Looking back at 2023|This year: Wu Yanni will not be silent, Messi, Ronaldo, and James beat time again
For many, 2023 doesn't seem like something to be missed.
The days that should have been freer have become less free, filled with the haste and triviality of day after day. Lost courage, unable to see the way forward, lost his way.
This year, many people and things in sports have changed. Wu Yanni was born, e-sports ushered in a historical moment in the Asian Games, and Village BA and Village Super have also attracted more and more attention; Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, James and other old guys still beat the time, and Chinese football still doesn't seem to have too many surprises to speak of......
"Because of love" is the slogan of an old sports portal. Why do we love sports? It is not food, clothing, housing and transportation, it is not the most indispensable part of this era, but in the precious days of stability and scarcity, behind those never-say-die persistence and eternal pursuit of excellence, the endorphins and dopamine brought can make us open-minded and optimistic.
Camus said that true generosity to the future is to give everything to the present. No matter what happens now, it's really important to try to live each day in the ordinary, to face and love life like a warrior. In 2024, let's continue to love life and sports.
1. Zhang Yufei: The road is difficult, treat each other with a smile
Once the three-year break is lifted, everyone is busier.
Ordinary people are running around, for a few taels of broken silver, even so, they are still no match for the question of "has the salary risen for so many years, and has you worked hard" in the live broadcast room of the first brother of lipstick.
If you work hard, you can increase your salary? If you don't increase your salary, you don't work hard? In the hustle and bustle of the era, it seems that if you live seriously without a specific price, there is no value. It's just curious, if his life can be reversed, is it possible to question xx, understand xx, and become xx?
Like every ordinary person, athletes are also running around in this year, from one competition to another, from one destination to another.
As a result, this year, Zhang Yufei's name as a "model worker" became louder and louder.
Just after the Fukuoka World Championships, the flight was delayed at 3 a.m. to Chengdu, and I only slept for 4 hours to participate in the Universiade; I signed up for 9 events at the Universiade, broke 8 records and won 9 gold medals; from Fukuoka to Chengdu, I swam 30 shots in 15 days and won a total of 11 gold medals...... Look, isn't this just a "special forces competition"! What is a real genius? He is both more capable than you and better than your energy.
The most impressive thing is that even though she is so tired, the "butterfly queen" who suffers from congenital scoliosis always shows people with a smile. She is happy wherever she goes, recalling that busy experience, she also has the calmness of "the light boat has crossed the ten thousand mountains". "I wish me a gold medal and be very cute", just like her personal signature, from her, we feel something that has been lost in this era for a long time.
2. 吴艳妮：勿意，勿必，勿固，勿我
In the last month of 2023, Dongfang's selection of "small essay incident" successfully seized the hot search.
When the dust settled, what made me unforgettable was not the hustle and bustle of this piece of business, but Dong Yuhui's eight-character signature: Don't will, don't be, don't be solid, don't me. The original text is from the Analects of Zihan, which translates to mean that Confucius put an end to four kinds of faults: no subjective speculation, no absolute certainty, no stubbornness, and no self-righteousness.
Back in the sports circle, this year, Wu Yanni was born.
It's very similar to Quan Hongchan two years ago, but it's different. Her results in the women's 100m hurdles, objectively speaking, are the top in China, the first class in Asia, and the second rate in the world. What is more dazzling than her achievements is her flamboyant personality and maverick style of doing things.
Open the dusty memories for a long time, and the last athlete with such a distinctive personality and being remembered was Fu Yuanhui. If Fu Yuanhui conveys a kind of pessimism about winning and losing, as well as being honest and open-minded, Wu Yanni's series of behaviors, in the words that are now popular, have a slight "conspicuous bag" perception.
put the idol Liu Xiang on his lips, his appearance was arrogant, and all kinds of amazing words continued, and then the farce in the Asian Games final...... E person Wu Yanni's various actions, whether correct or not, really put herself on the cusp.
Regarding her "performative" personality, she also bluntly said, "I can't be perfect, just be yourself." But as a bystander, we really don't know whether this is her true temperament or hidden hypocrisy. Back to our lives, there is no shortage of such people around us, and our evaluation of them must be more negative than positive.
I don't know, Wu Yanni has seen these eight words signed by Dong Yuhui. The power of low-key silence is sometimes far greater than that of high-pitched shouting. Sports, after all, is a stage where strength speaks. Either become an unruly hero or a clown under the neon lights.
This is an eternal topic that she will face in the future.
3. Esports and Football: Light and Dark
The end of the year has arrived, and all kinds of inventories have come. If I had to mention two sports from Chinese sports, I would choose e-sports and football.
