The winter that has just passed may have been one of the hottest winters we have ever experienced, and ice and snow sports have shown unprecedented cohesion at the fastest speed.
Before that, we may not have paid attention to these young athletes, who spent most of their time hiding in the unpopular training ground, silently holding on to their dreams, perhaps without the attention of the crowd, perhaps without flash focus, just to get the highest honor in their minds at the moment of playing, about sportsmanship, about young dreams, they want to say a lot more.
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics short track speed skating "double gold winner" ▌
Accelerating, surpassing, and rushing the line, Ren Ziwei won two gold medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics and became a dazzling star in the short track speed skating field. In the face of huge attention, Ren Ziwei said that he only wanted to be "small transparent". Off the field, this tenacious ice boy showed more tender moments.
"If it were possible, I'd like to open a stray dog rescue station." This is a topic that no one expected. But Ren Ziwei is very serious, which is what he most wants to do besides winning honors for the motherland as an athlete. "Growing up, I've always loved dogs. But in life, I always see a lot of stray dogs, and I think they are very pitiful. When I was a child, I always thought that when I grew up, I would open a stray dog rescue station. ”
How did such Ren Ziwei embark on the road on ice? The city of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, is a place that is covered in snow and ice for five months of the year. In the first grade of primary school, his father led soldiers in the army, and his mother was busy with work, so in order to be able to take over Ziwei home later, the registration for the training class was put on the agenda. At that time, the Qingbin Primary School in Nangang District, Harbin, where he was studying, was building a short-track speed skating talent base, signing up for this training class, and parents could pick up their children one hour late every day. In this way, 7-year-old Ren Ziwei began to contact short track speed skating.
In elementary school, every day at 3 p.m., he would go to the ice base on time to train, sometimes until after 9 p.m. before returning home. In junior high school, in order not to delay his studies, he adjusted the schedule to go to the ice rink to train at 5 a.m. every day, and continue to train on the ice after school in the evening, or to go home at 9 o'clock.
In an interview, Ren Ziwei's mother recalled: "One day when he came home after training, he told me, Mom, how nice it would be if our family lived on the first floor. The intensity of the child's daily training is particularly high, and he does not even have the strength to go upstairs when he returns home. This is Ren Ziwei, who is usually silent and taciturn, and it is rare to "play" once or twice. On the one hand, his mother's heartache; on the other hand, his father, who came from a military background, gave him more motivation.
Ren Ziwei said: "My father always taught me, and the biggest gift to the motherland is to win the gold medal. Every time he took the podium, he would always point to the five-star red flag on his chest, which had become his habitual action.
Several of his tears also occurred on the podium. On the first competition day of short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Ren Ziwei and his teammates won the gold medal in the mixed team relay. The next day, at the moment when the national anthem was played on the awards plaza, he burst into tears, "I wanted to tell myself that there was a game behind me, and I had to control my emotions, but when I saw the flag raised, I couldn't control myself from crying." ”
After the winter Olympics trip, he rarely returned to his hometown. Before that, he had already spent eight wandering Spring Festivals. In addition to accompanying his family, Ren Ziwei went to the largest local stray dog rescue station for the first time. "I've been following it before, and I've often watched it online, but this is the first time I've been there." What many people don't know is that for many years before that, he had been silently donating money and rescuing these small animals.
"The conditions are particularly harsh, more than three thousand dogs are waiting for rescue, daily rations, and treatment of illness, all need to be handled. It is Liu Li who opened this aid station, who is very famous in our local area. I've heard her stories since I was a child, and she persisted for twenty years, and the house was sold, and the car was sold..." He always talked the most when it came to rescuing small animals.
Ask Ren Ziwei, have you ever thought about life after retiring? "Of course, we already know the story of stray dogs, are there any other wishes?" He thought about it for half a day, and said very gently, "I actually thought about opening a small restaurant." It doesn't have to be well decorated, it's open in a corner of the city, and it's always lit at night. If someone wants to talk to someone and tell their story, come and sit down. ”
【COSMO × Ren Ziwei】
COSMO: In your opinion, the biggest charm of short track speed skating is?
Ren Ziwei: Our project is particularly ornamental. The fierce competition, the rapidly changing drama of the situation in the field, the battle with the opponent, the game with ourselves, not only the audience is stimulated to watch, but we ourselves will feel very excited when watching others play. And you can't be "stupid", you have to analyze the opponent's tactics, or their route, we have a lot of interesting strategies and psychological games.
