On the evening of the 14th, the Chinese team ushered in the fifth gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
China's Xu Mengtao won the gold medal in women's aerial skills in free skiing with a high score of 108.61.
I believe that all the small partners who watched the live broadcast of the game were held by Xu Mengtao with both hands and repeatedly asked "Am I the first?" Am I really number one? The scene struck deeply.
The 31-year-old made her debut at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 and won a silver medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.
Four years ago at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics freestyle skiing aerial skills final.
Xu Mengtao, who scored a high score of 99.37 points the day before, made a mistake when he landed because the starting speed was not enough, and only got 59.25 points and missed the medal round.
At that time, she was already a veteran on the field, with ups and downs in her physical fitness and competitive state, and her leg injury had undergone 4 major surgeries.
But four years later, Xu Mengtao, a veteran who has experienced four Winter Olympics, still won the first gold medal in his life.
She did it!
Xu Mengtao's tears on the podium, there are pride and pride, there are wishes, there are many other complex emotions that we can not understand.
Some say that athletes' tears are complicated because they have to find an outlet from sports.
The mountain in front of you is far away from the top of the world, and there may be only a small storefront behind you.
For Xu Mengtao, this sentence could not be more appropriate.
In 1990, Xu Mengtao was born in Anshan, Liaoning Province.
When she was only two or three years old, she watched her parents push the tricycle, pulling spice boxes, beef and mutton, and iron skewers to sell barbecues.
Only two or three years old, she knew that this tricycle was the source of income for the whole family.
Later, the situation improved, and my parents set up a storefront.
And Xu Mengtao is the world champion who came out of this small barbecue restaurant.
Xu Mengtao's barbecue at home
Previously, with the victory of Gu Ailing Su Yiming, such a voice appeared on the Internet:
Ice sports are the sport of the rich!
Many people focus on Gu Ailing's family lineage and focus on Su Yiming's special experience of almost entering the entertainment industry.
Focus on their "family conditions".
Or infinitely amplify their "talents" and "excellent genes".
It ignores that at least ninety percent of the reasons why these athletes are successful is that they really work hard enough.
And Xu Mengtao's story is the best annotation to this effort.
In fact, most of the athletes in the Winter Olympics are like Xu Mengtao, "ordinary people" who come out of ordinary families.
For example, the short track speed skating men's and women's 2000m mixed relay event won the first gold medal for the Chinese team in this Winter Olympics.
Fan Kexin, one of the participants, is a world champion who grew up in a shoe repair shop.
Fan Kexin was born in 1993 in a small county seat in Qitaihe, Heilongjiang Province.
Fan Kexin's father said that when his daughter was in elementary school, there was a change in the family, and the whole family had a total of 300 yuan left.
The family went to the city to run to relatives, spent 130 yuan to rent a 6-square-meter tin house, and began to make a living by repairing shoes.
Eat, live and work here.
Fan Kexin grew up in this 6 square meter shoe repair shop.
Later, after being recruited into the short track speed skating team, Fan Kexin began to train hard day after day until he entered the national team in 2010.
Up to now, Fan Kexin, who specializes in short distance, has won the women's 500 meters championship at the World Championships five times, and won 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze at the Winter Olympics.
Medals filled the cabinets of the home.
On the evening of the 13th, the Chinese team composed of Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting, Qu Chunyu, Zhang Chutong and Han Yutong won the bronze medal in the short track speed skating 3000 meters of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
This is the second time in 12 years that the Chinese team has reached the podium in the project.
After the game, Fan Kexin returned to the field and kissed the ice.
She was asked if she was saying goodbye to her own arena.
Fan Kexin said:
The reason I kissed the ice rink is to thank the motherland for its strength and the ability to host the Winter Olympics so that we can show ourselves in front of our countrymen.
This is just the beginning, I'm only 29 and I'm still capable.
Coincidentally, Fan Kexin also has a similar experience with her teammate Zhou Yang.
In 1991, Zhou Yang was born in Changchun, Jilin Province.
Both parents have leg disabilities, no stable jobs, and the family income is basically dependent on short-term work for others.
In the most difficult time, my father carried boxes from yard to yard to buy sorbets, and later became a cook, while my mother relied on knitting sweaters for others to supplement the family.
In order to provide Zhou Yang with skating, his parents opened a lottery shop at home.
One room is used as a lottery betting station, and the other room is occupied by three people.
In this way, Zhou Yang stepped onto her speed skating world step by step.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she won the women's 1500m short track speed skating championships and the women's 3000m relay championship
Short track speed skating at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics defended the women's 1500m title.
Zhou Yangjia's lottery station, Fan Kexin's shoe repair shop, Xu Mengtao's barbecue shop.
This is the shape of most ordinary people in this society.
Some people say that the stories of these civilian champions, each written down is the scar literature of China's low-level working people.
But I don't think there's anything scarred about it.
They may have tough conditions, but they are all struggling to support themselves.
Whether it's the athletes themselves or the parents who support them behind them.
There is no complaining because the conditions are not good.
On the contrary, the more in the tortuous tide of life, the more we have embarked on the most down-to-earth road of effort.
If Su Yiminggu Ailing shows the future of the new era, living out his dreams and living his own dashing.
That Xu Mengtao, Zhou Yang, Fan Kexin, is the epitome of thousands of ordinary families igniting hope and harvesting flashes in ordinary life.
It is the truest portrayal of happiness.