China News Service, Tokyo, August 3rd. Title:
(Tokyo Olympics) He missed the new "Crown" and he has defeated the new crown
China News Agency reporter Zhang Su
At this time last year, Japanese diving star Terauchi, who was preparing for the Olympics, was diagnosed with the new crown pneumonia virus.
He is the first known infected person of the Japanese delegation to the Tokyo Olympics.
Fortunately, he recovered quickly after treatment.
With the "obsession" for the Olympics, Terauchi took off again.
On August 3, he was about to celebrate his 41st birthday in the men's singles 3-meter springboard final of the Tokyo Olympics.
This is the sixth time that Terauchi has participated in the Olympics. His age is quite different from that of his opponents on the same field.
When he watched the 1992 Barcelona Olympic diving competition on TV, and the idea of engaging in this sport was born from this, 8 of the other 11 athletes participating in the final today were not yet born.
Throughout the previous record of the veteran, there are only a handful of podiums in international competitions.
The bronze medal in the men's 3-meter springboard at the Asian Games in Jakarta in 2018, and the bronze medal in the men's singles 3-meter springboard at the 9th World Swimming Championships in 2001...are one of his few "highlight moments".
And the last time he advanced to the finals in the Olympic diving single event, it has to be traced back to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Before today's game, Terauchi set himself a lot of "small goals".
He wants to win a medal, and hopes that a referee can give a full score of "10", and the more important thing is to show the exquisiteness of his movements, so as to convey his attitude towards life and strive to move the world with his performance.
The medal and "10 points" eventually missed him.
In fact, the complete set of movements is not very difficult, and there was an obvious error in the third jump, and Terauchi early withdrew from the sequence of competing for gold and silver.
With a score of 359.70, his score ranked last among the finalists.
But he did touch the world.
After he completed his remarkable last jump, all the athletes, coaches and even reporters on the scene stood up and applauded.
After all the games were over, the people on the court rushed to take a group photo with him.
The champions and runners-up of this game, Xie Sitai and Wang Zongyuan from the Chinese diving "dream team" also admire Kenji Temple.
Xie Siquan remembered that when he was a fledgling young man around 2013, he had already seen this senior diving "running all over the world to compete."
"Post-00" Wang Zongyuan has less interaction with his predecessors, but the teenager frankly admitted that he was inspired by the spirit and "keep going."
Terauchi said that even though he failed to stand on the podium as he wished, he still felt worthy and happy after receiving respect and blessings from the audience.
Interestingly, even if the 35-year-old Mexican star Pacheco, the 35-year-old Mexican star Pacheco, said to Terauchi in the finals, his own popularity is still very tight.
According to the plan, the World Swimming Championships will be held in Fukuoka, Japan next year.
Fukuoka is regarded as Terauchi's "blessed place", and he won a precious bronze medal there 20 years ago.
"I don't want to superficially say that I will participate in the World Championships, I want to seriously think about everything." The veteran said.
Who will ask, simply "Tai Chi": "Now I want to eat a bowl of thick soy sauce ramen."
In fact, leaving the diving world is no stranger to Temple Ken.
In the "identity" column of his personal information, in addition to being an athlete, he also wrote "office worker".
He once retired in 2009 and worked in a sales job in a sports equipment company. Later, he returned with the encouragement of the Japanese "frog king" Kitajima Kosuke.
Such an experience gave Kenji a different understanding of diving and even sports.
He said that a successful Olympic Games will inspire a world full of boredom and pessimism due to the epidemic.
Known as a "legend" by the FINA, why not this "incentive" itself?
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