Gu Ailing grew up in America. Her father is an American, graduated from Harvard University, and her mother is from China. She graduated from Peking University with a bachelor's degree and from Stanford University with a master's degree.
Her mother used to be a ski instructor. In such a family environment, Gu Ailing is very self-disciplined and takes everything very seriously. When she was young, she often went back to Beijing for holidays with her mother. In addition, her mother cultivated and edified her traditional knowledge such as Chinese studies very seriously. Therefore, Gu Ailing has always claimed that she is a Beijing girl and is very familiar with all kinds of hutong quadrangles in Beijing.
Gu Ailing's childhood dream was to be admitted to Stanford University like her father. While working hard for this goal, another seed has quietly sprouted in her heart.
Because my mother is a skier, when Gu Ailing was more than two months old, her mother took him to the ski resort. When she was three years old, her mother took her to practice skiing. At the age of eight, she joined the ski team. At the age of nine, she won the national junior competition for the first time and topped the overall standings for three consecutive years.
Gu Ailing, aged from 20 19 to 1, 16, won the first world championship in her life and topped the fish with excellent results.
Under the daily repeated training, this great girl has never forgotten her goal of Stanford University. In order to plan her study time more reasonably, she made a bold decision. She resolutely gave up the opportunity of full-time high school courses and chose to complete her high school studies by herself. A year later, she successfully completed two years of high school courses, and was admitted to Stanford University with nearly full marks in the college entrance examination.
While planning and studying reasonably, Gu Ailing's skiing skills have also been greatly improved. On June 6th, after winning the world championship on 20 19, Gu Ailing announced on her personal social platform that she gave up her American citizenship and officially turned to China citizenship, and left a message "Gu Ailing, a freestyle skier in China, reported for duty", officially becoming a China athlete and representing China in the 2022 Winter Olympics.
The news immediately caused great controversy. Many American netizens left messages on social networking sites to scold her, but this did not change her determination to return to China. In August, she ushered in her first appearance after joining the China Training Team. In the World Cup, she won the championship and runner-up for China with Zhang Kexin, another teenager from China, and showed the strength of China to the world.
Gu Ailing made such brilliant achievements, and her grandmother also contributed. From the age of two, every summer, Gu Ailing will go back to Beijing with her mother to accompany her grandmother. Although grandma is eighty-five years old, she still loves sports very much and insists on running a little more than one kilometer every day. Gu Ailing feels that her sports genes are also inherited from her grandmother.
In addition, grandma often encourages her little granddaughter to do her best in everything. This has also become Gu Ailing's motto, as a slogan to motivate herself during the competition.