Yesterday, at the final of the freestyle ski women's big jump at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese athlete Gu Ailing won the championship with a total score of 188.25 points, winning the third gold for the Chinese team, and the whole network boiled!
She scored 93.75 in the first jump, 88.50 in the second jump and 94.50 in the third jump! On the third jump, she made a difficulty that she couldn't believe - a 1620-degree turn in the air!
This is the first Winter Olympic medal won by Gu Ailing, and the first time for a Chinese athlete to stand on the big jump!
You know, Gu Ailing's strengths lie in the U-shaped pool and slope obstacles, and the big jump has only been practiced for one year, which is not the project she is best at. However, on the field, she not only achieved all three jumps, but also jumped out of the difficulty of turning to the left axis 1620 plus safety grab, setting a new world record.
IOC President Bach couldn't help but applaud this wonderful girl, and the narrator even praised: "Yuru Yucheng, treading on the snow to find the dragon!" Gu Ailing is the jade jiaolong of today's Shougang big jump! ”
In a post-match interview, Gu Ailing said: "I made a move that I had never challenged. There is not a single action in history that a girl has challenged. Then I chose the last time because, I would regret not doing it, I still wanted to be my best, I wanted to show the world my own ability. Then I did it, got the highest score, got the first place, and today I can't describe this happiness! ”
So, why does this little girl born in 2003 have so much courage and boldness to challenge herself on the field with difficult moves that she has never done before? Her success is inseparable from the following reasons.
There is no limit to growth
Interest classes call for interest
When Gu Ailing was very young, her mother Gu Yan took her to various interest classes.
As a ski instructor, Gu Yan never asked her daughter to "inherit" her skiing hobbies, but encouraged her to try more and develop more.
Little Gu Ailing soon tried skiing, piano, ballet, basketball, football, equestrianism, rock climbing, etc.
All along, Gu's mother has held the attitude of "as long as her daughter likes, support her to learn".
It doesn't matter if the hobby is "suitable for girls" or not, it doesn't matter if she can stick to it.
Gu's mother believes that children need to find love in trying and enjoy life in love.
Mother Gu's wise concept of parenting coincides with Teacher Lu Qin's family education concept.
In the book "Growing Up Is Not Easy", Teacher Lu Qin once shared his parenting experience:
The son has been on the road of interest for more than ten years, and I am just his audience, applauding him. I never wanted to raise my son to be a genius in a certain aspect, and I never used his talents as a capital to show off to others.
I just want my son to be a person with a wide range of interests, and I just want his life to be full of fun and happiness, because life without the company of art is as boring as the wilderness.
If you go to an interest class for the sake of examination and examination, in the end, interest will become a heavy burden for children;
If you go to an interest class for the face of your parents, eventually, your interest will become the child's childhood suffering.
Fortunately, I didn't.
I am pleased that on the road of interest, my son has always maintained a strong interest in art and creation, and an infinite passion for life.
The biggest feature of art is its lyricism and non-utilitarianism; the greatest effect of art is to be able to express people's thoughts and feelings freely.
The son has an interest and talent in music, but he did not become a musician, what he gained was a love of life;
The son has the interest and talent to paint, but he did not become a painter, he gained the ability to observe life;
The son has the interest and talent to create drama, but he did not become an artist, he gained a humorous character and an optimistic attitude to life;
His son has an interest and talent in production, but he did not become an engineer, he gained rare creativity and the ability to survive.
The two mothers tell us with a wise and loving education: there is no limit to growth, give the child a free sky, and the child will find his own way in self-exploration.
Love + persistence, achieve dreams
Gu Ailing once said in an interview, "Skiing is really a fun thing for me. Sometimes my mom said, 'If you don't wash the dishes, you can't go skiing.' I went right away to wash the dishes. ”
In every skiing training, Gu Ailing enjoyed the skiing process very much, and she described her feeling of skiing: "The second of landing on the ground is the best second in the world."
It is on the basis of love that Gu Ailing devotes himself to training day after day, not afraid of suffering, not afraid of tiredness, and constantly trying new actions, in order to continuously surpass himself and break through the limit.
When countless media are praising Gu Ailing as a "talented girl", Gu Ailing believes that compared with hard work and love, talent only accounts for 0.1% of her life. "Love, discipline, training, and methods are far more important than talent."
As the saying goes, "One minute on stage, ten years off stage". The same is true of Gu Ailing's success.
Gu Ailing first really came into contact with skiing at the age of 3 and has fallen in love with the sport ever since.
