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Lao Lishi
Personal information
NationalityChinese
Born (1987-12-12) December 12, 1987 (age 37)
Lianjiang, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China
Height1.53 m (5 ft 0 in)
Sport
SportDiving
Event(s)10 m, 10 m synchro
Retired2010
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 1 -
World Championships 1 1 -
Summer Universiade 2 3 -
Asian Games 1 - -
Women's Diving
Representing  China
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Platform Synchro
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens 10m Platform
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Barcelona Platform Synchro
Silver medal – second place 2003 Barcelona 10m Platform
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2009 Belgrade 10 m synchro
Gold medal – first place 2007 Bangkok 10 m platform
Silver medal – second place 2007 Bangkok Team
Silver medal – second place 2009 Belgrade Team
Silver medal – second place 2009 Belgrade 3 m synchro
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2002 Busan 10m Platform

Lao Lishi (simplified Chinese: 劳丽诗; traditional Chinese: 勞麗詩; pinyin: Láo Lìshī; Jyutping: Lou4 Lai6 Si1; born December 12, 1987) is a retired diver from the People's Republic of China. Lao represented China at the 2004 Summer Olympics, earning a silver medal in the 10 meter women's platform and a gold medal in women's 10 meter synchronized platform along with Li Ting.

Early life

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Born in 1987 in Zhanjiang, Lao was one of six children in the family. Her father was a self-employed businessman while her mother was a housewife. Lao began swimming at just over five years old. While accompanying her mother, who regularly took her older brother to diving training at a sports school in Zhanjiang, she played in the children's pool. This caught the attention of the coach at the sports school, who recognized her qualities of a promising diver.[1]

Sports career

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In 1994, while still in preschool, Lao officially began practicing diving at the sports school in Chikan District of Zhanjiang. Despite having a cold and a fever during the 1997 Zhanjiang City Children's Diving Championships, she competed and won first place. In March 1998, she joined the Guangdong Diving Team.[1]

In 2001, she participated in her first national competition, winning the doubles diving and attained third in singles diving at the 9th National Games in Guangzhou.[1] In January 2002, she was selected for the national team and on June 26, she won the women's 10 meter platform diving championship at the 2002 FINA Diving World Cup in Seville, Spain, along with the 10 meter synchro with Li Ting.[2][3] On 14 October, she attained first place in the 10 meter platform at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, with 434.220 points.[4] She also won multiple titles at the FINA Diving Grand Prix events in Spain, Canada and the United States.[5]

In 2003, she won the 10 meter induvidual platform and synchro, with Li Ting, in FINA Diving Grand Prix in Australia and China.[6] At the 2004 FINA Diving World Cup finals in Athens, Greence, Lao and Li won the 10 meter synchro platform with an absolute advantage, winning the second gold medal for the Chinese team.[6] On 14 July 2004, the final list of the Chinese national diving team for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was announced in Jinan, China and Lao was selected for the 10 m individual and 10 m syncho platforms. At the Olympics, she and Li won the gold medal in the 10 meter synchro with 352.14 points.[7] Lao won silver medal in the induvidual 10 m platform in the 2004 Olympics with 576.26 points.[8]

After the Olympics, Lao faded out of the national team and returned to the provincial team. At the 2005 National Games in Nanjing, China, she performed poorly and only won the eighth place in the 10 meter platform.[9] In 2006, she returned to the national team and in June 2007, she won the gold medal in the individual 10-meter platform at the FINA Diving Grand Prix in Madrid, Spain.[10] On the same year, at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, she won gold medal in the individual 10 meter platform.[11] In 2008, during the 2008 Summer Olympics trials held in Jinan, she strained her shoulder due to discomfort during a water entry exercise before the trials. As a result, she lost to newcomers Chen Ruolin and Wang Xin and was not selected for the national team for the Olympics.[12]

On 7 July 2009, Lao along with Chen Ni won gold medal 10 meter synchro at the 2009 Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, and also won the silver medal at the 3 meter springboard synchro at the same event.[13][14] In April 2010, at the age of 23, Lao officially retired, ending her sports career.[15]

Later life

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After retiring from sports, Lao graduated from Sun Yat-sen University. She briefly worked as a sports school teacher and a member of a diving team before eventually joining the Youth Volunteer Action Guidance Center under the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, where she served as a senior staff member responsible for public welfare and charity.[16] In early 2014, she resigned from her civil service position, and in June of the same year, she became a store owner, selling jewelry, on online shopping platform Taobao, which is owned by Chinese multinational technology company Alibaba.[17] In September 2014, she was invited by Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma to be one of the eight bell ringers for the listing of Alibaba Group in the New York Stock Exchange.[18] In 2015, she was enshrined into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, United States.[19]

