Snow field torpedoes, invincible.
Every winter, compatriots in the south will throw envious eyes to the north. Compared with the hard-to-find snow in the south, the north can easily achieve the freedom of snow, enjoy the scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting, and participate in one snow sports after another. When the people of the whole country called for one household and one pier, the northerners had easily piled up the "snow pier".
This year coincided with the Beijing Winter Olympics, and ice and snow sports were displayed in front of the people of the whole country with an unprecedented posture. Chinese freelance skier Gu Ailing' earth-shattering jump on the freestyle ski jump not only won him a valuable gold medal, but also allowed the audience in front of the screen to intuitively feel the excitement and charm of the sport of skiing.
This gold medal ignited a huge passion for skiing. Half of the Weibo hot searches on the day were related to Gu Ailing. Probably the first time many people saw skiing was at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Of course, for players, it is also possible to contact skiing through extreme sports games such as "Extreme Peak".
Outside the Olympic arena, there is a different scene that makes people cry and laugh. According to statistics, since entering 2022, the number of tourists participating in ice and snow sports on the mainland has reached 305 million, followed by medical institutions that are overcrowded due to ski injuries. In a group of up to 355 people in the "snow season dry eyes" nursing group, the attending physician marked the patient with the cause of the injury, these injuries are concentrated in joint sprains, fractures and even bone fractures, etc., some people have too many injuries, directly marked as "too many injuries, can not write down."
At the beginning of February, an orthopedic surgeon came forward to say that he had performed seven skiing surgeries in a day, and the number of ski injuries each year accounted for more than 10% of the number of ski participants. Of the 305 million people who have participated in snow sports, 30 million have been lying on the operating table – there is no doubt that the end of the ski is orthopedics.
Skiing is an ancient and fun sport that northerners enjoy and southerners envy, and subconsciously, it is always difficult to associate skiing with dangerous sports. But in fact, skiing is a well-deserved high-risk sport, and freestyle skiing on the Winter Olympics is a real extreme sport. The sport is now taking on a very different form than it was when it was born.
The origins of skiing vary widely, and there is no doubt that it has historically only been seen in areas of extreme winter coldness, geographically, in the northern part of Eurasia and at high altitudes. There is a saying that skiing originated in the Altay region of China. Altay is located in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the extreme minimum temperature can reach -51.5 °C, known as China's snow capital, known as the origin of human skiing. This claim comes from local archaeological work, in the excavated petroglyphs and other cultural relics, about 10,000 years ago, there have been large-scale skiing scenes, fur skis have appeared.
There is also a saying that about 4,000 years ago, the earliest skiing in Northern Europe appeared in Norway. The winter in the three Nordic countries is extremely cold, and people's production and life are difficult. In order to maintain a normal life and go out hunting, people began to tie animal bones on leather boots and speed up the movement on the snow by sliding.
Sweden in northern Europe also has a terrible legend. In ancient times, in order to punish prisoners who had committed the death penalty, the king of Sweden specially tied smooth branches on the feet of prisoners, pulled prisoners to the edge of a steep cliff, and let the prisoners slide down from the mountain, directly rushed out of the cliff, and then fell to pieces.
Coincidentally, during the Tang Dynasty, the "History of the North" recorded that due to the harsh climate, the heavy snow had passed the tall horses, so people had to travel on wood. It can be seen that people in different regions, the original purpose of skiing, is to facilitate travel, the use of tools, often wood is easy to make and low friction items.
The prototype of modern skiing, roughly originated in Norway, the English word "ski" is derived from the old Norse word "skith". In 1780, the Norwegian Nurhamu creatively made wicker into skis that curved inward at both ends, an ancient sport that opened the door to extreme sports. In 1861, the first ski shooting clubs appeared in Norway.
By 1877, Norway had established the national Kulistiani Ski Club. In 1892, Norway established the first Saturday of March as the Oslo Ski Festival. Today, the world-famous international ski jumping competition is held on this day at Holmenkollen Mountain.
The development of skiing, a modern sport, is inseparable from the contribution of Songlei Noelheim. Norheim is known as the founder of skiing, in 1870, with his own invention of the ski fixture, he sprinted to an altitude of 9.5 meters, completed the rotation and falling in the air, and amazed the world. Since then, skiing has ceased to be an ancient snow sport, but has become a unique way to challenge human limits.
Nowadays, skiing has developed quite maturely, not only subdividing many projects such as free skiing, cross-country skiing, alpine skiing, etc., but also constantly quantitatively subdividing ski equipment, slope grading, skill settings, etc. With the rapid development of skiing around the world, more and more young people are participating in it. At the same time, the development of this sport is increasingly striding forward in the direction of high difficulty.
Gu Ailing's "left turn 1620" completed on the big jumping platform is a difficult action that shocks the world, and before that, no female athlete has ever completed this action in an official competition, which can be imagined as difficult.
"1620" refers to the number of degrees the player rotates in the air, starting from the most basic 720 degrees, for every 180 degrees increased, the difficulty increases by one level, 1620 means that the player needs to rotate around in the air for four and a half degrees.
