ZHUHAI, South China, Apr. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Almost three years after her last stay in China, springboard queen Gao Min was back home again, light-hearted.

    Watching her Canadian proteges, all five of them, practicing for the FINA diving Grand Prix tour here, the former Olympic champion was all smiling and relaxed.

    "I don't have to worry about the results, because nobody put any pressure on us," said Gao, adding that all the divers voluntarily had this China trip and are on their own expenses.

    "They are not the best in Canada but I expect them to learn a lot from other excellent divers here. As for results? we cannot compete with the strong Chinese team," said the delicate-looking woman not a moment without a smile.

    The former diving diva, always with a touch of shyness, hardly makes one associate her with the diver who won over 70 international titles and an unbeaten record on the springboards ina six-year period, high-lighted by two Olympic golds on the 3m springboard in two consecutive Games in 1988 and 1992.

    Although the glorious years leaving her further away, the womanfrom China's southern province Sichuan fits well into a totally different life on foreign soil and she says she loves it.

    "I am happy now,"said Gao, looking younger for her 33 years of age.

    "I really enjoy my life in Canada. I will watch TV, grow flowers and do whatever I like in my spare time, which is a lot because I only teach three hours a day. There is no pressure on meand I am doing a job I am good at."

    Known as the "springboard queen" in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gao retired after her Olympic victory in Barcelona. She then went to the United States to study sports management and subsequently opened a diving club in Canada and teaches three hours a day.

    "My diving career gave me many years of glory and satisfaction,but I also love living as ordinary people," she said.

    "I am not that kind of ambitious person. What I want to do is to enjoy life. If there is anything I ask for, my son grows up happy and healthy," said Gao, mother of an eight-year-old.

    Happy as she is abroad, Gao will not play down the possibility to move back to her homeland.

    "When I was retired, I preferred to find a place where no one knew me after being pressured by huge expectations for so many years, so I left China," she recalled.

    "But I know one day I will come back to my homeland," her tone suddenly became firm. Enditem