1. Zhou Jihong is a Chinese diver who represented China at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
15 Facts About Zhou Jihong
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Zhou Jihong won the national championship in 1981 and entered the Chinese women's diving team in 1982.
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At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Zhou Jihong led the Chinese diving team in winning 7 gold medals.
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In March 2014, Zhou Jihong was appointed chairman of the Athlete Committee by FINA and in November 2017, she served as the chairman of the Chinese Swimming Association.
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On 5 June 2021, at the FINA Congress held in Doha, Qatar, Zhou Jihong was elected Vice President of FINA, becoming the first female vice president in the organization's history.
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On 14 July 2021, Zhou Jihong was assigned as the diving team leader within the Chinese sports delegation for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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In 1992, Zhou Jihong married to Tian Bingyi, a former Chinese badminton player and now the coach of Chinese national badminton team.
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In May 2022, New Zealand diving judge Lisa Wright revealed that during the 2020 Summer Olympics, Zhou Jihong allegedly launched a verbal tirade at Wright at the conclusion of the men's 10m platform final.
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Wright alleged that Zhou Jihong verbally abused her for underscoring Chinese divers.
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Latimer claimed that Zhou Jihong's behavior was tarnishing the reputation of international diving and that she was acting in the interests of China rather than international diving as a whole.
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Subsequent to Latimer's complaint, video evidence emerged online showing Zhou Jihong coaching Chinese divers during competition sessions at the 2020 Summer Olympics, a behavior considered unethical given her supposedly neutral role as a FINA Vice President and Diving Bureau Liaison.
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In July 2022, Latimer was not re-elected to FINA's Technical Diving Committee, and Zhou Jihong was one of the FINA Bureau Member's who had input in the selection process.
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In 2022 FINA's By Laws were updated to state that the Bureau Liaison position that Zhou Jihong holds should not interfere on the field of play during competitions and that individuals holding that position shall not act as a Team Leader or coach at international events including the Olympic Games.
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Zhou Jihong was President of the Chinese Swimming Association in April 2024 when 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned medication trimetazidine at the Shijiazhuang Chinese Long Course Invitational from 31 December 2020 to 3 January 2021, but the results were handled as cases of contamination without being made public.
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In 2009, Zhou Jihong faced allegations of match-fixing at China's own National Games, with a judge alleging that Zhou Jihong had chosen all twelve gold medalists before competitions commenced.