COSMO: After the game, you said "see you in Milan in four years", what are your specific plans for the future?
Ren Ziwei: At the end of the Winter Olympic journey, I will first temporarily give myself a vacation, and use the rare vacation to adjust my psychological and physical state to the best. Then continue practicing, keep sliding. Because I think that when you get off the podium, everything is to start from 0 again, and then continue to work hard a little bit to stand on the next podium.
COSMO: What else do you like to do besides training?
Ren Ziwei: It is true that there is no entertainment environment and conditions for daily training, because we are in a closed training base. But everyone is young, and we are also interested in what young people are interested in. For example, the script kills, although I can't go offline to play, I also got a mobile app, and occasionally killed the online script.
Gold medal in women's aerial skills in freestyle skiing at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics ▌
Flag bearer of the Chinese delegation at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics
27 World Cup individual gold medals, participated in 4 Winter Olympics, the flag bearer of the Chinese delegation at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics... Many, many years ago, Xu Mengtao, a primary school student who ranked fourth in the primary school examination in Shenyang, definitely did not expect to be able to step on his every step on the "point"!
The human heart and human nature are the most fragile and resilient magical beings in the world. Having seen so many champions and gold medalists, Xu Mengtao said: "People at the peak have toughness, this toughness is like a spring, and like a super rubber band, it can stretch and shrink, elastic, strong, can be twisted, can be bent, can be straightened, but it will not break." ”
Sports is the epitome of life, Xu Mengtao's personality, and her WeChat signature is the same: "peach stick". She spoke emphatically, cheerfully, with strength and weight, "Okay, I'm pretty confident!" "This confidence is especially willing to give up to yourself.
As a teenager, during the ascent period of exercise, the ligaments were ruptured, it took an hour to walk from the ward to the canteen, and it took an hour to walk back to the ward from the canteen, and I recovered alone on crutches, and I didn't want my parents to know. The girl Xu Mengtao felt most uneasy at that time was whether she could "get better" in the end.
For most people, this "good" may be to throw away crutches and walk normally; for seventeen or eighteen-year-olds, she still wants to use these legs to win the world championship. Unprecedented, 4 months after the injury began to retrain, 14 months, Xu Mengtao won the freestyle skiing aerial skills World Cup Moscow championship. It was her first solo world title.
"The anterior cruciate ligament of the joint is broken, and almost no athletes can get back into the sport!" Xu Mengtao, who was happy to take a gold medal for one night, more than ten years later, still remember the tears he shed at that time. Many people's evaluation of Xu Mengtao is "able to bear hardships", but if you can endure hardships, can you walk to the peak of competitive sports? "People can't get to the top just by suffering, execution is as important as willingness!"
"Execution" is a word that Xu Mengtao especially likes to emphasize. Every champion seems to have their favorite words, some are "driving" and some are "hugging tightly". "The so-called accurate execution, not to say that everything is done at a point, every step is to get something, but when you go through this road, look back, do not regret." At every age, make the best choices of the moment, meet the best conditions of the moment, and in the process be ashamed. ”
Speed skating champion Wang Meng has repeatedly mentioned the reemployment of retired athletes. "Frankly speaking, it is not impossible for an athlete to come down from the team and then intend to start from scratch and go to society. Unfortunately, you're willing to start from scratch, but your age and time make it hard to give you the opportunity to start from scratch again. ”
As a sports champion who participated in the 4th Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao's perspective, on the one hand, will not "set limits" for her future; on the other hand, she feels that the problems and difficulties encountered by retired athletes in the process of transformation can be imagined, but is there also a way to solve this problem?
"Sports are the epitome of life, don't let sports become sports, sports are not just competitive sports. Exercise itself is healthy and happy, and it is a way to train children to interpret life! Don't make children feel that exercise and learning are either or the same. This is especially true for athletes! I started training at the age of four, but the training did not delay my studies - an athlete with strong learning ability, the understanding of sports is not the same, the understanding of coaching and technology is completely different. If you do both, you can win the world championship. I practice aerial skills such a dangerous sport, you can take care of learning, so everyone must believe in themselves. ”
"There's no limit to yourself, so there's no limit!" Such Xu Mengtao, full and full, is not only for aerial skills, her true love is indeed sports itself.
