On March 21, the National Diving Championships and Olympic Games, World Championships, Asian Games and Universiade Trials ushered in the women's single 10-meter platform final, and after fierce competition, Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan were the champions and runners-up.
Shanghai's Chen Yuxi at the women's 10m platform championship ceremony. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Quan Hongchan performed well in four of the five jumps of the competition, but a significant mistake in the fourth round of 207C (three and a half weeks of backward tumbling to her knees) also cost her the title.
After walking off the podium with the silver medal, Quan Hongchan still couldn't control her tears, and buried herself in the arms of Xie Sicheng, a senior brother of the Guangdong team on the sidelines, and shed sad tears.
As the world's top diving player, Quan Hongchan, who will only turn 16 next week, said that she will also be nervous, "There is pressure, but there is not too much, sometimes the competition is still a little nervous." Or step by step, not to say that you will reach the top all at once, take your time and do not worry. ”
After wiping away her tears, Quan Hongchan also immediately set her eyes on the training and competition tasks in the future, "Thank you for the audience coming to cheer for me, after that I will adjust my mentality and improve the training, including 2 sets and other movements." ”
207C "Spell" reappeared
It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time Quan Hongchan has tripped over 207C. In the previous semifinals, Quan Hongchan made a mistake in entering the water when completing this move. Chen Yuxi tied the score difference, and the two did not decide the winner until the last jump.
In fact, in the women's 10-meter platform event, 207C is one of the most error-prone movements of athletes. Once, it also bothered Quan Hongchan.
For competitors, the backward tumbling movement is relatively more prone to mistakes due to the difficulty of observing the target when the body is unfolded. The 207C with a difficulty coefficient of 3.3 is the top difficulty of women's jumping, and it requires high comprehensive ability of athletes in all aspects. In addition, Quan Hongchan has been growing her body, so she has lacked a slight lack of stability in the 207C in the past.
In the Tokyo Olympics final, Quan Hongchan scored 95.70 on the 207C, which helped her finally break the Olympic record (466.20 points). But in fact, in the preliminary round and semifinals, Quan Hongchan's interpretation of 207C was not in place, and only 47.85 points were scored in the preliminary round.
A similar situation happened at the 2021 Shaanxi National Games. In the women's team final, Quan Hongchan's score in 207C was less than 60. At last year's World Championships in Budapest, Quan Hongchan scored in her early 60s when she challenged 207C three times. Even if the other moves were close to perfect, they could not help her win the solo event.
Quan Hongchan's little sister's crying caused the whole network to feel distressed
Many netizens felt sorry for Quan Hongchan, and some netizens encouraged her - "pass the pass".
Her action of leaning on her senior brother Xie Sicheng to wipe her tears made many netizens "not hold back":
After the game, Xie Sicheng posted that only experience can make people strong (don't wipe my clothes next time)...
Dry your tears and keep going!