On the afternoon of February 15, 2022, at the top of the more than 50-meter-high sliding track of the Beijing Shougang Grand Platform, Su Yiming hugged coach Yasuhiro Sato and set off without hesitation.
This is the second round of the Beijing Winter Olympics men's snowboarding big platform finals. The 12 players who advanced to the finals appeared in reverse order of qualifying results. Su Yiming, who was fifth in the qualifying round, was ranked eighth. Previously, Su Yiming scored a high score of 89.50 in the first round of the finals by performing an external rotation of 1800, temporarily ranking second.
rushed down the slide and slid onto the big platform. Su Yiming jumped into the air, and then began to flip, one, two, three times... The staff watching the game and the audience in front of the TV held their breaths.
five laps! In the second round, Su Yiming completed an internal 1800 turn and flipped five 360 degrees in the air again. In this way, he completed two internal and external 1800 turns in the first two rounds. The commentator in the
live broadcast room, fellow snowboarder Zhang Jiahao, couldn't hide his excitement: "He was very relaxed and didn't even try hard. That's great Su Yiming! This must be a high score!" Coach Yasuhiro Sato was so happy that he was in the air Boxing, the audience in the audience area holding signs saying "Come on Su Yiming" were cheering and shouting.
Su Yiming received a high score of 93 points, with a total score of 182.50 points in the two rounds. The rules of the
snowboard jumping competition are that each player jumps three times, and the best results of the two rounds are added together, and the ranking is based on the sum of the results. Because Su Yiming ranked first in the first two rounds and ranked last in the third round. No contestant who started in front had a higher total score than him, so he celebrated his victory with an easy 360 turn in the third round. victory.
"Su Yiming won the gold medal! At the same time, he is also the youngest player present, only seventeen years old." Zhang Jiahao shouted excitedly.
The child who was crawling and rolling in the snow wearing adult snowboards more than ten years ago has grown up and stood on the highest podium of the Winter Olympics . Su Yiming explained the reason why his dream came true, "Once you find something you love, you will try your best to achieve your goal, because hard work will never lie."
html On February 15, after the men's snowboarding big jump competition, Su Yiming expressed his gratitude to Spectators and referees greet. Photographed by Beijing News reporter Tao Ran Children riding adult snowboards on the snow
Su Yiming’s skiing career began in 2008, when he was four years old and had not yet entered elementary school.
Snowboarding in China had just started at that time, and there were very few ski rental offices in ski resorts where you could rent snowboards , let alone snowboards suitable for children. He could only use a board that was more than 20 centimeters longer than his height, and wore adult protective gear that stretched from his butt to his calves, and followed his parents on the snowy trail.
When children learn to ski, they cannot understand the ski terminology taught by the instructor. They rely on repeated movements to form muscle memory. Coupled with the low center of gravity, they are often not afraid of falling and learn quickly. It didn't take long for Su Yiming to be able to change blades skillfully and glide freely on intermediate and advanced trails. As Su Yiming's first coach, his father Su Qun had nothing to teach him.
By chance, Su Qun met Wang Lei, Su Yiming's later coach. He once expressed his distress to Wang Lei: "He has improved too fast. My skills are limited and I can no longer teach him. Have you opened some suitable schools?" His ski lessons? "
Wang Lei is China's first professionally sponsored snowboarder. He has participated in nearly ten "Red Bull Nanshan Open" and is called "China's first snowboarder" by snow friends. At that time, Wang Lei and his good friends were preparing to use their summer vacation time to hold a one-month ski youth training camp at Beijing Qiaobo Indoor Ski Resort. The requirement for students was to be proficient in changing edges.