【COSMO × Xu Mengtao】
COSMO: What's the biggest effort you've done for the sport?
Xu Mengtao: For so many years, every day I have devoted myself to the same cause, and every day I have treated it as an Olympic Games. No matter how the outside world changes, how time changes, how teammates change, how opponents change, how teams change, and how people on the field change, my dedication to the project will not change.
COSMO: Recently, you officially announced your relationship and wanted to know what your ideal love looks like?
Xu Mengtao: Choosing the other half, I first value whether he has pursuits and goals for his future, he must be a positive and motivated person, in my heart my boyfriend Wang Xindi is such a potential stock. Xindi and I are both freestyle skiing aerial skill athletes, and he especially understands where I am difficult. In addition to training, he is also the person who can best explain me and give me encouragement and help when I encounter difficulties.
COSMO: What's so shiny about sports girls?
Xu Mengtao: Sports is the epitome of life, whether it is for weight loss or for shaping, the girl who can achieve her goals through exercise has a strong ability to overcome laziness and implement plans; when encountering difficulties, the mentality recovers quickly; the thinking ability is also good, is this not shining?
Chinese figure skater, paired for 15 years ▌
Gold medal in figure skating pair skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics
"I firmly believe in a word, when everyone wants you to be good, you can't be bad!" Figure skating gold medal partners Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, in the sports arena, told a good story that hit people's hearts, and the colors were strong enough!
On the last day of the 2022 Winter Olympics, standing on the podium of the champions, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong watched the team's excitement, cheers and the raising of the national flag, tears. This emotion, however, did not last long. It's not that they've won too many titles, it's not that they've walked through too many arenas, it's not that they've gotten used to career ups and downs before that, and even in their memories, the restlessness and anxiety of waiting for the days before they play are more intense.
"The Winter Olympics were just a short few days in my life, and it was probably one of the best days, but the happiness of the whole team together was more lasting than those minutes, hours of excitement." Sui Wenjing said that she was a slightly "neurotic" athlete, not so much engaged in competitive sports as she was engaged in the art industry, because "ice dance" itself is art.
Han Cong's understanding of "those who walk a hundred miles is half ninety" is that those who are determined to walk a hundred miles are only more than half of the ninety. In the last ten miles, more than talent is needed.
"In order to control weight, it is not just diet that needs to be controlled. Before the race, in order to lose three to four kilograms of the base weight of almost forty kilograms, I further controlled the sugar, and often felt like I was fishing myself on the edge of the cliff... Relying on faith to endure repeated torture, not being lazy, is my best effort for figure skating. ”
Sui Wenjing allowed herself to cry, allowed herself to be depressed, allowed herself to spend some time playing her favorite Hanfu, lipstick, and hair dyeing, she needed to use these seemingly unrelated things to completely shape herself; and then use this broken body several times, stand on the ice knife, support the ice dance, rotate at high speed, jump.
This may be the remaining "ten miles" that Han Cong did not mention. How far this ten miles is, measured in time, is about 15 years, accounting for almost 1/2 of their twenties life. The two won their ninth gold medal for the Beijing Winter Olympics, and because there was not enough difference in height, the pair of ice dancers were once extremely unpopular. "But isn't sportsmanship not superstitious to the limits, to believe in one's own indomitable soul?"
Han Cong said: "Sports can make people all over the world excited and cheer, because breaking through themselves is what people want. "In some senses, we feel that athletes are made of special human beings, they are full of faith, they are extremely pure, their flesh is broken, they can fight, make up for it, a few shots can be closed to play, they should be them! But the athletes standing in front of us today, the champions, are more colorful, full of stories, and have an independent personality and spirit.
"Crying and crying, making trouble, before the game 'dry', 'dry' and 'dry' also shouted super loudly, when I stood on the ice, I thought that what I longed for most was the medal, it had to be golden!" After winning the championship, I realized that what I yearn for and enjoy the most is actually figure skating itself. Sui Wenjing is what Han Cong calls an "artist", because in his eyes, her posture on the ice, a smile are so beautiful and appropriate.
Anyone who can face the honor and medal calmly, the bottom line in their hearts is "I deserve it"! The flag, the cheers of teammates, the thunder on the field, tears, smiles, make all the haggard is not worth mentioning. "I hope that one day, more people are willing to stand on the ice and experience the beauty of figure skating!" That's the best I want to do for figure skating! Han Cong's voice was warm and solid, and could be trusted, just like a smile.
