The Dream Team--National Diving Team
梦之队——中国跳水队
It's well known that the US National Men's Basketball Team is called "The Dream Team" in the world basketball circle. That's because they have the best national professional basketball league and the best players in the world. Their players have almost perfect skills. That's why the US National Men's Basketball Team exceeds to any other team in the world. China National Diving Team is another one that can be named "The Dream Team". A lot of world medallists are assembled there. They are good at kinds of top matches in the world, and often win the gold medals in an absolutely advantage. For example, the China National Diving Team won all the gold medals at the 15th World Cup, and most of the gold medals at the past World Cups, which makes China National Diving Team the best diving team in the world.
大家都知道美国的国家男子篮球队在世界篮坛上被称“梦之队”，那是因为他们拥有着世界一流的国内职业联赛、世界上一流的篮球运动员，他们的运动员拥有着近乎完美的球技。世界上没有哪支球队可以和美国男子篮球队相匹敌。而中国国家跳水队同样是一支被冠名为“梦之队”的队伍，这支队伍里世界冠军云集，名将辈出，在世界跳水的各项顶级赛事上成绩优异，他们往往以绝对优势取得冠军。例如在第15届世界杯跳水赛中，中国队包揽此次比赛中全部护牌，而且在以往的各次世界杯跳水大赛上也拿下绝大部分的冠军头衔。中国跳水队也成为了当之无愧的世界第一之师。
The 1st World Cup was firstly founded by the Federation International de Natation in 1979, and China National Diving Team began to take part in it at the 2nd World Cup in 1981.In the past 13 World Cups, China National Diving Team had won 93 world gold medals. After that, the Chinese divers began to search for the goal of winning 100 gold medals. Winning 100 gold medals is definitely a milestone-event. Chinese completed the task of winning 100 Olympic gold medals at
the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. It cost China Delegation 20 years to win 100 Olympic gold medals in past 6 Olympic Games. Doubtlessly it's hard to win 100 gold medals in a certain sport event. But soon after the National Table Tennis Team winning the 100th world gold medals at the World Table Tennis championships in Shanghai, the National Diving Team made it at the 15th World cup in 2006 too. China's Fu Minxia won the gold medal in women's three-meter board diving in July 22. That's the 100th gold medal the National Diving Team won in the World Cup matches. These 100 gold medals show the development of the National Diving Team. After 25 years, the National Diving Team becomes the top diving team in the world. The famous Xu Yanmei, Gao Min, Fu Mingxia, Xiong Ni, Tian liang and Guo Jingjing have had their names recorded in the Honor Book of World Cup of Diving. The Federation International de Notation declared publicly that “China has been improving the world diving development, and China National Diving Team has been a miracle all the time". Though China National Diving Team has fewer divers than all the other strong teams in the world,their high-level movement and excellent rip entry show the special charm of diving. When they are winning medals in all kinds of matches, more and more people re-recognize this sport and are attracted to join in it. The best diving team makes the best divers. For example, Fu Mingxia is a famous diver in China. She is a gift for diving. In 1988, she was selected to the National Assembled Diving Team. Two years later, she was selected to the National Diving Team, and won the gold medal of women's platform diving at the Seattle World Goodwill Games in US. When she won the gold medal in women's 10-meter platform diving at the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992, she was just 14 years old. She is the youngest medallist in the Olympic history. After that, her photo was used as the cover of the US Times, which made example among other Chinese athletes. What's more, she won the gold medal in platform diving at the 6th World Swimming Championships in 1991, and was recorded in the Guinness World Records as the youngest world medallist in the world. In 1996, she won two gold medals in both women's platform diving and women's springboard diving at the Atlanta Olympic Games. That made her become the second one continuing to hold the title in women's 3-meter springboard diving(Gao Min was the first one).Fu Mingxia is an introverted girl, but she is extrovertive with her friends. She always trains hard, master quickly, and always exerts steadily. Having joined in many matches, she acquired the qualities of leadership. Fu Mingxia retired after the 8th National Games, and restarted diving in 1999. In March 2000, she was selected to the National Assembled Team. Since then, she progressed steadily. In mid April 2000, her position was consolidated at the 4th Stop of the Olympic Warm-Up Matches. In September 2000, she took part in the Olympic Games for the third time, and won the gold medal in women's 3-meter springboard diving and silver medal in women's synchronized 3-meter platform diving(with Guo Jingjing).Then in 2002 she married Liang Jinsong, who was the Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region at that time. Then she had a daughter in 2003. Now she is enjoying the family life happily.
