She is Quan Hongchan's coach, and she is also the only person in the history of the Chinese Olympics who has dominated three Olympics on the ten-meter platform.
It wasn't until she won 5 Olympic gold medals and 22 world championships that her mother suddenly returned to China to recognize her relatives. This person is the former "gold medal king" and the current head coach of the national team - Chen Ruolin.
So, why was she abandoned? Did they forgive their parents in the end?
Abandoned at the age of 3
Chen Ruolin is the second eldest in the family, and there is an older brother above, who was born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province in 92!
It's a pity that not long after giving birth to her, her parents' relationship also had problems, and they quarreled at every turn. When Chen Ruolin was three years old, they finally chose to divorce.
Xiao Ruolin lives with her father, but her father cares little about her. The mother directly abandoned Chen Ruolin and ran to Canada with her eldest son.
Grandpa and grandmother felt sorry for this granddaughter, so they took her to take care of her. At first, Chen Ruolin did not have the surname Chen, but later changed her grandmother's surname to "Chen".
However, her grandparents are very old, and they often have more than enough to take care of her. So she passed her on to her son, Chen Ruolin's uncle. Uncle and aunt love her as their own daughter, and truly treat her as their own.
Later, her uncle found out that she was interested in swimming, so he sent her to a children's sports school for training. Coach Gao Feng discovered her diving talent at a glance and began to train her on the road to becoming a professional athlete. At the age of 6, at a young age, she was favored by the Provincial Children's Sports School and became a short-term substitute trainee.
In 1999, at the age of 7, she became a full-fledged member of the Embodyment.
In 2003, at the age of 11, she swept three gold medals in the junior category.
In 2004, at the age of 12, she was selected for the national team.
Since then, her career has been like a hanging, and she has started to win the championship like crazy...
Gold Medal Harvester
In 2008, it was her first Olympic Games, and it was held on her doorstep.
This time, she became famous and successfully won the gold medals in the single 10-meter platform and the double 10-meter platform, and successfully made every Chinese person remember her name.
In 2012, at the World War II Olympics, she won the gold medal in the 10-meter platform in the single and double at one time, equaling the record of the "diving queen" Guo Jingjing and others.
In 2016, Chen Ruolin achieved three consecutive Olympic championships and won the double championship at the Rio Olympics. With 5 gold medals in 3 sessions, he has become the athlete with the most gold medals in China's Summer Olympics.
In addition, she also defeated her teammates at the age of 19 and became the first talented girl in the Chinese team to achieve the "Women's Taiwan Grand Slam"!
It's a pity that the Internet was not developed back then, and she herself was relatively low-key. This also leads to her lack of popularity, and even many people know her because of Quan Hongchan!
As everyone knows, she almost became a "concubine" with Guo Jingjing!
Huo Qishan pursues Chen Ruolin?
Guo Jingjing and Huo Qigang's "fairy love" has envied many people, she married Huo Qigang when her career was at its most prosperous, a sports star was handed over to a wealthy son, but her father-in-law Huo Zhenting said: "Thank you Jingjing, marry the Huo family."
Note: He used "marrying" instead of "Gao Pan", which is enough to see the importance that the Huo family attaches to this daughter-in-law!
The Huo family is actually very close to sports athletes!
Huo Qigang married the "diving queen" Guo Jingjing, and his younger brother Huo Qishan successively had scandals with Zhang Yufei and Chen Ruolin. However, Chen Ruolin had no intention of being a wealthy family, and she was not interested in Huo Qishan, so she rejected the other party.
The mother came running to confess her relatives
As Chen Ruolin's reputation in the sports world became more and more famous, her mother who was far away from home and her father who had abandoned her finally remembered this daughter and began to greet her with all kinds of cold and warm greetings, trying to make up for her lack of fatherly and maternal love for more than 20 years.
If Chen Ruolin hadn't been able to forgive a few years earlier, she would have been able to slowly let go, but as she got older, she began to slowly let go. What's more, in addition to her parents, she also grew up in a loving family, with uncles and aunts who love her own daughter, grandparents who never gave up on her, and teammates and coaches who encouraged her.
So Chen Ruolin was just awkward for a while, and then diluted the hatred and forgave them. Maybe she felt ashamed and repented in time Her parents were also very good to her.
But if she didn't make it to fame? Didn't win glory for the country?
Transform yourself into a coach
Two months after participating in the Rio Olympics, Chen Ruolin had to retire due to a cervical spine injury and disappeared from the public eye!
Until December 2021, she changed her identity to become Quan Hongchan's head coach of the national team.
At this time, Quan Hongchan had just won seven perfect points in the Tokyo Olympics with the "Splash Disappearance Technique" and set a new world record. Even Guo Jingjing said that she has been jumping in the water for more than 20 years, but she has never scored so many perfect marks.
After returning to China, the coach was replaced by the "five-crown champion" Chen Ruolin.
It stands to reason that the combination of strong and strong is a good thing, but when the coach was just changed, Quan Hongchan lost the game and failed to maintain the good results at the beginning, so some people began to question Chen Ruolin's ability.
Later, as long as Quan Hongchan's grades were not good, some netizens were clamoring to change the coach...
The saddest thing for Olympic champions is development, especially for women's jumpers. The weight is accurate to the gram, and must be controlled at 40 kilograms, but any pound of diving will be difficult.
Therefore, Quan Hongchan's decline in state has little to do with Chen Ruolin, but has reached the development level.
Chen Ruolin, who has experienced this stage, understands better than anyone the impact of the development period on a female athlete, so she is strict with each other, but she was accused by netizens of being too harsh and teaching in the wrong way.
Chen Ruolin ignored the doubts, she just wanted to teach Quan Hongchan well, she once said in an interview: "I don't want Quan Hongchan to go through the detour again." ”
Later, Quan Hongchan used her achievements to smash rumors and slapped those "melon-eating netizens" in the face!
He has a deep love affair with the all-red Zen master
Chen Ruolin and Quan Hongchan have both been praised as genius girls, but they can't always use the word talent to wipe out the efforts of athletes, and only they know the sadness behind it!
Chen Ruolin said in an interview: "The main diving class is from half past one to eight o'clock in the afternoon, but Quan Hongchan starts training more than an hour in advance and at 12 o'clock every time."
From this point of view, talent determines how high your ceiling is, and hard work determines your lower limit, both of which are indispensable.
On the field, Chen Ruolin is strict and demanding of Quan Hongchan, but she will always be by her side to train with her whole sister. Off the field, he treated her as a little sister pet, bought her books, bought face oil, and took her to cut her hairstyle.
Quan Hongchan has also said more than once that her favorite athlete is Coach Chen, and even she, who loves dolls like her life, will give her favorite turtle doll to Chen Ruolin.
During the competition, whenever Quan Hongchan stood on the jumping platform and looked down, there was always Chen Ruolin's eager gaze in the audience. After Quan Hongchan won the championship, she was the first to send blessings and hugs every time.
When I came, I will give you lights along the way, and the master and apprentice are the most beautiful two-way run.
Finally, I hope that Quan Hongchan and all Chinese athletes can achieve good results in this competition!!