"Usually when we play, we rarely talk before we play. This time, Xiao Sui suddenly said to me, 'The first time we won the World Championship was to slide "The Golden Bridge on the River of Sorrows", when we also made the last appearance, and we created countless miracles together! Two people, holding their hands together, that sense of strength, sense of faith, incomparably strong! If anything more moving than this, it's the most beautiful hug in the world, and it must be tight.
【COSMO × Sui Wenjing & Han Cong】
COSMO: Want to know what the tacit understanding of the partner for 15 years is like?
Han Cong: The tacit understanding between us is that when we hear the same melody, one eye can understand each other's inner feelings about this melody; when choreographing, the movements can naturally achieve the effect we want to convey to each other.
Sui Wenjing: Tacit understanding is not innate, and it should not be unconditionally synchronized. If two people don't have any differences, how do you find the problem, solve the problem, and then do it better? The tacit understanding between Me and Han Cong is more in the 15 years of mutual game, for the common goal, try to find the best way.
COSMO: What kind of existence is trust?
Sui Wenjing: People who know figure skating know that in this sport, female athletes are very dangerous, and a slight mistake may be skin opening, concussion, broken phase, broken nose bridge, so trust, is to give his life unconditionally, and believe that the other party must want to protect me. Then, together, we work towards that goal in our hearts. That's the highest level of trust in my mind.
Han Cong: Trust is that we start to grow and train together from nothing; it is the persistence of each other when no one looks at us or even questions our combination; it is also the insistence on each other when we are injured. The fact that I stand on the highest podium one at a time is, in my opinion, the best interpretation of trust. She gave me her life, and I came to protect her!
COSMO: What other skills do you not know?
Han Cong: I am very good at cleaning the room, do you? (Laughs) Live your life clean under pressure and try to be as orderly as possible.
Sui Wenjing: I especially know how to chat.
Chinese curler ▌
Partnered with Fan Suyuan and had a brilliant performance at the Beijing Winter Olympics
On the surface, the sport of curling doesn't seem to have a fierce physical confrontation. But in Ling Zhi's view, curling athletes are always facing the double test of physical fitness and intelligence, high-intensity heart rate climbing, and extremely tense psychological games.
On February 2, 2022, the first round of the curling mixed doubles competition became the first event to be launched at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Ling Zhi and his partner Fan Suyuan represented the Chinese team in the first Olympic game, won the first victory of the round robin tournament, and also made curling, a relatively niche sport, enter more people's attention.
Many netizens call Ling Zhi "the most handsome person who wipes the ground", and behind the love name, there seems to be some small misunderstanding of curling. For example, curling is not tiring, not a gymnastic project.
"Actually, it's particularly tiring. Ice sweeping is actually a combination of aerobic plus anaerobic. Every time you sweep the ice, your heart rate will instantly climb to 160/170, once a minute, and last for more than two hours, and no good physique can't survive at all. This is also the reason why he has insisted on fitness for a long time, curling ice sweeping, not only needs the arm, but also needs the training of every part of the body. Lumbar abdomen, pectoral muscles, dorsal muscles... It is the precise control and power of each muscle that ultimately realizes the acceleration of curling and the adjustment of running trajectory.
Another phenomenon that everyone will be curious about is that in the curling field, athletes often hear the shouts of "hahaha" and "me and me", following these shouts to rub the ice surface with the ice brush, which adds a little blood to this brain-burning sport known as "chess on ice".
Ling Zhi said that "sweeping ice" and "shouting" are all for the purpose of defeating the enemy. Shouts are not meant to boost morale, but to give accurate instructions. "Hahaha" is an abbreviation of the English word "hurry" which means "quickly wipe ice"; "me me me" is "whoawhoa whoa", meaning "stop wiping ice". "When the ball gets closer to success, or the danger gets closer, the louder the shout, the more powerful the ice sweeping. After all, he keeps shouting, you are embarrassed to stop. Under Ling Zhi's humorous explanation, the sense of picture came instantly!
