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Bach painted an inscription for equestrian museum volunteers "Merging sport and culture"

Dragon tiger network news (correspondent Wang Yanguang Chen Zhaozhao reporter Xu Qin) The volunteer home of the equestrian hall has a painting of "dreaming as a horse", and every volunteer who enters the volunteer home will be deeply attracted by these two cute and vivid cartoon horses. Yesterday, IOC President Bach and IOC Honorary President Rogge attended the Equestrian Team Final of the Youth Olympic Games Xinzhuang Equestrian Gymnasium. During a break between the games, Bach wrote an inscription for the painting.

"There is an old Chinese saying called horses to success, this year coincides with the Chinese Lunar Year of the Horse, Xiaozhuang volunteer service equestrian hall, we are full of deep friendship for horses, this 'dream as a horse' painting also reflects the connotation of our volunteers to serve the Youth Olympic Games and realize their dreams." Wang Xiao, a volunteer of Nanjing Xiaozhuang College, introduced the painting to Chairman Bach as a representative in fluent English. President Bach highly appreciated the painting and shook hands with the volunteer authors. At the invitation of the volunteers, Chairman Bach left his impressions on the painting and sent a message to the volunteers, "Congratulations, this is a beautiful painting. It truly embodies the Olympic spirit: the fusion of sport and culture. Finally, President Bach took a group photo with the volunteers.

In order to complete the paintings of these two horses, five volunteers, Lu Lei, Han Fangyi, Sun Yuying, Chu Xu and Zuo Wangping of the Academy of Fine Arts of Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, painted for a full week, and due to the large size of the canvas, the volunteers could only paint on their knees. Lu Lei, one of the authors of the painting, said: "Everyone used their skills to pour their blessings for the Youth Olympic Games and their expectations for volunteer service in the Youth Olympic Games into this painting. ”

Source: Nanjing Daily Editor: Guo Renke

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