In the freestyle ski women's aerial skills final, when Xu Mengtao saw her name appear on the highest line of the scoring screen, her eyes were full of disbelief. She anxiously repeatedly confirmed to the people around her: "Am I the first?" Am I really number one? After receiving confirmation, Xu Mengtao's tears of joy burst out of her eyes.
Xu Mengtao began to learn gymnastics at the age of 4, and turned to freestyle skiing aerial skills at the age of 12, which is 20 years. In these 20 years, she has only done one thing, that is, "persevere because of love, and firm because of dreams." At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao was in the best competitive state, competing as the world's first and silver medalist at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, but unfortunately did not reach the final round and finally ranked ninth.
As a 32-year-old veteran, Xu Mengtao's injuries and illnesses are shocking, such as rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the left knee, sprain of the medial collateral ligament, lateral meniscus angle degeneration, multiple bone contusions, joint effusion, meniscal removal... The ligaments in both legs were broken twice and four major surgeries were performed. After every major injury, it takes a lot of time to do surgery, recovery, and get back on your feet
Cutting off the meniscus is theoretically destined to say goodbye to jumping actions, there is no meniscus to provide cushioning, each time the high jump tens of meters and then land on the huge impact on the legs how painful it should be. Xu Mengtao is really a scarred fighter. Today, carrying the mission and honor, she has a sword for ten years, dreams of the Winter Olympics, and won from the "movement of the brave", which is the most beautiful harvest of the fighters.
Xu Mengtao is a particularly simple and cheerful person, when she first heard her name, she was still young, because she smiled very brightly at the camera, full of vitality, and remembered this girl. Her father supported her dream of skiing by relying on a barbecue stall, and although he was already a world champion, he took the initiative to help as a waiter every time he came home. He left home at the age of seven, couldn't go home for the New Year for more than twenty years, felt neglected his parents, and sent handwritten greeting cards to his family on all festivals every year.
Xu Mengtao's road is really too difficult and too difficult, obviously holding the world's highest difficulty record (116.9 points), taking 34 World Cup gold medals, but the most desired Winter Olympic gold medal, fate and her too many jokes, four years and four years, every gold medal is close at hand, every time, lost at the last moment.
There can be several sixteen years in life, from a genius ski girl to a four-dynasty elder. Fate, why is it so cruel that the genius girl who was so full of spirit at the beginning bears the brunt again and again? Xu Mengtao's last jump landed steadily, shouting into the sky to vent her emotions when many viewers cried, and she could feel her desire for the gold medal, the feeling of desperate and hard fighting. So this gold medal is destined to be hers!