Beijing time on January 10, the 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards, which has attracted global attention, announced the list of winners, Gu Ailing and Su Yiming were selected together, because the Laureus Sports Awards enjoy great influence in the world, so in addition to paying attention to how many Chinese athletes become candidates, but also focus on Gu Ailing's nationality, because of the selected candidates, the official will announce the corresponding country, Therefore, this time, the nationality issue marked by the host for Gu Ailing has also attracted a lot of attention
The organizer introduced on the official website as follows: The list of candidates from China reached five seats in the selection list of this year's Laureus Sports Awards, and also created the largest number of candidates in the history of the Laureus World Sports Awards, they are Gu Ailing, Su Yiming, Xu Mengtao, Wang Jianan and the Chinese diving team, of which the Chinese diving team was also nominated for the Laureus Sports Team of the Year award because it won all 13 gold medals at the 2022 World Championships in Budapest. And as a highly influential world award in the world, it has once again confirmed Gu Ailing's Chinese nationality identity
Among the five candidates from China, Gu Ailing, Su Yiming and Xu Mengtao are all Chinese skiers who won gold medals at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, so the three were nominated as candidates for the Extreme Athlete of the Year award, which also excited many Chinese skiing fans, and the other candidate, Wang Jianan, is from the Chinese track and field team, Wang Jianan jumped 8.36 meters at the Eugene World Championships and won the first gold medal in the long jump of the World Championships in the history of the Chinese track and field team. Therefore, Wang Jianan was also nominated for the Best Breakthrough Award of the Year at this year's Lawrence Sports Awards
The Laureus World Sports Awards is one of the most influential awards in the global sports world, and all the shortlisted candidates for this award are voted by many leading sports media around the world, and the winners of these candidates are all selected by the Laureus World Sports Academy, which is composed of world sports legends, so the shortlist of candidates who can be shortlisted for the Laureus Sports Awards has itself been recognized by many sports media around the world
Since Gu Ailing won two gold medals and one silver medal for the Chinese sports delegation at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, with her return to the United States in early May, the issue of her nationality has always been around, during which although many Chinese and American media have confirmed this, but there have always been a small number of netizens slandering Gu Ailing's nationality issue, but in December 2022 and January 2023, in addition to the confirmation of this at the Laureus Sports Awards, Another world-renowned media also confirmed Gu Ailing's Chinese nationality, the famous American business magazine "Forbes" announced the global female athlete income ranking at the end of 2022, Gu Ailing after the Beijing Winter Olympics, due to the surge in commercial value, she finally ranked third in the world with an income of 20.1 million US dollars, this annual income if converted into RMB, has reached 140 million yuan, the two in front of her are tennis star Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams, to know that Gu Ailing is only a 19-year-old athlete, in the future as she wins more and more world awards, then due to the identity of Sino-American mixed race, Gu Ailing's annual income will also rush to the top of the list, and this time "Forbes" on the global female athlete rankings publicity, also show Chinese nationality, so the question about her nationality can finally come to light
Forbes is a highly influential business magazine in the world, it has reached a pivotal position in terms of authority, and because Forbes' trust is extremely high, there are countless sports people around the world paying attention, so why Gu Ailing was still troubled by nationality issues after winning the Olympic gold medal for the Chinese sports delegation, because in early May 2022, Gu Ailing took her mother and grandmother back home in the United States by private plane, and since then, All kinds of rumors about her nationality have been ringing to this day, during this period, although Gu Ailing has been interviewed by many world-renowned media, she has not responded positively to this once, so this misunderstanding has become deeper and deeper
Although Gu Ailing personally did not clarify this, there are authoritative official media in both China and the United States to confirm this, among which the United States, Time Magazine, one of the three major current affairs weeklies, in the annual list of the top 100 influential people announced in early 2022, the nationality column of the selected person Gu Ailing proudly wrote: China! Even "Time Magazine" used "China's Gu Ailing" as the title in its interview with her, and with the confirmation of the 2023 Laureus Sports Awards this time, I believe that the nationality of Gu Ailing will no longer be controversial in the future
Contributing Editor: Su Daqiang