium and said only one sentence to the camera: 'I swam my way out by myself. '
