"Maybe I'll find a boyfriend." Ordinariness is a new kind of charm for athletes
2024-08-12
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Chinese athlete Zhang Yufei won a total of 6 medals, including 1 silver and 5 bronze medals, in this Olympics. Her personal career Olympic medal count has reached 10, making her the athlete with the most medals in the history of the Chinese team. In an interview, she said that after this Olympics, she hopes to take a break and change her life of swimming for many years: "I want to try a different life experience, maybe find a boyfriend, go to college and travel."
Zhang Yufei is 26 years old this year. Whether it is looking for a boyfriend or going to college, it is still the right age, even later than many people. She has indeed devoted a lot to swimming over the years, and now it is time to find the rhythm of a normal life.
When athletes face the camera, they show their private lives and express their personal thoughts, which indeed has little to do with the competition itself, but reflects their desire to try to be relaxed and ordinary people.
This kind of temperament of athletes actually resonates with ordinary people's understanding of sports competition and sportsmanship. For example, Zhang Yufei shed tears at the scene after winning the bronze medal in the women's 100-meter butterfly final, and the hot search topic was "Yufei, don't cry."
This is a tone like comforting the girl next door. At this moment, the relationship between the audience and the athletes is more like friends.Once the image of an athlete becomes relaxed and normal, the audience will also pick up on this signal and they will communicate with the athlete on a more equal footing.This relaxed atmosphere is good for both athletes and spectators - athletes are more relaxed, spectators are calmer, and it is more conducive to performance on the field.
There are many such examples. For example, Quan Hongchan does not hide her love for dolls, hanging dolls all over her backpack, and even explains to the media what her favorite dolls are called; Wu Yanni does not shy away from her exquisite ID photos... These all show the mentality and personality that match their respective age groups, reflecting their own popular characteristics.
If people observe carefully, they will find that this "ordinariness" has become a "traffic code". The more "ordinary" the athlete is, the more people will talk about him. This shows that athletes who show their ordinary side are more and more likely to resonate with people, and people are disenchanting countless athletes under the spotlight. On the other hand,These athletes are also gaining a new charm. They are more self-centered and free and easy, which is more in line with people's imagination of athletes - excellent athletes should have an unruly temperament.
Of course, if athletes want to truly live like ordinary people, they may also need the support of the audience. Just like Zhang Yufei wants to go to college and travel, people should bless her and not disturb her. Previously, some audiences treated athletes very harshly and utilitarian, like a "class teacher". When athletes show any life that is not related to sports, there are always netizens who leave comments such as "distracted" and "why don't you train well".
But the audience should also understand that athletes also have the right to live an ordinary life, and even desire to do so. The audience cares about their results and medals, but they have to face their entire lives.They want to color their lives according to their own wishes, and people should have more empathy and understanding for this.
In fact, athletes are more like ordinary people, and have additional motivational elements, which can better allow the spirit of sports to radiate outward: athletes are not born extraordinary, they are just ordinary people who work harder and strive harder. When we ordinary people see this, of course we will feel more powerful.
Source: Red Star News
