Have you been swept away by Gu Ailing and Su Yiming? Watching other people's daughters and sons, as well as friends who inexplicably snorted, everyone was immersed in the joy of the frequent history-making events on the snow of the Chinese Winter Olympics.
In a joyful atmosphere, everyone began to interpret the "genius girl" Gu Ailing from their own personality. Beauty bloggers pay attention to her tri-color hair, food lovers explore the leek boxes she eats, and mothers on both sides of the ocean are frantically discussing, learning and reflecting on how to raise such a daughter.
The inspirational heroine of this Winter Olympics is far more than Gu Ailing. On the 14th, Xu Mengtao, a Chinese "veteran" who won the freestyle ski women's aerial skills championship, created history, and she is also worthy of being seen by everyone.
She has been practicing skiing for 20 years since 2002. If you count the time you have practiced gymnastics before, her athlete resume is longer. Xu Mengtao, 31, has participated in 14 seasons and 70 World Cups, which is her fourth Olympic Games. She has won 28 world championships, has the world's number one difficulty move, holds the record for the highest score for women...
Mistakes at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics
However, in the previous three Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao repeatedly rubbed shoulders with the gold medal. The closest she was, she won a silver medal. Especially at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, she was regarded as a favorite to win the championship before the game, and her expectations for herself were extremely high, and she even said that "she can't get the gold medal and retire.".
After the score appeared, the opponent of the competition, the American Caldwell, turned around and hugged Xu Mengtao tightly, shouting: "Taotao, I'm proud of you! ）”
Those who missed the gold medal also deserve to be seen. In the women's U-shaped track skills final on snowboarding, Cai Xuetong won the fourth place. Although he did not qualify for the podium, he made difficult moves during the competition, creating the highest ranking of the individual Winter Olympics.
Born in 1993, Cai Xuetong learned roller skating through self-study at the age of 3, 13 times on the podium of the World Cup championship, holding 7 snowboard U-shaped track events World Cup overall champion, she is the U-shaped field project to win the most season championships athletes. This year she is also in the Winter Olympics of four games.
Every Olympic Games can get the attention of the whole people, and everyone can feel the tension, excitement, emotion and regret in a game, even if we are thousands of miles away from the competition venue, even if we have not heard, seen, or experienced the sport before. Because the real meaning of sport is far beyond winning or losing, there is much more it shows us than to see wins and losses.
The women's curling team also surprised us. This sport known as ice chess is really very niche, the average person almost never saw it in reality, the pot alone costs more than 200,000, and many people do not eat or drink for a year to buy a hand. The Chinese women's curling team defeated the British team, which has won the world championships 8:4, and won the ice and snow sports powerhouse Canada, and only one member of the team has previously played in the Winter Olympics.
The proportion of female athletes participating in this Winter Olympic Games reached 45.4%, and 53% of the projects in all 109 minor events involved female athletes, which is the highest proportion of female participants and the largest number of participating events in the Winter Olympic Games so far.
Regarding women's sports, in recent years, it seems to have become a lifestyle and fashion, and many girls participate in daily sports in order to maintain their figure and health, looking for a type of exercise that they like and suit themselves, and even insist on daily fitness. But to become a professional athlete, it is not easy for women.
Even now, there is still a stereotype that prevails, girls who practice sports = tomboys = no femininity = not liked by the opposite sex. But loving something is not about pleasing anyone, or we don't live fundamentally to please anyone. Even Cai Xuetong, after she entered the national team, she would still receive persuasion from her father to retire.
It seems that women should stay away from niche, unusual, challenging jobs and choose to live a stable life and have a stable job. In the past, parents always praised the well-behaved girls who scored well in cultural classes more than cared about or even criticized the active and running girls. It's not fair.
Perhaps Ailing Gu's success and discussion of her education could really lead to radical change. Sports girls deserve praise just as much, even if she's not a champion, she's done something she loves, she's outstanding.
The discussion about women in sports has been going on for a long time, not only this Winter Olympics, the victory of women's football has also brought us great excitement, in addition to excitement, the story of women's football has a lot of touching. It has been 16 years since the last time the Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup.
Founded in 1984, the Chinese women's football team won the first Asian Cup two years later, and since then created seven consecutive asian championships in 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999. Yes, you read that right, the women's soccer girls not only left the Vietnamese team far behind, but they also had no opponents in Asia, and now they are the same.
Perhaps many young people do not know or do not remember, the Chinese women's football team once in the era of almost no one paying attention, silently created history, participated in the Asian Cup 14 times and won a total of 8 championships, 2 runners-up, 3 third places, and also played the world's second place in the World Cup. (There is no need to step here, because Wang Shuang, a member of the women's soccer team, said that he hopes that one day people will pay attention to women's soccer is no longer to satirize men's soccer.) ）
People gave the old women's football team a name that can not be replaced to this day - the sonorous rose.
Sun Wen, the old women's football captain with the title of "Maradona in a Skirt", was awarded "Miss Football of the 20th Century" by FIFA, and now she is the vice president of the Chinese Football Association.
Shui Qingxia, the newly inaugurated women's football coach, was also one of the players of the Golden Age of that year.
After 2007, the women's football team entered a low stage. Originally, the popularity of women's football matches was very low, the attention of fans was also low, people did not like to watch women's football matches, dislike was not fierce enough, confrontation was not strong, and women's football in the trough period once disappeared from the media and the public's vision.
But! Facts have proved that true confrontation, desperate fighting, and real strength not to accept defeat have never been flowery, and they have been put on the surface to show people.
Today the women's football team won, people boasted vigorously, tomorrow they lost? Will we still boast? Will you still pay attention? Must be exaggerated! Women's soccer girls take the salaries of the working class, fight back again and again, try to rush to higher goals again and again, even if they lose, but never give up.
Whether it's a female athlete who won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics or a women's soccer girl who has returned to the top of Asia, they actually prove one thing, a great athlete is not male or female, but he has to be worthy of himself. These flying girls, let us believe, strength, hard work, tenacity... These masculine labels, which were once considered masculine attributes, are not separate, not male and female!
Author: Mie
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