Among the tens of thousands of volunteers for the Beijing Winter Olympics, there is a group of "father and son soldiers" who have passed on the torch. From "the same world, the same dream" to "together to the future", they wrote down a period of Olympic family and national conditions.
▲Father Luo Dan and son Luo Qiang are on duty together at the Winter Olympics Volunteer Service Station at Xinjiekou, Xicheng District, Beijing. Photo by Yan Tong, reporter of the Winter Olympics
Ma Shuxin, driver of the B1 team in beijing, and ma Zhicheng, son.
▲ Yan Zihao and his father who are volunteers for the Winter Olympics at the Capital International Airport.
In 2008, the torchbearers were on duty with their son
At the Volunteer Service Site of the Winter Olympics in Xinjiekou, Xicheng District, Beijing, there is such a pair of volunteer "father and son soldiers" - Dad Rodin was the torchbearer of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, 14 years later, he continued to help the Olympic Games with the torch of the year, and together with his son Luo Qiang, he popularized the knowledge of the Winter Olympics at the Xinjiekou service point and told everyone his Olympic story.
The Xinjiekou Winter Olympics City Volunteer Service Site is located on the first floor of Xinhua Department Store, and Rodin and other volunteers are tasked with promoting the Winter Olympics to the crowds of people, inviting everyone to write messages and draw pictures. "Little friend, do you know what the mascot of the Winter Olympics is called?" "What does the emblem look like?" Whenever children and young people stop to leave a message and paint, Rodin will encourage and share his Olympic story. Slowly, one ice pier after another and snow melted "filled" the guestbook.
Watching Luo Qiang, who is now in college, fight alongside himself, Rodin believes that the power of sports is enough to influence generations of people. In order to better publicize the Olympic spirit, he also brought the auspicious cloud torch he passed to the site and showed it to the passing crowd. Rodin inherits the Olympic spirit with his actions, and makes the "business card" of Olympic volunteers brighter and brighter with a confident smile.
Father and son guard a blue sky together
Yan Zihao, a student at the Central University of Finance and Economics, is a "second generation of aviation" who grew up in airplane pictorials and various aircraft models. His father was an old civil aviation man who was in charge of safety in the air traffic control system. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, Yan Zihao became a Volunteer for the Winter Olympics, guiding the customs at the Capital International Airport.
"Influenced by my father, I have a different kind of affection for the cloud world." Yan Zihao recalled that his father liked to take himself to the place where he worked and tell the story of China's air traffic control and China's civil aviation, "One of my favorite passages was my father's experience of guaranteeing Olympic flights when he talked about the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Every time he talked about it, his eyes lit up. I also understand the meaning of protection and giving. ”
On February 4, the opening day of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, both father and son were at work. When the last flight arrived, a foreign athlete passed through customs under the patient guidance of Yan Zihao. Before leaving, he expressed his gratitude in simple Chinese and extended his thumb to praise Yan Zihao. "A small gesture and a simple thank you gave me great encouragement." Yan Zihao said that he would go all out to guard the harmonious blue sky with his father.
The "old horse" takes the "pony" to open the Winter Olympic shuttle
Among the 253 employees of the B1 team in the Beijing Winter Olympics, there are 5 employees surnamed Ma, but as long as the "old horse" is mentioned, everyone knows that this refers to Ma Shuxin, and the "little horse" is his son Ma Zhicheng.
The old horse is the early shift driver of the B1 team shuttle bus, running 16 laps a day, 176 kilometers, working 11 hours a day, which is really a challenge for the 55-year-old horse. "I played at the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008, when I was in charge of picking up women's beach volleyball players and I was proud of them watching them compete for gold and silver on the field. Now that I have participated in the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, as the driver of the only double Olympic city in the world, I have been satisfied in my life."
What makes the old horse proud is another thing, that is, his son Xiaoma also participated in the Winter Olympics guarantee. The Beijing Winter Olympics coincided with the Chinese Lunar New Year, and Chinese New Year's Eve the ponies rested on that day, but they took the initiative to serve the team. Someone asked the pony: "Can't go home after working in the closed loop, homesick?" The pony said, "I also miss home, but with my father, my heart is quite solid." ”
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Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporters Zhang Xiao, Sun Hongyang, He Rui
Editor: Han Ye
Process Editor Tai Shaofeng