Gu Ailing won the championship again.
On February 18, in the final of the women's U-shaped venue skills of freestyle skiing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing won the eighth gold medal of the Chinese delegation for the Winter Olympics with a crushing advantage!
At the same time, she also won her second gold in this Winter Olympics.
Recently, Gu Ailing has continued to dominate the screen for many days, and has become the focus of public opinion in the whole society for a time.
Gu Ailing, who has strong strength, high appearance, many talents, good personality and excellent achievements, has exploded throughout the network at a whirlwind speed, becoming a top idol, and even becoming a phenomenon.
However, for the more representative champions of the Chinese team in this Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing is more like a fairy tale, and Fan Kexin, Wu Dajing and Xu Mengtao are the reality.
01.
"Frog Princess" - Gu Ailing
There are not a few successful people who have poor family conditions to achieve counterattacks, but many times you have to admit that from the perspective of the probability of becoming a talent, excellence is also an inertial inheritance.
In terms of family conditions and personal conditions, Gu Ailing is more like a princess in a fairy tale.
Born with a golden key, a good family, high endowments, and the efforts of the day after tomorrow, he has achieved today's national idol.
In this Winter Olympic Games, Gu Ailing has stood on the podium three times and achieved "one household and three piers".
In fact, not only now, But also Fromtani Ailing is "someone else's child".
He won the National Junior Championship at the age of 9, won the first place in the adult event for the first time at the age of 13, and reached the top of the ANNUAL CISF standings at the age of 15.
In addition to skiing, Gu Ailing also loves long-distance running and basketball, and other sports such as gymnastics, yoga, horseback riding, football, rock climbing, archery, etc. are also proficient.
He also won the second place in San Francisco in cross-country running, and is definitely an all-round athlete.
Of course, in addition to the comprehensive development of sports, like many Chinese children, Gu Ailing learned talent skills such as piano and ballet from an early age.
Unlike many professional athletes who ignore cultural classes, sports genius Gu Ailing is also a full-fledged academic bully and has always been a full-time student.
Last year, Gu Ailing was admitted to Stanford University with a high SCORE of 1580 out of 1600.
The high school principal's assessment of her was that it was rare to meet students who could combine so many studies and sports so well.
After Gu Ailing exploded, many people were discussing her mother's education method.
In the eyes of many people, Gu Ailing's success stems largely from her mother, who has a Wall Street background in Haidian, Beijing.
In order to support Gu Ailing's skiing, every weekend or holiday in the ski season, Gu Yan will drive a four-hour car to send her daughter to skiing and training, and it takes eight hours to drive back and forth every day.
Gu Ailing's mother, Gu Yan, can be regarded as the "Haidian Mother" on the tip of the pyramid.
He is a school bully, a Wall Street elite, and he is well versed in the advantages and disadvantages of education in the East and the West, helping his daughter to learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses between the two education systems.
Since she was two years old, her mother has taken her back to China for at least two months every year.
While living in China, Gu Ailing also studied Olympiad, which laid an excellent foundation for her mathematical achievements.
In the middle schools in the United States, Gu Ailing's math test results have always been the first, and he has even broken the school's math test record.
Later, every summer vacation, her mother would take her back to Beijing to go to Haidian Huangzhuang to take extracurricular tutoring classes and learn mathematics.
In the words of Gu Ailing's mother: Come to China for ten days of classes, and you can top the United States for one year.
As a bully elite who has gone out of China, Mama Gu is undoubtedly the one who understands the differences between Chinese and American education and knows how to maintain a balance under the education systems of China and the United States.
The United States has a loose atmosphere and more diverse options.
In China, there is a "dafa of examinations" and high-scoring cheats.
The combination of the two has achieved a nearly perfect high-quality education, and Gu Ailing is undoubtedly a realistic sample under the typical elite education path.
This kind of "rush to run" advantage of winning at the starting line is difficult for many ordinary family children to catch up with the strength to eat milk.
02.
"Counter-Attacker" - Fan Kexin
Compared with Gu Ailing, who was born with a golden key, and Fan Kexin, who was born in poverty, the road to champion is particularly difficult.
On the evening of February 5, after Fan Kexin's Chinese team composed of Qu Chunyu, Ren Ziwei and Wu Dajing won the gold medal in the short track speed skating 2000 meters mixed relay, he burst into tears in the interview, saying bluntly that he had waited too long for this gold medal.
