Moderator of the 047 issue | Yin Qinglu
Japanese figure skater Yusei Yusei decided to withdraw from the front line at a press conference in Tokyo on July 19, saying that retirement does not mean rest, and he will continue to engage in professional figure skating performances. The news of Yusheng's retirement instantly became the top 1 of the hegemonic screen on the daily push list, although it triggered a lot of regrets, but fans also felt that since he should have won the award has long been won, he has done his best to challenge the 4A (Axel around the jump, one of the figure skating jumping actions), but will not continue to torture the health, at this time quitting is a very free choice.
Yu Sheng's life history is very perfect, and he is considered to be a once-in-a-century genius in the history of figure skating men's singles. But genius can only be used to look up, and what is more impressive is his bumpy career, his ambition to constantly surpass himself, and the artistic personality of "strong" and "fragile". What resonated with fans was how he escaped from the Great East Japan Earthquake, slid all the way from the local circuit in Sendai to the Olympic stadium, how he worked hard to get into Waseda University as a general entrance exam rather than a sports student, and how he insisted on completing the "Blood Phantom" performance with injuries after colliding with Yan Han and bleeding from his jaw at the 2014 Grand Prix. Although Yusheng has repeatedly said that he is an athlete rather than an idol or an artist, his life course is too much in line with the narrative of idols, even if Yusheng has never opened a social account and strives for a simple and low-key life, he has gained unimaginable popularity. I remember when I was in Japan, when I walked into a bookstore, I could see a collection of photographs of Yusei and a bestseller dissecting his spiritual dynamics, and people wanted to see his gorgeous posture and draw some courage and energy from his story to face life.
The concept of "sports star" is actually not new, as a star or even a spiritual leader of the athletes have both competitive strength and personal charm, which also allows businesses with a keen sense of smell to take a timely shot, and then create a sports icon with more popular potential. As one of the highest spokespeople in tennis, every time Federer accepts a trophy, his Rolex watch shines under the flash; Under the background of the domestic rice circle rectification, Su Bingtian and other athletes have become the new favorites of brands on the one hand. At the same time, athletes who are not disciplined by the idol industry can show a vivid personality, but in a sense, they have the potential to become idols, and also provide a variety of new and old terriers for the Internet in real time. For example, during the Olympic Games, the English interview of the members of the national table tennis team "collectively pulling across" reappeared in the form of a small video; After the End of the Winter Olympics, skier Xu Mengtao's Lotte temperament in the variety show "Riding the Wind and Waves" also made the audience sigh that "the psychological quality of athletes is good" in the bullet screen.
With the increasing reputation of athletes, some netizens often worry that this has gone beyond the scope of the previous "sports stars", so that the sports circle also has a tendency to eat circles. However, some people believe that although similar tendencies do exist, if an athlete is good enough, he will certainly become an idol and role model for people - just like Yu Yusuke.
Starting from Yusei's decision to retire, we talked about the athletes who have impressed us and how they have become idols in everyone's hearts.
For the happiness of others, it is more like ordinary life to leave regrets
Jiang Yan: What is very special about an athlete is that in a sense he can have two "lives". Take retirement as a node to start a new journey, so bless him. I watch more figure skating competitions or the era when Kim Yeon-ah and Asada Masayoshi did not retire, and there are not many matches to see Yusei, and these players are of course pleasing to the eye in the artistic part.
