Fly Like Xiaopeng

In February 2006, the hottest topic was the 20th Winter Olympics held under the Alps. Due to the unprecedented strength of China's participating teams, the enthusiasm of people and the media has also increased unprecedentedly. Ever since Wang Meng won the first gold medal for the Chinese Legion in the women's 500-meter short track speed skating competition, everyone has been eagerly anticipating the arrival of the second gold medal. I have to admit that the tentacles of the media are so developed that people have nowhere to escape. The gold medal points have long been analyzed as transparent as ice and snow, and they are shining brightly in front of everyone. When each gold medal comes, everyone rushes to the arena full of confidence and then comes back frustrated. Times call for heroes. Times also create heroes. Just when everyone was disappointed and no longer expected anything, Turin, the place where Grimm's fairy tales were born, let surprises rise into the sky in an unexpected way. Han Xiaopeng, a young man born in Jiangsu, flew into the history of Chinese sports with a dazzling grace. Han Xiaopeng's hometown, Peixian County, Xuzhou, has been a place where heroes have emerged since ancient times. My country's turbulent history of peasant wars forged two civilian emperors. One was Liu Bang, who sang "The Song of the Great Wind" while carrying a three-foot sword, and the other was Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been a refugee and ate at Huangjue Temple. They were both born in Peixian County. However, the Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty who unified the world and the Emperor Taizu Ming Dynasty who expelled foreign races are too far away from our era after all. It's all gone. Now when people count the celebrities in Peixian County, the first thing that comes to mind is Han Xiaopeng: China's first athlete to win a gold medal in snow sports; China's first male athlete to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics; China's first athlete to win a gold medal in aerials, and he is also the youngest champion in the world in this event… History needs to be rewritten, but it's a bit weird to rewrite so much at once. Perhaps this historic leap can only happen in the Apennine Peninsula, Italy, which is full of artistic temperament and is surrounded by the blue Mediterranean Sea. Afterwards, I watched the video of his game in Turin many times. When I saw Han Xiaopeng jumping to the center of the field and cheering with emotion, the bright red star and red flag were flying in the white snow field, I was always filled with excitement and passion. I always thought of the moment when Liu Xiang completed a historic leap in Athens in September 2004. Han Xiaopeng and Liu Xiang are two very interesting names because they both contain the meaning of "flying". Xiang means flying; Peng, a big roc spreading its wings, also means flying. They are all sunshine boys, coming from two neighboring provinces in the south. They have the same handsome and angular faces and the domineering attitude of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers. They are engaged in a project that China had no chance of winning a medal in the past, but they have high ambitions and bravely face the challenge. They have all achieved unexpected great success. However, their upbringings were not the same. Liu Xiang has never left the 100-meter high hurdles since he was selected by his mentor Sun Haiping; Han Xiaopeng has been practicing skills in his hometown from the age of 6 to 12, and then went to Shenyang to devote himself to skiing. Liu Xiang had a smooth start and never suffered any major injuries. From the third place in the men's 60-meter hurdles at the 2003 World Indoor Track and Field Championships, Liu Xiang began to become the hope of saving China's track and field. He continued to improve under the spotlight and was already ten thousand by the time he participated in the Olympic Games. Thousands of favors surround him; Han Xiaopeng's growth process has been full of twists and turns. He has experienced the hardships of ruptured cruciate ligaments and tasted the disastrous defeat in the Olympic Games. Even though he won two silver medals in the World Cup in 2005, he is still unknown to the public, as if he is hiding in a boudoir. However, Han Xiaopeng, who was unknown and had gone through many ups and downs, announced the birth of the "Snow Flying Man" with the same excellent Winter Olympics gold medal. The history he created is equally important to China as the history created by Liu Xiang; his victory made the words of European and American players that it would take ten years for China to reach the top level of world skiing seem childish and ridiculous. ——So, "Fly like Xiaopeng" suddenly became synonymous with the Chinese nation accelerating its leap and standing among the nations of the world! Fly like Xiaopeng! Under the vast blue sky and on the white snowy field, it is steady and graceful, calm and leisurely. Han Xiaopeng will fly to the World Cup, to the Grand Slam, and to Vancouver in 2010 with such courage and courage!