The most high-profile Chinese player in the Winter Olympics is the "genius girl" Gu Ailing, right?
On February 7, freestyle skier Gu Ailing performed well in her Winter Olympic debut and successfully advanced to the final.
After the game, she compared her heart to the audience in front of the camera, smiled confidently and cheerfully, and was praised by netizens for her strong strength and cute personality.
As early as before the start of the Winter Olympics, many netizens were fanned by Gu Ailing, who can be called the "champion harvester".
As a genetically powerful Chinese-American hybrid, she has both high intelligence and athletic talent, as well as high looks and cheerful personality.
After joining the Chinese nationality, she won 7 gold and 2 silver in major competitions in six months, and also graduated from high school a year early and was admitted to Stanford University with near-full scores.
Moreover, while winning the championship and being a school bully, she also became a contracted model of the internationally renowned model agency IMG with her proud figure.
Outside the arena, she is like a fashion darling, appearing on the cover of Vogue, Elle and other magazines, and also participated in Paris Fashion Week, charity dinner and so on.
When working with Yi Qianxi to shoot the promotional video of the Winter Olympics, he even had more star aura than the other party.
Like Gu Ailing, there are not a few athletes with high looks and good temperament, and many of them have transformed into the entertainment industry.
01. Athletes of the Winter Olympics
In this Winter Olympics, another "talented ski teenager" Su Yiming also received a lot of attention.
At the age of 17, he reached the final with the first place in the snowboard slope obstacle course qualification competition, and finally won the silver medal in the event, creating the best result in the history of the event for the Chinese team.
Born in the northeast, Su Yiming's parents are ski enthusiasts, he began to contact skiing at the age of 4, and began to receive professional training at the age of 7.
But while practicing skiing, he also debuted in the entertainment industry early as a "child star".
He has starred in many film and television works such as "Born on a Brilliant Day" and "Rock Boy".
The character who impressed the audience the most was the skiing plug in "Wise Tiger Mountain".
In 2015, after Beijing's successful bid to host the Winter Olympics, Su Yiming, who was extremely talented in skiing, had the idea of going out for the country and aspired to become a professional skier.
By constantly participating in professional competitions to earn points, he officially joined the national training team in 2018.
Since then, he has won several international awards, breaking world records, and also won the final of the Snowboard Jumping World Cup at the end of 2021.
Child star debut, turned to the ski resort, but also won the championship many times, the appearance and strength of the coexistence of him is also too good, right?
Actress Zhang Kaili was also an athlete in ice sports.
In a CCTV variety show, Zhang Kaili said that she was a teammate with Ye Qiaobo, the short track speed skating world champion.
Ye Qiaobo was once the king of short track speed skating, won more than 50 gold medals, and is the hall of fame in the world ice world's "Grand Slam" record.
And Zhang Kaili not only went out with her teacher, but also her captain and a good sister who lived in bunk beds.
Born in Changchun City, Jilin Province, Zhang Kaili has been learning speed skating in her hometown since she was a child, and she is extremely athletically talented.
However, with the growth and development of her body, she was no longer suitable for practicing speed skating with a pair of "big long legs", so she had to choose to retire and become an actor.
Nowadays, she and Ye Qiaobo also have frequent private contacts, and occasionally participate in shows and skate together.
She is still in a healthy posture on the ice rink, which shows how solid her skills in speed skating were.
South Korean actor Song Joong-ki was also a short track speed skater before entering the show business.
He has been practicing short track speed skating for ten years, and has been a short track speed skater in the Daejeon team in South Korea from elementary school to junior high school, representing Daejeon Metropolitan City for six consecutive years, and participating in three national sports conferences.
Short-track speed skating is a popular sport for South Korea to win at the Winter Olympics, and Song Joong-ki originally planned to develop well in this field.
However, due to his ankle injury and the unbearable factionalism in Korean sports, he eventually gave up the sport.
However, it was precisely because of his experience in practicing short track speed skating that Song Joong-ki was able to star in the skating-themed TV series "Triple", which came to prominence in the Korean showbiz circle and gradually became popular.
And Song Huiqiao, who had a short marriage with Song Joong-ki, was also an ice sports player.
She was versatile from an early age, took the piano level ten, and practiced figure skating for many years.
In middle school, she was selected for the Korean National Figure Skating Training Team.
At the age of 15, she became interested in acting, participated in the SMART Model Contest, and won the first place.
After that, she gave up figure skating and entered the show business circle.
But she didn't deliberately promote her athletic talents, and many people didn't know that she was good at figure skating.
It was not until she starred in "Full House of Romance", which had a skating scene, and she insisted on not using a stand-in and personally playing, so that everyone could discover her strength.
Leaving the arena of competitive sports, he has become a household name, and it seems that as long as it is gold, it can shine wherever it is.
02. Summer Olympic athletes
The Winter Olympics are relatively niche, while the Summer Olympics have more attention, more participants, and more athletes who have transformed into the entertainment industry.
Tao Hong, who is familiar to everyone, was once an excellent synchronized swimmer.
In 1983, at the age of 11, Tao Hong officially became an athlete in the Beijing Synchronized Swimming Team, training in the water for six or seven hours a day.
A few years later, she was selected for the national synchronized swimming team and won the second place in the synchronized collective swimming at the Sixth National Games.
