Today (7th) morning, Chinese ski star Gu Ailing ushered in the debut of the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the first round of the freestyle ski jump women's qualifiers, Gu Ailing completed the first jump with 89 points. After the game, she also made cute expressions and interacted with the audience. In the second round of the competition, Gu Ailing made a mistake and ranked 19th with 24.50 points; the third jump withstood the pressure and played well to get 72.25 points, and successfully advanced to the final.
Gu Ailing Winter Olympics debut! Strength interpretation of the body as light as a swallow (source: CCTV)
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True Top Stream Valley Loves Ling
At 9:30 on February 7, Gu Ailing made her Winter Olympic debut and appeared in the qualifying round for the freestyle ski women's big jump. This is also one of the three freestyle skiing events that Gu Ailing participated in at the Winter Olympics.
Previously, in the days when Gu Ailing did not play, the whole network was waiting for her.
Gu Ailing, who participated in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics
She is the most watched athlete at the Winter Olympics. In one month, Gu Ailing's Weibo followers grew by more than 700,000, and she is the most popular blogger on Weibo in December 2021.
Gu Ailing is too hot, as if everyone loves Gu Ailing. Even if you can't say exactly what she's competing in, you can recognize her, and the hot 18-year-old talented athlete is everywhere on the street, in subway stations, in elevators.
Fans love her too much, and under every Weibo, there is praise and blessing for her.
Advertisers love her too much. According to media statistics, as of the end of January this year, the number of well-known brands at home and abroad that have reached cooperation with Gu Ailing has reached more than 20, and the endorsement fee may exceed 100 million yuan. Among them, there are not only domestic sneaker and apparel brand Anta, luxury giant LVMH Group brands LV and Tiffany, but also high-end international beauty brand Estée Lauder and underwear brand Victoria's Secret.
Even if you haven't seen Gu Ailing's game, you may have seen Gu Ailing's endorsement ads at the bus stop and in the elevator of your neighborhood.
Model Gu Ailing
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How strong is "genius girl" Gu Ailing?
When it comes to Gu Ailing, it seems that no one will not love her. Why does everyone love Gu Ailing?
She is a "genius girl" and "someone else's child"——
After 1 year of studying for two years, 1580 (out of 1600) in the SAT, admitted to Stanford, "brought goods" for Louis Vuitton and Tiffany & Co, appeared on the red carpet of Vogue and Met Gala, and won a big table of medals when he was a minor!
At the age of 18, she has just come of age, and she is already standing on the "top of the world" and fighting for the country! In 2022, she represented China at the Beijing Winter Olympics and has become a high-profile favorite champion!
"The first person in the history of skiing"
Just on January 9, Gu Ailing won the world cup final with a high score of 97.50 in the freestyle ski U-field, creating a feat of winning four World Cup championships in one season!
At the Ski World Cup in Stimport, USA, Gu Ailing became the world's first female athlete to successfully complete a two-week front flip plus four weeks of rotation in the free ski event.
Won 6 gold and 9 medals in 37 days, and the International Skating Federation evaluated Gu Ailing as "the first person in history"! In one fell swoop, it was on the hot search!
50 gold medals at the age of 14!
In 2003, in San Francisco, California, Gu Ailing fell to the ground, his father was an American Harvard graduate, Gu Ailing's mother was a Chinese named Gu Yan, Gu Yan graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Peking University, after which he immigrated to the United States to study biochemistry in Stanford, and was a member of the Peking University short track speed skating team and ski instructor when he went to school.
Gu Ailing was raised in the Bay Area by her mother and maternal grandmother after birth, and since her mother and maternal grandmother are both Beijingers, Gu Ailing also has a fluent "Beijing film".
It is no accident that Gu Ailing loves skiing so much, her mother Gu Yan is an avid ski enthusiast, when Gu Ailing was only 3 months old, she drove back and forth for 8 hours to take her daughter to the snow resort to feel the atmosphere and happiness of skiing.
At the age of 3, Gu Ailing told her mother that she also wanted to have a pair of skis, and she began her skiing career and showed amazing skiing talent.
When Gu Ailing was 8 years old, Gu Yan followed the advice of a ski instructor and sent her to the North-South League ski team in the United States, becoming the only girl in the team.
At the age of 9, Gu Ailing competed in the American Freestyle Ski Junior Division. Before 2016, all of Gu Ailing's honors came from the ski races in the junior group.
