Time is engraved with the footsteps of chasing dreams. More than 6 years of meticulous preparation, more than 2,000 days and nights of unremitting struggle, finally waited for this day.
February 4, Li Chun. The XXIV Winter Olympic Games will kick off in Beijing, the world's first "city of the Two Olympics". With the beautiful expectation of "going to the future together", this ice and snow event arrived as promised.
Ice and snow athletes from all over the world gathered under the banner of the five rings to sing the Olympic ode of "peace, friendship and progress".
"The City of The Two Olympics", shining brightly
At the beginning of the lantern, overlooking the "central axis" of Beijing from the air, it is full of light. At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the scene of 29 "big footprints" of the ceremonial flowers taking off in the air is still unforgettable.
On the night of 4 February, the Olympic flames will once again be ignited at the National Stadium "Bird's Nest". The two places and three divisions opened their arms and embraced the guests from all over the world. From the Summer Olympics to the Winter Olympics, china and the Olympics have walked all the way, and history has engraved a strong and colorful stroke.
With a history of 54 years, the Capital Gymnasium has been renovated, and the athletes of the delegations have personally experienced the "most beautiful ice"; the "Water Cube" of the National Aquatics Center has become the "Ice Cube", and the curling competition has taken the lead in winning the applause of the whole hall; the Wukesong Sports Center has completed the "ice basket conversion" to create a full sense of science and technology for the ice hockey competition... Of the 13 competition and non-competition venues in Beijing, 11 were left over from that year's Olympic Games.
Creatively realize the transformation of winter and summer projects, so that the "double Olympic venues" can undertake new missions and release new vitality. The exploration of "highlighting the characteristics of science and technology, wisdom, green and thrift" has converged into a living sample of "sustainable and future". The ski jumping platform in Shougang Park is "snow flying", which looks like a "dream crystal" under the sun. This industrial park, which was relocated for the Beijing Olympic Games as a whole, is now plugged in with the "Wings of Ice and Snow" and turned around gorgeously.
From "one world, one dream" to "together to the future", witnessing the growth of the "City of The Two Olympics" and leaving the footprints of strivers. Many of the staff members who have participated in the construction of the Summer Olympics have joined the ranks of the preparations for the Winter Olympics and continue to dedicate light and heat. Li Ju, a sichuan girl who served as a volunteer representative for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, accepted the flowers of thanks from the newly elected members of the International Olympic Committee. Now, with her students, she is standing in the volunteer service position of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The Olympic spirit is passed down from generation to generation, and the strong "double Olympic complex" is deeply rooted in the heart.
The Olympic Games after 14 years is like a long goodbye reunion. In the country's first Olympic community, Beijing's Dongsi Street, more than 200 residents spontaneously formed the "Double Olympic Volunteer Service Team"; in the Yanqing Competition Area, "Environmental Grandmother" He Yufeng led her partners to actively take action to create the "most beautiful Winter Olympic City"; "Hutong artist" Gong Hubiao used gourd paintings to carefully create Winter Olympic-themed art works... The ardent expectations for the Beijing Winter Olympics are filled with the smiling faces and actions of the people.
"The Change of the Winter Olympics", continuing to write a new chapter
On February 1, Sarah Escobar, who was preparing for the Yanqing Division, received a Chinese knot with the word "Fu" and spent her unforgettable 20th birthday. As the first female Winter Olympic athlete in the tropical country of Ecuador, she will enter the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games with a person holding high the national flag. Although there are no compatriots side by side, her appearance is shining enough.
The clock goes back 98 years, when the first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, with only 16 European and American countries participating. Today, in Beijing, nearly 3,000 athletes from 91 countries and regions will be on the Winter Olympics. As the winter Olympics with the most gold medals in history, more players will strive to achieve their dreams here.
The unique charm and attraction of the Beijing Winter Olympics have received a warm response from athletes from various countries and regions. Brazilian athlete Jacqueline Mourão, who competed as a mountain biker at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, will embark on her eighth Olympic journey as a cross-country skier to "renew the frontier" with Beijing.
"The most important thing about the Olympic Games is not victory, but participation", Coubertin's famous quote shone on the ice and snow stage. Seven new sub-events, including the short track speed skating mixed team relay and the freestyle ski aerial skill mixed team, have greatly improved the participation of athletes.
From bidding, preparation to hosting, the Beijing Winter Olympics echoed and practiced the Direction of Olympic Reform proposed in the Olympic Agenda 2020 in an all-round way. Fruitful and innovative exploration has contributed Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the development of the Olympic Movement.
Let more people participate in ice and snow sports, which is also the meaning of the Olympic movement. Achieve the goal of "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports" in advance, and scatter the seeds of ice and snow sports to the land of Shenzhou. As the communiqué of the 10th Olympic Summit commented, the beijing Winter Olympics will usher in a new era of global winter sports.
"Light of Hope" to illuminate the future
As the first global comprehensive sports event to be held as scheduled since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Beijing Winter Olympics fixed "a historic moment". The new Olympic motto of "Faster, higher, stronger – more united" was successfully embodied here.
Gunilla Lindbergh, Secretary General of the IOC National Olympic Committee Federation, is full of imagination for the upcoming opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games: "Sports bring the people of the global village together, and when you see athletes from all delegations entering, it is like seeing countries (regions) around the world working hand in hand to come to you. ”
At present, all countries (regions) are in the same big boat with a common destiny. In the face of world changes and the challenges of the epidemic, how to overcome difficulties and create a better future, the Beijing Winter Olympics will build a bridge to enhance understanding, gather consensus and win-win cooperation, and "let the sunshine of hope illuminate mankind".
Such a powerful appeal has won a wave of support higher than a wave. The United Nations has issued a stamp with the theme of "Sport for Peace", which is also the first time that the United Nations has issued stamps for the Winter Olympic Games; the Canadian, Danish, and Swiss Olympic Committees have publicly expressed their expectations for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games; the governments and IOC officials of Belgium, Norway, the Czech Republic and other countries have positively evaluated the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the epidemic prevention measures...
As UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said, "The Olympic spirit is a beacon of human solidarity". The theme slogan of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, "Together for the Future", expresses our common voice. Through this ice and snow event, the world can clearly see China's green, shared, open and clean Olympic concept, and deeply feel the hospitality of the Chinese people as always.
The opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics coincides with the traditional Chinese New Year festival. Chinese pursue "home and everything", from the "small reunion" of every household to the "big reunion" of the Olympic family, the Beijing Winter Olympics will ignite the torch of hope and light, illuminating the way forward.
This night, the world looks at Beijing together; at this moment, Beijing and the world witness together.
Source: People's Daily
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