Breaking boundaries, completing a stunning jump, and harvesting the coveted first gold of the Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing, an 18-year-old girl who is already in focus, instantly became a burst point on the whole network.
"Gu Ailing has the highest difficulty in the world", "Gu Ailing's five-ring nail art", "Gu Ailing cried", "Gu Ailing designed the golden dragon robe herself"... Searching for Gu Ailing on Weibo, there will be nearly 20 hot search topics, and "Gu Ailing Gold Medal" has been read 1.17 billion times in the 6 hours since she won the championship. Countless netizens gave her crazy praise, and the British "Guardian" published an article "China embraces the star of biculturalism, Gu Ailing won the Olympic gold medal", and called Gu Ailing "straightforward and impressive".
When Gu Ailing broke her boundaries in the arena, she also became popular and became the protagonist of marketing numbers in various fields such as fashion, parenting, psychology, and humanities. Some netizens commented on the head marketing number of a fashion category: Today all public accounts are writing about her, which is really excellent! The blogger replied: I can't say it without writing. What is more interesting is that some netizens found that a stock called "Yuanwang Valley" achieved a limit when Gu Ailing won the championship.
Gu Ailing created the history of skiing in China and achieved a breakthrough of "zero". At the Beijing Winter Olympics, she will also compete in freestyle ski U-shaped track skills and freestyle ski slope obstacle course skills. This morning, the women's snowboard U-shaped track skills qualifier was held at the Zhangjiakou Genting Ski Park. Seeing the U-shaped venue project, many people are staring at the live broadcast and waiting for Gu Ailing to appear. But until the end of the qualifying round, she was not seen.
In fact, both the veneer and the double board have u-shaped track skills competitions. Snowboard U-shaped track is called Snowboard Halfpipe in English, and the players step on the U-shaped field to complete the jump grab, jump non-grab, handstand, jump handstand, spin and so on. The referee scores based on the athlete's soaring altitude, the difficulty of the completed movements, and the effect. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Liu Jiayu won the silver medal in the women's U-shaped track skill event in snowboarding in a historic way.
Freestyle skiing U-shaped field is named Halfpipe in English, and the players do 5 to 6 movements in the U-shaped field on the double board, and the score is determined according to the height of the action and the angle of rotation, as well as the fluency and aesthetics of the action. Gu Ailing participated in the freestyle ski U-shaped track skill competition, which was officially established as a Winter Olympic event in Sochi in 2014. In 2017, 14-year-old Gu Ailing and 13-year-old Su Yiming exchanged snowboards in the snow field, but they were completely out of control.
Yesterday's fans who "chased" Ailing across the valley should know that in the three events she participated in this Winter Olympics, the big jump is a side event, and the U-shaped field skills and slope obstacle skills are more gold-rushing strength. At the 2021 X Games Aspen, she won both titles. Two months later, at the World Championships, she won both gold medals.
This season, Gu Ailing has participated in four U-shaped venue World Cup competitions, all of which won the championship and finally won the championship of the season. Especially at Mammoth Hill in the United States, she slipped a super high score of 97.50 points in the final and won the championship, which was praised by the International Snow Federation as "the most perfect performance in the history of women's U-shaped field competitions".
On the U-shaped field of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing's strongest opponents are also known as "genius" Estonian Kelly Hildaru and Pingchang Winter Olympics gold medalist Kathy Sharp, as well as Canada's Rachel, American teenager Forhaber Hanna and other powerful opponents.
In the slope obstacle course, Gu Ailing will also face a strong challenge from Hildaru. This season, Gu Ailing has participated in only one World Cup event and one top commercial event called New Tour, both of which have been runners-up, and the champions are hildaru. In addition, Pyeongchang Winter Olympic champion Sarah Hovlin of Switzerland and Kelly Johanni of the United States are also strong opponents of Gu Ailing.
Gu Ailing Schedule
Freestyle skiing women's slope obstacle course skills
Qualifiers February 13 (Sunday) 10:00-12:02
Final Monday, February 14 9:30-10:51
Freestyle Ski women's U-shaped track skills
Qualifiers Thursday, February 17 9:30-11:11
Final February 18 (Friday) 9:30-10:52
Text/Hubei Daily reporter Tong Junpeng Guo Xiaoming sent from Beijing
Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Video/CCTV News