Hong Kong volunteer face | Zhang Yizhi: Every time I come into contact with Olympic athletes, I am so happy

Zhang Yizhi, a staff member of the Hong Kong Volunteer Association.

At noon on December 3, the delegation of mainland Olympic athletes visiting Hong Kong officially arrived in Hong Kong and began exchange activities.

In the process of the visit of the mainland Olympic athletes to Hong Kong, there is also a team that attracts everyone's attention.

Do a good job of vehicle guidance, vehicle driving, complete the venue arrangement, provide activity services... Accompanying the Olympic athletes is a team of workers wearing light green overalls.

Providing real-time help in each event venue, passing on the slogans of "Welcome" and "Cheering" to every athlete, and meticulous care and care made the members of the visiting delegation say bluntly "moved" - they are ordinary Hong Kong citizens, a group of staff from the Hong Kong Volunteer Association.

Team of nearly 100 people:

Enthusiastic citizens of Hong Kong will compete to get volunteer quotas

"We are the 'advance troops' of the mainland Olympic athletes' delegation to Hong Kong this time!" Zhang Yizhi took out her work card, "Volunteer Staff of Mainland Olympic Athletes Visiting Hong Kong for the Tokyo Olympic Games."

How many volunteers are there this time? Zhang Yizhi roughly calculated, at least there are more than 20 people, if you count the hotel's service volunteers, it is a large team of nearly 100 people. Such a large and experienced volunteer team comes from Hong Kong and is composed of enthusiastic Hong Kong citizens, volunteering to provide delegation visit services.

"I'm one of them. We mainly escort athletes to each venue, and before we go, we do the preparatory work. Zhang Yizhi introduced to the Nandu reporter that this time to sign up for volunteer work, in fact, it is also a quota for "passing five levels and cutting six generals". "First of all, I must be fluent in Mandarin, and secondly, I need to have some volunteer work experience, so I am very active in participating."

Special Love:

He was one of the volunteers for the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Talking about her volunteer experience, Zhang Yizhi shared a "special love affair" between herself and the Olympic Games with reporters.

"Actually, I was one of the volunteers for the 2008 Beijing Olympics." Zhang Yizhi introduced that at that time, there was a volunteer recruitment activity in the Hong Kong Civil Affairs Department, and she followed more than 30 Hong Kong volunteers to Beijing to do Olympic volunteers at the shooting hall.

"What excitement! Because in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, we were the ones with the largest number of gold medals. Heck, we're excited about the whole process. ”

Zhang Yizhi remembers that the volunteers of the whole team are actually from different jobs in Hong Kong. "Everybody is working, but there are other jobs." In the Hong Kong volunteer team of the Beijing Olympic Games, there are doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc., "all of which are very professional positions, so I am so happy to exchange volunteer experience with them." ”

Favorite Athletes:

I hope that the next Paris Olympic Games will still see Marlon

"Of course! I'm most excited to meet a gold medal athlete! Speaking of her favorite athletes, Zhang Yizhi smiled and said, "I like to play table tennis and badminton athletes, this time I am so happy to see Ma Long, Wang Yilu, Huang Dongping, they are so happy!" It's exciting because I've seen their games on TV before. ”

This time as a volunteer team, Zhang Yizhi was able to meet her favorite athletes and provide them with good service volunteer work, and she felt very satisfied. "Every time I contact them and cheer them up, I'm so happy!" I would love to have the opportunity to say to them, welcome! But I didn't dare to disturb them, and I was really happy. ”

"If I have the opportunity to say a word to Malone, I would love to tell him: Malone, keep working hard, I hope that the next Paris Olympics, we can still see you!" Zhang Yizhi smiled happily at the camera.

Written/Photographed by Dong Xiaoyan, a reporter from Nandu