She starred in the promotional film of the Winter Olympics with Jackson Yi, and became friends with Liu Haoran because of her skiing hobby.
She is a frequent visitor to hot search. She broke the world record of training and preparation and was recognized as "jumping out of the operation only in the competition."
She is a mixed-race Chinese-American. She won the world championship in the United States at the age of 16, but chose to go back to China at the peak to fight for the honor of China.
She is one of the most anticipated athletes in this Winter Olympics-freestyle skier Gu Ailing.
Gu Ailing was born in 2003. "Super Schoolmaster" and "Genius Girl" are all labels on her body. People commented that she "explained what a real idol should look like".
However, Gu Ailing's glorious road is far from as glamorous as it seems.
The so-called brilliance is just a sharp edge after a lot of tempering.
Few people have such a glittering growth resume:
The International Snow Federation commented on 16 years old: "Gu Ailing wrote her name in the history of freestyle skiing for the first time, and there may be many times in the future."
Young and famous, attracting worldwide attention, should be used to applause, but in the face of others' approval, Gu Ailing is particularly sober:
At the age of 3, Gu Ailing began training. When her little body fell, the snow was already higher than her. Once, because of fatigue, she fell asleep in the snow, and her mother searched in the snow for a long time before finding her.
Freestyle skiing is an extreme sport, which requires wearing skis to complete difficult actions such as snow somersaults and turns. In addition to hard training, injuries are commonplace.
Clavicle fracture, foot bone fracture, hand fracture and thumb ligament tear, shoulder injury, concussion and amnesia ... Gu Ailing was scarred, but when it comes to skiing, she still said excitedly:
For love, she is not afraid of all difficulties. Before a competition, she had a fever of 40 degrees and once had symptoms of difficulty breathing. The coach advised her to rest, but she insisted on playing, trying her best to draw a perfect arc in the air without being familiar with the environment.
At the World Championships, she broke her right hand and tore her thumb ligament, but she also played steadily and miraculously won two gold medals and a bronze medal.
Everyone thought she was the chosen daughter, but in fact she was more willing to pay than anyone else:
Surprisingly, the intense and busy training did not delay her studies.
In order to win the competition time, Gu Ailing, who studied in the United States, reduced the four-year high school curriculum to three years, becoming the first high school student to graduate early.
Finally, in the SAT (American College Entrance Examination), Gu Ailing got 1.580, with a perfect score of 1.600. More than 99.8% of the candidates were admitted to Stanford University, the world's top school.
Glory comes from hard work day after day-it takes four hours to drive from home to the ski resort, and Gu Ailing does her homework, eats and changes clothes in the car.
Even if she goes abroad to participate in the competition, she has her own arrangements: "Just list the things that need to be done one by one. I think there is enough time. It takes more than 10 hours to fly to Europe, so I must have time to do my homework. "
Her speech after winning the championship trophy was "I'm going home to do my homework".
Many people speculate that Gu Ailing's mother must be a "tiger mother" to cultivate such an excellent daughter in all aspects, but Gu Ailing said that her mother is a gentle "rabbit mother".
Support and recognition,
Far more powerful than sternness and reprimand.
Gu Ailing's mother is from China. She graduated from Peking University and studied at Stanford University.
Gu Ailing has been given a high degree of freedom by her mother since she was a child, leading her to contact football, horseback riding, rock climbing and cross-country running, but she only wants to exercise and doesn't want to become famous.
In the end, it was Gu Ailing who decided to take skiing as her sports career.
After entering the national team, mother Gu Yan seldom cares about her daughter's grades, but only cares about her safety:
Compared with harsh requirements, respect and support can give people confidence and strength.
Gu Ailing repeatedly mentioned a memory when she was 7 years old: she just joined a ski team and was the only girl in the team.
She has a naive fantasy that she will attend the Olympic Games in the future. Everyone thought it was a fable, but her mother enthusiastically cheered for her.
Gu Ailing and her mother.
Now this seemingly unrealistic wish is about to come true.
Parents give the decision back to their children, and children often have stronger initiative. Gu Ailing has made her own study plan and training plan since she was a child, and her mother will also help her reflect and make a comeback.
Gu Ailing and her mother are close friends. She once joked:
Nowadays, after endless competitions, Gu Ailing often receives invitations from fashion magazines. With a good family, she doesn't need to try new fields for pay, but enjoys a brand-new experience of becoming a model. "Modeling is also a kind of creation."
Although living in the United States, Gu Yan takes one or two months off every summer vacation to take Gu Ailing back to China to study, train and play.
Gu Ailing speaks fluent Chinese with a Beijing accent, can recite ancient poems, and especially likes Beijing snacks.
Out of love for China culture, 16-year-old Gu Ailing chose to give up American citizenship and become a China player. As soon as the news came out, many foreign fans swore at her.
However, she is determined, and she mentioned in many interviews: "I am not a doll, I am a Beijing girl."
She is like a princess dancing in the snow, winning glory for China on the field;
After becoming a citizen of China, Gu Ailing won three gold medals for China in 22 days, which shocked the sports world.
As a woman, I can stand on top of the world.
Even after winning numerous trophies, Gu Ailing still has a lingering gender bias.
At the age of seven, Gu Ailing was the only girl on the ski team. Freestyle skiing has always been known for its high difficulty coefficient. "There are always people who think that women's freestyle skiing is not as enjoyable as men's, or that women are not suitable for this sport."
1 1 years old, Gu Ailing said in her speech:
Not only in the field of skiing, but also in the fields of science, engineering, law and politics ... Secular people always think that women are weak in these fields and are used to expecting more from boys.
"Girls can't learn math well", "Girls are not suitable to be programmers" and "Girls don't understand politics" ... Various statements abound in the growth path of girls.
But in fact, when the professional barriers created by the patriarchal society are shattered and the spiritual shackles woven by secular prejudice are broken, women can also reach the peak in this field.
In the steeplechase, Gu Ailing was able to get on the pole with a 450-degree twist, which made a group of male players gasp in admiration.
Some netizens also shared a real experience:
In fact, there are too many examples to prove that gender has never been a reliable screening condition.
Stand-up comedian Ali Wong performed on the stage with a big belly. She tore off the taboo coat, mocked breastfeeding, satirized the different responsibilities of parents, and voiced for women.
With words that hit the nail on the head, she shattered the prejudice that "women have no sense of humor" and "women should not be aggressive" and won applause from countless people.
People often think that women can't control politics and lack faith in politics. In the campaign, many female politicians even imitate the tone and manners of men.
However, in the just-concluded Boston mayoral election, Wu Yong, a 36-year-old Chinese congresswoman, was successfully elected. She broke the tradition of the past 200 years and became the first Chinese female mayor in the region.
During the victory speech, she wore red lipstick and a red skirt, and her smile was very infectious, breaking the secular prejudice that women should not get involved in politics.
Many people unconsciously regard "chips" and "semiconductors" as men's fields, but lisa su, the queen of chips, saved AMD abandoned by the times, created hundreds of millions of wealth, and made game lovers all over the world use cheap and powerful chips.
She won the "Nobel Prize" in the semiconductor industry and punched countless people who believed that women "can't read chips".
In sociology books, there is a concept: "prejudice threat", that is, after group members form a negative directional cognition, they may be more inclined to act according to this cognition.
When women are bound by prejudice and dare not exert their fists in this field, the role of women in this field is becoming scarcer and scarcer, thus proving prejudice and forming a vicious circle.
But when more and more women break this inherent impression, it is the beginning of change.
As Gu Ailing said: