On October 22, the Beijing Winter Olympics released a set of short films of "The Covenant of Ice and Snow", the boy in the video, Yi Yanqianxi, everyone is very familiar, but the girl who played with him, many people said they did not know, and even some netizens asked: "Isn't this a foreigner?" Why did the Winter Olympics look for foreign actors to shoot Chinese propaganda films? ”
As everyone knows, this mixed-race girl with a Western face is a real Chinese.
On June 6, 2019, she officially announced her Chinese citizenship on Weibo, and this Beijing Xiaoni, who grew up in San Francisco, returned to the embrace of the motherland and represented China in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Only 18 years old, holding 55 gold medals, training people have a supermodel figure, if she wants to enter the entertainment industry alone by looking good, but she is still a "sports genius".
Even so good, no more people have heard of this name except ski enthusiasts and keyboard men - "Gu Ailing".
In 2003, Gu Ailing was born in San Francisco, USA, his father was An American, but his mother was an authentic Beijinger.
As a ski instructor, when Gu Ailing was only 3 months old, she took her to live in the ski resort, perhaps due to the influence of the environment, Gu Ailing chose to ski when choosing hobbies, started skiing at the age of 3, and could travel with her mother through the forest of the training ground at the age of 4.
Just when other children were still crying for snowboarding and leaving their parents' arms, Gu Ailing had already cast her eyes on the obstacle turn, and the natural challenge made her completely associate with the most difficult one - freestyle skiing.
With the gradual emergence of age and talent, Gu Ailing entered the team for less than a year, and at the age of 9, he won the first championship of freestyle skiing in the United States and began to win the American Junior Championships, achieving a good result of ranking first overall.
You thought it was the end, but you didn't expect that her honor had just begun.
At the age of 11, he won the National Obstacle Course Championship and the runner-up in the all-around.
At the age of 13, he competed in the adult category.
At the age of 14, he represented the United States in the World Cup and won a gold and a silver medal.
15-year-old ISF top three in the annual standings.
At this time, she has won more than 50 medals in major events, and some people even joked: if you don't know what the world's ski sports medals look like, you can go to Gu Ailing's home to visit, her home has a full set.
First, love and dreams can be combined
You know, the freestyle skiing learned by Gu Ailing is the most difficult one in skiing, known as "snow acrobatics".
Everyone says that it is because of talent, and the mother's genes, but as Coach Quan Hong chan said: "Talent can only let you enter this door, and the pain of training is unimaginable to ordinary people." ”
Her weekends and holidays are always filled with training, and for more than 10 years, when other children are enjoying going out with their parents on weekends, Gu Ailing's weekends are only training, and homework can only be completed in between training.
Forgot to tell everyone that she is just a talented athlete, she is also a full-fledged bully.
The physical education student culture class is almost a bit, and everyone can understand it.
But she was different.
With the increase of the competition, in order to free up more time for training, she quietly arranged the last two years of high school courses in advance to arrange teacher tuition, compressed to one year and completed all the learning, becoming the first student in her high school to graduate early.
The brain of a genius, the hardware of Bai Fumei, and behind it is a family of scholars.
Her mother graduated from Peking University and continued to study at Stanford University, her father was Harvard University, and even her grandfather was a high-achieving student at Stanford, so perfect genes also created her to grow up in many ways.
But such a family education background, but she also broke the inherent attitude of the world with her hobbies and achievements.
Even though skiing has achieved so much, her culture class has never dragged her feet, and even let her sit on the "genius" again.
At the age of 15, standing at the fork in the road of life, wanting to go to her mother's school, this Dream wanted to go to Stanford, the first time she was so close to herself, she still insisted on herself, without hesitation.
Stanford was in dire need of sprint talent, and if she switched from skiing to athletics, with her athletic talent, there was almost no doubt that she could be determined by the school. It was the fastest ticket to pass, but she gave it up.
You must know that she loves skiing so much, the most anticipated time every weekend is the free moment of flipping in the ski area, after careful consideration, she rejected the plan, but she did not give up the dream of Stanford. Like an ordinary high school student, she chose to take the American college entrance examination.
How could such a perfect life be without setbacks.
On the day of the exam, it rained and couldn't get a car, she could only brave the rain to run to the exam room, almost missed the time, did not affect her play, and finally was directly admitted to Stanford with a SAT score of 20 points. (out of 1600)
The day she got her notice from Stanford University, she cried in her mother's arms.
"It turns out that with their own efforts, you can really grasp your love and dreams in your hands."
