Wait for the blossom and the future of Quan Hongchan
The famous stunt "Splash Disappearance Technique" made the little girl Quan Hongchan jump and become famous in the world.
In the summer of 2021, at the Tokyo 10-meter platform, Quan Hongchan, then 14 years old, set a record for the highest score in women's 10-meter platform history with a total of 466.2 points in five moves and won the gold medal in the women's single 10-meter platform at the Tokyo Olympics.
Ignorant, this thin girl, like the heroine in a hot-blooded comic, swept the rivers and lakes with a fledgling anti-heavenly script, and stood at the top of her career in a huge cheer. It was also from that summer that the Chinese people saw the beauty of diving and also saw the most powerful "splash disappearance technique".
On October 3, Quan Hongchan won the gold medal in the women's 10-meter platform final of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, of which in the second jump, the 7 judges on the scene scored 10 points, and Quan Hongchan got a full score. Another Chinese athlete, Chen Qianxi, won the silver medal, and the competition between the two was like a "fairy fight", allowing the world audience to see the strength of the Chinese diving dream team.
However, in the face of the post-match interview, Quan Hongchan showed her immaturity and social fear in line with her age, and she said seriously: "Diving is as difficult as being interviewed." "What was the mental activity like at the time of the last jump reversal to win?" I just want to make technical moves..." This cute new Asian champion still does not change her previous style, although the media has not obtained the information they want to know, but everyone is full of pampering for her.
Everyone is happy for Quan Hongchan's gold win, which is the little girl who finally proved herself on the world stage again after a period of dormancy. Time has precipitated not only the pain of frustration, but also new hopes and wonders have been brewed on the soil of the past, we just need to wait for the flowers to bloom.
Bai Yansong, a well-known domestic host, said a rather "Versailles" sentence during the Asian Games: Since the Chinese sports delegation participated in the Asian Games in 1974, there has been only one event, and all the gold medals have been wrapped up by the Chinese team, so strong that they almost "have no friends"... Yes, this project is diving.
Chinese diving has gone through many eras, Chen Xiaoxia, Gao Min, Fu Mingxia, Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia... Many diving stars have always defended the golden sign of China's diving dream team, and now, this mantle has a new successor, 16-year-old Quan Hongchan has been pushed to the forefront of the diving platform.
Looking back at the path to fame of this diving genius, her extraordinary talent, graduated training, shy personality, and naïve childlike fun have made her a more vivid and real world champion.
Born in 2007, Quan Hongchan, spent her childhood in an ordinary small fishing village, at the age of 7, Quan Hongchan was playing games with her classmates in the playground, the little girl was light and flexible, and suddenly attracted the attention of enlightenment diving coach Chen Huaming.
But when she first entered the sports school, Quan Hongchan was actually a dry duck, she couldn't swim at all, but soon she liked diving. Later, Quan Hongchan said, "Maybe that's why I was born to practice diving." Quan Hongchan said that the psychological feelings of diving are actually very complicated, "The feeling of jumping is very cool, but you will also feel afraid in the middle, if you don't jump for a day or two, you will be afraid to stand on the 10-meter platform again, and you feel afraid of falling, so you need to practice jumping every day." ”
In the open-air training afterwards, because the diving springboard was made of iron, it was often hot in the summer, and other teammates were timid, but Quan Hongchan squeezed water with a towel, cooled the springboard, and then jumped into the water... After the Tokyo Olympics, many people said that Quan Hongchan was a talented athlete, but Chen Huaming said: "Her success is not entirely due to talent, her persistence and hard work in training are generally unbearable by her peers." ”
Despite the difficult conditions, Quan Hongchan resisted everything with day-to-day training, and she was the first of her companions to climb the 3-meter board, followed by 5-meter, 7-meter, 10-meter. In 2018, Quan Hongchan emerged at the Guangdong Diving Team Training Base, and her physical fitness far exceeded that of girls of the same age, and even stronger than boys of the same age. In 2020, Quan Hongchan, who has outstanding strength, successfully entered the national team and won the national diving championship and the women's single 10-meter platform championship of the Tokyo Olympics and World Cup Trials that year.
If it weren't for the one-year postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, Quan Hongchan, who had just turned 14 years and 4 months at the time, might not have had to wait until 2024 to be on the Olympic stage. But the opportunity is left to those who are prepared, and Quan Hongchan seized the ticket for the Tokyo Olympics, and her invincible story at the Tokyo Olympics is still talked about.
"The Olympics is about jumping five moves, think about each move, and jump your own movements well." Walking off the podium, Quan Hongchan told her story about her Olympic journey. The seemingly understated words are actually a demonstration that Quan Hongchan's newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.
At that time, Quan Hongchan, who had just been selected for the Chinese diving training team for less than a year, was still the youngest athlete in the team, but in the trials before the Olympics, Quan Hongchan defeated world champions such as Ren Qian and Si Yajie many times. What is even more jaw-dropping is that the CCTV news "Panorama Olympics" program revealed that the girl had just finalized her full set of actions in September 2020, that is, before the first selection competition.
