Speaking of men's figure skating, I believe that the first thing that comes to mind must be Jin Boyang and Yusheng knots. After all, the former is the highest level in the Chinese men's figure skating industry at this stage, while the latter has won 2 Olympic championships, and the 4A he challenged is the highest difficulty in the world.
However, in this Winter Olympics, there is a new star who not only ended the dream of 3 consecutive championships, but also broke the world record of free skating. At only 22 years old, he has already become the "new king of figure skating".
This rising star is Chen Wei from the United States.
In the figure skating men's singles free skating competition, Chen Wei set a new world record with a score of 218.63. Counting the 113.97 points scored by the previous short program, Chen Wei won the figure skating men's singles gold medal with a total score of 332.6 points, more than 20 points ahead of the second place. It is worth mentioning that this is also the first time that Chen Wei has won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics, and 4 years ago in Pyeongchang, he won the 5th place because of a mistake in the short song competition.
Being able to win the championship with an advantage of more than 20 points in the figure skating competition shows that Chen Wei's strength is indeed outstanding. Many audiences also expressed their admiration after seeing Chen Wei's wonderful performance. Of course, some netizens have questioned, this Chen Wei, his appearance is not Asian? How could it be American?
In fact, Chen Wei is a Chinese.
Chen Wei's father came from rural Guangxi, after which he went to the United States to study, and obtained a doctorate, became an expert in the field of American medicine, and founded his own laboratory. During his founding in the United States, Chen Wei's father met his lover, that is, Chen Wei's mother. The latter was a Native of Beijing and later worked as a translator in the United States.
After Chen Wei's parents settled in the United States, they gave birth to 5 children, of which Chen Wei is the youngest child in the family, he has 2 older brothers and 2 older sisters. Because he is the youngest, Chen Wei is also the one that his parents love the most, and whatever he wants since he was a child, his parents will almost give it to him. Chen Wei has shown a high interest in skating since the age of 3, after which he received professional and systematic training.
At the age of 10, Chen Wei participated in the youth competition and won the championship. In 2017, Chen Wei became the youngest men's singles figure skating champion in U.S. history. A year later, he received an acceptance letter from Yale University. Although he failed to reach the podium when he first participated in the Winter Olympics in 2018, his will did not fade, but he won the world figure skating championships in the same year. Today, Chen Wei has defeated the figure skating "Big Devil" Yusheng Knot, breaking the world record and becoming an Olympic champion.
I have to say that Chen Wei's life is almost like opening and hanging. And his life experience is really a bit like Gu Ailing, who is both a bully and a new king in his field.