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"He was the first idol I grew up watching, and I was watching his video when he was standing in the first 1440, and I decided that I especially wanted to be him and complete this action."
In this Winter Olympics, young player Su Yiming participated in the competition of men's slope obstacle course skills and big jumping in snowboarding, which was the only seedling of the Chinese team.
On February 7, Beijing time, Genting Ski Park, the slope obstacle course final was held here.
In the third jump, Su Yiming waited for the last one to appear. With 88.70 points in the second jump, he is temporarily in second place.
In front of him, it was his idol, the legendary Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris, who competed with a panda snowboard. The slope obstacle course final takes the highest score of the three jumps as the final result, and McMorris's final jump will directly determine the color of Su Yiming's medal.
The referee gave McMorris 88.53 points, which meant that Su Yiming locked the silver medal in advance!
The 17-year-old Su Yiming took over the mantle from his idol with a 0.17-point advantage and stood side by side on the same Winter Olympic podium with him.
"I can go to the competition with him today, stand on the Olympic podium, in my own hometown", Su Yiming paused, shook his head, and his voice began to tremble a little, "I don't know how to express this feeling, because I have never felt it." ”
After the men's steeplechase final, Su Yiming and McMaris hugged each other at the podium. (Image source: Oriental IC)
With this momentum, eight days later, Su Yiming transferred to the Shougang Ski Jumping Platform.
In the first two jumps, Su Yiming landed steadily, scoring 89.50 points and 93.00 points respectively, and the total score of 182.50 points temporarily ranked first.
Before the third jump, the players who may pose a score threat have withdrawn from the gold medal competition, and Su Yiming's last opponent, Reisvelan, has stood in the starting area. The big jump final is ranked by adding up the best results in two rounds of different directions, so Reisweiler's results will directly determine how much pressure Su Yiming faces in the final jump.
Le Iswellan scored 82.50 points in the jump, for a total of 171.75 points – although the physical game is not over, from the scene to social media, people have begun to cheer su Yiming's arrival of the gold medal in advance.
The gold medal came in time, and in 3 days, on February 18, Xiaoming will welcome his 18-year-old coming-of-age ceremony.
In December 2021, at the Ski World Cup held in Steamboat, USA, the 17-year-old made a stunning appearance with a gold medal.
On January 6, 2022, with the end of the Snowboard Slope Obstacle Course World Cup in Calgary, Canada, Su Yiming officially qualified for the two events of the Beijing Winter Olympics with points.
On January 22, Guinness World Records announced that Su Yiming's Bs 1980 Indy Crail action completed in the Stubai Ski Park in Austria last October was certified by Guinness.
However, compared to the incentives that world champions bring to athletes, the Guinness Book of Records seems to be just the icing on the cake, but it does not cause much waves.
Su Yiming played the role of Xiao Tongzi in the movie "Wise Tiger Mountain". (Image source: Weibo @ Zhizhi Weihushan 3D)
Su Yiming, born in 2004, is a crossover player who has eaten everything for two times.
Now looking at the character page of the Douban movie, you can still see the traces of the dream left by Xiao Su Yiming: "Take the exam and be an actor." He is no stranger to the camera and the big screen, and before becoming a skier in the true sense of the word, Su Yiming's earliest public identity was that of an actor.
Many people first met Su Yiming, probably in the movie "Wise Tiger Mountain" released in 2014.
There is a skiing scene in the film: at first, the adults are uneasy and tell the plugs to "follow tightly, don't run away!" However, after only a few seconds, the dialogue became, "Plug, slow down!" "Keep up with this boy, don't let him run away!"
In this war film directed by Xu Ke, 9-year-old Su Yiming plays the role of Xiao Tongzi, who runs through the mountains and forests of the northeast with the marching adults, and it takes a moment to slide from the back of the team to the front. Looking back at the classic passages, people are surprised to find that it is him!
When the real-life Su Yiming really stepped on the podium of the international competition, everyone was more convinced that the plot in the movie was not made up out of thin air.
Since then, Su Yiming has also played the childhood second in "Born on a Brilliant Day", Shui An in "Lin Hai Snow Field" and other film and television roles.
