Gu Ailing's "xueba" trait may have a genetic advantage
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Author | Chen Caixian
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On the morning of February 8, Beijing time, Gu Ailing won the gold medal with the wonderful performance of the third jump 1620 degree in the final of the Winter Olympic Freestyle Ski Women's Big Jump, and the whole network boiled for a while!
This is the first Winter Olympic medal won by 18-year-old Gu Ailing, and the third gold medal won by the Chinese team at the Beijing Winter Olympics. "Frog Princess" Gu Ailing caught fire on the Chinese Internet, so hot that the Weibo server crashed, and reports about her life experience were also flying everywhere, the main information is as follows:
Skiing genius girl: Born in San Francisco on September 3, 2003, she began to learn to ski at the age of 3, showed her skiing talent beyond her peers from an early age, entered the professional ski team at the age of 8, won the first place in the overall ranking in the American youth ski competition at the age of 9, and then performed well in major ski competitions.
Xueba: Influenced by her mother, Gu Ailing has been counting since elementary school and is very attentive to her studies. In September 2020, Gu Ailing was admitted to Stanford University, the world's top university, with 1580 points + the resume of a world-class athlete in the SAT test with a score of 1600 points.
Fashion model: Invited to Paris Fashion Week at the age of 15, after announcing his return to China in 2019, he signed a contract with the well-known sports agency IMG, cooperated with more than 20 luxury brands, and accepted photographs in several fashion magazines. According to People, since 2021, at least 23 brands have signed contracts with Gu Ailing, bringing her hundreds of millions of yuan in annual revenue, and the 18-year-old Gu Ailing has also been listed on Forbes' "2021 China Celebrity List".
According to public information, Gu Ailing's mother, Gu Yan, a native of Beijing, graduated from Peking University with a bachelor's degree, then studied in the United States, studied biochemistry and molecular biology at Auburn University, studied molecular genetics at Rockefeller University, and also studied MBA at Stanford University's business school; and her father was white in the United States and graduated from Harvard University.
Photo note: Gu Ailing and her mother Gu Yan
Many people praised the personality of "mixed-race" Gu Ailing, who has both Chinese and American characteristics, loves sports and is diligent in studying. However, in Gu Ailing's previous interviews, she rarely talked about her father, talked about family life, and mostly talked about her mother and grandmother.
According to the latest disclosure of Phoenix.com Technology, Gu Ailing's father may be "Ray Sidney", and from Sidney's comments on Facebook, Gu Ailing is basically determined to be his daughter. Ray Sidney studied at the California Institute of Technology, MIT, and Harvard University, where he studied under Turing Award-winning Silvio Micali and later googled employee five. There is no doubt that a proper "school bully" is.
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American father Ray Sidney
On Ray Sidney's Facebook profile, he put a picture of him and Gu Ailing as a child, with 22 comments below, including one from Gu's mother, Yan Gu. Its head is a photo of Gu Yan and Gu Ailing.
Photo note: Ray Sidney's personal homepage
From Ray's communication with friends, we can easily feel Ray's love for her daughter:
Among these 22 comments, we can see the latest one, a netizen named "Lisa Yin" left a message for Ray:
Congratulations to Eileen on winning the GOLD She's simply amazing! ）
Further up, someone else left a message asking Ray:
Josh Sher: Wait, Eileen Gu is secretly your love child? ）
Ray Sidney: Who said it's a secret? ）
Josh Sher: Well it was a secret from inquiring minds such as mine. It's a secret to curious minds, including me. ）
After Gu Ailing won the championship, her mother also shared the news on Facebook:
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He studied under Turing Award winner and Google Employee Five
In this way, Gu Ailing's "Xueba" trait may have a genetic advantage!
In addition to her peking university graduate mother, her father Ray Sidney is also a proper bully:
He grew up in a small village in Connecticut (Storrs), adjacent to the University of Connecticut, and grew up with a learning atmosphere, graduating from Edwin O. Smith High School in 1987, attending the California Institute of Technology for the first year of college, later transferring to Harvard University, and receiving a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1991.
After graduating as an undergraduate, he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue a Ph.D. under the tutelage of 2012 Turing Award winner Silvio Micali, where he studied theoretical computers (in cryptography) and received his Ph.D. in 1995. 18 years after graduating with his Ph.D., Ray Sidney challenged himself to pursue an MBA at UC Berkeley and Haas Business School, where he successfully obtained an MBA.
Note: Ray Sidney
In addition to studying, Ray Sidney has also a wealth of work experience:
From 1996 to 1998, he worked as a research engineer in the prestigious RSA laboratory.
On September 7, 1998, Google was founded. Ray Sidney left RSA Labs to join Google, where he worked until 2003, when he was Google's fifth employee!
