Jimu news reporter Li Lili
During this time, bosses who give employees leave should be careful! In the "10,000 Reasons for Employee Leave", they added a new one - to participate in the Winter Olympics. Recently, an employee in Shanghai accidentally found his female colleague who was on leave at the Winter Olympic Games, and the other party also won the bronze medal!
In fact, many foreign athletes have their own "serious" professions, and when they are not athletes, they are also ordinary office workers. They may be anyone around them who seems ordinary, from the nurse who gives injections, the firefighter who rushes to extinguish the fire, to the clerk who sells sportswear, the guy who sells coffee...
These players are all "slash youth" with a variety of professions
On February 8, sweden defeated England in the curling mixed doubles bronze medal match at the Winter Olympics to win the bronze medal 9-3. A young brother in Shanghai spotted his Swedish colleague Almida de Waal on television.
De Waal's "official identity" is that of a Curler of the Swedish national team, but she also has a "hidden" identity – an employee of the Swedish branch of a Dutch company. It is reported that she took a leave of absence in early January to prepare for the Winter Olympics, and returned to work on February 14, with less than a month and a half of preparation time.
The Jimu News reporter found that in addition to the Swedish colleagues of the Shanghai brother, many of the foreign players who came to participate in the competition had "hidden" identities.
John Morris is a leading Canadian curler. He was the men's curling champion at the 2010 Winter Olympics and the mixed doubles curling champion at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
But usually, he's a firefighter, working for the Lokiview County Fire Department in Canada. According to the Olympic website, his father, Earl Morris, was also the inventor of the curling "stabilizer" and is now used by a large number of players.
Morris and teammates Image credit: ins.
According to Narcity, Canada, 9 Canadian players participating in the Winter Olympics have other professions.
Daniel Sunderland, 32, competed in the men's four-man snowmobile event. He is a professional plumbing stress engineer with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Alberta. He proved by strength that talent is sometimes really important – he only started practicing snowmobiling when he was 26 years old...
Daniel Sunderland Image source: ins.
Jane Channell, who participated in the steel-framed snowmobile, was a white-collar worker. She works in health and safety at an environmental consulting firm and is a volunteer coach for the Calgary Special Olympics softball program. In addition, she plans to become a TV meteorologist...
Darcy Sharpe, who participates in men's slope obstacle courses and big jumps, works for real estate companies and car rental companies when he's not skiing.
Jennifer Jones was a lawyer by profession when she wasn't curling.
The curling mixed doubles event killed a "dark horse", and the Italian combination of Constantine / Mosana went all the way to win the gold medal.
Among them, the female player Stefania Constantini is a rookie, 22 years old.
According to the Olympic official website, due to economic reasons, Constantine can not train around the clock, when not competing, she will do aerobic exercise and weightlifting in the early morning, and then go to a local sports brand store as a clerk, she relies on this job to pay for training costs.
Tefaniya Constantine Image source: Olympic official website
Constantine's efforts were not in vain, she was the only female athlete in Italy to participate in curling competitions, which was also Italy's first ever curling gold medal.
It is also reported that a pair of speed skaters in the United Kingdom, also because of economic problems, sell coffee during the day and can only train at night.
In addition, the U.S. women's curling team has a pair of sister flowers, the older sister Tabitha Peterson is a pharmacist, and the younger sister Tara Peterson is a dentist.
Another U.S. player, Nina Roth, was the captain of the U.S. team at the last Winter Olympics and is usually a nurse.
It turned out that the career they dreamed of was not to be an athlete
In addition to their current jobs, these athletes also have their dream careers. NBC surveyed the members of the U.S. team at the Winter Olympics and found that their dream careers, from donut shop assistants to farmers selling maple syrup, were bizarre.
Chloe Kim is the winner of the Women's U-Shaped Track Skills Championships in Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics. She is also one of the top skaters in the U.S. snowboarding world, starting snowboarding at the age of 4, competing at the age of 6, and being selected for the U.S. National Team in 2013.
What would she do if she wasn't an athlete? She said: "I want to be the person responsible for flipping the donuts, maybe I'll regret it after an hour of drying, but I want to try it too much!" ”
Chloe King Image source: Xinhua News Agency
Ryan Cochran-Siegle was runners-up in the men's super slalom event in alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics. If he doesn't ski, he wants to be a farmer selling maple syrup.
Others want to be doctors, psychologists, and writers, singers, actors, and real estate agents.
Only one dream is related to sports, Redmond Gerard, the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics snowboard men's steeplechase champion and the youngest champion in the Winter Olympics. His dream is to work on a yacht and experience life under deck.
For various reasons, these athletes have chosen the life of "slash youth", and they have proved with hard work and sweat that as long as they do not give up, dreams can shine into reality.