At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics held yesterday (4th) evening, short-track speed skater Zhu Dingwen led the Hong Kong sports delegation to the National Stadium as the standard-bearer. Today (5th), Zhu Dingwen posted on Weibo with emotion: Waving the regional flag at the Winter Olympics held in his motherland is "my greatest honor."
Screenshot of Zhu Dingwen's Weibo
A delegation from Hong Kong, China, entered the venue. The picture is from Zhu Dingwen's Weibo
Zhu Dingwen wrote on Weibo at about 8 a.m.: "Just a few tens of meters carry the sweat and tears of everyone in Hong Kong who has ever been on the ice. The Hong Kong Olympic Team represents a new era, opening the global ice and snow era, showing the sunshine and hard work of Hong Kong youth. Yesterday I waved the district flag, not only on my own, but also on behalf of my team and the whole of Hong Kong. It is my greatest honor to be able to wave the district flag at the Winter Olympics held in my own home country. In the past few years, I have a simple, persistent, strong and efficient team, without their support behind me, I can not achieve today's Olympic dream.
Many mainland netizens left messages under Zhu Dingwen's Weibo to cheer him up, expecting him to achieve good results at the Winter Olympics.
Some netizens remembered Zhu Dingwen's northeastern dialect of "leverage and drip", and asked him , "Why did you harm the northeast before?" ”
According to Previous reports by Hong Kong media, Hong Kong is a "snow-free city" and there is no standard short-track speed skating venue, and Zhu Dingwen has been training in Changchun, Beijing and other cities for many years. He said he loves to eat spicy hot and fragrant pots from the northeast, where he became friends with several athletes of the Chinese national team, and his coach Sun Dandan is also from Changchun, Jilin Province.
Hong Kong media have noticed that Zhu Dingwen communicated with reporters in fluent Mandarin during the interview, with a Northeastern accent, and he said that "Northeast Dialect is the official language of our team." He also laughed and said that in fact, many netizens did not believe that he was a native of Hong Kong.