In the final of the women's ski skills competition, Xu Mengtao successfully won the championship by completing a difficult jump and scored 108.61 points! Won the 5th gold for the Chinese delegation, after the end of the game, Xu Mengtao wore a five-star red flag around the field for a week, leaving tears of excitement, as a 32-year-old veteran, the past unwillingness and efforts were turned into tears on the competition field, in Xu Mengtao's home outside the arena, his parents wore Xu Mengtao's mailed competition costume and left tears of excitement after the end of the game.
The Beijing Winter Olympics is also Xu Mengtao's fourth participation in the Winter Olympic Games, from the fledgling 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics to win the silver medal, and then to the regret of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, after the persistence of the four Winter Olympics in 12 years, Beijing Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao successfully defeated his opponents, but also completed the victory over himself. On the occasion of Xu Mengtao's victory, step by step through words to understand the story behind Xu Mengtao's victory.
Xu Mengtao was born in 1990 in Anshan, Liaoning Province, this year has been 32 years old, engaged in freestyle skiing aerial skills project for 20 years, from a young age Xu Mengtao's father as a sports fan, after discovering that Xu Mengtao has excellent flexibility and coordination, choosing to practice gymnastics, become a professional athlete and stand on the Olympic championship podium is his lifelong dream. As Xu Mengtao's figure grew, it was no longer suitable to continue practicing gymnastics, Xu Mengtao and his father saw the snow skill project recruiting athletes, and Xu Mengtao gradually shifted from the gymnastics industry to the snow skill event.
Xu Mengtao's parents engaged in setting up barbecue stalls, and Xu Mengtao's father, in order to create better training conditions for his daughter, spread large carpets on the cement floor of the home, forming Xu Mengtao's unique "training ground". Here, he helped Xu Mengtao press his legs every day, turned his side hands over, and became his daughter's "enlightenment coach", as an athlete, Xu Mengtao was injured many times in competitions and training grounds, including rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the left knee, sprain of the medial collateral ligament, lateral meniscus posterior angle degeneration, multiple bone contusions, joint effusion, meniscal removal. Xu Mengtao's mother said: "As a mother, I am particularly guilty. Growing up, Peach never enjoyed the care of her parents or grandparents, and I felt particularly incompetent. After Xu Mengtao won the championship, his parents said: "My daughter is not easy! After 20 years of waiting, finally! Dad is happy for you! Daughter, you are the god of war! ”
After the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao removed the meniscus and underwent a long recovery, just as Xu Mengtao once again said in an interview: "I talked to myself, Xu Mengtao, do you want to come back to practice, if you choose to come back to practice, there is no way back, it is impossible to encounter difficulties and then go back." The trough of the state before the injury is still there, and the next difficulty to face is more than before, do you want to insist? In the end, my heart was more insistent, I want to go on. After years of hard work, Xu Mengtao finally stood on the highest podium and realized her personal dream.