The diving event at the Paris Olympics has come to an end, and with Chinese star Cao Yuan successfully defending the men's 10m platform single gold medal with a total score of 547.5 points. Since then, the Chinese diving team has won the Olympic Games for the first time in history. And such a perfect performance of the Chinese team made the United States media once again red-eyed and broken.
On August 11, Beijing time, the well-known United States media "Washington Times" wrote an article of dissatisfaction and bluntly said that United States's diving in one of the former Olympic advantage events has been robbed of half a century of glory by China.
In the article, the Washington Times first lamented that the glory of United States diving is no longer there. As early as the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, the United States won four diving gold medals. However, with China's return to the Olympic family in Los Angeles in 1984, the United States diving team's victory was snatched away. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, United States star Louganis won the 10-meter platform championship, who would have thought that this would be the last Olympic diving gold medal for United States, 36 years later.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, diving expanded from 4 to 8 events, and China began the process of "sweeping" the world of jumping, winning a staggering 46 out of 56 Olympic diving gold medals. In stark contrast, the United States diving team has been completely reduced to a fish belly.
In the diving event at the Paris Olympics, the highly anticipated United States men's Brandon · Lochavo did not make it to the final at all, and the United States team only had a silver medal in the women's two-man three-meter springboard with Sarah · Bacon and Cassidy · Cook. Not only was it crushed by the Chinese team, but the United States also lost to United Kingdom, Mexico, and even the North Korean team in the diving medal table of this Olympic Games.
Cook, who won the silver medal, even said in an interview that Chinese diving has long become a yardstick, and they often study the competition videos of Chinese athletes. Obviously, even the arrogant United States have to admit that the Chinese diving team is indeed the undisputed "dream team".