On February 8, in the final of the winter Olympics freestyle skiing women's big jump, 18-year-old Gu Ailing finally won the championship with a total score of 188.25.
You know, in this Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing participated in a total of 3 competitions in the freestyle ski jump, slope obstacle course and U-shaped field, and relatively speaking, the big jump is her weakness.
But in the end, she successfully overcame her own difficulties and made the history of winter sports in China.
She used a high difficult move of 1620 degrees to achieve a high score of 94.50, successfully surpassing her opponent Ludd to rank first.
Image source Weibo CCTV News
Many people don't know what this concept is, it is equivalent to the average person spinning 5 times quickly, and then standing smoothly.
Before her, there was only one person in the world who had done this.
Even the People's Daily couldn't help but exclaim, "Great! Gu Ailing seems to be able to fly! ”
Image source Weibo China Sports News
Started skiing at the age of 3,
At the age of 8, she joined the freestyle ski team and became the only girl in the team.
At the age of 9, he won the National Junior Freestyle Ski Championships.
The 14-year-old has won more than 50 gold medals, including 9 national championships.
At the age of 15, he topped the FIS standings and became a top skier.
In 2019, he announced his return to China and represented China.
Image source network
In order to prepare for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, she graduated from high school a year early, and while participating in training and competitions all day, she scored 1600 points in the SAT test, and she was admitted to stanford University, a world famous university, with an excellent score of 1580 points.
In addition, at the age of 4, he began to learn piano, the heroine of musical theater, the main force of the cross-country running school team, surfing, horse riding, archery, rock climbing, playing basketball...
All kinds of flowers, the door is proficient.
Many netizens looked at her envy and called her "the chosen daughter" and "genius girl", and directly called her what a "Shuangwen" heroine.
Is there really luck and talent in the world?
The famous host Ma Dong once interviewed Gu Ailing" When did you find yourself particularly talented in skiing? ”
She replied without hesitation: "I think it may be below 0.1%, and I have been working very hard since I was a child." ”
Image source Weibo
In fact, no one will succeed casually.
The so-called luck or talent is only a humble word for the strong.
As the writer Li Shanglong said:
"There is no such thing as a world out of nowhere for no reason, and the so-called good luck is only because they are always ready." Those stubborn times, those painful days, they are not without experience, but you don't know. ”
True success depends on continuous hardship and continuous tempering.
Nowadays, the whole network is envious of The Shuangwen heroine Gu Ailing, but few people know that when others are still enjoying the joy of childhood, she has to take a four-hour drive to train from the age of 3.
From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., she couldn't stop for a moment, even eating on the ski lift.
Injuries are commonplace, broken ligaments, broken collarbones, broken arms...
Where there is any overnight success, only unknown sweat.
One minute on stage, ten years offstage.
What you see is a dazzling moment on the stage of others, but what you can't see is the suffering of people falling down and getting up again and again, overturning and coming back again and again.
Why do many people have not been able to achieve positive results on the extraordinary road of sports competition.
One month? Half? A year?
What led to this imperfect journey?
Many people say:
"It's hard for kids to persevere!"
But we would like to say:
"No, it's hard for parents to insist—"
The child is too bitter and tired, then we don't practice!
The child is in a mood, then we don't practice!
Delay the child's learning, then we will not practice!
Reasons and excuses are at your fingertips.
I "hurt" my kids, so we stopped practicing!
The most Gu Ailing said to the media was that her mother never forced her to do anything and respected her every choice.
Mother Gu has created a very relaxed and free growth environment for Gu Ailing, and she is also very willing to create conditions for cultivating her interests and take Gu Ailing to experience and contact as much as possible.
If you like the piano, you can play the piano, and if you like ballet, you can go to the ballet.
Want your child to become better and better because they have learned sports?
Parental companionship is important:
"Teacher, my baby is in trouble today, I will send her over later."
"Teacher, I want to give my child a day off today, and her grandmother is here and plans to go out to dinner together."
"Teacher, the weather is not good today, I will not let XX go to school, she is weak, I am afraid that she will catch a cold."
"Teacher, I want to take my children out this weekend, take a vacation today, and come back to class next week."
Image source Weibo Frog Princess Ai Ling
And Gu Ailing's mother in the up to ten years, every winter weekend and holidays, Gu Yan will drive 4 hours, take her daughter to the ski slope training, back and forth for eight hours, snow day road slippery, during the period of hard work can be imagined.
There are no children who can't stick to it, only parents who can't.
Sports is not only training, but also learning, so please don't hold an attitude of indifference, if you want to become a good athlete, you definitely need "unyielding" perseverance.
Therefore, please do not let your child take leave or interrupt your child's training because of this seeming difficulty in front of you.
When you start complaining: how can you not see your child progress? How can I not see my child growing? Have you ever wondered what the root cause of all this is?
Sports is not only exercise, but also a weapon to help children complete their transformation, self-confidence, strength, independence, bravery...
These are the indispensable spiritual wealth of children to the future society, this transformation, in addition to the guidance of the coach, but also needs the cooperation and encouragement of parents, so please stick to it with your children!