Gu Ailing, who was born in San Francisco, will not celebrate her 18th birthday until September this year.
Gu Ailing began to learn to ski at the age of 3, and at the age of 7, she can choose to race skiing or freestyle skiing.
Freestyle skiing is generally the choice of boys, because the difficulty is high and challenging, but Gu Airing chose this difficult road.
At the age of 8, she joined the freestyle amateur ski team. Participate in the National Youth Competition.
Since the age of 9, he has been ranked first in the overall ranking of the USASA American Junior Championship.
At the age of 11, Gu Ailing, fluent in English Chinese, can already tell the camera about her love of sports: trail running, football, basketball, archery, horseback riding and rock climbing, and a proper slash youth.
And this cultivation of multiple interests began when Gu Ailing was a child.
At that time, Gu Ailing remembered that when her mother picked her up from school, she always had to put three clothes on the car, because she had to play football, dance ballet, and then play the piano.
There is a small episode: Gu Ailing once had a habit, that is, after playing the piano, he must go to eat KFC, haha, it is also a snack.
I also make dumplings
And don't look at her now so social cattle, when she was a child, the first time I went to Beijing, Gu Ailing didn't know how to integrate for a while.
For about two weeks, standing next to the Chinese children, she did not speak, which made many people strange, asked Gu Ailing's mother: Auntie, is she deaf and mute?
Gu Ailing is undoubtedly talented, and soon after becoming a professional skier, she won the 2019-2020 Freestyle Skiing World Cup in Calgary, Canada, the slope obstacle course and the U-shaped track race, becoming the first player in history to win two gold medals back-to-back in the same World Cup.
But she was also willing to suffer hardships, she had broken bones and back injuries for skiing, but this did not reduce her passion for skiing.
Fa Xiao's impression of her is that she has always been not afraid of tiredness, not afraid of pain, especially positive and optimistic. "It was burning, and there was a flame around her."
Her American coach once said that she slept 12 hours at night, but the remaining 12 hours of the day were more than the average person did in 16-18 hours.
For example, being a fashion model. It is one of the ways to show her style as a confident person.
Gu Ailing feels that this is actually the same as skiing: it is both creative self-expression.
No wonder she joked herself, don't look at me as 17, I've actually lived a 60-year-old life.
In a way, Gu Ailing is quite an inspirational representative. Because of the extreme sports she is engaged in, she breaks through the prejudice of the sports world that women's physical strength is inferior to men's.
In September this year, Gu Ailing will start her college career at Stanford, the ideal university she has been looking forward to for 12 years.
Her life has only just begun.