Teenage diver(跳水运动员) Quan Hongchan set the women's 10-meter platform final alight at the Tokyo Olympics in Japan on Thursday. At the final round, she scored (完美的) 10s in three of her five dives to win the (金色的) medal. The (十四)-year-old girl is the event's youngest athlete and also the youngest member of Team China.
The baby-faced Quan, the latest prodigy(神童) of China's diving training system, rarely made a ripple in the water during her final (表现) and got 466.2 points, followed by teammate Chen Yuxi with 425.40 and Australia's Mellisa Wu with 371.40.
Born in a small village in South China's Guangdong (省), the reason why Quan chose to become an athlete is heartbreaking — she wanted to win (奖项) as early as possibleto help her seriously ill mother. Her calmness impressed reporters during her interview after the event, "I was a little nervous but not very, just a little bit." Quan said, " I don't feel different competing at the Olympics compared to the (国家的) championships. I just did my routines and tried to execute my dives the way my coach told me to." Quan said her parents had previously "told me that it doesn't matter (是否)I get a medal or not and to just be myself". "Those words really helped me," Quan (补充说), saying she planned to eat latiao, a popular Chinese street (零食), to celebrate tonight.
