On May 27, Beijing time, the 2022 Forbes "30 Under 30" Asian sports elite list was released, and among the 30 Asian sports elites who were finally selected, four chinese were selected, namely Beijing Winter Olympic champion Gu Ailing, Beijing Winter Olympic champion Su Yiming, Tokyo Olympic champion Quan Hongchan and The first Formula One athlete in Chinese history Zhou Guanyu, and in this list, each athlete will indicate their nationality. Then the nationality issue of Gu Ailing has also been settled, and some netizens no longer need to doubt it!
Among these four Chinese athletes, relatively speaking, everyone is not familiar with Zhou Guanyu, although compared with the previous three is not an Olympic champion, but Zhou Guanyu's achievements are also recorded in history, he as China's first F1 driver in 72 years of history, such a significance is no less than Yao Ming in the basketball world, Liu Xiang in the hurdles, is definitely a historic breakthrough, even before Zhou Guanyu got the first point of the Chinese team in the history of F1, People's Daily used "landmark points" To describe Zhou Guanyu's performance
The second is Su Yiming, who was not yet 18 years old when he won a gold and silver at the Beijing Winter Olympics, which not only added honor to the Chinese sports delegation, but also replaced the former short track speed skater Zhou Yang as China's youngest Winter Olympic gold medalist, but when Su Yiming stood on the highest stage of the Olympic Games, his experience was enjoyable, he was gradually transformed from a child performing arts star to a professional snowboarder, and finally at the Beijing Winter Olympics, with " The first gold medal and silver medal in the history of the Winter Olympics in China's snowboarding project", as the best coming-of-age ceremony to themselves
Also young and famous and selected into the Forbes Asian sports elite is Quan Hong chan, who was only 14 years old when she won the gold medal in the women's singles 10m platform at the Tokyo Olympics!
She not only won the gold medal, but also stood on the top of the world with the achievement of three of the five jumps as a full score, and the total score set the highest score record in the history of the women's 10-meter platform, and even Ling Haichan, director of the Guangdong Diving Management Center, praised her: "I have been a coach for more than 30 years, and I have seen the best female diver!" ”
Finally, there is the mixed-race Gu Ailing, who won two gold and one silver for the Chinese sports delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics and created a number of records, such as the first freestyle ski jump gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics, the first women's snow sports Winter Olympic gold medal in Chinese history, and the youngest winter Olympic medalist in freestyle skiing in history
And when Gu Ailing became the winter Olympic champion, she became the king of popularity in China and the United States, but the controversy came from the time she flew to the United States in early May, it is known that Gu Ailing will enroll in Stanford University in August, and Gu Ailing's itinerary before the start of school from May to August is almost full, in addition to business activities, there are various award ceremonies and catwalks, etc., but when Gu Ailing left China in early May, she wrote a sentence "thank you China", which immediately caused controversy, and then the Internet was full of "questioning nationality" issues
And this time Forbes Asian sports elite list, the profile of each athlete needs to be marked with nationality, Gu Ailing's profile is obviously written under the "CHINA" (China), that is to say, Gu Ailing's Chinese nationality identity has been proved to the world, no need to doubt and no need to question! And Gu Ailing has created so many honors and records for the Chinese sports delegation, which is not something that some people can distort at will
Contributing Editor: Jason