(Observer Network News) "This time Su Yiming's performance is quite amazing, to be honest I think we should be one of the best, and the whole veneers also think so..."
Speaking about Su Yiming's performance on the field, Mark McMorris, the bronze medalist in the men's slope steeplechase competition in the winter olympics, said so.
At this year's Winter Olympics, Su Yiming, a 17-year-old Chinese teenager, made a splash. Recently, in an interview with CGTN, McMorris recalled his first meeting with Su Yiming, saying that he felt that he would definitely become very good, "When I attended an event and saw a child show an extraordinary love for snowboarding, I thought that this child would become a talent one day, and sure enough, he became very good. ”
Before becoming a skier, Su Yiming was a child star, and in 2014, at the age of 10, he participated in the filming of the movie "Wise Tiger Mountain", playing the role of "Little Plug". Since then, he has successively participated in the filming of film and television dramas such as "Rock Boy", "Born on a Brilliant Day" and "His Highness the Wolf".
In 2018, he was selected for the cross-border interdisciplinary snowboarding national training team and became a member of the national team, focusing on snowboarding big jumps and slope obstacle courses. Since then, he has opened a "open and hanging" life on the road of athletes.
According to Taiyuan Daily, in March 2020, Su Yiming unlocked China's first three-week flip body 1620-degree action; in January 2021, Su Yiming completed the first five-week 1800-degree reverse-foot turn in the history of Chinese snowboarding in training, making a new breakthrough for Chinese snowboarding; on October 28, 2021, Su Yiming successfully challenged the Bs1980IndyCrail (inner rotation 1980-degree grab board) high-difficulty action when preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics in the Stubai training camp in Austria. Became the first athlete in the world to complete the exercise and was certified by guinness records.
At this year's Winter Olympics, he once again amazed the global audience.
In the men's steeplechase qualification for snowboarding, he became the only one among the 30 players to score 80 points in the first round with 86.80 points in the first round, ranking first at the end of the two rounds and qualifying for the final. After that, with his excellent performance in the second round, he scored a high score of 88.70 and won a silver medal for the Chinese delegation.
Gold medal and bronze medal winners are All Canadian players, after the award was settled, many Chinese and foreign netizens and reporters present were screaming for Su Yiming, thinking that Su Yiming had continuously completed the high-difficulty platform jumping action of turning 1800 degrees on the spot, but the scores in both rounds were low, he only took the silver medal, and some people questioned the Canadian referee's deliberate pressure on points.
On the 9th, the truth of the matter came out. In an interview with a British reporter, Iztok Sumatic, the chief referee of the event snowboard, admitted that the referee team did not see the winning Canadian player's tackle mistake for the first time, and when they realized the mistake, the score had been submitted.
Some snow project experts believe that this grasping mistake should be deducted 2-3 points, so that "the order of the podium will be completely changed."
It is worth mentioning that the two Canadian players who stood on the podium with Su Yiming were both Su Yiming's idols.
Earlier, in the face of the controversy over the results of the competition, Su Yiming once said: "I think everyone is the best to be able to stand in the final of the Olympic Games and complete their best moves." ”
"Either way, we all had a lot of fun. Palot really did a good set of moves, and in this final, everyone was in first place. "Max (Paloth) and Mark (McMorris) are both international 'god' skaters and my idols, and I grew up watching their videos and imitating their movements. It is a great honor for me to be on the podium with them. ”
According to the @CGTN press corps today (11th) news, when visiting the CGTN Winter Olympic Studio, McMorris talked about Su Yiming's performance in the final, bluntly saying, "Quite amazing, to be honest, I think we should be one of the best, and the entire snowboard session also thinks so." ”
He then added, "But in the process of refereeing, this is not always the case. You know it's hard to score snowboard, sometimes it's really about your own preferences, it's not just a matter of turnaround and completion, there's a lot of stuff in it, and that's why you never want to be bothered by the ranking on the podium, what you want more is to be excited about your performance and the skill you've done, completely focused on the purpose of your trip, I came here to accomplish the goal. ”
When asked about his friendship with Su Yiming, he recalled that the two met in 2017, when he had been in [the snowboard project] for 7 years, met Su Yiming at an event, and was impressed by him, "I saw a little friend show an extraordinary love for snowboarding, I thought this kid would one day become a talent, he would be great, he loved the sport, he wanted to be a part of the sport." ”
"Sure enough, he became very good, I believe Su Yiming's career path is still very long, and I am super proud of him." I am super proud to be his idol, his hero, and it is a very heartwarming thing. ”
At this Winter Olympics, McMoliss lisboners also circled a wave of fans on social media because of skateboarding, and a panda was printed on the tail end of his skateboard, which was particularly eye-catching on the field.
He said, "I love pandas super much, it's my 'soul animal', it's the cutest animal ever, I love pandas so much, in the design phase I think it will definitely sell well, I hope people will smile and feel happy when they see it, who doesn't like pandas?" ”
"When you see this board, everyone must be able to see at a glance what I will write on the board, so the board as a whole is very concise, and I hope everyone likes the giant panda."
McMorris is not a first-time visitor to China, as in 2017 he won the Infiniti 2017 Boiling Snow Beijing FIS Snowboard Jumping World Cup Men's Division.
Talking about the feelings of participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics, McMorris was full of praise, "pleasant", "smooth sailing", "full of fun" and "the atmosphere was particularly good".
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