On February 8, In the final of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Ski Women's Big Jump at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, China's Gu Ailing won the championship.
Gu Ailing won the freestyle ski championship
In 2003, Gu Ailing was born in San Francisco, USA. It is well known that as long as a child is born in the United States, he automatically has the right of abode in the United States and has the right to apply for U.S. citizenship. Before the age of sixteen, Gu Ailing's nationality was also American.
When she was young, Gu Ailing and her mother Gu Yan
Gu Ailing's family background is also relatively special, her mother is called Gu Yan, a Chinese who grew up in Beijing. Gu Ailing's father is currently only known to be American and has previously worked as a ski instructor.
Because of her parents, Gu Ailing was exposed to skiing at the age of three, and she loved Chinese culture very much, and she could speak fluent Chinese and English. At the age of eight, Gu Ailing learned freestyle skiing and later joined the professional ski team. As a teenager, she was already a well-known skier.
On June 6, 2019, after winning the world championship, Gu Ailing announced on his personal social platform that he would renounce his American citizenship and officially change to Chinese nationality, and posted a document "Chinese freestyle skier Gu Ailing registered", officially becoming a Chinese athlete and representing our country in the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
This news immediately caused a lot of controversy, many American netizens went to the social networking site to leave a message to scold her, but this can not change her determination to return to China. In August, she made her debut after joining the Chinese training team, and in the World Cup competition, she and Zhang Kexin, another young player in the mainland, won the championship and runner-up for the mainland, showing China's strength to the world.
Her mother used to be a ski instructor, and in such a family environment, Gu Ailing has been very disciplined since she was a child and has been very serious about everything. When she was young, she often returned to Beijing for a vacation with her mother, and in addition, her mother was very serious about cultivating and educating her in traditional knowledge such as mainland Chinese studies, so Gu Ailing always said that she was a Beijing girl, and the various hutongs and courtyards in Beijing were also extremely familiar.
Gu Ailing and mother Gu Yan
Gu Ailing's dream when she was a child was to be admitted to Stanford University like her father, and while working hard for this goal, there was another seed in her heart that was quietly sprouting.
Gu Ailing is learning
Since her mother is a ski enthusiast, when Gu Ailing was more than two months old, her mother took him to the ski resort. At the age of three, her mother took her to practice skiing, joined the ski team at the age of eight, won the national junior championship in the first competition at the age of nine, and won the overall standings for three consecutive years.
So far, she has won nearly fifty gold medals. In January 2019, sixteen-year-old Gu Ailing won her first world championship and reached the top of the INTERNATIONAL Snow Federation list with excellent results.
Under the repeated training of daily life, this angelic girl has not forgotten her Goals for Stanford University. In order to be able to plan her study time more reasonably, she made a bold decision, she resolutely gave up the opportunity to take a full-time high school course and chose to study on her own to complete her high school studies.
Gu Ailing pre-match training
A year later, she successfully completed two years of high school courses, and was admitted to Stanford University with nearly full marks in the college entrance examination.
Gu Ailing has such brilliant achievements, and her grandmother is also the most powerful. From the age of two, every summer, Gu Ailing would return to Beijing with her mother to accompany her grandmother. Although grandma is already eighty-five years old, she still loves sports very much and insists on running for more than one kilometer every day. Gu Ailing felt that his sports genes were also inherited from his grandmother.
Gu Ailing and Grandma
In addition, Grandma often encouraged her little granddaughter to do her best in everything she did. This also became Gu Ailing's motto, as a slogan to motivate herself during the competition.
Gu Ailing asked her about her nationality in the post-match press conference, and the 18-year-old champion girl replied sonorously and forcefully: "I am very grateful to the United States and the American team, because they have always been very supportive of me." At the same time, I am also very grateful to China and the Chinese team, because I have received a lot of support and help here. I think sports can unite everyone, sports do not need to be related to nationality, all of us are here in the hope that we can continue to expand the limits of human beings. ”
Gu Ailing at a press conference
She is truly a rare super genius, not only reaching the pinnacle of skiing, but also her versatility is breathtaking. This comprehensiveness includes not only skills, but also her high emotional intelligence, language skills, healthy personality and philosophical mind... These things are difficult to see in their entirety in a person, and she is still so young.
I have to say that her excellent family education has given her fertile soil for growth, and her extraordinary efforts and self-discipline are her wings for flying!