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Wen | Jade sand
Editor|Burning Gold
preface
In 2021, the continental national diving team rose to a supernova.
At just 14 years old, Quan Hongchan dominated the 10-meter platform, and the perfect five-in-a-row jump, with the absolute strength of setting a new world record, set a new high in the women's singles 10-meter platform and won the championship.
The once blockbuster made the people of the whole country remember this powerful diving young player.
Now that two years have passed, 16-year-old Quan Hongchan has also ushered in her developmental period.
In the past two years, Quan Hongchan has also been participating in competitions, and now she has become a big girl with rich competition experience.
But even this jasper-aged girl has recently had some not very good rumors.
A mushroom-like period of development
Sixteen-year-old children are developing at the right time, especially children like Quan Hongchan, who have been undergoing physical training for a long time.
Quan Hongchan at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics is only more than one meter and four meters tall, and now she is sixteen years old and has come to one meter six that is only slightly inferior to her partner Chen Yuxi, which can be said to be both height and age.
Quan Hongchan's partner Chen Qianxi is also her senior sister, Chen Qianxi's height has always been about one meter six five, in the photo of Quan Hongchan after her sixteenth birthday and Chen Qianxi can be compared Quan Hongchan's current height and Chen Qianxi is indeed comparable, Quan Hongchan has been chasing her senior sister in all aspects.
In addition to training, Chen Qianxi often quipped Quan Hongchan and said:
"If Sister Hong continues to follow this momentum, she can go to the women's basketball team."
The team members are very fond of Quan Hongchan's little sister, everyone will jokingly call her "Sister Hong", and the team members usually try to help her in training and daily life, especially her coach, who cares about her.
In order to stabilize Quan Hongchan's mentality and guide Quan Hongchan to work hard to maintain the intensity of training, coach He Weiyi found Chen Qianxi to help channel Quan Hongchan's emotions.
After all, Chen Qianxi has also experienced Quan Hongchan's period, and understands Quan Hongchan's troubles, and it is easier to empathize with Quan Hongchan, and she can better help Quan Hongchan solve her troubles.
But the rapid growth of height also brought Quan Hongchan a lot of trouble: she needs to constantly fine-tune and update her diving skills, after all, the difference in entering the water in diving is the fallacy of the size of the splash.
Quan Hongchan's coach He Weiyi once said that Quan Hongchan is a rare genius in the diving industry in a hundred years, whether in terms of body shape or hand shape, Quan Hongchan is growing into the most suitable for diving.
Looking at Quan Hongchan's diving video, it can be seen that every detail of her movements when she flew down from the diving platform was polished and fine-tuned countless times, and her stretched posture was the key to winning the championship.
Now the soaring height has become a roadblock for Quan Hongchan's competition state, after winning the Olympic Games, Quan Hongchan also participated in the National Games, World Championships and other competitions, but without exception her state has declined, her height and strength have been in the run-in period for a long time in the past two years, and may even cause Quan Hongchan's mentality to suffer.
And Chen Yuxi, who was arranged by coach He Weiyi as Quan Hongchan's partner, pressed Quan Hongchan several times, and also made Quan Hongchan understand that people cannot be strong forever.
At the same time, the person who won the championship was her partner, which also gave Quan Hongchan the courage to catch up and helped her stabilize her mentality.
Although Quan Hongchan's competition results in the middle of her development period were mostly unsatisfactory, the coaches and players of the diving team never doubted her future.
Because they all knew that her downturn was only temporary.
A child who has just won an Olympic championship medal can immediately devote himself to training when he returns to the team, how can Quan Hongchan with such a calm heart not have a bright future!
Just like when the reporter interviewed Quan Hongchan after the Olympic Games whether there would be pressure to participate in international competitions, her confident answer was the same:
"No pressure because I know my strength!"
Pick up or not, that's a problem
Quan Hongchan spent her childhood in a small village in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, and her family is just one of millions of rural families in China.
