Talented girls, Olympic champions, school bullies, fashion models... The pluralistic identity makes Gu Ailing a "perfect idol" in people's hearts... Her name carries a "legend". So all the glory and praise, behind all these proud achievements, how did she become "Gu Ailing"? The eighteen-year-old girl had a frank conversation with us.
Athlete Gu Ailing is definitely a "lucky one", when she was not the best at freestyle ski jumping, rejected her mother's suggestion to jump 1620 (aerial rotation grab action), reached the difficulty coefficient that was never completed in the women's event in the history of the Winter Olympics, she fulfilled her pre-competition promise - to create her own history, and the record of two gold and one silver made her instantly the focus of national and even world attention.
Goddesses, geniuses, chosen daughters... Words of praise come like a tidal wave, and people often emotionally reflect their thoughts and expectations in legends and legends, just like the core of sportsmanship, becoming stronger and better.
Gu Ailing is well aware of this and has expressed her heartfelt thanks many times in the interview, thanking everyone for their attention. An 18-year-old girl who is about to enter a college campus, like most girls on the planet, has keenly felt that her body and heart send a strong signal to the world: I want to master the skills of life by my own strength, choose a path full of joy to reach beauty and happiness.
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Among the many stories about Gu Ailing's growth, the frequent details are her family background, her strong and intelligent mother, her equally powerful grandmother, and the details of life such as sleeping ten hours a day, the path of learning, exercise and practice between China and the United States. These details are quoted, paraphrased, interpreted, refined, and people love to read and eager to be inspired.
Surprisingly, Gu Ailing has the precious honesty of an 18-year-old girl, she said, "Not everyone has to become Gu Ailing, because everyone is unique." From her own successful experience, she firmly believes that everyone can only finally obtain the satisfaction of life that they really expect if they keep the uniqueness of their talents.
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Find a time to cry
Gu Ailing is so powerful that countless spectators remember and relish the details of her on the winter Olympic venue, such as: the "dragon embroidery" she designed on the ski suit, domineering; she nibbled on Beijing's grounded snacks while waiting for the score; she comforted the kindness and gentleness of her competitors...
Even if you don't watch Gu Ailing's game from a professional perspective, you can probably understand that Gu Ailing's half-month Beijing Winter Olympics schedule experience is a sunny, positive girl inspirational story.
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The excitement on stage is bound to the hardships offstage. Gu Ailing knew that in order to maintain an emotional state friendly to the outcome of the game, her body had formed an instinct in years of training, and the surge in hormones on her kidneys made her focus on her movements and abandon distractions; but at the same time, the tension and even fear that should have been there at this age were temporarily put into the "management box" of the mind.
This is the "secret" behind a talented athlete, because he loves skiing, so he trains from the inside out, deep into the emotions.
Only after the dust of the noisy "battle" settled, we knew for the first time that she would let go of herself on the field ceremonially and cry well.
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Q: Many friends know and like you through the Winter Olympics, their reaction is very enthusiastic and direct, your every move has become a topic, what is your direct feeling in your heart?
GU: The first reaction is thanks, but I don't really know much during the game, every day I was training, and then the game, from February 4th to the 18th, there was no day of rest, and there was not much space in the brain to think about how to face the outside world that had nothing to do with the game. It's really an incredible thing, I feel like I've been doing what I like, and then I have my own life, but there are so many people who want to pay attention to me, to accompany me, to share the fun and results of the game.
Q: Would you be stressed by this kind of national attention? Even one of them may become your fan because they like you too much. Will their evaluations affect your choices for some time to come?
GU: I don't feel the pressure, like finishing a skiing move, I may fall, everyone will have a moment of mistake, right, then after I fall, if someone thinks I'm not good, I lost a medal and so on, what can I do, not to race? I mean I can't live according to what other people say, it's my own, no one can live for me, I can't live for others. I can share the process with everyone, but the choices are made by myself, and the control over my life is also in my hands. So, I can do whatever I want, and it doesn't matter if other people like it or not.
Q: What you're most praised for is emotional stability, you know, it's hard for adults older than you to do, is this something you were born with or trained?
