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What should China's top-notch teen idols look like?
A beautiful girl of mixed race who kills from east to west?
The perfect supermodel figure with a height of 171cm and a weight of 104 kilograms?
Much more than that!
In the early morning of January 9, 2022 Beijing time, in the freestyle ski U-shaped field World Cup In the Mammoth Mountain Station of the United States, China's Gu Ailing won the championship with 97.50 points.
So far, all 4 gold medals in this World Cup project have been pocketed by this beautiful american and American mixed-race female athlete, and she has also lifted the crystal ball trophy that symbolizes the championship.
The International Snow Federation praised: Gu Ailing has done nothing this season except to win the game.
CCTV, People's Daily and other media have sent thumbs up for this "snow princess": "You are the pride of our Country!" ”
For winning the championship, Gu Ailing has long been accustomed to it, from becoming the national champion at the age of 9 to the youth Olympic double champion and the 3 golden king of the World Cup, to today she has won more than 50 medals.
While shining on the ski slopes, Gu Ailing has never left her studies behind, as a full-time high school student, she was admitted to the famous Stanford school with a 20-point difference in the AMERICAN college entrance examination SAT score.
"Purple Micro Star" "Full Level Human"... Netizens' rainbow farts are eager to blow out 800 looks, just as the comments that appear below each of her videos: Which window did God close for this girl?
But the most enviable part of Gu Ailing's life is not just a genius.
On September 3, 2003, Gu Ailing was born in California, USA, to a typical elite family. Her father was an American and graduated from Harvard University; her mother, Gu Yan, was a Chinese who graduated from Peking University and later from Stanford University.
Her parents love sports, and her mother Gu Yan is also a ski instructor.
The second from the left is Gu Ailing
But the wealthy family did not let the girl enjoy it, and she was encouraged by her parents to participate in various sports from an early age.
It seems to be fate, in 2006, 3-year-old Gu Ailing stepped on a snowboard for the first time and fell in love with the sport of skiing, and a "snow elf" was born at that moment.
At that time, the young Gu Ailing did not know that she would lose all the holidays, all weekends and even normal rest and sleep time for this hobby, and from then on, the sudden fall and abrasion of the ski resort would accompany her for the rest of her life, and the thrilling moments of arm injury and clavicle fracture would also be experienced.
Gu Yan, who was a ski instructor at that time, naturally wanted to encourage this love of her daughter, she constantly instructed her daughter in skiing skills, and also sent her to a ski training class to learn.
"While children my age were still crying and complaining, I was busy on the little slope [of the skiing]." She recalled her fate with skiing, a look of pride on her face.
But soon, Gu Yan was shocked by the skiing talent displayed by Xiao Ailing. At the age of 7, Gu Ailing's skiing level was already "very good" in the eyes of her mother.
However, when her daughter slid all the way down from the top of the mountain and flashed past her with a roar, Gu Yan suddenly became worried in her heart. It's common to fall occasionally on a ski slope, but when it comes to an official playing field, the dangers of skiing are self-evident.
Whether to let her daughter take the road of professional skiing, Gu Yan was a little hesitant.
One day, Gu Yan took XiaoAiling to a professional ski resort to watch the ski performance of professional athletes.
Skiers do a variety of wonderful flying and spinning maneuvers in the air.
The little girl was deeply shocked.
When we were 7 years old, we were still full of cartoons, and Gu Ailing had found her own love and chosen the path she would take in her life.
Mothers have to respect their children's choices.
At the age of 8, Gu Ailing joined the American North and South League ski team. In the team, although she is the only girl, "this little girl is too bold" is the biggest impression of everyone on her.
Not only because she dared to spin and turn her head on the jumping platform several meters high, but no matter what she did, she carried a momentum of not being afraid of the sky.
When Gu Ailing participated in the first adult points competition in her life, the same stage was full of experienced adult players, and even many masters who had won many gold medals and were well-known.
The venue for the competition was the U-shaped pool, a sport she had never practiced at all.
The time is right, and she doesn't occupy one. However, Gu Ailing was not afraid of the stage at all, and even a little excited.
As she was preparing for the game, she looked at her opponent and said to her mother, "You see, this is the champion Zoe Aiken." ”
In a hurry, the result can also be imagined - the first jump fell, Gu Ailing, wearing green snow pants, slid down the slope, and the snowboard flew out a few meters away.
For Gu Ailing at that time, this was not a game that had to be won.
But she didn't want to give up. After experiencing her first defeat, she withstood the pressure and played steadily in the next two attempts, eventually winning the silver medal.
This is an ordinary choice in Gu Ailing's life, and it is also a microcosm of her later move to a more competitive field and more fields.
Since December last year, she has won 6 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze in various international competitions in one go – a total of only 37 days.
The hot search reads: "When I woke up, I found that Gu Ailing had won the championship again." ”
This little girl, who is just 18 years old this year, seems to be desperately rushing forward in her whole life.
People exclaimed, "This is a live-action version of a genius girl!" ”
On June 6, 2019, Gu Ailing updated Weibo: "Chinese freestyle skier Gu Ailing registered! ”
Public opinion is in an uproar!
