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Her name was Tessa Maud.
An American girl 18 years old.
When she first came to China as a snowboarder to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
I would never have thought that my tears were not spilled on the field, but left to a Chinese volunteer.
From the moment she embarked on a flight to China, Tessa began a cloud live broadcast on personal social media.
After coming to China, he opened the "show off" mode without stopping.
The smart bed in the Olympic Village has a multi-functional adjustment mode, which makes the little sister scream continuously.
The folding screen mobile phone sent to her made her excited all day.
The next morning, I started to eat and drink.
Scrambled eggs, bacon, rice, green tea cake, dragon fruit and latte... A breakfast, comparable to a large eating broadcast live.
She wrote on social media:
"I've eaten sweet and sour tenderloin, dumplings, mapo tofu, dan dan noodles, what else should I try?"
Some netizens joked that this trip ate so much, it was time to gain weight when they went back, and Tessa replied cutely, "I am (getting fat)."
It can be seen that Chinese food has made this 18-year-old American girl linger.
After using the food delivery tableware, seeing the staff who would smile even if it was hard, she said "thank you" with her Chinese.
Tessa said, "I really love them! ”
What moved her even more was the day of her participation in the opening ceremony.
When she followed the team into the nest and saw the volunteers around her waving their hands happily at them, she couldn't help but shout, "Hello! ”
A little brother in a pink shirt also responded enthusiastically to her:
“Welcome to China！”
Back in her dorm room, Tessa watched the videos she had taken over and over again, each time being moved to tears.
"They were so friendly and all the volunteers were sweet and friendly. They welcomed us from the bottom of their hearts. ”
After watching Tesa's video, countless foreign netizens have also liked it.
There are also many Chinese netizens who send her private messages, and the screen is full of greetings and blessings.
Many people can't help but sigh:
"This is the charm of the Olympic spirit, and it is very exciting to see China break through the prejudices of Western society and host this Olympic Games with excellence."
However, there is a warmer follow-up to this story.
Under the relay search of netizens, the little brother in pink clothes in the video appeared.
He is Sun Zeyu, a junior from Tsinghua University.
After watching the video, he wrote a reply to Tessa.
Sun Zeyu thanked Tessa for helping her record the most memorable moments of her life, and wished her and all the athletes "new results in the yellow land" as the 2008 Olympic Games "Welcome to Beijing" sang.
Finally, he invited Tessa to wait for the epidemic to end and come back to China to see, and he would take off his mask and say the words "Welcome to China!" to his face.
Tessa also replied again: "Thank you enough, I love My Grandson and all my new friends, thank you for supporting me, you are friendly and hospitable." ”
The "two-way rush" of an American athlete and a Chinese volunteer warmed the entire ice and snow arena.
So much so that after all the competitions, Tessa was leaving China, and when she filmed the last short film, she couldn't help but cry again.
"I'm leaving, I have to pack my bags, but I don't want to pack, I want to sit like this."
Chinese netizens hurriedly asked her why she was so upset.
Tessa replied: I don't want to go home.
The Chinese netizens who heard the news not only rushed to comfort, but also sent sincere wishes.
Although Tessa's trip to the Winter Olympics ultimately failed to bring herself a medal, she was also ridiculed by netizens as "the most unprofessional athlete".
However, she went home with the gold medal that was "most loved by Chinese netizens".
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Regarding the story of "two-way rushing", the Beijing Winter Olympics have actually been staged more than once.
When all the athletes come to the Olympic Village, one of the highly anticipated links is "unboxing".
In accordance with the practice of previous Olympic Games, the host congress uses the traditional physical gift package to distribute gifts to the heads of delegations, athletes and accompanying officials.
This time, the Beijing Olympic Games, in addition to the physical gift package, Chinese also sent a surprise to everyone:
Each athlete or team official receives a unique painting of the Winter Olympics themed by a Chinese child.
The back of the painting also has the contact information and email address of the children.
Jamaican alpine skier Benjamin Alexander praised the painting gift "Short Track Speed Skating Dream".
To this end, he sent an email to thank the Chinese children.
In the email, he solemnly invited the children to watch the competition he would participate in on February 13, and hoped that the children would one day try to go skiing.
After the email was sent, a scene that excited Benjamin happened.
He quickly received a reply from Hou Jiaqi, a second-grade elementary school student from Changchun, Jilin Province.
In his letter, Hougazi wrote:
"I just saw your letter and I'm very happy. I'll go and watch your game and hope you get a good result. ”
Immediately, a video of the students at school skating training was sent to Benjamin.
It turned out that Hou Jiaqi had already participated in ice and snow sports, and now he is a "small member of the short track speed skating team".
Because of one painting, two people of different countries, different ages, and different identities have a wonderful fate.
This is probably Chinese's most romantic and humanistic interpretation of the Olympic spirit.
Australian athlete Britt Cox, after receiving a painting of a female skier standing on a high mountain with a ski pole in her hand, said:
"This painting means a lot to me, as an athlete, my greatest value and passion is to enlighten teenagers.
So receiving and seeing this painting, I felt very warm. I hung the painting on my wall so I could see it all the time. ”
"Together for a Shared Future!"
