谷爱凌回应争议：代表中国参加冬奥会，是因为这些原因
因在北京冬奥会上代表中国队参赛，谷爱凌曾在西方引发争议，遭到一些外媒的找茬和攻击。
当地时间4日，谷爱凌受邀出席纽约女性体育ESPNW峰会，在接受采访中回应了有关争议。她说，代表中国参加冬奥会，其中一个原因是为了代表她和妈妈的中国血统。
“我可以说100遍，我这么做是因为我想鼓励更多体育运动中的年轻女孩们，是想给孩子们介绍自由滑雪，也是为了代表我和我妈妈的中国血统。”
“I can say 100 times I'm doing this because I want to inspire more young girls in sport. I'm doing this because I want to introduce kids to free skiing. I'm doing this to represent my and my mother's Chinese heritage.”
在当日的ESPNW峰会上，当主持人问及谷爱凌为何会选择代表中国队参加北京冬奥会时，谷爱凌透露，“体育运动改变了我的人生、塑造了我的性格，培养了我的韧性，让我的身心更健康，也给我的生活带来了更多的热情和目标。”
“Sports has undeniably changed my life. It has built character, it has built resilience, it has allowed me to be physically and mentally healthier, and it really has given my life so many passion and purpose.”
她表示，自己是中美混血，每年夏天会跟着母亲回北京。但是她发现，“在中国，很多人对自由滑雪并不了解，尤其是在奥运会前。在我成长的过程中，我看到了很多在这个项目上成功的美国女性榜样，我那时想，当我长大后，我就想着要像她们一样……但是在中国，似乎还没有这样的榜样，尤其是在奥运会上。”
“In China, a lot of people have not even heard of free skiing, especially at that point before the Olympics. And there are so many amazing female role models in the U.S. that I grew up watching. And I was like, ‘when I grow up, I want to be just like them.’… I think that there wasn’t someone like that in China, and especially within the Olympics.”
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谷爱凌介绍，在北京冬奥会之前，中国曾专门设立了“带动三亿人参与冰雪运动”的目标，这是一个很伟大的目标，也是一个很大的数字，几乎相当于美国总人口。对此，她表示，“我的想法是，我希望这些人能来参与自由滑雪，我希望他们能够体验滑雪给我曾带来的好处，我也希望他们能够通过一个混血女孩来了解这项运动。对我来说，这意义非凡。”
“I want those people to be in free skiing. I want those people to be able to have those benefits that have brought me. And I want them to hear about it for the first time from a young biracial girl. I think that is so meaningful.”
在谷爱凌看来，当你第一次听说某件事的时候，你可能还不太确定自己能不能做到。但如果你是从一个你信任或能代表你的人身上了解这件事情，你就更容易下定决心，“你会想，她能做到，那么我也能做到。如果她能突破自己，能让自己越来越好，一直享受着做这件事情，那我也可以。”
“The first time you hear about something, it can make or break it. And if it’s from someone that you’re reliable or that you find represents you, then you are more likely to be like ‘okay, if she can do it, then I can do it. And if she can break her own boundaries, and if she can make herself better and better and she can have fun and smile the whole time while doing it, then I can too.”
“所以我一直在说，如果我能通过自己的方式让一个女孩尝试着去滑雪，能让她亲近运动，那么一切都是值得的，” 谷爱凌说。
“I’ve always said if I can just inspire one young girl to start skiing and to kind of change her relationship with sport in that way, then it is so worth it.”
谷爱凌强调，“我正在尽自己的努力，并用自己的方式让世界变得更好。现在是通过体育，当下我能做的是介绍更多年轻女孩参与自由滑雪，希望能让这些女孩的人生更好，或者能让体育文化变得更好。如果你不喜欢，或者你不同意我的观点，没什么问题，这就是讨论的魅力所在。你可以用你自己的方式改变世界。如果我们通过不同的方式达到同一个目标，世界也会因此更美好。”
“I’m trying my best to make the world a better place in my own way. Right now, that’s through sport. Right now, what I can do at the immediate moment is to introduce more young girls to free skiing, and to hopefully make their lives and to make sport culture better. In that sense, if people don't like that and if there are people who don't agree with me, that's totally fine. That's the beauty of being able to have that discussion. But they can feel free to make the world better in their own way. And we can approach it through different situations, and the world benefit because of it.”
此前，一些西方媒体还试图强行将谷爱凌拉扯进“地缘政治”的漩涡中。在当天的峰会上，主持人也提到了被西方媒体提及的“地缘政治（geopolitical）”之说，称谷爱凌现在18岁，可是她目前面对的状况似乎是“一句话说不好，就可能引发两个国家地缘政治紧张，这种状况很难解决，让她承受了很大压力”。
对于主持人的提问，谷爱凌坦言，“正如你所说，我今年18岁，刚高中毕业还没有开始大学生活，但一些人试图把我塑造成一个地缘政治人物。我没有那种改变两个国家的力量，我只是在做我力所能及的事情，很多事情在我的掌控之外。所以，与其给自己压力，不如专注于自己所能传达的东西、那些积极的方面，让自己更好，让世界更好。”
“Like you said, I'm 18, right? I haven't even started college yet. I'm fresh out of high school. And people are trying to make me this geopolitical figure. I don't have the power to change two countries. I'm just trying to do what I can, and a lot of things are out of my control. And I think instead of stressing about that, I just want to focus on my own message and on my own positivity, and making myself better and making the world better in my own way.”
综合来源：ESPNW，观察者网
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