Recently, the Tokyo Olympic Games are being held in full swing, and Chinese athletes are also competing for gold and silver in the Olympic Games, and have achieved very good results.
Projects such as shooting, weightlifting and so on are very well played, especially the Chinese Diving Dream Team, which fully shows its dominance in the world diving industry.
Zhang Jiaqi, Chen Taoxi, Shi Tingmao, Wang Han and other team members have also become the object of everyone's hot discussion, in addition to these active diving athletes, there are two retired diving team members who have also become the object of everyone's hot discussion.
That is Guo Jingjing and Chen Ruolin, who served as referees in the diving competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Guo Jingjing believes that everyone is very familiar with the famous "Diving Queen".
But if you only look at the Olympic results, Chen Ruolin is even better than Guo Jingjing, who has won a total of 5 Olympic gold medals in her career, and together with Wu Minxia and Zou Kai, she is ranked as the athlete with the most gold medals won by Chinese athletes in the Olympic Games.
But in fact, many people do not know Chen Ruolin very well, and we will understand the story of this "most low-key" diving queen today:
One
Chen Ruolin was born on December 21, 1992 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, and her life was relatively happy until she was three years old.
But after the age of 3, her parents divorced, her father was seriously ill, and her mother took her brother abroad, so Chen Ruolin could only be cared for by her grandparents and uncles.
When she first started living with her grandparents, many nights Chen Ruolin was crying and falling asleep, she wanted her mother and father, looking at the coldness of the whole house, Chen Ruolin felt the pain of loneliness more and more.
Fortunately, her grandparents were very good to her, in order to make her live a better life, not to be talked about, and passed her on to her uncle, and her grandparents became grandparents.
Not only that, but her grandparents were also Chen Ruolin's first "informal" physical trainer, because Chen Ruolin's physique was not good since she was a child, so her grandparents trained her to run when she was very young.
In addition, when Chen Ruolin was 4 years old, Grandpa Tang Shi and Grandma Chen Guiying also sent Chen Ruolin to nantong children's amateur sports school to learn to swim, diving coach Gao Feng saw Chen Ruolinsheng's slender limbs, people are also very well-behaved, intentionally cultivate her, so Chen Ruolin changed to diving.
In 1995, Chen Ruolin entered the kindergarten attached to Yuelong Primary School in Nantong, which is a kindergarten that can only be attended by paying a certain amount of sponsorship fees.
And Chen Ruolin's family situation is not very good, the kindergarten took into account this situation, specially for Chen Ruolin to give the green light, did not charge her sponsorship fee.
In 1997, Chen Ruolin entered Yuelongqiao Primary School to study, because she had to go to the sports school every day for training, so the class teacher and Chinese teacher Chen Jue deliberately transferred the main subjects such as Chinese and mathematics to the morning in order to take care of her.
She had to go to training every afternoon for the second class, so the teachers often made up lessons early or arranged homework so that she would not delay her training because of her homework.
Even if you need to take care of training and studying every day, Chen Ruolin's grades are still at a superior level, and in the first half of the first year, Chen Ruolin also won the title of excellent student, which requires each homework to reach more than 95 points to get it.
In the autumn of 1997, Chen Ruolin followed her family to Shanghai to watch the Eighth National Games, and saw the diving competition, the athletes churning in the air, turning heroically, Chen Ruolin's interest in diving was even stronger.
Two
After watching the country's top diver competition, Chen Ruolin secretly vowed in her heart: "I must practice diving well, I want to win the championship."
In order to realize the dream of the championship as soon as possible, the young Ruolin showed an incomparably strong perseverance, the sky was numb, she got up and ran, and she had to run more than a dozen laps at a time on the 400-meter track.
After a period of training, Chen Ruolin's physical fitness was increasing day by day, and her diving performance was also improving by leaps and bounds, and soon after, she was selected to jiangsu provincial children's sports school and became a short-term trainee at the school.
The so-called short-term trainees, that is, need to pay for their own school training, grandpa and grandma also gave everything to send Chen Ruolin to the Jiangsu Provincial Children's Sports School.
After entering the Jiangsu Provincial Children's Sports School, the opportunity to meet with grandparents is decreasing, and the grandparents will go to the Jiangsu Provincial Children's Sports School to visit Chen Ruolin every once in a while.
At that time, after each delivery of grandma, Chen Ruolin would always take out a certain number of toothpicks, and after one day, she would lose one, and if only the last toothpick was left, Chen Ruolin would be excited, because she could see her grandmother the next day.
