Champion harvester + xueba + energetic beautiful girl... At just 18 years old, Gu Ailing is undoubtedly the most talked about Chinese athlete at the Winter Olympics, especially in the past snow season, she has achieved outstanding results in three events: freestyle ski jumping, U-shaped track and slope obstacle course, and has also qualified for the Winter Olympics in three events.
If she can successfully realize her dream at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing will once again create a new history for Chinese sports and become the youngest Grand Slam winner.
The Almighty Trinity is not a dream
Gu Ailing missed the Stubai in Austria due to injury this past season and did not start his new season until last month.
But from the moment she returned to the arena, Gu Ailing showed an invincible style: she first won the U-shaped track and big jumping event in two World Cup races in early December last year; then won a gold and a silver medal at the fluxus Tour, the top international commercial ski event; at the freestyle skiing World Cup U-shaped venue in Calgary, Canada, in early January this year, Gu Ailing overcame weather factors to win the championship with excellent performance; and then won the U-pool World Cup Mammoth Mountain Station. In just 36 days, Gu Ailing has won 6 top event titles.
Gu Ailing's 6 world championships have 4 from U-shaped venues, so it is widely predicted that Gu Ailing will have absolute gold-winning strength in the U-shaped field competition of the Winter Olympics.
In the other two events, the big jump is not her main sport, and she has relatively little experience in international competitions, but she has completed two weeks of backflips and four weeks of high-difficulty movements this season, and is the first female athlete to reach this height, and if this feat can be reproduced during the Winter Olympics, there is still hope to impact the championship.
Slope obstacle skills are also one of her main disciplines, but in the only World Cup competition and the Fluxus Tour this season, Gu Ailing failed to win the championship in this project, and she also faced the challenge of Estonian star Hildaru, and the fierce competition between the two "fierce rivals" of the same age is likely to make the result of the competition very close.
Soaring popularity holds promise
Gu Ailing was introduced to skiing at the age of 3, and then quickly showed her unique talent in this project, she could complete ordinary forest skiing with her family at the age of 4, and entered the ranks of professional athletes at the age of 8, growing at an amazing speed.
Most importantly, her love of skiing is wholehearted. "My mom and grandma also used to think that skiing was particularly dangerous and didn't support me very much." Gu Ailing said, "But then they found that I especially loved this sport, knew that the joy that skiing brought me was endless, and they were very supportive of me." ”
Gu Ailing's father graduated from Harvard University, his mother is a Chinese, he previously studied at Peking University, and later went to Stanford University in the United States to study, his grandparents and grandparents are from famous universities, and the whole family is both a "bully" and a sportsman who loves sports.
Influenced by the family environment, Gu Ailing has developed comprehensively since childhood, in addition to skiing, which is her favorite and best sport, she is also the main member of the high school football team, basketball team, track team, cross-country team and other varsity teams, and is not inferior in piano, ballet, musical theater and other literary and artistic projects.
Not to mention her academic performance— she was admitted to Stanford a year earlier on the SAT last year with a score of only 20 points below her full score. In order to represent China in this year's Beijing Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing deliberately postponed the opportunity to study at Stanford University and prepared for the Winter Olympics wholeheartedly.
What is more interesting is that Gu Ailing is not a "fairy" on high, she often posts a lot of interesting experiences on social media, and like many flower girls, she pays attention to fashion, loves food, and even laughs that she wants to be a food critic in the future, and her shadow is also frequently featured in fashion magazines, which is associated with some trendy play concepts.
It is not difficult to foresee that with the Beijing Winter Olympics approaching, Gu Ailing's popularity will further rise, which will be a very exciting thing for the Chinese sports world, when Gu Ailing, whose online name "Frog Princess", may really become the world-famous "Ice Queen".