China’s diving “innovation” after 00 “succession” to meet the challenge

Xinhua Only three of the famous players are “post-90s”, and the rest of the athletes were born after 2000; the oldest player is the 27-year-old Olympic triple gold medalist Cao Yuan, and Quan Hongchan, who has just passed his 15th birthday, is still in the team. “Little cute”. On August 5, 2021, Chinese athletes Quan Hongchan (right) and Chen Yuxi celebrated after the award ceremony of the women’s 10m platform diving final in the Tokyo Olympics. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Xu At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese diving team won 7 golds and 5 silvers. The main heroes such as Shi Tingmao, Wang Han, Chen Aisen, Xie Sizhen, Yang Jian left quietly. Zhang Jiaqi has been admitted to Beijing Sports University and is about to start his university life. In the team test on April 1 and 2, the candidates for the four duo events were all “reorganized”. The women’s platform diving champion Quan Hongchan of the Tokyo Olympics was absent due to injury, but she and Chen Yuxi have been working together for two months, and will work together to hit the double 10-meter platform. 22-year-old Chen Yiwen and 20-year-old Chang Yani once won the World Cup in Tokyo last year, and now they are the new partners of the women’s double 3-meter springboard. Compared with the Tokyo Olympics, their test scores are only 3.21 points lower than the champions Shi Tingmao/Wang Han. . Cao Yuanrong, who won three gold medals in three different events at the three Olympic Games, was promoted to the “pillar”, but he was troubled by a shoulder injury in February and his training was not systematic. Now he is back in the 3-meter springboard and teamed up with 20-year-old Wang Zongyuan. The double test results are enough to beat other foreign groups in the Tokyo Olympics, second only to Xie Siyi/Wang Zongyuan, who won the championship. 24-year-old Yang Hao and 21-year-old Lian Junjie collaborated on the men’s doubles 10m platform, showing good synchronization. On March 13, 2021, the champion Cao Yuan (middle), the runner-up Xie Sizhen (left) and the third runner-up Wang Zongyuan at the award ceremony of the men’s three-meter springboard competition in the China Diving Star Competition and the 14th National Games Diving Test Competition. Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Wang Jian) ​​The leader of the Chinese diving team, Zhou Jihong, pointed out: “At present, the double pairing is still in the running-in stage. They have certain personal strength, but after the recombination, both technical structure and double synchronization are insufficient. It still takes time to get in.” In the single test, Chen Yuxi, the single runner-up and double champion of the Tokyo Olympics, won the women’s 10-meter platform; Chen Yiwen came out on top in the women’s 3-meter springboard; Fight” and won the men’s 3-meter springboard with difficulty; on the men’s 10-meter platform, Yang Hao and Lian Junjie took turns to score high, and it was not until the last jump that Yang Hao narrowly won by 2.55 points. Because some of the team members participated in the diving exhibition competition of the Abu Dhabi World Short Pool Swimming Championships in December last year, they entered the winter training for a short time. Zhou Jihong pointed out that Yang Hao scored 94.50 points in 407B (reverse torsion for three and a half weeks), and Lian Junjie scored a game-high 100.80 points in 207B (backward tossing for three and a half weeks), which surprised her. “They didn’t practice new moves for a long time, especially for Junjie’s 207B to be able to jump like this, it’s a miracle for him. But this winter training time is very short, and the players still need to compete non-stop throughout the year. And training, and then correct the movement through the next winter training, will have a great improvement.” From April 21 to 26, the national diving team will go to Xi’an for the World Championships and Asian Games qualifying matches to meet new challenges.