A set of flowing movements, so that the light posture, beautiful and moving she entered the people's field of vision, when she played for the Chinese team, many people were surprised by her youth, more surprised by her super high figure skating skills, when she finished all the actions, won the applause of everyone present This is seen as an ice butterfly. As we all know, this figure skater voluntarily gave up his American citizenship two years ago, gave up everything he had in the United States and came to China to help Zhu Yi, a figure skater at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
She won the National Championship at the age of 16, but gave up her American citizenship to win glory for the country, she is the new generation of skier Zhu Yi, less than 20 years old, she is already fully preparing for the 2022 Winter Olympics, and is expected to break the mainland downturn for nearly 20 years of women's single figure skating, in this girl, what kind of legendary experience, why she gave up her American citizenship to win glory for the country, let's walk into Zhu Yi's story together.
Zhu Yi's original name was Beverly Zhu, born in the United States in 2002, and it is precisely for this reason that Zhu Yi is a Native American, Zhu Yi grew up in a family full of academic atmosphere, receiving a strict education from his parents, although his parents have high requirements for Zhu Yi, they will never force Zhu Yi to do anything, but let her choose what she likes.
Generally when the girl is young, we will send her to learn piano, dance, Zhu Yi is no exception, she began to learn piano from a young age, has a lot of talent in literature and art, and she inherited the good genes of her parents, looks very beautiful, is an ice and snow smart, temperament of the girl.
However, she did not continue to develop in literature and art, 6 and a half years old, Zhu Yi followed her parents to see a figure skating competition, watching the slender little sister flying freely on the ice, like an ice butterfly, Zhu Yi's eyes were old, she also wanted to be like them, when an ice butterfly dancing on the ice, so she proposed to her parents to learn skating, her parents naturally agreed to her request, at the age of 7, Zhu Yi officially began to learn figure skating, but at first she just thought that figure skating was beautiful. But she did not expect the difficulty of the practice, in the process of training, she suffered a lot.
Figure skating and aerobic gymnastics, the athlete's physical fitness and softness have great requirements, Zhu Yi's external conditions are not very outstanding, so she practiced hard, in order to better train, she always completed the homework assigned by the teacher early, every day before dawn to run to the training ground to do practice, in the process of training she suffered countless injuries, but she never chose to give up, but insisted on day after day.
The road to practice is very hard, Zhu Yi's father has become her most loyal fan, when idle, Zhu Yi's father will tell her the story of Chinese figure skating, although he grew up in the United States, but under the influence of his father, Zhu Yi has an inexplicable affection for China, Zhu Yi learned from his father's mouth that there is a girl named Chen Lu who is very powerful, has won many World Cups for China, so that China's figure skating has entered a new stage, but unfortunately there are not too many achievements later, Zhu Yi has since made up his mind, He must become a person like Chen Lu who wins glory for the country.
With the passage of time, she has to train more and more things, training difficulty is also getting bigger and bigger, in order to improve the tension of the muscles, Zhu Yi needs to do jumping, spinning, forward, reverse force training, balance training, etc. in a series of slides, and because skating is carried out in an icy and snowy environment, Zhu Yi has to undergo physical training under the ice every day, when other little girls are at home at ease eating snacks and watching TV, Zhu Yi is frozen in the sub-zero temperature.
And what supports her is her love for figure skating, as well as her father's help and support for her, so that this little girl survived the most difficult time, slowly Zhu Yi grew up, she also has a lot of progress in figure skating, in 2018, Zhu Yi participated in the National Figure Skating Championships, under the gaze of the national audience, 16-year-old Zhu Yi put on a ski suit, slowly entered the competition venue under soft music, only 16 years old she showed confidence, elegance, calmness, accompanied by beautiful music, She danced in the middle of the venue like a beautiful butterfly.
Agile posture coupled with the flowing movements, can't help but let the audience stunned, her performance has been unanimously affirmed and appreciated by everyone, even the commentator at the time was impressed by this 16-year-old girl, there is no lack of praise in the words, Zhu Yi surpassed the second place in the rookie group of the National Figure Skating Championships by more than thirty points, with a high score of 167.69 successfully won the women's single championship, becoming a shining new star in the American figure skating world.
And such she also attracted the attention of the American figure skating team and the Chinese figure skating team, the famous American magazine "Figure Skating" made a big report on her, and even named her "figure skating goddess", the head of figure skating in the United States extended an olive branch to her, hoping that Zhu Yi could join the American figure skating team and win glory for the country, but Zhu Yi refused, and chose to join the Chinese nationality to contribute to China's figure skating cause.
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are in full swing, with Zhu Yi representing China. While acknowledging that there is a gap between China's current strength in figure skating and Russia and other countries, we should cheer for every athlete who stands on the field on behalf of the motherland, which is our self-confidence and tolerance as a big country.