Modern Express News (reporter Zheng Wenjing) Modern Express reporter learned that the first systematic and vivid presentation of the magnificent picture of the history of the Centennial Winter Olympics (24th) in Chinese and English editions, "From Chamonix to Beijing: A Hundred Years of the Winter Olympics", was launched simultaneously by the People's Publishing House and recently distributed globally.
The book was written by Gerald Sarre, a former senior reporter of the internationally renowned sports media "Team Newspaper", and Wanshan Laudette, former president of the overtime publishing house of the French "Team Newspaper", and the Chinese "Sports Weekly" was responsible for supplementing the revision.
Yang Yang, Chairman of the Athletes' Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, Vice Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, and China's first Winter Olympic gold medalist, wrote an article for the book entitled "Let's Meet Passionately in Beijing".
Zhao Weidong, spokesman for the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, led the book's editorial board.
The book systematically introduces the basic situation, event settings, highlights and legends of the previous Winter Olympic Games, focusing on the selection of many characteristic and interesting people and events in the centenary history of the Winter Olympic Games to tell; it is not only a popular science book that introduces the history of the emergence, development and evolution of the Winter Olympic Movement, but also a wonderful collection of winter Olympic sports stories. The content of each chapter is self-contained and linked, and the history of the development of the Winter Olympic movement is vivid and fascinating. The content of the whole book manuscript is positive and upward, there are many inspirational stories and legends, with the main line of carrying forward tenacious struggle, unity and mutual assistance, integrity and fraternity, showing the pursuit of higher, faster, stronger and more united sportsmanship.
It is worth mentioning that the content of the book is in line with the theme song of the Beijing Winter Olympics, calling out to people around the world: the more the world loves, the more wonderful it is, to open all the doors, everyone will hold their hands together, and together they will move towards the future.