On May 11, Beijing time, the 2024 International Open Diving Championships and the Paris Olympic Games Diving Test Match ended the last day of competition, and Olympic champion Xie Sicheng won the men's 3-meter springboard championship with an absolute advantage. However, in the previous competition, the Chinese diving team was hit hard, Cao Yuan and Chang Yani lost the championship successively, except for the women's 10-meter platform, other events are particularly competitive, and the Olympic journey of the Chinese diving team is destined to not be easy.
The Paris Olympic Aquatics Centre welcomed the 2024 International Open Diving Championships, which is also the diving test event for the Paris Olympic Games. In the first men's 10-meter platform final, the Chinese team sent Cao Yuan to participate, but Yang Hao and Lian Junjie did not participate. Japan's Tamai Rikuto and Britain's Noah Williams competed.
Olympic champion Cao Yuan made a mistake on the 407C, which had a difficulty score of only 3.2 on the second jump, and scored only 43.20 points, ranking last in the single jump score. Great Britain's Noah Williams maintained the overall lead from the second to the fifth, but made a mistake on the final jump, and Japan's Tamai Rikuto played well on the final jump, scoring a game-high 99.00 points to achieve a rebound and win the championship with 500.55 points, with Cao Yuan and Williams finishing second and third respectively. Cao Yuan's return to competition despite injury is indeed admirable, but he still needs to adjust well to achieve better results at the Paris Olympics.
In the women's 3-meter springboard final that followed, China's Chang Yani always maintained the first overall score in the first four jumps, but the lead was not big, she made a mistake in the last jump, and only scored 52.50 points. It was indeed a bit of a surprise for the Chinese team to lose two gold medals in a row, but Chang Yani was affected by injuries and is currently trying to recover.
The finale was the men's 3m springboard final, and the double Tokyo Olympic champion Xie Sicheng maintained the lead from the first jump to the last, and finally won the gold medal with 516.20 points. Xie Sicheng has been through injuries, recuperation and rehabilitation, and now he is back on his feet and getting better and better. Talking about the competition with Wang Zongyuan, Xie Sicheng said that he definitely wants to win me, and I also want to win him, this is healthy competition and promotes each other. He's pushing me to get better, and I'm going to put pressure on him.
Of course, this is only an Olympic test match, it can also be seen as a warm-up match, although it lost two championships, but the Chinese team did not send the strongest lineup, Cao Yuan, Xie Siyi, Chang Yani are all in the recovery period, I believe they will mobilize their best condition before the start of the Paris Olympics, and then strive for good results in the Olympic arena. However, the Chinese diving team still has to stay sober, and at present, except for the women's 10-meter platform, the advantage of other events is indeed not so great!