The story of Olympic champion Quan Hongchan The story of Olympic champion Quan Hongchan 1
Chinese diving has welcomed the emergence of a new star, she is Quan Hongchan.
Three out of five jumps scored full marks, with a total score of 466. With 20 points, she locked the gold medal in the women's single ten-meter platform in the most undisputed way.
At only 14 years and 130 days old, Quan Hongchan became the second youngest diving Olympic champion after Fu Mingxia. Facing a large number of reporters after the game, the little girl was a little overwhelmed: "(Being interviewed) is more nervous than the game."
But at such a young age, she has already shouldered more.
Turned out
If the Tokyo Olympics had not been postponed, Quan Hongchan would not have stood on the podium of the Olympics.
In the three Chinese diving team Olympic trials held after the Olympic Games were postponed, Quan Hongchan performed stunningly on the platform and won two individual ten-meter platform championships, thus gaining a valuable Olympic ticket. .
For Quan Hongchan, this is definitely a "fish leaping over the dragon's gate" - you know, not only did she have no experience in international competitions before, she had never even competed abroad. Even if it was a national competition, she had never participated in it before the Olympic trials.
Zhou Jihong, the leader of the Chinese diving team, said: "Quan Hongchan is a new member who emerged after the postponement of the Olympics." Can such a pure newcomer show his strength on a top stage like the Olympics? , no one has any idea.
But Quan Hongchan not only did it, she also did it in the most perfect way.
When she performed perfectly in the three jumps in the Olympic finals, not only the Chinese but also the teams from all other countries could not help but cheer and applaud. Many foreign players and coaches Come up and congratulate her.
“I was a little nervous, but luckily it was only a little bit.” The little girl said after the game: “I wasn’t particularly used to it when I first got here, but I got used to it after a few days.”
According to statistics, Quan Hongchan, who was only 14 years and 130 days old on the day she won the championship, became the second youngest Olympic champion of the Chinese diving team after Fu Mingxia (13 years and 346 days old) of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
For Quan Hongchan’s career, there will be no more perfect start than this.
Born to be a good material for diving
Quan Hongchan’s diving journey seems to have started entirely by chance.
When Quan Hongchan was 7 years old, the coach of Zhanjiang Sports School went to a grassroots primary school to select young talents, and she was selected. Her family also had no objection to this choice. Quan Hongchan’s life story This is related to diving.
Quan Hongchan, who likes sports and is more courageous than other girls, seems to be a natural for diving. "It feels so good to jump down." She once described the feeling of diving.
“The main reason is that I don’t like going to school, and my academic performance is relatively poor.” Quan Hongchan often feels a headache when it comes to academic work, and diving makes her feel more motivated and interested. world.
"Quan Hongchan has great momentum and explosive power", this is the evaluation of Quan Hongchan by her coach from Guangdong Province in her early days. In the national team, Quan Hongchan's advantages have been further strengthened - excellent movement skills and control abilities, coupled with her already excellent physical condition, have created perfect performance on the platform.
But at the same time, Quan Hongchan’s own strong fighting spirit and concentration on training are also indispensable, as she previously told The Paper reporter:
“There is also something in the middle. I will feel scared. If I don’t jump for a day or two, I will be scared when I stand on the 10-meter platform again. I feel afraid of falling, so I need to practice jumping every day.
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For Quan Hongchan, who is still just a girl, diving is just a daily habit that she gets used to day after day. She is not satisfied with the titles such as “genius” and “prodigy” given by the outside world. On the contrary, I am a little confused.
“I don’t think I am a genius, nor am I very powerful. My academic performance is not very good. When you ask me questions, my mind is blank. "
In the eyes of the little girl, getting full marks in diving is much easier than taking an exam.
Carrying the family on your shoulders
Indeed, for a young girl who is still very young, For Quan Hongchan, who is astringent, she is not used to being "surrounded" by reporters.
After the game, she is often at a loss for words when faced with questions from reporters on the scene one after another. . She said it was the first time she had faced so many reporters: “It was more nervous than the competition. "
As for how she performed so well and made such a small splash in the competition, she could only hold back one sentence: "If you don't feel it, just jump down and it's gone..."
When asked how it felt to have her photo hung up on the diving team’s wall of honor, she didn’t know how to answer: “Just hung it up...”
However, teammate Chen Tuo Xi "exposed her shortcomings" - although she is very nervous and talkative in front of the media, in normal life, Quan Hongchan is a very lively and cheerful child: "She likes to chase me and fight. "
This sentence caused Quan Hongchan to quickly defend: "No! Liar! Why is this so? ”
For Quan Hongchan, she will still have a lot of time and opportunities to get used to receiving attention from the outside world and interviews from the media in the future, and such a life may not even have occurred to her.
Quan Hongchan comes from an ordinary rural family and has a very simple personality. When Zhanjiang Sports School went to the countryside to select sports talents, it was because of their simplicity and ability to endure hardships.
Her family's conditions are not favorable. Her mother suffered a traffic accident a few years ago, and her health has been affected since the treatment, which increased the burden on the family.
During the trials before the Olympics, Quan Hongchan once told The Paper: “My mother has been hospitalized two or three times, but my family sometimes doesn’t tell me. I called my dad and he told me this. He told me not to worry about too many things, but my mother’s medical treatment cost a lot of money, so I felt that I had to earn money so that I could send it home to my mother for medical treatment. "
After winning the gold medal in the Olympics, Quan Hongchan said again:
"When my mother is sick, I want to make a lot of money to treat her and cure her. "
After today, she has enough ability to help the family.
Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. This is the impression Quan Hongchan left on all viewers. But here Behind the scenes, she is by no means insulated from pressure.
In fact, after making a sensation in the three Olympic trials and qualifying for the Olympics, Quan Hongchan fell into a trough before the Olympics. I couldn’t perform well in the team test. During that time, Quan Hongchan suddenly felt huge pressure.
“I was much more nervous than the previous three stops (Olympic Trials). I don’t know why I was nervous. I feel so annoyed now and have no mood at all. "In a previous interview with CCTV, Quan Hongchan's childish face was full of clouds, which made people feel distressed.
Full marks to Quan Hongchan.
" The coach told me not to be nervous, dance with ease, don’t think about other people, just dance well for yourself. Don’t ask for anything else, just be yourself. "This is the goal and expectation she gave herself before stepping onto the stage of the Tokyo Olympics.
This is also what her parents told her - "They told me to relax and just dance easily, regardless of whether I can get it or not. Winning medals doesn't matter. "
Now, even though she is an Olympic champion, you can still see the childishness in Quan Hongchan. When she talks about what she has to do after winning the championship, she immediately becomes energetic.
"I'm going to eat a lot of delicious things tonight, and now I especially want to eat spicy strips" - this is her favorite snack.
As for the Paris Olympics three years later, she didn’t think too much: “You have to train well first before you can think about that.”
After a perfect opening appearance, Quan Hong Chan still has a long road ahead. The Story of Olympic Champion Quan Hongchan 2
In 1991, when 13-year-old Fu Mingxia appeared at the World Gaming Championships, the nearly 30-year-old American player Clark was very dissatisfied, thinking that Fu Mingxia was still a child, but he did not expect that, Fu Mingxia became the world's first youngest world champion and was included in the Guinness World Records. She was also the first and only Chinese to appear on the cover of Time Magazine twice.
Twenty years later, 14-year-old Quan Hongchan not only became famous with three perfect diving records on the ten-meter platform, but also became the Chinese delegation in the 32nd Summer Olympics. The youngest world champion in the world.
Quan Hongchan, who was born on March 28, 2007, had not reached the minimum age requirement for Olympic diving if it had not been for well-known reasons that led to the postponement of the 32nd Olympic Games by one year to 2021. Before participating in the Olympics, I had not experienced any international competitions.
In the past few days, the word "Quanhongchan" has been everywhere in the media and on the Internet.
We also learned some family stories behind this little champion from the media:
Both parents are farmers in western Guangdong, and their family is poor. There is one brother and one sister. There is a brother and a sister. My elder brother doesn’t like studying and went to work in Shanghai. My elder sister likes to study and is currently in high school and is considered the “student champion” among the siblings. My younger brother and sister are swimmers in the sports school like Quan Hongchan. My mother has sequelae due to a car accident. .
Learning physical education is hard and tiring. People who work hard are known to the world. Most of those who fail to work hard are trapped in the quagmire of life. Therefore, generally people with good financial resources are not willing to send their children to school. Go to a sports school to learn physical education.
However, three of the five children in the family were sent to a sports school with no tuition and miscellaneous fees. Quan Hongchan had never been to a zoo or an amusement park until she was 14 years old. Her favorite snack was 50 cents. The spicy strips... It can be imagined that the family's financial situation is not very good, so what Quan Hongchan said to the world in front of the interview camera: Mom is sick, and it will cost a lot to treat the disease. I feel like I have to earn money so that I can send it home to my mother for medical treatment.
Quan Hongchan’s simple and down-to-earth confession of winning the championship immediately made countless viewers around the world sigh and praise her.
Next, as the media reports more deeply about the whole family, we can see that the reason why Quan Hongchan became the world champion is not only because of her good personality, high talent, special understanding and hard work, but also because of her family. The support and understanding behind her are inseparable: her brother often talks about her life and diving, and cheers her up to watch her competitions, even if he is afraid of being fired; her parents are simple and low-key, in addition to supporting her to dance freely, and He didn't tell her that she had to dance to make money for the family, and he didn't put a lot of pressure on her; after Quan Hongchan won the championship, in front of the huge bonus spontaneously awarded by the businessman, her father insisted on the reason that "the honor of his daughter cannot be consumed". Refuse...
My parents are simple and not overbearing, they have a good family tradition, and my brothers and sisters have a good relationship and are united. ——So, under the packaging production without fake girls and top-notch capital, with the understanding and support of parents and family, with the selection and training of talents through the layers of coaches’ discerning eyes, with the blessing of one’s own talent and hard work , a rural girl who came from a poor family and had no powerful background, became famous instantly with her calm mind and solid technical ability.
Because of hard work, because of being sensible, because of inheriting the traditional Chinese filial piety, and because of success, media and sponsors have come in droves since then, and the grandfather who was sick in the hospital has also been properly cared for. The whole village is proud of her. She became a fan of the "Queen of Diving" and was called a "genius girl" by the media... The warmth of the world bloomed for her, and the world treated her tenderly.
However, as Quan Hongchan’s coach said, I hope the media will not portray Quan Hongchan as a “genius girl”. Quan Hongchan’s success is inseparable from her hard work and conscious training. open.
Quan Hongchan, who is only 14 years old, through simple and unremitting efforts and hard work, has allowed herself to reach the pinnacle of her field without knowing it, and has realized her social value in life. This is what we value. An idol for children to promote and learn from.