What kind of person is Xie Siwei?

When Xie Sibei and Wang Zongyuan won the Men's Diving Double Three-Meter Board Championship at the Tokyo Olympic Games by an absolute advantage, He Weiyi, coach of the Guangdong Provincial Diving Team, had tears in his eyes; Pan Zhaowei, the national team coach who accompanied Xie Sipi for five years in Beijing, held his mobile phone to watch the replay, and his hands were a little shaken with excitement. In their hearts, being strong and meticulous is the characteristic of Xie Sibei, and it can be said that he is the most reassuring of the team members they have led.

Xie Sibei has not been easy in these years, the two coaches know best: the first injury in 2013, leaving three steel nails in the leg, 2015 close to the Olympic Games, injured again, originally the most promising for the Chinese team, he regrettably passed by the Rio Olympics. After that, he operated again, cut the wound, re-grafted the bone, and to this day, Xie Sibei still has a steel nail in his leg.

"When he was injured, he was in Beijing, very lonely, and he silently endured a lot of pressure alone." Coach He said that Xie Sipi has always been his most reassuring disciple and the most distressed disciple. "He's not as extroverted as Chen Aisen, but he's very strong, technically stable, and his movements may not be the hardest, but it's definitely the most stable one, and every jump is reassuring." When Xie Sibei completed the first jump with a score of 55.82 points, He Weiyi was very proud to share with the Yangcheng Evening News reporter: "More than 54 points is already a high score, and the first jump can reach 55 points, which is very good." ”

For Xie Siwei's psychological quality, He Weiyi is also very reassured, "The national diving team actually gives them psychological lessons every week, requiring them to ask themselves two questions every day, such as what difficulties they will encounter when they go to Tokyo, psychological, environmental, temperature, technology, state, etc., and then how to deal with themselves." "He Weiyi revealed that he learned that due to the relatively low temperature of the venue, including the previous Shi Tingmao and Xie Sibei, they would take buckets of hot water and soak them at any time to keep their bodies warm." Three hours before each training session, the national team will also reduce the temperature of the air conditioner to simulate the situation of the Tokyo Olympics as much as possible. ”

Pan Zhaowei is a Guangdong coach and an assistant coach of Xie Sidi's head coach in the national team, Nie Yudi's coaching team, and has been accompanying Xie Sibei in Beijing for five years. "The biggest difficulty in this cycle for Xie Sipi is injury, and the second is the reconstruction of the mentality that must be faced after the postponement of the Olympic Games. In the months after the postponement of the Olympics was announced, his level of competition declined. However, he is a very mature and calm person, and he is more confident in himself, and finally digests those negative emotions well. ”

Pan Zhaowei's most impressive match for Xie Siwei was the 2019 World Championships, xie Sibei once fell behind by more than thirty points, but he was not affected, and the last jump completed the "kill". "Before that game, he had been watching the movie 'Breaking Bad Munich' and didn't give up at the last moment, which was actually his characteristic, and he didn't expect that he copied the plot of the movie in that game."

In Pan Zhaowei's mind, Xie Siwei is a very meticulous person, self-management is very good, whether it is life or training, there is no mess, everyone in the team privately calls him "Brother Xie". "His requirements for each action, the arrangement of each step are very clear, such as where to sit in each game, what to do after the game, he is properly arranged, even his room is extremely well planned. He is indeed an athlete with his own ideas. "Pan Zhaowei revealed that Xie Siwei usually loves photography, shoots VLOG, and also plays games." He likes to record the bits and pieces of his life, and the photos he takes are also very designed, which can express his mood and opinions. ”

Yangcheng Evening News reporter Su Jing intern Guo Siyun

Source: Yangcheng Evening News