Original title: Yunnan girl Yang Liwei will serve as the flag bearer of the Chinese delegation at the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games
The Chinese Sports Delegation of the Hangzhou Asian Games announced on September 22 that the flag bearers of the Chinese Sports Delegation at the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games will be male swimmer Qin Haiyang and female basketball player Yang Liwei.
In order to reflect the principle of gender equality, the Olympic Council of Asia decided that starting from the Hangzhou Asian Games, the flag bearers of the opening ceremony delegation will be shared by both men and women. When talking about why Qin Haiyang and Yang Liwei were chosen as the flag bearers, Zhang Xin, secretary-general of the Chinese Sports Delegation, said that Qin Haiyang and Yang Liwei deserved to be the flag bearers of the Chinese Sports Delegation at the opening ceremony. Their sports performance and spiritual outlook made the team The ministry had “relatively unified opinions” when studying candidates for flag bearer.
Regarding Yang Liwei’s election, Zhang Xin said that the Chinese women’s basketball team has outstanding results and a good spirit in China’s three major sports. They won the runner-up in the 2022 Women’s Basketball World Cup and the 2023 Women’s Basketball Asian Cup championship, and are currently ranked second in the world. As the captain of the Chinese women’s basketball team, Yang Liwei is the representative of the entire women’s basketball team. This is the first time that a Chinese basketball player has served as the flag bearer for the Asian Games opening ceremony since Li Nan served as the flag bearer for the Chinese basketball team at the opening ceremony of the Busan Asian Games in 2002. It is also the first time that a female basketball player has served as the flag bearer for the Chinese delegation at the opening ceremony of the Asian Games.
Yang Liwei was born in 1995. He is 1.76 meters tall. He is the captain of the Chinese women’s basketball team and serves as a guard. He and his sister Yang Shuyu, who is also on the Chinese women’s basketball national team, grew up in a sports family. Yang Liwei started his career in Guangdong in 2013. He has played for two clubs in Guangdong and Inner Mongolia, won the WCBA championship three times, and won the Finals Most Valuable Player in the 2021-2022 season. As the captain of the Chinese women’s basketball team, Yang Liwei won the Jakarta Asian Games championship with the team in 2018, competed in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and won the World Cup runner-up with his teammates in 2022.
Starting from the 2022 Women’s Basketball World Cup, Yang Liwei has taken on the important task of shooting guard, giving full play to his organizational skills and leading the team. After the Women’s Basketball World Cup, Yang Liwei received an invitation from the WNBA and once joined the WNBA Los Angeles Sparks. In order to participate in the Women’s Basketball Asian Cup, Yang Liwei put the interests of the country first, terminated his contract with the Sparks, and returned to the team urgently. In this Asian Games, the Chinese women’s basketball team is in good shape and is in a period of steady growth. (Reporter Lou Ying)
(Editors: Mu Shengyu, Zhu Hongxia)
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2023-09-23 04:41:04
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