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At the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese ice and snow athletes fought bravely, and while picking gold and silver, winning glory for the country, and greatly increasing the morale of the Chinese people, they also stimulated the enthusiasm of the people for ice and snow sports.
Among the mainland athletes who performed well at the Winter Olympics, there were young heroes who had just come of age, such as Gu Ailing and Su Yiming, and there were also veterans who were tenacious and persevering, such as Wu Dajing, Fan Kexin, and Xu Mengtao.
However, as long as you have a little understanding of the growth experience of these successful athletes, it is not difficult to see that different people are still quite different.
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Gu Ailing debuted in the Olympic Games for the first time, and so far has an excellent record of one gold and one silver.
She is not only a brilliant athlete, but also a versatile student. She completed all her high school courses in 2 years, and was admitted to Stanford University, a top american university, with a sat score of 1580 (out of 1600 points) in the first grade.
In addition to ice and snow sports, Gu Ailing often learns ballet, dance, piano, archery, rock climbing, trail running and other sports. It can be said that she is a rare all-rounder.
Why is Gu Ailing so good? Someone on the Internet has long revealed her family lineage, and her mother, grandmother and grandfather are all high-knowledge of the top schools in China, and they are good at sports.
In addition to excellent genes, Gu Ailing also has superior family conditions, which can support and afford her professional sports training, which is astronomical in the eyes of the average family.
Su Yiming, who is similar to Gu Ailing, has also been receiving professional skiing instruction since he was 10 years old.
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But some athletes have grown up in the opposite direction of each other, such as short-track speed skating veteran Fan Kexin.
Fan Kexin was born in 1993 in a poor family in Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province, where the family was crammed into a 7-square-meter tin house.
Fan Kexin was lively and active when he was a child, and his parents also gritted their teeth to sign up their daughter to learn dance. But just after a week Fan Kexin did not learn, the original dance class to charge 150 yuan clothing fee.
Later, a neighbor's aunt took Fan Kexin to the stadium to play, and happened to meet ma Qingzhong, a short track speed skating coach, who was leading the team to train. Horse coach Fan Let Kexin also run and jump, found that her physical condition is very good, and accepted the child.
At that time, Xiao Fan asked Coach Ma in the first sentence, do you need money to learn to skate? The coach said that as long as you practice well, you don't want money.
Fan Kexin was selected by Meng Qingyu, a meritorious coach of mainland short track speed skating, when she was 10 years old, but her family not only could not afford to buy ice knives, but even the clothes she wore were picked up from the garbage heap.
At this year's Winter Olympics, 29-year-old Fan Kexin endured injuries and heavy pressure to fight for a gold medal and a bronze medal for the Chinese team.
After winning the championship, she said excitedly:
I've been waiting for this gold medal for too long, I've always believed in the team, and from the day I entered the national team, I always believed in my teammates and believed in the strength of the team. I've been in the national team for 12 years, and first of all I want to thank the country. We train every day in a state of fighting, and when we go down to the ice, there is blood in our throats. At this moment, I feel that all our efforts are worth it!
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Similar to Fan Kexin's experience is that of 14-year-old diving youngster Quan Hongchan, who won the Tokyo Olympics last August.
Her family is a poor family in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province. After she became famous, relatives who could not be beaten by eight rods before came to the door, and her mother, who was sick in bed, could not help but sigh: after so many years of marriage, I heard for the first time that there were so many relatives. Even clans that have always paid attention to tradition must make an exception to write Quan Hong Chan into the family tree.
Successful athletes, some of them have a superior family and received professional training since childhood, and some are poor, relying on excellent physical conditions all the way from the city team and the provincial team to the national team, and finally won the championship and became famous.
It is not to say that these two models of athlete training are right and who are wrong, and they are all glorifying the country. It's just that the polarization in it reflects the cruelty of reality.
Ice and snow sports is originally an aristocratic sport, ordinary people can not skate several times a year snow, each time the transportation costs to and from the snow field are not bad, not to mention the best equipment, please ask professional coaches for guidance.
So those who engage in this sport either have good enough family conditions, or they are poor but very talented, and let the state pay money to cultivate.
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For ordinary people, the inspiration is also very profound:
1, reading is no longer the only way for poor children to turn over.
In the past, there were many touching stories of takako who came out of the cold door. A rural teenager, although his family is poor, but intelligent, diligent and self-disciplined, after ten years of hard study, admitted to a prestigious school, and then became a high-ranking official/executive, embarked on the peak of life.
There are many such examples, but now with the development of society, it is getting more and more difficult!
In 2017, Xiong Xuanang, a member of the Beijing Municipal Liberal Arts College Entrance Examination, said that it is difficult to produce a noble son in the cold door, and now the champions are like me, who are strong in their own and strong in their families.
Now the college entrance examination has been very internal, the knowledge in the textbook alone is not enough, but also a lot of extracurricular knowledge, expand thinking ability and knowledge. To be able to do this, it is not only necessary to spend money to pave the way, but also to create conditions for the family to give children the opportunity to see the world.
In this way, children living in big cities and well-off families have a greater advantage in reading than children in townships! In the past, poor children could study hard and get high scores, but now it is difficult.
Reading is no longer a competition between students and students, but has expanded to the competition between parents and families.
To put it bluntly, if Fan Kexin did not practice skating, Quan Hongchan did not practice diving, but went to school, I am afraid that before graduating from high school, I would have to drop out of school to work. Even if the family barely supports, with their intelligence and diligence, they can be admitted to a key university, and after graduation, they have to struggle in the vast workplace.
They are on the right track in practicing sports, and as teenagers, they have achieved achievements that are difficult for others to achieve in their lifetimes.
Whether it is China or foreign countries, there are many such cases, poor children with physical talent, get the opportunity to train professionally, and finally grow into excellent athletes, rewriting their fate.
2) Success must depend on the gifts of Heaven.
There's a famous saying: genius is 99% sweat plus 1% inspiration.
But what most people don't know is that if you don't have that 1% inspiration, no amount of sweat is any different from the average worker.
Athletes can win championships, hard work and scientific training is of course very important, but to a large extent, it is to rely on the sky to eat.
The process of many athletes being discovered by coaches is purely accidental, like Fan Kexin, who met the coach on the stadium. Quan Hongchan is also a coach passing by her home, found that the 7-year-old her height is less than 1 meter 2, hopscotch but one step can jump out of 1 meter 6, this is simply a natural divine power! Take her to the jumping stage, and the others are trembling, but she is playing.
Her talent, even the diving empress Gao Min was shocked, saying that Quan Hong chan was a gift from heaven to Chinese.
Your gift is a gift from Heaven.
Successful people are taking their talents to the extreme, rather than following the crowd and surviving according to the rules and values of others.
When you are depressed because of inaction, you should think about where your talent is, and whether you have lived up to the gifts of heaven!