The next summer, Su Yiming came to participate in the ski youth training camp organized by Wang Lei. Here, he came into contact with the snowboard park for the first time and began to learn basic movements such as flying, jumping, and flipping. A snowboard park refers to a relatively centralized area in a ski resort where snowboarders can practice and demonstrate various skiing skills.The park will specially design a variety of facilities of different heights and difficulties, including various terrains, as well as various challenging props such as iron poles, steel pipes, boxes, jumping platforms, single-board walls, and U-shaped channels to facilitate skiers' performance. own potential.
During the training in the youth training camp, Wang Lei fell in love with Su Yiming, a good prospect. "At first, I thought his skating foundation was very good. It's not surprising. He spends a lot of time on the snow and has been skating with his parents since he was a child."
Later, Wang Lei discovered that Su Yiming was different from other children. He was full of passion for sports. Desire, but also get a sense of accomplishment from exercise. "He is very serious during training classes and has strong imitation ability. He will ponder the movements he has learned at a young age and know how to make the movements better through thinking."
In addition, Su Yiming's character is also very He is calm and collected, so he often speaks concisely and to the point during interviews. He is also extremely "big-hearted" during games and will not let external factors affect his state.
In the second round of the snowboarding slopestyle finals at the Beijing Winter Olympics, there were flaws in the referee's scoring. Schumatic, the chief referee of this game, responded through a professional snowboarding website: "From what the referee got at the time From the perspective of the camera, (we think) Parrott did grab the board, and it was a well-completed 1620 action." He said that later when the referees saw the scene where the champion Parrott did not grab the board. , the scoring process has been completed and the scores have been entered. Therefore, the real champion is not Parrott, but Su Yiming.
Many netizens said, "The referee should return the gold medal to Su Yiming" and "Su Yiming's first gold medal in life was maliciously taken away." Su Yiming said in an interview after the game that he did not pay special attention to each referee's score or online public opinion. He was already very satisfied with the result.
Wang Lei praised Su Yiming's mentality very much, "He respects the referee's opinions and does not pay too much attention to the scoring of the completed game. This helps him focus on the next game. This shows that he enjoys the game more." , attaching importance to the competitive process of competition, rather than what color medal to win.”
Su Yiming (right) and his father Su Qun in childhood. Photo provided by the interviewee
Masters who came out of "playing"
Whether it is Su Yiming's coach Wang Lei or his snow friend Zhang Yibing, they all mentioned one word repeatedly, "play".
When Zhang Yibing first met Su Yiming, he was still a seven or eight-year-old child. He "flyed" down from the big platform without any fear. Ten years later, Su Yiming is now called "Brother Ming" by snow friends. ". "Because Su Yiming is good at snowboarding, whoever plays well is the brother." Zhang Yibing repeatedly emphasized, "Snowboarding is not a painful sport, it should be called playing, playing snowboarding."
With the support of his parents, Su Yiming has enough time to "play". After entering elementary school, Su Yiming would spend three days a week skiing every year when the snow season entered. Su Qun is responsible for asking for leave for his son. "It's usually Wednesday. Later, the teacher didn't need him to ask for leave. As soon as Wednesday came, he would say, 'Su Yiming, you don't have to go to school today. It's time for you to go skiing.'"
At the same time, Su Yiming's studies Didn't fall behind either. Her mother, Li Lei, would find tutors to make up for lessons missed by Su Yiming due to skiing. This pattern continues to this day. "Even though he is now in the national team and often has to train and compete abroad, he has not delayed his studies and will take online classes when he has time." Wang Lei said.
In Wang Lei's impression, Su Yiming was just like ordinary children in his childhood. He would occasionally have the idea of being lazy and not studying, and complained to him that studying was not as interesting as skiing, but Su Yiming's parents guided him very well. "One of his parents is a popular person, and the other is a bad person. His father is a sports expert. In addition to snowboarding, he also likes kite surfing, wake wave surfing, diving, etc. He is responsible for taking the children to play. His mother is responsible for accompanying them. and supervise him, accompany him in competitions and training, and arrange his classes and daily life. "
Wang Lei selfishly does not want Su Yiming to become a professional athlete. "Competitive sports are very cruel, and every professional athlete has invested a lot. But not everyone’s investment is rewarded.I hope he will regard skiing as his personal hobby, rather than saying that he must achieve excellent results. "In the
documentary "About Winter: Traveling on Ice and Snow", childhood Su Yiming also said in an interview that he did not want to become a professional athlete. "If I ski every day, then I never want to hear the word skiing again. "
In 2014, a fork in the road appeared, one leading to skiing and the other leading to performance.
