In the final of the women's freestyle skiing platform event held at the Beijing Winter Olympics on the 8th, Chinese athlete Gu Ailing won the gold medal in the third round of the "decisive jump".
On February 8, the women's freestyle ski jumping final at the Beijing Winter Olympics was held on the Shougang Ski Jumping platform, and Gu Ailing won the championship.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
Gu Ailing said that the reason why she chose the difficult action "1620" that she has never challenged in the last jump is "not to defeat anyone, but to break through myself." This spirit of daring to challenge and break through is for sportsmanship The best explanation has won unanimous praise from netizens at home and abroad.
Gu Ailing is training in Chengdu.
Photo courtesy of Xindu Propaganda Department
do you know?
The difficult action of "1620" is inseparable from this place in Chengdu, Sichuan.
In Chengdu, there is a big jumping platform called "Flammulina velutipes" that made Gu Ailing call "it's worth it" and Su Yiming used to fly in the wind.
During the Spring Festival, with the "Winter Olympics fever", the ice and snow sports in Chengdu also became hot.
Gu Ailing had secret training in Chengdu before the game
Polished to complete the "Decisive Jump"
In order to perform better at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing and her team chose the Chengdu Xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort for the last practice before the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Gu Ailing is training in Chengdu.
Photo courtesy of Xindu Propaganda Department
"Gu Ailing's team chose our ski resort and the 'magic carpet' to save athletes' physical strength." Talking about the reason why Gu Ailing will choose Chengdu for the first stop after participating in the Mammoth Mountain competition in the United States, Chengdu Xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Seasons Zhang Wei, the person in charge of the ski resort, introduced that Gu Ailing also used the "Flammulina velutipes" dry snow blankets produced in Xindu District, Chengdu.
Gu Ailing is training in Chengdu.
Photo courtesy of Xindu Propaganda Department
Xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort is the largest dry ski resort in Southwest China.
Walking into the snow field, the first thing that catches your eye is a striking "big guy" - this is the "Big Air", a 43-meter-high, 112-meter-long dry snow jumping platform built for the training of the Winter Olympics.
Dry snow jumping platform.
Photo by Zhang Lang
"Work hard" is the deepest impression Gu Ailing left on Zhang Wei during the 5-day Chengdu secret training.
"Gu Ailing goes to the ski resort at 10 o'clock every day and trains until about 16 o'clock. The average training time is five or six hours a day, which is twice that of ordinary athletes." Zhang Wei recalled that the "Flammulina" big jumping platform is 43 meters high, and every day Gu Ailing would go up and down this big platform about seventy times, and sometimes she was so busy that she didn't even have time to eat at noon.
"The last day of training was originally scheduled to end at 14:30 on the same day. As a result, the training time was extended by about an hour. In the end, Gu Ailing didn't even have time to take a bath or change clothes, so he went straight to the airport." Zhang Wei said, When parting, Gu Yan, Gu Ailing's mother, also expressed her gratitude to the staff of the special class in Xindu District, Chengdu, who provided all-round protection for Ailing during the training.
Zhang Wei said that Gu Ailing's last jump in the final was a 1620-degree turn to the left off-axis. At that time, they saw only more than one second of flight time outside the isolation area. It is difficult to judge what Gu Ailing has done with the naked eye. action.
But from the cheers and joyful expressions of Gu Ailing's team, everyone guessed that Gu Ailing's "secret training" in Chengdu had a good effect.
In the last day or two of Gu Ailing's training, the cheers and applause that could be heard outside the training ground became more and more frequent.
Chengdu Xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort.
Photo by Zhang Lang
Su Yiming won the silver medal
Trained here too
Before this Winter Olympics, the eight national ski teams of the Winter Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of China had conducted off-season skiing training for half a year at the Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort in Xindu, Chengdu.
Su Yiming, who went to Chengdu Xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Seasons Ski Resort for training three times, left a deep impression on She Songbai, the operation manager of the ski resort.
Su Yiming is training in Chengdu.
Photo courtesy of Xindu Propaganda Department
"The biggest difference between Su Yiming and other students is the training time. He has twice the training time of other athletes. He also constantly communicates with the coach to modify his movements and unlock some more difficult movements. According to She Songbai, in the summer of 2021, Su Yiming will be training on the "Enoki Mushroom" platform in the dry ski resort.
"After Gu Ailing and Su Yiming won medals one after another, more and more people come to us to experience skiing, and many people bring cameras to check in and take pictures." She Songbai said, "Winter Olympics fever" is also for the ski resorts It has brought a lot of popularity. In the past, there were up to 100 people a day. Now there are more than 300 tourists who come to experience skiing. The daily passenger flow is three or four times that of the same period in previous years.
Dry snow jumping platform.
Photo by Zhang Lang
As the "Winter Olympics fever" continues to heat up, ice and snow sports equipment continues to sell well for Decathlon's ski supplies and even a hot scene in short supply.
It is understood that since December 2021, customers of a sports brand store in Chengdu have increased by more than 30% compared with previous years, and sales of ski sports have increased by more than 30% year-on-year, of which sales during the Spring Festival (1.31-2.7) increased by more than 80% year-on-year. %.
Intimacy with ice and snow is more than just sports master "Flammulina velutipes" roller-ski blanket goes to the world
If you think that the "dry ski field" covered with enoki mushrooms is only for professional athletes and folk ice and snow sports masters, then you are wrong.
Chengdu Xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort has nearly ten different ski trails, which can meet the different needs of skiing "kindergarten" to "postgraduate", and even "ashes" after a day's work and then skiing night skiing, experience Different ice and snow fun.
Some local students in Xindu are training.
Photo by Zhang Lang
Coach Cao Jian introduced that as the ice and snow boom swept north and south China, there were teenagers and "new skiers" in their 50s and 60s who came to the dry ski resort to learn to ski.
He and his colleagues have also taught more than ten hearing-impaired Xindu students to learn to ski, and some students have won medals in national-level disabled ski competitions.
Chengdu Xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort.
Photo by Zhang Lang
Although the dry snow blanket produced in Xindu, Chengdu started later than Japan, Italy, and the British brush type dry snow blanket, but because of its longer service life and better buffering effect, the "Flammulina" dry snow blanket At present, the blanket has been exported to more than ten countries and regions such as the United States, Japan, and Austria, and has been put into use in many four seasons ski resorts such as Beijing, Nanjing, and Foshan in China.
Not far from the ski resort, in the workshop of Chengdu Jianfeng Dry Snow Sports Equipment Co., Ltd., dozens of workers are busy working, one after another "Flammulina" dry snow blankets are constantly "spitting out" from modern machines.
In the factory, dozens of workers are busy making "Enoki mushroom" dry snow blankets.
Photo by Zhang Lang
"This year is the sixth year of our fourth-generation 'Flammulina' dry snow blanket, which sells 30,000 square meters in China every year and nearly 10,000 square meters abroad." Pointing to the neatly stacked blue Hu Zhiyong, deputy general manager of Chengdu Jianfeng Dry Snow Sports Equipment Co., Ltd., said with a smile that the "Flammulina velutipes" dry snow blankets from international pallets are all orders that will be sent to Canada, Japan and Russia after the Spring Festival.
"I'm not worried that the order will decrease after the Beijing Winter Olympics, because the Winter Olympics are like a fire, and people's love for ice and snow sports has been ignited." The person in charge of the company said.
Author: He Shaoqing Zhu Huan