In his opinion, the biggest charm of curling is to engage in psychological games with opponents. "It's like playing Go, the situation is ever-changing. How to fill the field so that the other party has no way to start; How to break the situation in the predicament, bump into the opponent's encirclement, chase and interception, the strategy discussed in advance is often not used, too much on-the-spot judgment and urgency. ”
Because of this, some people also call curling "snooker on ice", careful layout, beautiful rotation and hitting, precision, speed and strength of the shot, timing and skill of wiping ice, all test the wisdom and mentality of athletes.
In the face of major events, Ling Zhi was rarely nervous, nor was he too late to be nervous. The rapid conduction of bodily functions, the brain nerves like a CPU to make millions of judgments and decisions, all of which left him with no time to take care of the so-called psychological burden. "On the contrary, the waiting time of the first five minutes of the game is the most annoying. That's probably the longest five minutes of life, and it's especially easy to think about it —think about how to fight for a while, and what to do if you don't want to play well. Later, when I had experience, I closed my eyes and recuperated. ”
"A lot of athletes have a little habit of settling themselves down, and someone put a hundred dollars in their pockets, suggesting that they can make a hundred shots. I myself am keeping things the same, such as not changing gloves before the game, listening to the same song repeatedly, and sitting in the same position every time I take the car to the venue. "These subtle movements form a sense of ritual and invisibly help athletes relieve tension."
Ling Zhi is 28 years old. Among curlers, this age is still very young. "The career of curlers is a long line, and many curling veterans will reach their peak at the age of 45, when they are experienced, more mature and calmer." Not only is it a matter of time, but time brings the accumulation of experience, but also a more stable judgment. Ling Zhi knew very well in his heart that the end of a contest did not mean anything, and there were countless mental contests waiting ahead.
【COSMO× Lingzhi】
COSMO: What do you not know about curling?
Ling Zhi: Curling is a team sport, cooperation is particularly important, teammates must be the longer they get along, the better, there are even many "twin" curlers in the world, growing up together. In contrast, Fan Suyuan and I belong to a new group, and we have known each other for a short time, and we have been running together for less than three months. Therefore, we desperately try to talk more and know each other more. It felt like a month's playing time, we were saying on the pitch, even more than the previous months combined.
COSMO: Your daily fitness videos have received a lot of attention, can you share your experience?
Ling Zhi: I don't have any tricks, I just keep my mouth shut and open my legs. Just move first, no matter what you do, don't think too much, move and then say. Including diet, in fact, athletes also have hungry times, but also want to eat sugar, want to eat carbs. At this time, it is to make rules for yourself, such as resolutely not eating supper, even if you are hungry and awake, you must go through hungry.
COSMO: At the end of each competition, is there a habit of rewarding yourself?
Ling Zhi: Usually I don't buy much, and I don't give myself material rewards and rewards. In fact, for athletes, the biggest reward and luxury is to be able to take two days off and rest for two days. After resting, you should adjust your state as soon as possible and continue to engage in a day-to-day training cycle.
Snowboarder ▌
It has competed in four winter olympics and ranked 4th at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
Created the highest ranking for the individual Winter Olympics
13 times on the World Cup podium, holding 7 snowboard U-shaped track event World Cup overall champion, Cai Xuetong is the deserved king of U-shaped field projects. But beyond the peak, there is a peak. Leaving the arena, she enjoyed wandering on the top of nature's mountains.
On the field, Cai Xuetong was fascinated by the free charm and thrilling extreme challenge of U-shaped pool women's snowboarding. The snowboarding U-shaped field is an extreme sport known for its explosive power, with a set of movements of 30 seconds, and in 1 second of vacating, difficult turns must be made.
She remembers walking into the U-shaped pool for the first time in 2005, "the coach took me from the bottom of the U-pool, swung from one side to the other, one, two times, and then I swung the front blade of the skateboard to the edge of the groove, and just as I came down, my heart suddenly sank, and I experienced an unprecedented feeling of weightlessness, as exciting as a roller coaster, a feeling I will never forget." ”
Stimulation is accompanied by fear. How to overcome fear again and again? Her answer was somewhat unexpected, "I've never overcome fear." Those previous experiences seem to make you feel that only by overcoming fear can you achieve good results. In fact that is impossible. Fear will always be with you, constantly stimulating you. Everyone is scared, but why continue? It's because they all like to challenge this fear. ”
But if you ask Cai Xuetong, what is the most attractive sport of snowboarding? Her answer was off the field. For her, the U-shaped pool is a battlefield for the expedition, but after all, it is only an artificial object between the square inches. In nature, there are endless mountains and pistes to explore. Compared with the uniformity of artificial snow fields, the mountain grows into what it does, and it goes down with its ups and downs, which is the most primitive and purest way of gliding.
