On August 5, 2021, 14-year-old Quan Hongchan won the first place in the women's 10-meter diving competition at the Tokyo Olympics with a huge advantage of 466 points.
In fact, before Quan Hongchan, there were also many divers who led the world in performance, and they won a lot of honors and gold medals for the country.
The Chinese national diving team, also known as the "dream team", has long been the trump card of Chinese sports, having won 40 Olympic gold medals since its first Olympic participation in the Olympic Games in 1986.
However, the person who won the first gold medal for the dream team in 1988 and achieved something from scratch was Gao Min, known as the "diving queen".
Diving queen Gao Min returned to the countryside after retiring
Recently, the first generation of "diving queen" Gao Min, at the end of the Spring Festival at the end of February, posted through social media that she had left Beijing and returned to her hometown in Zigong, Sichuan, to start an idyllic life.
After almost two days of travel, Gao Min's family returned to the old house where they lived when they were children, and after simply packing up their luggage and house decoration, they began to enjoy the natural scenery of the countryside.
The countryside where Gao Min's hometown is located has preserved most of the natural landscape, beautiful scenery, large areas of rape flowers and crops can be seen everywhere, without much transformation from modern technology, terraces occupy most of the area.
There is a harmonious and symbiotic relationship between man and nature, which is very suitable for self-cultivation and relaxation of the mind.
In the countryside, you can appreciate the scenery that cannot be experienced in many cities, and Gao Min, whose net worth has already exceeded 10 million, naturally does not need to raise silkworms and plant fields in the busy season like ordinary farmers after returning to his hometown.
For her, enjoying life is the most important thing, occasionally bowing to farming, experiencing ploughing and farming, feeling life in farming, and cultivating sentiment.
In the video, Gao Min often walks outdoors, and occasionally finds a hill near his home to climb the mountain, these wild hills are growing with many wild flowers, exercising while being pleasant, and after reaching the top, you can also overlook the entire town from top to bottom, and experience the scenery of the mountains.
In addition to the natural scenery, Gao Min often shares videos of picking fresh vegetables in the fields.
She picks vegetables while introducing the names and types of vegetables to the audience in front of the camera, and the smile on her face shows that she is very satisfied with her current life.
In March and April, when the countryside was busy, Gao Min also went to a farmland, picked up a hoe and began to plow the land, although the movement was slightly rusty, but the posture was very standard, which was completely enough for turning over the soil.
However, Gao Min not only ploughed the land in the farmland, she also laid soil on the roof of her house, reclaimed a small piece of land, prepared to plant some vegetables or flowers, and when it was ripe, she could not only pick it herself, but also added vitality and vitality to the house.
In addition to farming, Gao Min also personally experienced the whole process of peeling and cutting sugarcane, and saw Gao Min chop the sugarcane in half with a fruit knife under the guidance of the boss, and then cut it into small pieces with a guillotine, she not only did not feel the slightest trouble, but also enjoyed it.
Now Gao Min, who has a net worth of tens of millions, has returned to her hometown and lived an indisputable life, but it must be known that she was once one of the world's top divers, and all the competitions she participated in were champions without exception.
Gao Min won glory for the country and won the title of "Diving Queen"
Gao Min was born in Zigong City, Sichuan Province, she has been interested in swimming since she was a child, so Gao Min's parents decided to let Gao Min learn to swim, after all, the younger the swimming age, the easier it is to learn.
Gao Min's parents initially learned mainly as a self-defense skill, and soon Gao Min had mastered the basic movements, and she also learned gymnastics when she was 6 years old, but eventually did not continue.
Gao Min had learned to swim at the age of 4, because of her love for swimming, she continued to go to amateur swimming training classes to practice, and at the age of 9, because Gao Min had good talent and strong perseverance, she was valued by the coach and began to switch to diving training.
After Gao Min switched to diving training, she showed a high talent, coupled with her own hard work and self-motivated spirit, she learned quickly in technique and movements, and after only a few months, she entered the Zigong City diving team.
