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Manuscript|Yi Ning
Editor|Tavern Brown
preface
Gu Ailing, who won 2 golds and one silver in one fell swoop at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Whether in the arena or in life, her self-confidence, courage, unyielding, and calm personality have aroused the popularity of everyone, and various commercial endorsements have followed.
But it is this girl who wins glory for the country, why is it that at this moment, it caused netizens to angrily "get out of China"?
Heroes are more noble
The so-called creation of gods and destruction of gods is just the instinct of the group just to hope that the hero is more noble, and the hero cannot make mistakes, so they will be critical with a harsh eye; Or maybe it's just to use the eyes of the excitement to vent the darkness in your heart. And this kind of thing is not an isolated case.
Yang Qian won the Olympic championship for the country, but was scolded for collecting "Nike" shoes, which happened before the Xinjiang cotton incident, and recently was accused of not conforming to the image of an Olympic champion because of dressing.
So, what should an Olympic champion wear? Long-sleeved trousers, can't you show a trace of skin, sports suit, loose clothes suitable for sports; Or maybe it's neat, formal clothes?
Yang Qian is only twenty-two years old this year, can't a young girl in her youth dress normally, just because she has the title of Olympic champion? However, this status should be an honor, not a limitation.
Yang Qian is not alone, and Gu Ailing, who is known as a "genius ski girl", is also experiencing the same thing.
Skiing genius Gu Ailing
After Gu Ailing was born, countless people wanted to explore Gu Ailing's family, wanting to know what kind of parents could teach such excellent children, in fact, Gu Ailing began to contact skiing because of her mother.
Gu Ailing's brilliant achievements cannot be separated from the years of accumulation of her closest relatives, and it can be said that she was born in a family with good athletic talent. Gu Ailing's mother must have heard of it by many people. Her mother completed her studies in Beijing and then chose to go to the United States for further study.
Years later, Gu Ailing was admitted to the school with close to perfect scores, and her mother was also a ski instructor. It is best known that her grandmother was a highly educated intellectual and a senior engineer.
When she was in college, my grandmother was an excellent basketball player and also had athletic talent. Her grandfather also loves sports, is a football assistant, has always played football, and even practiced skiing.
Parents and other relatives also paid great attention to cultivating Gu Ailing and spent a lot of money on her. When Gu Ailing was three years old, her mother discovered Gu Ailing's skiing talent, and her mother, who was still working as a ski instructor, chose to train her without hesitation.
Since childhood, she has also completely fallen in love with this sport, and at the age of 7, she can skillfully step on skis and move around, gaze at the different scenery she sees while skiing, and feel the power of flying by the wind, which makes her completely fascinated and looks forward to skiing every day.
In 2011, Ailing Kotani officially began to practice skiing, participated in a ski club, and practiced "snow acrobatics" - freeskiing. After training, her strength has greatly increased, and she is a well-deserved top skier among her peers.
Everyone had great expectations for her, and Xiaogu Ailing did not live up to them, and in 2012, she won her first championship in her life. Since then, Gu Ailing has been "born", and by 2014, she had fourteen gold medals, engraving her name in the history of freestyle skiing, so that the world will remember and be indelible!
Gu Ailing has a relationship with China
Even though Gu Ailing's father is white, Gu Ailing was influenced by her mother, grew up in Beijing, China most of the time, and can speak Beijing fluently, she has a deep yearning for China.
She was proud of half of her Chinese blood flowing in her body, and couldn't wait to say that she was Chinese when she obtained Chinese citizenship, and freestyle skier Gu Ailing finally proudly crowned the word Chinese in front of her name.
Gu Ailing's delicate and beautiful appearance since she was a child, often praised, but when others said that Gu Ailing was beautiful and used "doll" to describe her, Xiao Gu Ailing's first reaction was not to be happy to receive praise, but not to be called a doll, and would use Shang Xian's young voice to seriously and formally tell others "I am Chinese"!
When China's Olympic bid was successful, thirteen-year-old Xiaogu Ailing said to her mother "Please come and see me in 2022", and when her mother stated that she could only use it if she had the opportunity to participate and win an award Chinese thank everyone there, Xiaogu Ailing did not choose to retreat, but confidently answered that she could!
Thirteen-year-old Xiaogu Ailing made a wish, saw a dream that was unattainable for her at that time, in the future, she continued to chase her dream, until standing on the field of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, winning two golds and one silver, she finally watched the young Xiaogu Ailing wave her hand in satisfaction and walked away.
Gu Ailing, who is of mixed Chinese and American descent, has never stopped looking at China, her mother's influence has made China an indelible yearning in her life, joining China seems to be her most important goal, she has a heart that is no different from Chinese, and her yearning for China is increasing day by day.
After Gu Ailing joined China, she won the gold medal for Chinese freestyle skiing, which lagged far behind the United States, and her yearning and love for China has never been just lip service, but constantly proved with actions.
Become a fashion darling
From the initial questioning to today's online violence, did this "genius ski girl" do something that everyone is angry about?
In 2019, the Chinese-American mixed race Gu Ailing announced that she had joined China and had Chinese nationality, and posted a Weibo post "Chinese freestyle skier Gu Ailing reports for duty." At first, this incident did not cause widespread heat, but in 2021, she represented China and won the first world championship for China, which is also a Chinese athlete, which is also China's first world championship title.
