The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics was carried out in anticipation, and the magnificent momentum once again shocked the people of the world.
The biggest attraction of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is the final main torch lighting ceremony. One of the big innovations in this ignition ceremony is that the last torch is the main torch.
A total of seven people were arranged to serve as torchbearers at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, namely Zhao Weichang, Li Yan, Yang Yang, Su Bingtian, Zhou Yang, Zhao Jiawen and Yilamujiang. Some people may ask, how did Su Bingtian, who participated in the Summer Olympic Games, participate in the torch relay of the Winter Olympic Games? This is the recognition of Zhao Bingtian by the Chinese sports community. All seven are well-known athletes.
The first baton was Played by Zhao Weichang.
Zhao Weichang was born in April 1950 in Changchun, Jilin Province, and is a former Chinese speed skater. In the 1970s, Zhao Weichang won the men's national speed skating all-around championships for 11 consecutive times, broke the national record 26 times, and won the 500m runner-up at the World Championships in 1975. In February 1980, the Chinese delegation participated in the 13th Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid in the United States. This is China's first participation in the Winter Olympics, and Zhao Weichang served as the standard-bearer of the opening ceremony of the Chinese delegation. 42 years later, the 72-year-old Zhao Weichang served as a torchbearer and used his own practical actions to perform a "inheritance" about the Olympics.
The second stick is Li Yan.
Li Yan is a short track speed skater known to everyone, and later became a famous coach. Born in September 1966 in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang Province, Li Yan is a short-track speed skater. In 1987, Li Yan was selected for the national short track speed skating training team. In 1988, short track speed skating was held in Calgary at the 15th Winter Olympics as a winter Olympic performance event. Li Yan won the gold medal in the short track speed skating 1000 meters and the bronze medal in the 500 meters and 1500 meters in the exhibition competition. Canadians at the time called her "Dragon Soaring.".
She participated in the 16th Winter Olympics in Albertville in 1992. She won the silver medal in short track speed skating 500 meters. This is the first Olympic medal in Short Track Speed Skating in China. Li Yan won two gold medals in the 500,1000 meters and a silver medal in the all-around at the 1992 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships. Soon after, Li Yan retired. She returned to China in May 2006 as the head coach of the Chinese short track speed skating team. During her tenure as the head coach of the national team short track speed skating, she led the team to a good result of 7 gold, 5 silver and 1 bronze. Li Yan was unanimously elected president of the Chinese Skating Association in June 2017. In November 2021, Li Yan served as the head coach of the speed skating national training team.
The third stick is Yang Yang.
Born in August 1975 in Tangyuan County, Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, Yang Yang is a short-track speed skater. In 1995, Yang Yang entered the national team from Heilongjiang Province. In March 1995, Yang Yang participated in the Norwegian World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, where he broke the world record in the women's 3,000m relay with his teammates in 4:24.68 and won the championship. Yang Yang thus became the world champion.
At the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Yang Yang won gold medals in short-track speed skating in the 500 meters and 1,000 meters, achieving Zero Breakthrough in China at the Winter Olympics. She participated in three Winter Olympics and won 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. Yang Yang has won a total of 59 world championships, is the Chinese athlete who has won the most world championships, and has created the myth of the "queen of short track speed skating".
The fourth stick is Su Bingtian.
Su Bingtian needless to say, Asian 100-meter trapeze. He is an epoch-making figure in Chinese athletics and has made indelible contributions to Chinese athletics. He won as much as an Olympic gold medal.
The fifth stick is Zhou Yang.
Zhou Yang was born in June 1991 in Changchun, Jilin Province, and is a Chinese women's short track speed skater. In November 2006, Zhou Yang was selected for the Chinese women's short track speed skating team. In February 2008, Zhou Yang won the women's 1500m final of the short track speed skating World Cup in the United States and broke the world record. Zhou Yang won the gold medal in short track speed skating in the 1500 meters and the 3000 meters relay at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Zhou Yang defended the gold medal in short track speed skating in the 1500 meters.
The sixth stick is Zhao Jiawen and Diniger, who together light the torch at the main venue of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Zhao Jiawen was born in January 2001 in Taiyuan, Shanxi, a Chinese Nordic biathlete. In November 2021, Zhao Jiawen qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics with his results in the NORSE Nordic Intercontinental Cup in Russia's Lower Tagil Station, which is the first time in the history of the Chinese team to qualify for the Nordic Nordic Competition at the Winter Olympics.
Diniger Yilamujiang, an ethnic Uyghur, was born in May 2001 in Altay, Xinjiang. She is a Chinese cross-country skier. In the 2021-22 season, at the ISA CROSS-Country Skiing FIS Points Series, Diniger Yilamujiang won the first place in the women's 10 km traditional style, the first place in the 10 km freestyle, the first place in the short distance freestyle, the first place in the 15 km freestyle interval and the third place in the traditional short distance. In January 2022, Diniger Yilamujiang was selected as a member of the cross-country skiing team of the Chinese sports delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics to participate in the women's doubles chase.
Compared to the first five, the achievements and fame of the latter two are not comparable. That's what makes everyone feel strange. Because usually large-scale events, very famous and accomplished athletes are sent to light the main torch.
This Time, the Beijing Winter Olympics broke with tradition and let two young athletes light the main torch, reflecting the inheritance. Let Chinese athletes pass it on from generation to generation. The seven athletes are also passed down according to their age, as old, middle and young.