Born in 1993, she went from a shoe repair shop to an Olympic champion, and for this gold medal, she has insisted on three Olympic Games.
But it was such an Olympic champion who was once in tears because he could not afford to buy skates.
Poor children are in charge early.
Fan Kexin was not happy as a child, and due to the failure of the family business, the economy fell into a dilemma, forcing him to go to his relatives with his family.
A temporary construction of the activity board room, a shoe repair stall, has become the whole of this home, the board room is only more than ten square meters, with bunk beds, no electricity and no water, water to rely on other people's homes to carry, the family often drink porridge and stomach.
At one point, he supported Fan Kexin's shoe repair stall
Fan's mother said in an interview: When the conditions were poor, she once picked up a piece of clothing from the garbage can, took it home, washed it, cut it well, and gave it to her daughter to wear, who understood that her parents were not easy and would not pick.
Fan Kexin loved to dance when he was a child, and he also had a talent in this area, if he was born in a wealthy family, he might achieve an artistic career.
However, because the family was too difficult, the sensible Fan Kexin had to give up his hobby, because there was a fee for participating in the dance class, and the tuition and clothing fees added up to 300 yuan, which was their family's two-month rent at that time.
Later, Fan Kexin turned to ice skating.
The sensible Fan Kexin, the first question he asked when he saw the coach was "Is it necessary to learn this for money?" ”
Think about it, such a sense of understanding, there is no doubt a little bitter.
At that time, Fan Kexin's family used a teapot for dinner, not even a dining table.
Then in training, Fan Kexin's physical condition, because the family could not come up with money to treat the disease, Fan's mother once wanted her child to give up short track speed skating.
Later, when growing up, Fan Kexin's nutrition was obviously unable to keep up, and the team only provided tuition, but the cost of ice blades, sportswear and other expenses needed to be paid by individuals, which was a big burden for their families.
But fortunately, there are always some well-meaning people to help, which is why I persevered.
In an interview with CCTV, Fan Kexin recalled the difficult years.
Image source: CCTV "Cultural Perspective"
"When I started practicing in 2003, the shoes I wore at that time were quite broken and very cheap, but then I entered the Harbin team, and the ice knives and shoes I used to have stopped working, I remember that the pair of ice knives was 2500 yuan, and my family had no money to buy that pair of ice knives and shoes. At that time, Teacher Meng helped me advance this money, he confiscated a penny, at that time 2500 yuan, may be a year's living expenses in the family. ”
Fan Kexin has always remembered what Teacher Meng said to her: "You must practice well, and then use your own efforts to change the conditions at home." ”
Fan Kexin, the original goal is to change the family situation through grades, she wants to buy a champion building for her parents to live in.
With the deepening of training and the understanding of competitive sports, her goal has gradually changed from simply changing the economy to winning glory for the country.
For himself, for his family, and for the country, this Olympic "Elder of the Three Realms" has done it.
03.
"Never admit it" - Wu Dajing
When Fan Kexin tearfully received the podium, Wu Dajing, who won the championship together and was also from a poor background, also cried with empathy.
After ending the journey of this Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing sent a farewell message, and he particularly emphasized: he will not retire and will never admit it.
The Olympic record holder, who combines many honors, is also like Fan Kexin, who grew up poor, and through his extraordinary efforts, he stood on the championship podium.
Wu Dajing's father is an ordinary worker, and his mother also works in a factory, and the family situation is very ordinary.
In an interview with reporters, Wu Dajing's parents specifically introduced several pairs of skates he had used.
Wu Dajing's first pair of skates cost 600 yuan, which was his father's salary for two full months at the time.
After that, because Wu Dajing's feet grew too fast, the economic pressure of changing shoes frequently was very high at home, so Wu's mother went to buy him second-hand skates, which could save a lot of money.
Later, Wu Dajing practiced to a certain extent, and he had to change into "foot shoes".
However, their family could not come up with this money, and his second uncle saw this situation and made a pair of skates for Wu Dajing at his own expense.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Huanzong/Photo
In real life, especially in the fierce competition of competitive sports, there is no casual success, and for ordinary families, the difficulty and pressure of being able to cultivate a champion can be imagined.
