"Didn't run enough!" On the afternoon of February 4, after completing the 91st torch relay in the Grand Canal Forest Park, Wang Yongjun, the torchbearer of the Winter Olympics and president of Beijing Temple of Heaven Hospital, described the torch relay process.
February 4 is Lichun, the first solar term of the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar, symbolizing the arrival of spring. A few hours later, the world-renowned 24th Winter Olympics will officially open, and serving as a torchbearer at such a special time has a special significance for Wang Yongjun.
At 14:33, the previous torchbearer held aloft the torch and came to Wang Yongjun's point. Igniting, high-fived and cheering each other on, the 91st torchbearer of the Grand Canal Forest Park stepped onto the runway. "I passed the torch on the banks of the Grand Canal, one of the greatest projects in ancient China, which condenses the wisdom and painstaking efforts of the Chinese nation, which used to be the lifeblood of the economy and the treasure of history, and now it is more like a link between history and the future." Wang Yongjun said that the moment he raised the torch in his hand, a sentence suddenly appeared in his mind: "Let's go to the future together!" ”
When he learned that he had become a torchbearer candidate for the Winter Olympics, Wang Yongjun was "happy all day." "I don't exercise very often and worry about not running well. Later, I learned that the torchbearers this time are all talents who have achieved certain achievements in all walks of life, and I feel very proud, which is the glory of medical workers and scientific and technological workers. He revealed that he would read the materials every day to familiarize himself with the process of torch relay, and secretly "asked" his lover who had served as the torchbearer of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to "practice his hands" with the torch of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games that he treasured at home. "This time I became the torchbearer of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and our family can have the torches of two Olympic Games, which is particularly proud." I will pass on these two torches as heirlooms from generation to generation. He said.
"I was particularly confident when I saw everyone's spirit when the torch was passed." Wang Yongjun said that his participation in the torch relay as a doctor has a double significance, the first is to greet the Winter Olympics with everyone, and the second is to enhance everyone's sports awareness and health awareness, and promote the integration of sports and medicine.
In fact, Wang Yongjun's career is also inextricably linked to the Olympic Games. "The hospital I work for can be called a 'double Olympic hospital'." Wang Yongjun introduced that in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Dai Jianping, then president of Beijing Tiantan Hospital, served as the deputy director of the Service Department of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee and undertook medical security work, Wang Yongjun, as the vice president in charge of medical treatment, participated in the security work of the Shunyi Aquatic Center with colleagues in the hospital; in 2022, the heavy responsibility was once again spent on the Temple of Heaven, Zhou Jianxin, executive vice president of Beijing Tiantan Hospital, became the chief medical officer of the Winter Olympics, and at the same time, the hospital undertook the medical security work of the Shougang Ski Jump.
"The medical security of the Olympic Games is a systematic project, which is a comprehensive inspection and improvement for the management and emergency mechanism of the entire medical system." Wang Yongjun said: "Being able to serve the two Olympic Games is the luck and glory of our generation of doctors. The precious legacy of the Olympic Games will be of great significance to the improvement of Beijing's medical system. ”