It is not even as good as the vast majority of rural families: the pillar of the family is the father who does farm work, there are elderly people, there are five brothers and sisters of Quan Hongchan below, Quan Hongchan's mother and grandfather are seriously ill, and the family expenses are very large, so the family is a low-income household in the village, and even the whole family's annual income does not exceed 10,000 yuan.
Under such difficult conditions, Quan Hongchan entered the national team with her own efforts and won the Olympic stage perfectly, the once poor family conditions were also improved, and the diseases of her mother and grandfather were also treated.
But as she grew older, Quan Hongchan, who gradually became a big girl, began to be "targeted" by capital, and various companies came to hope that Quan Hongchan, the Olympic champion, could endorse their products.
First of all, about the milk-related endorsement, this endorsement is the common endorsement of the national diving team, which is understandable.
But Quan Hongchan also received personal endorsements about toiletries later,
This endorsement is completely completed by Quan Hongchan independently.
Recently, she has participated in the filming of endorsement brands, and she is already in her jasper years.
Unlike the Quan Hongchan we saw in interviews in the past, Quan Hongchan, who participated in the filming this time, wore the clothes of the brand she endorsed, and her young and full of training marks was amazing, and it seemed that Quan Hongchan did not delay training because of receiving business orders.
But is it really beneficial to receive business orders?
I don't know if you still have the impression that Tian Liang, a former national team diver, violated the relevant rules of the team because he had received too many business orders and participated in too many endorsement activities during the national diving team, and was expelled when he was at his peak.
Former national team diver Tian Liang
Before Tian Liang was expelled from the national diving team because the general leader Zhou Jihong couldn't bear it, he had already spent too much time on receiving business orders and participating in commercial performances, resulting in a decline in his grades.
It can be said that for an athlete, performance is the foundation of standing, and athletes without achievements are useless.
Everyone's energy and time are limited, and when athletes spend time on commercial activities, they are bound to delay their training and lead to a decline in their performance.
Now appointed to lead the entire national team leader is the famous Zhou Jihong, who is known as the "Iron Lady" by netizens because of her extremely serious team style and discipline.
Zhou Jihong, the general leader
And all the endorsements of the team members can only be received with her permission, so the business order that Quan Hongchan can receive must be allowed and appropriate by the team.
However, Quan Hongchan's age is still too young, whether from the ability to resist negative values in society or from the aspect of training, she receives a large number of business orders at this time is extremely detrimental to her future development.
For Quan Hongchan, making money at a young age is undoubtedly the luck of her family, and it is also her dream to be able to improve the family's economic situation.
Receiving some business orders in small quantities must be a good thing for Quan Hongchan.
Quan Hongchan's family conditions are indeed unsatisfactory, so it is understandable that she took some business orders to improve her family environment.
But everything has a degree, I only hope that she will not be blinded by this prosperous world, and can continue to be a splash elf.
Even if the crown is to Lianya, the red girl will also be lost
Quan Hongchan's diving journey can be said to have been smooth sailing since she entered the Zhanjiang diving team in 2014.
Quan Hongchan, who entered Zhanjiang Sports School, met the first nobleman in her life, Coach Chen Huaming, and it was Coach Chen who discovered Quan Hongchan's diving talent.
Quan Hongchan once said in an interview that she just liked the "refreshing feeling of jumping" when diving.
But Coach Chen noticed that Quan Hongchan behaved differently from others when diving: she was not like other beginners who would deform her movements due to the fear of jumping from the platform and the impact of entering the water!
Among the dozens of newly enrolled students, Quan Hongchan's performance immediately attracted Chen Huaming, this is a good seedling, she must be allowed to practice diving!
The call reached Quan Hongchan's father, who did not understand what the coach said, but decided to fully support her in learning to dive after hearing that "her daughter likes it very much".
In this way, with the wholehearted training of the coach and the hard work and support of her father, Quan Hongchan successfully entered the Guangdong diving team.
In the new environment, Quan Hongchan was very uncomfortable leaving Zhanjiang Sports School at first, after all, there are her favorite coaches and familiar classmates, and everything here is new.
