In the women's 10m platform final of the 2022 Diving World Cup, Chen Yuxi defeated teammate Quan Hongchan to win the championship, achieving the Olympic Games, World Championships and World Cup gold medal Grand Slam.
Her parents have a very common understanding in family education: what the child likes may be what she is good at, and she must not be willing to do what she does not like, and she must have confidence in the child; You think she's great, she might really be great.
▶ Chen Yuxi, who was a "sick seedling" when he was a child, first practiced sports just to strengthen his body, but he didn't expect ...
Chen was born in 2005. Mom Dong Chunhua and dad Chen Jian are both former professional gymnasts, and after retiring from sports, one taught at the Shanghai Institute of Sport and the other coached at the Shanghai Xuhui District Youth Sports School. Mr. and Mrs. Chen did not initially want their daughter to take the road of sports, because they knew that the road was difficult.
When he was in kindergarten, Chen Yuxi seemed very talented in mathematics, and he knew how to find area and volume when he first entered the kindergarten class, and the multiplication trick was memorized. But Chen Qianxi has been a sick man since she was a child, and in kindergarten, she had a fever when others caught a cold, and she was hospitalized with a fever from others. Once when raising the national flag in kindergarten, she actually fainted.
Chen Jian discussed with his wife: "It's better to let the children follow me to practice gymnastics, exercise and exercise." In this way, Chen Qianxi followed her father into the gymnastics room. Perhaps inheriting his parents' sports talent, Chen Qianxi has a particularly high understanding of gymnastics and is also physically dexterous. Seeing that his daughter likes to practice gymnastics, Chen Jian is very happy, but he never forces his daughter to practice her technique well, as long as he can achieve the purpose of exercising, he is satisfied.
Jian Chen and his wife have a very common understanding in family education: what the child likes may be what she is good at, and she must not be willing to do what she does not like, and she must have confidence in the child; You think she's great, she might really be great.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chen Yuxi, who was only 3 years old, watched the games on TV and learned to sing the national anthem. Every time the national anthem was played, she held her head high and sang along excitedly. The parents were pleasantly surprised: "Unexpectedly, this child has a heart to be a champion since he was a child!" ”
When she was almost 7 years old, Chen fell in love with diving again, so she switched to diving. The coach started with the basic movements of swimming, which she learned after only a few attempts in the water. Several coaches of the sports school were surprised and asked Chen Jian to "rob people". In the end, Shi Meiqin, China's first women's springboard world champion, got her wish.
At first, Chen Jian and his wife were reluctant to let their daughter practice diving, and politely refused Shi Meiqin: "The child is not in good health, and when he gets sick, he has a high fever and convulsions, which is quite scary." We let our daughter practice gymnastics, and we didn't have the idea of letting her take a professional path in the future, just so that she could play and exercise without getting sick. ”
Chen Yuxi said to Shi Meiqin: "I want to sprint to the Olympic championship like Wu Minxia's sister and win glory for the country!" At this time, Jian Chen and his wife refused again, and after discussion, they decided to respect their daughter's choice.
In order to facilitate their daughter's diving practice, Chen Jian and his wife moved their family to the vicinity of the Shanghai Natatorium.
▲ Chen Yuxi and parents
▶ Her mother created a set of "reverse incentive methods" to help Chen Qianxi adapt to the life of an athlete as soon as possible
Getting to the championship podium is undoubtedly the highlight moment, but few people know what a champion goes through and what happens before he gets on the podium.
At the age of 13, Chen had to be treated for sports injuries to her wrist and ankles, which were caused by wrist tendon strain caused by long-term inverted support, and the ankle problem was caused by long-term tiptoe force. Chen Jian, a coach who was a professional athlete, had expected this, but he endured his distress and supported his daughter.
Entering the Shanghai diving team, there is a lot of training every day. Children are unstable in their hearts, and there will be all kinds of emotions: after two days of practice, they will disappear, saying that they are sick; After two more days of practice, he disappeared again, saying that he was afraid. Shi Meiqin just let Chen Qianxi participate in training normally, it was very laborious.
Dong Chunhua is well aware of his daughter's unbending personality and has created a set of "reverse incentive methods". When her daughter fell into a low ebb, she teased her daughter: "Or we won't practice, it's too hard, go home!" Chen Yuxi immediately lifted her spirits when she heard this, and in turn persuaded her mother not to think so.
Dong Chunhua didn't really want his daughter to give up, he just wanted to relieve her pressure.
At the end of September one year, the temperature suddenly dropped, Chen Yuxi became feverish, and came back to Dong Chunhua and said: "Mom, it's too cold, I don't practice." Dong Chunhua said: "Okay, then don't practice." ”
After a while, she told Chen Qianxi a good news: "Tao Xi, the coach called, indicating that Sister Wu Minxia and brother Huoliang are coming to the diving team, do you want to go?" ”
As soon as Chen Qianxi heard that his idol was coming, he hurriedly said, "I'm going!" ”
As a result, when she returned from training on the diving team that day, Chen told her mother: "I still have to keep practicing." ”
Dong Chunhua smiled and said, "That's right. In the future, you have to develop difficulty, you have to train a lot, you will encounter injuries, this is not play, but every day. Chen Yuxi remembered her mother's words.
