I believe that in the winter of 2021, everyone has heard the name of "ski genius girl" Gu Ailing, right?
Just a few days before 2022, at the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup in California, Gu Ailing won the championship with the highest score of the season with 97.5 points.
Yes, she won again.
So far, she has won all the races at the freestyle ski U-shaped venue this season, winning the best performance award in the project and the first crystal ball of the season.
The International Snow Federation described it this way: Gu Ailing did nothing but win this season. Netizens have also said that they can't keep up with the speed of her championship.
Up to now, in the competitions before the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, Gu Ailing has been in excellent shape, winning 6 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medal in 37 days, becoming the most anticipated player in the Winter Olympics.
This 18-year-old girl has intruded into our lives with dazzling achievements, and it is not difficult to find out that she seems to be the heroine of Shuangwen into the real life.
As mentioned earlier, she is the future star of the free skiing world, the seed athlete of the Olympic Games, and she has just reached adulthood and is already a national glory, but her identity and legend are not limited to this.
Born in 2003, Gu Ailing grew up in a family of academics in San Francisco, USA, her father is an American, graduated from Harvard University, her grandfather is also a high-achieving student at Stanford, her mother is a Chinese, after graduating from Peking University, she also studied at Stanford, and is also an amateur ski instructor.
When she was three months old, she was taken to the ski resort and exposed to the world of ice and snow where she would be in the future.
At the age of 3, she began to formally learn to ski because she liked it, and since then she has been out of control.
At the age of 8, she joined the Lake Tahoe regional professional freestyle ski team and became the only girl on the team at that time.
At the age of 9, she has already won awards in the National Junior Division, and at the age of 12, she has won gold medals in various ski competitions, and at the age of 13, she is no longer satisfied with the Junior Division, and began to participate in adult categories such as the National Ski Open in advance.
In January 2019, at the age of 16, she won her first international championship and topped the INTERNATIONAL Snow Federation rankings.
The double flipper and 1260-degree technique she can do with aerial rotation has only been completed by 5 female players so far.
In addition to skiing, she actually has many hobbies, she has studied piano for nine years, and her understanding of music has also inspired her to ski. In addition, she is also a major member of the school's basketball team and long-distance running team, and she has performed well in ballet, shooting, football, rock climbing, surfing, equestrianism and other fields.
While developing many hobbies and improving her ski career, she did not leave behind in her studies.
In order to better prepare for the Beijing Winter Olympics, the four-year high school in the United States was compressed into three years and completed, and she was admitted to Stanford University with 1580 points at the age of 16, while the total score of the SAT in the US college entrance examination was 1600 points.
While juggling her studies and "hobbies", she is also the darling of the fashion industry.
Mixed Chinese and American descent gives her exquisite three-dimensional facial features and tall and slender figure, and years of professional athlete training have given her a good posture and superior line proportions.
Passionate about new things, she also participates in fashion events as a model in her spare time, she is a contracted model under the top international supermodel company IMG, and has appeared on the cover of several magazines.
In 2020, Gu Ailing was awarded the "Flying Light" award by VOGUE Clothing and Beauty.
In July of the following year, she became the digital cover of Vogue Hong Kong, the third digital cover character in the July olympic special.
Excellent results and a life full of shining points, as well as the addition of outstanding appearance, she has a high commercial value. Louis Vuitton, Tiffany, Victoria's Secret, Estee Lauder all threw olive branches at her, and she has now partnered with 23 brands.
At the age of 18, she also appeared at the Met Gala, the only Chinese athlete to attend that day.
It is not enough to have so many of these identities, she is also exposed to different fields such as acting, writing, and fine arts, because she feels that quantum physics is a kind of romance, and she began to teach herself, and she also wants to take relevant professional courses in the future.
Never wanting to be solidified by a certain identity, she is always looking for new things that interest her.
She says "life is exciting because it's unpredictable."
Admitted to top universities, won multiple international gold medals, became a signed model, appeared on the cover of fashion magazines, and added dozens of endorsements.
Because her resume is so wonderful, medals and honors pave her growth path, always giving people a sense of life smooth, effortlessly getting all the illusions, as if people always describe her as "open hanging".
And this "other person's child" said " I only have 0.1% talent"
Before entering the public eye, Gu Ailing was actually an ordinary student, and the road to pursuing hobbies was equally arduous.
Today's results are due to her years of training since childhood, as a full-time student, she even has less training time than the average person, and the tall figure envied by outsiders is not an advantage in skiing, but it will be more laborious in completing the movement.
All this requires her to spend more effort to coordinate and adapt, and the training from nine o'clock in the morning to nine o'clock in the evening is very hard, and sometimes the meal can only be hurried on the cable car.
Behind the success of 99.99% of the fall injuries, illnesses are invisible to others. She can still feel a small bulge in her collarbone, which was accidentally broken when she was 12 years old. Before last year's World Championships, he accidentally broke his right hand during training, resulting in a comminuting fracture and a rupture of the thumb ligament.
And because there was no suitable training ground near her home, she needed to drive four hours to the snow field of Lake Tahoe. This special experience has also honed her time management skills.
In order to juggle her studies and devote her weekends to training, she learned to sleep in the car, write homework, and complete other trivial things.
This high efficiency allows her to do more with less, and she is widely exposed to everything she is curious about, taking into account both her studies and skiing career.
Ailing, who is now actively preparing for the Olympic Games, has not stopped learning, and in her recent sharing, training, reading, and listening to podcasts on women's topics every day are her regular projects.
Behind the erudition and wide range of hobbies is this girl's yearning for freedom.
She fell in love with skiing because she felt that it was a free sport, and although this hobby brought her unlimited fame and fortune, she was not imprisoned in it, but still explored the infinite possibilities of life. Skiing is a very dazzling part of her life, and certainly not the whole of her life.
In an interview, she once said: "I wish I had a lot of faces, that I could relax and have fun, and that I could do what I loved." ”
The courage to explore life, the multi-faceted personality allows people to see countless kinds of looks and possibilities in this girl, and focus on seriousness, everything is fully committed to make her life so sparkling.
"At a very young age, I understood the importance of sports. As I grew up, exercise enhanced my confidence and willpower, and shaped my optimistic and open-minded personality. ”
Absorbing good traits in different fields and merging themselves makes her strong enough to grow strong enough in these hobbies.
She also said that her success is also inseparable from the companionship and help of her mother and grandmother, who are like the navigators and strong backing of their own lives, accompanying them to grow.
The support of female power she gained on the road to growth also made her a person who dared to speak up for women.
With excellent results in the field of skiing, she hopes to have a positive impact on female freelance skiers through her own experience, and at the same time, these excellent results can also break the stereotype of women in the field of sports.
"For me, the Winter Olympics will make a lot of people come to China, and I want to ski with everyone, share this fun together, let more teenagers, especially girls, go outdoors for a while, make new friends, and break boundaries." These are all very important to me. ”
In the products she cooperates and endorses, her sunny and confident, healthy and generous image reveals a strong feminine beauty everywhere, with this spirit of daring to ask questions and dare to challenge to encourage more women to bravely make changes, to experience a multi-faceted life, to continuously learn, and strive to achieve their goals.
As she says to the footage of the documentary, there is still a lot she wants to do in the future. An 18-year-old girl with a clear outlook on life and a strong spiritual core, these "cool" general experiences are only the beginning of her life.
Her future,
There is still great potential and infinite possibilities hidden.
Edit: Sibe
Fine Arts: Roland