According to British media reports, recently, China's diving celebrity, the world-renowned coach Chen Wen passed away at the age of 80. Perhaps, for Chen Wen's name, many people do not know much. Indeed, Coach Chen Wen has been coaching abroad for many years and shoulders the task of "wolf raising plan" similar to national table tennis. There is no doubt that Chen Wen is successful. But looking at the foreign media's evaluation of him and the recognition of him by well-known players, we can understand Chen Wen's contribution to the world diving in the field of coaching.
A while ago, news came out of the media that the weightlifting project would most likely disappear from the Olympic Games. On the one hand, this is related to some scandals in weightlifting itself, and on the other hand, it is also because in this project, it has almost become a dominant situation in China. At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese weightlifting team participated in 8 events and won 7 gold medals, and the gold medal lost was not because of lack of strength, but because of the coach's decision-making mistakes, and finally won a silver medal. In order to avoid this situation, the Chinese table tennis team has previously appeared in the "wolf raising plan", sending excellent coaches to European and American countries for volunteer teaching, cultivating some competitive opponents, comprehensively improving the level of table tennis in the world, and promoting the development of table tennis. As another "dream team" diving team in the domestic sports world, such a strategy has also been adopted.
Before the 90s, there were only 4 gold medals in diving at the Olympics. The addition of the double event has been added, and the increase in the number of events has also expanded the proportion of the sport in the Olympic gold medal. However, if a country has a large package of this project in the long run, the project will inevitably be marginalized. In this project, Chinese diving can be said to be unique in the world. Therefore, at the beginning of this century, the Chinese diving team decided to learn from the national table tennis and sent excellent coaches to Europe and the United States to support the teaching. If Ma Jin went to Mexico, Tong Hui went to Australia, and Chen Wen and Li Peng went to Britain.
Before the arrival of Coach Chen Wen, the Level of the British Diving Team was very average, and it did poorly in the various competitions it participated in. In fact, before the Chinese diving team became the dream team, Britain was the king of the Olympic games. After Coach Chen Wen arrived in the UK to coach, after several years of hard work, the UK stood out among a number of second-rate diving teams and became a strong contender for the championship.
As early as the 2008 Olympic Games, Coach Chen Wen sent Tom Daly, Tonya Coltsy and Sarah Barrow, who were only 13 years old at the time, to the Beijing Diving Summer Camp. Let these British players feel the high level of diving training. This visit can be said to have greatly shocked the British players, and also benefited the entire British diving team.
In the ensuing London Olympics and Rio Olympics, the British diving team began to produce results, and in both Olympic Games, they won bronze medals. At the Tokyo Olympics, Britain's Daly and his partner stood on the podium of the 10-meter jump double. It is because of the excellent performance of the British diving team that Daley's status in the British sports world has also risen rapidly. In last year's All England Sports Personalities competition, he was second only to Emma Raducannu, the first Chinese-British woman to win the US Open in 43 years.
It is Coach Chen Wen's contribution to the British diving movement, and the British media have a high evaluation of Chen Wen, they said: "Without Coach Chen Wen, it would be impossible to have today's British diving brother." ”
After learning the news of Coach Chen Wen's death, Jack Buckner, a brother of the British diving team, paid tribute to Coach Chen Wen, believing that this father-level figure taught everyone everything hand in hand. Olympic champion Daly also said that they were sad to learn that Coach Chen Wen had left. The father-level coach has left a valuable legacy on the British diving team, and in this sport, he has trained countless players.