As a player who helped China achieve a breakthrough in freestyle skiing, Gu Ailing can be described as the focus of everyone's attention during the Winter Olympics. In the projects she is not very good at, Gu Ailing won a valuable gold medal with her super difficult moves, and she explained what the real Olympic spirit is. For a time, Gu Ailing became a regular visitor on the hot search list, and even one person occupied multiple hot searches. On February 12, the People's Daily pointed out Gu Ailing's new shining point, which is often easily overlooked. Although he has created many histories, Gu Ailing is only an 18-year-old post-00s player after all!
Competitive sports are eaten by youth, athletes generally become famous at a young age, and many people have become world champions and Olympic champions at a young age. In this Winter Olympics, a quarter of the players in the Chinese delegation are post-00s, that is to say, a quarter of the players are not more than 22 years old. At this age, most people are still studying in school, have not yet entered the society, and even some people need to be cared for by their parents. But for professional athletes, they already need to go to the field alone and face great pressure.
We can often see the scene of athletes on the field, but it is often easy to ignore their age. For example, Fan Zhendong, the world number one in national table tennis, showed full domineering on the field, but he was only 25 years old this year when he became famous at a young age. Another example is Sun Yingsha, the world's first women's table tennis player in Xinke, although she is already the runner-up of the Olympic Games, the National Games and the World Table Tennis Championships, and you are the world's number one player, but Sun Yingsha is also a post-00s player. Putting aside her athlete status, in fact, Sun Yingsha can even be said to be a child.
On February 12, the People's Daily took stock of the post-00s players of the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics, and Gu Ailing's name was mentioned first. Gu Ailing was born on September 3, 2003, which means that she is not yet 19 years old, that is, she has just reached adulthood for half a year. In fact, age is also a shining point for Gu Ailing, but this point is often easy to be ignored. Looking at Gu Ailing's outstanding performance on and off the field, it is difficult to associate her with the age of 18. Many people are still dreaming all kinds of dreams at the age of 18, but Gu Ailing has become an Olympic champion at the age of 18, which is her strength.
In addition to Gu Ailing, Su Yiming, Li Wenlong and other players are also post-00s. Su Yiming is even younger than Gu Ailing, he was born on February 18, 2004, and he is still a minor when he turns 18 for 6 days. He won the silver medal in the men's slope sculpting skill at the Winter Olympics, which also created new history. Li Wenlong won the silver medal in the men's 1000 meters of short track speed skating, showing the strength not inferior to Ren Ziwei and Wu Dajing. The post-00s players of China's ice and snow sports have matured and begun to gradually pick up the beams, which is the law of competitive sports.
The special experience of athletes will make them young and old, showing a higher mentality than their peers, so when we see Gu Ailing's interview video, we always feel that she is very mature and sophisticated, but we ignore that she is just an 18-year-old child. Young people are strong, the country is strong, seeing so many excellent young players rising, how can we not be happy?