Chinese teenager Quan Hongchan won the gold medal for the women's 10-meter platform diving at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Thursday.
Quan is the youngest of 431 athletesChina sent to Tokyo for the Olympics. If the Games had gone on as scheduled last summer, she would have been too young(meet) the minimum age (14) to compete in the diving competition. Now, she's made Olympic history.
Each of Quan's dives was the highest of the five rounds of competition at the 10-meter platform. Two scored perfect 10s from all seven(judge). Only one judge found a flaw (瑕疵) with her final dive,(award) her a 9.5 next to six 10s. But it didn't count, becausediving's scoring system. The two highest and two(low) scores are thrown out and multiplied by the dive's degree of difficulty. (eventual), only the three middle 10s counted on her final dive and(add) up 96 when multiplied by the 3.2 degree of difficulty.
At suchyoung age, Quan was relatively unknown until winning the 2020 Chinese national championship at 13 years old. She(be) a 17-year-old veteran (老手) when the Paris Olympics start in 2024.
