Freestyle skiing is a very niche event in China. Many Chinese people don’t even know what skiing events are included in the Winter Olympics, let alone care about this Weibo.
This Weibo did not cause a big storm in China. Only a handful of snow fans who care about women's freestyle skiing know about it...but the sensation it caused in the United States was explosive!
Countless American netizens began to accuse Gu Ailing of enjoying American education and becoming famous, but became a Chinese citizen for economic benefits!
Black and red are also red. After IMG used the "change of nationality" to attract fans for Gu Ailing, it began to use other Chinese naturalized athletes to post articles, hoping to attract the firepower of American snow fans...
For a time, "Chinese XXX athletes XXX report!" became the standard for many naturalized athletes! Unfortunately, the combined influence of these people cannot compare to Gu Ailing!
After all, Gu Ailing won the National Junior Freestyle Skiing Championship at the age of 9;
At the age of 13, he participated in the American Freestyle Skiing Championship for the first time in the adult category and won the championship;
Won the Italian Freestyle Skiing World Cup Championship at the age of 15;
He even topped the FIS standings in January this year!
Before Gu Ailing posted her post, she had already won more than 50 gold medals as an "American freestyle ski athlete"!
Just when all American snow fans were looking forward to this "genius girl from the United States" showing off her talent in BJ and highlighting the charm of the beautiful country... this talented girl chose to "bring her talent to China BJ!"
Gu Ailing turned on her phone to see what Chinese netizens thought of her international switch. She found that compared to the glass-hearted Americans, her change of nationality did not cause any sensation in China...
Just when she was about to close the social software, she found that Li Yuang had forwarded her Weibo.
"Welcome home! Looking forward to meeting you at the top of the BJ Winter Olympics! @frogprincess @苏一明."
Although there was no contact for a year, Gu Ailing never forgot the promise she made last year. Looking at the phone in her hand, Gu Ailing murmured: "Go home?"
At this moment, Gu Ailing suddenly felt an inexplicable feeling in her heart. Is this the feeling of going home? I will never be a foreigner again!
The originally a little lonely mood suddenly became happy because of Li Yuang's four words. Although Gu Ailing was studying in the United States, her mother took her back to BJ every year to attend cram school.
Gu Ailing didn't understand. Everyone obviously lived in BJ and spoke the same BJ dialect. Why was she the only one called "foreigner"?
Later she understood that it was because of her appearance, because she was different, and even more because of her nationality...
In any case, by participating in the BJ Winter Olympics as a Chinese, she has completed the first step. Next, she will stand on the international arena as a "Chinese freestyle ski athlete"!
Su Yiming, who was in special training, didn't pay much attention to social platforms. He only found out about Gu Ailing's official return! and Li Yuang's post of congratulations after being reminded by his coach.
Without thinking, Su Yiming directly opened the WeChat group and pulled Li Yuang and Gu Ailing into it.
After the three of them recalled what happened in the ward last year in the group, they all talked about their results last season. If you just compare the colors of the medals, Su Yiming is not bad at all. He won a total of 4 gold medals last season!
If you want to compare the quality of the gold medals, they are far behind... all four of his gold medals were in domestic competitions!
Li Yuang on the other end of the phone seemed to know Su Yiming's confusion and sent a long text.
"As a Chinese athlete, the meaning of our efforts has never been about gold medals, but to stand at the top of every sport and speak out for China!"
"Xiao Ming, Ai Ling... the projects you two participate in have greater influence around the world. Go conquer them and let the world see the power of China!"
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On June 24, the International Olympic Committee Executive Board announced that the 2026 Winter Olympics will be held in Milan-Cortina d'Ampezuo.
On the same day, ISU announced that starting from the 2019-2020 season, the secondary competition events in the World Cup will be registered separately as independent events.
In other words, the good news of registering for two events like last season but actually having three chances to win gold is gone forever.
ISU's move is also to prevent a certain individual gold medal from being monopolized by the same player and to distribute the medals equally as much as possible.
"Carp, good news! You finally don't have to participate in three individual events in the new season!"
Li Yuang pretended to be regretful and said: "Yes... this is really unfortunate news. I won one less gold medal in an individual event."
Li Wenwu knew that Li Yuang was pretending, and deliberately provoked him with words: "Damn... Is that what you think? In the two races last season, you didn't win three individual gold medals! You missed the chance to compete in the sub-race.
A chance to win three individual gold medals”
Last season in Seoul Station, I was penned in the final of the 1500m event for the first time and missed the gold medal;
Almaty Station, in the second 1500 event, I was fouled by Buryan and missed the medal...
Li Yuang said arrogantly: "Hmm... so what, I can win three gold medals in the Olympic season!"
During the Olympic season, short track speed skating will make way for the Winter Olympics. There are no restrictions on the events that can be participated in each competition. Whether it is Li Yuang personally or the Chinese coaching staff, Li Yuang will definitely be allowed to participate in all events. When the time comes, he will still have the opportunity to win all events.
gold medal!
Li Wenwu looked helpless, and rolled his eyes at Li Yuang: "I really lost to you, you can even pretend to do this!"
"By the way, Carp... have you seen the schedule for the youth group of the Figure Skating Grand Prix? It starts in August. Didn't Camilla get promoted to the group? Which stations will she participate in? Will she go there?"
When it comes to the Youth Figure Skating Grand Prix, Li Yuang feels helpless.
According to the relevant regulations of the ISU, all participating athletes can only choose two of the six Grand Prix stops. Camilla has already confirmed to participate in the first stop in France and the fourth stop in Russia.
The French Grand Prix will start on August 22. As Camilla’s first game after being promoted to the group, Li Yuang naturally wants to go there to support Camilla.
However, when he went to Wang Meng to ask for leave, Wang Meng rejected him directly and warned: "Little Carp, I promised you at the beginning that the premise of letting you fall in love with Camilla would not affect your training and performance. Now
You have seriously affected the national team’s preparation plan!”
"As your aunt and head coach, I will never allow you to go!"
Li Yuang knew that the Winter Management Center was going to hold a physical competition in ice and snow events in August and September... But in his logic, this kind of formal training was just to fool the layman!
There was absolutely no need for him to participate. Seeing his aunt's anxious look, Li Yuang finally chose to stay!
I just hope Camilla doesn’t have any accidents during the Grand Prix!