In the past summer, if you use mainstream social media, you will probably often see the name Yang Shuyu, and the frequent sheep emoji expression, the 19-year-old women's basketball player, broke into everyone's vision.
"Fearless stadium warrior"
The bronze medal battle against France, the final 0.5 seconds left in the game. When the French team made a mistake in passing, Yang Shuyu, who was sitting on the sidelines, clenched his fist tightly with his right hand.
Born in 2002, Yang Shuyu is not yet 20 years old, and together with Wan Jiyuan, Zhang Zhiting and Wang Lili, she has created the history of Chinese basketball, and she and her teammates hugged each other tightly and burst into tears.
The 19-year-old Xiao Yang was able to be selected for the final list, not because of her appearance. She is about 185cm tall, and she plays the main defender position in three-person basketball, while the defensive end suffers relatively small losses. On the offensive end, she and Wang Lili are the team's defenders, and Xiao Yang's role is to act as a peripheral pitcher and number two commando.
She is decisive, dares to take responsibility, and at the same time has excellent offensive moves on the offensive end, changing to the assault and running and cutting, not like a 19-year-old youngster. In the bronze medal battle, she threw the final crucial goal.
Yang Shuyu, who is very young, has already had a lot of experience in the game, began to contact basketball at the age of 13, and was officially selected for the National Youth League in 2017, and then selected for the National Youth League. In the 18-19 season, Yang Shuyu, who was only 16 years old, made his debut in the WCBA.
In the 20-21 season, Yang Shuyu was already an important member of the Guangdong women's basketball team, averaging 10.9 points and 4.2 rebounds per game. After being selected for the three-person women's basketball training team, Yang Shuyu also quickly adapted to the rhythm of the new project, and in the comprehensive test score released in January this year, Xiao Yang ranked fourth and the youngest.
In the past, Yang Shuyu was more known as Yang Liwei's sister, and Yang Shuyu, 7 years old, is one of the best defenders in China, a regular member of the national team, won the Asian Games championship with the team in 2018, and won the fourth place with the team in the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Having such an outstanding sister has been guiding and spurring herself, and has also given Yang Shuyu more motivation to move forward, and now, everyone knows more about her, and will not think of her sister first, and then think of her.
"The cool handsome girl of the Peach and Lee Years"
In fact, before the Olympic Games, Xiao Yang has been on the hot search twice because of her appearance, everyone pays more attention to herself, the long hair she left when she was a child, she painted very well, she likes to eat spicy, hot pot, like Li Ronghao likes to poke Grandpa.
When she was a child, because of the relationship between playing basketball, Yang Shuyu liked sneakers like many of us, and among the many sneakers, she liked "Joe 11" the most, and her first pair of sneakers was the black and red model given to her by her sister.
This has also become a special fate between Yang Shuyu and Jordan, and now she has become the first Chinese female athlete spokesperson of the Jordan brand, and Yang Shuyu's continuous surpassing performance on the court is very much in line with Jordan's slogan of "heart is higher than the sky".
Nowadays, we see a variety of athletes, not medal-winning machines, they are all living individuals who have the right to express themselves, such as the carrot hair rope on Yang Qian's head and the little yellow duck headdress.
Yang Shuyu has received a lot of attention, which is also a good thing for women's basketball sports. In the huge influx of traffic, 80% or even 90% is only because of Xiao Yang's appearance and does not care about the women's basketball project.
But even if only 10% of them pay attention to the women's basketball team, to learn about the players except Yang Shuzhi, to pay attention to other athletes who are also very good and cute, when they have the opportunity to enter the game in the future, they can go to the scene to support the game.
And Xiao Yang to those girls who play basketball, expressed an attitude, an attitude that everyone can play basketball, there is no rules and regulations that girls can't play, girls can't play well, only obstacles in people's hearts. Girls, on the other hand, can cross this barrier.
And Yang Shuyu as a women's basketball symbol in the eyes of many people, she has become a bond, so that more people can see the women's basketball team, so that the women's basketball team also has a higher degree of attention. But she is not just a symbol, she has her own skills, her own personality, her own life.
We have dark clouds above us, but we are covered in light. This kind of attention and fire slowly dissipated with the end of the Olympic Games and the National Games, but the fire that remained could be spread forever.
As Yang Shuyu himself said, "Hello everyone, I am Yang Shuyu." I will let you know who I am. "I hope that everyone can shout this sentence to life, and throw a hook punch in this forced world."