"In 2021, I will go skiing in Haihou Mountain, Cocoto, Xinjiang. The snow quality in March and April was particularly good, we slid to the back hill, and at the foot of the steep slope, the birch forest became the only audience. Even if you stand at the top of the mountain, you will be surrounded by mountains. In the midst of the mountains, you will feel particularly small, small and deserted. But I had skis in my hand, and that made me feel incredibly free. Because I can slide down from anywhere, all the time, all the time... There is no scoreboard and no finish line. At that time, you will forget how painful the climbing road was when you came, and you will feel that all the hardships before you have been worth it. ”
"The guide who leads us is called the 'Wolf King.' He was not afraid of wolves, and the locals said he grew up with wolves. In her narration, this ski trip to the Cocoto Sea is full of legend and wildness. But safety is the bottom line that Cai Xuetong wants to emphasize. "For skiing in the wild mountains, a guide is a must. We will not slide into the restricted area, facing unfamiliar routes, without a professional local guide to carry, certainly not to break in. Responsible for yourself and for others. ”
Before the pandemic, she spent 8 months a year in snowy mountains almost all over the world. "The most memorable one was in New Zealand, where I tried heli-skiing for the first time. The moment you get off the helicopter is the most challenging, because it is always spinning in circles and the wind is particularly strong. We landed at the top of the hill and couldn't stand well, it was too steep. ”
Wearing a snowboard at the top of the mountain and sliding down, under the guidance of experienced guides, Cai Xuetong shuttled through the snow ditches, ridges, and woods, leaping over steep slopes, jumping over small cliffs, like a dexterous deer, breathing in the cold air, and enjoying the wild fun. "When you're hungry, eat an energy bar you carry with you and glide all day without realizing it."
Cai Xuetong, who has experienced 4 Winter Olympics, will not just lock his eyes on the medal. "There's not just one race in life to prove myself, I can even skate every mountain in the world if I want to."
【COSMO× Cai Xuetong】
COSMO: After four Winter Olympics, how do you feel differently now than you did at the beginning?
Cai Xuetong: The first time I participated in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. At that time, I was too young, inexperienced, the whole person was blinded, it felt like everything was too late to react, and I didn't know how it was over. Later, I have been exercising my mentality and stability, often watching my videos over and over again, studying how to improve my movements. This Olympic Games at the "doorstep" of Beijing has both satisfaction and regret. In fact, getting the "fourth place" was the most unpleasant, and it was definitely uncomfortable at the time. But I don't always get immersed in this emotion, I said to myself: "A failure does not represent my true level, I believe in myself, I will definitely do better in the future!" 」 ”
COSMO: Want to know what the pattern of getting along between athletes in various countries is?
Cai Xuetong: Although everyone on the field is an opponent, after the game, every time we meet, there is a sense of long-lost old friends. We exchange badges with each other, and a lot of athletes have a habit of collecting Olympic badges, and I love it. Especially this year, our own badges are particularly beautiful, and I am even a little reluctant when exchanging. Many athletes from other countries changed with me, and I told them to change two for one, and the other party did not hesitate at all, and was particularly happy after the change.
COSMO: Before each game, do you have a little ritual to cheer yourself up?
Cai Xuetong: In the past few years, I would wear a red dress from top to bottom before each game. But then I didn't do it, because I didn't want to use these things to limit myself, I didn't want to have a deliberate feeling. Now, whether it is training or before the game, I want to try to maintain a stable sense of daily life.
Figure skater ▌
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics men's singles short program competition
Recreate the action of "hooking hands for four weeks plus three weeks after the outer point ice"
Received a high score of 270.43
In the competition, there is a sense of victory and a sense of selflessness. The innate love for sports is the strongest shield in the world, and the persistence, patience and cohesion around it are enough to support the rise after the dormancy.
