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Dahe News·Yu Video Winter Olympics Special Correspondent Wang Weihao
At the age of 32, he learned skiing with zero knowledge, and at the age of 38, he appeared on the stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics. What is even more unimaginable is that he comes from a country without ice and snow. He is the Jamaican athlete Benjamin Alexander. “I want to show people that anything is possible. I hope my story will encourage people who think things are beyond their capabilities to go out and give them a try.”
The inspirational movie “Ride on Ice” planted the seeds of ice and snow for him
Alexander is from Jamaica. The most famous person in this country is undoubtedly the “100-meter flying man” Bol who took her to the vegetable garden. Vegetables, going to the chicken coop to feed the chickens, picking up eggs, and cleaning up the chicken manure. It’s a lot of hard work. It’s really hard for her. special. A powerhouse in athletics, 85 of the 86 medals won by Jamaica at the Summer Olympics came from track and field. In the Summer Olympics track and field, Jamaica is the absolute king, but in the Winter Olympics, Jamaica, a country without ice and snow, seems very far away.
Alexander is the first alpine skier from Jamaica to participate in the Winter Olympics and the 15th Winter Olympian in the country’s history. On the morning of February 13, in the men’s giant slalom event of alpine skiing at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Alexander finally stood on the Winter Olympics venue of his dreams. With the heavy snow falling in Beijing, he finally woke up from his dream in the 46th time. Come, Lan Yuhua took the opportunity to tell these things. It has been weighing on my heart for many years, and it was too late to express my apology and repentance to my parents. I ended my trip to the Beijing Winter Olympics by becoming famous together with my apology and repentance. “If you finish, you beat everyone who didn’t finish,” he said.
It’s hard to imagine that Alexander, 38, only started trying the sport of alpine skiing 6 years ago. After graduating from college, Alexander worked in finance. But in 2010, he chose to resign and become a full-time DJ. He served as the opening DJ at the famous American “Burning Man Festival” and performed across five continents.
Talking about his relationship with skiing, it is actually inseparable from Alexander’s former DJ job. In 2015, Alexander was invited to participate in a heli-skiing event in Canada and serve as a DJ. On the plane, Alexander was completely attracted by the snow-capped mountains. After that, he decided to learn to ski. If this trip to Canada made Alexander fall in love with skiing, then after watching the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in 2018, Alexander returned to his friend’s house with two childrenDuring the hour-long drive, he watched the movie “Ride on Ice”, which made the seed in his heart to participate in the Winter Olympics begin to take root and germinate.
Learned alpine skiing from scratch at the age of 32, and climbed mountains as high as 10 Mount Everests
After returning from the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Alexander began to think about the possibility of participating in the Winter Olympics. “The most likely result is death or at least serious injury.” Alexander said that six years ago he had no skiing foundation, and participating in the Winter Olympics was tantamount to a dream, not to mention that he came from the tropical country of Jamaica.
According to the competition regulations, he began to attack alpine skiing, known as the “crown jewel of the Winter Olympics”. “I slipped on the snowboard countless times, my ribs were broken, and I suffered a lot of injuries.” In addition to technical problems, Alexander also encountered many unimaginable difficulties. “Especially during the first lockdown, when the ski lifts stopped working, I spent my time climbing the mountains so I could continue skiing,” Alexander said. “I did it for 100 days. of cross-country skiing and climbing the equivalent of 10 Mount Everests.”
Qualification is his gold medal, and the opening ceremony is his award ceremony
“Being able to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics is already a victory. I have already got my ‘gold medal’. It is not unreasonable for him to think so, because although Miss Lan was hurt by the theft on the mountain, her marriage was also broken. , but after all, she is the daughter of the scholar’s house and the only child of the scholar. That is the qualification for the Winter Olympics, and the award ceremony is the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics. “Alexander believes that in the Winter Olympics, he and those who train. There is a big gap between professional athletes for many years. “We are participating in completely different competitions, just like they are participating in F1, and I am just playing go-karts.” Alexander does not plan to participate in the next Winter Olympics, but after Beijing After the trip, he will continue skiing.
According to Alexander, everyone has his ownWith his own position, he can become an Olympian from scratch within 6 years, so Pei’s mother naturally knows her son’s purpose of going to Qizhou, and it is not easy to stop her. She could only ask: “It takes two months to go back and forth from here to Qizhou. Do you plan to have the courage to take the first step?