Yesterday, Fan Kexin and his teammates won the bronze medal in the short track speed skating women's 3000m relay. Seeing her run back to the field after the race and kiss the ice was really a defense break.
Looking back a few days ago, she was unexpectedly brought down by a Canadian player, and she could feel the disappointment and helplessness across the screen.
And after the start of the Winter Olympics, Fan Kexin and his teammates won the first gold medal for China, hugging their teammates and crying.
I really want to give this girl a hug, a bouquet of flowers and a big encouragement: good look!
It is really not easy to fight to this day and get a gold and a bronze result in the Olympic Games. Behind the tears after winning the championship, the loss when she fell, and the affectionate kiss on the field, she had difficulties that ordinary people could not imagine.
As an old mother, I believe you are also curious, what kind of family is it that cultivates Olympic champions?
It is a poor family that can no longer be ordinary, fan Kexin is a cold door girl who is uncompromising and spells out a road in poverty.
When Fan Kexin was very young, her father lost money in business, and the family was instantly destitute, and her father went to qitaihe's relatives and made a living by repairing shoes.
The shoe stall that once supported them
The family lives in a makeshift 7-square-meter movable board room, with no water and no electricity, often unable to make ends meet. She was wearing clothes that her mother had picked up from the trash, washed and then sewn back.
Xiao Kexin reached school age, and at first wanted to learn to dance like other little girls, but because he couldn't afford it, he went to learn short track speed skating without tuition.
The coach was very distressed about this sensible little girl, and spent 150 yuan to buy her a pair of second-hand old skates (at that time, the price of a pair of ice knives was their family's income for a year).
However, due to the shoes not fitting, the training intensity is very large, the soles of her feet are worn, but she did not tell her mother, but gritted her teeth and insisted, and when her mother found out, some places were already pus and blood.
Practice so hard, pay more than others, in addition to liking, but also because she knows:
If you skate well, you can enter the provincial team, enter the national team, and represent the country to participate in the competition and win medals. Not only can it win glory for the country, but it can also improve the conditions at home and make parents not so hard.
But chronic malnutrition combined with overload training has led to physical illness. In 2008, Fan Kexin was found to have severe adolescence iron deficiency anemia, often dizzy and unable to train.
Fortunately, the coach and she did not give up, after more than half a year of treatment, finally all the physical fitness returned to normal, back to the ice rink.
In 2009, Fan Kexin entered the national youth team.
In 2010, Fan Kexin joined the national short track speed skating team.
In 2011, Fan Kexin won the gold medal in the women's 500 meters and became famous in one battle.
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Since then, she has won the World Cup and the World Championship several times, but has never won an Olympic gold medal.
Before the Beijing Winter Olympics, Fan Kexin lost medals at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and the Sochi Winter Olympics, and finally won the championship with his teammates at the Olympic Games at his doorstep this year.
This year is her 12th year since joining the national team, and in the interview, she cried and said: "I have waited for this gold medal for too long..."
The hard work finally paid off, not only to win glory for the country, but also to reverse the fate of himself and his family.
In many media interviews, Fan Kexin said that the whole family helped her:
"Sometimes when I go back from vacation and see my family working, when I see them fixing shoes and bicycles for others, I'm very sad, and I don't know what to say."
The family is fighting for me, and I should also fight for the family. ”
Now, she has finally repaid her family with her achievements.
While cheering and moving for Fan Kexin, we also saw that in the Olympic arena, some athletes took a completely different life script, such as Gu Ailing.
I love this girl so much!
Between the first round of today's competition, she took the time to wish everyone a happy Valentine's Day; in the second round of the competition, she ate a leek box while waiting for the score.
The mentality is too good to say.
Previously, in the freestyle ski women's big jump, she made a super difficult move, and has won a valuable Olympic gold medal for the Chinese team.
Talented, hardworking, loving, fearless, sober, and still so good-looking, always with a sweet smile on his face, who wouldn't like it!
She's only 18 years old, and her record is already overwhelming:
At the age of 3, he began to learn to ski;
9 years old, won the National Freestyle Ski Junior Championship;
10 years old, won the national championship in the under-13 age group;
14 years old, won 50 championships, including 9 national championships;
15 years old, participated in the World Cup and won the championship;
At the age of 16, he became the three gold kings of the World Cup and announced to the world that "Chinese freestyle skier Gu Ailing reported to the world";
18 years old, selected for the Chinese sports delegation for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics;
Less than 19 years old, he won the Winter Olympic Championship, which is also the first gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics for the women's big jump in freestyle skiing.
