In recent days, everyone has been watching the Winter Olympics, which is a rare sports event under the epidemic, but it is inevitable that there will be many voices outside the arena.
Among them, the most discussed by everyone is undoubtedly Gu Ailing, who has won a gold medal in this Winter Olympics.
Since Gu Ailing announced her Chinese citizenship in 2019, I have begun to pay attention to this 15-year-old girl who is known as a "talented skier".
At that time, like other spectators who liked to watch sports games, I only paid attention to Gu Ailing's performance on the field, and did not care about her off-court affairs.
Until Gu Ailing won her first Winter Olympic gold medal with a magical jump, everything about her was infinitely magnified by various media.
At first, everyone just praised her for her good study and good appearance, until she found that her family lineage was also very good, and the wind of public opinion began to gradually deviate.
One of the most speechless is to attribute Gu Ailing's achievements on the field today to the results of elite education.
Just this sentence directly obliterates Gu Ailing's own efforts and talents, as if giving you Gu Ailing's family conditions, you can become her.
Today we will have a good fight, Gu Ailing's achievements on the field today, what is the decision?
Can an elite family produce an Olympic champion?
Since Gu Ailing's family lineage is most discussed by everyone, let's talk about this first.
Gu Ailing's family is almost all academic bully, her mother Gu Yan is a graduate of Peking University, at the age of 22, she got a full scholarship to study in the United States, obtained a master's degree in biology, and later studied at Stanford University, and obtained an MBA.
Gu Yan broke through Wall Street after graduation and became a strong woman in the financial world, and in 1998, The Magazine of China Science and Technology Information also interviewed Gu Yan, who returned to China to start a business.
Gu Ailing's father is an American who graduated from Harvard University, but this father separated from Gu Yan very early, so Gu Ailing can be said to have been brought up by Gu Yan alone.
Gu Ailing's grandfather, Mr. Gu Zhenguang, is the most acclaimed chief electrical engineer of the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and has also been the main player in varsity football, specializing in poetry, piano, painting, swimming, skating and skiing.
Finally, Gu Ailing's grandmother, Feng Guozhen, graduated from the Department of Electric Power Engineering of Jiaotong University and was a senior engineer at the Ministry of Transport of the Mainland.
Grandma taught Gu Ailing to speak Chinese, eat Chinese food, and tell her Chinese stories, Gu Ailing often returned to Beijing with her mother for vacations, plus Gu Yan paid special attention to Gu Ailing's Chinese and traditional Chinese culture education.
Therefore, Gu Ailing, who has been shuttling through Beijing hutongs since she was a child, is very fluent Chinese, and she also calls herself a Beijing girl who grew up in the hutongs.
This is what everyone calls the Gu Ailing family lineage, which is indeed an elite family.
Gu Ailing, who grew up in such a family, was also a bully from an early age and attended the High School of the University of San Francisco.
In 2020, he graduated from high school a year earlier, and like his mother Gu Yan, he was admitted to Stanford University.
And Gu Ailing's AMERICAN college entrance examination SAT score is 1580 points, to know that the SAT full score is only 1600 points.
Up to this point, it can be said that Gu Ailing's status as a bully is entirely due to the education of elite families.
But what an elite family can create is only here.
Because the reason why everyone recognizes Gu Ailing is her other identity - a talented ski girl.
How talented is it, Gu Ailing started skiing with her mother at the age of 3, won the National Junior Championship at the age of 9, and won more than 50 gold medals at the age of 15.
Since the beginning of 2019, Gu Ailing has won 12 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze for the Chinese team in more than two years.
In the Ski World Cup from 2021 to 2022, Gu Ailing won 6 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medal in 37 days for a total of 9 medals.
In addition, Gu Ailing has also maintained two Guinness World Records.
One is the female skier who has won the most gold medals in her debut.
In January 2021, Gu Ailing won two gold medals at the Aspen Extreme Games, one gold medal each in the Super U-Shaped Pool and Slope Obstacle Course, and a bronze medal in the Big Jump Aerial Skills Competition.
The other was the first woman to complete a freestyle ski forward flip of two weeks plus four weeks of turns.
At the Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing participated in a total of three events, women's U-shaped field, slope obstacle course and big jump.
In the big jumping event that has already won the gold medal, Gu Ailing has only practiced for one year, which is the weakest of her three events.
There is no doubt that Gu Ailing's strength belongs to the top of the world, and she is also one of the few players who can participate in three events at the Winter Olympics.
Well, even if Gu Ailing retires now, her achievements can already make her name engraved on the trophy of the World Freestyle Skiing Hall of Fame.
However, if in the next two advantages, Gu Ailing can win the gold medal, then the results of three gold medals in one Olympic Games are enough to go down in history.
Speaking of which, do you think that Gu Ailing's achievements in skiing can be simply attributed to the results of elite education?
It is true that skiing is not a cheap sport, but all her family can offer her is a good training environment and competition conditions.
What can make Gu Ailing reach today's height depends on her amazing talent and the hard work behind her.
Therefore, even if you have family conditions such as Gu Ailing, you will have many choices.
But to achieve Gu Ailing's achievements in skiing, do you have her talent? Can you train as hard as she does?
The United States is a ski powerhouse, having won the second largest number of medals in the world in the past Winter Olympics combined.
And there are many elite families like Gu Ailing in the United States, but why can't there be more Gu Ailing.
You must know that on the road of professional players, everyone is working hard, but what determines the final height is the talent that cannot be sought.
Gu Ailing's ski talent is undoubtedly top-notch, and it is no wonder that after she won the gold medal, the media in the United States was sour.
