Gu Ailing is Chinese.
Gu Ailing is of mixed race. Her father is American and her mother is from Beijing, China. She was born in San Francisco, California, USA on September 3, 2003, at which time she was of course an American citizen.
However, Gu Ailing announced through her personal social media platform in 2019 that she had officially changed to Chinese nationality, and posted "Report by Chinese freestyle skier Gu Ailing". In 2019, Gu Ailing performed ski slope obstacle skills in Freestyle, New Zealand. Winning the championship in the Open is also the first championship won by Gu Ailing after announcing that she would become Chinese nationality.
What qualities can we learn from Gu Ailing?
1. Love with all your heart
Why is Gu Ailing so mentally strong? In addition to her mother's caring companionship, it also stems from her love and enjoyment of skiing.
In the documentary "My Time and Me", Gu Ailing said: "Do what you like and have passion, then you will not feel tired when practicing. I am not doing it to compete in the Olympics. Skiing is because I have a passion for it, because I like it, and then I start competing and winning, which makes me like it even more. "Love and enjoyment are the highest realm of sports for an athlete.
2. Challenge yourself
In the freestyle skiing women’s big platform finals, after the second jump, you can stand on the Olympic podium. For the third jump, Gu Ailing asked her mother for her opinion. Her mother suggested taking a conservative approach and winning a silver medal. But she feels that coming to the Olympics is to show the Olympic spirit, to expand human limits, to challenge herself, and to guide young people to fall in love with ice and snow sports.
You must have the courage to surpass yourself and enjoy life, so as to win your own wonderful life. Is there any shortcut to success? Genius is part of it, and hard work is the foundation. Only by being able to withstand the test, withstand pressure, and endure loneliness can we finally break through ourselves, achieve ourselves, and enjoy ourselves.
3. Hard training
Gu Ailing’s daily training is very intense. As a “newcomer” to two world-class events, Gu Ailing has completed the women’s freestyle skiing big jump and U-shaped event. In the three events of field and slope obstacle, the overall preparation intensity is extremely high.
Under this high-intensity training arrangement, Gu Ailing intelligently divides the daily time into two focus time zones: "training up the mountain and sleeping down the mountain". Every day, he spends 9 to 13 hours in the low temperature of minus 12 degrees Celsius. It takes hours to get familiar with the venue, observe players, train and compete, with only a few dozen minutes of rest time.
With Gu Ailing's full preparation and hard training, Gu Ailing set a new record in China's ice and snow events and won XGame double gold. Now, Gu Ailing has regarded self-discipline training as instinct, which is why she can achieve success in the world's ice and snow events. One of the important reasons for the breakthrough performance.
4. Be brave and try
Gu Ailing’s mother’s view on family education: The willingness to dare to try is more worthy of encouragement than any result. Dare to try, is an amazing courage. Those who dare to try must take huge risks and face all kinds of strange eyes to take a path that no one dares to take.
Gu Ailing said: "I have another idea, because this is the Winter Olympics and people all over the world can see it. I think this is a very important second to represent the spirit of sportsmanship and competition. Spirit." The competition is not about beating other athletes, but about "breaking my own boundaries," so I decided to give it a try regardless of success.