February 18, Beijing time, is the 18th birthday of Su Yiming, the champion of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The 17-year-old ski genius won the snowboard men's big jump championship and the runner-up in slope obstacle course at the Winter Olympics, and also broke the record of Chinese short track speed skating Olympic champion Zhou Yang who won the Winter Olympics at the age of 18, becoming the youngest Winter Olympic champion in Chinese sports. Su Yiming once said that this Olympic gold medal is his best coming-of-age ceremony. Behind his great success, there is a Japanese coach who is the most powerful, he is Yasuhiro Sato. In Su Yiming's own words, he and Coach Sato have been fighting side by side for many years, although they are not father and son, they are like father and son.
After winning the men's big jumping championship in snowboarding at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Su Yiming said in an interview that he should be most grateful to coach Yasuhiro Sato. It was his careful guidance and encouragement that made him confident and at ease in the game, and this gold medal was won by himself and the coach. After the award ceremony, Su Yiming directly threw herself into the arms of her coach and wept, and Sato Yasuhiro hugged his disciple tightly and congratulated his beloved disciple with a smile. This picture is also considered by the outside world to be the most touching moment of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Yasuhiro Sato is one of the world's top ski instructors, who has been practicing skiing for nearly 30 years, and has trained world champions such as Reiko Iwabuchi and Ken Otsuka for the Japanese team. With Su Yiming's victory, Yasuhiro Sato also became one of the Olympic champion coaches. Yasuhiro Sato once said in an interview with the media that his greatest wish is to build a bridge of friendship between China and Japan through skiing. Su Yiming won a gold and a silver result in the Olympic Games, and Yasuhiro Sato played an irreplaceable role, which also ushered in a new spring for the development of China's snowboarding industry.
After Su Yiming won the big jump championship, many people wanted to know how he would communicate and partner with Coach Yasuhiro Sato in the competition. Su Yiming revealed that before the game, he will hug Coach Sato, and the coach will always remind him of some technical essentials, and before the jump, the two will high-five each other. Interestingly, Su Yiming also said that before the second jump of the big jump final, Yasuhiro Sato said to him "I love you". The simple 3 words, but in Su Yiming's heart rippled, in the end, he completed the 1800 action excellently and won the gold medal. As an Olympic champion, spending his 18th birthday, Su Yiming bluntly said "incredible".
From the age of 4 to the age of 4 to become an Olympic champion, Su Yiming's growth experience has made many people envious. But behind his brilliance is his obsession and dedication to skiing. Yasuhiro Sato revealed to everyone that in order to impact the gold medal of the Winter Olympics, Su Yiming never slept lazily, practiced an action for up to 6 hours a day, failed again, kept repeating, never shouted tired. In his view, the achievements of the disciples today are the inevitable result. For the future, Su Yiming said that if he has a goal, he will boldly try, even if he pays everything. Talking about the next four years, he admitted that he has a lot of new plans, but what remains unchanged is to always be the best version of himself. Come on, snowboard junior!
(Luo Treasurer)