On the evening of February 7, Beijing time, the US media "Insider" posted a photo of Chinese figure skating female athlete Zhu Yi tearfully sprinkling the Beijing Winter Olympics venue on the social media platform Instagram, accompanied by such a text: "After falling at the Winter Olympics, Zhu Yi, who gave up his American citizenship and represented China to participate, was being attacked by Chinese social media users." ”
In this regard, Gu Ailing, a winter sports athlete who also represented China in the Beijing Winter Olympics, directly shrugged it off in the comment area.
Screenshot of Instagram
The US media "insider" wrote: "Zhu Yi, a figure skater born in the United States, gave up his American citizenship to represent China. At the Winter Olympics, she fell in two competitions, which sparked a heated discussion on Chinese social media. ”
In response, Gu Ailing, a winter sports athlete who also represented China at the Beijing Winter Olympics, replied in the comments section of this Instagram post: "As a person who really uses Chinese social media, I would like to say here that more than 90% of the comments are positive and exciting." It's part of the movement and everyone understands it. ”
Gu Ailing replied to the screenshot of the message
In the women's singles short program of the team competition on the 6th, Zhu Yi played abnormally, made a mistake and fell, and then there was a mistake in jumping and stepping on the air, and the total score was only 47.03 points, ranking at the bottom. On the morning of the 7th, in the women's single skating free skating competition in the final of the figure skating team competition, Zhu Yi was the first to appear. Soon after the slide, Zhu Yi appeared two consecutive falls. After the fall, Zhu Yi made a mistake in a fall on the ice, after which Zhu Yi adjusted himself and completed the game, finally scoring 91.41 points.
The Chinese team ended the competition in fifth place, but also created a new history for the Chinese figure skating team.
According to the Yangtze River Daily, Zhu Yi was born in 2002 and began to contact figure skating at the age of 7. In 2018, 16-year-old Zhu Yi won the women's singles championship in the rookie group of the National Figure Skating Championships with a score of 35 points beyond the second place.
In the same year, the Chinese figure skating team hired figure skating star Chen Lu as the main coach and launched the "Morning Road Plan" to cultivate ice dance and women's singles, in preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympics. The Chinese figure skating team extended an olive branch to Zhu Yi.
In 2019, Zhu Yi became a naturalized chinese and began to officially represent the Chinese team in figure skating events.