▲ On February 6, the men's steeplechase qualification for snowboarding at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Su Yiming in the competition Photo /Xinhua News Agency
17-year-old Su Yiming as the first in the preliminary round of the final showdown, the three rounds of the game more and more courageous, before the start of the third round, he has held the silver medal, stable play and super high action difficulty, so that the first time to participate in the Winter Olympics teenager firmly stood on the podium. Winning the silver medal and making history, this is the first Olympic medal for a Chinese snowboarder.
This article was first published in Southern People Weekly
Text / Southern People Weekly reporter Han Ruxue
Photo / Visual China
Editor / Xu Mei Chen Yafeng
On February 7, su Yiming won the silver medal in the men's steeplechase final of the Beijing Winter Olympics, making history, the first Olympic medal for a Chinese male snowboarder.
Born in 2004, Su Yiming is the youngest skater to play in the competition. In the previous day's qualifying round, Su Yiming advanced to the final with a score of 86.80, making her Winter Olympic debut.
The result was ranked first in the qualifying round, and he became the first Chinese player to advance to the final of the project, and the commentator described Su Yiming's Winter Olympic debut as "impeccable and perfect". He is also considered a "dark horse" by the audience, in fact, he has been emerging in the snow circle for many years. As ice and snow sports have accelerated in recent years, more athletes will be so "out of the circle" this Winter Olympics.
For example, Zhang Jiahao, a skier who did not participate in the Winter Olympics. Born in 1995, he was introduced to skiing at the age of 17 and began his journey to chase his dreams. It took only 5 snow seasons to become one of the country's top snowboarders, but he also needed to accumulate enough points through the competition to qualify for the Winter Olympics. Since 2020, Zhang Jiahao has traveled alone to participate in competitions around the world. As the only Chinese player in the Chilean points race, Zhang Jiahao single-handedly won the gold medal in the snowboard jump, the silver medal in the snowboard slope obstacle course and the bronze medal in two other events. Unfortunately, in the end, he still failed to qualify for the Beijing Winter Olympics. Optimistic as Zhang Jiahao, he recorded in Weibo, "I don't regret going out, nor do I regret the white dreams I made." ”
▲ On February 7, Su Yiming won the silver medal in the final of the men's slope steeplechase skills in the snowboarding event at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Photo/Xinhua News Agency
Today's game, Zhang Jiahao served as a commentator on the video platform of the official broadcaster, and before the game he wrote to Su Yiming, "Before you said that you would take my dream to stand on the introduction of the Winter Olympics", hoping that Su Yiming could stand on the podium. Su Yiming is just skating on the field of the Winter Olympics with the dreams of many snowboard teenagers.
In the training ground for the Winter Olympics, Su Yiming has always been self-disciplined. In an interview, he said that he got up on time at 7:30 every day and did not stay up late, because he was afraid that he would be sleepy after lunch, so he never ate lunch during training.
"Won't you be hungry?"
"Just get used to it."
Su Yiming's answer was short, and behind it was a long persistence. Ordinary enthusiasts use a board for a snow season or even two snow seasons, but due to the huge amount of training, Su Yiming's board will basically break due to wear and tear in half a month or a month, the most serious one, he recalled in an interview, was training in Changbai Mountain, the weather was cold, the board was brittle, he had broken four boards in a week.
In addition to his status as an athlete, Su Yiming is also a "little star". He once played the role of "Little Plug" in "Wise Tiger Mountain" directed by Xu Ke. In the shot, the little teenager skates in the snow, speeding fast, and saying "You can't catch it."
After Su Yiming once again entered the public eye of the Winter Olympics, netizens looked back at the movie clips of that year and commented on it one after another, "I thought it was a child playing a ski genius, but I didn't expect that it was a ski genius playing a child." Before the game, Xu Ke, the director of the movie "Wise Tiger Mountain", sent a video blessing to Su Yiming, wishing him "winning the gold medal and returning".
Su Yiming was born in Jilin and followed her father to ski on the slopes at the age of 4. "Skiing is very free and exciting, especially when flying in the air." Su Yiming once said in an interview, "I have loved skiing since I was a child, and I was very excited to see snow the first time. ”
Skiing is a dangerous sport and injuries are hard to avoid. When he was 6 years old, Su Yiming was injured in his ski leg, but he did not complain, "Falling down is also very painful, but I will not say, because I like this sport." ”
At the age of 10, Su Yiming made an internal turn of 720 degrees in an open competition, which attracted the admiration of Steve, the "godfather of Chinese snowboarding".
After that, Su Yiming opened the era of a ski genius teenager:
In August 2018, he was selected for the cross-border interdisciplinary snowboarding national training team and became a member of the national team. In December, at the National Snowboard Jumping and Slope Obstacle Course Championships, Su Yiming won two gold medals in the men's group of snowboard jumping and the men's U18 group.
In February 2019, Su Yiming represented the Shanxi team in the snowboarding competition of the Second National Youth Games, winning the snowboard men's big jump championship with a score of 92.00 points, and then won the snowboard men's slope obstacle course championship.
In March 2020, Su Yiming completed China's first three-week flip 1620-degree movement.
In January 2021, Su Yiming completed the first 1800-degree reverse foot turn in the history of Chinese snowboarding for five weeks, ushering in a new breakthrough in Chinese snowboarding.
In October, at the age of 17, Su Yiming successfully completed the Bs 1980 Indy Crail (Inner Turn 1980 Grip) in training at the Stubai Ski Park in Austria, becoming the first male athlete to complete the 1980 degree lap action of snowboarding, and was certified by Guinness to break the world record.
▲ Su Yiming successfully completed the Bs 1980 Indy Crail (Inner Turn 1980 Grip) super difficult action during training at the Stubai Ski Park in Austria on October 28, 2021, becoming "the first athlete (male)" to complete the 1980 degree gripping action of snowboarding, and was certified by Guinness to break the world record
In December, at the Ski Jumping World Cup Qualifying Tournament in Stimpot, USA, Su Yiming ranked first with 93 points and qualified for the final of the Snowboard Grand Jumping World Cup for the first time. In the final, Su Yiming won the gold medal with a total score of 155.25 points in two rounds. This is Su Yiming's first international champion and the first world champion of Chinese men's snowboarding.
▲ February 6, Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics snowboarding event men's steeplechase qualification, Su Yiming celebrated after the game Photo / Xinhua News Agency
Standing on the podium of the Winter Olympics, Su Yiming created a new history for the Chinese delegation, a 17-year-old teenager with a bright future. Clad in a national flag, he held the skateboard high in his right hand, smiled and waved, greeting the audience. This scene is familiar, like the many competitions he has gone through before, the original intention has not changed, he has always been such a snow teenager:
In 2015, Su Yiming was interviewed after a game, when he was only 11 years old, after taking off his sunglasses and helmet, showing a childish face, he said that he had two ambitious goals in mind, one is to participate in the Winter Olympics: "The 2022 Winter Olympics is my goal, and I hope to represent China in snowboarding competitions when the time comes." The second is to become a film actor, "I want to study hard, in the future I will be admitted to the Chinese opera and make movies." ”
The dream is being realized, and under the gaze of countless lights, the boy in the snow will continue to gallop in his white world.