Since then, she has repeatedly won awards in synchronized swimming single and collective projects.
In August 1993, after retiring from the army, Tao Hong was selected by Jiang Wen to star in the movie "Sunny Day".
She showed her natural and vivid acting skills in her first filming, which was well received by the director and the audience.
Therefore, she chose to be admitted to the Central Academy of Drama and began her own acting path.
Zuo Xiaoqing, who has a soft appearance and a weak temperament, is also an athlete.
When she was in the 5th grade of primary school, she was selected by her teachers to join the amateur gymnastics team and participated in hunan and municipal gymnastics competitions.
Later, she successfully entered the national gymnastics team, became a member of the Chinese women's rhythmic gymnast, won the domestic championship several times, and retired in 1993.
Once, Zuo Xiaoqing went to the set of "Sunny Day" with a friend of his father, and Jiang Wen saw that she had a good image and invited a guest role to play Zhang Xiaomei.
The attempt gave her a keen interest in acting, and she was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy two years later as an actress.
In contrast, Niu Li's sports career is more ups and downs.
Niu Li was born into a family of athletes, and because of her poor health when she was a child, she was sent by her mother to an amateur sports school to learn swimming.
Unexpectedly, she swam all the way to the national synchronized swimming team, became a professional, and stood on the podium of the national team championship in 1986.
At the age of 15, at the request of her mother, she transferred to the Bayi Shooting Team.
She has been teammates with Wang Yifu and Li Xianghong, and is famous in the sports world with her achievements as a shooting champion in the whole army.
Just when Niu Li wanted to make a big splash in the field of shooting sports, the shooting team suddenly announced that it was dissolved.
She had to find another way, under the advice of her mother, she took the exams of various art academies one after another, and successfully entered the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts.
After starring in many popular dramas and appearing on the Spring Festival Gala many times, Niu Li gradually became a well-known actor.
Zhang Zilin, who is well known for her title of "Miss World Champion", was a former track and field athlete.
She grew up with tall legs and entered an amateur sports school at the age of 8 to study triple jump and 100-meter hurdles.
She has won the Hurdles Championship at the Beijing Municipal Games, the third place in the Beijing Women's 4*100m Relay, the fourth place in the National Junior Athletics Ageing Competition, and has also received track and field training with Liu Xiang.
However, she was not interested in sports, and in 2002, she gave up her status as a sports student and went to the University of Science and Technology Beijing to study business administration in the Department of Economics and Management.
The following year, she participated in the New Silk Road Model Contest and opened her acting career.
On February 4, Ren Jialun posted a photo with table tennis player Chen Meng, and posted that he had returned to the place where he trained as a child.
It turned out that Ren Jialun had been Chen Meng's teammate in the Shandong Provincial Table Tennis Team.
Born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, he began practicing table tennis at the age of 6 because he was not in good health as a child.
At the age of 13, he entered the Shandong provincial team with excellent ball skills, and was busy with school, school and training every day, but he liked table tennis very hard and never shouted tired.
But unfortunately, he was frequently injured, and at the age of 16, he was no longer suitable for high-intensity training, so he had to choose to retire.
After retiring from the military, he first focused on his studies and entered the airport after graduation.
Later, because of his love of music and dance, he began to participate in the draft frequently, and with the support of his family, he broke into the entertainment industry.
From athletes to excellent airport employees to well-known actors, this life experience is also quite rich.
Fang Lishen's sports career was more complete.
He started swimming in 1989 and is a former swimming representative in Hong Kong.
In 1991, at the age of 11, he represented Hong Kong for the Olympic Games for the first time.
In 2000, he represented Hong Kong again in the Sydney Olympic swimming event and became known as the "Flying Fish Prince".
In 2001, he met an agent in the entertainment industry by chance, and was introduced to the entertainment industry because of his appearance and bodybuilding.
Wang Jiaer was a fencer before entering the industry, and gave up the opportunity to compete in the London Olympics in order to pursue his musical dreams.
His father was the head coach of the Fencing Team in Hong Kong, China, and he fell in love with fencing when he first came into contact with fencing at the age of 10.
Athletically gifted, he won the individual gold medal in the men's 17-year-old sabre at the Asian Youth Championships at the age of 17 and won three Asian titles, three national championships and nine international and Hong Kong championships in his individual sports career.
But perhaps wang jiaer prefers music and dance to fencing, and he gave up fencing in 2011 to work as a trainee in South Korea.
Nowadays, he frequently releases singles, is also a regular guest of major variety shows and evenings, and his acting career is smooth.
epilogue
In addition to athletes who have to consider transformation due to injuries, physical reasons, and personal choices, there are also some top athletes who have achieved fame and become artists.
For example, Tian Liang, the "diving prince" who has won Olympic gold medals many times.
After retiring from the army, he starred in film and television works such as "Izumi Hibiscus" and "The Sun Is Like Me", and also participated in "Where Daddy Goes" and "Fight!" Cute Dog" and other variety shows.
There is also Liu Xuan, who won the women's gymnastics balance beam at the Sydney Olympics.
She has also starred in film and television works such as "East Wind and Rain" and "Fu Shao", and also set up her own studio.
As the saying goes, style does not separate families.
These athletes have the strength and appearance, even if they quit the sports world, they can shine in the entertainment industry.
Author: Asagiri
Editor-in-Charge: Seven Dreams