In the past two days, the people of the whole country have known a legendary girl - Gu Ailing.
On the morning of February 8, in the final of the Beijing Olympic Games - freestyle skiing women's big jump, China's Gu Ailing won the championship with a score of 188.25 points!
It was her first Winter Olympic medal.
After the game, Gu Ailing was very excited, which was a dream moment for her.
Every athlete has a dream of an Olympic champion in his heart, and when this dream shines into reality, it is the happiest time in his life.
Echoing the old saying: You just have to work hard, God has its own arrangements.
Gu Ailing began to touch skateboarding at the age of 3, professional ski training at the age of 8, and won more than 50 gold medals at the age of 18.
She also graduated from high school a year early, with a score of 1600 sat, she took the 1580 exam and was admitted to Stanford University.
Some people say that she fulfills all the imaginations of the perfect girl in her mind: beautiful, confident, healthy, and academic.
Skiing is only part of her hobbies, and her cross-country running performance is also very impressive, including rock climbing, surfing, horse riding, basketball, swimming, football, cycling.
She is also a fashion iCon, just a magazine has been published more than a dozen times, participated in paris fashion week, more than 20 domestic and foreign cooperative brand endorsements, commercial value exploded.
Gu Ailing's father is an American who graduated from Harvard University, and her mother, Gu Yan, is a native of Beijing, graduated from Stanford University and was a former ski instructor.
Since she was a child, she often returned to Beijing with her mother for vacations, and Gu Yan paid special attention to Gu Ailing's Chinese and traditional Chinese culture education.
Therefore, Gu Ailing, who has been wandering in Beijing hutongs since she was a child, is not only fluent Chinese, but also quite authentic, and she also calls herself a Beijing girl who grew up in the hutongs.
Such an all-rounder once raised questions: Which window did God close for her?
Some netizens quipped to reply: It is the chat window with me.
When Gu Ailing was asked how to do it? She replied: "The secret to efficiency is to sleep more and sleep enough for 10 hours a day." ”
"How did I learn freestyle skiing from the age of 8 until I got into professional level competitions at the age of 14," she said. It's because of sleep, really because of sleep! Sleeping promotes the growth of the body and brain, and sleeping is also a review time, reviewing all the things I learned that day, so that I will wake up early the next morning and find that I will do better! ”
When pressed again, she said the answer was only two words, and that was: "Focus."
Gu Ailing believes that no matter what you do, you must concentrate on doing one thing, study well at school, rest well at home, train well in the snow field, and do everything with 100% energy, so that each can do the best.
A reporter once said that every time Gu Ailing stood on the podium, he would write a manuscript for her, called "Gu Ailing wrote history for the Chinese team", but now it seems that "this word has been used too many times, and there are almost no surprises, because as long as Gu Ailing is on the podium at the World Championships, every time it is a new breakthrough for the Chinese team in this project."
With breakthrough after breakthrough to prove his love is endless, Gu Ailing will slide farther and farther on the ski track, enjoy every jump, each time soaring, and then land, and then challenge the next surpass.