is as elegant and calm as ever! Xie Siyu's first jump was extremely difficult and he scored 86.70 points
Xie Siyi broke the 100-point mark for the first time in this game, and he deserved the success in defending his title!
Out of his persistent love for diving, Xie Siyi only started full-scale Olympic preparations in the second half of 2023 after a long "gap period" after the Tokyo Olympics, and once again demonstrated his absolute dominance in this event. Although this time he gave up the doubles opportunity to a younger player, and his focus was only on the single three-meter springboard, but his continuous improvement of technical details made his performance this night even more exciting than three years ago.
Xie Siyu performed the strongest "Return of the King" in the Paris Olympics diving pool!
Quan Hongchan's senior brother, "loving sister" but even more "loving wife"
Xie Siyu has many labels, and with Quan Hongchan 's dominant performance in two consecutive Olympic Games, the most well-known label has become Became——Quan Hongchan’s senior brother. The Guangdong Provincial Diving Team, where the two came from, is already a well-known talent pool in the country, and their common coach He Weiyi is also famous all over the world, so there seems to be nothing special about the relationship between the seniors. But another detail highlights the fate of the two. Their birthdays are both March 28, Aries, but Quan Hongchan’s is in 2007, and Xie Si’s is in 1996, which is a full 11 years apart.
Perhaps because he cherishes this special fate, Xie Siyu dotes on Quan Hongchan both on and off the court. At the National Diving Championships in March last year, in the women's 10-meter platform final, Quan Hongchan made a mistake in the 207c (backward somersault three and a half weeks tuck) and scored only 54.54 points. Hurrying and slowing down, the total score still failed to catch up with Chen Yuxi , and finally finished second. This was a rare failure for Quan Hongchan during the Paris Olympics. After the game, she buried her head on the shoulder of her senior brother Xie Siyu, tears streaming down her face.
As Quan Hongchan’s senior brother, Xie Sizhen has to “lend shoulders” to his junior sister from time to time.
Even if he and Quan Hongchan are brother and sister, Xie Sizhen is not good at handling such a situation. His way of comforting Quan Hongchan was very special, that is, he won another silver medal with her...
At the National Diving Championships last November, Quan Hongchan still lost to Chen Yuxi and won the silver medal, but this time She didn't cry. Because Xie Siyi, who lent her his shoulder half a year ago, also returned to compete this time, and also lost to his double partner Wang Zongyuan in the men's three-meter springboard final. Putting the two silver medals together, Quan Hongchan can be considered to have found resonance with her senior brother. Xie Siyi made an appointment with his junior sister to change the silver medal into a gold medal together in the next competition.
In fact, at that time, Xie Siyi was quite satisfied with the silver medal, because he had been away from the top competition in the country for 2 years. After the Shaanxi National Games in 2021, he temporarily bid farewell to the national diving team and mainly did two things-one was to get married, and the other was to complete his graduate studies and obtain a master's degree. After dealing with two major life events, Xie Sizhen did not return to the training ground until May 2023, and returned to the level of the national runner-up in just six months. The impetus for all this is, of course, the upcoming Paris Olympics.
Although Xie Siyi said he "dotes on his sister", he "dotes on his wife" even more. When he got the silver medal, he showed off his affection in the interview after the game: "Today is also my wife's birthday! Happy birthday, my dear, this medal is for you!"
Xie Siyu and his girlfriend will get married in 2022, and their love is sweet Envious.
Xie Siyu’s wife Yingying is also considered half an insider. The two met during early training at Shantou City Sports School, and were later selected into the Guangdong Provincial Diving Team.However, the two of them were still young at the time, and dating was strictly forbidden in the team, so the young feelings could only be buried deep in their hearts. Later, Xie Siyi became good at training, but Yingying was accidentally injured during a training in 2017 and left the team soon after. What was lost was gained in the east, and the relationship between the two that had been hidden for a long time was finally made public. After that, Yingying entered a primary school in Guangzhou to teach, and from then on became a "good wife" to her Olympic champion boyfriend/husband.
On August 23, 2022, Xie Siyi posted on social platforms without warning the sweet scene of him and Yingying receiving their marriage certificate in Guangzhou the day before. The love affair formed by diving in the early years has been sublimated at this moment.
html The career that started with a "jump" at the age of 147 was almost interrupted due to three nails.
According to speculation, Xie Sizhen and his wife were probably less than 10 years old when they first met. At that time, they were not really diving at the Shantou City Sports School. door. Although Xie Siyi specializes in springboards, his first experience of diving was gained on the platform. That was when he was 7 years old. For the first time in his life, he stood on a ten-meter-high platform and looked at the water ten meters below. He was so scared that he didn't move. I only heard the coach's shout coming from below, "Should we jump or not? Come down quickly and the get out of class is over."
At that time, the training pool of Shantou City Sports School was in the open air, and the vast and blue sea could be seen when looking up. Xie Siyu turned around suddenly, the setting sun was shining red, he was riding a tiger and it was hard to get off, and his heart skipped a beat. Although the scene may have been embarrassing at the time, Xie Siyi recalled it now as romantic and joyful: "Suddenly I felt that I was enjoying the scenery at a high place. After I jumped down, I realized that it was nothing but addictive." After becoming "addicted" to
, Xie Siyu went from Shantou team to Guangdong team to the National Youth Team, step by step, walking steadily and quickly. But when I was 18 years old, my dream of diving when I was 7 years old almost came to an abrupt end.