At the age of 13, Gu Ailing began to attack the adult group. This year, Gu Ailing competed in the National Ski Open for the first time. However, due to her young age and weight, she kept falling and did not complete the full game action. This was too much of a blow for a 13-year-old girl, but instead of giving up skiing because of this failure, she began a year-long high-intensity trampoline training accompanied by her mother.
In 2017, going to Lake Tahoe again, Airing completed the actions that could not be completed before and regained confidence. She flew to Park City, salt lake city, home of the 2002 Winter Olympics. But the night before the game, she had a fever of more than 40 degrees, and with pain and worry about the game, she broke through and cried in her mother's arms.
Although Gu Ailing's condition did not improve on the day of the game, she decided to stick with it. Playing in the senior points race for the first time, Ailing was the youngest player, and for the first time she competed with the famous player Zoe Akin. With a high fever, Gu Ailing made a mistake in the first jump and returned to the track, Gu Ailing withstood the pressure, rushed to the final, and won the silver medal in the U-shaped field skills competition with the second highest score in the whole game.
But Gu Ailing was not reconciled, describing herself as an "ambitious" person.
At the age of 14, Gu Ailing had already won nine national championships, and her home still had 50 gold medals.
At the age of 16, Gu Ailing attended one of the best local high schools, when she was a high school student, as the youngest World Cup participant, she won the slope obstacle course championship in the 2019 Freestyle Skiing World Cup, which was her first world championship, and also reached the top of the ITF overall standings in January this year, known as the post-00s ski genius!
At the age of 16, she and her mother chose a top school in the United States and difficult to enter, gu Yan often quipped that "equivalent to Beijing's Renmin University Affiliated High School", and the reason for choosing this school is because she wants to complete 2 years of schooling in 1 year, strive to graduate early in 2020, and set aside enough time to prepare for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Graduating early means that the time spent skiing in a year can be increased from 65 days to more than 300 days, and more time practicing and playing helps to get better grades.
Not to be disappointed, Gu Ailing scored 1580 points (out of 1600 points) on the SAT test! She was also the first student to complete 2 years of study within 1 year of the establishment of that high school, and successfully graduated a year early.
In June 2019, Gu Ailing announced that she would be converting to Chinese nationality, and at just 18 years old, she will represent China at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, competing for gold medals in the three ski events of freestyle, slope obstacles and big jump.
For Gu Ailing after the conversion to Chinese nationality, there have been a lot of gossip on social platforms, in an interview, Gu Ailing said: "It is of great significance to change nationality to participate in the Winter Olympics, not only to hope to win medals, but also to be able to introduce this sport to a country that does not understand it, or to be able to positively affect someone's future because of my journey." Especially in the city where my mother was born, this is more meaningful for me personally, and I feel very honored to represent China in the competition! ”
She also shouted at the girls: "I hope that more young people in China, especially girls, will bravely challenge their limits." Go skiing like me, enjoy nature, challenge yourself, step out of your comfort zone. ”
Almighty girl, the hobbies are outstanding!
In fact, her life is far richer than "learning + skiing". In addition to trail running, foot basketball, rock climbing, horseback riding and other sports, she is also the heroine of the school song and dance drama.
Immortal mixed blood high appearance, with a well-proportioned figure, let her successfully out of the circle! Her list of sponsors shines brightly for an Olympic rookie, including Victoria's Secret, Apple's Beats by Dre, Bank of China and China Mobile.
At present, she has signed a contract with IMG modeling agency, her beautiful photos appeared on the Hong Kong edition of Vogue magazine, attended the Met Gala red carpet, participated in Paris Fashion Week, signed many endorsement contracts, and big brands such as Red Bull and Mengniu in Austria have announced cooperation with her.
And the Red Bull-sponsored documentary series Everyday Eileen is already online. Through the quadrilogy is a short film that truly records Gu Ailing's daily training, study and work, and family life, and records how this Chinese mixed-race girl has gone from an ordinary high school student to a multi-habitat development superstar in the field of sports and entertainment through her extraordinary time management ability.
Previously, Gu Ailing also co-starred with young actor Yi Qianxi in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics torch relay story short film "The Covenant of Ice and Snow".
In addition to skiing, her life boundaries are wider, and the future possibilities are more ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Tomorrow
Gu Ailing will impact this Winter Olympics
Personal first gold medal!
Let's cheer for the "genius girl" together!
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