On December 15, Beijing time, the Chinese diving team was shortlisted for three of the candidates for the Lawrence World Sports Awards, namely the Best Team of the Year Award, the Best Male Athlete of the Year Award (Cao Yuan), and the Best Breakthrough Award of the Year (Quan Hongchan).
The Chinese diving team won 7 gold and 5 silver at the Tokyo Olympic Games, and conquered audiences around the world with its four-seat performance. Among them, Xie Sibei became the first male diver in 20 years to win the gold medal in the individual and double 3m board at the same Olympic Games. Cao Yuan was shortlisted for the Best Male Athlete Award, and the reason given by the organizing committee was "the first athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in three different diving events". The shortlist for the Best Male Athlete Award also includes world-class star athletes familiar to sports fans such as C Ronaldo, Messi, djokovic and so on. It can be said that being able to compete with them for the Best Male Athlete Award is already a great affirmation for Cao Yuan.
If there is currently the most popular Chinese diver overseas, it must be Quan Hongchan. On the world's largest video website, the video of the All-Red Chan Tokyo Olympic Games has long occupied the top 5 of the diving category. For the almost perfect performance of the final of the All-Red Chan Tokyo Olympic Games, overseas audiences gave high praise. This time shortlisted for the Best Breakthrough Award at the Lawrence World Sports Awards, you can also see the extent to which Quan Hongchan is sought after overseas. It is worth mentioning that Quan Hongchan was invited to participate in the diving exhibition competition of the Short Pool Swimming World Championships, which also aroused great attention overseas. The Chinese diving team shortlisted three candidates for the Lawrence Award, once again proving its worthy title of "Dream Team".