At 20:00 Beijing time on February 4, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be grandly opened at the "Bird's Nest". As the most exciting part of the opening ceremony, the ignition ceremony has always been highly anticipated. Who will light the main torch of the Beijing Winter Olympics is still highly secretive. Zhang Yimou, general director of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, revealed that the ignition method will be unprecedented in the past hundred years, which undoubtedly arouses the curiosity of the audience. Before the ignition character and ignition method are revealed, we may wish to make a bold guess.
Guess one: Da Yang Yang lights the main torch?
Looking back at the opening ceremonies of previous Winter Olympic Games, the stars who lit the main torch are basically the stars of the host who have great influence in the history of the Winter Olympic Games. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea's figure skating women's singles player Kim Yeon-na lit the main torchbearer. She is not only the first women's singles Grand Slam winner in the history of Korean figure skating to combine the Winter Olympics, World Championships, Grand Prix, Finals, Four Continents and World Youth Championships, but also the first women's singles player who has never been on the podium in all competitions in her career.
Yang Yang won the gold medal in the women's 500 meters at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
Yang Yang entered politics after retiring from the army
According to such standards, speed skater Ye Qiaobo, who won the first Winter Olympic medal for China, and Dayang Yang, a short-track speed skater who achieved zero gold medals in China's ice and snow, are likely to ignite the main torch of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Especially Yang Yang, the athlete era has rewritten the history of Chinese sports in the Winter Olympics, and in his sports career, Yang Yang has won a total of 59 world championships, which is the Chinese athlete who has won the most world championships. After retiring from the military, Yang Yang entered politics and is now the chairman of the Athletes' Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and the vice chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency. If Yang Yang lit the main torch, I believe it would be more appropriate.
Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won the gold medal in pair skating at the Vancouver Winter Olympics
Zhang Hong won the gold medal in the women's 1000m in women's speed skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics
Han Peng won the gold medal in men's freestyle skiing aerial skills at the Turin Winter Olympics
Guess two: How many people light the main torch?
Before the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, most people speculated that Xu Haifeng, the first chinese Olympic gold medalist, might light the main torch, and the last person to light the fire was Li Ning, the prince of gymnastics. Dayang Yang lit the main torch of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and it is estimated that many people will guess it. Then, Zhang Yimou is likely not to use ignition to "big hits", but to "find another way", not one person, but many people jointly lighting the main torch. In addition to Yang Yang, China's first speed skating Olympic champion Zhang Hong, the first figure skating Olympic champion Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo, the first snow sports Olympic champion Han Xiaopeng, five people symbolize the "Five Blessings Linmen" during the Spring Festival, jointly lighting the main torch, but also a creative idea of ignition.
Shenzhou 13 astronauts Zhai Zhigang (center), Wang Yaping (right), Ye Guangfu (left)
Guess three: Shenzhou 13 astronauts light the main torch?
Since Zhang Yimou had revealed that the ignition method had not been encountered in a hundred years, he simply cast his eyes from the ground into the vast space. Shenzhou XIII astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, who are on a mission, lit the main torch on the Chinese space station with some special operating instructions when the spacecraft skimmed over the bird's nest, a unique ignition method that has never appeared in the history of the Winter Olympics and even the Olympic Games. Moreover, this method also contains the traditional Chinese cultural idea of "the unity of nature and man".
Guess Four: "AI" lights the main torch?
The above three ignition methods are all involved, and there is also a possibility of using "AI" (artificial intelligence) and VR (virtual reality) technology to "create" one or more torchbearers, and then light the main torch with the real torchbearer. The "virtual" torchbearer can travel through time and "resurrect" some of the late stars in the history of the Winter Olympics, an ignition method that has never been seen in a hundred years.
In particular, the above conjectures represent only personal views, and if they are true, they are purely coincidental. (Huang Kai)