China News Service, Tokyo, August 7th, title:
(Tokyo Olympics) 7 gold and 5 silver, China's diving "dream" to be realized
China News Agency reporter Zhang Su
On August 7, all the diving events of the Tokyo Olympics ended, and the Chinese diving team won a total of 7 golds and 5 silvers.
Judging from the number of gold medals alone, it has tied the best result of the Olympic Games.
If it is calculated by the fineness of the medal, it is even better.
4 individual events won all the championships and runners-up, but it is only one step away from winning all 8 gold medals, which is a pity.
Looking at the "dream performance" of the "Dream Team" in the Tokyo arena, it may also indicate that one day "dreams come true" in the future.
Legend
"Everyone has high expectations for Chinese diving... We do well, as if it is our duty." Zhou Jihong, the Chinese diving team leader, said with emotion at the end of the game, breaking through the hardships of the "dream team".
Before coming to Tokyo, the "record" of the Chinese diving team was that since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, it has won 40 diving gold medals, accounting for more than 70% of the total.
On August 1, local time, in the women's singles 3-meter springboard diving final of the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese star Shi Tingmao successfully defended his title.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
Countless famous diving players have left legendary stories, and those who have fought side by side with them will continue to write them.
This is true from Shi Tingmao who was on the first stage of the Tokyo Olympic diving competition to Cao Yuan who was on the final stage of the diving competition.
Shi Tingmao, who once fell into depression when preparing for the war, won the women's 3-meter springboard "double champion" again after Rio.
Cao Yuan overcame the tremendous pressure of making mistakes in the men's double 10-meter platform and "recovered the lost gold medal" on the men's single 10-meter platform.
He is also the first athlete to be able to freely switch between diving platform, springboard and diving platform repeatedly and win the Olympic champion in three different sports.
On August 7, local time, the Tokyo Olympic diving final day, Cao Yuan won the men's 10-meter platform championship with 582.35 points, and Yang Jian won the runner-up.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
Zhou Jihong expressed his understanding of Cao Yuan's loss of gold.
She said that it was a "miracle" that Cao Yuan could recover and complete the game after a shoulder dislocation at the end of April, which is inseparable from the athlete's tenacious will and quality.
Veteran hold on
These veterans, who have played for the country for many times, are of the same age, but relatively less well-known veterans, ushered in a "highlight moment" in Tokyo.
Wang Han, currently the oldest member of the Chinese diving team, has finally "turned to the right" as a "substitute" for many years.
She first teamed up with Shi Tingmao to win the women's doubles 3-meter springboard championship, and then took the silver in the women's singles 3-meter springboard.
On July 25, local time, Shi Tingmao (left) and Wang Han at the award ceremony.
On the same day, the women's double three-meter diving final of the Tokyo Olympics was held at the Tokyo Aquatic Center. Chinese combination Shi Tingmao and Wang Han won the gold medal with 326.40 points.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
Xie Siquan, who missed the Rio "shuttle" due to injury and almost said goodbye to diving, became the second athlete to win the men's 3-meter springboard "double champion" in a single Olympics after the "Diving Prince" Xiong Ni.
Although World Championship champion Yang Jian was the runner-up in the men's singles 10-meter springboard with a disadvantage of 1.95 points, Zhou Jihong still affirmed the "difficulty king".
"It is not easy to get more than 112 points in the action with a degree of difficulty of 4.1 in the competition. Although he is a veteran, he still has potential." She said that she believes he still has the opportunity to attack his dream again.
On August 3, local time, in the men's singles 3-meter springboard final of the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese player Xie Sisi was crowned the Olympic champion for the first time with 558.75 points.
The picture shows Xie Sisi in the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
Zhou Jihong also said that it is a natural phenomenon for the team to alternate between new and old.
In the past, many veterans still have a heartbeat even after retiring.
She also hopes that more veterans will set sail again and make further contributions to diving.
Former Olympic champions such as Guo Jingjing and Chen Ruolin appeared in Tokyo as members of the International Swimming Federation's Diving Technical Committee.
Rookie is coming
In fact, the most nervous event for Zhou Jihong before the trip was the women's singles 10-meter platform, because "the two athletes are relatively young."
What is unexpected is that this gold medal came so securely.
The 14-year-old Quan Hongchan is the youngest athlete in the entire Chinese sports delegation.
It was this girl who first came into contact with diving when she was 7 years old and had no previous experience in international competitions. She first arrived at the Olympic finals. She set a new record with a total score of 466.20 and won the championship with five test jumps and three jumps.
On August 5th, in the women's 10-meter platform final of the Tokyo Olympics, the 14-year-old Quan Hongchan jumped out of full marks three times in the competition and won the gold medal with her excellent performance.
Quan Hongchan is also the youngest athlete of the Chinese delegation in this Olympic Games.
Another younger athlete, Chen Yuxi, not only won the silver medal in the women's singles 10m platform, but also partnered with Zhang Jiaqi to win the gold medal in the women's doubles 10m platform final with impeccable zero errors.
"Our biggest advantage is that we are young and have no mental burden." "In my heart, Chinese diving is invincible!" said the female players.
Zhou Jihong reminded that young athletes still have a long way to go, especially the women's team events are more uncertain. With growth and development, they must rely on self-discipline life and hard training to maintain a certain level of competition.
Dreaming of paris
In this tournament, the British team has 1 gold, 2 bronze, and the US team, 2 silver and 1 bronze, ranking second and third in the diving medal list.
Among them, it was the Olympic "Four Dynasties Veteran" and British team star Daly who successfully blocked the "Dream Team" to win the 8 gold goals.
It took 20 years for the diving "prodigy" who was born at the age of 15 to finally hang the Olympic gold medal on his neck.
The growth of players in Britain and the United States and other countries has also attracted attention from all sides.
Zhou Jihong said that the game is over and the journey begins again, and it needs to be summarized to start the next period of the journey.
Looking forward to the Paris stadium, when the attitude of the veteran is not yet clear, the performance of gradually growing into the backbone of the "dream team" may be more worth looking forward to.
For example, Wang Zongyuan, who was little known before the game and now holds 1 gold and 1 silver.
His physical fitness and good attitude impressed the outside world deeply.
The former Chinese diving team is even more star-studded because of the extremely influential figures such as Fu Mingxia, Xiong Ni, Tian Liang, Guo Jingjing, and Wu Minxia.
Relatively speaking, who is the leader of the current "Dream Team" is still unclear.
On August 7, the Chinese diving team took a group photo after the Tokyo Olympic diving competition was over.
The Chinese diving team achieved 7 golds and 5 silvers in this Olympics.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
After all the games ended on the 7th, including athletes, coaches, and physical teams, the Chinese diving team took a "family portrait" at the Tokyo Aquatic Center.
Cao Yuan and Yang Jian, who had just arrived from the press conference, quickly took off their medals and quickly integrated into it.
This may be what the "Dream Team" often said, when everything went to zero when they stepped off the podium.
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