In the beijing winter olympics freestyle ski women's big jump final just two days ago, Gu Ailing won the first gold medal for the Chinese team in the snow event with 94.5 points for her extraordinary performance.
Indeed, this talented girl with good looks and strong abilities has been constantly challenging her limits.
In June 2019, Gu Ailing changed her original American citizenship to China.
Since then, she has fought for her country, and every gold medal she has won belongs to China.
Against the backdrop of a champion's aura, another girl who gave up her American citizenship to fight for China's honor was not so lucky.
Two appearances, two mistakes, grievances and tears, she was pushed to the forefront of public opinion, she is Zhu Yi.
In January 2018, the American Figure Skating Championships were held at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, and Zhu Yi, a 16-year-old Chinese teenager, attracted a lot of attention.
In the end, Zhu Yi won the new Women's Single Skating Championship in the United States with a free skating score of 112.78 and a total score of 167.69 points!
However, at this time, Zhu Yi, who was in the ascendant, suddenly made a surprising decision, giving up American citizenship and development opportunities, returning to China, and fighting for China!
When Zhu Yi was a child, he often heard his father mention Chinese figure skating.
Chen Lu is known as the "butterfly on the ice" and is famous all over the world, but since Chen Lu retired, the Chinese women's single skating has fallen into a long-term "cold winter".
Since then, Chen Lu's name has been deeply imprinted in Zhu Yi's heart to win gold for the motherland.
In 2018, Zhu Yi received an invitation from the Chinese figure skating national team as desired.
She did not hesitate in the slightest, resolutely
Renounce U.S. citizenship and naturalize China!
But this 20-year-old girl, to this step, is full of endless bitterness behind her.
After the first surgery, the doctor left a sponge in the wound.
In order to catch up with the domestic competition in time, she postponed the time for another operation.
After that, it is Zhu Yi who we see participating in various domestic competitions.
But in the eyes of many people, such Zhu Yi's selection for the national team is "not qualified".
But Zhu Yi's Winter Olympic schedule has just begun, a 20-year-old girl, the future also has a long way to go.
After falling, pat the dust on your body and hit the road again.
Many times, people only remember the first place, even if they get the silver medal second place, it may not be different from the last place.
This is equivalent to 59 points and 19 points, and there is no pass.
But isn't that road of climbing more bloody than standing at the top?
In the TV series "Beyond", Chen Mian's father, a generation of veteran athletes, once said to her:
"Gold medals were very important in our time because it was important to the country. But you're completely different now.
You live in a new era, and now it's critical that athletes just surpass themselves. ”
As we published in the book "Ice Dancer" for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: Extraordinary charm comes from you who strive to realize your dreams.
The title of the book is "Ice Dancer", our initial idea of planning is ice, dance, every word can share a story, but the heroine is an ice dance lover, plus commas and seem too rigid, thinking about it again and again we still decided to abandon the punctuation version, so that everyone's thinking is broader.
Whether it is interpreted as "ice dancer" or "ice dancer", it can make sense.
However, the cover of this book still caused many readers and fans of ice dance to wonder, thinking that since it was named "Ice Dancer", why did the cover use figure skating costumes and movements?
If you get close to the story of the heroine Lin Bingdi, you can read the cover's "well-intentioned".
Lin Bingdi's name is first of all a tribute to the mainland's figure skating queen "Butterfly on Ice" Chen Lu.
This is a story of chasing dreams with heart and dreaming of butterflies.
From an early age, Lin Bingdi showed an interest in skating and great talent, often imitating Chen Lu's movements in front of the TV.
At the age of eight, he stumbled upon the special beauty of ice dancing, and secretly decided that one day he would also be on the stage of the Olympic Games.
The process of turning cocoons into butterflies is undoubtedly painful, and the life of ice butterflies is no exception. Her mother abandoned her when she was very young, his father was once a leader in the ice dance industry, because of an accident, he could no longer take the stage, and he began to fall and drink heavily, so much so that he asked Ice Butterfly not to practice ice dance.
Out of the persistence of dreams, from childhood to adult ice butterflies have peeked at ice dance videos, to the wild ice training near their home, after being admitted to college, they tried their best to work part-time in ice dance clubs, eager to have the opportunity to go to ice, and met Yu Qianqiu, a well-known male protagonist in the ice dance industry.
However, at this time, Lin Bingdi was a tomboy, and Yu Qianqiu, who came from a rich family, already had a beautiful dance partner Han Xueyin. The two people, who seemed to never intersect, came together because of Han Xueyin's betrayal, and at first they were called brothers.
Every time Yu Qianqiu saw Lin Bingdi on the ice, she would feel a kind of confidence and upward light.
However, the good times were not long, and the narrow-minded Han Xueyin threw the ice knife at Lin Bingdi in a quarrel between the three people, and the ice butterfly's face was cut with a long wound, and the blood flowed continuously.
In the hospital, Lin Bingdi accidentally learned the mystery of her own life, which was difficult to accept for a while, as if all the beautiful things in the world did not belong to her. In order not to drag Yu Qianqiu down, Ice Butterfly said in her heart: If I can no longer accompany you on this road, then let me leave you.
No one knows where she went, only herself in a pessimistic world.
Because of the wound on her face, she was destined to have no male partner to dance ice with her, and the scar was always a reminder of the pain of the first half of her life.
Fortunately, when a Japanese coach came to China to travel, he found her beautiful figure on the ice and promised her that he could repair her scars when he returned to Japan, but only if she wanted to change her name and specialize in single figure skating. The despair that had already collapsed made her not hesitate, because she could only find herself when she was on the ice.
Lin Bingdi, who has been gifted since childhood, is naturally not difficult to practice figure skating, but over time she found that she did not have that confidence when practicing figure skating, nor could she find the feeling of immersion when she partnered with Yu Qianqiu in ice dance, and she knew that only when she practiced ice dance, she was happy.
So she found a coach, hoping that she could still practice ice dance, and wanted to return to China to prepare for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and win medals for China. The coach had learned about Lin Bingdi's experience and felt that the child was too pitiful, so he did not insist, and told her: Then use the figure skating moves you recently practiced to say goodbye to this ice rink.
This, with the cover of the single skating Bellman and swallow style action. It is Lin Bingdi's farewell to the past, but also to rekindle the fighting spirit and hope of life, and to march towards a higher goal.
After that day, she had been waiting for Yu Qianqiu to come to Japan to pick her up, because only the two of them were the home of each other's souls.
The story behind everyone should be able to guess, the two re-formed dance partners, won the World Ice Dance Championship, and prepared for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
This book not only has sadistic emotional bridges, constantly reversing the mystery of life, we can also find a beautiful "butterfly on the ice" through the content of more = and do not forget the original heart to the gorgeous bloom on the ice.
When the blade cut through the ice, my dream broke through the hard shell. Grow wild in the white world, hold your hand and dance, let the passion burn the ice crystal years, dance the ice and snow miracle with youth, not for the throne that is high, but to achieve a better self.
And, better for you.