On the evening of October 29, as the sacred flame in the Xi'an Olympic Sports Center Stadium was slowly extinguished, the dream journey of the 14th Games and the Paralympic Games came to a successful end.
The sacred flame collected from Yan'an completed the relay marathon relay at 14 stations in Sanqin and lasted 28 days, and successively "bloomed" at the opening ceremonies of the 14th Games and the Special Olympics. From Yulin, a camel city in northern Shaanxi to Shangluo, the pearl of Qinba in southern Shaanxi, 1,000 torchbearers in the province ran, passed all the way, and glorified all the way, measuring the land of Sanqin with their feet, with a total length of 71.85 kilometers. As of the last stop of the torch relay on September 12, the total number of relevant news views on the whole network reached 428 million people, and the number of likes reached 118 million, creating a good social atmosphere for the smooth holding of the 14th Games and the Special Olympics.
"The holding of the 14th Games plays an important role in promoting the development of basic education in schools and promoting the improvement of students' physical fitness." Gong Jianhui, torchbearer of Xixian New District Station and principal of Xixian Fengxi First Primary School, told reporters. In recent years, she has actively promoted the development of snow sports in the school. Xixian Fengxi No.1 Primary School has emerged in many domestic competitions and won the title of "National Youth Campus Ice and Snow Characteristic School". "I hope that with the opportunity of the 2022 Winter Olympics, ice and snow sports will go deeper into the campus, so that the concept of ice and snow sports can truly integrate into the hearts of students and let them grow up in health and happiness." Gong Jianhui said.
"The whole people are all lucky and walk together with one heart" and "light up the dream and set sail for love", under the inspiration of the integration of the disabled and healthy, the torchbearers show their spiritual strength with courage and hard work.
At the opening ceremony of the 11th National Paralympic Games and the 8th Special Olympics, when Zhai Xiang, the fourth torchbearer and Shaanxi disabled table tennis player, appeared on the spot, the audience burst into applause. At the Tokyo Paralympic Games, zhai xiang turned the tables 3-2 against the trend and helped the Chinese team win the gold medal in the table tennis team event. At the Paralympic Games, he won the men's TT3 team championship and the men's tt3 singles runner-up.
Zhai Xiang's WeChat avatar is a golden sunflower, brilliant and bright. He said that sports give people a kind of tenacious struggle, constantly surpassing themselves, whether it is mastering a technical point or defeating opponents and winning games, it will give people the strength to shine upwards.
Guo Xuxing, the coach of the provincial paralympic table tennis team, has witnessed the growth of the players bit by bit in the past 17 years. She believes that through various competitions, the team members have a lot of opportunities to go out, have a broader world, not only achieve self-reliance, but also find a sense of self-worth, and have more expectations for life.
The melody of "all the people are all lucky and walking with one heart" has reverberated in the land of Sanqin for a long time.
Whenever the night falls, Xue Jun, the leader of the community gymnastics team of the Weinan Municipal Finance Bureau, ushers in the most anticipated moment of the day. After retiring, she felt depressed for a while. In order to adjust his life, Xue Jun regained the basic skills of practicing gymnastics when he was a child, organized his neighbors to practice square dance every night, and gradually formed a large team of hundreds of people.
On August 18, after passing through the first station in Xi'an, the flame began to be passed in Weinan. On the same day, Xue Jun and more than 100 sisters came to the torch relay line when the sky was slightly bright, singing and dancing to celebrate this unforgettable moment. "In order to have a wonderful performance in the opening performance of the Weinan Torch Relay at the 14th Games, we have seized the time to train since May to show the vitality and style of Weinan people to the people of the whole country." Xue Jun said that nowadays, jumping gymnastics is the secret to her physical and mental health.
The moment the holy flame was extinguished, Zhang Bing's mission was also declared complete. Looking back on these nearly a thousand days of "chasing fire", he believes that this is the process of "growing up with the torch".
Zhang Bing is the deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Handball And Baseball Softball Management Center, and in March 2019, he was transferred to the Organizing Committee of the 14th Games and The Paralympic Games, responsible for all matters "related to fire". The torch relay involves many departments, a large time span, a large number of participants, and a high degree of social attention, which is undoubtedly a difficult task. From layman to expert, behind him are his countless sleepless nights. The "Torch Relay Work Guide" compiled by Zhang Bing and colleagues in the Torch Relay Office, with a total of more than 60,000 words, not only provides operating standards for this torch relay, but also provides a reference for the torch relay activities of the domestic large-scale sports games in the future.
The experience of torch relay is precious. "The torch represents the sportsmanship of hard work, and to do anything, there must be a belief throughout, from scratch, from unknown to familiar." Through the torch relay work, I also understand the meaning of doing my duty, do a good job, do my best to serve the society, just like the 1,000 torchbearers this time, everyone quietly cultivates in their posts and dedicates selflessly. Zhang Bing said.