The Tokyo Olympics are over, and among the many Olympic champions who have won glory for the country, the most eye-catching is not those famous and honorable players, but a girl who has just turned 14 years old.
In the diving competition on August 5, she shocked the world with three record-breaking results: the first person in women's 10m platform history!
Quan Hongchan, the youngest player in the entire Chinese delegation, has no experience in international competitions, has only participated in 10 domestic competitions, until 3 weeks before last year's Olympic trials, just learned 5 moves, and then defeated the 20-year-old last Olympic champion Ren Qian, 17-year-old World Cup champion Zhang Jiaqi, and got one of the 2 places.
Another teammate, Chen Yaoxi, is the winner of the 2019 World Championships, and was also suppressed by Quan Hongchan in the selection.
She has already cooperated with Zhang Jiaqi to win the championship in the previous Olympic double diving 10-meter platform competition.
Like ping-pong, weightlifting, diving, these three major Chinese legion dream teams, Chinese players have always had an absolute group advantage, good players emerge in an endless stream, the National Games champions are even much more difficult to get than the Olympic champions, and it is far more difficult to compete for the Olympic qualification of only 2 places in a single event, which is far more difficult than defeating opponents in other countries in international competitions.
Therefore, any gold medal in these three major events will be widely considered to be a failure by public opinion, such as the table tennis mixed doubles event, which only won the silver medal.
The huge pressure on the contestants is even much higher than that of those unpopular projects that do not have the strength to compete for gold. This is because if because of their psychological quality is not too hard, the temporary performance is not good, resulting in the gold medal falling to other countries, then the first sorry is that in the qualifiers, there are teammates who also have the strength to win gold, but they are squeezed out of the quota.
Therefore, to let Quan Hongchan, who has just debuted and has no experience in international competitions, replace ren Qian and Zhang Jiaqi, the two world champions, to participate in the single competition, which is a big gamble, betting that her psychological quality is excellent, the competition is not afraid of the stage, and she can perfectly play the technical level she showed in the selection competition.
The actual situation of the game is that Quan Hongchan's first jump: 82.5 points, tied for the first place with Chen Yaoxi. 2nd Jump Out of 96! The third jump is close to a perfect score: 95.7 points. The fourth jump is again a perfect score: 96 points!
By this time, her total four-jump score, 370.2 points, had even equaled the total five-jump score of the best foreign players, and had secured the 33rd gold medal for the Chinese legion ahead of schedule.
Previously, Ren Qian won the championship at the 2016 Olympic Games with 439.25 points, and Zhang Jiaqi won the championship in the 2018 World Cup with 427.3 points. Chen Yaoxi won the 2019 World Championships with 439 points.
Chen Ruolin, the "queen of the jumping platform" of the previous generation, in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, in fact, in the first four jumps, has been behind the Canadian star Haymans, until the last jump, with a high difficulty of 3.4, jumped out of the quasi-full score, only with a total score of 447.70 points, the earth-shattering reversal of the opponent's 437.05 points, won the championship and created an Olympic record.
In the 2012 Olympic Games, 20-year-old Chen Ruolin was all the way ahead, "only jumped" 422.3 points, and easily crushed opponents from all over the world and defended the championship. And the 16-year-old Hu Yadan, who competed with her, also won the World Cup and the Asian Games before, that is, under great pressure, the first two jumps were lost, 54 points, 43.2 points, and finally only won the ninth place.
Throughout history, that is to say, Quan Hong chan has two perfect scores in the first four jumps, and after one is close to the full score, her fifth jump, only needs more than 69.05 points, can surpass the championship results of several other world champion teammates, only need more than 77.5 points, to create a new Olympic record.
Her competitor at the moment is no longer the other competitors competing in the same field, but all the past champions of the women's 10m platform event:
In the end, it was another 96 out of 10! All five jumps three out of 10! 466.20 points, the sister Chen Ruolin's record 13 years ago, improved by nearly 20 points!
Chen Ruolin, who was at the scene, took photos of Quan Hongchan for the first time and congratulated: "Congratulations to the two cute little sisters, my new idol Little Red Sister."
Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia, Shi Tingmao, these three generations of "springboard queens", also cheered and applauded for her at the scene. You know, these four sisters, each has won 4 to 5 Olympic gold medals, each is the undisputed genius of the same era.
But even in the Chinese diving team where geniuses have gathered for generations, Quan Hongchan's talent in less than a year can be called "genius among geniuses".
The praise of the original "diving queen" Gao Min was even more "incoherent": "I saw my own shadow in the little girl." My tears flowed instantly." "Genius, you can't be buried. She's a genius, she's a gift from God." "Geniuses rely on their diligence to make their talents appear, and we ordinary people can see their style." 」
The achievements of no one before and after the unprecedented, the huge advantage of the fault ahead of the entire era, proves that the 14-year-old Quan Hongchan is already the first person in the history of the women's 10-meter platform project.
Quan Hongchan's gold medal, similar to Li Wenwen's weightlifting gold medal of more than 87 kilograms, is a vivid transformation of the most competitive Olympic competition into her own individual exhibition competition. - There is no need to think about how well other opponents are performing.
It is no exaggeration to say that 3 years later, at the Paris Olympic Games, Quan Hongchan was only 17 years old; 7 years later, at the Los Angeles Olympic Games, she was only 21 years old...
She is close to cashing in on her talents, surpassing two sisters Fu Mingxia and Chen Ruolin (both won olympic champions in a row) and becoming a truly undisputed GOAT player on the women's platform, which is also a completely predictable goal.
For other players in any project, being born in the same era as THE GOAT players, no matter how hard they try, they can't surpass it, which is undoubtedly a great pity, just as Gao Min sighed, "Although the little girl has not participated in many international competitions, as soon as she appeared, she broke the Olympic gold medal dreams of several athletes."
Really, assuming that the Tokyo Olympics were not postponed by a year due to the epidemic, then Quan Hongchan, who was only 13 years old last year, did not say olympic qualifications, even the national team could not enter, I believe that the "double insurance" combination of Chen Taoxi and Zhang Jiaqi can also successfully lock in gold and silver medals, but this is just another "unremarkable" gold medal of the diving dream team.
But it was delayed for a year, and the wind and clouds will attract the world's attention to the birth of a cross-era genius.
Fortunately, Chen Taoxi and Zhang Jiaqi have already won the Olympic champion of double diving before.
For these young Chinese women's jumpers, this cycle is still a very happy and happy ending.