China Daily, February 14 (NBC) "TODAY" reported that at the flower ceremony held after the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the athletes who won the medals will receive a Winter Olympic mascot "ice pier". As the "top stream" of this Winter Olympic Games, the "ice pier" has also become a big star loved by athletes from all over the world.
According to the "Today Show" program reporter in China, the "ice pier" is the most out-of-the-loop mascot in the history of the Winter Olympics, and it is also the hottest figure in this Winter Olympic Games, and all kinds of goods are in short supply. She ran several Winter Olympic souvenir shops in order to buy the "ice pier", but finally returned disappointed.
In the store, the reporter showed the empty shelves in front of the camera, and she repeatedly asked the staff to buy the "ice piers", and the answers she got were "out of stock", and even other "ice pier" souvenirs such as key chains were sold out. The reporter reluctantly suggested that you can also take a photo with a life-size mascot, or make a "ice pier" yourself. Many people have "posted" homemade "ice piers" on social media.
On the field, many medal-winning athletes received a golden limited "ice pier". Su Yiming, a Chinese player who won the silver medal in the men's slope steeplechase competition in snowboarding, said: "When I watched our Chinese team short track speed skating a few days ago, I was particularly envious when I stood on the podium and held this 'ice pier'. I said I wanted to get it through my own efforts, but I really got it today, and I was very happy. Hope to win more 'ice piers' through their own performances. ”
No wonder the reporter from today's show said that "now it seems that the only way to get an 'ice pier' is to win a medal", because she has personally proved how difficult it is to buy an "ice pier".
She told the studio hosts in the connection: "I was supposed to show you a physical object, but we still didn't succeed in looking for it everywhere." Then she took out the "ice pier" that her son had drawn by hand and said, "Now, I can only show you this 'pure handmade limited edition ice pier'." ”
(Hu Xiaoshan, Gao Linlin)