One day in the early summer of 1999, Chen Ruolin accidentally collided with her teammates during training. Accidentally caused a dislocation of the right elbow joint, which was less than a month after the start of the children's diving competition in Jiangsu Province.
In order to save time and recover quickly, the coach used the Chinese medicine "orthopedic technique" to forcibly restore her arm, which is a huge pain that an adult man needs two strong men to hold back and forth to barely withstand.
Chen Ruolin, who cried bitterly and screamed bitterly, let the father (who was chen Ruolin's uncle who succeeded Chen Ruolin) and grandparents who came to visit her tears.
The family members have advised Chen Ruolin to give up diving, but the young Chen Ruolin is unusually insistent on this matter, so the whole family held a meeting and unanimously asked Chen Ruolin to give up diving, but Chen Ruolin said that she must continue to practice and participate in the competition.
In the end, Chen Ruolin participated in the Jiangsu Provincial Children's Diving Competition as she wished, and won the fourth place in the all-around of the Children's C Group, and a year later, Chen Ruolin became an official member of the Provincial Children's Sports School.
Grandma Chen Guiying, as always, often runs to Nanjing, trying to take time to accompany her and cheer her up.
Three
Once, Grandma Chen Guiying walked into the training room and saw the children standing upside down one by one, their feet on the wall, probably time. Most of them had already come down, and their hands were shaking violently, and their faces were flushed.
Chen Ruolin was also among them, her head was facing down, her body was straight, and the beads of sweat oozing from her forehead formed small yellow beans, dripping on the ground, still insisting on not moving, it turned out that the forehead was not sweat, but hot tears.
Chen Ruolin trained hard, Grandma always tried to compensate her, every time she came to visit Chen Ruolin, she would take Chen Ruolin to eat KFC, because this is Xiao Ruolin's favorite food.
In 2003, at the age of 11, Chen Ruolin won three gold medals in the National Children's Diving Competition, and a year later, she "crossed the level" challenge at the National Diving Championships, competing with Li Ting, Lau Lishi and other famous players to win the 5th place in the 10-meter platform.
Her outstanding performance attracted the attention of The Chinese diving team leader Zhou Jihong, who is also the head of the Chinese diving team, because the Chinese diving team implements the "team leader responsibility system".
Zhou Jihong officially became the leader of the Chinese diving team in 1998, and since then the Chinese diving team has changed from the "head coach responsibility system" to the "team leader responsibility system".
At that time, Zhou Jihong "quarreled" with Yu Fen, the former deputy head coach of the Chinese diving team, on the one hand, he fell into public opinion because of "banning" Tian Liang, because most of the main members of the Chinese diving team at that time were Yu Fen's disciples, such as Guo Jingjing, He Zi and so on.
So Zhou Jihong urgently formed her own team, so in such a background, 12-year-old Chen Ruolin entered the Chinese diving national team.
Less than two years after entering the national team, Chen Ruolin encountered one of the most important opportunities of her career, in the 2006 Diving World Cup, Chen Ruolin replaced Yuan Peilin as a substitute for the double women's 10m platform competition.
Chen Ruolin seized this opportunity and won the World Cup double women's 10m platform with her partner Jia Tong, becoming the world champion at the age of 14, and she also gained a firm foothold in the national team because of this competition.
However, at the 2007 World Championships and the Asian Games, Chen Ruolin lost to teammate Wang Xin in the women's single 10m platform competition and ranked second, which made Chen Ruolin bear a lot of doubts.
In such doubts, 16-year-old Chen Ruolin participated in the Beijing Olympics, and in order to participate in the Olympic Games, Chen Ruolin needed to maintain her weight, and she did not eat dinner for more than a year.
In order to "curb" Fu as much as possible and maintain a competitive state, Chen Ruolin not only gave up her original favorite snacks, but even strictly controlled the "grams" when eating.
"Hard training is no problem, but the old do not let you eat snacks, really can't stand it, in order to control weight, there is no way, wait for retirement and then eat back", Chen Ruolin can only comfort herself every day.
Six
At the Beijing Olympic Games, Chen Ruolin and her partner Wang Xin won the women's double 10m platform, and she herself won the women's single 10m platform.
In the women's single 10m platform final, the current four rounds ended, And Heymans led Chen Ruolin by 1.65 points, which means that Chen Ruolin's last jump must be 90 points to complete the earth-shattering reversal.