After entering the second team of the Shanghai diving team, he needed to live in the team, and Chen Yuxi still lived at home because of poor health. Later, after her mother's slow enlightenment, she gradually lived a real athlete life from living on the team one day a week to living on the team two days a week.
Those familiar with diving know that the 207C is a real stepping stone to the world arena. The 10-meter platform 207C tumbled backwards for three and a half weeks and hugged his knees, this set of moves is the entry move of the Shanghai diving team, and all athletes who want to join the team must first pass this level. However, this action is a veritable high-difficulty move, with a difficulty factor of 3.3.
When Chen entered the diving team for trial, the 207C was a big challenge for her. Probably because of her fear and lack of confidence in the high platform, her first few attempts were not ideal. The coach specially called her to her side for training, and then encouraged her to overcome her fear and calmly complete the movement. But Rome was not built in a day, and at the next jump, Chen Yuxi still "smashed" in the water.
It wasn't until two months later that Chen Yuxi's 207C basically passed the test and was able to enter the water in the correct posture. A year after breaking through this bottleneck, Chen began to harvest the championships of various competitions.
In September 2018, 13-year-old Chen Yuxi won the women's single 10m platform championship at the National Diving Championships; Collaborated with his teammates to win the mixed double 10m platform championship. In March 2019, she entered the national team and won the women's doubles 10m platform title with her partner Yuan Haoyan in the fourth FINA diving series in Kazan, Russia. Later, in London, she not only won the double 10m platform championship with her teammates, but also won the individual championship.
In July 2019, in the women's 10m platform final of the FINA World Championships, Chen Yuxi, who participated in the World Championships for the first time, performed well and won the championship with 439 points. Media reports called her a "talented girl."
▶ "Even if she is not by her side, let her feel the love of her parents." For her, that's the best encouragement. ”
In the crucial year before the Tokyo Olympics, Chen experienced a peak period of growth and development, which was a severe test for high-level divers. Due to the rapid increase in height and weight, the radius of athletes when flipping their bodies in the air increases, the feeling of doing movements will be completely different from before, the stability of movements will also be affected, and the technical level will be seriously reduced. Many world-class diving stars who became famous at a young age have their competition results plummeting after the development period.
2020 can be said to be the "darkest moment" of Chen Yuxi's life, in order to ensure that the movements are accurate and in place, in addition to insisting on high-intensity training, she also actively controls her weight, and for a whole year, how much she eats every day and how to eat must be carefully calculated.
Sometimes when her daughter comes back to eat, Dong Chunhua will cook several dishes that her daughter likes to eat, but Chen Yuxi only eats a few bites of vegetables. Seeing her daughter so self-disciplined, Dong Chunhua was both distressed and relieved. She suddenly felt that her daughter had grown up.
In July 2021, a week before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, Chen Yuxi suffered a small joint injury, she hid from her parents, only told the coach, and said that she would cooperate with the support team to strive to recover as soon as possible.
In the end, she partnered with Zhang Jiaqi to win the gold medal in the women's double 10m platform.
In the past, when Chen Qianxi encountered difficulties and became depressed, Chen Jian, as a father and enlightenment coach, would give care, encouragement and help. But now that the child is older and has his own goals, all he can do is accompany. He said: "Even if she is not by her side, let her feel the love of her parents." For her, that's the best encouragement. ”
Chen Jian and his wife often remind their daughter not to neglect cultural classes in addition to professional training. Therefore, after Chen Yuxi entered the national team, in addition to training, he spent hundreds of yuan to buy online courses in mathematics and English for self-study. She loves to brush math problems, and every time she solves a puzzle, she happily takes pictures with her mobile phone and sends it to her father to show.
In addition to mathematics, Chen also likes to read novels, especially detective novels. In order to relieve his daughter's pressure, Chen Jian will also recommend detective novels to her when chatting with her daughter. "I think reading helps improve children's concentration, a diving competition is long and requires long concentration," he said. ”
On the eve of the 2022 Diving World Cup competition, Chen Jian and Dong Chunhua did not contact their daughter, for fear of affecting her. While watching the TV news, they saw Chen Qianxi lying on the ground in a news item about the national diving team, with a team doctor squatting beside him. Facing the camera, Chen Yuxi smiled and compared his hand to his heart.
Although the camera flashed, Chen Jian and Dong Chunhua couldn't help but worry: "Why are everyone training, but Tao Xi is lying on the ground, and there is a team doctor by his side?" "But heartbroken, they still haven't contacted their daughter."
After the start of the game, Chen Jian sat in front of the TV every day to watch the game, and he was very nervous. It wasn't until the end of the final that he contacted his daughter via WeChat. The daughter told him that she was on the field with an injury, "I didn't tell you before, I was afraid that you would worry." ”
This victory made Chen Qianxi the second diver after Wu Minxia to achieve the "Grand Slam" of Olympic Games, World Championships and World Cup gold medals.
Jian Chen is very clear that his daughter's choice of diving means that she has to get together with her family less and leave more, and she has to be accompanied by boring and arduous training and competitions all year round at a young age.
He also once asked his daughter: "Do you envy your peers?" ”
His daughter's answer made him both sad and relieved: "No! Although I sacrificed a lot of spare time, diving is what I love, and I don't regret it. Not to mention that with you as my strong backing, I do the best in the process, which is the best for me. ”
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Author: Chen Quanzhong
Editor: Zhuang Qingqing
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