(Beijing Winter Olympics) In the Winter Olympic Games, they are opponents and friends
Beijing, 18 Feb (China News Service) Title: In the Winter Olympics, we are both opponents and friends
China News Service reporter Guo Chaokai
On the 17th, the National Alpine Ski Center drifted light snow, sliding down from the women's all-around slalom track, and the dense flag gate especially tested the turning skills and rhythm of the players, and it was easy to miss the flag gate and abandon the previous achievements if you were not careful. Just before reaching the finish line, Swiss player Prisca Nyfer regretted that he could not control the steering, and fell off the track with a heavy body, gliding more than ten meters on the slopes.
This scene made everyone on the scene feel sad. Mikaela Schifflin, an American alpine skier who preceded Niffe, witnessed the situation and slid down the mountainside to niffy lean over to ask about her injuries. Fortunately, after a short break, Nyfi did not have much of a problem, and shook hands with Shivlin.
The heart-warming scene of two ski girls from different countries was recorded by photographers and cameras, becoming a classic scene of mutual help at the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the Winter Olympics, there are not only the peak duels of high-level athletes, but also their care and kindness to each other.
On February 8, in the final of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Freestyle Ski Women's Big Jump held at the Beijing Shougang Ski Jump, The Chinese team's Gu Ailing won the championship. After the match, Gu Ailing hugged France's Tess Ludd, who finished second. Photo by Mao Jianjun, reporter of China News Service
In the snowboard men's big jump final, Su Yiming used a difficult move to win gold, and his idol, Canadian star Mark McMorris and other contestants hugged and congratulated him; in the freestyle ski women's aerial skills competition, after the "Four Dynasties Elders" Xu Mengtao won the gold medal, the American Ashley Caldwell gave a hug for the first time and said "I am really proud of you"; in the freestyle ski women's big jump final, Gu Ailing won his first Olympic gold medal with a jump that challenged the limit. Hugged and comforted the runner-up winner who hid his face in the snow, France's Tess Ludder... Moments like this abound at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the warm scenes of friendship and unity in the ice and snow are very warm.
On the field are competitors, you chase me; off the field are friends, encouraging each other. In the curling mixed doubles round robin, after the Chinese players Fan Suyuan and Ling Zhixi lost to the American combination, they still blessed their opponents and presented a box of "ice pier" Olympic commemorative badges; in order to thank the American players, they also gave fan and Ling the American team badges in the subsequent competitions, and the flowers of friendship quietly bloomed in a gift.
On February 5, in the mixed doubles round robin tournament of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team composed of Fan Suyuan and Ling Zhi lost 5-7 to the American combination. After the competition, Fan Suyuan and Ling Zhi gave the American curling mixed doubles group a box of 4 Winter Olympic badges per person. Ling Zhi said that the 4 Winter Olympic badges are not the same, and the American team likes this gift very much. Photo by Cui Nan, a reporter from China News Service
As Ling Zhi said, "Curling is a social sport, and exchanging gifts is a tradition of the project, expressing the friendship between athletes." In the friendly interaction, the athletes also gained friendship and warmth in addition to competing for ice and snow.
At the moment when the situation in Eastern Ukraine is confusing, Ilya Brov, an athlete of the Russian Olympic Committee, and Abramenko of Ukraine hugged tightly and shared the joy of delisting at the Zhangjiakou Genting Ski Park, and also made a perfect interpretation of the Olympic spirit of "unity and fraternity, fair competition, and mutual understanding" without political manipulation.
Under the banner of the five rings, athletes gather across mountains and seas because of their love of ice and snow sports. On the field are opponents competing on the same stage, and off the field are friends who challenge the limits together. In addition to winning or losing the game, in addition to the color of the medals, the athletes do not hesitate to cheer for the wonderful performance of their opponents and applaud the hard-won success. The same goal of "faster, higher, stronger" is condensed into a consensus of "more unity".
Friendship at the Winter Olympics transcends borders, races, and politics, is a vivid illustration of the spirit of sportsmanship, and is also the meaning of the Olympic Games. The grand movement of unity, friendship and peace played the harmony of "together to the future". (End)