This year, "Take the Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" directed by Tsui Hark was released. During the filming, the crew needed a meeting person A young skiing actor, Su Yiming was introduced to play the role of "Little Shuanzi" and was nominated for the Best New Actor Award at the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards. In the movie, he was speeding on the snow and rushing towards the people behind him. He said, "You can't catch me. "
Su Yiming has since become a child star, and has also appeared in works such as "Beautiful Days", "Lin Hai Xue Yuan", "Rock Kid" and other works. Netizens ridiculed him as "the man who straddles CCTV5 and CCTV6."
That paragraph Time, Su Yiming once fell in love with acting. He once said in an interview that he wanted to pass the exam and become an actor.
Wang Lei understood the other side of this story. After Su Yiming started filming frequently, time no longer seemed like it. It was so free in the past. Filming took up his time for skiing, and the long makeup and waiting times, as well as the repeated filming of the same scene, all made him feel boring.
"During that time, Xiao Ming and I didn't meet much. When we met occasionally, He would complain to me, saying that the waiting and repetition during filming made him very tormented, and that he could not go skiing anytime and anywhere. He really likes skiing so much that his eyes light up when I mention it, and he keeps asking me, ‘When are we going to go skiing? '"
Childhood Su Yiming (right) and coach Wang Lei. Picture provided by interviewee
New dream
In 2015, Beijing successfully applied to become the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics. As a result, Su Yiming had a new dream. He wanted to represent China's participation in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
"To represent China, you must first become a professional athlete. This is not a whim. He made this decision after some consideration. His parents and I both thought it was very difficult, but there were still five years to go. We supported his decision and hoped he could realize his dream. "Wang Lei said.
At the age of 14, Su Yiming officially became a professional athlete and studied under Japanese coach Yasuhiro Sato. Yasuhiro Sato coached Masahiro Onitsuka, who had won the women's world championship championship, and Ken Otsuka, who had won the men's World Cup championship. Takeru Otsuka Waiting for a famous snowboarder with rich experience.
Su Yiming has made rapid progress with coach Sato. In December 2021, he won the World Cup competition held in Steamboat, USA, with a score of 155.25, becoming China’s top snowboarder. The first world champion in the event.
Coach Sato once mentioned in an interview with the media that when Su Yiming was 14 years old, his training volume was far beyond that of his peers. Su Yiming also said in the variety show "The Great Champion". When he learns a new difficult move, he will practice it for six hours every day until he masters it. When he first became a professional athlete and learned the difficult move, he was training in Changbai Mountain. The weather was cold and the board became brittle. The amount of training was so heavy that he even broke four snowboards in one week.
Wang Lei said that Su Yiming’s inner strength and unwillingness to admit defeat were the key to his success. “When he was a kid, he couldn’t practice a flip repeatedly, and he was so anxious there. Just cry. "
After becoming a professional athlete, another challenge faced Su Yiming: he had to learn how to live with injuries for a lifetime.
html When he was 07 years old, Su Yiming experienced the seriousness of injuries. He went skiing with his parents and was hit by a A young man was knocked down on the snow track and suffered a fractured thigh. After Su Yiming's grandparents heard about it, they gave the two adults a lesson, "Why do you have to take such a good boy to skiing!" "'s mother Li Lei was afraid that Su Yiming would give up skiing because of this. Su Yiming was still in the hospital bed, and her mother told him, "We can't give up. After you recover, you have to cheer up and don't change you because of the injury." Li Lei explained in the documentary "Youth Chronicles" that she did this because she didn't want her children to give up when they encounter difficulties.
Snowboarding is an extreme sport , and the chance of injury is much greater than that of ordinary sports. Even if you are not a professional athlete, Ordinary skiers may get injured. Su Yiming's parents also took this into consideration, "We don't fight unprepared. Even if snowboarders are very likely to get injured, we are prepared and train in a scientific and safe way. It also reduces his chance of injury. "
When Su Yiming began to prepare to become a professional athlete, he fell into a ankle fracture during a difficult movement practice. Wang Lei heard that he was injured and immediately called to ask, "At that time, he was wearing a plaster and resting at home. , the training was stopped and he was very depressed. "
Later, Wang Lei introduced Su Yiming to a rehabilitation center in Beijing for rehabilitation training. Fortunately, Su Yiming could start skiing again after a few months of recuperation. But Wang Lei has always been worried about the hidden dangers caused by ankle fractures, "He actually has not fully recovered. Well, I'm afraid that he will fall and that it will relapse later and affect his sports level. "
Wang Lei was surprised to find that the injury brought about a big transformation for Su Yiming, "At that time, his voice happened to be changing. After the injury healed, I found that he had grown up a lot, and he was more calm and calm than before. More determined, nothing can defeat him anymore. ”
On February 7, Su Yiming competed in the finals of the men’s snowboard slopestyle event at the Winter Olympics. Source: Xinhua News Agency
The power of dreams
Su Yiming galloped towards his dream.
Last summer, he was in the suburbs of Chengdu Jianfeng Dry Ski Resort participated in the national team training and practiced 1620 and 1800 turns. Due to the epidemic, the coach was not around and could only provide guidance through video. Wang Lei felt that Su Yiming was lonely at that time and was worried that he would not be able to gather enough to participate in the Winter Olympics. Required points.
In accordance with the requirements of the International Olympic Committee and the International Snow Federation, athletes need to compete in the big platform and slopestyle events between July 1, 2019 and January 16, 2022. Ranking among the top 30 in each World Cup or World Championship, and needing at least 50 FIS points in the FIS points table announced on January 17, 2022, can qualify for the Olympics in December 2021. , Su Yiming won the World Cup held in Steamboat, USA, with a score of 155.25, becoming China's first world champion in the snowboarding platform event.
January 15, 2022, Snowboarding Slope Skills. The Olympic points competition for the big platform and big platform events is all over. Su Yiming ranks 26th in the men's Olympic standings with 226 points. Excluding the overqualified players from the United States and Canada teams who are ahead of him, Su Yiming surpasses the Olympic points with 23rd place.
On the afternoon of February 7, 2022, my country won the second place in the snowboard slopestyle finals of the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the round, the 12 finalists appeared in reverse order according to the results of the qualifying round. The first place in the qualifying round, Su Yiming, made his final appearance. He went up the "eaves", clicked the "iron pole", and got off the "dance platform". Su Yiming flew over the eaves and walked over the wall in the blink of an eye. When he reached the last platform, he jumped into the air and started flipping. One, two, three, and five turns!
Su Yiming successfully completed the first 1800 turns in the second round, which meant he flipped five times in the air. 360 degrees, achieving a high score of 88.70, second only to Canadian star Max Parrott's score of 90.96. The 1800 turn is a commonly used action by Su Yiming in the big platform. This is his first time in a slope obstacle. Jump out.
In the end, Su Yiming won the silver medal with his results in the second round, winning the Chinese team's first medal in the snow event in this competition, and also achieved the best result in the history of the Chinese team in this event.
In the fourth year of his career, 17-year-old Su Yiming announced to the world with a beautiful 1800 turn that his time has come.
Beijing News reporter Peng Jingtao
Editor Liu Qian
Proofreading by Li Lijun
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