Americans do not understand, with the superior conditions of the United States in all aspects, why do you have to change to Chinese nationality, besides, Chinese skiing has not yet achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals in the Winter Olympics.
But for Gu Ailing, it is natural for him to renounce his American citizenship and join his Chinese nationality.
She was most influenced by her mother, and the one she admired the most was her mother, so she felt that her Chinese ancestry was cool.
From childhood to adulthood, every year during the holidays, her mother would send her to Beijing to live for a while. There are the grandmothers who hurt her and love him, and the alleys and cultures that fascinate her.
Chinese clothing, Chinese cuisine, all that China has fascinated her.
Every time she talks about her impressions of Chinese cuisine, she can gush about hot pot, marinated meat rice, dumplings, and roast duck.
Mom is an authentic Beijing girl, and Gu Ailing feels that she is too. In China, whenever someone sees her as a "doll," she will seriously correct: "I am a Chinese girl." ”
She took it for granted that China was her homeland.
Although she lives on the other side of the ocean, she has learned to Chinese since she was a child, taking advantage of her mother's phone call. For foreigners to Chinese like the Book of Heaven, Gu Ailing opened his mouth and came, and he was particularly fluent.
As soon as she opened her mouth, it was an authentic and familiar Beijing accent, which made her countless fans.
"I've never taken Chinese class, Chinese I want to learn?" Isn't that born to be? ”
She felt that Chinese was her mother tongue. Every time she heard others praise her for Chinese, she quickly introduced herself: "I am not a doll, I am a Beijing girl." ”
There is a saying in the documentary "Mirror": "Every child is born with a blank piece of paper." Parents are the people who paint, and the key to what the white paper becomes is the parents. ”
For Gu Ailing, China is already a part of her life, and it is only natural that she has become a Chinese national.
Proud daughter of heaven, welcome back.
Champion + School Bully, it's cool enough. But Gu Ailing feels that these are not enough, she must "live her own style."
Approaching Gu Ailing, you will find that she is a young girl, lively and cheerful, and full of vitality.
"That kind of sunshine enthusiasm and positive energy can come through pictures and screens." The reporter who interviewed Gu Ailing commented on her.
Gu Ailing in life loves challenges and likes new things.
Ballet, piano, rock climbing, horse riding, basketball, soccer, surfing, cross country, athletics... Everything that is fun, she does it in a similar way.
Outside the ski resort, Gu Ailing is also a contracted professional fashion model.
With a beautiful face of Mixed Chinese and American race, a size of one meter and seven two, a sunny and cheerful personality, and a confident and healthy temperament, Gu Ailing has naturally become the object of invitations from many luxury merchants and big-name fashion magazines.
She will appear on the cover of magazines such as Vogue, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, or on high-end fashion shows in Paris and Milan in gorgeous costumes.
The top resources of the fashion industry are tilted towards her almost at the same time, and it is difficult for the first-line traffic stars to compete with her.
One wonders: Will this affect her ski training?
In this regard, she said: "Fashion can help me balance the pressure of my training, and being a model, like freestyle skiing, requires creativity, confidence, and the ability to learn to adapt." ”
In fact, she has long learned how to balance the relationship between students, skiers and models.
During her time at school, she stays at school from Monday to Friday and goes skiing on weekends. In the race cycle, she can do training, competition, catwalk all three without delay.
Gu Ailing understands that in order to do everything she likes well, she must learn how to use time efficiently.
"I learned to do homework, sleep, change clothes, and eat in the car." She said.
Mom was driving, and Gu Ailing was reading her writing homework in the back
Her coach said: "I admire her so much that she accomplishes more in 12 hours than most people do in 16 to 18 hours. ”
The amount of training every day, the daily diet and sleep, Gu Ailing can also achieve strict self-discipline. She understands that if she wants to really live her own life, she has to control herself.
Once, facing the camera, Gu Ailing said firmly: "The most important thing about life for me is to find a thing you like to do and then enjoy it." ”
She always has the ability to think and plan independently about her life, she is a person who knows very well what she wants, and she will try to achieve it when she is right.
Some people can live as they like, completely unexpectedly.
On August 16, 2019, at the New Zealand Open freestyle slope obstacle course, Gu Ailing won her first championship after becoming a Chinese citizen.
Subsequently, in one month, Gu Ailing harvested another 3 gold and 1 silver.
Over the next two years, she won 13 gold medals in major competitions, which can be described as sweeping the world. No wonder fans exclaimed, "We can't keep up with her speed of winning the title!" ”
Gu Ailing, 18, has made herself a legend.
Freedom, extreme, enthusiasm, the cool appearance of her life without a sense of boundaries, is exactly the state that many people yearn for all their lives.
Many people think that sports are inherently suitable for men, and such stereotypes constrain the future development of girls in every way.
But life, always only you can decide. Gu Ailing once loudly retorted: "I don't look like a boy, because sports originally belong to girls." ”
Her face had a rich expression, pride, arrogance, excitement, excitement... The beauty of Gu Ailing always shines with vitality.
Not the "beauty" that pleases others, but the ever-changing "light" that does not need to be disguised.
People should not set boundaries for themselves, and life should be infinitely free.
Author: Liu Nineteen, original author of reader characters, teaching smith, code word worker.
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