Cover news reporter Lai Fangjie intern Wu Yuxuan
Meet in Chengdu, the world's outstanding university athletes, will use the purest sports language, with the spirit of hard work, the pursuit of excellence to inspire people, connect the world. On August 30, the countdown to the 31st Summer Universiade in Chengdu 2021 was 300 days.
From June 25 to July 7, 2022, university athletes from all over the world will compete for 269 gold medals in 18 major events to watch the highlights of the event.
The pace is tight and the competition is fierce
Up to 50 gold medals are produced in a day
According to the overall schedule of the competition, the Chengdu Universiade has a total of 18 competitions, including archery, gymnastics, athletics, badminton, basketball, diving, fencing, judo, rhythmic gymnastics, rowing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, volleyball, water polo and martial arts. In the 13-day competition day, a total of 269 gold medals will be produced. Athletics (50 gold medals), swimming (42 gold medals) and taekwondo (23 gold medals) are the top three events in terms of gold medals.
Water polo will become the first official competition event held at the Chengdu Universiade, from the day before the opening ceremony to the closing ceremony for a total of 13 days, and there is a "water polo battle" worth admiring every day. The water polo competition will be contested on June 25 at the Swimming Fencing Hall of the Modern Pentathlon Center, and on July 6 and 7, two gold medals will be produced for men and two women's gold medals. The schedule of rhythmic gymnastics and rowing events is relatively tense, both 3 days, and the competition for medals is also a little more exciting.
June 27 is the first competition day after the opening ceremony, and 17 gold medals will be produced on the day, including 2 diving, 2 fencing, 4 shooting, 4 swimming, 2 taekwondo and 3 martial arts. Who will spend the first gold of the Chengdu Universiade? Let's wait and see.
The Chengdu Universiade was originally scheduled to be held in August this year, but taking into account the current global epidemic situation, international travel restrictions and other factors, it was scheduled to be held in 2022 after consultation with the International Federation of Sports, the Chinese Association of Sports and the Organizing Committee of the Chengdu Universiade. Xiong Yan, director of the Chengdu Municipal Sports Bureau, said that Chengdu will make full use of the window period brought about by the postponement, continue to carry out the theme activity of "Loving Chengdu and Welcoming the Universiade", integrate the elements of the Universiade into activities such as "Tianfu Greenway Health Walk" and "Community Sports Festival", and create a series of events such as "Universiade Projects Into Colleges and Universities" to form a good atmosphere for the whole people to support the Universiade.
Sports customs infiltrate the lives of citizens
The Community Fun Games Whole Network Challenge "is in full swing
Taking the hosting of the Universiade as an important opportunity, Chengdu adheres to the principle that "to seek a race is to seek a city", and the world's famous city of events has a new look. For the public, the most immediate change is that the sports facilities in the park have increased, and the time for weekly sports has increased. From "land sports" such as skateboarding and basketball to water sports such as kayaking and paddleboarding, the city is bursting with new sports vitality.
In order to help the Chengdu Universiade and realize culture and service to benefit the people, the "Community Fun Games" carried out mass sports activities in the city, igniting the enthusiasm of the whole city, and also launched a special network challenge to allow Chinese and foreign sports enthusiasts to share sports events through the network. Participants of the whole network only need to take out their mobile phones, enter the official website of the Chengdu Universiade (www.2021chengdu.com), click on the "Holding Hands universiade, move the whole people - community fun games all network challenge" special area, you can participate in the challenge at any time and any place. At the same time, the "Whole Network Challenge" regularly launches the challenge theme of traditional Chinese sports, so that more people can feel the Chinese sports culture and enhance the cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. Some foreign "Rong Drift" teamed up with local residents to experience the charm of sports and Tianfu culture and enhance the feelings of the neighborhood.
Chengdu, as one of the cities with the most sports vitality and the largest sports population in China, seems to have become a natural "open-air sports field", the city has reached 100% of the "two centers" coverage rate, the construction of the community "15-minute fitness circle" is in full swing, 1223 sports facilities on the Tianfu Greenway are "connected into pieces", and sports have become a new lifestyle.
To show the world the aesthetics of life in the kingdom of Heaven
The first batch of "good luck gifts" 20 products were born!
Since the first batch of "Good Luck Gifts" collection was officially launched in April, Chengdu's "good things" representing the city's image and cultural characteristics have actively participated in the competition, offering gifts to the world in the name of the Universiade, showing the world the aesthetics of life full of happiness in the country of Tianfu.
A total of 152 companies were registered for the event, and 190 products were submitted. After multiple rounds of selection, such as millions of citizens voting, enterprise self-recommendation and recommendation, and industry expert review, a total of 30 products were selected in three categories: "local time-honored famous products", "cultural and technological innovation" and "intangible heritage inheritance".
On August 11, the "Good Luck Gift" review committee reviewed the first batch of 30 products that entered the final selection, and each judge evaluated 11 evaluation criteria according to the product's innovation, commemoration, economy, originality, practicality, etc., and finally a total of 20 products were successfully selected into the first batch of "Good Luck Gifts" list. Next, the Executive Committee of the Universiade will also carry out a unified visual packaging design for "good gifts", hold activities such as "good gifts tour" and "good gifts to open the market", so that "good luck gifts" can be tasted by the public, benefit more citizens, and effectively let the people in Rongcheng feel the strong aesthetics of sports life.
Observe the "Olympic Standards"
What did the Chengdu Universiade learn in Tokyo?
During the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Executive Committee of the Chengdu Universiade sent an inspection team to accompany the Chinese Olympic delegation to Tokyo, Japan to study the hosting of the Olympic Games.
On August 26, the Executive Committee of the Chengdu Universiade held a report meeting on the study and inspection work of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the inspection team that completed the quarantine after returning to China shared the experience and results of the study and inspection during the Tokyo period. Under the condition that the action area is limited and can only be observed from the perspective of the audience, the inspection team efficiently used the inspection time to complete the observation and study of 15 competition items consistent with the Chengdu Universiade, such as archery, shooting and basketball, and inspected 19 competition and non-competition venues, including the Olympic Village, the Registration Center, the Olympic Family Headquarters Hotel and the opening and closing ceremony venues.
At the same time, the inspection team collected a large amount of information from various functional areas in the Olympic Village through various channels, and conducted a sample questionnaire survey to the four participating national teams of table tennis, badminton, fencing and rowing, to further understand the comprehensive situation of the Tokyo Olympic Games in epidemic prevention and control, language services and entry and exit processes, venue conditions and competition organization, transportation and travel, Olympic Village support, volunteer services and other aspects of the Tokyo Olympic Games through the perspective of the participating athletes. During the inspection, the front team members also transmitted the relevant information back to the official website of the Universiade and other media in a timely manner, so that the majority of Chengdu citizens and the teams of the Executive Committee can share the observation and learning situation in real time.
The members of the inspection team said that this inspection work clarified what kind of standards are "Olympic standards", and there were clear reference standards in the preparation process for the next Universiade. "We systematically sort out a large number of photos and videos and other materials, comprehensively share what we see and what we see with the work departments of the Executive Committee, the competition district committee, the venue center and the leading unit of the competition implementation work, effectively implement the observation and learning requirements of 'truly learning experiences, practices, and guiding and helping the holding of the Universiade', and do a more comprehensive and scientific, calm and meticulous job in the preparation of the Universiade, so as to ensure that the construction of the world event city forms a momentum and builds a brand."
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