XI’AN, April 13 (Xinhua) — Diving champions Chen Yuxi and Wang Zongyuan of China, Rikuto Tamai of Japan and Ingrid Oliveira of Brazil confirmed up right here on Thursday at a coaching clinic for native teenage divers.
In the exercise, held in the future forward of the beginning of the 2023 Diving World Cup, the champions took half in a one-hour coaching session with 10 native teenage divers by working collectively from warm-up, dry-land coaching to pool coaching as coaches.
Chen, a two-time world champion within the girls’s 10m platform and a 17-year-old teen herself, stated she had by no means tried teaching earlier than.
“It is my first time teaching young divers and it is good to see all these kids love diving,” Chen stated.
16-year-old Tamai, runner-up within the males’s 10m platform eventually 12 months’s World Championships, answered a query about overcoming the worry to attempt new daring and troublesome dives: “I used to be scared of trying new dives, but I told myself ‘sooner or later you need to overcome the difficulties, so why not beat the fear from now on’. Be brave.”
Oliveira couldn’t communicate both Chinese or English, however her physique language was ok for her to speak together with her Chinese college students.
“I’m honored to be a coach to them. It is a good way to make our sport more popular,” Oliveira stated.
Wang, triple gold medalist on the 2022 Worlds, stated there may be some potential among the many younger divers. “Maybe we planted seeds of hope today and boosted their dreams of being champions in the future,” stated the 21-year-old.
For native diving coach Yan Hui, it was troublesome to select 10 representatives, aged from 8 to 12, out of 100 native teen divers as a result of all of them needed to study from their idols.
“What a golden opportunity for these kids today. Thanks to champions and organizers, they could have a chance to get close to the world champions and learn something,” Yan stated.
“I had never thought about diving with current world champions someday. But all of a sudden, my dream came true. I hope I can be a champion just like them in the future,” stated 12-year-old Li Xinyi from Xi’an Sports School.
“I will come to watch the Diving World Cup every day,” Li added.
A complete of 63 elite divers from 13 nations and areas will compete within the three-day event in Xi’an.