Although there were setbacks and difficulties after entering the diving team, Gao Min still maintained a high learning speed.
In August 1980, Gao Min stood out in the diving team due to his outstanding performance, and then was successfully selected into the Sichuan Provincial Diving Team and began his career as a professional athlete.
After joining the Sichuan Provincial Diving Team, Gao Min continued to work hard to learn motor skills, while also competing with divers from all over the province and the whole country to achieve a ranking in the national competition.
In 1983, Gao Ming won the springboard championship in the national diving championships, and won the one-meter board and three-meter springboard championships in the under-12 category of the World Age Diving Championships, and won the title of athlete in the same year.
In 1985, Gao Min entered the national diving team, because of his own talent, coupled with the top training and coaching, Gao Min's diving skills are increasing day by day, and it is enough to participate in international competitions.
In 1986, Gao Min began to make his mark on the international stage, winning the springboard diving championship at the "Chunyan" International Diving Competition held in East Germany and the Soviet Union in March.
In May of the same year, she won the Canadian diving competition and participated in the World Swimming Championships in August, although Gao Min participated in the world series for the first time in this magnitude, but she still played well and successfully won the championship.
This competition made her one of China's youngest diving world champions.
He won the fifth World Cup diving competition in 1987 and a few months later at the Crystal Palace International Diving Competition in the United Kingdom.
In this year, Gao Min was selected as one of the best swimmers of the year by the American "Swimming World" with his strong strength.
At the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, Gao Min, with his excellent skills and strong psychological quality, defeated the group and won the three-meter springboard championship with an absolute advantage.
Becoming China's first gold medalist in diving, taking a great step for China's diving gold medal from scratch.
After Gao Min successfully won the diving championship at the 24th Seoul Olympic Games, she still did not relax, and also won one championship after another.
In 1990, he won gold medals in the Australian International Diving Competition, the Jinan Four Nations Diving Competition, the diving competition of the 2nd Friendship Games held in the United States, and the diving competition of the 11th Asian Games held in Beijing.
In the Asian Games, Gao Min won the championship with 630 points, and is the only athlete with a total of more than 600 points in a single international competition, and the title of "International Athlete" is well deserved.
In 1992, the XXV Olympic Games were held in Barcelona, and this Olympic Games was the last competition Gao Ming participated in, Gao Min had suffered lung bleeding for several months due to movement errors at the age of 12, and due to years of high-intensity training and the physical injury of exercise itself, 22-year-old Gao Min has been suffering from dark diseases for many years, and even needs to use analgesics to perform normally before participating in the competition.
Not only the physical problems, but also the mental impact is great, because Gao Min once won the Seoul Olympic championship and won many international competitions, there were high hopes before the start of the competition, and it was widely believed that only Gao Min could win the gold medal.
And the international media also believes that Gao Min is an insurmountable barrier, standing between other players and gold medals, and now, although the audience has no malice, this expectation transferred to Gao Min is a huge pressure, for her it is already a must win.
Faced with both physical and mental stress, Gao Min, who is known as the "queen of diving", has also been greatly affected.
By the end of the second round of the finals, Gao Min's score ranking had fallen to ninth, which was already the lowest in her career.
In the game, due to various physical disadvantages, coupled with the referee's suspicion of pressure points, Gao Min once thought of giving up directly, but she quickly adjusted her mentality in time with extraordinary perseverance and continued to participate in the game.
In the first three moves of the final, Gao Min's score has rebounded, gradually rising from ninth to fifth, and Gao Min's condition has gradually improved, although there is still a gap of more than 20 points from the first place, but it is still very promising.
After completing the seven moves of the final, Gao Min overtook the first place to the top of the list, from ninth place to the end with 572.4 points to win the Olympic championship, which is her second Olympic champion, Gao Min's performance is extremely wonderful.
