On September 15, 2021, Beijing time, the 14th National Games was grandly opened at the Xi'an Olympic Sports Center Stadium, with a total of 11,000 cast members participating in the opening ceremony, and many athletes appeared at the opening ceremony.
The Shaanxi National Games has set up a total of 54 major events and 595 small events, which is the largest number of projects since the National Games were held. Most of the projects are held in Shaanxi Province, and some special competition venue projects, such as sailing and track cycling, are arranged to be held in 7 provinces and cities such as Zhejiang Province and Henan Province.
More than 12,000 athletes participated in the Shaanxi National Games, and it is worth mentioning that in the just-concluded Tokyo Olympic Games, the number of participants was 11,309, that is to say, the number of participants in the Shaanxi National Games has reached or even exceeded the scale of the Olympic Games.
At the opening ceremony, the most eye-catching thing was the entrance ceremony of various sports delegations, such as Shi Tingmao, the flag bearer of the Chongqing Sports Delegation, Zhu Ting, the flag bearer of the Henan Provincial Sports Delegation, Wang Zhelin, the flag bearer of the Fujian Provincial Sports Delegation, and Wang Shun, the flag bearer of the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Delegation.
The star-studded Guangdong team attracted the attention of the people of the whole country, and surprisingly, the flag bearer was not Su Bingtian, a 100-meter flyer who ran 9.83 seconds at the Tokyo Olympic Games, nor fan Zhendong, a table tennis athlete, but a swimmer Tang Muhan, in addition, diving Olympic champions Xie Sibei and Quan Hongchan were flag guards.
The reason why Su Shen did not serve as the standard-bearer was because he had a more important task, that is, to be the torchbearer of the Shaanxi National Games. In addition to Su Bingtian, Yang Qian, Zhang Yufei, Ma Long, Guo Wenjun and Qin Kai were all torchbearers of the opening ceremony.
At about 21:27, the Xi'an Olympic Sports Center Stadium was brightly lit and applauded, and the torch relay ceremony began. The first person to hold the theme torch "flag" in the stadium was Su Bingtian, a 100-meter flyer who ran 9.83 seconds at the Tokyo Olympics, and then Su Bingtian lit the "flag" in the hands of swimming star Zhang Yufei.
Subsequently, Qin Kai, who lit the torch from Zhang Yufei's hand, and Guo Wenjun, the fourth torchbearer, interacted with the two Shaanxi Olympic champions. Guo Wenjun was handed over to table tennis Grand Slam winner Ma Long, and finally under the gaze of hundreds of millions of pairs of eyes, Ma Long handed over the mission of the last torchbearer to Yang Qian, the "post-00s" player who shot the first gold of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
At 21:32, Yang Qian's eyes were like torches, igniting the "Fire of Revival", the flames rose up, and after about 40 seconds of ascension, the sacred flame of the main torch tower immediately lit up, illuminating half of the sky.
(Luo Treasurer)