On February 10, in the figure skating men's singles event of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Yusheng Yuxian and Chen Wei staged a peak duel between the technical flow and the art flow. As the king of ice, Yusheng Knot String's 4A action to challenge the limits of human beings, although regrettably failed, but gracefully ended; and the new generation of superstar Chen Wei, with high difficult jumps, stable execution again and again, won a beautiful crushing battle.
When Yu Sheng made a mistake, Chen Wei had no opponent. The Chinese-Americans, who won the World Championship three times in 2018, 2019 and 2021, truly stood on the highest stage.
Putting aside nationality and national feelings, Chen Wei's path to success is quite similar to Gu Ailing.com. Chen Wei was born in the United States in 1999 to an ordinary Chinese family. His father, Chen Zhidong, was once an ordinary child in a rural area of Guangxi Laibin, who came out on top with hard work and successively enrolled in Guangxi Medical University and China Military Medical College.
In 1988, Chen Zhidong went to the United States to study for further studies and worked hard to pursue a doctorate. There, he earned a U.S. green card and became a senior researcher in the field of medicine, and later founded his own medical technology company and related laboratories. Chen Wei's mother, a native of Beijing, works as a translator in the United States.
Fundamentally, Chen Wei is of distinct Chinese descent and an Asian face. However, since he was born, raised and experienced in the United States, Chen Wei and Gu Ailing have many differences.
Chen Wei's family lives in the perennial cold salt lake city of Utah. He is the fifth child in the family, two older brothers are ice hockey strongmen, and two older sisters are figure skaters. When he was a child, the economic conditions of Chen Wei's family were not so free and rich. But mom will always take notes carefully and strive to make Chen Wei make greater breakthroughs in the coach training sessions once a week, or even once a week.
Behind every legend is the effort of day after day. Tens of thousands of skates, expensive coaching fees, travel expenses for competitions, difficult training to get up at four o'clock in the morning, and more than 10 hours of boat and car labor at every turn, after years of hard training, Chinese the fine tradition of hard work and prosperity, it seems that Chen Wei has also been well inherited.
Like Gu Ailing, as a descendant of an elite family, Chen Wei's hobbies began to expand wildly with the improvement of family income level and cognitive level. In addition to figure skating, Chen Wei is also proficient in piano, gymnastics and ballet, and is a full-fledged artistic all-rounder. At the age of 18, he also received a notice from Yale University and became a real student bully.
Technically, Chen Wei is the new generation of ice kings. As the "King of Four-Sided Jumping", Chen Wei is now the only male player in the world who can do five kinds of four-way jumping, such as hook-and-hand jump, rear inner point ice jump, rear outer jump, rear inner jump, and rear outer point ice jump, and is also known as a strange man who is expected to catch up with Yusheng knot.
However, in the eyes of many people, although Chen Wei is a technical king, the artistry and fluency of his movements are very different from Yusheng's knots. The four-way jump is already a difficult move, but Chen Wei once completed as many as 6 four-way jumps in one game. Although each one is very difficult and each one is well done, many people believe that Chen Wei's movements are slightly stiff and there is a sense of utilitarianism of jumping in order to score.
In contrast, Yusheng knot strings are simple and pure beauty, the music is arranged, silky and smooth, and his every jump and rhythm seems to be integrated into the life of art. Speed, height, frequency and rhythm, the best words to evaluate a figure skater, achieve the perfect balance in Yusheng's knots.
However, no matter what, Chen Wei still laughed to the end. He raised the American flag and added a gold to the U.S. Olympic delegation.