[Source: Sanqin Metropolis Daily]
Athletes enter the city. Photo by reporter Ma Zhao
On the evening of April 17, a welcoming ceremony was held at the Cultural Etiquette Square at the South Gate of Xi'an City Wall to welcome athletes, referees and FINA officials from all over the world who came to participate in the 2024 FINA Diving World Cup Finals. Photo by reporter Zhang Jiangzhou
Photo by reporter Ma Zhao
At 20:30 on April 17, in the sound of solemn ceremonial music, a prosperous ceremony across time and space kicked off the prelude to the 2024 FINA Diving World Cup Finals (Xi'an), and more than 200 guests, including athletes from participating countries and FINA officials and technical officials, entered Yongning Gate Wengcheng and watched the large-scale performance "Dream Chang'an - Datang Welcome Ceremony" in the viewing area. It is reported that from April 19th to 21st, the 2024 FINA Diving World Cup Finals (Xi'an) will be held in the swimming and diving hall of the Xi'an Olympic Sports Center.
The strongest lineup is unveiled
According to reports, there will be 136 competitors in the diving competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and the qualifications of these athletes are allocated by the National Olympic Committees of each country, and whether the National Olympic Committees can obtain Olympic quota places is determined by the athletes' points in the designated events. The FINA Diving World Cup Finals also represent the highest level of competition in the world. The FINA Diving World Cup Finals (Xi'an) brings together almost all the athletes who will participate in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games after the competition in Montreal, Canada and Berlin, Germany. The Chinese diving team sent the strongest lineup led by Quan Hongchan. On the morning of April 17, Quan Hongchan, Chen Yuxi and others conducted pre-competition adaptation training in the swimming and diving hall of Xi'an Olympic Sports Center.
Quan Hongchan will hit the individual Grand Slam
Since the Chinese diving team has won the full qualification for the diving competition of the Paris Olympics at the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, there is no point pressure in this competition, which will be the best time for Quan Hongchan, the world's most watched diving star athlete, to hit the "Grand Slam".
In the women's 10-meter platform event at the 2024 FINA Diving World Cup in Montreal, Canada and the women's 10-meter platform event in Berlin, Germany, Quan Hongchan won the runner-up and championship respectively. At the 2024 Diving World Cup Super Finals, she will challenge for the final gold medal in the world's three major diving cups (Olympic Games, World Championships and World Cup), and if she wins, she will become the third Grand Slam player to win the gold medal in an individual event. In this competition, she will participate in the women's double 10-meter platform final and the women's 10-meter platform final on April 19 and April 21 respectively, of which the women's 10-meter platform final is of special significance to Quan Hongchan.
Reporter Li Zonghua
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