Starting with the 2013 World Figure Skating Grand Prix Youth Champion, Jin Boyang has never lacked gold medals in his career. After the 2022 Winter Olympics, he was asked the most by the media about "how to turn around from the bottom of adversity"! Every time, the 25-year-old boy will honestly answer: "Genius may not be a champion, but those who keep working hard will eventually get their own spiritual medals!" ”
To be honest, this is a very unpleasant question. When faced with the question of "fifty cents to work harder, there is no dollar to attract people's likes", he will also struggle slightly, using the northeast people's cool straightness to say: "Fifty cents is also money, two is not a piece!" ”
"Figure skating is fascinating, in its flawless beauty, in its richness, in its ability to always make a breakthrough. Whenever you break through the pinnacle of the technical point, this excitement is more fascinating than what has been achieved, and the feeling is really incredible! "From drum kits and dance to various interest classes, Jin Boyang, a leather child who changed his mind the next day, fell in love with it from the first time he saw figure skating." I really begged my mom to let me learn figure skating for a year! ”
Unlike those athletes who are diligent, obscure, and insist on training for breakthroughs, talent makes Jin Boyang quickly stand out, "At that time, social media was not developed, and people around me praised me, I really just thought figure skating was too fun." I thought that the three-week jump might be the 'end of the technology'. ”
I didn't expect the end of the end, but also far away. Becoming a professional player, you face not only the "hooker jump for a few weeks", but also the change of the format and everything around you.
"Everyone thinks I'm funny, but I hope others may pay attention to why I'm funny!" In the four years after the PyeongChang Olympics, the professional performance of Jin Boyang, who became famous as a teenager, fluctuated, and there were not many "collapse" moments.
"People think it's funny because I keep facing failure, constantly trying to challenge, failing again, and challenging myself again." Great success, no matter how strong self-confidence, must also have the courage to accept that they may fail. 'Letting go' is the ability, as if you let go of all your defenses in order to rush forward with all your might. He especially likes to use two words, one is "driving" and the other is "positive".
"The upward mentality is the opportunity given to yourself, a more comprehensive understanding of yourself, and a stronger control of your emotions, so that people can show the 'king's spirit' on the field."
But in the end, in the process of double climbing in body and competitive state, you can still "laugh", or really love!
"Most of the athletes who have come to this point in the Olympic Games are extremely strong, united, and especially believe in the inspiration of cohesion. Seeing that those who have experienced 4 Olympic Games are still working hard, I feel that these 4 years are just a piece of cake! Jin Boyang talked about the full schedule of training, which was quite understated.
Because it is "tired" enough, people have the confidence to stand on the playing field. Hard training is a sense of security, and it is the "pain and happiness" of athletes! "Of course, before the game, we will consume more carbs in our diet, in addition to ensuring physical energy, but also to make the mood happy!" Sometimes Jin Boyang, who also learns to use "big words" hard, is still full of youthfulness in the end.
So, putting aside the correct answer that "life is interesting because it is imperfect", he said that if life can be cycled at some point: "Then I must hope that the World Championships after the PyeongChang Winter Olympics can be repeated."
【COSMO × Jin Boyang】
COSMO: What's the definition of "sportsmanship" in your mind?
Jin Boyang: Constantly surpass yourself, constantly challenge yourself, and be the best of yourself! This is best, not perfect, but a change in your own mentality. In the future, even if you are not an athlete, in the face of pressure, you have strong confidence and self-confidence to face it, and you have the ability to withstand and crack!
COSMO: Are the friends you know really only meet when you're playing?
Jin Boyang: When there is no epidemic, I will travel to each other's countries, take to the streets together, and eat together. When we play, we try to minimize interference with each other because everyone is preparing; when the game is over, we will definitely play for a while. We've been playing together for many, many years, and every time we play it's basically a familiar person, like a big family.
COSMO: Who was a new friend I met recently? Will you try another cos womenswear like "Water Ice Moon Grocery Shopping"?
Jin Boyang: Su Yiming! No, haha!
Source: Fashion COSMO, May issue
Planner & Producer: Jakii
Photography: Yu Xiang
Editors: Wang Yimin, Gong Zheyi
Makeup: Li Xinyuan (Xu Mengtao, Ren Ziwei, Sui Wenjing & Han Cong, Jin Boyang) Mu Dingzi, Hui Xian (Ling Zhi, Cai Xuetong)
Text: Zhang Lingyun (Xu Mengtao, Sui Wenjing & Han Cong, Jin Boyang), KOMA (Ren Ziwei, Ling Zhi, Cai Xuetong)
Styling: Nine days
Executive Styling: Dara
Styling Assistant: Sonia
Vision: Yuqing
Editorial Assistant: Wang Yijie
Image source
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