China news website, Jakarta, August 29 (Lu Yan and Ma Yuanhao) In the women's three meter springboard double competition at the Asian Games on the evening of August 29, Shi Tingmao and young general Chang Yani easily won the championship. Speaking of his teammate who is 10 years younger than him, Rio Olympic champion Shi Tingmao, who will celebrate his 27th birthday the day after tomorrow, said that there is "no generation gap" between them.
The women's 3m springboard doubles has always been one of the dominant events of the Chinese team, and the combination of Chang Yani and Shi Tingmao is maturing. They won the gold medal at the Budapest World Championships, and in recent years they have been invincible in the world. With absolute strength in this project, there is no doubt about the competition. After the first round, they have been far ahead of their rivals.
Although the fourth jump backward somersault for two and a half weeks was slightly flawed, the last difficulty coefficient of 3.0 backward somersault for two and a half weeks was 5152B, and they still finished well, and finally won the championship with a huge advantage of 37.47 points ahead of the second place. In fact, Shi Tingmao has never failed in major competitions such as the Incheon Asian Games, the Kazan World Championships, the Rio Diving World Cup and the Rio Olympic Games since he partnered with Wu Minxia in the women's doubles 3m springboard at the 2013 World Championships.
Although Shi Tingmao won the championship by a large score, she and her teammates still had problems in their performance. "Although we are well prepared, the competition center is not mature enough and needs training. After the game, I talked with Chang Yani, but the training level was good, but we failed to jump out of the training level during the game. As for the reasons, we need to carefully summarize."
After Wu Minxia retired, Shi Tingmao quickly completed the role change from a newcomer to the leader of the team, and began to form a team with Chang Yani who was only 16 years old at that time last year. Shi Tingmao said that emotions will affect each other in the two person competition, and he hopes to drive young teammates with rich experience. "Although this is Changyani's first Asian Games, she always has to experience it. This is good for her," she said
"The age gap of ten years old will indeed bring some difficulties in training and cooperation, but Chang Yani is very smart and has strong ability to come to the stage of the Asian Games. We have no generation gap, and we hope he can face the competition more bravely," said Shi Tingmao.
From Guangzhou, Incheon to Jakarta, Shi Tingmao also achieved his third consecutive Asian Games title in this project. The day after tomorrow is Shi Tingmao's 27th birthday. One day later, she will launch an attack on the champion of the single person 3m springboard Asian Games that she has never won. "How many four years can I have in my sports career? So I cherish the opportunity to participate in the third time and hope to be able to go to the Tokyo Olympic Games." She said, "I compete on my birthday every year, but I still hope to bring good luck to me and win the fifth Asian Games gold medal."
In an interview after the game, young Changyani also admitted that she was "very nervous" when facing the first Asian Games, and her performance was only "OK". "Sister Mao has been guiding me to adjust my mind, master the essentials of technical movements and cheer me on," she said.
"I'm so nervous. It's nothing at all! The training level hasn't jumped out," Shi Tingmao said to his teammates carelessly. (End)
