Short comment: What is the light behind the "Gu Ailing phenomenon"?
China News Service, Beijing, February 12, 2019 Title: What is the light behind the "Gu Ailing Phenomenon"?
China News Service reporter An Yingzhao
Gu Ailing exploded. From showing her cool and heroic posture on the field to talking and laughing in interviews after the game, behind her becoming a "phenomenon-level" star, the world can see three colors.
Gu Ailing let the world see the background of sports.
On February 8, Gu Ailing won the Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle skiing women's big jump championship. Photo by China News Service reporter Li Jun
In the final of the freestyle ski women's big jump, Gu Ailing was not easy to compare. After the first two rounds, she only ranked third, facing a dilemma: to seek stability and protect the top three, or to change and compete for the first. In the end, 18-year-old Gu Ailing won the gold in the third round of "soldiering and danger". The pursuit of more perfection and the challenge of the impossible are the charm of competitive sports, Gu Ailing's letting go not only creates history, but also makes it faster, higher, stronger - more united Olympic motto reflected in the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
On February 8, Gu Ailing won the championship in the final of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Ski Women's Big Jump held at the Beijing Shougang Ski Jump. Photo by Mao Jianjun, reporter of China News Service
After the game, in the face of ulterior motives, Gu Ailing said bluntly, "Sports can unite everyone, and sports do not need to be related to nationality." "Sport is not political, and the quest of athletes to challenge human limits transcends national borders. The International Olympic Committee added "more unity" to the centennial Olympic motto, that is, hoping that sports can promote unity rather than create differences, Gu Ailing's answer said the background of sports, and audiences at home and abroad should also refocus their attention on the arena rather than the whirlpool of public opinion.
On February 8, In the final of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Ski Women's Big Jump at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, China's Gu Ailing won the championship. The picture shows Gu Ailing (right) supporting other athletes. Photo by Mao Jianjun, reporter of China News Service
Gu Ailing also let the world see the true color of "Generation Z".
Outside the halo of the world champion, Gu Ailing is also a "post-00s". On the field, she won 6 championships in 36 days, cashing in on her talent with diligence; off the field, she faced criticism and doubt, and used humor to resolve embarrassment; in life, she was inevitably gluttonous, playful, lazy, and used sleep to adjust her state. This is "Generation Z", who dare to challenge difficult problems, dare to explore boundaries, and are good at learning skills. More importantly, most of them, like Gu Ailing, are not afraid to "fall in love with fear".
Photo by Ren Haixia, a reporter of China News Service
Throughout the ages, many remarkable achievements have been achieved in their youth. During the war years, Huo Went sickly sealed the wolf Juxu's weak crown, and Zhuge Lianglong's countermeasures had not yet been established. In the history of art, Wang Ximeng painted "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" at the age of 18, and Botticelli completed "Spring" and "The Birth of Venus" before the age of 42. In the field of science, Einstein proposed the special theory of relativity at the age of 26, Yang Zhenning was 34 years old, and Li Zhengdao was 30 years old and found that "the universe is not conserved"... Youth is never a shackle to success, but often a weapon to break through the shackles of the world and subvert the shackles of tradition.
Gu Ailing also let the world see the harmony and difference of the colorful.
The cultural background of the intersection of China and the United States makes Gu Ailing have its own "topic attribute". From the time she first represented China, some Western media outlets began to set "issue traps" during interviews, trying to induce her to praise the United States and criticize China. But Gu Ailing can always respond with the most authentic performance: when she won the first championship in North America in 2022, she wore a cowboy hat and held champagne in her hand; when she jumped high on the Big Jump in Shougang Park, her own design of "Walking on the Snow and Finding the Dragon" was particularly eye-catching.
Photo by Mao Jianjun, a reporter of China News Service
Gu Ailing's successful "breaking the circle" benefits from the accumulation of Sino-US exchanges and cooperation in the past few decades, and reflects the "chemical reaction" produced by the collision and integration of sports cultures of the two countries. As he said in an interview, "I'm very comfortable when I'm in the U.S. and China." It is this rare "ease" that makes Gu Ailing an international icon, and also lets the world see that beauty beyond ideology is the real harmony and difference, beauty and commonality. (End)