Xu Mengtao's A-side: 12 years, breaking through the silver medal spell
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, there was a picture that made the audience around the world cry: Xu Mengtao, after winning the gold medal in freestyle skiing aerial skills, hoarsely cried out to the sky, Am I the first place? Those six words, she repeated three times, as if to question the failure of the past three Winter Olympics.
12 years ago in Vancouver, the 20-year-old Xu Mengtao made a mistake in the second jump of the final and finally won the 6th place; at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao, who won the World Cup and the World Championships the previous year, was determined to win, but only won a silver medal; in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao shouted out the bold words of retiring without winning the championship, but once again made a major mistake in the final, and finally ranked 9th.
The gold medal of the World Cup and the World Championships was soft, and once she arrived at the Olympic Games, she could not play her best level, Xu Mengtao was ridiculed by some netizens, saying that she had poor psychological quality, saying that she was actually hard enough, and some people said that she was hit as a "cashier". Therefore, after winning the Beijing Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao will scream so heart-wrenchingly and release the depression that has been accumulated for too long.
Gu Ailing's A-side: 18 years old, big heart girl won 2 gold and 1 silver
Like Xu Mengtao, the chosen daughter, Gu Ailing is very good in her sports field, before the Beijing Olympic Games, she won a large number of gold medals in the Youth Olympic Games, the World Cup, the Extreme Games and other events, and was pinned on the hope of winning 3 gold medals at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. As a result, she lived up to expectations, relying on her superior strength and more outstanding psychological quality, and won 2 gold and 1 silver in the three projects she participated in.
Especially in the final of the freestyle ski jump, after France's Tesdler won an almost insurmountable total score, she jumped out of the 1620 turn that she usually did not complete, and snatched the gold medal of her opponent, making the French girl cry until she couldn't stop. In the slope obstacle course competition, she died and won the silver medal; in the U-shaped pool competition, she made all her opponents desperate from the beginning, and the other girls had to compete for the silver medal.
Her confidence is not only reflected in her excellent results, but also in her relaxed state on the field. Not only did she eat the leek box after completing the action, but she also played social software between games. She seemed to have just done her favorite job with ease, and the audience and the narrator were too nervous to do it, and there was only a breeze in her place.
So, is there really a huge gap between Gu Ailing and Xu Mengtao in terms of psychological quality? Actually, it's not, you have to look at the life behind them.
Gu Ailing and Xu Mengtao actually represent two different types of athletes, the former life is originally very good, participating in the Olympic Games is to add to life, can be easily faced, similar to her Su Yiming; and the latter is to change their lives through this sport, naturally under greater pressure, and she is similar to More Chinese athletes such as Fan Kexin.
Xu Mengtao's B side: After walking through the difficult years of the barbecue stall, the pressure was huge
Xu Mengtao, who was born in Anshan, Liaoning Province, has a poor family, and the family is crammed into a 36-square-meter house, relying on his father's barbecue stall to make ends meet. Xu Mengtao once said emotionally in an interview more than once: It was really my father and my mother who raised me with a lamb kebab stove.
The hardships of her youth made Xu Mengtao self-reliant and self-reliant, eager to become an Olympic champion, so as to change her fate and let her parents live a good life. This is the motivation, but also the pressure, so standing on the Olympic field, in the face of the opportunity to change her life against the sky, she wants to win too much, but more or less lost the square inch, and there are some mistakes that are impossible to occur in normal training.
It wasn't until she was 32 years old and had been tempered too many times that she finally transformed into a steel-like female warrior. From the team competition to the individual competition, she did not make a mistake, and the grind of the years allowed her to overcome all the cowardice who feared failure - this is the legend of ordinary people!
Gu Ailing's B side: becoming a ski champion, but she "plays" her hobby to the extreme
The first thing to say is that this "play" is not a pejorative meaning. Everyone knows Gu Ailing's life, and the rich family environment has made her have a lot of choices from childhood, and these choices do not need to bear the heavy mission of "changing fate". So she made skiing one of her hobbies, competing in all kinds of competitions, even the Olympics.
The good family situation and excellent education make her have a very strong self-confidence, whether it is competitive ability or conversation, it is not the same as the vast majority of Chinese athletes. After winning 2 gold and 1 silver at the Beijing Winter Olympics, she said she was not sure if she would participate in skiing competitions, and may shift her focus to writing, which shows how easy it is for her to participate in the Olympic Games.
Looking at China as a whole, how many athletes can be like her? She is really a myth that cannot be copied.
——Pay attention to the small fish and feel the temperature of sports!