According to CCTV News, more than 100 athletes and coach representatives from the Chinese sports delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics came to Tiananmen Square to watch the flag-raising ceremony and take the oath to march.
After the end of this oath, they will gradually enter the closed-loop management to make final preparations for participating in the Winter Olympics.
The ceremony was led by short track speed skater Wu Dajing, who will defend his title at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as the gold medalist in short track speed skating 500 meters. In the list that has been announced earlier, after Wu Dajing Ren Ziwei leads 400, 10 short track speed skaters will compete in this Winter Olympics.
In addition, Gu Ailing arrived in Beijing last week to enter a closed-loop isolation state, she will first compete in the Beijing Shougang Big Jump in the freestyle ski jump, and then will go to Zhangjiakou to participate in slope obstacle courses and U-shaped track skills, and the talented girl will be in the Winter Olympics to hit the three golds.
The Beijing Winter Olympics will be held on February 4, the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, which is now the 10-day countdown to the Winter Olympics. On January 23, three Winter Olympic villages in Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou were pre-opened to welcome athletes and entourage from all over the world.