Editor's Note:
Born in 1978, the same age as the reform and opening up. From 1978 to 2018, reform and opening up have gone through ups and downs. In 40 years, a person is no longer confused, and the development of a country has been earth-shaking.
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, CCTV News New Media began to launch a micro-video "Born in 1978" on December 11. The column selects 10 peers of reform and opening up, and through their growth stories, looks back on the vicissitudes of Chinese society in the past 40 years and pays tribute to the song-like years of reform and opening up.
She is China's first Winter Olympics pair skating gold medalist, four times to participate in the Winter Olympics won 1 gold 2 bronze, the World Championships 3 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze, the World Figure Skating Grand Prix finals 6 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze, the Asian Winter Games 4 gold, the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame member, the current chairman of the Chinese Figure Skating Association, the deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League...
She is a figure skater Shen Xue, born in 1978 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province.
An inadvertent decision
When she was a child, Shen Xue had weak bones and often got sick, especially when her friends around her had a headache, brain fever, cold and fever, and she was inevitably infected and then sick. In order to make her physically stronger, her parents made a request for her: "At that time, my parents said that girls who grew up in the northeast should learn to ride a bicycle, learn to skate, and then learn to swim. "
Shen Xue said that at that time, her parents took her to find a lot of projects, sports, literature and art, and even drama, "My mother went to learn a drama when she was a child, so she wanted me to engage in drama, but she didn't expect to send it to her teacher, thinking that I looked too ugly and didn't accept me." "
In the end, the thin little girl chose to skate, which was the most common sports and fitness program for children in the northeast at that time, "My parents let me go skating, and I went." In fact, our family does not have any genes for practicing sports, and no one is engaged in sports-related work. "
Didn't expect that? A casual decision, a future figure skating star was born!
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A tough time
At that time, the training conditions were very difficult, the venue was outdoors, Xiao Shenxue was wearing leather clothes and leather pants, and often had to stop for an hour in the cold of more than minus 30 degrees. In order to prolong the training cycle, some athletes will go to colder places such as Hailar, including Shen Xue's future pair skating partner and her lifelong partner - Zhao Hongbo.
"Athletes like my time, participating in this kind of competitive sports, may be to find a way out, and have a stable job in the future." 」 Shen Xue still remembers that Zhao Hongbo told himself that he had won the first place in a national competition, and the prize was a thermos bottle, which was treated like a baby at home. "Like today's children, they are training for their own personal hobbies and preferences."
"It was very difficult for you to buy a sporting goods at that time." Since 1992, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo have officially partnered in pair skating, but due to the difference in stature, the two want to buy the same set of sportswear. "In the end, I found it in a mall, and I didn't have my size at all. I remember finding a tailor shop and going to give me a good meal. "
A classic work
In the sports career of Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo, the perfect partner, he has presented countless classic ice works to the audience, but the most popular online discussion was the exciting "Turandot" at the 2003 World Championships. Before this set of programs, the international community believed that Shen Zhao and Zhao were just technically difficult and their artistic expression was not good, "because this is a project of Europeans and Americans, I feel that we always have a feeling of being out of place." But through this program, they can really understand Chinese music, including Chinese art, and express this appeal through this musical art.
The success of "Turandot" is, on the one hand, the competitive state of the two at that time can be said to be at the peak of their careers, and on the other hand, it is also due to the choreographer of this set of shows - Canadian coach Laurie Nicole. She not only gave this work a stronger artistic appeal, but also infiltrated the advanced concept to Chinese athletes through exchanges and cooperation.
"At the beginning, we only knew that the hand was in place, the head was in place, the expression was good, this is art, but this is just your foundation, you really go to express art at the same time, you have to understand its story connotation from the depths of the heart, the storyline it expresses, what is the real mentality of the protagonist at that time." So that set of shows is that the two of us really did a good job of skating with our hearts. Shen Xue said.
Since then, Laurie has not only become an old friend of the Chinese figure skating team, but also continued this mechanism of international exchange, which has played a strong role in promoting the ability of Chinese athletes.
As the most active field of international exchanges and cooperation, it is difficult to imagine how we can achieve this in a China without reform and opening up.
A wonderful message
In 2007, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, the ice couple, finally entered the palace of marriage. In 2010, the two achieved their dream of gold medals at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and then announced their retirement. Today, Zhao Hongbo has taken over as the head coach of the figure skating team and has taken on the responsibility of cultivating the next world champion for the motherland. Shen Xue became the first president of the Chinese Figure Skating Association, and also served as the deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Youth League, preparing for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The love between the two crystallized, and the daughter Zhao Xue'er also put on skates and inherited the mantle of her parents.
Looking back on the past forty years, Shen Xue said she had a feeling of disbelief. "I think that until now, looking back at my childhood development, in just a few short decades, you may not really be able to imagine that life in the next few decades will be different." 」
She said that her generation is lucky, having suffered hardships when she was a child, and growing up to the same age has experienced happiness. "When you really get through it, when you get through it, you feel like it's happy and happy. When you have been living in happiness, you have not passed through your own struggle, you have not passed your own efforts, and you may not feel that what you have gained is what makes you happy and happy. "
Shen Xue said that he did not feel that he was 40 years old, and he should still be a young man. Facing the future, she would like to say to her partners who grew up in the reform and opening up like her, as well as friends of the younger generation-
"Fight, youth!"