Jimu News reporter Yang Jinying
At about 5 p.m. on July 27, Beijing time, at the Paris Olympic Games, Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani, members of the Chinese diving "dream team", participated in the women's double 3-meter springboard diving event and defeated their opponents to win the championship. This is the first Olympic gold medal for the two, and it also allows the Chinese team to achieve the feat of six consecutive Olympic championships in the women's double 3-meter springboard diving event.
At the same time, this is also the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Zhongshan City, Guangdong. On the afternoon of the 27th, in the basketball hall of Zhongshan Sports School, where Chen Yiwen was trained and transported, Chen Yiwen's parents and sister, as well as more than 600 school teachers and students, were also paying attention to the game in real time. Seeing Chen Yiwen and her partner win the championship, Chen Yiwen's mother Sun Mingyin burst into tears with excitement, she said, "I finally realized my dream." ”
陈艺文、昌雅妮夺冠（图源：2024 Getty Images）
The new Olympic team won the gold medal strongly
At 5 p.m. on July 27, Beijing time, Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani combined to board the women's double 3-meter springboard diving event at the Paris Olympics.
The young duo are one of the key teams to develop in the Paris Olympic cycle, having swept all the world championships in the women's double 3m springboard diving in the past few years. In February 2024, at the World Swimming Championships in Doha, Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani won the women's double 3-meter springboard championship, achieving the third consecutive championship of the women's doubles 3-meter springboard at the World Championships.
Paris 2024 is the first Olympic journey for the two post-95 women, and it is also the first time that the Chinese diving team has sent a combination of two new Olympic players to compete in the women's double 3m springboard. Since its debut in the Olympic Games in 2000, except for the first one, the five Olympic championships after this event have been won by the Chinese diving team.
Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani did not disappoint everyone, and the whole game was a process in which the two continued to widen the gap with their opponents. In the first two rounds of 2.0 movements, the two temporarily ranked first with 103.80 points, and from the third round of optional movements, the two continued to widen the gap with their opponents, and in the fifth round of 5152B with a difficulty coefficient of 3.0, they jumped out of 76.50 points, and directly locked the championship. In the end, the two won the championship with 337.68 points.
Chen Yiwen's parents (third and fourth from left in the first row) are watching Chen Yiwen's competition (photo by Jimu News reporter Yang Jinying)
The first Olympic gold medal in the history of Zhongshan
At the same time that Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani held hands to reach the top podium, huge cheers also broke out on the campus of Zhongshan Sports School in Guangdong. More than 600 teachers and students of the school gathered in the gymnasium to send blessings to alumnus Chen Yiwen for winning the championship.
Chen Yiwen took a photo of training at Zhongshan Sports School (Photo courtesy of Zhongshan Sports School)
Zhongshan is the place where Chen Yiwen's diving dream set sail. Born in June 1999 in Haikou, Hainan, Chen Yiwen has shown a strong interest in sports since he was a child, and has gradually revealed his talent for sports. According to Hainan Daily, in 2008, Chen Yiwen's mother Sun Mingyin took Xiao Yiwen back to her parents' hometown Zhanjiang for the New Year, and happened to meet her neighbors, Wu Guocun, then director of the Guangdong Provincial Diving Sports Management Center, and Zhong Quansheng, the head coach of the Zhanjiang Chikan diving team.
At that time, Chen Yiwen was eight and a half years old, and the best age to learn diving was about six years old, and many children in the diving center began to practice at the age of four or five. Coach Zhong said at the time that the child was older and he was worried that it would waste her time. Sun Mingyin was reluctant to give up and asked him to see if his daughter's physical condition was suitable for learning to dive. Wu Guocun felt that Chen Yiwen was in good physical condition, and said that he could let Coach Zhong take her to give it a try.