In addition to these athletic achievements, in order to fully prepare for the Beijing Winter Olympics, she completed her high school courses in advance through self-study, and then... Admitted to Stanford with a SAT score of 1580 out of 1600.
Not to mention that she is now the darling of many fashion brands and sports brands.
Can raise children like this, what is the family behind Gu Ailing?
Gu Ailing lives in a single-parent family, and in various media interviews, only the figures of her mother and grandmother (grandmother) can be seen.
Her father was an American and graduated from Harvard; her mother, Gu Yan, was a standard Beijing girl who graduated from Peking University and studied an MBA at Stanford and worked on Wall Street for many years.
At the same time, Mom is also a ski enthusiast and part-time ski instructor. Because she liked skiing too much, not long after Gu Ailing was born, she went up the mountain to ski.
Grandma was a retired cadre in the Ministry of Transport and a basketball player in college; Grandpa was a retired power engineer and was said to have been a footballer.
Grandma is over the age of old, but playing with Ailing is not a problem.
Born in such a family, Gu Ailing's athletic talent can be imagined.
Three years old into the ski school, four years old can cat jump, the woods can be snowy skiing, eight years old coach can not teach, said should let her on a professional ski team.
After that, her mother's excellent educational background and love for skiing played an indelible role in her growth.
Gu Yan has clear goals and has her own clear understanding of raising children. Her greatest expectations for her daughter are: freedom, abundance, happiness, and the courage to try.
What the child wants to do is encouraged, and what the child decides to do, he will give 100% of the greatest physical and mental support.
Therefore, in addition to skiing, Gu Ailing has also tried a lot of things since he was a child, and his interests and hobbies are also very extensive.
In her own words:
"Try this, try that, skiing, running, basketball, surfing, horseback riding, archery, rock climbing, tree climbing, ballet dancing, piano playing... Have tried and like a whole bunch of things.
Growing up to do a lot of different things, my whole life is not around skiing, skiing is a big part of life. ”
Gu's mother once told her that if you want others to respect you, you can't be an athlete who can only ski, has no independent thinking ability, and has no knowledge.
Therefore, Gu Ailing's two favorite things to do are one is to learn and the other is to ski.
Every year during the holidays, Gu Yan will take her daughter back to China, in addition to eating, drinking, and experiencing Chinese culture, there are also remedial classes in Haidian.
In the matter of skiing, Gu Yan has been supporting children for decades.
During the snow season, every Friday afternoon, Gu Yan would take Gu Ailing from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe, three hundred kilometers away, to practice skiing.
Gu Ailing said, "It is a 4-hour drive from home to the snow field of Lake Tahoe, and I learned to write homework in the car, sleep in the car, change clothes in the car, and eat in the car. ”
In this way, she also slowly grew into a passionate, challenging and clear goal girl.
Therefore, it is not difficult to find that Fan Kexin's crying and Gu Ailing's laughter are behind the life created by two different environments.
One is a hard counterattack, strong, determined, and under pressure.
One is a model for the elite, passionate, hard-working, fearless.
Many people on the Internet say that Fan Kexin is the road of struggle for ordinary people, and Gu Ailing's elite family education is too far away for us.
But in fact, what children can empathize with most is what is close to the experience and the living environment.
Fan Kexin is like a small grass, in the poor soil, survival itself is already very difficult. She is tenacious and determined to change the fate of herself and her family. At the same time, she is also kind and grateful, to her family, her teammates, and her country.
In a unique environment, Gu Ailingsheng has the opportunity to experience two completely different cultures in China and the United States, make various attempts, discover himself, and find the value of life.
There is no shortage of urban children who grow up carefree to eat and drink, and where can they understand the weight behind the tears after Fan Kexin got the medal.
But an old mother after 80 like me was moved to the point of not being able to do it.
Gu Ailing's growing environment is closer to the current children's living environment. Her goal is clear, free, dedicated, brave and fearless, but she is more likely to become an idol of urban children.
I think that watching the Olympic Games and understanding the growth story of the Olympic champions, in addition to stimulating the patriotic feelings of the children, for the old mother, it is not how to raise an Olympic champion by reference to others, but more to let the children see how others work hard, and the meaning and value of such efforts:
No success is easy, and it is talent + deliberate practice + love that can show brilliance.
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