Although Gao Min once again won the first place in the Olympics, her physical injuries have become more and more serious, and for the sake of her health, she finally chose to retire after the Olympics.
Gao Min has competed in 72 international competitions in a career of more than ten years, winning a total of 72 gold medals, which means that she has not won a single runner-up in all the competitions she has competed in, and she has never been invincible, which can also be described as legendary.
Gao Min still looks young and has an eye-catching figure
After Gao Min chose to retire and end her career for more than ten years, she began to engage in philanthropy, selling a competition gold medal and donating part of it to the state to fund the Olympic bid, and also established a scholarship at Chengdu Sport University to promote the development of physical education.
After her career as an athlete, she did not give up her sports work, and at the end of 1992, she went to Indiana Ball State University in the United States to study sports management, and gradually began to work as a sports coach after her academic success.
Later, Gao Min went to Canada to serve as the head coach of the Edmund Kensman Diving Club, because her own strength is second to none in the world, and she also studied sports management, and soon under her guidance, the club ranked second in Canada.
Later, Gao Min returned to China in 2005 and began to serve as a sports and environmental ambassador in various places while raising children, and participated in many public welfare activities to help retired athletes and children in need.
In February this year, Gao Min left Beijing and returned to her hometown in Zigong, Sichuan Province with her husband, and gradually began to share her life with everyone on the short video platform.
Gao Min, who returned to his hometown, lived a dull and happy life, living in the old house when he was a child, without exquisite decoration, just some very ordinary furniture and wallpaper, usually occasionally planting vegetables and flowers in the field, or drawing and practicing words at home, life is very simple and simple.
In the life videos shared by herself, she is still the same delicate appearance and creamy skin as when she was young, and it seems that the years have not left any marks on her.
In one of the videos released by Gao Min, it can be clearly seen that Gao Min, who is over 50 years old, has a smile on his face, wearing a black sweater, a pair of black straight-leg jeans on his lower body, strolling among the rape flowers that are half a person tall, his legs are slender and straight, there is no trace of fat on his body, and his perfect body is displayed in a row.
The golden canola flowers on the hillsides on both sides blend with the clear sky behind you, presenting an incomparably peaceful and idyllic scenery.
After leaving the sports career for more than 20 years, he can maintain such an excellent body, which is naturally inseparable from the insistence on exercise and strict requirements for himself.
Usually, Gao Min will do some basic exercises at home, set himself a time to do gymnastics every day, and do time-limited outdoor running.
As Gao Min's strength of diving is naturally also insisting, when the Chinese diving team's 100 gold medals celebrated, 52-year-old Gao Min also dived again to celebrate, but due to the gradual increase in age, and most of the time in outdoor diving, the water environment and temperature requirements are relatively high, so diving and swimming on weekdays are relatively rare.
Gao Sensitization adheres to a balanced diet, reducing carbohydrates, sugars and fats while providing adequate nutrition and energy.
In the life clips shared by Gao Min, it can be seen that her life is very regular, ensuring the necessary nutrition and energy intake every day, and also exercising on time, so whether it is to maintain her figure or career, self-discipline and perseverance are essential to succeed.
After returning to his hometown, Gao Min quickly integrated into the idyllic life, not only insisting on exercising as usual, but also experiencing more new things that are not available in the city.
Gao Min can feel a lot of fun in the process of ploughing the land, picking vegetables or climbing the mountain, and now he has gradually lived a plain, simple and happy life.
brief summary
During his career, Gao Min has won more than 70 gold medals in international competitions with his extraordinary efforts and love for diving.
After retiring, he took the initiative to help colleges and universities develop physical education, and made great contributions to sports both during and after retirement.
Now over 50 years old, Gao Min can still maintain such an excellent figure and delicate appearance, inseparable from years of exercise and strict requirements for herself, after achieving career success, she has now returned to her hometown in the countryside and started a happy and leisurely pastoral life.