Chen Ruolin's last one is 5253B, under huge pressure, Chen Ruolin adjusted her breathing on the high platform, then jumped, flipped, and plunged into the pool like a needle, 100.30 points, achieving a big reversal.
After crawling out of the water, Chen Ruolin cried, and the team leader Zhou Jihong excitedly hugged Chen Ruolin left and right, because this gold medal is very important to the Chinese diving team.
Since entering the new century, the women's single 10m jumping platform once became the Waterloo of the Chinese diving team, and the 2000 Sydney Olympics was replaced by american veteran Laura. Wilkinson upset gold.
The 2004 Athens Olympic champion was won by Australia's Newberry, so Chen Ruolin's gold medal in the women's single 10m platform in 2008 is precious, especially for the ability of team leader Zhou Jihong.
After winning the championship, Chen Ruolin became the best member of the Chinese diving team in this project, and everyone's expectations for her were also very high, and Chen Ruolin's requirements for herself were more stringent.
Before the 2009 World Championships in Rome, the dishes in the restaurant of the Training Bureau of the General Administration of Sports were very rich, but Chen Ruolin's bowl only contained cabbage, tofu and other vegetarian dishes.
Because his teammate hu Yadan, who is also Chen Ruolin's main competitor, is young, weighs much lighter than Chen Ruolin, and the pressure splash is particularly good, it is easy to leave a good impression on the referee.
Chen Ruolin can only eat vegetarian food every day for the splash effect, and she successfully controlled her weight to 46 kg before the World Championships, but at this World Championships, Chen Ruolin was unexpectedly defeated by the Mexican diving princess Espinos, and had no chance to win her first single World Championship gold medal.
Although this defeat had some impact on Chen Ruolin, she was still a 17-year-old girl at the time, and there were many opportunities, at the 2011 Shanghai World Championships, Chen Ruolin finally defeated her teammates and finally won the world championship of the women's single 10-meter platform, and also became the first person in the Chinese diving team to win the women's Grand Slam.
Five
At the 2012 London Olympic Games, Chen Ruolin represented China in the women's 10m platform doubles competition and the women's 10m platform single competition at the London Olympic Games.
In the end, Chen Ruolin and her partner Wang Hao won the women's double 10m platform championship, and she herself won the women's single 10m platform championship.
She is also the first athlete to defend her title in both the 10m platform single and double events at the Olympic Games, and Chen Ruolin, who has won the most world championships in the Chinese diving team, is only 20 years old this year.
It was time for the 2016 Rio Olympics, and this time the Chinese diving team, for the sake of safety, did not choose to let Chen Ruolin participate in the women's single 10-meter platform jumping competition, but handed over the responsibility of winning the championship to the younger teammate Ren Qian.
However, in the women's doubles 10m platform competition, Chen Ruolin led her sister Liu Huifeng to win the championship, and with this Olympic gold medal, Chen Ruolin's total Olympic gold medals became 5.
In the Chinese diving team, Wu Minxia is tied with Wu Minxia to win the most Olympic gold medals, the most important thing is that Chen Ruolin has only 5 gold medals in the Olympic medal, while Wu Minxia has another gold and bronze medals.
This means that Chen Ruolin's winning rate in the Olympic Games is 100%, as long as she has won the championship in the competitions she has participated in, and has participated in three consecutive Olympic Games, each of which has a gold medal.
Another point is that Wu Minxia also won five Olympic gold medals in her career, but when Wu Minxia won her fifth Olympic gold medal at the Rio Olympic Games, she was 31 years old, while Chen Ruolin won her fifth gold medal at the age of 24.
After the Rio Olympic Games, Chen Ruolin chose to retire, and Wu Minxia also chose to retire, unlike her sister Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing, who married into the giants, and Wu Minxia entered the short video field.
Chen Ruolin joined the FINA Diving Technical Committee in 2017, and at the 2018 FINA World Diving Series Beijing, Chen Ruolin refereed the competition for the first time as the chief referee.
He then refereed the World Championships in 2019, the Diving World Cup in May 2021 and, most recently, the Diving Competition at the Tokyo Olympics.
It can be said that after Chen Ruolin retired, she is still doing her favorite diving work, doing support logistics work for the Chinese diving team, and dedicating herself to the sport of diving.
Now that Chen Ruolin is also 29 years old, she is still reportedly still single, and I hope she can find her own happiness soon!