Long before the Start of the Winter Olympics, 18-year-old female freestyle skier Gu Ailing was already a talented girl in the field of ice and snow sports, and she was early promoted to the top athletes in ice and snow sports.
Since the beginning of 2019, Gu Ailing, as a ski supernova and a mixed-race child of China and the United States, gave up playing for the United States and chose to join the Chinese nationality and represent China in ice and snow events, and since then she has become a sports athlete who is appreciated and paid considerable attention by domestic sports fans and advertisers, and has invisibly contributed a lot to the promotion of ice and snow sports.
As of press time, Gu Ailing has already won the Winter Olympic gold medal in this competitive event with a full state of freestyle women's big jump, and has completely gone out of the circle. In the immediate following competitions, Gu Ailing will continue to compete for gold medals in the slope obstacle course skills surrounded by strong opponents and his best U-shaped field events.
Any sports star has its own anecdotes or anecdotes, and Gu Ailing is no exception. In this article, the author will sort out a little bit and take stock of ten anecdotes about Gu Ailing that are not necessarily widely known, so that you can understand her more comprehensively for sports fans who are interested in her. Of course, due to space limitations, if there is any discussion or supplementary sharing, welcome to share in the comment area.
First, about Gu Ailing's growth background
Gu Ailing is a mixed-race Child of China and the United States, his father is American, but Gu Ailing and his mother have rarely mentioned Gu Ailing's biological father, nor have they ever disclosed his information, and the media knows that Gu Ailing's father is a high-achieving student who graduated from Harvard.
After Gu Ailing became popular, the outside media reporter friends also wanted to dig up more information about Gu Ailing's father. Since people have not taken the initiative to mention it, presumably some people's considerations, the media actually does not need to go to great lengths, break the casserole to ask the end, should pay more attention to Gu Ailing himself and his achievements.
In the growth of Gu Ailing, her mother Gu Yan played a very important role and was also the initiator of Gu Ailing's ice and snow sports. Gu Yan is an intellectual family from Beijing, her mother, Feng Guozhen, Gu Ailing's grandmother, is a retired traffic engineer cadre, and her father, Gu Zhenguang, gu Ailing's grandfather, was a sports athlete and good at swimming and skiing in his youth.
In Gu Yan's youth, she studied biochemistry at Rockefeller University in the United States, and then practiced skiing herself because her father loved to ski, and once worked as a ski instructor in the United States, which is also the most important reason why Gu Ailing is exposed to skiing and falls in love with skiing. When talking about the experience of cultivating Gu Ailing, Gu Yan often said this: I actually like to play since I was a child, that is, words are not as good as teaching by example.
Second, Gu Ailing is a bully among the scholars
Gu Ailing comes from a Beijing scholar with sports genes, and she is currently studying at Stanford University. In terms of academic performance, it is the existence of the academic bully level, and I believe that many sports fans know it.
However, as for how much she is a bully? In the SAT of the AMERICAN college entrance exam that year, Gu Ailing scored a high score of 1580 points (out of 1600 points), which belongs to the top 0.2% of all candidates. For reference, Jeremy Lin, who graduated from Harvard University and is regarded as a bully among athletes, scored 1428 points in the SAT test that year, which is about the top 4-5% of elite candidates. By a little analogy, we know that Gu Ailing is a bully among the scholars, and he is very good at reading.
Third, Gu Ailing once returned to Beijing during the summer vacation to study mathematics
To borrow Gu Ailing's words, she spent 30% of her life in Beijing, so she has always made China her home, and every summer she spends studying at Gu Ailing, she will return to Beijing with her mother.
It is worth mentioning that when Gu Ailing was on vacation, her mother Gu Yan had arranged for her to study mathematics at Huangzhuang in Haidian, Beijing. Recalling this experience, Gu Ailing once quipped that his summer vacation in Beijing for 10 days of mathematical progress was better than a year in the United States.
Fourth, Gu Ailing did not like to make a bed after getting up
Gu Ailing in life is an informal girl, and the most nagged thing by her mother Gu Yan is that she always wakes up without making a bed and the bed looks messy. I don't like to make a bed after waking up, which should also be one of the common points that Gu Ailing has in common with many people.
According to Gu Ailing's disclosure in a previous interview, she is used to putting it next to the bed, and she has to sleep at night anyway, and she can't understand her mother's requirements for making her bed.
Having said that, Gu Ailing may also be able to cope with her mother's fight haha, after going to college, Gu Ailing is estimated not to live with her mother, and her mother may not be able to manage and talk about her in person.
Fifth, about the origin of Gu Ailing's name
Gu Ailing's mother, Gu Yan, had a younger sister, Ling, who died in a car accident when she was 9 years old. If there was no such accident, Gu Yan could watch her sister grow up, and her sister could watch Gu Ailing grow up.
Gu Ailing's Chinese name, as well as the English harmonic Eileen, were all taken by her mother Gu Yan for her. Behind this name, it not only carries Gu Yan's expectations for her daughter as a mother, but also carries her thoughts about her deceased sister.
Sixth, Gu Ailing's mate selection requirements
After Gu Ailing became an adult at the age of 18, she was asked in an interview what characteristics her ideal boyfriend should have. Without much thought, Gu Ailing first blurted out Witty (humorous, can make her happy), Ambitious (ambitious), and then added Handsome (to be handsome). These three standards, perhaps, the author is just saying that maybe, you can refer to it a little.
Gu Ailing slept more than 10 hours a day in childhood and adolescence
Sleep, study, play, Gu Ailing's mother once refined the three elements in the process of educating Gu Ailing in an interview, the priority is divided into order, of which sleep is put first, because I feel that I don't have enough sleep to play, I don't have energy to learn, I have energy to learn, and when I have energy to play, the income in the process will naturally be much more.
Growing up in her childhood and adolescence, Gu Ailing slept more than 10 hours a day, compared with 13 hours before going to elementary school. After adulthood, with the busyness of training, studies, business, and entertainment, Gu Ailing should sleep less.
VIII. About Gu Ailing's idol
Any sports star has its own idol, and idols play a leading role model in their sports careers, and Gu Ailing is no exception, her idol is Sarah Hovlin from Switzerland, who became a gold medalist at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and is a highly qualified and cool student in the field of neuromedicine.
It is worth mentioning that in this year's Beijing Olympic Games, Sarah Hoflin, who is already 31 years old, also came to Beijing to compete, ranking fifth in the just-concluded big jump, which means that Gu Ailing defeated her favorite sports idol.
9. About Gu Ailing's sports agency
After returning to China to develop, Gu Ailing joined IMG Agency Sports, a sports agency that has a lot of influence in the industry, and the influence before it was mainly reflected in the field of tennis and golf, and federer and Nadal are currently the most representative athletes in their cooperation.
As for doing business in China, this agency sports company has many years of experience working with tennis star Li Na in the past, which should also be an important willingness for Gu Ailing to cooperate with them. After Gu Ailing joined, her agency won more than 20 endorsements or brand contracts for her. There is no doubt that Gu Ailing, after the Winter Olympics, will continue to maintain the top position of popularity in the Chinese sports circle, and the value of endorsements will at least more than double.
10. About Gu Ailing's nickname
Nickname culture is part of the sports culture, many well-known athletes have their own nicknames, and Gu Ailing's nickname is "Frog Princess". As for the origin behind it, it goes back to Gu Ailing's childhood, when he was 9 years old and learned to ski with his mother, Gu Ailing often wore a green ski helmet decorated with a pink crown to ski, so people around him began to call Gu Ailing "Frog Princess". Gu Ailing himself liked the nickname "Frog Princess" very much, and even used it as a screen name.