At the scene of the opening ceremony, being able to become the torchbearer of the last few sticks is naturally a meritorious figure in the field of national sports.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the final torch relay in the stadium was Xu Haifeng, Gao Min, Li Xiaoshuang, Zhan Xugang, Zhang Jun, Chen Zhong, and Sun Jinfang.
At the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games held on the evening of July 23, there were three people who carried the torch as the second stick in the venue, including the Japanese sports figure standing on the far left, which attracted much attention.
He is 81-year-old Wang Zhenzhi!
Looking at this name, it does not look like a Japanese, indeed, his ancestral home is Qingtian, Zhejiang, and to this day, Wang Zhenzhi and his wife, three children, have not joined the Japanese!
However, this does not hinder his position in the Japanese sports scene. Wang Wasaharu was the first recipient of the Japanese National Honor Award and the only non-Japanese national to receive the honor.
Wang's father left his hometown in 1922 and drifted to Japan to work and earn a living. Born in Tokyo in 1940, Mr. Wang was the fourth child in the family.
The eldest brother was ten years older than him, and when he was a child, the eldest brother often rode him to the baseball field, which aroused Wang Zhenzhi's interest in baseball, and he also showed extraordinary talent.
Entering the professional arena, Wang Zhenzhi soon showed superior ability, he created the "Golden Rooster Independence" hitting style, and he also became a well-known baseball player in Japan.
How good was Wang Zhenzhi's athletic career?
In 1964, he set a new Record for 55 home runs in a single season, which no one has broken. In his 21-year career, Wang Zhenzhi has created a total of 868 home runs, which no one has surpassed so far.
He was known as the "King of Baseball in the World", and in that era, Wang Zhenzhi, together with the boxing king Ali and the ball king Pele, became the three superstars of the world sports world.
After retiring from the army, Wang Sadaharu successively served as the head coach of the Yomiuri Giants and SoftBank in the Japan Professional Baseball League. As we get older, illness comes to us.
In the summer of 2006, because a tumor was found in the stomach and diagnosed as malignant, Wang Zhenzhi underwent a "total gastric resection" operation.
Three years later, Wang Zhenzhi developed an acute intestinal obstruction, and doctors surgically removed his gallbladder. In the same year, he underwent endoscopic surgery to treat gallstones.
Today, the 81-year-old Wang Zhenzhi is still in good spirits, and the cancer has not recurred. I hope that Mr. Wang lao is healthy and long-lived!