After a two-day team test, the biggest feature of the debut of the Chinese diving dream team that re-set sail in the Paris Olympic cycle is "new": only three of the 18 team members are "post-90s", and the rest of the athletes are all born after 2000; the oldest player is the 27-year-old Olympic gold medalist Cao Yuan, and Quan Hongchan, who just passed his 15th birthday, is still the "little cute" in the team.
At the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese diving team won 7 gold and 5 silver, Shi Tingmao, Wang Han, Chen Aisen, Xie Sibei, Yang Jian and other main heroes quietly left, Zhang Jiaqi has been admitted to Beijing Sport University and is about to start university life.
In the team test on April 1 and 2, all four double-person candidates were "reorganized". Tokyo Olympic women's platform champion Jeon Hong-chan was absent due to injury, but she and Chen Taoxi have been working together for two months and will join hands to impact the double 10m platform. Chen Yiwen, 22, and Chang Yani, 20, who won the World Cup in Tokyo last year, are now the new partners in the women's doubles 3m board, and their test results are only 3.21 points less than the winners Shi Tingmao and Wang Han at the Tokyo Olympics.
Cao Yuanrong, who won three gold medals in three different events at three Olympic Games, was promoted to "top pillar", but he was plagued by a shoulder injury in February, and his training was not systematic, and now he is back on the 3m board, and the double test score with the 20-year-old Wang Zongyuan is enough to beat other foreign combinations at the Tokyo Olympics, second only to the winning Xie Sibei/Wang Zongyuan. Yang Hao, 24, and Lian Junjie, 21, worked together on the men's doubles 10m stage, showing good synchronicity.
Zhou Jihong, the leader of the Chinese diving team, pointed out: "At present, the pairing is still in the run-in stage. They have a certain personal strength, but after the recombination, both the technical structure and the synchronization of the two are insufficient, and it still needs time to run in. ”
In the single test, The Tokyo Olympic runner-up and double champion Chen Yaoxi won steadily on the women's 10m platform; Chen Yiwen was superior in the women's 3m board; Wang Zongyuan won the men's 3m board after a fierce "fight" with Cao Yuan; on the men's 10m stage, Yang Hao and Lian Junjie took turns to brush high scores, until the last jump Yang Hao narrowly won with a 2.55 point advantage.
Due to the participation of some team members in the diving exhibition competition of the Abu Dhabi Short Pool Swimming World Championships in December last year, the winter training time was shorter. Zhou Jihong pointed out that Yang Hao scored 94.50 points in 407B (reflexive churning three and a half weeks of flexion) and Lian Junjie scored a full-time high of 100.80 points in 207B (flipping backwards for three and a half weeks), which surprised her.
"They don't have a long time practicing new moves, especially the fact that Junjie's 207B can jump like this is a miracle for him." But this year's winter training time is very short, and the team members still need to play and train non-stop in this year, and then correct the movements through the next winter training, so that there will be a big improvement. ”
From April 21 to 26, the national diving team will travel to Xi'an for the World Championships and Asian Games qualification matches, taking on a new challenge.
Text: Zhou Xin
Photo: Xinhua News Agency reporters Ding Xu and Wang Jian
Source: Xinhua News Agency
Editors: Zhuang Qixin, Yang Ye
Review: Sun Weijun
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