In the Men's U-Shaped Track Skills Qualification Tournament for Snowboarding at the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 9, Chinese teenager Gao Hongbo competed with an injury and finally scored the lowest 15 points in the game. However, he "smiled happier than the first place". Gao Hongbo's smile infected many netizens, and people praised his behavior of participating in the competition before surgery and being able to face the results calmly.
Gao Hongbo played with injuries and finally scored the lowest 15 points in the whole game, and his smile infected many netizens. Photo/CCTV screenshot
Looking at the competition process and results alone, in fact, it does not show Gao Hongbo's own strength. At the scene of the game, he only did some simple actions, "not even a single air turn was completed", which is not without regret for himself. There is no athlete who does not want to achieve good results on the field, and Gao Hongbo has a deeper feeling and a stronger desire for this.
In fact, when the Chinese delegation first announced the list of participants in the Beijing Winter Olympics, Gao Hongbo's identity was still a "test skater", and it was not until the day before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games that he "regularized" to become an official athlete of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The opportunity was not easy to come by, and Gao Hongbo naturally cherished it and trained harder. But near the game, he fractured his ankle during training and suffered a serious injury. Until the competition, it was uncertain whether he could participate or not.
However, Gao Hongbo finally chose to play and resolutely persevered, completing his first leap forward in the Beijing Winter Olympics. His participation also enabled the Chinese team to achieve full participation in the project.
The field of the Winter Olympics has medals, applause, the excitement of successfully challenging the limits, the joy of the victors, the encouragement and tolerance of the athletes who have lost for a while, and even the sense of glory that the athletes themselves participate in. The Winter Olympics is not only an arena for athletes to win gold and silver, but also a big stage to create more opportunities for everyone's growth, and its characteristics of diversified integration are also the best interpretation of the Olympic spirit.
In this sense, although Gao Hongbo did not achieve the desired results, he did not have the spirit of participation in the finishing games with injuries, the enthusiasm for participating in the Winter Olympics at his doorstep, and even the sunny smile after he completed the game, which also gave us a different wonderful winter Olympic field.
Bless Gao Hongbo, may the young him, with this confidence and optimism, continue to bloom his youthful style in the future arena.
Beijing News commentator | Chi Daohua
Edit | Xu Qiuying
Proofreading | Chen Diyan