At the age of 4, Little Ailing was able to ride in the snow with her mother.
At the age of 8, Gu Ailing officially joined the American North and South League ski team and became the only girl in the team.
Since the age of 9, she has won the American Junior Ski Championships.
At the age of 13, there were forty or fifty gold medals, and certificates and trophies were hung all over the wall.
After the tempering of the actual combat of large and small competitions, Gu Ailing "opened and hung all the way".
On August 16, 2019, he won the 2019-20 Freestyle Ski Slope Obstacle Course New Zealand Open Championships;
On August 28, he won the 2019 New Zealand Winter Games and Australia Cup Freestyle Ski U-Track Competition.
In January 2020, she won the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympic Games Ski U-Pool, Freestyle Ski Jump Champion, and freestyle ski women's slope obstacle course runner-up;
In February, he won the 2019-20 World Cup in Calgary, Canada, the U-shaped field championship, and the slope obstacle course champion;
On April 16, he was awarded the "Best Moment" of the 2019-2020 season of the International Snow Federation;
In November, it was listed in the "2020 Forbes China Under 30 Elite List".
In March 2021, she competed in the World Championships for the first time and won 2 gold and 1 bronze in the women's U-shaped field, slope obstacle course and big jump.
Of course, behind the success, there are countless falls and injuries.
Gu Ailing once lost her memory due to a concussion during ski training, and also smashed from a height of three meters on the side of the hard object during trampoline training and could not get up for a long time; her collarbone, foot bone and fingers have all been fractured by skiing.
But for Ailing, these injuries are nothing. Because she understands that when you have a goal, in addition to loving and enjoying, you need to pay no less than anyone's efforts.
In addition to skiing, Gu Ailing's studies have never fallen behind. In preparation for the Winter Olympics, she graduated from high school a year early and was admitted to Stanford University with a high score of 1580 (out of 1600).
Confidence, not accepting defeat, creating extraordinary
On the short video platform, a blogger popularized Gu Ailing's relatively strong opponents, so that everyone lowered their expectations slightly and did not put too much pressure on Ailing. Gu Ailing commented domineeringly after seeing it: Why do you have no confidence in me?
A rhetorical question shows Gu Ailing's self-confidence of "believing that I can do it" and the spirit of not accepting defeat.
In the book "Tell Your Children You're Awesome", Teacher Lu Qin emphasized the importance of self-confidence to a person's success: success is a feeling, an attitude. Success is a victory for all people against themselves, a success in their struggle against fate. People who "believe in myself and I can do it" are the people who understand the value of life the most.
Gu Ailing is a person who understands the value of life.
For Gu Ailing, winning has always been very important.
In the big jumping competition of the 2021 World Championships, Gu Ailing found that the players who appeared before her had chosen ultra-difficult moves, so she temporarily decided to make a move that she was not skilled enough and was not stable enough.
Because, in her opinion, if you don't do this action, there is no point in participating in this competition. She once said in an interview: "When I enter any competition, I must have the hope of winning. ”
Gu Ailing's spirit of competition and desire to win comes from grandma Feng Guozhen (mom's mother).
In kindergarten, Grandma taught Ai Ling the multiplication technique, and after teaching it, she said to her, "You go to school and compete with other people." "When I went to school, Gu Ailing found that in the United States, this is what can only be learned in the third grade of primary school.
Grandma hopes that Gu Ailing will take the first place in everything. When she was a child, Gu Ailing participated in the school running competition, and before she finished running, she was in second place, and when she turned the corner, she heard her grandmother and a group of people shouting: "Eileen NO.1, Eileen NO.1." She turned her head to see, in the middle of a row of American parents, standing a grandmother who was one meter and five meters tall. She couldn't figure out how Grandma, who didn't speak English, had organized a group of people to follow her and shout "Eileen NO.1."
However, Gu Ailing's spirit of winning is not to win others, but to win herself.
In an interview after winning the gold medal at the Winter Olympics, the reporter asked Gu Ailing whether she was motivated to beat them after seeing the excellent performance of the other two athletes, and Gu Ailing's answer was, "I am very happy to see them play their best level, which also prompts me to challenge my highest level, which I believe is also the meaning of sports competition." ”
Yes, the confidence that comes out of the bones does not come from defeating the opponent, but from breaking through your own limits and constantly surpassing yourself.
In this Winter Olympics, in addition to Gu Ailing, you must have heard about Yusheng Jiexian, Su Yiming, K Bao, these athletes, their excellent and outstanding performance, once by the majority of fans and friends praise.
