On August 9, 2016, in the early morning of Beijing time, Lin Yue, who had regained his Olympic championship podium after eight years, sat on the press conference and quietly listened to his partner Chen Aisen answer questions. "He's an older brother, closer than his partner, and a lot of times he teaches me a lot of things." Chen Aisen said, "When I don't practice well or my mood is not right, I will be enlightened in time, and he is very good at taking care of people." Hearing this, Lin Yue, who was just calm on the men's double 10-meter jump platform and the championship podium, his face turned red...
Chen Aisen and Lin Yue won the men's double 10m platform championship
"I think each of my partners is great." Lin Yue said yesterday. In 2006, Lin Yue began to get the opportunity to play on the men's double 10m jump platform of the national team. At that time, in addition to his own excellent ability and performance, an important reason was that at the 2005 Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Canada, the combination of Yang Jinghui and Hu Jia, the 2004 Athens Olympic champion, finally failed to bring the gold medal back. You know, in those years, Chinese diving was not a ten-to-nine stability in this project, and the World Championships were a testing ground for the national diving team to test whether a pair of combinations could be used. Therefore, when Hu Jia/Yang Jinghui broke the sand at the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, Lin Yue's opportunity came.
Lin Yue's first partner was Huo Liang. With tacit cooperation and perfect action, the two of them won all the major championships in the world diving industry, so they were named "Moon Combination" by the outside world. They were all winners of the men's doubles 10m platform at the 2007 World Swimming Championships in Melbourne, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 World Swimming Championships in Rome. "The fire is really bright." Lin Yue said, "He was older than me, and I felt that he was really taking me with me at that time." "Then Lin Yue's partner also includes Beijing teammate Cao Yuan and now partner Chen Aisen." Although they were both younger than me, I could clearly feel that their technical level was better than mine. He said modestly, "Although young, I have always been with me." So I really appreciate each and every one of my partners. ”
On this cold evening in Rio, Lin Yue warmly thanked many people, "I really thank all the leaders, all the coaches, whether they are carrying me now or before." Everybody, everybody! When Lin Yue said all this, his eyes and tone were very sincere, not because it was a courtesy after hanging a gold medal on his chest, but because only he himself understood what had happened between being the king of the men's double 10-meter jump at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 to revisiting Rio 8 years later.
After winning the men's doubles 10m platform jumping title at the World Swimming Championships in Rome in 2009 with Huo Liang, Lin Yue experienced the worst years of his diving career. In 2010 and 2011, he was almost plagued by a serious back injury and also grew 10 centimeters in height. He lost the chance to defend his title on the doubles 10m platform and finished only sixth in the single event at the London Olympics, becoming the only athlete on the diving team who did not have a chest tag. At the 2013 Barcelona Swimming World Championships, Lin Yue finished second from the bottom among the 18 semi-finalists on the men's single 10m platform and missed the worst of the Chinese diving team.
But Lin Yue was able to go all the way, to be able to stand on the stage of Rio again after 8 years, to relive the dream of a champion, and he deeply felt the strength that had been holding him behind his back. "I really feel that my strength alone is very small, it is a strong team, it has been helping me, pushing me, moving forward little by little, although 8 years is a bit long, but we have been working towards the goal." Lin Yue said.
Source: Beijing Evening News, Beiwan New Vision Network reporter Yuan Hongheng, Li Yuanfei, Chen Jiakun
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