Post-2000s Chinese athletes shine at Olympics
Updated: 2021-08-07 07:00
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In the women's 10-meter platform final on Thursday, Quan Hongchan, born in 2007, the youngest member of the delegation in Tokyo, wowed the world by scoring perfect 10s in three rounds to win the diving squad's sixth gold medal of the Games.
The baby-faced Quan, the latest prodigy of China's diving training system, barely made a ripple in the water during her final's performance and tallied 466.2 points to dominate the field.
Her composure impressed reporters during her interview after the event. "I was a little nervous, but not very, just a little bit," she said. "I don't feel different competing at the Olympics compared to the national championships. I just did my routines and tried to execute my dives the way my coach told me to."