Needless to say, for Chinese e-sports, this is a year that can go down in history - the shine of MSI and S competitions, and the four golds and one bronze of the Asian Games. In the traditional consciousness, e-sports is not a sport, but now, it does bear the name of sports, and it also bears more traffic.
The most important thing is that when e-sports once again swept young people under the cloak of sports, what the previous generation loved and pursued was finally recognized, and more middle-aged parents also learned to accept it. Something new, like the rising sun, is full of hope. Behind the rationality of existence, we should also have a more diversified understanding of it.
If esports is light, football is dark.
In the past 20 years, Chinese football has been running in the dark. Maybe there's sunshine, shimmers, lights, but it's not much. And this year, there is little hope, and the "hurricane" in the dark is getting farther and farther away. Chen Xuyuan, chairman of the Football Association, was taken away, and the following group of people were also taken away. There is no scene, there is no charter flight, and there is a sense that everything is zero.
But fortunately, the men's football team is crawling and walking in place, the women's football team stumbled and missed Paris, and behind the continuous dilemma of the survival of the Chinese Super League team, Chinese football still has fans who will not abandon it. Chengdu Phoenix Mountain with starlight, Dalian Barracuda Bay with dynamic TIFO...... They are waiting to get out of the darkness and usher in the light as soon as possible.
We don't expect Chinese football to usher in the blazing warm sun, we just hope that Chinese football will come out of the cold winter sooner. After all, this winter is too long for fans.
4. Peerless double pride: When people reach middle age, they are still free and easy
Perhaps, you in front of the screen have entered middle age?
The dreams of your youth have faded with the wind, and you have long since lost your spirits. Those days when there was a lot of hair, a brisk step, a lot of power, and there were gaps in the calendar, and the days when you could have fun are a thing of the past. When people reach middle age, they are just like autumn, and they are not free for half of their lives. If middle age is destined to be a difficult time, then what are you thinking about now, houses, cars, tickets or children?
But Ronaldo and Messi used their personal experience to tell you this year: Who said that middle age must be a hurdle?
This year, the peerless duo left their comfort zone one after another. What the wind of Manchester, what the romance of Paris, all go away. Many people persuaded them: Don't be young, don't toss, stay. But they don't want to "listen to persuasion." One went to Saudi Arabia to pan for gold in the sand, and the other went to the United States Vocational League to help the poor through technology. When the year quietly came to an end, it was a shame that Ronaldo became the top scorer in 2023, and Messi added another Golden Ball award in the blink of an eye.
Even if the hero is old, he can still have a legendary past, and, a legendary competitive state.
When Ronaldo walked the old path that Messi walked more than half a year ago and was about to start his 2024 trip to China, the tickets that were sold out in 2 seconds proved that his influence was still there. This seems to tell all of us a truth - if you are strong enough, there will be no such thing as a "midlife crisis".
That's right, the 39-year-old James has tears in his eyes, holding the MVP of the midseason in one hand and praising this sentence with a mobile phone connected to WiFi in the other: I haven't played enough, the next ten years will be mine (and my son)'s!
5. Village BA and Village Super: A tribute to purity and love
Last year, the village BA caught fire and even stole the limelight from the CBA. This year, the "village style" is even stronger.
Butler, Marbury, Iverson, and other active retired NBA stars are here, and the "local flavor" has also stepped out of the "international style". It is not difficult to go out, but it is rare that in this materialistic and impetuous era, this event still adheres to the simplicity and innocence, releasing the people's purest love for basketball.
When the unique champions and runners-up prizes such as scalpers and hemp sheep have their own attributions, when thousands of people sit on ladders to watch the ball for hours, when those farmers turn into players...... Countless ordinary moments have brought us extraordinary touches.
As a result, Village BA was selected as one of the top ten online terms in the "2023 Chinese Inventory" sponsored by the Commercial Press and other organizations, and similar to it, the editorial department of "Biting Wen and Chewing Words" released the "Top Ten Popular Words in 2023", and Village Chao was among them.
That's right, competitive sports are always the game of the top geniuses, and mass sports are the real background color of sports. If competitive sports are about winning or losing, then mass sports are about loving happiness. The purest and the most beautiful.
Looking back on this year, there may be many difficult moments, but if there is always a place in your heart that keeps that purity and love, just like the village BA and the village super, you will definitely be able to be firm in your heart and cut through the waves. Even if the result may not be successful, you can become the hero in your heart.
In 2024, I hope that each and every one of us can become the champion of our own field.