Xiao Cui from Hebei Petroleum Vocational and Technical University, an ordinary student who just entered the university campus in 2021, was lucky enough to become an extraordinary Winter Olympic volunteer because of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
According to Xiao Cui's recollection, she was in charge of the floor where the Japanese athletes were located, and one morning, she came to the guest room as usual to clean up - about 100 square meters of area, wearing heavy protective clothing, disinfection, cleaning, dust removal, garbage collection... Just as Xiao Cui, who had finished his work, was preparing to leave, Hanori Sakamoto, who had just won a valuable bronze medal in the figure skating women's singles competition, walked over.
The single-eyelid Japanese girl borrowed a mobile phone translation software to communicate with Xiao Cui: "Thank you, hard work!" I want to know your name. Therefore, while responding to "my pleasure", Xiao Cui happily taught Sakamoto the pronunciation of his name and Hanyu Pinyin, and congratulated the other party on winning the Winter Olympic medal!
What Xiao Cui did not expect was that the Japanese figure skater immediately took out a blank paper and pen, drew the background of the cherry blossoms on it, and also modeled the pinyin of Xiao Cui's name and the 9 Chinese words "Thank you for cleaning carefully" according to the translation software.
After leaving his name (Kaori) in the lower right corner of this special "praise card", Hanori Sakamoto has been using it for about 20 minutes. Such a situation made the volunteer Xiao Cui a little flattered, after all, the other party was a star-level athlete, but at that moment, Sakamoto Hanori was like an ordinary girl next door.
A month later, The Japanese figure skating "First Sister" turned to the Montpellier World Championships, and she surpassed her ordinary self - breaking through the 80-point mark in the short program for the first time, and winning the women's singles gold medal without suspense when the Russians did not participate!
Around this "not ordinary" World Championship, the voices of the outside world generally believe that Sakamoto Hanori is really fateful, if it is not the Russian-Ukrainian dispute on the bone, the "matryoshka dolls" whoever comes to participate, how can she win the championship? Maybe you won't even get a medal!
Sakamoto didn't respond much to this, and what she showed in addition to her steady play was her confident smile. Of course, there are still people who take her figure or are not good enough to talk about things, accustomed to the "fairyland" created by russians on the ice, and for a while and a half will be a counterattack on an "ordinary person", and the public's discomfort can be understood.
In fact, from the "newcomer" in Pyeongchang who followed Miyahara Tomoko to the world's first in 2018, Sakamoto herself is also a little uncomfortable, which can be seen from the appearance of her almost "gaffe" whenever she gets high scores. But as an ordinary Japanese girl who is less than 1 meter 6 tall and has a somewhat "slightly fat" appearance, Hanaori Sakamoto adapted to this fiercely competitive ice surface:
Because his home is far from the ice rink, Sakamoto usually chooses to leave before dawn in order not to waste practice time. Like the "basketball god" Kobe Bryant, she always arrives at the training ground before 4 a.m., and many times spends 6 to 7 hours on the ice...
Without a slender figure, Sakamoto took advantage of the advantages of rotation and jumping to consolidate his stability, and added a certain amount of strength when the action was connected and sliding, and then accompanied by enthusiastic and unrestrained elements, gradually formed the now distinctive personal performance method - Sakamoto Hanori is Sakamoto Hanori, which can be seen at a glance on the ice rink.
Opportunities can be seized when they come, which is another element of Sakamoto's success over the years. Her spirit of being mainly self-centered, not abandoning and not giving up is the best portrayal of every ordinary person who strives to be upstream and does not stingy.
Therefore, from a certain point of view, in the era of "genius", each of us should be grateful to Hanori Sakamoto for her existence. It is she who makes us see clearly how to work hard as an ordinary person, to do a seemingly ordinary but not ordinary job, and to win every "battle" of life, big and small!