A Young Skater’s Road to Olympic Champion

THE medal will bring about many changes for me. It will give me an opportunity to provide my parents a better life, especially my mother who worked so hard to support the family by knitting sweaters for others,” Zhou Yang said candidly in front of a pack of cameras after winning the women＇s short track speed skating 1,500 meters final at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The moment was echoed repeatedly on TV screens across China, plucking the heartstrings of tens of millions of Chinese people.