In the women's gymnastics arena of the 14th National Games, Olympic champion Guan Chenchen attracted a lot of attention, but when the women's gymnastics all-around champion was released, gold medalist Wei Xiaoyuan immediately brushed the screen.
There are three main reasons why Wei Xiaoyuan brushed the screen:
1, the women's gymnastics all-around champion itself is the most concerned gymnastics individual competition, is the highest gold content of women's gymnastics.
2, Wei Xiaoyuan is a substitute for the Chinese women's gymnastics team at the Tokyo Olympic Games, in other words, the substitute defeat of the main selection to win the championship is undoubtedly a very eye-catching news.
3, what is more eye-catching is that Wei Xiaoyuan also has a fairy-like appearance, and compared with other female gymnasts who are generally characterized by thin and flexible, Wei Xiaoyuan's slender figure is undoubtedly a plus.
After this battle, Wei Xiaoyuan quickly went out of the circle, and her high-value beauty map was forwarded everywhere by the media and netizens, which seemed to verify that sentence, appearance is justice, and beauty is productivity.
However, for the phenomenon that Wei Xiaoyuan is out of the circle with the appearance of the immortal, there are also different voices on the Internet, one voice is that paying too much attention to the appearance of athletes is a shallow approach. Another voice is that athletes should become famous by strength, not by appearance.
In this regard, the author has a different view:
1, if it is a field, track or three-ball confrontation, paying too much attention to the appearance of the athlete is really not much necessary, like Brazilian stars Rivaldo and Ronaldinho have grown up, as many fans as well.
But gymnastics, especially women's gymnastics, can not be generalized, in addition to the sport has competitiveness, the beauty of the athletes themselves to the audience is also a very important element of this sport, this beauty not only includes the difficulty of the action and the quality of completion, the figure and appearance are also an important part of this.
Besides, the beauty of gymnasts is the beauty of sports, the beauty of health, not the beauty of those vulgar fans.
To put it bluntly, women's gymnastics has certainly lost its attention since it was ruled by Byers than in the era of Khorkina and Liu Xuan.
2, of course, athletes can not only rely on the value of appearance, but if the athlete has a high value under the premise of having a fairly high competitive strength, it is undoubtedly a very rare thing.
For example, the former tennis star Kurnikova, before she reached the final four of the Wimbledon Open, she was not beautiful? Of course, it is beautiful, but she still reached the semi-finals of the Grand Slam before getting more attention, and people began to appreciate her angelic face, without this result, Kurnikova is no different from the ordinary tennis beauty who rushed by.
In the same way, although Sharapova is slightly inferior to Kurnikova in appearance, Sharva is crushing Kuva's presence in terms of global influence and income, because she has five Grand Slam champions and a long-term world top ranking. But without the same high value, Sharapova's influence would definitely not cover the size of Williams.
Therefore, for some sports, high value is an absolute plus for high-level athletes, and can even bring the influence of geometric multiples of pure sports performance.
Speaking of Wei Xiaoyuan, this 17-year-old girl has beaten many Olympians to win the women's gymnastics all-around championship, which proves that she already has a fairly high level of competition, and on the basis of this platform, she also has a fairly high appearance and body conditions.
So, can China's sports department consider one thing, that is, to carry out special training around Wei Xiaoyuan and strive to create a "Khorkina" in China?
Born in 1979, Khorkina participated in the Atlanta Olympic Games at the age of 17, and won the title of "Ice Beauty" with her performance of being as beautiful as a peach and plum, cold as frost, quiet as a virgin, and moving like a rabbit, and became the leader of Russian women's gymnastics.
By the time of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the 21-year-old Khorkina was more mature, receiving the highest attention on the gymnastics field, and her overall performance and dominance may be difficult to compare with Biles, but she was one of the most influential athletes in the history of women's gymnastics.
Compared with Khorkina, Wei Xiaoyuan is also famous at the age of 17, also has the face of an angel and a slender figure, and even its strongest points are also high and low bars and all-rounders, it can be said that whether from a competitive point of view or from an external point of view, Wei Xiaoyuan is very valuable for training and packaging, and making her into China's "Khorkina" is not only technically feasible, but also has a considerable role.
1, can attract the audience's attention to women's gymnastics
In Khorkina's era, many viewers watched women's gymnastics not only to see the performance of their own athletes, but also to see Khorkina was also a high choice.
This is not an embarrassing thing, Pan Xiaoting and Che Youlan's women's billiards battle, who loses and who wins and how many viewers care about it.
For example, in the Tokyo Olympic Games, Guan Chenchen's gold medal before the game has belonged to Chinese athletes, but Guan Chenchen not only won the gold medal, but also quickly went out of the circle with a "kangaroo shaking" action.
This strong degree of attention for China's women's gymnastics can be said to be beneficial and harmless, the most direct is that at least sponsors and advertisers will certainly not be difficult to find or even take the initiative to find the door.
2, can attract more parents and children to participate in gymnastics sports
There has always been a more extreme view on the Internet, that the practice of gymnastics is the destruction of the child's body and mind, so that the child can not get normal development.
One of the sources of this one-sided view may be that China's female gymnasts have long selected materials that are thin and flexible, in fact, female gymnasts of the same size as Khorkina are not uncommon, and the appearance of Wei Xiaoyuan proves this.
Wei Xiaoyuan can completely become the spokesperson for women's gymnastics in China, just like Khorkina, so that on the one hand, it can attract more parents and children to devote themselves to gymnastics, and on the other hand, it can also justify the name of women's gymnastics.
3, high value can bring high "derivation" to athletes
Khorkina retired from the military and entered politics in her own country, she can quickly become a Member of the Duma, there must be a high value and high influence bonus in the middle, there is no need to blame anything, in any country, high value will have its own attention and influence.
Take another example of Yang Yang, she is a representative figure of China's ice sports, the first gold medal winner of China's Winter Olympics, and also the leader of China's short track speed skating, in this project once had an international dominance, its competitive strength is quite high.
At the same time, Dayang Yang also has a fairly high appearance and cheerful and calm personality, which makes her political road is also very smooth, after retiring in 2006, Dayang Yang was nominated by IOC President Rogge to become a member of the IOC Women and Sports Working Committee, and in 2010, at the age of 35, Dayang Yang became the first person in China to be elected as an athlete.
On January 1, 2020, Dayang Yang was appointed as the vice chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and netizens familiar with Sun Yang's case must be familiar with this institution, and you will also know that it was at the end of 2020 that WADA said that Sun Yang's case would be retried.
Of course, Dayang Yang's achievements are inseparable from her own efforts, and her high appearance is definitely a plus in the middle, and at the same time, it must be inseparable from the cultivation of her by the relevant departments.
In summary, if a female athlete with a high level of herself also has a high appearance, if she is carefully cultivated and built, then the influence and value it creates will be far greater than the pure competitive level.
Wei Xiaoyuan already has two hardware conditions of high level and high value, the age is also in the golden stage, its cultivation value is quite large, I hope to see her in the near future can become China's "Khorkina".