I thought it was just a slogan for the Beijing Winter Olympics, but now it has a heartwarming story.
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At the Beijing Winter Olympics, you will find that there is a high-frequency hot word in the mouth of foreign athletes:
“Thank you Beijing。 ”
In addition to the Olympic Village and the Olympic Stadium, you can also hear this sentence in another place - the Winter Olympic Support Center of the Third Hospital of Beijing Medical College.
On the afternoon of February 7, American alpine skier Nina O'Brien accidentally fell during the competition, resulting in open fractures and comminuted fractures of the leg, and the injuries were serious.
Two days later, she wrote on her personal social media account:
"I would like to say thank you to all those who took care of me, especially those who came to me when the accident occurred and the doctors and nurses in Yanqing.
I was a little sad, but I also felt so much love... Good luck with the game and enjoy yourself. ”
Although not fully recovered, Nina had clearly come out of her wounds.
She credits it all to the love of Chinese medical staff.
Saving lives and helping the injured is the duty of doctors, why are foreign athletes so grateful.
Two details for you.
According to the regulations of the International Snow Federation, in the alpine skiing field, once an athlete has an accident, the rescue doctor needs to carry a medical kit weighing more than 10 kilograms and rush to the scene within 4 minutes.
But because of the long track and the athletes competing, there is actually less than 4 minutes for the medical staff.
To this end, we have developed an alpine skiing medical team that trains five days a week, about 4 hours a day, before taking up their posts.
After Nina's accident, the mainland ski doctor rushed to her side in 1 minute for treatment.
The second was the revelation of a foreign technical official.
He was urgently sent to the hospital because of an emergency, and during his hospitalization, he was not suitable for Chinese food because of eating habits.
After the doctor in charge knew, he contacted the canteen and made a Western meal with Chinese ingredients.
Later, the foreign technical official nicknamed the medical staff who cared for him two nicknames "favourite" and "lovely".
“Thank you to the best medical team. Gold!” (Thank you very much, to the best Gold Medal Medical Team!) ）
This is the evaluation given by the Austrian Olympic Committee President Carl Stos when he visited the injured athletes in his country.
And the Chinese medical team wants to say the only thing:
"We can't win a sparkling gold medal, but we can make people in need always remember a strong and friendly China."
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Before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, we heard a lot of negative remarks from the Western media.
Now 10 days later, American skier Aaron Blunck said bluntly at a press conference:
"Those are actually fake. In fact, everything is remarkable. Everyone, from the staff to the nucleic acid testers, to the accommodation conditions, this is the high level of the Winter Olympics we have participated in. ”
Australian athlete Cooper Woods also said:
"My best experience in Beijing was about people, the people I met in Beijing were all very lovely, helpful, they were humorous and they really welcomed us to the game. I really enjoyed the game! ”
Yes, Chinese is the most beautiful scenery of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The Winter Olympics coincide with the Chinese New Year.
Chinese not only sent a Chinese New Year gift box to every member of the Olympic Village.
He also taught everyone to write Spring Festival and make dumplings hand in hand.
For the New Year, you can't snub the guests who come from afar.
Athletes have insomnia and can't sleep.
It's okay, come and sit down at the restaurant and you'll bump into a bunch of super cute Chinese volunteers.
They'll swing with you and have an impromptu fight dance with you.
It's time to go home.
Parting though sad.
You can see a group of volunteer little brothers and sisters, standing in front of the car, sending you the warmest parting wishes.
Suddenly there was no reason to be unhappy.
Chinese like an idiom: at home.
This is a kind of self-discipline and a kind of benevolence.
As the Canadian Olympic team said in a thank-you letter to the Chinese Winter Olympics work team:
"We understand that you are far away from your family during the Chinese New Year and come here to help us. We also understand how hard you have put into your work this year for our sake.
We are very grateful for this and are happy to experience your festivals and traditions with you. You made us feel like family and we are happy to have a deep friendship with you. ”
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100 years ago, Gu Hongming, a master of traditional Chinese studies, gave a speech at Peking University, called "the spirit of Chinese".
He said:
"We Chinese, and we have many weaknesses in our thinking and character, but in Chinese, there are things that are indescribable that no other nation has.
That is gentleness.
Meekness, not meekness, not cowardice.
Meekness is a strength, a sympathy.
We Chinese have the power of compassion because we live in a life of the heart completely and utterly.
The whole life of Chinese is an emotional life, an emotion that comes from the depths of human nature, an emotion of human love. ”
From more than 100 years ago, humiliatingly shouted out the "Three Questions of the Olympic Games":
"When will China be able to send delegates to the Congress of the Nations Movement? When will I win the championship at the International Movement Congress? When will the Congress of the Movement of Nations be held in Middle-earth? ”
Now Beijing has become a "double Olympic city".
Chinese have experienced too many tribulations and encountered too many slanders, we have never lost our gentle genes.
This is the spirit of Chinese and the highest emotion of mankind.
Rending is all over the world, and the eight parties come to congratulate.
Chinese deserves it and deserves it.
Source: Mr. Wang Er
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