2022 Olympic Winter Games Beijing
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There is still the big air event coming up for Su Yiming. Even if he gets shafted again he is still young. There will be plenty more opportunities for him.
I have to say I have become to really like Su Yiming, he belongs to a new generation of Chinese kids.
Check out this video. Su Yiming and Eileen Gu have known each other since they were 14/15. They were cool to hang out together. Su Yiming acted in movies, but decided to focus on skiing first. He speaks very fluent English (watch some of his interviews with foreign reporters) and likes surfing too.
So yes Eileen Gu owes her success in skiing to the US upbrings and there is no question that the US has a much better training environment in skiing and snowboarding etc. but who says you can not be successful even in today's China. Su Yiming is entirely an indigenous Chinese product.
Have to say that an increasingly wealthy China and more Chinese middle class families can afford and provide the opportunities for their kids to participate in the more expensive sports and hobbies. Su Yiming had been groomed by his family. He is not a product of the state sports training system when he started his skiing. It was his pure love and talent for the sport, and his family support.
Check out this video. Su Yiming and Eileen Gu have known each other since they were 14/15. They were cool to hang out together. Su Yiming acted in movies, but decided to focus on skiing first. He speaks very fluent English (watch some of his interviews with foreign reporters) and likes surfing too.
So yes Eileen Gu owes her success in skiing to the US upbrings and there is no question that the US has a much better training environment in skiing and snowboarding etc. but who says you can not be successful even in today's China. Su Yiming is entirely an indigenous Chinese product.
Have to say that an increasingly wealthy China and more Chinese middle class families can afford and provide the opportunities for their kids to participate in the more expensive sports and hobbies. Su Yiming had been groomed by his family. He is not a product of the state sports training system when he started his skiing. It was his pure love and talent for the sport, and his family support.
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What’s amazing is that his parents were progressive enough to let him participate in such a dangerous sport. You could seriously get hurt or even get killed doing those stunts. Not for the faint of heart.
Everything is recorded by HD cameras from multiple angles. Unless they want to pull a Bhakt and claim that the footage has been modified via CGI then bugger off.
Is there a Global Times article on how Shaolin Sandor Liu and Shaoang Liu are traitor opportunists who were trained in China and by Chinese coaches? They are sellouts to EU, looking for EU company endorsements, stooges of Viktor Orban, supporter of the Orban autocratic regime, oppressing Middle East migrants just looking for a better life?
No? Surely I missed it? China is not the one engaging in basic behaviour like race-baiting?
South Korea is pissing me off.
