"For those who can grasp the balance, pressure can become a positive force to help them meet the challenge. But stress can also overwhelm you on your own. ”
This is a sentence written by Gu Ailing in the article "I admit, I am in love with fear".
At the end of the day, there is no pressure to compare to the urge to "prove yourself" that comes from the deepest part of your heart. It is so surging that it never stops.
It is precisely from this deepest empathy that people will always have respect for those who are frustrated in the competitive sports world - such as the feathered string that challenged the 4A failure, and the bow at the end of the game, as if to let people see the "flower blowing snow" in the wind, falling to the earth in the final leap, crushing into poetry.
The frustration of others is equally intriguing, and even to me, centrifugation is closer, because there is less of a fairy of material sorrow and a little more of mortal sorrow. As a spectator on the sidelines, I often wonder how I would feel and where I would go if I were the one waiting to play and was faced with a situation of hegemony and "fault leadership"?
Although I had heard all kinds of answers before, at this moment, Cai Xuetong's laughter and tears suddenly came into view, which was so moving.
In the women's snowboard U-shaped track skill final held on the morning of the 10th, the defending champion, Chloe King of the United States, took the lead in the first jump with an absolute advantage, and there was no suspense in winning.
Cai Xuetong, as the "Elder of the Four Dynasties" of the Chinese team, dedicated the 1080 action with the highest personal difficulty and won the fourth place. From the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics qualifiers, the sixth place at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the fifth place at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and then to the fourth place this time, her every improvement is obvious to all, but in the end she is still one step away from the podium.
In an interview after the game, Cai Xuetong said that he enjoyed the game and was very happy. She tried very hard to keep her smile, but her voice was still choked up at one point. She took a deep breath and held back the swirling tears. She said there was an expected action that wasn't done, not good enough, so she felt sad.
Cai Xuetong in the game.
Liu Jiayu, who also went out on the field four times, the ranking of each time was like jumping rope, which was more dramatic. As the runner-up of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the eighth place result was not ideal, and there were serious mistakes in the competition. She still smiled and giggled, and said cheerfully to the camera that she wanted to fight another Winter Olympics, and she didn't feel that it was hard to prepare for the war, because every day was very happy, "This is what I want to do."
Liu Jiayu in the competition.
These two Chinese girls, who are close to standing, are the "geniuses" of Feng Xuanyufeng, and even more the "talents" who carry the weight forward. As they themselves say, the pressure is not from Chloe King, but from their own past. No one knows what they went through, Cai Xuetong had thought about giving up going back to study, and was not willing to quit after all; Liu Jiayu was injured, but she was too obsessed with the "feeling of flying like a bird".
They are like cornflowers in the wilderness, facing the wind, looking at the sky, stubbornly growing in their corners, once they bloom, you know how terrible they are...
In fact, every step they take in their careers is a microcosm of the continuous catching up and climbing of Chinese women's snow extreme sports in the past decade or so.
Even if the talent of heaven is indulgent, it is not always possible to get the favor of fate, let alone all sentient beings, those who are like me?
Back at the beginning of the article, Gu Ailing also has her answer: "Whether I am alone or facing the whole world, I focus on being grateful for the present, judging the present, and enjoying the happiness that sports bring me." After winning the championship, she called on young people to engage in sports more, just so that they can find more possibilities in sports and experience the changes that sports bring to life.
Love what I love, from what I want, forget about gains and losses, love to "a lifetime of suspense", even failure feels relish.
I remembered an award-winning record review I saw in an interview with the Chinese Music Media Awards about a decade ago: "Every cloud can only be created, not copied, and your voice and your life only depend on whether your heart is strong or not, and you don't care about your fame or age." ”
Only by loving as before and not being afraid of the impermanence of the world can we live up to this life. This is probably the ultimate romance that Gu Ailing said was hopeless.
[Reporter] Guo Shan
【Author】 Guo Shan
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client
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