In the freestyle ski jumping event, in addition to completing the aerial rotation, there is also a fixed action is the grab board. That is to say, while completing the half-turn around the air, it is also necessary to grasp the skateboard with your hands and land smoothly. Before Gu Ailing, the difficulty ceiling of the women's big jump competition was 1440, which was created by Swiss's Mathilde Grimau in November 2020. In less than 2 years, Gu Ailing created a new history.
Super high difficulty, bringing super high risk. Since the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics, only Chinese players, there are Qing ram and Yang Shuorui who have retired due to injury. In the men's big jump event on snowboarding, defending champion Canadian star Tutante retired from the competition with injury. Even experienced veterans can't avoid injuries in the sport. In skiing, injuries are just the norm.
For athletes, every injury is a test. Whether or not he can recover and return to the field is related to his career. When it comes to the world's highest level of orthopedic medical institutions, we have to mention German orthopedics.
When it comes to German orthopedics, I think many people will smile. The term first became popular in 2012, when it was rumored that a member of a Sinicization group had a relationship with his own sister and was unfortunately caught by his father on the spot. The father broke his brother's leg in anger, and the brother went through several twists and turns, found the first-class Orthopedic Germany, and then got back on his feet. As a result, German orthopedics has slowly become an online term for ridiculing brother-sister love and sister control.
Whether this rumor is true or not, we do not know. However, the standard of German orthopedics is genuine and childlike. For example, in 2014, Russian freestyle skier Maria Komisarova suffered a spinal fracture while undergoing obstacle course chase training and was rushed to Munich for surgery. In 2016, Chinese badminton player Li Xuerui tore the cruciate ligament in his left knee at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and then traveled to Germany for surgery. It is not difficult to find that Chinese and foreign athletes are very fond of German orthopedics.
One of the reasons for this phenomenon is naturally Germany's strong orthopedic surgery strength. But objectively speaking, if we talk about the level of surgery alone, the level of Chinese doctors is also world-class. The crux of the matter lies in postoperative rehabilitation. For most athletes, the purpose of surgery is not only to cure, but more importantly, to return to the field. In germany, a country with developed sports medicine, rehabilitation doctors will be involved in the whole process of postoperative recovery, and under the supporting rehabilitation training, many athletes can return to the pre-injury sports level.
At the same time, China has had a tradition of "breaking the bones and bones for 100 days" since ancient times, and it is conceivable that if for 100 days, athletes only recuperate and do not carry out rehabilitation training, their athletic ability will naturally decline significantly. It can be said that we still have a long way to go to keep up with the level of sports medicine in countries such as Germany. German orthopedics will remain trustworthy for some time to come.
Nowadays, with Gu Ailing and Su Yiming winning gold and silver at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the popularity of skiing is constantly rising. You can never ignore the role of role models, and when these Olympic champions appear in front of people, more and more people will be influenced by them and join the ski army.
This is not just a casual talk, on the day of Gu Ailing's victory, Gu Ailing's same ski equipment sales are hot, from goggles, to sneakers, to thousands of yuan of skis, which are sought after by ski enthusiasts. The red skis used by Gu Ailing to win the championship were even snapped up.
Skiing, the sport, is a low-threshold sport that is very easy to make people have "fan confidence". Anyone who doesn't need to have skiing skills can go to the ski slopes and take a ski trip. At the same time, many people do not pay attention to consulting ski instructors, which leads to even the most basic deceleration and braking.
In fact, skiing has developed to this day, and has formed a variety of pistes suitable for the participation of people of different levels, beginners can practice on the beginner pistes. The beginner slopes are gentle, with slopes below 25% and usually only 300 to 400 meters in length. It is no exaggeration to say that sliding down from above is only a blink of an eye. Even if you fall, there are usually no accidents.
As a result, many beginners will go through such a cycle, riding a track conveyor slowly to the top of the beginner track, and in the blink of an eye, they are back at the bottom of the track. More time is spent on a track conveyor than on skiing. At this time, some people set their sights on intermediate or even advanced slopes, transforming into "snow torpedoes".
The snow field torpedo is a figurative metaphor. In advanced tracks with steeper slopes, newcomers who lack training to slow down and brake tend to get out of control at high speeds. In the high-speed taxi, the new person will not fall safely, at this time, not only may they have accidental injuries such as fractures, but once they hit other people on the slope, they will often bring the other party a senseless disaster. Because the speed of sliding on the snow is too fast, it is extremely difficult for passers-by to dodge.
According to relevant domestic reports, many safety accidents that occur on snow fields are caused by snow torpedoes.
There are constant accidents that remind the public that skiing is a high-risk sport. But by 2022, these accidents, far from decreasing, are rising as the number of participants increases. It is foreseeable that after the Beijing Winter Olympics, a round of skiing fever will inevitably be set off in China, and more people will pay attention to this high-risk sport. The good side is that a broader mass base will bring more excellent professional skiers and create new history. On the bad side, people are powerless to change, and at the end of the ski is orthopedics.
Fortunately, ordinary people do not need postoperative rehabilitation training - domestic orthopedic doctors are enough.