【Text/Observer Network Zhang Zhaodong】
Su Yiming won a gold and a silver medal for the country at the Winter Olympic Games, and while giving himself the best coming-of-age ceremony, he also let his Japanese coach Yasuhiro Sato receive widespread attention from netizens.
On February 16 and 17, Japanese director @Ryo Takeuchi released two consecutive videos of his interview with Su Yiming's coach Yasuhiro Sato. In the interview, Yasuhiro Sato talked about Su Yiming's feelings after winning the gold, his guidance to Su Yiming on the field, reviewed his mentorship and apprenticeship with Su Yiming in the past 3 years, and expressed his hope that he could become a bridge of Sino-Japanese friendship. In addition, Sato also talked about a small wish of his own, he hoped that he could justify the surname "Sato", because he watched the Chinese anti-Japanese drama and found that many bad people in it were surnamed "Sato"...
"Xiaoming said he didn't go to bed until 4:30 a.m. because someone kept sending him messages." Speaking about the feeling of winning the championship, Yasuhiro Sato said, "Everyone feels very happy, and it feels that the effort has been rewarded. ”
When asked about his guidance to Su Yiming on the court, Yasuhiro Sato said: "To be honest, when I jumped the first and second jumps yesterday, I was still quite worried. Because of the slope skill competition, due to the referee's misjudgment did not win the gold medal, China has also been discussed. So on the first jump, I said 'I LOVE YOU'. ”
Screenshot from director @Ryo Takeuchi
Su Yiming studied snowboarding with Yasuhiro Sato at the age of 14, but impressed Sato as early as the age of 11 when he participated in the China Banana Open, China's only international snowboard event. "At that time, the restaurant where he stayed had a buffet in the morning, and (Su Yiming) his choice of meals was really impressive... It was a children's Doraemon plate with a chocolate donut in the middle of a circle of rice. ”
In preparation for the Winter Olympics to catch up with the new crown epidemic, the two masters and apprentices separated the two countries and could only contact them online. Sato introduced that Su Yiming would send all the training videos of the day, and then guide and discuss him according to the videos, every day. Sato, who is known for being harsh and harsh when training students, once said in an interview that he never worried about Su Yiming's training because he was more strict with himself. "Su Yiming was very hard at the age of 14, bearing more training than her peers. He has a very strong sense of winning and losing, is very focused in training, and has higher requirements in his heart.
After Su Yiming won the silver medal in the slope obstacle course competition, the two masters and apprentices embraced and celebrated
On Sato's birthday, Su Yiming warmly sent her wishes: "We have been with each other for the past 4 years... Happy birthday! Coach Sato, the special person in my life. Sato was touched in the video and said: "So I can only say that this is love, it is really love, he has cried 3 times in the morning when he hugged me, hugged me tightly and said 'thank you'." ”
Last summer, at the invitation of Su Yiming, Sato broke through the obstacles of the epidemic and came to China to help him train, "In Chinese culture, I have great respect for teachers, which makes me very moved." I can't ignore those who believe in me so much. Sato said he would work with Su Yiming to win a second gold medal at the next Winter Olympics.
Su Yiming Ins is the birthday of Yasuhiro Sato
When talking about the language he used to communicate with Su Yiming, Sato said: "English, Japanese, and my strange Chinese. Sato said that he is still learning Chinese, and hopes that he will continue to make his voice to China in the future and become a bridge for Sino-Japanese friendship.
"I think Xiaoming and I have achieved a good story, and I hope to take this as an opportunity, and I hope that the future of China and Japan can develop in a good direction." Sato said that Su Yiming still has a long way to go, and his influence will become more and more influential, "He will also come to Japan to train, and then convey the advantages of Japan to China." Through these, the number of people who want to ski in Japan will also increase, which is also a kind of feedback to the Japanese ski industry. ”
Sato also talked about a small wish of his own, he wanted to get his last name right. "I've watched some anti-Japanese TV dramas in China, and my surname 'Sato' appears quite frequently, as the name of a bad guy during the war. So I want to try to make everyone's impression of the surname better. ”
This statement made a group of netizens laugh, and some people joked in the bullet screen: "This surname is at least a big position." ”
However, Sato's small wish has come true, and he has indeed made Chinese netizens' impression of the surname "Sato" better. This is not only because of his careful guidance of Su Yiming, but also his frank and lovely expression off the field.
In an interview with Phoenix.com, he talked about Su Yiming's silver winning moment in the slope obstacle course competition, and he danced with excitement and shouted: "Real cow*! ”。
Looking at his previous videos posted on social media, "C language" words such as "cow*" often appear. Su Yiming performed well, Sato: "Real he *cow*"; eating Chinese food with friends, Sato angrily praised: "Real he* delicious"; chatting on the bus, Sato from time to time came up with a sentence of "I*"; he also popularized this kind of "C language" to a group of foreign athletes on the training ground...
He even learned the adjective "cow*" at the highest level of the English word , "the niubiest", and when Su Yiming won the Snowboard Jump World Cup last year, Sato was still wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with "the niubiest" to celebrate happily.
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Video source: @On-the-go idol baggage
On February 18, Yasuhiro Sato posted on Weibo expressing his love for Chinese. "I love China, there are too many cute words."
A group of netizens joked: "The taste is too positive, hahahahahahaha ”
"Su Yiming, what did you teach your coach?"
There are also many netizens who praise the Olympic spirit of Coach Yasuhiro Sato.
"I hope that more and more able people will join the bridge of collusion between China and Japan."
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