The Chinese diving team was a great success at the Tokyo Olympics, winning 7 gold medals and 5 silver medals in 8 events. During the Paris Olympic cycle, the Chinese diving team underwent a major blood change, and many post-90s players retired, and post-00s players became the main force. At the same time, the coaching staff also underwent a blood exchange. It is worth mentioning that the Olympic hardware king Chen Ruolin has become the new trump card in the hands of Zhou Jihong, because the two post-00s rising stars Quan Hongchan and Lian Junjie have become Chen Ruolin's disciples. In the Paris Olympic cycle, both of them may be in two sports, a total of 4 gold medals.
Chen Ruolin and Shi Tingmao have both become the coaches of the diving team, but the difference is that Chen Ruolin has been a coach in the diving team for more than 1 year, so she was appointed as the head coach. Shi Tingmao has just retired from the army, and her position is assistant coach. Chen Ruolin became an important player in the diving team's 10-meter platform project.
Quan Hongchan is the new sister of the current Chinese diving team's women's event, because Shi Tingmao and Wang Han, the two Olympic champions, have retired. The 15-year-old Quan Hongchan still has potential to tap, and she will also compete in the doubles event. Zhou Jihong dismantled the combination of Chen Taoxi and Zhang Jiaqi, so that Quan Hongchan and Chen Taoxi were paired. This will be the number one combination of the Chinese diving team's women's 10m platform.
Quan Hongchan has no solution in the women's 10m platform single event, even if there is a small mistake, she can win the championship, just like at the National Games. But in the double event, Quan Hongchan has not performed well before. Hongjie once doubled diving with Lu, but lost to Chen Taoxi and Zhang Jiaqi.
In addition to instructing Quan Hongchan, Chen Ruolin will also coach Junjie. Lian Junjie is a post-00s rising star in the men's 10m platform. In fact, in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Lian Junjie has risen, and in the Olympic Trials, Lian Junjie's performance is only behind Yang Jian, better than Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen. However, Lian Junjie's state is unstable, and Zhou Jihong chose to take Yang Jian, Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen. Cao Yuan and Yang Jian participated in the single project, and Cao Yuan and Chen Aisen partnered in the double project.
Lian Junjie won the National Diving Championships in October 2020 and then finished second in Wuhan and Shanghai. According to the rules of the selection tournament, the best result of the two races is selected. Yang Jian won the championship twice, and Lian Junjie won the championship once and finished runners-up once. Lian Junjie has made mistakes in participating in the competition before, and in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, he made big mistakes on the 3-meter board and the 10-meter platform and failed to win the championship.
Lian Junjie still needs to continue to polish, and now this task has been handed over to Chen Ruolin. In the recent team test match, Lian Junjie only practiced 207B action for more than 40 days before using it, and scored more than 100 points. Chen Ruolin couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Junjie.
Chen Ruolin said in an interview that she is definitely leading athletes to continue to attack the Olympic gold medal, which is her biggest goal now.
Unlike many table tennis Olympic champions who become coaches after retirement, diving Olympic champions are mostly not coaches after retirement, and the latter go to careers, or engage in business, and some marry into the rich husband and godson. Chen Ruolin can stay in the national team as a coach, which makes zhou Jihong, the head of diving, very happy. She also needs to cultivate a successor, after all, she has been in charge of the diving team for a long time.