The Chinese diving team began conducting a series of intra-team test matches at the Diving Training Hall of the State General Administration of Sport on April 1. Due to the well-known epidemic situation, the competition is not open to the media, and this form is used instead of various events that cannot be held and participated in to test the results of winter training.
Zhou Jihong, chairman of the Chinese Swimming Association and leader of the national diving team, said in an interview with reporters that the 10 main players participating in the Tokyo Olympic Games will undergo a large-scale restructuring next, and it is expected that only 5 people will stay in the current team, and the other 5 may leave the team.
In addition to the remarkable personnel changes on the women's 10m platform, major adjustments will also be made in the women's 3m springboard event, which is the proudest and most stable performance in many years, and the Tokyo Olympic women's 3m springboard single and double champions Shi Tingmao and Wang Han will change their identities and no longer play as athletes, Shi Tingmao will enter the coaching staff as an assistant coach in the national team, and Wang Han will also return to the parent team Hebei Diving Team to start his coaching career.
The young duo of Shaanxi National Games women's 3m board champion Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani, who won the World Championships double 3m springboard championship, will become the main force of the women's 3m springboard event of the newly promoted national diving team.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Shi Tingmao and Wang Han were the two oldest athletes on the Chinese diving team, both of whom were born in 1991 as "thirty and standing". With extremely stable performance and excellent performance, the sisters won the double 3m springboard final for the "Dream Team". It was also the fifth consecutive time since the 2004 Athens Olympics that the Chinese diving team had won the gold medal in the Olympic women's double springboard final.
If you count the Swimming World Championships, since the 2001 Fukuoka World Tour, the Chinese diving team has gone forward and followed, dominating the world for 20 years in the Olympic and World Championships, and has never let the women's doubles 3-meter board champion fall into the hands of others. From Guo Jingjing/Wu Minxia, to Wu Minxia/He Zi, to Shi Tingmao/Wang Han at the Tokyo Olympic Games, this is the glorious inheritance of the "Dream Team", the inheritance of the strong genes of the Chinese women's springboard. In addition, in the women's 3m board single event, Shi Tingmao successfully defended his title, won his fourth olympic gold, and equaled the great cause of his predecessor Guo Jingjing.
Wang Han has made a retirement report to the Hebei provincial team and the competent unit a few months ago, and after she leaves the national team, she will return to the Hebei diving team as a coach, and in the past few days, she has also played the role of announcer in the national team's test matches. Shi Tingmao, who is a few months younger than Wang Han, will stay on the Chinese swimming team, and her current identity is an assistant coach, starting with learning how to coach from her predecessors, and there is no team member in charge for the time being.
"I am still in a stage of learning and identity transformation, but I am confident that I will integrate into my new job as soon as possible and continue to contribute to the national team, and I will always be concerned about diving." In this regard, Zhou Jihong said, "In the past, few athletes took the initiative to ask to stay in the team as a coach after retiring, so I am very pleased with Shi Tingmao's choice, and we also need her." ”
Shi Tingmao has quickly entered the state, she and the Olympic hardware winner Chen Ruolin, who has been the special coach of the national team for one and a half years, are similar in age, and the two often communicate and compete together, and the older Shi Tingmao still has to ask Chen Ruolin for advice from time to time. The Chinese diving team will be more hopeful with these young and energetic coaches who have achieved countless honors in their careers.
Text/Beiqing Sports Liu Ailin