New coaches, new classmates, the only thing that may not change is the praise of the coach and the adoration of the classmates.
When Quan Hongchan stood on the diving platform belonging to the training venue of the provincial team, everything familiar returned, and she understood that she only needed to train hard, and then she could participate in the competition, get a good ranking, and then get a bonus, and subsidize her family.
Quan Hongchan continued to train and train again until she participated in the 2018 Guangdong Diving Championships, which was a blockbuster!
Winning three championships in a row, these three championships are like a sign of Quan Hongchan's life taking off, and she is out of control after that.
In 2019, she participated in the Guangdong Diving Championships for the second time, and this time she won five consecutive gold medals, and her strong strength made her coach understand that the small provincial team was already limiting Quan Hongchan's development.
Quan Hongchan, she jumped from the small pond in the village to the big pool in the city with her own strength, and jumped from the big pool in the city to the big lake in the province, and finally into the big river of the country!
In 2021, Quan Hongchan was transported to the national team, but even if she entered the national team, her strength was still radiant, and she won the women's 10-meter platform championship of the national diving championship in October of the same year!
Domestic awards have fallen into the hands of Quan Hongchan one after another, and now she is already famous, but the highest championship sought by athletes must be world-class!
Coincidentally, the Tokyo Olympics are coming!
14-year-old Quan Hongchan was lucky, her age was just the minimum entry age for the Olympic Games, and she followed the national team to the Olympics at the age of 14, and won the women's 10-meter platform championship at the Olympic Games.
But the smooth journey is not always long, Quan Hongchan has walked a smooth road for three years, winning more than a dozen championship medals in a row along the way, and finally slowed down in 2022.
It is always said that the worst loser in the competition is not the one who is eliminated at the beginning, but the runner-up.
After Quan Hongchan's body entered the development period in 2022, the once perfect balance of strength and coordination was broken, and all individual events lost the championship due to small flaws, and she was the runner-up.
But failure is failure, the champion takes all, and the runner-up fails miserably.
Regroup and prepare for the future
No matter how we analyze Quan Hongchan's past achievements, there is no way to ignore one thing in today's development - her age.
The peak of a normal athlete should be between 20 and 26 years old, but Quan Hongchan's age is only 16 years old now.
If youth is capital, then Quan Hongchan is undoubtedly the most capitalized among this generation of athletes!
In particular, she has already won a world-class championship medal at the age of 14, it can be said that Quan Hongchan's current momentary frustration can be regarded as a precipitation period, and she does not need to squeeze herself desperately for a short peak like other athletes.
At the National Diving Championships just passed in March 2023, it may be due to the decline in physical coordination caused by the development period, or it may be that the mentality is unbalanced due to several runners-up, and Quan Hongchan, eager to prove herself, is only because of one move, which made her miss the championship.
207C, this is a very ornamental set of moves in the 10-meter platform event, Quan Hongchan, who polished it thousands of times, made a mistake this time, and it was precisely because of this set of mistakes that she directly lost to her good partner and good senior sister Chen Yuxi by only 3 points.
Although Quan Hongchan still failed to win the championship in this competition, it can be clearly seen that her condition has recovered, and the Zhanjiang girl's hard work that belongs to her has also returned!
The downturn of the past two years is over, and the decline in performance during the physical development period is inevitable, but now Quan Hongchan has proved to us with hard training and excellent results that she will always be the "splash elf".
Now that her physical development period has passed, the continuous training has not stopped, and at the recent Diving World Cup on April 16, 2023, let's hope that Quan Hongchan will win back the gold medal that announced her return to the top!
epilogue
There are cherished, rare treasure-level figures in every field, Quan Hongchan is the genius in the diving field who is praised as "born in a hundred years", how can such a cheerful, confident and simple-minded girl not let people have the greatest hope for her?
We will hope that she will win glory for the country, will hope that she will not be blinded by the complex society, and hope that she can grow up healthy and happy.
May Quan Hongchan not stop at fame and fortune, but continue to become a better self!