Chao News client reporter Li Ying Wang Qiong
2024 is the first year of the "post-Asian Games era" and the year of the Paris Olympic Games, continuing the passion and dream of the Asian Games, and actively responding to the national call for "National Fitness and Olympic Walking", on the occasion of the 16th "National Fitness Day", from August 2nd to 4th, the "National Fitness Day" theme activity will be launched in 13 competition areas in Hangzhou to carry out the "7+1" National Blind Box Challenge.
The event was hosted by the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau and undertaken by the Hangzhou Municipal Sports Bureau, promoting the new trend of national fitness in Hangzhou and helping to build a strong sports city through innovative and interesting sports competitions.
This activity adopts the mode of combining 7 prescribed fun check-in items and 1 custom characteristic blind box project, providing a stage for citizens and friends to show themselves and challenge themselves.
The 7 projects are both interesting and challenging, attracting people of different ages and occupations. The setting of the blind box project makes the event full of unknowns and surprises, and each competition area brings new challenges to participants according to its own characteristics.
Among them, the Shangcheng competition area has set up a "Keju" project to inherit the profound Song Yun culture; The Gongshu competition area invited Shao Yiwen, the swimming Asian Games champion, to make a sports declaration and launch a special sport, hockey; The West Lake Race selected fun pot throwing as the "+1" project, and added a summer training course for youth drowning prevention; The "100 Steps Through the Yang" project in the Binjiang competition area allows participants to experience the charm of traditional archery; The Xiaoshan competition area has the top squash court venue in Asia, and squash was selected as the highlight project, and a thousand-person aerobics display and a thousand-person electronic music yoga party were also carried out; The Yuhang competition area chose the Asian Games project rugby as the content of the breakthrough, and the summer sports carnival, cultural tourism bazaar, national fitness knowledge promotion and other cultural and sports activities were brilliantly presented; The Linping competition area set up a karate action challenge, and invited excellent sports industry and public welfare booths to display and carry out a week-long public welfare run, chess competition and physical fitness test; The Qiantang and Fuyang competition areas respectively set up the challenge projects of "Rising for Common Prosperity" and "Rice Planting and Sowing", combining traditional labor with sports forms; The Lin'an Division held a summer sports and art carnival to guide various sports enterprises to set up exhibitions in the Asian Games venues and provide various sports experience projects; Tonglu competition area launched frisbee sports; Chun'an Division combined the "Sports Law" and embedded sports venue benchmarking projects to display and publicize, and widely solicited opinions and suggestions from the public on the construction of sports venues and facilities; The Jiande competition area implements the low-cost and free opening of venues for the benefit of the people, and launches various sports events with the theme of "following the event to Jiande".
This event makes full use of the resources of the Asian Games venues and the legacy of the Asian Games, allowing the public to experience the legacy of the Asian Games first-hand, and the high-standard venues that once served international events are now open to the public, allowing citizens to carry out daily fitness and sports in high-quality sports venues.
In the future, Hangzhou will continue to take national fitness as the starting point, continuously improve the level of sports facilities and service quality, and strive to build a strong sports city with international influence, so that sports will become a new engine for urban development and an important part of citizens' lives.
(Photo courtesy of the event organiser)
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