Lin Ziren: Seeing the news of his retirement, his first reaction was that "the Beijing Winter Olympics is actually the last competitive stage for Yusheng to tie the strings". I didn't know him before the Winter Olympics, I only knew that he was a beautiful looking figure skater in Japan, and I saw his photo exhibition in a high-end shopping mall on one trip to Japan. During the Winter Olympics, I read some close-up reports about him and learned that he was a person who witnessed the Sendai and the Great East Japan Earthquake, and I was in awe of him. It is mentioned in the report that Yusei Hadhi had to escape from the damaged gymnasium in his skates at that time, and for Yusei Yushin, who was still a high school student at the time, the trauma left by such disasters was not insignificant. But he still perked up from the strong survivor guilt, and regarded figure skating as a cause that boosted the morale of others, "pushing to the limit for the happiness of others." ”
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, Yusheng yuxian was unable to present the full Axel around the jump and did not win the figure skating men's singles medal, which made many fans regret at the time. Is it a pity that I failed to retire from the top? I think that for Yusei Yushin, competition may be more of a part of his figure skating career that "for himself", if it is a figure skating attitude of "for the happiness of others", where is not the stage for self-realization?
Ye Qing: It was not too surprising to see the news of Yu Sheng's retirement, I started watching his game relatively recently, it was already a long way from his heyday, in fact, when the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, there was news that he was going to retire after the end, but he insisted on it for another 4 years. I have to admit that sports competition is a youth meal. Ziren mentioned that his performance at the Beijing Winter Olympics at the beginning of this year has left many fans with regrets, but in my opinion, this regret has brought me closer to him. I believe that most people who like him are not because of how many honors he has received, but because of his fighting spirit and personal charm. Breaking the record gorgeous exit is of course the ideal plot, but it feels a little out of reach, and there are still regrets after hard work that may be closer to the lives of every ordinary person, and with his age, he can do so and has given a full score.
Favorite athletes: self-disciplined, humble, familiar as old friends
Pan Wenjie: For a while I was obsessed with football players, and when I opened the door and counted, there were forty or fifty muscular players posted on the wall (it sounds a bit strange, but there are actually a few pictures of the whole team). During that time, there were three stars that swept the world, friends mostly likeDro Ronaldo or Kaka, I like Messi. We had a heated discussion about our future career plans and wondered which team we should go to as a team doctor. Of course, Kaka is handsome, and C Ronaldo is also full of spirit, but Messi has always been very humble and even a little shy, not very publicity. You can fully understand that C Luo's advertising words "I am C Luo, I choose Qingyang, who can match" is credible, and Messi is not the person who will say "who can match", unless Party A hard stuffs this word to him. I also see a similar style in Yusei Yushin, humble and courteous to others, not ostentatious but extremely cruel to himself, and continue to pursue excellence. Perhaps, whether in China or Japan, people influenced by Confucian culture will still like this character.
Xu Luqing: I used to be very obsessed with Kaka, and once I went to other cities to watch his game. Most of the boys' first reaction when they heard that I liked Kaka was that this guy must only know how to look at faces, not offside, so they didn't want to join the discussion when they saw them circulating their cover of Football Weekly printed on the cover. I think the first attraction to him was the Summer of Berlin in 2006, brazil's "magic quartet" in his sense of agility to make the football field full of shouts and sweat suddenly lit up, and then to check his life experience, to go through his previous game clips, it turned out that he almost gave up football after a swimming injury, it turned out that he was late and would always apologize to the reporter.
Then later he fell from the altar, from the "former world's best" to the United States pension, from a teenager to a bearded uncle, at the same time my life is also a chicken feather, like his mentality from the initial as an idealized life projection, into the familiarity of old friends, from his life ups and downs I found my own reference. Novelist Philip Tucson said that the charm of football is that people can "stay in the cocoon of time, avoid the harm of the outside world, avoid the accidental events of reality", which is what attracted me to football at the beginning, but after watching Kaka's last season, I seem to be able to get out of this cocoon and enter reality.
Jiang Yan: I like Djokovic for almost 17 or 8 years, and it is still very happy to watch my favorite players grow all the way to become a generation of football kings. I think it has something to do with the timing of my focus on tennis, when Nadal and Federer had already carved up most of their tennis fans around the world, and it was when tennis first began to enter the field of vision of a large number of Chinese fans, when Djokovic came to prominence. Despite deuteronally treated as a global away, he had high live support at the China Open and the Shanghai Masters.
