Did British women divers refuse to hug the Chinese gold medalists at the 2024 Paris Olympics?! Take a look at the viral video, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : British women divers refused to hug Chinese gold medalists!
People are sharing a video which apparently shows British women divers refusing to hug their Chinese rivals who just won the gold medal. Instead, they walked past them to hug the North Korean women who just won the silver medal.
Sohu (translated) : The British team deliberately bypassed the Chinese diving team and only hugged the North Korean team. Who noticed Quan Hongchan’s reaction?
So when Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi finished the game first, they stood firmly in the first place. Ranked second is a pair of North Korean combinations. And ranked third is the British combination. The British combination won the bronze medal by a narrow margin over the Canadian combination with the last jump.
After confirming the bronze medal, the British combination celebrated wildly. After that, the British combination’s behavior was unexpected. They ran to hug the runner-up North Korean combination, but did not hug the Chinese combination Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi.
You know, the Chinese team was standing in the middle at the time. The British team went to hug the North Korean team and needed to pass by the Chinese team, but they did not choose to hug the Chinese team, but bypassed us. It was obviously intentional.
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Truth : British women divers did not refuse to hug Chinese gold medalists!
This is yet another example of fake news about the Olympic Games, and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : British + Chinese women divers were waiting
This video was actually recorded at the end of the women’s synchronised 10m platform diving event, which is why they were all still in their (wet) swimsuits.
The Chinese and British women divers had already finished their synchronised dives earlier, and were waiting at the side for the North Korean women to finish. Any congratulations (or hugs) between the British and Chinese women would have happened before the North Korean women dived.
Fact #2 : There is no animosity between British + Chinese women divers
Unfortunately, I was unable to locate the full, unedited video, so I cannot “prove” that the British women divers did not “diss” the Chinese women divers.
However, I can prove that there is no animosity between the British and Chinese women divers. In fact, Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Quan Hongchan have a history of hugging each other!
It appears that, being petite, Quan Hongchan enjoys hugging people, and being carried like that. That could explain why she had her partner, Chen Yuxi, hug her the same way in that viral video. In fact, Chen Yuxi actually continued hugging her and carrying her out of the pool area!
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Fact #3 : It Was North Korea’s First Diving Medal
After the North Korean women finished their dives, the results were announced – they won the silver medal – their country’s first diving medal ever.
That was why the British women went over to hug them. It was a historic moment.
On the other hand, the Chinese pair of Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan were strong favourites to win the gold. After all, Chen Yuxi won the gold medal with Zhang Jiaqi in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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