It was 2014, and Xie Sizhen was in Beijing preparing for the Youth Olympic Games to be held in Nanjing. At that time, he had just put on the national jersey for two years, and his head coach was Zhong Shaozhen. Because of its comprehensive skills, Xie Siyu also has a 10-meter platform, a 3-meter springboard and a 1-meter springboard. But as the intensity and difficulty of training increase, so does the risk. While preparing for the game, he suffered an accidental fracture of his left ankle. There will definitely be no comparison at the Youth Olympics, and his future diving career will be in doubt.
Men don’t shed tears easily. Xie Siyi’s road to the Olympics was too difficult.
When the parents in Guangdong heard the news, they were so anxious that they immediately left for Beijing to take care of their son. Although Xie Siyi expressed relief to his parents, he still had to use the knife on his body. The surgical plan was quickly determined. The doctor inserted two steel nails and a rivet into his left foot. The operation lasted for 7 hours, leaving a conspicuous scar on Xie Siyu's left foot. However, if he prepared for the worst at that time, he might still miss the diving platform for life.
But Xie Siyu made a comeback ahead of schedule with amazing perseverance. At the Kazan World Swimming Championships in July 2015, with three nails on his legs, he won the men's 1-meter springboard championship in one fell swoop, making a gratifying recovery. However, the 1-meter springboard is not an Olympic event. In order to compete in the Rio Olympics a year later, Xie Sizhen began to practice the double 3-meter springboard with veteran Lin Yue. At this time, God played another joke on him. Due to the intensity of training, the two steel nails in his body were misplaced and the flesh in his feet was worn away. It was so painful that he could not even walk. It was early 2016, only half a year away from the Rio Olympics.
What greeted Xie Siyi was the second surgery and the long recovery course after the surgery. He also spent his 20th birthday in this mentality. After a brief period of depression, Xie Siyi quickly changed his mentality - there is more than one Olympics in life, and if you can't go to Rio, then we will see you in Tokyo!
Tokyo Olympic cycle, Xie Sicheng and Wang Zongyuan formed a partnership.
On July 28, 2021, when he and his new partner Wang Zongyuan stood on the men's synchronized 3-meter springboard final of the Tokyo Olympics, he was already a 25-year-old "older rookie".
After easily mastering the "double champion", he also went to study for a graduate school to study Bingdundun
It's never too late to have a good meal. In Tokyo, Xie Siyi relied on his solid skills and experience accumulated during the Tokyo Olympics, as well as being more mature than most of his opponents, and successively won the men's double 3-meter springboard and single 3-meter springboard gold medals. In the singles final, he scored 558.75 points, beating his partner Wang Zongyuan and becoming the second athlete after Xiong Ni to win the "double championship" in the men's three-meter springboard at a single Olympics.
The Tokyo Olympics finally came true, and Xie Siyi thanked himself for not giving up along the way.
Although Xie Siyi had already won national, Asian and world championships in this event before, these two Olympic gold medals are what he desires most. He said that he had been looking forward to this moment for nine years. "Nine years, I believe, is not a short time for anyone. In these nine years, I have experienced troughs, waiting and patience, and I also You know how you got here." In this way, Xie Siyi started counting in 2012, which was the day he first entered the national diving team training hall.
During the Paris Olympics period, Xie Siyu, who was much more relaxed than before, had a "gap" for a long time. During the period when he left the national diving team, apart from getting a marriage license with his girlfriend, the biggest thing he did was to complete his graduate studies at Jinan University. However, he chose not the School of Physical Education where Su Bingtian taught, but the School of Economics. He also studied here for his undergraduate degree before, enrolling in 2014 and graduating in 2018. In the middle of the year, I was busy training and competing and did not continue my studies. Then in 2019, I was admitted to the International Business Major of the School of Economics of Jinan University and became a master's student. I will graduate in 2022, but miraculously there will be no "delay in graduation".
A major domestic event in 2022 is the successful hosting of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the title of Xie Siyu's thesis is also related to this. He chose "Research on the Purchasing Power and Patterns of Users of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Souvenirs" as the direction of his thesis. First, because his relatives and friends at that time came to ask the Olympic champion to help them purchase "Bingdundun", and secondly, because of the strong Olympics The plot allowed him to inject all his beautiful feelings for the Olympic movement into this interesting master's thesis.
Of course, another important significance for Xie Sizhen to graduate on schedule is that he can devote himself to preparing for the second Olympic trip in his life.
But this time, Xie Siyu only had one single three-meter springboard competition, but not doubles. On the one hand, this is due to my age and injuries, and on the other hand, it is also for the intergenerational inheritance of the Chinese diving team. When he partnered with him in Paris last time, Wang Zongyuan was less than 20 years old, and now he also needs to "lead the old with the new" and bring along Long Daoyi , who was born in 2003, to be tempered and grown in competitions like the Olympics. However, this new pair had previously won gold in the men's synchronized three-meter springboard competition, and the process was quite dangerous. It was not until the last jump that the Chinese diving team defeated the powerful Mexican opponent by a slight advantage of 2.07 points, retaining the gold medal for the Chinese diving team.
In the Paris Olympics, Xie Siyu was more relaxed and confident than a single player.
As for Xie Siyu, who traveled lightly, he was completely enjoying his Olympic moment. In the preliminaries of the single three-meter springboard, he challenged 109c on the last jump, and the referee finally gave a high score of 96.90 points. In the final of
, he even broke 100, proving with practical actions that the pursuit of perfection never ends.
Xie Siyu, after the Paris Olympics, what big things do you plan to do during the "gap"?
