The 2025 Diving World Cup Finals started, and Quan Hongchan and the children asked wonderful questions and won gold

The 2025 FINA Diving World Cup has been staged in Mexico and Canada, and the Water Cube in Beijing will be held in the Diving World Cup Finals on the 2nd, which also meansThis season's Diving World Cup has finally ushered in the final pinnacle showdown, including Quan Hongchan, Chen Yuxi and other Chinese stars will attack at home and strive for the gold medal under the new competition system.

Quan Hongchan hopes to perform well in the Water Cube

Earlier, two diving World Cups were held in Guadalajara, Mexico and Windsor, Canada, and the Chinese "dream team" only lost 3 gold medals, winning a total of 15 gold medals. The diving World Cup finals moved to the Water Cube in Beijing, and the Chinese "dream team" swept all 9 gold medals at the door. A total of 5 gold medals were born on the first day of the competition, and the Chinese "dream team" won all of them.

The format of the Diving World Cup Finals is different from the previous two events, with only the top 12 individual competitors and the top 8 teams and teams in the rankings, and the individual event is the first to adopt a single-on-one elimination system. The 12 finalists will be divided into seeds 1 to 12 based on their rankings, with the top seed facing the 12th seed and the second seed facing the 11th seed, and so on, each with three attempts and the lowest scorer being eliminated. The six finalists will be divided into two groups, with the lowest score in each group missing the final and the remaining four competing for medals. The new elimination format of the Diving World Cup is only applicable to individual events, while the format of double and team events remains unchanged.

The two stars of the Chinese diving team, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi, teamed up on the first day to compete in the women's double 10-meter platform, and on the 3rd, they changed from partners to opponents and met in the women's 10-meter platform.

Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan are preparing for battle at the Water Cube

Quan Hongchan has also lost to Chen Yuxi in the past two World Cup tournaments, and this time she is performing for the first time at the Water Cube, the 18-year-old diver will aim to do her best, "I am very happy to play in the finals at home, and I hope to jump to my best level." (First time at the Water Cube) is not much different from the usual competitions, and I am looking forward to expressing myself in the Water Cube. ”

Before the finals began, Quan Hongchan and her teammates attended the event at the Water Cube, accepted the children's interview, jumped off the 10-meter high platform, will you feel afraid, Quan Hongchan admitted: "Yes!" So how to overcome her fear, she responded skillfully again: "Just count three and jump down, I used to be afraid of the coach more than the jump, but now I am afraid of both." Quan Hongchan admitted that she thought about leaving many times, but after communicating with her coach and teammates, she changed her mind, and when it came to why she started diving, Quan Hongchan also answered truthfully: "When I was a child, I didn't like to study very much, so I was selected and went." ”

Quan Hongchan competed in the women's single 10-meter platform on the 3rd, she had won the Olympic and World Championships before, and if she could reach the top this time, she would achieve the great cause of "Grand Slam".

The most eye-catching competition on the 2nd was the women's double 10-meter platform, where the popular combination Quan Hongchan/Chen Yuxi made a joint appearance, pushing the atmosphere of the audience to the top. In the past four years, they have been invincible, from the Asian Games, the World Cup, to the World Championships and the Olympic Games, and they have never let the gold medal go unnoticed. In the competition, the two of them both scored a high score of 54.60 in the first two jumps, and the almost copy-and-paste synchronous action attracted the applause of the audience. Although both of them made mistakes to varying degrees in 107B in the third jump, they continued to refresh the highest scores in the second jump, and finally won the championship for the Chinese team with 350.88.