Chinese ski star Gu Ailing is in quite good shape during the Winter Olympic season, and in the recent 2021-2022 FIS Freestyle Ski U-Field World Cup in Calgary, Canada, Gu Ailing scored a high score of 96.80, winning the championship with an absolute advantage.
The Canadian race Gu Ailing was originally unable to participate due to flights and other reasons, but only arrived temporarily before the registration deadline, and ranked first with a high score of 95.60 in the qualifiers, and successfully advanced to the final.
In the final, Gu Ailing completed all three rounds with zero mistakes, and the last jump scored 96.80 high points, and won the championship with this result. Most of the other players made mistakes that day, such as world number four Kathy Sharp's three jumps, and two other Chinese players, Zhang Kexin and Li Fanghui, also made mistakes in the third jump and failed to win medals.
Gu Ailing has been in good shape recently, and on December 5, Beijing time, she won the 2021-2022 Freestyle Ski Jumping World Cup Championship in the women's group of the American Steamboat Station with a total score of 184.25 points, and created a history of women's athletes completing the front flip two weeks plus rotational four-week action in the freestyle ski competition. In addition, she won the gold medal in the U-shaped track at another FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup in early December.
Gu Ailing, 18, was born in San Francisco, usa, to a Chinese mother and an American father who speaks fluent Chinese and English. In 2019, she officially completed the "naturalization", and she chose to represent the Chinese team in various competitions. At the time, the decision shook the American sports world.
Nowadays, relying on excellent results, fluent Mandarin, healthy image and international growth background, Gu Ailing has become a new idol of China's ice and snow, and is the most potential sports spokesperson in the eyes of Chinese businessmen. According to statistics, as of November 18, Gu Ailing, who signed the world's largest sports agency IMG, has now received 16 commercial endorsement contracts, becoming one of the Chinese athletes with the highest commercial value.
According to incomplete statistics, Gu Ailing has reached cooperation with a number of international first-line brands. At the same time, she is also the spokesperson for many Chinese brands. According to media reports, Gu Ailing, who is about to participate in the Winter Olympics, is now rising in endorsement fees, reaching $2.5 million after tax, and its commercial value has surpassed su Bingtian, the hottest of the Summer Olympics.
For Gu Ailing, Chinese netizens have given a very positive evaluation. Many netizens believe that Gu Ailing's authentic Beijing dialect makes people feel particularly cordial, and the results are particularly good, and China needs such naturalized athletes with a sense of belonging, a sense of identity, and blood; some netizens said that China's ice and snow sports are strong and weak, and it is good to introduce excellent athletes like Gu Ailing, which is a good thing for the popularization and promotion of China's ice and snow sports; more netizens look directly at the face value: "I dare not say that Gu Ailing is the most beautiful Chinese ice and snow athlete, but basically it is our most beautiful naturalized athlete!" ”
The Beijing Winter Olympics are about to open, and Gu Ailing will compete in three events: freestyle ski jumping, U-shaped track and slope obstacle course.
Text: Chen Hua
Photo: Xinhua News Agency, Gu Ailing's personal weibo, etc
Source: Shangguan News
Editors: Xie Wenyun, Yang Ye
Review: Sun Weijun
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