On 26 May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, Lao shared an excerpt from Wuhan Diary, an online diary written by Fang Fang, on her account on the social media platform Weibo. The excerpt described the death of a nurse who died on the frontlines while dealing with the pandemic in the city of Wuhan.[20] This resulted in online netizens attacking Lao. In response, Lao stated that "suddenly, I feel very happy because I haven't lived the way you like" and "if I had lived in a way that earned your praise, I would immediately jump off the ten-meter platform—into an empty pool, the kind without water."[21] On 3 June 2020, Lao published a post on Weibo condemning online bullying and aggressive nationalism, and she stated:[22]

As a citizen of the People’s Republic of China, born and raised, I love my motherland and want it to get better and better, for the economy to flourish, for our headstrong civilization to shine, for goodwill to prevail among the people. Is that wrong? I don’t think so. What is wrong for a bunch of spineless trolls to rampage online, bullying honest people, picking on good people, attacking people at every turn with idiotic verbal assaults along the lines of “I don’t like you, get the hell out of China.” Please remember, no one is obliged to hand over the land they love to a bunch of invertebrates so they can make it into their playground. Not today, not ever. I’m a decent person, but I pull no punches!

The post gained significant traction, receiving over 50,000 likes and 7,400 shares.[23] Following the controversy, her Weibo account was blocked for one year.[20]

Honours

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In 2005, the city of Zhanjiang built a 12.8 meter diving goddess sculpture, commemorating Lao's Olympic gold medal performance.[19]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "奥运冠军劳丽诗:三个哥哥我包了!17岁小丫撑起贫寒之家". Sina. 2007-01-13. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  2. ^ "图文-中国小将劳丽诗获世界杯女子跳水10米台冠军". Sina. 2002-06-26. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  3. ^ "China Wins Two More Golds at Diving World Cup". People's Daily. 2002-06-28. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  4. ^ "14th Asian Games Busan". Xinhua. 2002. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  5. ^ "劳丽诗夺冠不满足". Sina. 2003-10-14. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  6. ^ a b "跳水运动员 劳丽诗 李婷". General Administration of Sport of China. Archived from the original on January 13, 2011. Retrieved January 1, 2025.
  7. ^ "Chinese take platform gold". BBC Sports. 2004-08-16. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  8. ^ "Women's 10m Platform: Lao Lishi takes silver". Xinhua. 2024-08-23. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  9. ^ "南方日报:劳丽诗要摘下奥运光环". Sina. 2005-10-05. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  10. ^ "图文-马德里跳水赛首日中国队三金 劳丽诗10米台夺冠". Sina Sports. 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  11. ^ "劳丽诗获大运会10米台金牌 墨西哥劲敌功亏一篑". Sohu Sports. 2007-08-18. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  12. ^ "劳丽诗获大运会10米台金牌 墨西哥劲敌功亏一篑". Sina. 2008-01-11. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  13. ^ "图文:大运会跳水比赛 劳丽诗/陈妮展示银牌". Sohu Sports. 2009-07-11. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  14. ^ "World University Games, Diving: Women's Platform Synchro, Men's One-Meter Individual Events Conclude". Swimming World. 2009-07-07. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  15. ^ "奥运冠军劳丽诗退役". Changjiang Times. 2010-04-16. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  16. ^ "南粤冠军路丨奥运冠军劳丽诗 湛江的雕像 网店的人生". tyj.gd.gov.cn. 2019-10-25. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  17. ^ "奥运冠军辞掉"体制内"工作 成为网店店主". People's Daily. 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  18. ^ "Alibaba Group Lists on the NYSE". Alizila. 2014-09-19. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  19. ^ a b "Lao Lishi". International Swimming Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  20. ^ a b "奥运冠军劳丽诗微博被禁言 曾发言支持方方". Lianhe Zaobao. 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  21. ^ "奧運冠軍勞麗詩微博遭封禁言 曾發言支持武漢作家方方". HK01. 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  22. ^ "Lao Lishi". China Digital Times. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  23. ^ "奥运冠军劳丽诗微博遭禁言 会否步郝海东后尘?". DW. 2020-07-20. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
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