Second, the honor and applause are not as good as Chinese nationals
A talented athlete, a bully, had not yet had time to receive applause and honor in the United States, but she made a decision that shocked the world.
It is precisely because of this decision that her reputation in the United States has fallen to the bottom.
In June 2019, Gu Ailing, who had already won the world championship and was at the peak, wrote on social media: "Beijing, I am coming." Officially announced his chinese citizenship and represented China at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
The scolding of the foreign media on the whole network is overwhelming, and the huge controversy has made this 16-year-old girl more determined, that far exceeds the determination of her peers, and her feelings for the motherland, Americans may never understand.
People who have seen Beijing hutongs since childhood, how can they not miss their hometown.
Beijing's grandmother's house is the place where she has been haunted since she was a child, every summer vacation, her mother will take her back to China, in beijing's old hutong alley, living with the locals, living in the hutongs, eating shabu lamb, making friends with children of the same age, in addition to appearance, there is no difference with the authentic Beijing Xiaoni.
In an interview, she introduced herself fluently with her Chinese. A Mandarin with a Beijing flavor, she can also fluently express her favorite delicacies: "raw fried buns, leek dumplings, soybean milk fritters, rock sugar gourd, marinated meat rice, char siu buns, shabu lamb, Beijing roast duck..."
Many people see this and say: There is nothing remarkable, but it is a change of nationality to come back to participate in the competition, and the honor is still her own.
You know, Chinese nationality is one of the most difficult countries in the world to apply, and all the standings in the competition to return to China have to be cleared, but she has overcome them one by one.
Risking not being able to participate in international competitions in three years, points used for two months to frantically save enough, just to represent Chinese players, standing on the field of the Winter Olympics, the pressure behind it, no one can imagine.
To this end, in order to better meet the Winter Olympics, the enrollment is postponed for one year.
Returning to China and winning glory for the country was the most correct decision she made.
Putting aside the noise, she chose to train silently, and 2 months later, in the new Zealand arena, she won three free ski championships and stood on the podium as a Chinese for the first time, which is just a new starting point.
There will be a very famous film in the Winter Olympics, where a girl on the bus who looks to the west looks at The Tiananmen Square in Beijing opposite and slowly reads it with her Chinese, firm and powerful.
That girl was her.
Every time I go back to China, Yu Gu Ailing always goes home. Therefore, the firm choice, for her, is to fight for her family.
Third, multi-field development, the future can be expected
Along the way, Gu Ailing has always been able to exceed those seemingly insurmountable tasks, and she was selected into the Forbes Under 30 Elite List in 2020, and she is still the youngest of them.
The tight body of perennial exercise, the combination of Chinese and Western and fashionable temperament, such an excellent naturalized patriotic athlete, how can the brand side not see.
Therefore, in his spare time, Gu Ailing's sports have wandered around the shows of major fashion weeks, and is the perennial target of magazine covers such as VOGUE and Harper's Bazaar.
On September 13, at the 2021 Met Gala Charity Fashion Dance held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this so-called "Oscar of the fashion industry" event, there were many sports stars, as the only Chinese of the evening, Gu Ailing's temperament is not lost to international friends.
In October, he was invited to participate in the LV Spring/Summer Fashion Show.
In addition to the fashion party, cover, she also holds multiple endorsements.
Gu Ailing dares to break the routine to drink and challenge the limit of the character, attracted the attention of major brands, as a young athlete, her endorsement has not been interrupted, from luxury goods, small to daily necessities, a month of official announcement of 8 endorsements, even the Bank of China has rushed to sign a contract.
The Cadillac brand announced Gu Ailing's 18-year-old coming-of-age ceremony that she had become a brand spokesperson and was given a car. Gu Ailing is also in line with the brand value of "boldness, style and innovation" of the automobile brand Cadillac.
As Cadillac Lock advocates, "All greatness stems from a brave beginning." The concept, together with Gu Ailing, inspires young people to dare to explore more possibilities.
Compared with those traffic stars in the current entertainment industry, Gu Ailing is not like a star, but more moving than a star. She has a firm belief in doing what she loves to the extreme.
It is the girl who can sit in the front row of Paris Fashion Week and watch the show, smile confidently on the cover of a fashion magazine, or give up her American citizenship without reservation, give up competing in the international arena, and choose to win glory for the country.
18-year-old Gu Ailing is using her love and good at it to encourage all girls like her to be brave and be themselves.
Such a girl, who looks at it does not say a word: this is the real idol.