I was scrolling through my phone during a late-night break, trying to find something to watch that didn’t require a VPN. You know the drill—click, ‘This content is not available in your region,’ sigh, repeat. Then, a clip from CCTV Sports popped up in my feed. It was swimmer Xu Jiayu, sitting in some champion’s edition car, talking about his career.
His voice was calm, but you could hear the weight in it. He spoke about those moments of being utterly drained, both physically and mentally, when just moving forward felt like swimming against a concrete wall. ‘The sense of responsibility for backstroke is what kept me going,’ he said. It wasn’t some grand, fiery declaration. It was quiet, matter-of-fact. The kind of honesty that hits you in the gut.
It made me think of my dad, halfway across the world. He’s not an athlete. He’s an engineer who’s been living abroad for twenty years. But every time there’s a major swimming event, especially if Xu Jiayu is racing, he goes through a minor technological odyssey.
I can picture him now: squinting at his laptop screen, the video buffering every ten seconds, the picture pixelating into abstract art just as the swimmers make their turn. He’d get frustrated, muttering about internet connections. But he’d never give up and switch to a local news site. He’d refresh, restart, sometimes even call me to ask if I was seeing it clearly back home.
Watching that interview, I finally got it. It wasn’t just about seeing a race. For my dad, and probably for a lot of us overseas, it’s about that thread of responsibility—to a memory, to an identity, to a feeling of connection that no geo-blocking message can fully sever. It’s the responsibility to witness a fellow countryman’s struggle and triumph, even if the stream lags. That’s what makes him, and us, keep clicking ‘reload,’ hunting for that one working link in the comments section, determined to see the race through to the end, buffer and all.
Xu Jiayu’s perseverance in the pool mirrors our own stubborn, sometimes clumsy, perseverance in front of screens. The path to the podium isn’t smooth, and neither is the path to a buffer-free broadcast from back home. But the drive to connect? That’s a powerful force.
So, to everyone else out there who’s ever faced the spinning wheel of doom while trying to watch a show, a game, or a champion’s interview from the motherland—I see you. That shared frustration of ‘content not available’ is its own kind of collective experience, isn’t it?
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