If you watched the live broadcast of the final of the men's big jump yesterday, then you must understand how well-deserved Su Yiming won this gold medal.
In the first jump, Su Yiming completed the difficult action 1800 + grabbed the tail of the board, and scored a high score of 89.50.
In the second jump, Su Yiming smoothly completed 1800 and scored a high score of 93.00.
At this time, the total score has 182.50 points, and under the scoring rule of removing the highest score and the lowest score to take the average score, even if Su Yiming has not jumped in the third jump, the commentary is already congratulating him on the championship.
This is the first gold medal won by 17-year-old Su Yiming at the Winter Olympics, and it is also the best 18th birthday gift he gave himself. As China's youngest Winter Olympic champion, Su Yiming will welcome her 18-year-old coming-of-age ceremony in two days.
Before the Winter Olympics, Su Yiming, who filmed su yiming in Austria in february in Fashion and Beauty, told us that he would never feel that he was good enough, because there were always bigger goals or harder challenges waiting for him to complete. From a high-profile child star to a history-making professional athlete, "no limits" and "all out" are the labels that the 17-year-old has put on his future life.
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Slide out the child star road
Becoming a snowboarder seems to be a predestined choice for Su Yiming. From the moment he first stepped on a snowboard at the age of four, he fell madly in love with this extreme sport. After that, skiing became the most important part of his life.
As a child, Su Yiming was as mischievous as most young boys, and snowboarding opened another door to his life. "When I was young, everyone said I was very naughty, but since I was exposed to snowboarding, I was finally able to completely calm down and concentrate on doing something." Since snowboarding is an extreme sport, in order to ensure her own safety, Su Yiming must maintain 100% concentration when training. "It completely changed me, and after falling in love with snowboarding, my personality was completely different."
Skiing brings Su Yiming not only concentration, but also freedom. "When I first stood on the veneer, I fell in love with the sport. After about a week, I learned to change the blade and was free to glide. I find that standing on a board feels particularly free, something that no other sport can match. ”
His love of skiing since childhood also ushered in the opportunity for Su Yiming to appear on the screen - a few years ago, he was electrocuted for the first time and starred in the "little plug" in the film "Wise Tiger Mountain" directed by Xu Ke. In Su Yiming's view, becoming a child star is a process of "serendipity". "When I was eight or nine years old, the crew of "Wise Tiger Mountain" wanted to find a child who could ski, preferably in the northeast. At that time, my mother would occasionally upload a video of me skiing to the Internet, and the crew just saw it and found my mother's contact information. So, Su Yiming's path as an actor began, "This is the same as when I first started skiing, I don't know what happened." ”
After that, he starred in several TV series, and embarking on the road of acting was already a natural thing for him, but he chose to suspend all this at a certain moment.
Teenage Winter Olympic Dream
At 17:58 on July 31, 2015, IOC President Bach officially announced at the 128th meeting of the IOC that Beijing and Zhangjiakou in China had jointly won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. This moment also became a turning point in Su Yiming's life. "I already had an Olympic dream at that time."
The moment that really made Su Yiming feel that he was one step closer to the Olympics was two or three years ago, when he met his later coach Yasuhiro Sato. "After meeting Coach Sato, I began to study and train systematically, and then I really embarked on the path of professional snowboarders."
Recalling his first experience of international competitions, Su Yiming still remembers it vividly. It was the BURTON US OPEN in 2019, "I was only 15 years old and the technology wasn't that good, so when I was training and playing there, I was in a state of tension and fear every day, and sometimes I could see my legs shaking." "But it has also become an invaluable experience in his training career, because there is no pressure, he participates with a learning mentality, not only learns a lot of new moves, but also gains a lot of experience." Because I tried a lot of particularly difficult moves at that time, so that I wasn't so scared in the training and competition afterwards, it was a particularly good breakthrough for me. ”
As an extreme sports professional, the risk of injury is always there, and injuries are not uncommon in Su Yiming's 13-year training career, but this is not the biggest challenge in his sports career. "For me, the biggest challenge is how to get the new, difficult moves done and make sure it's done stably when I'm playing. When I finally completed a particularly difficult action after a period of hard work, the sense of accomplishment was indescribable. ”
Two days before this interview, Su Yiming won the championship with a total score of 155.25 points in the BOB World Cup Stimbot Station in the International Snow Federation World Cup. This is his first world cup title and the first world champion in the history of China's men's veneer big jump. With such results, Su Yiming was so excited that he did not sleep well all night, and spent the whole night recalling the process of learning to ski from childhood to adulthood; but the next day he calmed down, because the biggest goal was still waiting for him to achieve, and the World Cup championship was "just the beginning" for him. The 17-year-old told us, "I have been constantly pushing myself, either arrogantly, keeping my original intentions, and always training hard to make myself better." I'll never feel like I'm good enough, and there's always a bigger goal or a harder challenge waiting for me to accomplish. ”
And the "biggest goal" is obvious - the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. In the past year, Su Yiming has been preparing for the Winter Olympics every day. "All summer, I was in Chengdu doing air cushion training, as well as physical training. Because of the big jump platform, the pressure on the body will be very large when it lands, so it is necessary to make your body stronger, so that you can complete the action more safely and smoothly. ”
"Genius teenager" is the label that people like to attach to Su Yiming the most when they mention him: 4 years old to learn to ski, 7 years old to become an internationally renowned snowboard brand signed a skater, 14 years old to be selected for the national training team, 17 years old to win the World Cup championship, creating a new history for China's snowboard jump.
And those praises, expectations and attention are bound to turn into a force that weighs on the shoulders of this 17-year-old. Talking about this, Su Yiming frankly said: "In fact, my pressure comes more from my requirements for myself, because other snowboarders are also improving very fast, and I must constantly break through and make continuous progress in order to achieve good results in the competition." And in a way, stress is also motivation, so I don't think stress is a bad thing, and when there's pressure, I can train more focused and purposeful, so it's a good boost for me. ”
There is no limit to the future
At the moment, Su Yiming put all his energy into snowboarding, but this does not mean that he gave up his acting path. "Because the Winter Olympics are approaching, I need to do one thing with 100% energy. But after all, snowboarding is an extreme sport, and considering the limitations of age and physical condition, I can't pursue this profession forever. For the future, Su Yiming did not want to set limits for herself. He hopes to try more different things after achieving his goal of snowboarding, and as a young man, he still wants to embrace more possibilities in life. In the 24 Hours With, an exclusive filming of Vogue, Su Yiming showed off his day of training snowboarding.
"I'm definitely going to keep filming after that, and at that point, skiing and filming don't feel like there's a conflict, both of which are things I really like." I want people to see that I can do whatever I love and want to do. Of course, in the future, because of more and more experiences, my thinking may also change, and there will be new preferences and goals. But whatever I love, I'm going to put all my effort into it and do it the best I can. ”
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Author: Kailin Jia
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