On January 30, Beijing time, the Chinese Olympic Committee officially announced the flag bearer of the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. In the end, China's speed skating star Gao Tingyu and steel frame snowmobile athlete Zhao Dan will serve as the male and female standard-bearer representatives of the Chinese team. For this result, many netizens directly called "unexpected". Previously, the short track speed skating defending champion Wu Dajing and the freestyle skiing genius Gu Ailing were the biggest hits, but in the end, both of them did not make it. Gao Tingyu is one of the gold medals of Chinese speed skating in this Winter Olympics, and Zhao Dan is the first time to step on the Olympic steel frame snowmobile field.
Interestingly, at the Tokyo Olympics, the standard-bearers of the Chinese sports delegation were women's volleyball player Zhu Ting and taekwondo athlete Zhao Shuai. Both won the championship at the Rio Olympics, but in the Tokyo Olympics, they all failed to defend their titles, especially Zhu Ting's Chinese women's volleyball team, which created the worst record in olympic history. Subsequently, the domestic sports world produced the topic of "flag bearer curse", and many netizens ridiculed, "As long as you serve as a flag bearer, you cannot win the championship in the current Olympic Games." At this Winter Olympics, the Chinese Winter Olympic delegation perfectly avoided Wu Dajing, Gu Ailing, Ren Ziwei, Sui Wenjing, Han Cong and other gold-winning main forces, and I don't know if this magic law was also taken into account.
After the list of flag bearers was announced, Gao Tingyu, who participated in the Winter Olympics for the second time, was very excited, and he also posted on his personal social platform that he was honored to be the flag bearer of the Chinese delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics. Being able to play at home is an extremely exciting thing, and the identity of the flag bearer makes it more powerful. Gao Tingyu confidently said that he will not live up to this trust and strive to show his best side in the Winter Olympic Games, the speed skating World Cup sub-station before the Olympic Games.
Gao Tingyu has already won the men's 500 meters championship with his super ability to surpass the corners. At the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Gao Tingyu won a bronze medal, achieving a historic breakthrough for the Chinese speed skating team. In this Winter Olympics, Gao Tingyu is a big favorite to win the championship, and he will work with Ning Zhongyan to create a new myth for the Chinese team. Female flag bearer Zhao Dan, from Inner Mongolia, will compete in a steel-framed snowmobile at the Beijing Winter Olympics. This sport started late in China, and there is a certain gap between the overall competitiveness and the strong teams in Europe and the United States. However, Zhao Dan said that she will do her best to appear at the Winter Olympics in the best condition.
After becoming the standard-bearer of the Chinese team at the Winter Olympics, Zhao Dan's confidence is even stronger. For the male and female standard-bearer lineup of the Chinese sports delegation for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, many netizens have talked about it. Some people believe that the unity of ice and snow is a major trend, although there is no choice of short track speed skating and figure skating in the event, but it is an incentive for athletes in other sports. Some netizens also joked that this is the result of the Chinese delegation's fear that the "flag bearer curse" will come again. What do you think of this list of flag bearers?
(Luo Treasurer)