After 100 years, the Olympic Games returned to France, and the capital Paris held a unique opening ceremony on Friday night local time (Saturday early Saturday morning Malaysian time) on the famous Seine River, which was held outdoors for the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, attracting about 300,000 people.
The slogan of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, under the theme "More Open", showcased the charm of Paris in its own unique way.
In the international education circle, sports students have never been synonymous with poor students, on the contrary, there are not a few top athletes who are strong in sports and academics.
Especially in the United States, Chinese parents have long been at the next level in sports chicken babies.
According to statistics from the Pew Research Center, only 1.58 percent of the population is ethnic Chinese in United States. But at Paris 2024, the proportion of Chinese athletes on the United States team has already exceeded the overall proportion of the Chinese population.
In this United States team, there are ten Chinese children who are particularly eye-catching, let's see who they are today! (In no particular order)
男子体操：汤建华 (Asher Hong）
Asher, from Texas, is a freshman at Stanford University, and his parents are both Chinese immigrants United States.
Asher was a member of the United States team at last year's World Gymnastics World Championships, and this year he represented Stanford University as a freshman in the National Collegiate League, where he won five consecutive All-American collegiate gymnastics team championships.
Women's Gymnastics: Sunisa Lee ·
Originally from Minnesota, Sunisa Lee is a senior at Auburn University and has shown great talent for gymnastics from an early age. She made her Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2021, winning gold in the women's individual all-around.
Sunisa is a six-time United States women's national gymnastics team with six world championships and Olympic medals.
羽毛球男子单打：舒之颢 (Howard Shu)
Howard, whose parents are immigrants from Taiwan, China.
Howard has represented the United States since 2016 and has been a leading figure in the men's singles field of United States badminton.
羽毛球女子双打：徐凯瑞和徐安妮（Kerry & Annie Xu）
Kerry and Annie are twins and the best badminton doubles partners. Their life experiences are almost identical, starting badminton training at a young age.
The pair only resumed badminton training and competition last year, and then won the doubles title at the Pan American Games.
Women's Table Tennis: Rachel · Sung
Rachel Sung, in 2022 and 2023, Rachel won the United States Open Senior Women's Doubles Championship for two consecutive years and finished second at the National Olympic Qualifiers in March.
Women's Table Tennis: Amy Wang
Originally from New Jersey, Amy is currently a junior at the University of California, Los Angeles, to Chinese parents who immigrated to the United States.
Father of a former professional table tennis player who has since worked as a table tennis coach, Amy has been training and achieving results in table tennis since he was a child, entering the United States national team at the age of 12.
女子乒乓球：张安（Lily Zhang）
Lily is from California, the daughter of a professor of mathematics at Stanford and a mother who played for the Shaanxi provincial table tennis team.
Paris 2024 will be Lily's fourth appearance for United States, and she will pursue a math-related career after retiring.
女子排球：贾斯汀·王-奥兰特斯（Justine Wong-Orantes）
Originally from California, Justine is a graduate of the University of Nebraska to a Chinese-American mother and a Mexico-American father, both former volleyball players.
Justine was named to the United States national team in 2017 and won the United States women's volleyball team for the first time at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics.
女子高尔夫球：张斯洋 (Rose Zhang)
I believe everyone is no stranger to Zhang Siyang, she is from Irvine, California, and is a junior at Stanford University.
In 2020, Zhang Siyang won the National Women's Amateur Golf Championship, becoming the first Chinese-American player to win the championship in the 115-year history of the event.
In the sports arena, Chinese Americans are frequently present, not only excellent in sports, but also very good academically. Behind this phenomenon is actually a microcosm of the new generation of Chinese immigrant families and children's education.
Many Chinese immigrant families are educated in China, and they are usually willing to pay more for the education of their next generation, not only more money, but also time and energy.
After all, the majority of Chinese mothers, represented by mothers in the Bay Area of California, are a group of chicken babies in the education circle that can be ranked alongside Haidian mothers and Modu mothers.
In United States college admissions, excellent athletic results are a stepping stone to the door of a prestigious university.
According to a report by Harvard University, the overall acceptance rate for the class of 2027 is only 3.41%, but the acceptance rate for sports special admissions is as high as 83%.
Not only is the acceptance rate high, but the proportion of sports special enrollment among Ivy League students is also very high.
According to statistics, among the Ivy League students in 2022, Dartmouth College and Princeton University accounted for as many as 20% of the students.
Among the other top universities, athletes from Stanford University make up 12 percent, MIT athletes make up 15 percent, and Caltech athletes make up 14 percent of athletes.
Climbing the vine in sports is also a hard road, because physical training not only consumes a lot of time and energy from children, but also requires children to ensure equally excellent academic results.
Everyone envies sports students and Olympic champions, but they can't see their dedication for ten years behind the scenes.
In fact, our children do not need to be cultivated according to the ceiling path of chicken babies like Gu Ailing, Chen Wei, and Jiang Minxin.
More importantly, neither miss their talents, nor overly involuted, and really help the child find the right path for his development.