If you tell many stories of his upbringing, such as as the serbian childhood when he had to train under the air raid siren, such as his family had to borrow usurious loans to send him to a tennis school in Germany, he will always be the hardest trainer. One year during the holidays everyone went out to play, the coach said to him, you usually train so hard, today let's go out with everyone. He asked the coach if I went out tonight, would it affect me to take the world number one in the future? In the 2012 Australian Open final, Djokovic played with Nadal for nearly six hours, and he finally won the epic match. And after he won, the most important thing he wanted to do sitting in the locker room was to taste a chocolate that he hadn't eaten in a long time, and when he took the chocolate from the team members, he only broke off a small piece and let it melt on his tongue. "I'm only allowed to eat so much myself. To be number one, you have to pay such a price," he wrote in his autobiography. I do see a lot of very human spirits in him, including a very high degree of self-discipline, concentration, dedication, diligence and so on.
Sportsmanship is the key to athletes becoming idols
Pan Wenjie: The mistake I often make in sports is the lack of competitiveness, I feel that sweating to achieve the purpose of fitness can be, encountering strong opponents will be instigated, anyway, it is losing, touch the fish. In fact, this is the embodiment of the lack of sportsmanship. In the Book of Five Wheels, Musashi Miyamoto spoke of the "rock body" that a swordsman must have—that a master swordsman must have a rock-solid, unshakable will to triumph. He said that there is a secret that has been passed down by word of mouth in the art of war: "You must have a great heart that cannot be shaken." "So the spirit of sports is to hone the will and strive for excellence, which is why sports athletes can become idols and role models." Other parts about appearance, personality, tragic life, etc. that can be commercialized are all flowers on this soil.
Xu Luqing: I think sports idols are very different from other entertainment idols. Because sports are often tied to national identity, sports stars are often put into the national framework, and have a completely different social influence from movie stars. Considered a national hero after winning England at the 1986 World Cup, Maradona wrote in his memoirs: "It was not only a defeat of a football team, but a defeat of a country. Of course, we all said before the game that football had nothing to do with the war in the Malvinas Islands, but we know that a lot of Argentine lads died there and were shot down like birds. It was a revenge, as if part of the Malvinas Islands had been recovered. ”
Northern Irish star George Best, who plays for Manchester United, is touted for allowing divided Northern Ireland people to sit in a pub and watch the ball, at a time when the people of Northern Ireland are bleeding over religious and ethnic issues. The hugs of Ukrainian and Russian athletes at the Olympic Games, and the handshakes between North and South Korean athletes, it is not difficult for us to feel the friendship and connection of the nation beyond politics.
Jiang Yan: When Li Na published the book "Alone" 10 years ago, I did an interview with her. I was impressed that she mentioned several times that playing tennis was her job. Before that, I probably hadn't imagined the profession of athlete too much from a work perspective, and people saw more of the highlight side of athletes, and rarely saw them behind their backs day after day, and to some extent, it may be boring repetition and dedication. In the process of watching the game, our emotions also fluctuate with the performance of the supporting teams and athletes, and sometimes even blame the athletes we support when they do not win the game.
Over the years, outside of watching the game, I have gradually persuaded myself to put aside the matter of winning or losing for the time being. Of course, there will still be a side of their own support when watching the game, but try not to let the emotions spread after that. As a job, no one can guarantee that they are the top one every time, but it does not prevent them from trying to maintain a good and stable working state in their daily work and taking care of their own body and mind.
One of the hot topics discussed in men's tennis in recent years has been the GOAT debate – who is the best in history, Deyo, Federer and Nadal. This, of course, is closely linked to the number of Grand Slams they have each won. During this year's French Open, Nadal's foot injury recurred, relying on anesthetic needles, anti-inflammatory drugs and other medical means to get on the field, before the final he said he would rather lose the game, hoping to get back a healthy left foot. He also mentioned that what drives him is not to be the best in history or to win more games, but because he has always maintained a passion for tennis and because he loves his job.