The sub-races of the Diving World Cup have never attracted the attention of sports fans as they do now, and the reason is naturally the "immortal fight" between two Chinese girls, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi. The focus is on whether Tokyo Olympic champion Quan Hongchan, who recently lost six consecutive domestic, international and intra-team competitions to Chen Yuxi, can really get out of her heart and perfectly interpret all the moves, including the soft underbelly 207C (three and a half weeks backwards to hug her knees). This is also the process of the two little girls constantly pursuing to challenge themselves and reach the extreme. This time, Quan Hongchan did not disappoint the fans who loved her. In the Canadian race of the 2023 FINA Diving World Cup in the early morning of May 8, Beijing time, 16-year-old Quan Hongchan won the women's 10-meter platform final with 458.20 points, the second highest score in the history of the event, only 8 points short of her score when she won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
This time, Quan Hongchan's 5-jump action was almost flawless. The so-called "Old Difficulty" 207C scored 99.00 points in one fell swoop, and six referees scored 10 points in this move, Quan Hongchan led all the way to win easily, plus the women's double 10m platform championship won with Chen Qianxi a day earlier, Quan Hongchan won the Olympic double for the first time in the international arena (she only participated in the single platform competition at the Tokyo Olympics, and she lost to Chen Qianxi in the single event at the World Championships in Budapest and the World Cup in Berlin).
In addition to some flaws in the first jump of 107B (three and a half weeks of forward tumbling), Chen Qianxi failed to reach 80 points in a single jump, and the rest of the movements were also completed very well. Among them, the last jump of 5253B (flipping backwards for two and a half weeks and a week and a half flexion), Chen Yuxi's movements were completed more in place, and he received a high score of 96.00 and was the runner-up with 438.90 points. It should be said that Chen Yuxi's score, won the arena of all the competitions, is a super high score that other opponents cannot match except junior sister Quan Hongchan.
Quan Hongchan's 207C, through this competition is a complete overcoming of the "heart demon", in fact, she has already overcome and greatly improved her move, before several consecutive successive successive preliminaries, final mistakes, it seems that it is not a problem of control of technology. In this match, Quan Hongchan's 207C in the preliminary round had five judges give perfect scores, and six more judges in the final were completely conquered, and she got a perfect score of 99.00 on both occasions, which is incredible. A day ago, when the two little girls won the double platform championship, 378.60 points set the highest score in the history of the women's double 10-meter platform, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi have reached a state of invincibility and solitude.
Compared with the movements of the two, in terms of absolute diving talent, in fact, Quan Hongchan is better, her body is lighter, the effect of entering the water is better, and the aerial posture is also unique beauty and standard, this little girl was born for diving. Chen Yuxisheng is more stable, and since her debut, no matter the international and domestic competitions, she has never made a big mistake, which makes the audience have an unusually solid feeling. Chen Yuxi's general demeanor does not match his actual age, and he is worthy of being from a sports family. Especially in the international arena, as soon as Chen Qianxi appears, everyone will feel that the gold medal of the Chinese team has been stabilized, and the rest depends on her competition with "Chanbao".
After the Shaanxi National Games, the two little girls must also compete with each other while ensuring that the international competition monopolizes all the championships of the women's diving platform for the Chinese diving team. Six times in a row, including two formal team tests, Chen Yuxi won smallly, and even several times the preliminary round ranking was higher than Hongchan, but by the final, Chen Yuxi had the upper hand. This was the case at this year's Shanghai National Diving Championships, when Quan Hongchan shed tears of grievance. When she won the Tokyo Olympics, "Chanbao" did not cry at such an emotional moment, because she was only 14 years old at that time, and now she has grown up, knows more things, and thinks more things.
When the 207C is no longer a problem, the solo platform competition will be much easier in the future, like breaking that layer of window paper. No matter what their future victories and defeats between, with the presence of Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi, the Chinese diving team will maintain an absolute lead in the event in the Paris Olympic cycle and beyond.
Text/Beiqing Sports Liu Ailin