Gu Ailing won another gold - resisting the pressure on the field stemmed from the hard work on the field

Guangming Daily reporter Wang Dong huang Xiaoyi

"I know that everyone thinks I can win this project because I have not lost in the past two years as long as I have participated." On the 18th, Gu Ailing, a player from the Chinese team, spoke confidently after winning the championship in the women's U-shaped field skill final in freestyle skiing. As she said, her victory in the project is highly anticipated, as she is currently the absolute king of the project.

In the past two years, Gu Ailing has won the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Championship, the 2021 World Extreme Games Champion, the 2021 World Championship Champion, the 2021 Fluxus Tour Champion, and the 2021-2022 FIS World Cup Year-end Championship in this event. In two years, she completed the grand slam of the project.

On February 18, in the final of the women's U-shaped field skill of freestyle skiing, Gu Ailing won the gold medal. Guangming Daily reporter Chen Cheng/Guangming Photo

1. Optimal in "U"

If there is an element of luck in winning a single race, then winning four consecutive World Cups in different venues this snow season depends on absolute strength.

Gu Ailing's winning performance in the four World Cups in this snow season shows her stability in the face of high difficulties - on December 11, 2021, she won the championship at Copper Mountain Station in the United States with 90.50 points; on December 30, 2021, she won the championship in Calgary, Canada with 96.80 points; entered the Winter Olympic Year, won the championship with 92.80 points in Calgary, Canada on January 2, 2022, and mammoth Hill in the United States on January 9, 2022, with the highest score of the season of 97.50. Counting the two skis in the Winter Olympics qualifiers and the two skis before winning the championship in the final, under the 100-point scale, she has never scored less than 90 points in the gold-fighting skating this snow season.

In the four World Cups, Gu Ailing won almost all the masters of the project.

At the Copper Mountain Station in the United States, she won the championship by beating Canada's Rachel Kak and Estonia's Kelly Sildaru. In her first race in Calgary, Canada, she beat American Hannah Faul Haber and Canada's Rachel Kack to reach the top. In the second game of the Calgary leg, Gu Ailing once again defeated Rachel Kack and Hannah Forhab. Later, back in the American Mammoth Mountains, Gu Ailing once again defeated Kelly Sildaru and also defeated the American Brita Sigony.

These opponents also appeared in the final on the 18th, with Rachel Kack winning bronze, Kelly Sildaru finishing fourth and Hannah Forhaber finishing sixth. The silver medal was won by cathy Sharp, the winner of the last Winter Olympics.

2. The "U" blade is more than enough

After the qualifiers on the 17th, an NBC reporter asked gu Ailing in an interview: "Many players have not made difficult moves in the qualifiers, and you have scored 93 and 95 points in the qualifiers. ”

Gu Ailing replied, "I'm not on the difficulty yet." ”

In the final on the 18th, Gu Ailing chose the connection action of the opening two 900-degree rotations for the first time, and the whole set of sliding action and grasping board were impeccable.

In the second round, when all the players invariably increased the difficulty, Gu Ailing did not panic, but won a super high score of 95.25 with higher lifting height and more personal actions. In the end, before the departure of the last taxi, Gu Ailing had locked in the championship.

In the official difficulty table given after the game, Gu Ailing's most difficult move is 900 degrees of rotation, but her rotation covers two consecutive 900 degrees of forefoot and reverse foot. In addition, her complete set of moves covers a variety of different types of moves on the basis of difficulty, which is difficult for other opponents to match.

In the personal training video previously released by Gu Ailing, she can make a 1080-degree turn, but it was not shown in the final. In addition, the expected turn of 1260 degrees has not been presented.

Talking about the difficulty of the action, Gu Ailing used his fingers to compare a small distance, saying that today's distance decision to make a 1080-degree turn is only a little worse: "Before the two jumps I only used about 60% of the difficulty, before the third jump, I want to go to the highest difficulty of the full set of actions." ”

However, teammate Zhang Kexin had an accident on the field, which made Gu Ailing decide not to take risks. "I saw Zhang Kexin fall and hit his head, so I gave up on the idea as well. Today it was windy, I was tall and weighed small, and when the wind was strong, it especially affected me, so I thought about finishing the race safely. She said.

3. "U" wins the magic weapon

After the game, talking about his feelings about the three finals, Gu Ailing said that the pressure was even greater in the U-shaped venue skills final that day. She confessed that the winning streak and the audience's expectations put her under pressure. After confirming her victory before the third glide, she cried with relief.

"Although I have done my best to do better in training, to improve the details of the grasp, to show more of my own characteristics, to do more difficult moves, no matter how many times I train, a person in the Winter Olympics will only have three chances in the final. During the game, it is very likely that there will be problems and accidents I cried because I really did it, I gave so much, I prepared so much, and in the end I really succeeded. Gu Ailing described the feeling as holding her breath for a long time and then exhaling a large breath.

Champions need to withstand the pressure on the field, and they are inseparable from the efforts outside the field.

At the post-match press conference on the 18th, Gu Ailing talked about her efforts. She believes that talent accounts for only 1% at most, and 99% comes from hard work.

"I don't really know if I'm talented, and if I did, it would have been very, very small. Because I think talent is just to help you learn to ski a little faster than others when you first start skiing. But when you start practicing difficult movements, when you have to go to the gym to start training, when you have to do mental construction, it's all effort, and 99% of it relies on effort. I felt that I had really done everything that could be done. ”

Gu Ailing has not rested since the opening ceremony, she said that her body is very tired, but she needs to thank herself for her efforts in the summer. She said that in the summer of 2021, when she was doing physical training, she spent 4 hours a week in the gym for half marathons and 4 hours a day, and there was no coach to make such a training plan for her, just because she felt she should practice.

"Usually, when I train, I am the first to go to the training ground and the last to leave. Sometimes even if there are 8-10 hours of magazine shooting work a day, I will insist on exercising at night. I'm so happy to get these medals because I know how much I've put in and I see that hard work pays off. Gu Ailing said.

Two gold and one silver, Gu Ailing's first Winter Olympics trip was extremely exciting, and she also cherished this trip.

"There's a table in my house where all the medals I've won are on that table, but Olympic medals aren't going to be there. Above the window, I had prepared a space where I was going to hang olympic medals. ”

We believe that more Olympic medals will be hung there in the future.

Guangming Daily ( 2022-02-19 06 edition)

Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily