In the past few days, The Chinese young general Gao Hongbo has warmed our hearts. In the men's U-shaped track skills qualification tournament for snowboarding, he participated with an injury, insisting that "even if it is climbing, I will stand on the field of the Winter Olympics." In the end, he scored the lowest score of 15 points in the whole game, in the camera, we saw that he was always smiling, and netizens were infected by his frank optimism and expressed their expectations for his early return.
Indeed, in the divine operation of a group of masters, his "rookie" performance seems out of place, and even the most basic air rotation is not completed during the whole game, but what does it matter? Regardless of the result, but only to go all out, he has interpreted the most simple sports philosophy with persistence and non-abandonment.
Also poking at our tears are Yu Sheng, who failed to stand on the medal in the pursuit of human extreme movements, and Cai Xuetong, who played in the Winter Olympics four times but missed the medal four times... They fight for honor, but they don't have to be crowned with medals. No medals, just as great, "Do it, it's better than everything." ”
Not to mention that failure and frustration are always accompanied by the road of competition, ups and downs are the norm in the arena, no one can guarantee to always walk high, as former Olympic champion Yang Yang said: "Athletes have failures, there are failures, are part of growth." For those athletes who dare to fight the unknown, in the face of the limit of the leap, they have silently answered the ethical propositions given to them by the world."
"There are two of the brightest lights in the world, one is the sun and the other is the way we try."
There is no doubt that we need Olympic medals. For the country, it is a symbol of the country's overall strength; for the athletes, it is their standard to prove themselves. However, the significance of the Winter Olympics is not only about competing for medals, but also the mental outlook, sports literacy and humanistic care displayed by athletes in the process of climbing the peak are more worthy of our learning and understanding. The true meaning of sports is to seek fun and win, and the derived meaning of sports is to seek fame and profit. As spectators, we need to use goodwill to tolerate every athlete who fights for the country, and calmly face the mistakes and defeats of athletes. Compared with paying too much attention to achievements and medals, paying attention to whether athletes fall is also a kind of yardstick of modern civilization, and it is also the humanistic meaning that the Olympic spirit should have.
Author: Liang Bingqing
Source: Farmers Daily
Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Producer: Huang Hui Editor: Violent Jiaran