In 2008, CNET, a well-known AMERICAN IT media, interviewed seven former Google employees, and Ray Sidney was one of them. CNET began by commenting that "some former Googlers are still struggling very hard to find themselves as angel investors and entrepreneurs in tech, while others are already rich enough to do whatever they want"... Ray Sidney is one such representative.
Ray Sidney was one of Google's first software engineers and one of the first employees to leave Google (about 18 months before the IPO).
According to CNET, Ray Sidney was Google's first financially free "retiree." In September 1998, he met the earliest founding members of Google through friends and soon decided to join Google, which had only 4 employees in its office at the time, and he was the fifth.
For four years, from 1999 to 2003, Ray Sidney was physically and mentally exhausted by the development of Google's search engine. So he decided to rest. "But as soon as he walked out of the office, he didn't want to come back."
So, in 2003, the year Gu Ailing was born, he decided to leave Google and move to Nedahua. A year later, Google's first IPO was a big success, and Ray Sidney also achieved financial freedom with the equity in his hand, no longer worrying about work, "it gave me the freedom to do anything." 」
Gu's father became obsessed with sports, becoming a triathlete and amateur pilot, and a passion for philanthropy, donating $1 million to help launch a public bus service in Douglas County near Lake Tahoe and $250,000 to replace the South Lake Tahoe Circuit, which was used as a training ground for runners at the 1968 Olympics.
Coincidentally, Gu Ailing, who grew up later, often practiced skiing in South Lake Tahoe.
A longtime environmentalist, Gu's father bought a house near Tahoe, where Google skis go on a daily holiday, which generates electricity from solar panels and solar heating devices he installs. He also drives a Highlander hybrid SUV and has donated "significant sums of money" to the X Prize Foundation's upcoming Automotive X Awards.
It can be said that Gu Ailing's love for skiing may come from his father's enlightenment.
Later, Ray Sidney started his own business. In 2007, he purchased 100 acres of land in Carson Valley from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, founded a real estate company, Big George Ventures, became a wealthy real estate developer, and chaired the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Nedahua Pigeon Hill, WHERE, while making multiple investments.
Sidney's goal is to build affordable, environmentally friendly single- and multi-family homes made from sustainable materials such as ICF (Insulated Concrete Formwork) and designed to keep homes warm in the winter and cool in the summer. He told CNET:
"A lot of real estate developers are looking at the bottom line. For me, it doesn't matter if you squeeze every dollar out of the land. This project is about doing what's good for the planet, what's good for the locals, what's good for the company. ”
If you really have money, you can be willful...
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Gu Ailing's "Identity Doubt"
The Beijing Winter Olympics is known as the "highest technology content" of the history of the Winter Olympics, in this Winter Olympics has emerged a lot of "black technology", such as AI training assistance system, AI auxiliary scoring system and other high-tech means of the use, but also to help athletes improve performance.
"High education" is becoming the standard for national team athletes.
In addition to Gu Ailing studying at Stanford University, some netizens have statistics: this year's Asian figure skaters are the proud sons of heaven:
Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu studied computer science at Waseda University and writes code in his spare time to calculate the highest score in figure skating within the range of human ability;
Nathan Chen attended yale's Department of Statistics and Data Science, won state championships in piano, and was a all-around gymnastics player.
Karen Chen studied human biology and health at Cornell University;
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At this year's Beijing Winter Olympics, among the Chinese national team players, the characteristics of "returnees" were obvious, and once became a hot topic of discussion among netizens. Zhu Yi, daughter of zhu Songchun, a well-known artificial intelligence major, was also selected as a figure skater. Labels such as "returnees" and "Chinese and Western" are often prone to criticism.
For the athletes themselves, this sense of confusion about identity is also a shadow. For Gu Ailing, this is no exception.
According to the well-known fashion magazine COSMOPOLITAN, although announcing in 2019 to represent China at the Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing once said that he "felt guilty about the fallen leaves attributed to China".
On the ski slopes of the 2021 Summer Olympics, her boyfriend asked her, "Where are your roots?" China or the United States?" At that time, she replied uncertainly and guiltily, "China?"
"It was really a difficult decision for me. I'm proud of the (Chinese) culture I've embraced, and I'm just as proud of my Growing America." When announcing her representation of China in 2019, Gu Ailing wrote on Instagram.
But in the end, Gu Ailing still chose to fight for her mother's country and successfully won the championship at the Beijing Winter Olympics!
No matter what her identity is and who her father is, Gu Ailing will always be the goddess in the hearts of fans! Come on!
Reference Links:
https://www.cnet.com/news/from-the-googleplex-to-the-wine-bar/
http://www.sidneyfamily.org/people/ray/brief_history.html
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a38941273/olympics-eileen-gu-china-america-asian/
http://www.sidneyfamily.org/people/ray/blog/blogger.html
https://www.xprize.org/about/people/dr-ray-sidney
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