CCTV News (Focus Interview): Hard work is a key word in the Beijing Winter Olympics, and in the field of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, we witness the moments when Chinese and foreign athletes work hard and create history almost every day. Behind the exciting moments, behind the moving breakthroughs, behind the shining medals, you can see the athletes' tenacious and touching efforts, and you can feel the athletes' dedication to their dreams and love. Today, let's walk into their stories together.
On the evening of February 14, in the women's aerial skills final of freestyle skiing at the Beijing Winter Olympics, China's Xu Mengtao scored the highest score of 108.61 points with the difficult moves in the last round.
After winning the championship, Xu Mengtao wore a national flag, cheered with emotion, and spilled tears on the field.
This is the 28th title in the 31-year-old Chinese actress's long career, and although she has won numerous awards, the winter Olympic champion she always longs for most in her heart.
Vancouver, Sochi, Pyeongchang, and then to Beijing, the four Winter Olympic Games, Xu Mengtao's Olympic champion road is full of thorns. In 2014, at the Sochi Winter Olympics, she was a popular candidate for gold. In the end, Xu Mengtao won a silver medal, just one step away from her dream.
Wiping away her tears, Xu Mengtao continued to firmly pursue her Olympic gold medal dream, looking forward to another four years later, her dream can come true. But at this moment, the accident struck again. In 2016, Xu Mengtao was accidentally injured, and at this time, there were only two years left before the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
If you want to stand on the field again, it means that Xu Mengtao must pay more efforts. After a difficult recovery and continuous tempering, Xu Mengtao finally appeared in the arena of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. But, in the final, she made a mistake in the second jump. This time, Xu Mengtao did not win the medal.
After the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao began another four years of preparation. No matter whether it is cold or hot, no matter how difficult it is, she is still fully committed to training. After experiencing serious injuries and surgery, although she always missed the gold medal, Xu Mengtao was not knocked down and never gave up the dream in her heart. In the past 20 years, she has only done one thing, and that is to "do her best.". Countless times fell, and then got up to try, finally, at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao's dream of standing on the championship podium, raising the national flag and playing the national anthem became a reality.
In the Winter Olympic Games of the four wars, the dream finally came true, and Xu Mengtao witnessed "the stronger self" with unremitting struggle. Only because of the dream, do your best - such a belief, inspire Xu Mengtao to finally create brilliant. And with love and youthfulness – this passion is also the driving force for some Olympic athletes to write legends.
Compared with Xu Mengtao's tortuous experience over the years, Su Yiming's "world war fame" at this Winter Olympics stems from his persistent love for snowboarding.
On February 15, the final of the men's big jump in snowboarding at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Su Yiming won the championship with a total score of 182.50 points.
For Su Yiming, a young player who is participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time, it is undoubtedly a very exciting thing to win the game, but more importantly, he enjoys the sport.
When it comes to snowboarding, Su Yiming's most common words are like and love. More than ten years ago, it was such a simple enjoyment and love, and little Su Yiming began to try snowboarding.
In 2014, 10-year-old Su Yiming played the small plug in the movie "Wise Tiger Mountain". At this time, whether it is filming or snowboarding, for Su Yiming, it is something he likes to do. At a young age, Su Yiming left a lot of time for the snow field, especially the winter and summer vacations.
After the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Su Yiming also took it as his goal to stand on the field of the Beijing Winter Olympics and show everyone his favorite snowboarding.
After entering the national training team, Su Yiming has a more systematic and perfect guarantee, so he has a dream, day after day of down-to-earth training, but also achieved rapid growth. Although he has also suffered from injuries, his love of snowboarding has never stopped.
With love and blood, you can overcome fear. In October last year, Su Yiming became the first player in the world to complete the "internal rotation 1980 degrees", and last December, at the Big Jump World Cup held in the United States, he won the gold medal in one fell swoop, creating the best result in the history of the Chinese team in the World Cup. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, Su Yiming won the runner-up in men's slope steeplechase and the men's big jump in snowboarding.
It is true that paying and persevering often do not necessarily allow players to win medals, but efforts will not deceive people, and it is not about age on the road to chasing dreams, keeping love and having the courage to fight is the winner. The same is true for many players on the field, their tenacious goal is not necessarily for the gold medal, and even some people are already world record holders, but they still have the courage to chase their dreams and constantly challenge themselves on the field.
This is the opening match of the "Ice Ribbon" of the Beijing Winter Olympics National Speed Skating Hall, and on the women's 3,000 meters of speed skating, along with 22-year-old Chinese teenager Ahnar Adak, the German star Peshstein, who is about to turn 50.
The athletes had to skate seven and a half laps on the track, but after only two laps, Peschstein was physically inferior to the younger players and gradually fell behind. In the face of her desperately sliding in a circle, the audience applauded many times.
At the end of the day, among all 20 participants, Peschstein ranked last. She held the world record in this event for 20 years, which was also broken by young players on this day.
From the young girl who debuted at the Winter Olympics in 1992 to the speed skating veteran who is now nearly half a hundred years old, in the 30 years, in the Winter Olympics alone, Peichstein won 5 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze and 9 medals, and created a number of world records. The athlete who participated in the speed skating event of the Winter Olympic Games the most times and the oldest athlete in the Beijing Winter Olympics is an achievement that she has gone all out on the field and not given up, and it is also an honor that no one has surpassed so far.
At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Peschstein appeared at the Bird's Nest as the standard-bearer of the German delegation. This is also the respect people have for her for four years after another, never living up to the time, and eight times competing in the Winter Olympics.
Whether you win a medal or not, as long as you stand on the Winter Olympic field, you are challenging yourself, creating history, and writing a legend for your life. In the face of injuries, pressures, and challenges, we can always see their tenacious struggle. "Many people grind a sword in ten years and a sword in five years. Life can have several beats, the struggle is worth it, without a cold bone, how to get plum blossoms. "It is also their best efforts and love that make us feel the shock of breaking through ourselves again and again, and let the Olympic spirit burst out of a strong infectious force."