At the age of 14, the debut is the peak, 24 years old, the diving career ended, she left too much for China.
She is the first "diving king" to achieve a grand slam on the world's top stage, but also an indispensable presence of China's diving "dream team", as the 200th gold medalist in the history of the Chinese Olympic Games, she has won 22 world championship titles in her ten-year career, she is Chen Ruolin, and now Quan Hongchan's mentor.
This issue of Sports Watch takes you back to the gorgeous epic of Chen Ruolin, the 5 golden queens of the Olympic Games.
From interest to love
At the end of 1992, Chen Ruolin was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, her parents divorced at the age of 3, she lived with her grandmother and grandfather, and the young and sick made the two elderly people very worried, for the sake of the child's health, her father took her to the swimming pool.
Enlightenment diving coach Gao Feng saw that she had excellent physical condition, slender limbs, and was a rare good seedling, so he threw the young Chen Ruolin into the pool, and within a few minutes, Chen Ruolin swam back to the pool by herself, and the excellent water properties shocked Gao Feng, and he decided that this little girl would definitely have great achievements in the future.
The family sent her to nantong children's amateur sports school to learn to swim, the so-called "gold will shine everywhere", in line with the purpose of letting her granddaughter learn to swim and strengthen her body, how could the family not imagine that their granddaughter would one day become a world champion.
Strangely, after contact diving, Chen Ruolin did rarely get sick again, in order to practice diving, the young Chen Ruolin always came first, the one who left the latest, fortunately, with the company of her father, there was also more warmth during training.
In order to participate in the children's competition as soon as possible, Chen Ruolin worked hard, but she accidentally dislocated her right elbow joint in training about two months before the game, and the young Chen Ruolin was very strong, wanting the coach to help her "straighten her bones" and solve the problem of unstretched arms, the screams of the little girl less than 6 years old resounded throughout the venue, and Chen Ruolin, who insisted on participating, insisted on participating.
In the later junior competition, Chen Ruolin won the 4th place, which was more powerful than the first, insisting on diving, she also caused her family to worry, the whole family no longer agreed to her doing such a dangerous move, and even once persuaded her to give up diving, but she did not listen.
With her dedication and persistence in diving, Chen Ruolin made rapid progress and quickly stood on a bigger stage.
From love to career
When Chen Ruolin came to the provincial amateur sports school in Nanjing, she found that she was not the only one with good talent, and in order to achieve better results, she could only continue to improve in order to enter the national team as soon as possible.
In 2003, at the age of 11, she stood on the stage of the National Children's Diving Competition and beat a group of players to win three gold medals.
In 2004, Chen Ruolin stood on the jumping platform of the National Diving Championships, competed on the same stage with world champions Li Ting and Lau Lishi, and won the fifth place, and her excellent performance attracted the attention of Zhou Jihong, the current leader of the Chinese diving team.
Chen Ruolin, who was extremely dedicated to diving, got the attention of the national team, and the coach at that time also wanted Chen Ruolin to enter the national team.
For the coach, in addition to being a talented diving genius on the field, Chen Ruolin on the field is also a well-behaved and obedient good child, and not entering the national team may be a loss for the national team.
After being brought into the national team by Zhou Jihong, the "big parent", Chen Ruolin has been trained for nearly two years, but she has never been able to stand on the biggest stage, although she is already one of the favorites to defeat other strong people, but in the top group of the national team, only the world championship title can have a foothold.
In 2006, Chen Ruolin encountered one of the important opportunities of her career, in the same year's Diving World Cup, Chen Ruolin replaced her teammate Yuan Peilin as a substitute, stood on the women's double 10 meters platform in the final, and cooperated with Jia Tong to win the 10 meters platform championship.
But in the national team at that time, the most promising young man was called Wang Xin, the existence of Wang Xin made it difficult for Chen Ruolin to fold in the event, and in the fiercely competitive national team, to maintain an efficient competitive state, Chen Ruolin must control her weight, and when she was growing her body, Chen Ruolin chose not to eat dinner no matter how tired she was.
In 2008, Chen Ruolin's highlight arrived, when she represented the Chinese team in the Diving Project of the Beijing Olympic Games, and won the laurel of the women's ten-meter platform and the women's double ten-meter platform, which seemed like a simple jump, but behind it was the heavy responsibility of carrying the honor of the home country, in the face of the goal of winning gold, Chen Ruolin did not back down, and completed the reversal, broke through herself, and won the first single gold medal of her career.
A legacy among champions
16-year-old Miaoling, the Olympic Games at the doorstep, Chen Ruolin did not live up to the expectations of the public, the arrival of two gold medals for China's diving "dream team" added luster, Chen Ruolin also became famous.
Champions are not unusual, for Chen Ruolin, beating her teammates is the biggest difficulty at that time, on July 21, 2011, the goddess of luck came to her side, in the annual Shanghai World Championship 10 meters platform event, Chen Ruolin completed the "Grand Slam", in addition to defeating her teammates, she is also the first person in the Chinese team to achieve a women's Grand Slam.
At the peak, who competes with the front, in the face of the world-class competition that follows, Chen Ruolin is calm and self-assured, and in 2012 she became the first athlete to defend her title in the Olympic 10-meter platform diving single and double events, and also won the 200th gold medal for the Chinese team.
As China's youngest Olympic "five-time champion", Chen Ruolin was also plagued by injuries, and the torment of cervical spine injuries has made it impossible for her to train anymore, and after her teammates competing on the same stage have retired at the age of 20 or so, Chen Ruolin, who was already 24 years old at the time, also embarked on this road.
On October 19, 2016, Chen Ruolin officially announced her retirement with full honors, which is the regret of China's diving "Dream Team", but it is worth mentioning that Chen Ruolin did not leave the problem of diving after retiring due to injury, but actively devoted herself to the construction of new blood.
Her famous disciples, there is Quan Hongchan, who won the 10-meter stage of the 2020 Olympic Games, the former is one of the indispensable kings of the Chinese diving team, the latter is a talented girl with "splash disappearance technique", and in the process of Quan Hongchan growing up, how to grasp the impact of her own development, Chen Ruolin gave good advice, after all, she once did this.
As the king of the Chinese women's 10-meter platform, she has maintained a record of ten consecutive double events in the World Series, and between the alternating inheritances, Chen Ruolin may be one of the most helpful people for Quan Hongchan.
I hope that under the inheritance of generations of diving stars, the Chinese diving "Dream Team" can create glory again, just like Chen Ruolin, as the "evergreen tree" of the Chinese diving team, the seemingly gorgeous championship epic, is the cruel payment behind them.
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