国际游联是从1979年开始设置世界杯跳水赛的，中国队则是从1981年的第二届开始参赛。在13届的世界杯跳水比赛中，中国队已经获得过93个世界杯赛的冠军，中国的跳水健儿们向着辉煌的100金发起了冲击。百金，这无疑是一个有着里程碑意义的符号—在2004年雅典奥运上，中国体育用20年间的6届奥运会完成了“百枚奥运金牌”的跨越。很显然，具体到一个项目上，能够做到“百金”的，无疑是一件相当困难的事情。但可喜的是，中国乒乓球在上海的世乒赛上刚刚突破百金之后，中国体育的另一个王牌项目跳水也以不可阻挡之势向“百金”大关挺进。2006年的第15届世界杯跳水比赛中，中国队完全有可能突破100金大关。7月22日晚，中国选手吴敏霞在3米板上再夺冠军，为中国队夺得了世界杯赛的第100枚金牌。这100枚金牌见证了中国跳水“梦之队”的成长，经过25年的磨砺，中国跳水队也成为了当之无愧的王者之师，许艳梅、高敏、伏明霞、熊倪、田亮、郭晶晶等名字也永远书写在了跳水世界杯的荣誉册里。国际泳联坦言中国促进世界跳水运动的发展，中国跳水队一直是一个奇迹。相比其它跳水强国，中国从事跳水的运动员人数是最少的。而中国运动员高难度的动作、精湛的压水花技巧已经向世界展示了这项运动独有的魅力，在各大赛事摘金揽银的同时，也让其他国家的人重新认识跳水，从而也加人到这项运动中。一流的跳水队伍也造就了一大批优秀的跳水名将。例如我国著名的女子跳水运动员伏明霞就是一个标准的跳水天才。她于1988年参加国家跳水集训队训练，1990年正式进入中国跳水队，同年参加美国西雅图世界友好运动会，获女子跳台跳水冠军。在1992年巴塞罗那奥运会上夺得10米跳台冠军时只有14岁，是奥运史上最年轻的冠军，随后她的照片被登在美国《时代周刊》的封面上，这也创下了中国运动员之先河。此前一年，她还赢得了第六届世界锦标赛跳台桂冠，成为最年轻的世界冠军并被载人《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》。1996在亚特兰大奥运会上，她夺得台板双料冠军，成为继高敏夺得汉城和巴塞罗那奥运会3米板冠军之后，蝉联跳水冠军的第二人，这也是一个世界纪录。伏明霞的特点是:性格内向，但对熟人十分外向。训练刻苦，悟性高。动作稳定，心理素质好。大赛经验丰富，有领军人的气质。伏明霞在中国八运会后退役，1999年复出，200()年3月初进人国家集训队。复出后的她成绩稳步上升，在4月中旬进行的第四站选拔赛上，伏明霞已经巩固了自己的地位。9月第三次出征奥运会，结果获得3米跳板单人金牌并与郭晶晶配合夺得3米跳板双人银牌。2002年与时任香港特别行政区的财政司长梁锦松结婚，2003年产下一女，享受着普通家庭生活的幸福。
In 2004, China National Diving Team won 6 gold medals at the Athens Olympic Games and continued the tale of "The Dream Team of Diving". Then they won all the gold medals at the 15th World Cup. This justified their efforts in training. Just like Zhou Jihong, who is the captain of China National Diving Team, once said that they are making effort for the Beijing Olympic Games. We believe that China National Diving Team will continue the splendor in 2008.
在2004年的雅典奥运会上，中国跳水队以六枚金牌骄人战绩再一次捍卫了“跳水梦之队”的美誉，在第15届世界杯跳水比赛中，中国国家跳水队又囊括了所有项目的金牌。这些成绩也见证了中国跳水队在平时训练中所付出的努力。正如中国跳水队的领队周继红所说，现在的一切努力都是为了北京奥运会，我们相信中国国家跳水队会在2008年北京奥运会上续写他们梦幻般的神奇。
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