Chinese teenager Quan Hongchan won the gold medal for the women’s 10-meter platform diving at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Thursday.

Not only is Quan the youngest 【小题1】 (compete) in the women’s diving field, but also she’s the youngest of 431 athletes 【小题2】 China sent to Tokyo for the Olympics. If the Games had gone on as 【小题3】 (schedule) last summer, she would have been too young 【小题4】 (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 【小题5】 (judge). Only one judge found a flaw (瑕疵) with her final dive, 【小题6】 (award) her a 9.5 next to six 10s. But it didn’t count, thanks to diving’s scoring system. The two highest and two 【小题7】 (low) scores are thrown out and multiplied(相乘) by the dive’s degree of difficulty. That means only the three middle 10s counted on her final dive and added up 96 when multiplied by the 3.2 degree of difficulty.

At such 【小题8】 young age, Quan was a relatively unknown person 【小题9】 winning the 2020 Chinese national championship at 13 years old. She 【小题10】 (be) a 17-year-old veteran(老手) when the Paris Olympics start in 2024.

Team China’s B-girl Liu Qingyi pocketed silver in the 2022 WDSF World Breaking (霹雳舞) Championships on Oct, 22, 【小题1】 (make) a breakthrough to bring China its first world championship medal.

Liu, 【小题2】 goes by B-Girl 671, ranked fourth in the pre-selection and had an excellent 【小题3】 (perform) in the following match, progressing to the last four with three Japanese breaking dancers.

In the semifinal, Liu defeated Riko Tsuhako of Japan 2-0 by showing her powerful moves and 【小题4】 good sense of rhythm (韵律).

In the intense gold medal match, Liu 【小题5】 (defeat) by 2019 world champion Ami Yuasa of Japan 2:1 to settle for silver.

Setting the goal of being among the top eight before the event, Liu was 【小题6】 (satisfy) with the silver medal as she recovered her form from the semi-final.

“It is 【小题7】(I) pleasure to compete with the champion.” Liu said, “I will continue to carve my moves, and I look forward 【小题8】 next year’s World Championships.”

“The team is very talented.” Chinese breaking team head coach Mounir Biba told Xinhua, “As we are approaching Paris 2024, we need to keep the takeaways in mind and go all out. I believe that we will do 【小题9】(well) next year.”

Breaking will make its Olympic debut (首秀) since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has officially added 【小题10】 to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in 2020.

Chinese teenager Quan Hongchan won the gold medal for the women's 10-meter platform diving at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Thursday.

Not only is Quan the youngest 【小题1】 (compete) in the women's diving field, but also she's the youngest of 431 athletes 【小题2】 China sent to Tokyo for the Olympics.   Had the Games gone on as scheduled last summer, she would have been too young 【小题3】 (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 【小题4】 (judge). Only one judge found a flaw (瑕疵) with her final dive, 【小题5】 (award) her a 9.5 next to six 10s . 【小题6】 it didn't count, thanks to diving's scoring system. The two highest and two 【小题7】 (low) scores are thrown out and multiplied by the dive's degree of difficulty. 【小题8】 (eventual), only the three middle 10s counted on her final dive and added up 96 when multiplied by the 3.2 degree of difficulty.

At such 【小题9】 young age, Quan was a relative unknown until winning the 2020 Chinese national championship at 13 years old. She 【小题10】 (be) a 17-year-old veteran (老手) when the Paris Olympics start in 2024.