Therefore, elite families have a high probability of being able to give birth to academic champions, but it depends on Providence to give birth to Olympic champions.
The conditions for becoming a top athlete
We often say that three points are destined, seven points depend on hard work, especially in professional sports.
If you want to become a top athlete, seven points of effort is essential, but the final three points of talent often determine the final result.
Talent is something that can be inherited, there is no such thing as it, and it cannot be inherited.
But even if you have talent, you still have to divide the level of talent.
Even the descendants of a top athlete are not necessarily talented.
Just like Jordan, the world's recognized god of basketball, he is extremely talented and has achieved achievements that have shocked the past.
But Jordan's two sons did not inherit his talent, although they are also basketball players, but the talent is mediocre.
Even if he was taught by the god of basketball since he was a child, he still can't even touch the door of the NBA, and he has disappeared from the crowd early.
But if you look at the "Asian Flyer" Liu Xiang, his father is a driver and his mother is a pastry chef, but their son has top talent and has created the best result in the history of the yellow race in athletics so far.
Therefore, even ordinary civilian families can still produce Olympic champions.
Just like Quan Hongchan and Fan Kexin, once their families were very poor, but they became Olympic champions.
But recently there is another voice on the Internet, saying that Gu Ailing is a successful model of elite education, and Quan Hongchan and Fan Kexin are representatives of the success of local education.
He also said that even if Gu Ailing's difficult final jump was not successful, she still had her own elite family and admission letters from famous schools, but there was no way back for civilian children like Quan Hongchan and Fan Kexin.
It is probably because people who say this do not know much about professional sports, so that they can directly oppose elite family players and civilian family players in one sentence.
As we all know, skiing is a very dangerous sport, especially the big jump.
At this Winter Olympics, Yang Shuorui, a Chinese player who appeared with Gu Ailing, was injured while warming up on the big jump.
In the final, Gu Ailing's mother also advised her to be conservative in the last jump, just get a medal, and don't jump high difficult moves, so as not to be injured and affect the next two advantage projects.
At that time, the TV commentator was also wishing her that she would not fall in the third jump as much as possible, and that she would not be injured if she fell, and that she would be very satisfied with the medal.
Because this is only the weakest of Gu Ailing's three events, she still risked injury, challenged the high difficulty that the female players had never completed, and directly jumped to the gods.
I just wanted to ask Gu Ailing what kind of difficulty she chose in the last jump, and what kind of family she came from.
If according to the general saying of the horse, Gu Ailing why did not use the favorable family conditions, choose the extremely dangerous profession of skiing, and directly finish the famous school to make a lot of money.
Gu Ailing did not know that she would successfully complete the final difficult action, she may also be injured, and even affect the subsequent competition, but she is relying on her own efforts and talents to fight.
The remaining two advantages of Gu Ailing at the Winter Olympics are very promising to win the gold medal, and it is no accident that in the next 10 years, Gu Ailing will continue to fight in the dangerous field of professional skiing.
Gu Ailing's career height is already here, her elite family and admission letters from famous schools are very rare, but these things will not help her in her future career, and the only thing that can help her is her own talent and hard work.
Similarly, Quan Hongchan and Fan Kexin are also Olympic champions, although they come from civilian families, but you really think that they are receiving civilian education, that is too naïve.
To reach the level of Olympic champions, they all have talents that ordinary people do not have.
Without talent and hard work, whether it is Gu Ailing or Quan Hongchan or Fan Kexin, he will not become today's Olympic champion.
It is even more impossible to attribute their success simply to elite education and civilian education, after all, from the beginning of civilian athletes such as Quan Hongchan and Fan Kexin stepping into the road of professional sports, they no longer receive civilian education.
The only thing that could decide that civilian athletes such as Quan Hongchan and Fan Kexin would enter the national team was their talent.
After arriving at the national team, who is not playing the same training as life.
But in the end, what can make them stand out from the national team and win the Olympic championship against players from all over the world can only be their own talent.
No talent, let alone the national team, even the provincial team's door you can't get in.
It should be known that every year a large number of teenagers called "geniuses" enter sports schools, very few can become professional athletes, rarer can enter the national team, and the number of people who can eventually win olympic champions is even rarer.
The vast majority of sports students will be eliminated early, and there must be many hard-trained people, but there is really no way to be so talented.
This is the cruelest truth, giving you Gu Ailing's family lineage, you can't become her.
Similarly, Gu Ailing can't become Quan Hongchan and Fan Kexin, they both have the best talents in their respective fields, coupled with their own efforts, which has made them achieve today.
Gu Ailing's family is good, her grades are good, she has more choices, but she chose the dangerous profession of skier, and if she did not have talent, her elite family would not let her go down this path.
Quan Hongchan and Fan Kexin are the same, if there is no talent, even if you work hard, you will not have today's achievements, this is professional sports.
The athlete's road is not easy to walk, especially to the height of Olympic champions such as Gu Ailing, Quan Hongchan and Fan Kexin.
What can support them is never the wealth or poverty of their own families, but only love, hard work and talent!
The limits of human beings are always created by a very small number of people, and talent is like an invisible wall, invisible but existing.
But talent and hard work are not contradictory, no matter how talented you are, hard work is always better than not working hard, but the degree of success is different.
Moreover, in terms of the degree of effort of most people, it may not be the turn to fight for talent, after all, only those who have really worked hard know how important talent is.
Finally, I would like to say that people who can become Olympic champions are all good, we can focus on the performance of athletes on the field, and over-interpretation is really not necessary.