And what made her widely known as a national idol was in the February 2022 Winter Olympics, this girl who fought for China set amazing results in one fell swoop, won 2 golds and 1 silver for the glory of the country, and Gu Ailing, who is beautiful and powerful, instantly ascended to the altar.
Before the opening of the 2021 Winter Olympics, many brands have noticed Gu Ailing, a mixed-race genius who has achieved good results in freeskiing many times, and major brands that see the value have contacted Gu Ailing one after another, hoping to cooperate with her.
Before participating in the Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing already had dozens of endorsements, including many well-known brands such as "Antabar, Mousse, Jingdong, Ruixing" and so on.
After Gu Ailing created unprecedented brilliance at the Olympic Games, the brands she endorsed also increased their exposure, so that more brands tapped into her commercial value.
Tiffany, Cadillac and many other world-renowned luxury brands have cooperated with Gu Ailing, and her cooperation fee has increased from $1 million after tax to $2.5 million, and she has more than 30 endorsements, comparable to first-line big stars.
Known as the "Winter Olympic gold medalist", Gu Ailing has also become a "fashion darling" in the sports world outside the arena.
Vilified
Relying on these endorsement fees, equivalent to RMB Gu Ailing worth more than 100 million, successfully made some netizens unable to sit still, and remarks were all over the place, saying that she was just coming to China to make money, criticizing her for returning to the United States to live and participate in some upper-class parties.
Some even ridicule her mother as a Chinese but married a foreigner, and so on, and so on, which has not stopped since the end of the Winter Olympics. When Gu Ailing posted "Thank you China" on Weibo.
It can also be over-interpreted by netizens that Gu Ailing is more biased towards the United States, because she refers to China as China rather than the motherland in her Weibo, and even a professor picks on a girl who grew up in the United States for her Weibo language errors!
And Gu Ailing, in the face of many doubts, did not argue, did not resist, still showed that she never regretted representing China in the competition. What really made Gu Ailing suffer online violence was the most unacceptable nationality of Gu Ailing.
As a gold medalist representing China, Gu Ailing may not only have one nationality, which completely angered netizens! And we all know that China cannot recognize people of two nationalities as Chinese, while the United States recognizes it.
Netizens believe that Gu Ailing is still a person who has both American and Chinese nationality, and the reporter has mentioned this matter many times in the interview, but Gu Ailing has never given a clear answer, only indicating that she wants to promote friendly cooperation between China and the United States.
Netizens who did not see a clear answer naturally did not buy it, and since then, Gu Ailing has also been subjected to countless abuses. In fact, whatever achievements are made are not enough for some, they are like rats in the gutter.
Demand a person with the most perfect standards, hold a magnifying glass and constantly explore, and once that person reveals a little unsatisfactory, they will turn into flies and pounce on them to eat.
This is the case for Gu Ailing, who asked Gu Ailing to join China to give up everything in the United States, because she has already joined Chinese nationality, so she cannot spend more time in the United States than China.
It is not possible to attend upper-class gatherings in the United States for a long time, and it is necessary to distance herself from them, and even demand that she must oppose the United States and support China like a saint.
But Gu Ailing's father is also a white American, and half of her blood is American ancestry, if she is of mixed Chinese and American descent, she can abandon the United States at will, and even stand on the opposite side of the United States to denigrate.
So who can guarantee how long her love for China will last, and whether Gu Ailing, who has the title of "genius ski girl", will one day abandon China. The most frightening thing is that the endorsements Gu Ailing received in China have also become to make money in China.
But don't athletes want to live, can't they enjoy life, can they only win glory for the country in their lives, like Yang Qian, just a normal twenty-year-old girl's dress will be talked about.
Gu Ailing's contribution objectively exists there, and the endorsement won is also based on her own strength, if anyone feels that she has earned a lot and feels that she is making money in China, they can also try to be like her.
Anyone can slander a person irresponsibly on the Internet, but there are very few achievements like her to be seen as great commercial value.
Since the development of the Internet, the Internet seems to have become an extralegal place, because it can not be realized, so it can show its dark side at will; Because you can be irresponsible, you can see anyone who does not conform to their own ideas and speak out.
Because things don't fall on you, you can never empathize, so you never think carefully about what effect such words will have on people at the center of the storm.
If it is said that the slander of Internet Storm Gu Ailing is because of her nationality, not to mention the nationality has not yet been clarified, "get out of China" and other similar remarks come like a tide, as if they have seen the whole truth, sparing no effort to slander a young girl who is only twenty years old and still in school.
It is the speculation that everything is true about nationality, and Gu Ailing's achievements on behalf of China are not fake, nor are the gold medals won for China when China's skiing technology is not very advanced.
Imagine why this "talented ski girl" was first held on the altar, not because of her contribution to China's skiing, not because of the gold medal she won on behalf of China's Winter Olympics.
Gu Ailing, who has American blood, chose to fight for China, won't she be vilified by American public opinion, but she has been influenced by her mother since she was a child, but she still firmly believes in her choice, but who knows that the most harm to her will be what she has yearned for since childhood.
epilogue
Do not regard people who have made great contributions as saints, they are also on earth with us, they have their own joys and sorrows, they have their last resorts and favorites, and those who are held up on the altar will never last long, "no one is a sage, no one can do anything", not to mention that many of them are things that have nothing to do with the cause they are engaged in.
I hope that one day the creation of gods and destruction can no longer appear, hope that the tolerance and friendliness in daily life can continue to the Internet, and hope that everyone can face the things they encounter with a good attitude.