GU: Of course it was trained, and there are many training methods. I train every day, for example, when I'm done physical training, I write a journal, I talk to myself before I take a shower and go to bed, and I go through the day in my head. Do you know, standing on the big jump stage on the radio will say, this is Gu Ailing's last jump, all the audience is watching her, how many hundreds of millions of people, etc., I heard that day. But I've been preparing for this sound for a year, and I know there must be this [sound], and I'll simulate it in my brain when I'm training, and then I'll make it again and again so it won't interfere with me.
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Q: Although you talked about the precautions of training, after all, you are a girl who has just turned 18 years old, and there will always be some emotions that need to be expressed at this age, or crying or laughing.
GU: Of course there is, and it's very important, this expression comes from hormones, which is very natural, it will make you feel anxious, melancholy. I'm talking about training not to make everyone have no emotions, to reject it, I'm talking about a kind of self-directed control, I once spoke to share, how not to suppress it but to channel, then set aside a moment to express their feelings, I know that these days are very uncomfortable, I need to cry, well, then find a time to cry well.
Q: So, have you cried lately?
GU: Yeah, or go to the big jumping stadium after the game, find a corner where no one is crying loudly, it's very comfortable. Did you know that in 14 days I had only one focus, and that was the race. That state is very common in the ski world, that is, your body will secrete a lot of adrenaline, make you excited, but once the game is over, you will feel depressed and sad for a while, which is the compensation and balance of the previous tense state, you need to release your emotions.
Q: In addition to this extreme state of tension, what else would you cry about, fear, pain, or separation?
Gu: I would cry because of fear, there was a time when the blood was drawn during the physical examination, I especially didn't like to see blood, every time I drew it, I would cry, and the other person would say, "I haven't touched you yet, why am I crying?" ”
I have no regrets in my life
Anyway, after the game, before entering the Stanford University campus in the United States, it was a "busy and long vacation". Not long ago, Gu Ailing posted a video of her first day of learning to skate on the social platform, only to see her carefully holding the railing and sliding, and then began to try to rotate and jump on the ice. Netizens quipped: "This is another skill, is it possible that four years later at the Winter Olympics in Italy we have hope to see the frog princess on the figure skating podium?" Relaying these comments, Gu Ailing laughed.
"Oh my God, I just learned it three times."
She didn't push herself into more and more intensive competitions because she was a Winter Olympic champion, and what she was most looking forward to was college life, hoping to read more interesting courses, such as astrophysics that explored the mysteries of the universe.
Gu Ailing revealed that the actress she likes very much is Emma Watson, the role of Hermione in the Harry Potter series of movies, on the grounds that in addition to the classic IP, it is "we all love cats".
Onlookers can certainly see the similarities between them, beautiful, intelligent, studious, and have their own opinions, and they have had smooth and clear speeches in public about how a girl should establish her own evaluation system without referring to other stereotypical and secular standards.
Gu Ailing, who is about to enter her "Hogwarts" campus, wants to fully control her life without being disturbed.
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Q: Many people think that you are a goddess, a genius, and have also generated a lot of imagination, for example, the next Winter Olympics Gu Ailing may have to participate in the ice project and get a medal.
GU: I've skated three times in my life, and you can see if I can do it. I really don't have to treat everything as a race, and I don't need to be world number one. I went skating because I needed it, and doing it would make me happy, it was as simple as that.
Q: There is a saying on the Internet that look at how many doors God has opened for Gu Ailing, in addition to taking two gold medals and a silver medal at the Winter Olympics, you will surf, be a model, etc., what else is not opened, or there have been some doors that have been closed, and you will feel sorry when you think about it now.
GU: So far, I haven't had any regrets in my life. All the doors that open, which I have chosen myself, are genuinely interested, and if they are not opened, that is what I am not interested in, not what I want. God will not open this door for you for no reason, and if this assumption is true, and no one is born with some ability, then it must require two conditions, the first is that you are interested, and the second is that you have to learn and practice. Skiing is my favorite thing right now, and I put a lot of effort into it.
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Q: What things may you be interested in in the future, fashion, movies are possible?
GU: I'm super interested in fashion, I was excited when I first went to Fashion Week when I was 15 years old, I like to dress myself up beautifully and have style, I'm curious about how to draw eyebrows, how to do nails, how to do better, I know that even such small things will have a professional standard and need to be done every day. I also especially want to make movies. Anyway, the race is over and I'm going to college this year and will definitely experience some new courses.
Q: Are you nervous about the upcoming campus life? What if the people around you will look at you differently because you are a Winter Olympic champion?
