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The Tokyo Olympic Games saw the growing number of a group of young Chinese stars. Quan Hongchan was one of them. Her wonderful dives (跳水) surprised the whole world.

As China’s youngest player in Tokyo Olympic Games, Quan set a good example (榜样) for young people. She was born in 2007 and grew up in a small village in Guangzhou. The reason why Quan decided to become a player is so sad—she wanted to make much money to help her poorly ill mother. In 2014, Quan began to dive. Because of her excellent dives in the National Diving Championships (全国跳水锦标赛), Quan started to dive on the national team (国家队) in 2020.

Almost everyone thinks that Quan is a genius (天才) but her coach (教练) Chen Huaming may have different ideas about it. “Quan is the most hard-working player I know.” he says. If you know that she keeps diving about 420 times every day, then you won’t feel surprised that she can do such a wonderful job at such a young age.

When people ask Quan why she can be so excellent in diving, she smiled shyly and answered, “In fact, I am not very smart. I just keep doing the same thing carefully and don’t think too much about the final result.”