Why Fu Yuanhui Become the Most Famous Athlete at the Rio Olympics

There are lots of great athletes at the Rio Olympics ― Lilly King, Michael Phelps, Simone Biles. The list goes on. But the best Olympian this time around is from China. She hasn’t even won a gold medal. But neither of those things matter. For there is no one as great, as funny and as instantly lovable as Fu Yuanhui — the Chinese swimming athlete got hundreds of millions fans in the past few days.

Why she’s welcome and loved by so many people? The reason is simple, she speak the human being language. If everyone think there might a risk to tell the trues and choose to say something unreal, then the one who express the emotion naturally will become a rare commodity.

All people loves one person without any offender, this phenomenon never happened in Chinese internet history, and it might never happen in the future. Fu Yuanhui became the great miracle in China. We all Chinese never on the same page like this way.

This 90’s conquer all the audience within 1min in her match interview: At hearing her result, Fu exclaimed with surprise and delight: “58,95 ? ! I thought I did 59 seconds! Wow! Am I so fast? I am very pleased!” She told the journalist that she was not “holding back” but that she has used all of her “mystical powers” (洪荒之力, literally: power strong enough to change the universe), and this word becomes the hottest key words in Chinese internet.

All her answers are so wrong if we looked our Olympic interview history, but all her answer is purely from her heart and expresses her natural emotion.

Maybe you think this was a one-time thing. But no, that’s just Fu Yuanhui. She even does’t know that she got a bronze medal in the women’s 100 backstroke when she was doing the interview after her match. What a lovely girl!

According unofficial statistics， her interview video click volume over 40 millions in China only, her weibo fans over 4 millions already.