GU: I want to be calm, I respect each other with the people around me, they have to respect me to the same extent as I respect them, I don't want anyone to respect me because of my skiing performance. I don't want to look at his history, I just look at whether we can talk about it at the moment, have similar views, and character is also very important.
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The pursuit of oneself is eternal
During the interview, it was slightly interrupted once, and Gu Ailing's mother on the scene received an invitation to an event, and the other party proposed two ways, live broadcast or live experience, and the mother wanted to ask her daughter's opinion.
Gu Ailing replied quickly, obviously a live experience, which was in line with her curious nature. From this detail, it is not difficult to see that the mother has enough respect for her daughter and will not substitute for her own experience.
Gu Ailing also joked about "complaining" that her style of dressing and matching was not recognized by her mother, and she was very happy with the evaluation given to her by the on-site staff and netizens, thinking that she balanced comfort and fashion, but also appeared confident and sunny. "Mom, did you hear that?"
On the surface, this mother-daughter exchange is a modern educational concept and mutual respect, but the more essential reason is that the two generations of women have compassion and understanding, plus Grandma Gu Ailing, which is three generations.
The previous generation of women through their own efforts, whether in the East or the West, have their own independent, shining coordinates, so they will also pass on this successful experience and experience similar genes to the next generation of women, the latter in daily life, absorbing and refining, feedback adjustment, but also firmly believe in the value of women, not bound by gender, looking for the most suitable interests for themselves, making it their own life direction.
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Q: Regarding the relationship between people, in fact, the most discussed is probably you and your mother, to know that the mother-daughter relationship, whether it is a novel or a movie, is probably intimate on a global scale, and it is also very delicate.
GU: It's normal to have disagreements, just like the clothes I sometimes wear, she doesn't like it, but she will think very rationally, this thing will not hurt me first, it will not hurt others, that does not like it, she will not rush up to change my choices, but will explain the reasons she does not like, and leave it to my own judgment.
Q: In your family, in addition to you, there are two fairly independent and thoughtful women, Mom and Grandma, and from your point of view, what is the difference between them?
GU: My grandmother is really strong, she is the kind of person who is very competitive, when I was very young she would describe a lot of things like competitions, such as seeing who went to bed first, seeing who ate the best, etc. That's how she came to be, and she still insisted on running at such an old age. And my mother is very logical, she will analyze with me whether a thing is good or not, what are the consequences, what are your real needs in your heart, and so on. I may just be a combination of the characteristics of the two of them, will enjoy the game, and need to pull out to see, this is not what I want.
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Q: Just ask a question, are you afraid of your mom?
GU: Why am I afraid of her, I will only respect her, just as she respects me. We have formed a tacit understanding over the years, that is, to communicate well and explain our ideas to each other. It's like in the big jump free ski race, I called her after the second jump and she said you can do 1440 and make sure you end the race safely, don't get hurt, and there's a project behind it, which is very logical, right. But I wanted to try it, challenge 1620. My mom will eventually support, OK, and let me make a decision.
Q: Do you feel from your grandmother and mother what conditions women need to rely on to achieve independence and happiness?
GU: There are a lot of ways, some people through fashion, some people through skiing, some people through reading, in short, as long as they choose and work hard for it, they can get happiness in love.
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Q: Do you know that something very magical happened during the Winter Olympics, that is, many articles related to education are analyzing how Gu Ailing became a talent, and parents will use you as an example to try to analyze the reasons for the success of their children.
GU: Thank you very much! I know that all parents in the world love their children the most, of course, and if they take me as an example and want their children to be like me, I know that this is a big compliment to me. But I still want to say the real idea, that is, I don't want many children around the world to become Gu Ailing, don't you think it shouldn't be copied so simply. I've been saying that everyone has to have their own choices, so do children, they can find their own direction, everyone is unique, believe that.
Q: If I still wanted you to share three sentences with these children, especially the girls in the 10s, hoping to encourage them, what would you say?
GU: The first sentence is: Every day, you must do at least one thing you want to do, and do it with dedication. The second sentence is: beauty is self-confidence, especially at a very young age to start to contact the concept of beauty is very important, how fast fashion development, you have to have the ability to pursue your own (style), this is eternal. The third sentence is: eat well, sleep well, exercise more.
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