As it turned out, Chen's mother's bold attempt was not wrong. In August 2008, Chen Yiwen was selected to join the Zhongshan diving team less than half a year after entering the sports school of Chikan District, Zhanjiang. In October 2010, Chen Yiwen joined the Guangdong Provincial Diving Team. In November 2016, Chen Yiwen was selected for the Chinese national diving team.
Zhang Xiurong, who is now retired, was Chen Yiwen's diving coach during his studies at Zhongshan Sports School. She recalled that Chen Yiwen was a smart, aura child, and willing to endure hardships, others practiced for 5 hours, she could practice for 6 hours, 7 hours, until the movements were perfect. This also allowed her to improve very quickly in training, and the coaches liked her. And she lived up to expectations, entering the provincial team and the national team in a very short period of time, until she stood on the Olympic stage today.
Zhang Xiurong mentioned that Chen Yiwen's victory is of great significance to Zhongshan - it is the first gold medal for Guangdong athletes in this Olympic Games, and it is also the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Zhongshan City, Guangdong. With her as a role model, the younger brothers and sisters will also have more motivation and direction for training.
Chen Yiwen's mother (fourth from left in the first row) cried with emotion while watching the award ceremony (Photo by Jimu News reporter Yang Jinying)
Never say it's hard training
Chen Yiwen's parents and sister also made a special trip from Hainan to Zhongshan to watch the game with the teachers and students of Zhongshan Sports School. This is the first time that the Chen family has participated in the group viewing game, and they did not tell Chen Yiwen, "I'm afraid that she will be under pressure, so she can compete easily." Sun Mingyin said.
Over the years, the family and Chen Yiwen have gotten along like this - Chen Yiwen will not mention competitions and training with his family, and his family has tacitly agreed not to talk too much, but simply let her cheer.
After Chen Yiwen went to Paris to prepare for the Games, he would chat with his family in the family group every day, share what he saw and heard in the Paris Olympic Village, what fun and delicious food he had, and also go shopping in Paris to buy gifts for relatives and friends.
During Chen Yiwen's competition, Sun Mingyin kept staring at the big screen, and every time her daughter finished dancing and saw the score, she showed a faint smile. But she is very confident in her daughter, and she told reporters before the game that Chen Yiwen is a competition-type player, and she may be average when training, but she has made rapid progress through the competition. Since last year, Chen Yiwen has made sufficient accumulation through many events such as the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Diving World Cup, and the World Championships.
In contrast, Chen Yiwen's father Chen Junfeng's expression was more calm, and it was not until he saw that Chen Yiwen and Chang Yani finished the fifth jump and locked the championship in advance, that he stood up excitedly and said: "I have been very nervous in front, and I was completely released after watching the fifth jump." But then, he calmly said that now is not the time to finally celebrate, "At 9 p.m. on August 7, Chen Yiwen will also participate in the preliminaries of the women's single 3-meter springboard, and will continue to encourage her, take her time, and compete again." ”
Seeing Chen Yiwen on the podium, Sun Mingyin and her eldest daughter Chen Qi'an hugged each other excitedly and shed tears of relief. She knows that her daughter's journey has not been easy, "From childhood to adulthood, she never said that the training was hard, but she often said that she was homesick. Especially when she was a child, because of training, she could only go home once a year, and she would lie and say that she didn't want to practice and wanted to go home. ”
But in the end, Chen Yiwen still went all the way, from Hainan to Guangdong, to the whole country, and finally appeared on the world's most eye-catching stage. "Now I finally come out and realize my dream!" Sun Mingyin said with tears. When it comes to her daughter's training experience, her words are simple but profound: "We must persevere, encourage more, and give priority to encouragement." ”
The last time Chen Yiwen went home was the year before last. Sun Mingyin said that when she comes back, she will make food for her daughter. She revealed that Chen Yiwen likes to eat shrimp and braised pork the most; will also accompany her to play what she wants, "She loves to play in the water, likes to surf, every time she goes back to Hainan, we will also accompany her." ”
(Source: Jimu News)
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