Hirano Bumon, as his Chinese translation says, this 23-year-old youngster realizes his "dream" with one "step" and one footprint! At the last Winter Olympics of Sean White, the god of U-pool veneers, the handover between legends was completed with a gold medal.
In today's snowboarding men's U-shaped track skill final, Hirano Bumon skated 91.75 points in the second round and still ranked second, and made a big move in the third round! Finally completed two consecutive three-week off-axis rotation 1440 moves, with 96.00 points to reverse the championship! And in the distance, Sean White's eyes are full of tears, not only because this is his last Olympic Games, but also because he sees the 23-year-old Hirano Walk Dream, the Hirano Walk Dream who forced out his best self in 2018, this time truly surpassing him.
Two consecutive backs to back 1440, Hirano's dream reversed the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics third-place Scotty James to win the championship, but four years ago, it was Hirano's dream, who was not even 20 years old, who forced Sean White into a desperate situation... In the final round of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Sean White only had any hope of winning gold by surpassing the youngster's 95.25 points, and White had no choice but to make the combo he had never done before – two consecutive deflection rotations!
Sean White The final round of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics final
As one of the most successful athletes in history, he was under pressure to win 15 X Games gold medals and 11 ESPY sports Oscars at the time, because the failure in Sochi in 2014 had made the world think that perhaps his time had passed, and for him, it seemed to make him realize that he was also an ordinary person. However, that desire and obsession with success eventually made him a legend...
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Shaun White reversed the title
That stunning two consecutive deflection rotations around the world allowed him to win gold with a high score of 97.75 in one fell swoop! And history is always so similar, the 23-year-old Hirano Bumiyuki not only achieved the same reversal to win gold, but also surpassed the legendary back-to-back off-axis rotation for three weeks 1440, inheriting the mantle left by Sean White.
Hirano Shiroyuki staged the third jump of the reversal
And he has once again written his own stroke in Olympic history, following the skateboarding competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games held in front of his home last summer, becoming the fifth athlete in Japanese history to participate in the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics (Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee Chairman Hashimoto Seiko is also one of them), the youngest Winter Olympic medalist in Japanese history, the gold medalist!
Such a crown handover is exactly what we expect in our fantasies, hirano said that he admired Sean White before the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, "his greatness is that the bigger the stage, the more terrible the concentration", and today's gold medal is more like the best tribute to Sean White who walked off the altar.
If both of them are less than 10 years old and signed a sponsorship contract with a U.S. skateboarder manufacturer, they are destined to become legends, the stubbornness of the two from their bones is the reason for their ascension to the throne, Sean White's fight against cardiovascular malformations, a congenital heart disease, has been widely circulated, and Hirano's dream also passed by death in 2017, when he suffered a serious injury in the United States in March of that year, he was seriously injured in the United States, and he was rescued in the ICU for two weeks, while his left knee lateral ligament was also seriously damaged. However, in the eyes of the attending doctor, another way of wrestling would kill the injury, Hirano Bumeng miraculously recovered in only 6 months!
For careers, for destiny, they are all masters. However, the wheel of history is slowly moving forward, and the ruthlessness of the years will eventually become the tears of heroes, and perhaps hirano will experience all this in more than a decade, but this photo of the two in today's Genting Ski Park is also destined to be recorded in the annals of the Winter Olympics.
"It's hard to get in the spotlight again and again," said Shaun White, a Five-Dynasty Winter Olympics veteran who was slightly playful but full of regret, "all my competitors were friendly, and many of them patted me on the back and told me that without my push, the skills of the sport would not be what they are today".
See, this is the sympathy between the heroes, and it is also the embodiment of the "more unity", which has been added to the Olympic motto in the Tokyo Olympic Games. And Hirano's transcendence of Sean White is naturally the most perfect and most emotional interpretation of "higher, faster, stronger".