(Beijing Winter Olympics) "Top-notch" Winter Olympics: 18-year-old Gu Ailing
China News Agency Zhangjiakou, February 18th: "Top Stream" in the Winter Olympics: 18-year-old Gu Ailing
China News Agency reporter Chen Lin Wang Yu
In the home of 18-year-old Beijing Winter Olympic champion Gu Ailing, there is a special table.
On it are all the medals won over the years.
However, she didn't plan to put the three Winter Olympic medals she just won there.
A few years ago, Gu Ailing left a place on the window of her room, "a special Olympic medal for me".
On February 18, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle skiing women's U-shaped field skills award ceremony was held. After receiving the gold medal, Gu Ailing displayed three medals, 2 gold and 1 silver, which she won at this Winter Olympics.
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Influenced by her mother who likes to ski, this girl who grew up in the United States and has Chinese descent has been practicing skiing since she was a child, and has achieved dazzling results.
Almost every summer vacation, she returns to Beijing, China with her mother.
This is the city where my mother was born and raised, and this is also the "homecoming" in her eyes.
Gu Ailing is well known by Chinese netizens because of a message posted on social platforms three years ago: "I am very proud to represent China in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in three years' time."
A few months ago, she came to Chongli, Zhangjiakou for the first time to participate in the 2018-2019 FIS Snowboard U-shaped World Cup.
At that time, Chongli, which had been identified as the main venue for the snow sports of the Beijing Winter Olympics, was accumulating experience by holding a series of international events.
On February 18, Chinese team player Gu Ailing was in the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhai Yujia
Come to Chongli to participate in the competition, she is already recognized as the "top class" at the Winter Olympics.
In the arena where talented masters and legendary veterans gathered, Gu Ailing, who won the gold medal, brought her own traffic and began to challenge more gold medals.
During this period, almost every time she appeared, she could "contribute" to the hot search of online social platforms, even if she only said "I love eating leek boxes" or "made ten calls to my mother".
There are more than 40 Douyin accounts with more than 40 works, with more than 15 million followers.
She has more than 5.5 million followers on Weibo.
Gu Ailing was also one of the athletes who stayed in the mixed mining area for the longest time after the game.
The staff used a large box, and it was difficult to fit the recording equipment of the reporters.
After the game press conference, the chair is added.
Her departure also required the assistance of security personnel.
In the media bus, reporters from different countries are often heard talking about "Gu Ailing" or "Eileen Gu".
As an 18-year-old girl, "Princess Frog" is full of personality.
In order to let others recognize herself as a girl at a glance, she deliberately showed two strands of long hair outside the helmet; she incorporated "dragon elements" into the competition clothing, helmet, and skateboard, she bluntly said, "I don't want to be a human, I want to be (a) dragon"; She eats leek boxes when they are divided, buns when they are mixed, and wants to eat mutton after the game... She is keen to become a Chinese "gourmet", and she does not hide her "love to eat" nature.
On February 15, Chinese team player Gu Ailing was presenting the souvenirs.
On the same day, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women's Slope Obstacle Skills Final was held at Zhangjiakou Yunding Ski Park.
China's Gu Ailing won the silver medal.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
While winning gold and silver on the field, she also showed a mature side off the field.
Seeing the opponent's mistakes, they will quickly come up to hug and comfort them; face doubts, use humor to resolve them ingeniously; walk through the mixed mining area, they will be proficient in switching between English and Mandarin, and rationally allocate time in each interview area; trap," she said China and the United States have to thank, and her mission is to use sport as a force of unity.
She loves to make friends, and many members of the U-shaped Canadian and American teams are "especially good friends".
She loves skiing and sees it as a sport with an opportunity to break borders and push human limits with rivals.
Sharing and exchanging this sport with each other is "the greatest and best pleasure".
She is also good at giving full play to her design advantages and sharing Chinese elements, culture and like spirit with everyone.
The skateboards of famous skiers from many countries all have the "dragon element" pattern designed by her.
On the morning of the 18th, Gu Ailing, who finished all the competitions, won a total of 2 golds and 1 silver in this Winter Olympics, creating a new Olympic history.
In the last round of competition, she, who had already won the championship, made an "exception" and did not challenge the higher difficulty, but "did some fun and funny moves" and enjoyed it happily.
On February 8, Chinese team player Gu Ailing won the championship in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Skiing Women's Grand Jump final held at the Beijing Shougang Ski Jump.
The picture shows Gu Ailing celebrating.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
In the evening, after the award ceremony, Gu Ailing revealed that she would go to the closing ceremony to draw a perfect circle for her trip to the Winter Olympics.
In the past ten days, she has used breakthroughs again and again to write ice and snow legends that belong to herself, China, and the world.
For the 18-year-old girl, perhaps, this is also a new beginning.
She also said that the platform provided by the Winter Olympics is more important than the happiness of winning a medal: let more people get in touch with the sport and see her love for the sport, "I hope they can experience it too." .
Her opponent, Cathy Sharp, who failed to defend her title, also believes that Gu Ailing is like a clockwork machine, capable of advancing and changing the sport.
In the fall, Gu Ailing will study at Stanford University in the United States.
She, who "follows her feeling", did not disclose the situation of future competitions, but said she would make a decision at the right time.
Indeed, this age is "very special and interesting" in her eyes: "a bit like a child", "also able to make his own decisions maturely".
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