They are all "ceilings" in their respective fields! One has been God's "darling" from birth to the present, and one is a "cold noble son, counterattacking life", both of them are proud sons of heaven and our pride!
Recently, the Chinese sports world has blown up a "Gu Ailing boom", Chinese athlete Gu Ailing in the Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle ski jumping competition with a super difficult jump successfully reversed the French "genius girl" Tesslerd, the first time to win the Winter Olympic championship, this is also the first time that Chinese athletes won the Olympic gold medal in the project competition. Due to the "special background" and outstanding appearance, Gu Ailing quickly became the focus of attention of sports fans. In the 48 hours after Gu Ailing won the gold medal in the Winter Olympic freestyle ski jump, her Douyin account fans increased by 7 million, and her number of fans has exceeded 10 million, so the popularity of such a person may even be beyond the reach of sports stars such as Li Na, Zhu Ting, Wu Lei, and Ning Zetao at the peak. What is certain is that Gu Ailing's commercial value has been maintained at a relative peak for a long time.
We all know that Gu Ailing is a mixed-race Chinese and American child, she announced her chinese citizenship at the age of 16 in 2019 to represent the Chinese team in the World Series, she hopes to use her influence to make more Chinese teenagers fall in love with the sport of skiing, from the current situation, Gu Ailing basically did this. Gu Ailing's athletic performance is unparalleled, she has won six championships, two runners-up and one third place in the past two months and 36 days, and the FIS has praised her freestyle skiing women's U-shaped pool competition, calling her victory at the World Cup in the United States the most perfect performance to date. Gu Ailing's talent in the freestyle skiing event is needless to say, in fact, the freestyle ski jump is not Gu Ailing's strongest sport, after winning the big jump gold medal, Gu Ailing has a great chance to win three gold medals in this Winter Olympics, if she can complete this achievement, she will become one of the best athletes in the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics. At present, some people even think that Gu Ailing has become a new female athlete "one sister" in the Chinese sports world, although this argument is a bit exaggerated, but at least it shows that Gu Ailing has indeed turned red and purple in the near future, and Gu Ailing hopes to become an iconic figure in China's winter sports in the future.
Gu Ailing's current situation is easily reminiscent of Zhu Ting, the captain of the Chinese women's volleyball team, who has also become a national idol in the period after leading the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the Olympic Championship in 2016. Objectively speaking, Zhu Ting and Gu Ailing are not comparable, one is an individual event, one is a collective ball event, one is a volleyball player, one is a skier; one is participating in the Summer Olympic Games, and the other is participating in the Winter Olympic Games. Not only that, zhu ting and Gu Ailing's growth environment is also completely different, Gu Ailing's success is inseparable from family conditions and personal efforts, and Zhu Ting is an excellent player cultivated under the "national system", both of them are ceiling players in their respective sports. Gu Ailing and Zhu Ting have won the world championship and the Olympic champion, Gu Ailing's performance fully reflects her strength, and as a member of the collective ball project, although Zhu Ting's strength is superior, her role will inevitably be "diluted" because it is a team project, although the collective ball project does require the joint efforts of all players.
Zhu Ting is an important member of the Chinese women's volleyball team loved by the Chinese people, her contribution to the Chinese women's volleyball team is unparalleled, at least so far, in the past two Olympic cycles, Zhu Ting helped the Chinese women's volleyball team to obtain three gold, one silver and one bronze outstanding record, Zhu Ting as the captain and core player of the Chinese women's volleyball team, she has made great contributions to the Chinese women's volleyball team to achieve good results, it is not an exaggeration to say that without Zhu Ting, there is no Chinese women's volleyball team's last three world championships, from this point of view, Zhu Ting's contribution to the Chinese women's volleyball team will go down in history. In addition to helping the Chinese women's volleyball team win medals in the World Series many times, Zhu Ting's popularity in the international volleyball arena is also very high, whether it is the International Volleyball Federation, or other volleyball players in the world, their evaluation of Zhu Ting is very high, which is incomparable to other athletes of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and most of the volleyball players in the world are beyond reach, which is not inferior to Gu Ailing. Gu Ailing's performance has also been unanimously praised by the International Skating Federation and other peers around the world, and IOC President Bach also came to watch Gu Ailing's competition.
Whether from horizontal or vertical comparison, Zhu Ting and Gu Ailing have made incomparable achievements in their respective fields, it is difficult to say who is higher, the peak period of each athlete is very limited, Zhu Ting is plagued by injuries and has not helped the Chinese women's volleyball team to achieve good results in the Tokyo Olympic Games, and Zhu Ting's popularity is not as good as before. Although Gu Ailing currently has unlimited scenery, but considering that winter sports have not been strongly popularized in China, how long Gu Ailing's high popularity can be maintained is still an unknown, at present, Gu Ailing is mainly concerned by everyone because it is currently during the Olympic Games, everyone is very concerned about the Olympic games, plus Gu Ailing is expected to win more medals for the Chinese team, she naturally gets more attention. But in any case, Zhu Ting and Gu Ailing are the leaders of their respective sports, and can even be said to be the "ceiling", no matter what the future holds, the contributions they have made to Chinese sports are huge and irreplaceable.