207C (three and a half weeks backwards), once again became an obstacle for Quan Hongchan to hit the championship. In the women's 10-meter platform single jump final of the 2023 World Cup Diving Championship in Xi'an on Sunday afternoon, Quan Hongchan scored only 69.30 points in the 207C jump, resulting in a failed gold rush. After the Tokyo Olympics, Quan Hongchan made several mistakes in the 207C level in domestic and foreign competitions, resulting in her consecutive defeats under teammate Chen Qianxi, resulting in her failure to realize her dream of a single-jump Grand Slam last season.
The revolution is not yet complete, and Hongchan still needs to work hard. It is undeniable that today's domestic and foreign diving competitions, as long as Quan Hongchan appears, it will inevitably be popular. Once upon a time, women's diving was a less eye-catching event in the diving world, and the magical Quan Hongchan, almost single-handedly led the red women's diving platform, which also added fire to the fire of Chinese diving.
In the women's platform single jump final of the Tokyo Olympics more than a year ago, Quan Hongchan won the championship irreproachably by breaking the world record (466.20 points), 14-year-old Xiao Bu, lively and cute appearance, coupled with almost perfect scores, Quan Hongchan naturally became the "love of ten thousand people" in the new era of Chinese sports. As a result, the Chinese women's platform jumping changed from the "ugly duckling" of the year to the "white swan".
Why was the Chinese women's platform jumping "ugly duckling"? The author believes that there are three main reasons: First, from 1997 to 2004, Chinese women's jumping was not the protagonist of the world competition, and the two Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004 did not win the gold medal in single jump. Second, the difficulty development rate of female jumpers is obviously not as fast as that of male athletes. The third is enough superstars for support.
In the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the Chinese women's Taiwan won the double jump championship. Also Olympic champions, the influence of double jump champions and single jump champions is essentially different, Li Na/Sang Xue, Laurishi/Li Ting, who won the two-time double jump championships, after many years, few people know their names except for those who pay considerable attention to diving.
In the past one or two decades, the difficult new movements of men's diving events have developed rapidly, and due to the limitations of physical fitness, the difficulty of women's diving including women's springboard has made limited progress. More than 10 years ago, American Wilkinson and Canada's were known for their difficulty, but their difficulty was more at the cost of many mistakes, and the Beijing Olympic cycle produced 1 Olympic champion, 2 world championship champions and 2 World Cup champions (Note: both refer to single jumps, the same below), without exception, are Chinese athletes who are not outstanding.
When it comes to women's diving superstars, people often think of Gao Min, Guo Jingjing, and Wu Minxia, all of whom are women's springboard players. The existence of these superstars, coupled with the fact that Chinese athletes have won gold in the Olympic Games since 1988, the women's springboard has been widely concerned by the outside world. Some people may say that Chen Ruolin is also a superstar. Not bad! Chen Ruolin has won 26 world championships in her sports career, and she is bound to be a superstar in terms of the number of gold medals, and she is also a women's platform Grand Slam winner. Why is Chen Ruolin's attention not as good as Gao Guo Wu's? It has something to do with her own low-key posture and her failure to form a crushing advantage in the solo jump.
Strictly speaking, the Chinese women's platform that belongs to Chen Ruolin's era does not have absolute dominance in the world arena: Chen Ruolin of the Beijing Olympics surpassed Canada's in the last jump to win the championship, Mexico's Saspicsano opened China's "double insurance" at the 2009 World Championships, and the 2015 and 2017 World Championships were won by North Korea's Kim Yunhyang and Malaysia's Zhang Junhong. In the past 10 years, the Chinese women's platform has lost the single jump championship of the World Championships three times, which is not present in the women's board and the men's board.
In a series of backgrounds, Quan Hongchan, who is still elegant and nameless, won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in one fell swoop, and her score even broke the world record.
Of course, Red must also have continuous and stable results as a guarantee. Entering the Paris Olympic cycle, due to the impact of growing up and gaining weight, Quan Hongchan's strength is not as good as during the Tokyo Olympics, but she is still one of the best female jumpers in the world, winning the swimming world championships and diving World Cup runner-up last year. Quan Hongchan continues to become popular also has a favorable condition, she is not alone in the battle, her teammate Chen Qianxi is last year's swimming world championships, diving World Cup champions, three seasons before and after three seasons they won the three major world championships and runners-up, this scene is Chen Ruolin era Chinese women's platform does not have.
Quan Hongchan and Chen Qianxi are still two steps and one step away from the Grand Slam goal, Quan Hongchan has not yet tasted the taste of swimming world championships and diving World Cup champions, Chen Qianxi lacks Olympic champions. With just over a year to go before the end of the Paris Olympic cycle, both theoretically have a chance to break new ground. The best outcome, of course, is that both men are crowned Grand Slams.
(Wang Quanli)