Talent and diligence are blended in this little girl's body, when others are praising "Quan Hongchan is a rare diving wizard in recent years", in fact, she has evolved in the precipitation and self-growth again and again, when she stood on the diving platform and staged the amazing "splash disappearance technique", we finally saw what it means to accumulate and make a blockbuster.
Quan Hongchan, who is alone in the arena, is also a very sensible child in life, because her parents rely on farming for a living, her family is not very good, Quan Hongchan will help with housework and farm work since she was a child, and she has long shouldered the burden beyond her age. In an interview after winning the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, Quan Hongchan also revealed that her mother had been hospitalized due to a traffic accident, so she hoped to make more money, "It costs a lot of money for my mother to treat a disease, and I feel that I also have to earn money, so that I can send it home to my mother for treatment." "At such a young age, carrying the dream of champions, and thinking about her family all the time, Quan Hongchan, who has a warm smile, also touched the Chinese people at that moment. The hard life has created Quan Hongchan far more mature and strong than her peers, but she is still a child after all, and she still retains her innocence and liveliness.
Under the arena, she mingled with her sisters, and the picture of her and her senior sister Chen Yuxi going back to "dry rice" was even more cute. During her weekday break, Quan Hongchan also likes to play games, but she can't play much because she is underage. This will also make her complain a little, "but not addictive." In addition, Quan Hongchan's mother also revealed an interesting little story. Quan Hongchan likes to eat spicy strips the most, and the small snacks in the commissary for 5 cents are her love. Her biggest dream was to open a small store so that she could always have snacks...
These pyrotechnic pictures and details let us see a warm world champion, she is not a "training product" that does not stain the earth, she has her own joys and sorrows, her own growth troubles, her own expectations and dreams, when the dream shines into reality, we see this little girl growing up step by step, her troubles are changing, her preferences are changing, but her desire for victory and yearning for the future have never changed.
The women's 10-meter platform is the most brutal in the diving event, and the requirements for the body are very strict, and the height and weight change slightly, so you have to adjust the movement. In 2022, Quan Hongchan also experienced a period of her own career trough, she did not defeat her senior sister Chen Yuxi in several trials in the 10-meter platform, as well as the National Games and other competitions, a sense of frustration also flooded in her heart, there was a scene of media interviewing her that was also distressing, in the video, Quan Hongchan wiped her tears while saying: "I'm fine, I'm not crying... When I go back and improve, I feel like I'm always a little bit worse, always less than perfect. Quan Hongchan said that she didn't like to be noticed by many people: "I always feel that if I don't jump well, everyone won't like me..."
Quan Hongchan not only experienced the pain of failure, but also faced the risk of development. Since the Tokyo Olympics, participated in several international events, Quan Hongchan's competition state is not very stable, diving queen Gao Min once said: "Quan Hongchan is still young, not yet developed, she will soon grow a body, to start to grow height, long weight, at this stage, for female athletes is particularly difficult." Faced with the growth and development of her body, Quan Hongchan decisively quit snacks, became more self-disciplined, and trained harder, and she looked forward to proving herself in the arena. Quan Hongchan said that after the Tokyo Olympics, she has changed a lot, "height, weight, body shape, and completion are not so good." I think the developmental period is the hardest thing for me. The weight and height increase, and then the jumping movements are not as easy as before, it will be a little more difficult, and I am now working hard under the guidance of the coach to overcome the difficulties, hoping to overcome my own difficulties. ”
Athletes who are strict with themselves will not easily fall into the trough of their careers, and even if they are temporarily in trouble, they will churn up to a higher posture at the moment of bottoming.
Coming to the Hangzhou Asian Games, Quan Hongchan and Chen Qianxi made their first appearance, and their partner won the women's double 10-meter platform championship, from the perspective of personal performance, Quan Hongchan is at least not inferior to Chen Yuxi. In the game that day, the tacit understanding between the two was still the same, and the wonderful "splash disappearance technique" again and again also made the scene marvel again.
In the interview session after the game, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi unexpectedly became the focus of media attention, one question after another, Quan Hongchan is still as good as ever, no matter what questions everyone asks, her reply is the sentence "Very good". It wasn't until a reporter asked about the little turtle doll hanging on her backpack that Quan Hongchan opened the "chatterbox" and said the only complete sentence in the audience: "Because I like it more, the turtle has an ugly and cute feeling, anyway, it is the animal I like." The questioner also responded humorously: "Wow, this is the longest sentence you have said today." It drew laughter. This may be another warm moment that this world champion likes, not pretending, not arrogant, not clear and high, she knows what to say, what to think of and answer, just like the blue water under her, clear and transparent.
Quan Hongchan said that no matter what results have been achieved, every time I stand on the platform, "what I think about is how to do my own movements, focus on myself, focus on the competition, this is what we athletes have to do." ”
Starting from the Tokyo Olympics, within two years, gold medals, fame and fortune, peaks, setbacks, difficulties... Quan Hongchan, who is only 16 years old, has already tasted all of them. Life will not be bad for the hard worker, this small girl, in fact, has written her name in the history of Chinese diving. What the future holds, we wait for time to answer, and for now we just have to admire her high and soaring figure into the water, suppressing the splash and not being shocked.
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Zhou Shihao