So, what are some of their outstanding performances? Now let's take everyone to popularize science together!
Feather knot strings
Japanese figure skater for men's single skater
Habu Asthma Conqueror, the person selected by the ice, is the description of this male figure skater from Japan.
The face is like jade, the posture is like a pine, the wings are like a shock, and the dragon is like a dragon, which is CCTV's praise for Yusheng's knot.
Some people say, I don't like Japan, but I like the Japanese feather knot.
Why is this Japanese athlete so popular with the Chinese people? It starts with one detail.
At the 2017 Fantasy World Championship award ceremony, Japan's Yusei Yushin saw that the national flag of Chinese player Jin Boyang was reversed, and immediately took the initiative to help adjust. This act of goodwill of his shows respect for our country, and thus wins the favor of the vast number of Chinese netizens.
Eleven-year-old Yusuke Yusuke said in an interview that my goal is to be an Olympic champion.
For this dream, he went all the way to the top, breaking the world record 19 times after winning the Winter Olympics for the second time.
However, few people know that he was frail and sickly since he was a child, suffered from severe asthma, and had difficulty breathing as soon as he became ill. This has made his career as an athlete full of ups and downs.
All he can do is to redouble his efforts to train, others train 20 times, he will train 60 times, the amount of training is so large, injuries are inevitable.
But he said, "No matter how much it hurts, even if I can't move my ankle afterwards, I will win the gold medal." I have such a sense of mission and will. ”
However, it is such a noble prince on the ice, but he often feels inferior because of his weak appearance, and he always treats himself almost harshly.
In order to complete the super difficult 4-week jump of Arcek, he almost fought for his life.
He described the training process this way: "Every time my body fell heavily on the ice, as if it were a death jump, I was training with the mental preparation that I was not sure which time I would fall into a concussion and die." ”
CCTV once used such a passage to describe his hard work: Fate whispered to the warrior, you can't resist the storm, the warrior whispered, I am the storm.
How can such a professional athlete who does not wait to be whipped up and strive not to be touched and loved?
Su Yiming
Chinese snowboarder
Su Yiming, the first snowboarder in China to complete technical movements such as 1620 degrees for three weeks of flip body and 1800 degrees for five weeks of reverse foot outreach.
On February 7, in the final of the men's slope steeplechase skills in snowboarding, Su Yiming won the silver medal in one fell swoop, creating history.
The highly anticipated teenager is only 17 years old, even the youngest athlete in this game.
But his results set the best result in China's history in the history of the Winter Olympics in the men's slope sculpting of snowboarding.
As a child star, he debuted as a "small plug" who was proficient in skiing in the "Wise Tiger Mountain" directed by Director Xu Ke.
After winning the silver medal, Su Yiming was ridiculed by netizens as "a person from CCTV6 to CCTV5".
Youth is infinitely good, the future can still be expected, Su Yiming's future will be infinite possibilities!
K treasure
Russian talented figure skater
Camilla Vallieva, a Russian girl born in 2006, Taurus.
The appearance is super high, the body proportion is good against the sky, the limbs are slender, and the golden ratio of 0.618 is appropriate.
With the coexistence of appearance and strength, KBao quickly gathered a large number of Chinese fans.
With a cute smile, she is affectionately called k treasure by netizens.
This year is the first Winter Olympics she participated in, and although she is not very old, she has a very high talent for figure skating.
In the previous short program competition, she scored 90.18 points, which alone was more than 10 points higher than the second-ranked athlete.
In the free skating arena, KBao's technical score reached 105.25 points, becoming the champion of the figure skating women's singles of the Winter Olympics. Whether it is a glide performance or a jump, there is no shortcoming, the absolute "hexagonal warrior".
Watching K Bao's figure skating is a kind of enjoyment, not only with difficult actions, but also with beautiful artistic expression.
A bowed head, a raised hand, full of elegance and beauty.
She has practiced ballet, and her feelings about music are very delicate, and when she performs, it seems that her whole body is immersed in it.
"I was fully integrated into the show and it felt like it was telling a story on ice. When you forget your physical state, it is a very pleasant state. ”
She also has a romantic interpretation of her own show: "A butterfly landed on my hand, this butterfly is a symbol of my dreams, and I chased it throughout the show." At the end of the show, I caught it and let it go, as if I had fulfilled my dream and gained peace. ”
Teenagers can look forward to the future, and look forward to the Olympic athletes to create more ice and snow legends! After watching this Winter Olympics, which athletes are you impressed with? Feel free to let us know in the comments section
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