The sword blade came out of the grinding, perhaps it was the harsh conditions that tempered Wu Dajing's hard work of not accepting defeat and not admitting encouragement, and this spirit undoubtedly made him and also achieved China's short-track speed skating.
04.
"Jian Er" - Xu Mengtao
"The little girl went out with courage and courage, rushed to the goal for the reward, and was concerned about the Olympic battle in Yunding, and Xu Mengtao, a healthy athlete.
Before the Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao's aunt Liu Lanfang, a famous storyteller and performance artist, specially cheered her up, and it is said that the name Xu Mengtao was given to her by Liu Lanfang.
Like Fan Kexin, Xu Mengtao, who has also been looking forward to Olympic gold medal, has also been looking forward to for a long time.
On February 14, Xu Mengtao, who had experienced four Winter Olympics in the women's aerial skills final of the Beijing Winter Olympics, finally realized her dream of winning the championship.
Image source: Xinhua News Agency
The 31-year-old veteran, the Olympic champion who came out of the "barbecue stall", has experienced unimaginable hardships for others.
Some people have compared the difference between the Olympic events in winter and summer, compared to the cost of ice and snow sports, especially snow sports, and the initial stage requires strong support from families.
Unlike Gu Ailing, when Xu Mengtao was a child, the family's economic situation was very general, and the family mainly lived on barbecue stalls.
Initially, her wish was also to train well to achieve results and no longer let her parents suffer.
When Xu Mengtao was very young, her father found that her daughter's physical flexibility was very good, and at the age of four, he sent her to the gymnastics training class of the sports school, in order to help her practice, Xu's father also picked up an old carpet from outside and spread it on the cement floor of the home, which was used as Xu Mengtao's training ground.
In 1998, Xu Mengtao was selected for the Liaoning Provincial Gymnastics Team, and in 2002, Xu Mengtao achieved 3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze in the Liaoning Provincial Games.
However, with the development of the body, Xu Mengtao is no longer suitable for practicing gymnastics, so Xu's father, as a sports fan, sent his daughter to Shenyang Sports Institute to practice freestyle skiing aerial skills across borders.
According to media reports, the Xu family's original old house is less than 40 square meters, and the barbecue stall business that was once operated is not very large, and it is said that it is only thirty or forty yuan a day at the beginning.
But it is also by relying on more than 20 years of grilled skewer business that Xu Mengtao's parents have supported their daughter's dream of champion.
In 2014, after Xu Mengtao won the runner-up in Sochi, he also returned to his hometown barbecue restaurant to help his parents greet guests.
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Four years ago, he folded in Pyeongchang, and now at the "doorstep" to realize the dream of the champion, Xu Mengtao, a veteran who came out of the barbecue stall who had undergone 4 major surgeries and removed nearly 70% of the meniscus, had his sports career really hot enough.
As we all know, whether it is a summer Olympics or a winter Olympics project, the initial stage of learning which sport needs to be invested first.
One thing we must objectively admit is that the reason why economically developed regions such as Northern Europe and North America have an absolute advantage in the Winter Olympics is that in addition to climatic factors, it is undoubtedly inseparable from the degree of economic development.
After all, with good economic support, there will be advanced training venues, and only then can we hire first-class coaches and medical teams.
A few days ago, after the old photos of the families of the three Olympic champions became popular on social platforms, many netizens were deeply touched.
Some netizens said that they used their own struggle to break the statement that "ice and snow sports have nothing to do with ordinary people".
Some people also said that they would transfer this article to those Olympic champions who "have a theory of origin", "the theory of talent", and "have nothing to do with ordinary people".
However, I believe that on the road to the championship, these three athletes from ordinary families must have paid unimaginable hardships to others.
It is true that Gu Ailing, Fan Kexin, Wu Dajing, Xu Mengtao, and Zhou Yang before him are the pride of the country.
However, Gu Ailing is like a fairy tale, like an ideal, like someone else's child, who can only look at, appreciate and envy from a distance.
Fan Kexin, Wu Dajing, and Xu Mengtao are more like real lives, like most people in reality, relying on themselves to change their destiny.
*Some information reference: Guangming Network, Observer Network, Beijing News, cover image from: Weibo @ People's Daily, some of the pictures in the text originate from the Internet, the copyright belongs to the original author