After winning the gold medal in the Winter Olympics, Su Yiming's eyes were moist. (Image source: Oriental IC)
Two years ago, a character introduction written by the well-known ski community GOSKI referred to Su Yiming as "a 15-year-old Chinese snowboard old cannon".
In fact, Su Yiming, who was born in Jilin, is a full-fledged "snow second generation", and he began to practice snowboarding under the influence of his parents at the age of 4. The reason why he was selected to play the role of "Little Plug" is precisely because of his excellent skiing ability.
In the northeast, the number of participants in ice and snow sports reached 51.74%, far higher than the national average of 24.56%.
In the documentary "Snow Yao China" broadcast by CCTV Documentary Channel in 2020, Su Yiming appeared in the sixth episode. The film said that in 2015, the year of the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Su Yiming gave up the road of acting and decided to stand on the stage of the Winter Olympics.
Last year, the Olympic official website published an article titled "From the Set to the Snow Field: Five Things You Should Know About China's Snowboarding Genius Su Yiming", which also mentioned that Su Yiming suspended his thriving acting career that year and shifted his focus to ski training.
In 2017, the State General Administration of Sport officially began to implement cross-border cross-border material selection in preparation for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
The following year, 14-year-old Su Yiming entered the national snowboard slope obstacle course and big jump training team through cross-border material selection, and began professional snowboard training under the famous Japanese champion coach Yasuhiro Sato. Under the guidance of Coach Sato, Su Yiming improved rapidly.
Next, Su Yiming's goal has been very clear - to qualify for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
At the end of 2018, the 2018-19 National Snowboard Jumping and Slope Obstacle Course Championships began at the Zhangjiakou Miyuan Genting Ski Resort, and the then 15-year-old Su Yiming ushered in the first important milestone of his career, he will participate in the adult group competition of the men's big jumping event.
In the first round, Su Yiming made a mistake, the action was not completed cleanly and sharply, and everyone present pinched a sweat for him.
In the second round, the coach advised him to increase the difficulty of the move and focus on the two weeks of forward turning and flipping 900 degrees. succeed! Su Yiming raised her hands above her head to applaud herself, and then hugged and celebrated with Coach Sato.
With two gold medals, Su Yiming locked his place in the national team.
In 2017, ski director Zhang Shaobo filmed "Juvenile Chronicles", which recorded the precious growth clips of Su Yiming and Gu Ailing, two skiers.
At that time, whether they wanted to become a professional athlete was still unknown to them.
It's only been a few years, and the teenagers who once exchanged equipment and skied together have now killed in the arena.
On the day of Gu Ailing's victory, Su Yiming congratulated her on social media.
On December 5, 2021, at the Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing World Cup In Stingbot station in the United States, Su Yiming and Gu Ailing, two Young Chinese skiers, both made history in their respective events.
Su Yiming entered the final of the World Cup snowboard jump for the first time, and won the championship in one fell swoop, becoming China's first snowboard big jump World Cup gold medalist.
Gu Ailing won the gold medal in the freestyle ski jump, and she successfully performed a two-week front flip plus a turnaround of 1440, becoming the first female athlete in history to complete this action.
At the beginning of January this year, Su Yiming broke into the three races of the Snowboard Slope Obstacle Course World Cup and won the sixth, seventh and tenth places respectively.
On February 15, Su Yiming's gold medal arrived, Gu Ailing added another silver medal, and won one gold and one silver in this Winter Olympics, and the two new stars of their respective efforts met at the peak today.
Su Yiming, who is gradually emerging in the international arena, also has more and more sponsorship endorsements coming to the door.
From October to December 2021, Su Yiming has successively become the ambassador of the automobile brand Buick Ice and Snow and the brand ambassador of Qingyang, the washing brand. Since then, he has also appeared in commercial shoots at KFC, Xiu Like, and Genki Forest.
In fact, as early as the age of 7, he signed up to become a professional skater for the famous snowboard brand Burton.
Back at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics four years ago, Su Yiming and her parents sat around the couch and watched the volley duels of the world's top skaters across the screen. And Su Dad's sentence "2022 is up to you" now seems to have become a beautiful prophecy.
In a sense, athletes are like a bridge between the general public and the professional wall.
Su Yiming, who flew on the snow, sometimes made people from afar feel that the road between life and the arena may not be far away.