"Tonight doesn't belong to me, this is life"
Kwan's artistic expressiveness is particularly surprising.
Gao Xiaosong was intimidated by talk shows about Han Chinese people having no musical cells. In fact, Sister Yu Yan accompanied The Sweet Bean Sisters went to the ice rink several times, and the perception of limbs and rhythms between those Eastern European children and Chinese children was really different, and even I, a layman, could see the superiority.
For example, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo have first-class technical performance, but they have been running on the road of champion for many years because of their slight lack of artistic expression. It is unusual for Chinese players like Kwan Ying Shan and Chen Lu to show a strong understanding of art from the beginning.
When Guan Yingshan's two hands swing gracefully, you will feel the notes flowing from her fingertips. Her every movement was so coherent, like a string together, completely inseparable.
Even the first-class players will show a strict look before the most difficult three weeks of jumping, but Guan Yingshan can do it in one go.
This is also why in the 1998 Winter Olympics, although Guan Yingshan lost to Lipinsky, she still did not lose the title of "great athlete".
Compared to a gold medal, the art and attitude are more memorable.
▲ Lipinski turned to the more relaxed professional game after a glimpse, but Guan Yingshan still insisted on standing one stop at a time.
The reason why Guan Yingshan has won the love of the whole United States is because of her calm and calm in the face of failure.
Guan Yingshan's career path has not been smooth. In fact, for two years, due to great psychological pressure, she fell down on the ice rink again and again, and even asked for help from a psychologist.
Figure skating is such a delicate sport. Use more than half a force, use less half a force, this slight difference is enough to make you fall.
In 1998, Kwan performed well at the Nagano Olympics, but who knew that she lost to Lipinsky, who was halfway through. That time was also Chen Lu's farewell battle.
Seeing Guan Yingshan and Chen Lu standing on the second and third place seats, Sister Yan was also secretly sad. But Lipinski behaved so well, and the series of three-week jumps was simply dizzying.
Kwan Ying-shan kisses Lipinsky. However, Sister Yu Yan remembers that when watching the broadcast, Lipinsky was not very friendly to Guan Yingshan
In 2002, Guan Yingshan played again at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. "Field of Gold," a piece with a beautiful vision, didn't help her achieve her dream of an Olympic gold medal.
Before the game, the audience failed to see her relaxed smile, but rather tense muscles and the coach's reassurance. She said that she had practiced jumping for three weeks countless times, without a single mistake, but before the game, she still felt unsteady.
Sure enough, Guan Yingshan fell again. He eventually won the bronze medal and lost to 16-year-old Sarah Hughes.
When the camera turns to Guan Yingshan, she chokes on tears and shrugs her shoulders faintly:
This is life, and tonight does not belong to me.
Just a few years ago, 16-year-old Guan Yingshan was like Today's Hughes, with the fearlessness of a newborn calf. The back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave, and there are always juniors who will catch up and surpass you.
▲ When Guan Yingshan's tears flew down, how many people were so devastated that even the narrator choked up
In 2006, Kwan ying shan challenged the Olympics for the third time, when she was 25 years old and had just undergone trauma surgery.
For her, the American Figure Skating Association specially organized a separate examination to ensure Guan Yingshan's eligibility. However, just before the game, Guan Yingshan's old injury recurred and she announced her withdrawal. It also meant the end of her career.
She said:
Injuries have put me out of my best form, and the U.S. team should have sent the best players to compete.
After a word, Guan Yingshan shed tears.
▲ The neck was a golden pendant with the word "luck" engraved on it, given by her mother, but this time, the lucky charm did not take care of her
In Yu Yanjie's view, since 2004, the scoring system of the International Skating Federation has changed, and the new rules focusing on technical quantification are very unfavorable to Guan Yingshan, and she has also laughed at herself that "old dogs will not learn new tricks". At present, retirement is also timely.
In 2009, Kwan graduated from the University of Denver's Department of Political Science and completed her master's program in law and diplomacy two years later.
In 2012, Kwan married U.S. Coast Guard Captain Clay Pell, the head of strategic planning for the National Security Department who met during her internship at the White House.
▲ Think of that year, Guan Yingshan wore a wedding dress of Vera Wang and held a romantic wedding in an ancient church in Rhode Island
Pelle, a Harvard graduate, came from a well-known family with a tradition of political participation, and both his grandfather and father served as senators. Pell, a juris doctor who is well versed in East Asian issues, Chinese speaks more fluently than Kwan.
Pell once made a bold statement that "one day he will enter the White House", but he had not yet arrived at the election of the president, and in the Rhode Island governor campaign, Pell had already lost miserably. It is said that his face is indeed not very likable.
▲ At that time, in order to give Perla a vote, Guan Yingshan actively stood on the platform and also made a lot of efforts
Who knew that after only 4 years of marriage, Pell filed for divorce on the grounds of "unbridgeable differences". What's even more bizarre is that he also shouted on Twitter that Guan Yingshan should bear the divorce lawyer's fees. This emotional intelligence, this mind, and wanting to "enter the White House" is also drunk.
In this regard, Guan Yingshan herself has always been silent, eating, drinking and traveling abroad, and it seems that she has not been disturbed.
For a time, even the people who ate melons in the lighthouse country could not look at it, and they all sarcastically said: "Dude, you apply for divorce and let your wife pay?" You can't be so shameless. ”
In the ten years from the age of 15 to 25, everyone watched her beat the veteran at the youngest age and climb to the top step by step, and everyone also watched her fluctuate, sometimes moving forward, sometimes falling continuously. Everyone followed her through these many happy and bitter years.
Today, Kwan YingShan has been retired for 12 years, during which time many masters such as Asada Masayoshi, Kim Yeon-na, Zagitova and so on have emerged in the ice world.
One year, Kim Yeon-na went to the United States for a training camp and met Kwan Young-san in the ice rink lounge. She said: "I didn't have the courage to say hello, just secretly looked at her, what should I say?" In the blink of an eye, that sexy and feminine Kim Yeon-er has also retired for a few years.
Every day, people climb from the bottom of the mountain, and every day people walk down from the peak. For these disturbances, Guan Yingshan has long given a neat answer:
Life is 'work hard. be yourself, and have fun!’
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