I was scrolling through my phone at a local café here in Toronto when Zhang Zhan Shuo’s interview popped up on my feed. The 17-year-old swimmer, with that determined look in his eyes, said something that hit me right in the chest: ‘My goal has always been the Olympic champion.’
You know that feeling when someone’s words transport you back in time? Suddenly I wasn’t in that noisy café anymore – I was 12 years old again, sitting in my elementary school classroom in Beijing, watching the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony on a tiny television our teacher had wheeled into the room.
Zhang was talking about how he’s been studying international top athletes, making changes to his turning technique – the kind of details that separate good athletes from champions. There’s something about hearing a young athlete speak with such clarity about their dream that makes you want to cheer them on from wherever you are in the world.
But here’s the thing that made me pause – the video kept buffering. That spinning wheel of death that every overseas Chinese knows all too well. I had to switch between three different apps before I could watch the full interview without interruption.
It reminded me of last year’s Asian Games, when I tried to watch the swimming finals with my parents over video call. My dad, who coached our local swim team back in Fujian, kept asking ‘Why is the video so pixelated? I can’t see their technique!’ Meanwhile my mom was complaining about the audio cutting out during the most exciting moments.
There’s this particular moment in Zhang’s interview that stuck with me – when he talks about needing to ‘make some attempts and changes’ for that Olympic gold. It made me think about all of us living abroad, constantly making adjustments to stay connected to home.
Just last month, my friend Lisa in Vancouver was telling me how she missed the live broadcast of a major swimming competition because of regional restrictions. She ended up watching a grainy version someone uploaded to YouTube two days later. ‘It’s not the same,’ she texted me, ‘I wanted to see it when everyone back home was watching.’
What gets me about athletes like Zhang Zhan Shuo is that raw determination – that willingness to keep pushing even when things get tough. It’s not unlike what we do every time we encounter another ‘This content is not available in your region’ message and have to find another way to watch.
Watching these young athletes chase their dreams from thousands of miles away, dealing with buffering videos and geo-blocks – it makes you realize that the distance is just another obstacle to overcome. And if a 17-year-old can keep his eyes on Olympic gold while perfecting his turns, surely we can figure out how to watch his journey unfold in real-time.
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