Today marks the 100-day countdown to the Paris Olympics
“Paris Time” is on, and the era of “post-00s” is here
Huasheng Online all-media reporter Cai Jinyi and Chen Puzhuang
100 days later, the Olympic flame will be lit again in Paris, France, the hometown of Coubertin, the father of the Olympics, after a century. Is Paris, the host city, ready? What are the highlights of the Chinese delegation worth looking forward to? How is the preparation progress of Hunan athletes?
The Olympics will be more open, and the urban landscape will serve as the Olympic stage
On April 16, the flame collection ceremony for the Paris Olympic Games was held at the ancient Olympia site in Greece, the birthplace of the Olympic movement.
After completing the collection of the torch and starting the torch relay, a “required action” for previous Olympic Games, the Olympic Games will officially enter “Paris time”. “The Olympics are more open”, this is the theme slogan of the Paris Olympics, and International Olympic Committee President Bach also said that the Paris Olympics will be epoch-making.
The most anticipated event is the first opening ceremony held outside a traditional stadium in the history of the Olympic Games: 10,500 athletes took boats, sailed 6 kilometers along the Seine River, and boarded the Trocadéro Square on the other side of the Eiffel Tower. 300,000 people on both sides of the river. Spectators participated in an Olympic carnival.
According to Xinhua News Agency, French President Macron reiterated his confidence in successfully hosting the opening ceremony in an interview recently, but also said that in view of possible security risks, alternative plans are also being studied, “If by then ( “Hosting the opening ceremony on the Seine faces too high a security risk. We may limit the number of people and hold the opening ceremony at the Trocadéro Square, or even hold it at the Stade de France.”
Skateboarding, rock climbing, surfing and break dancing, four trendy sports that are more popular among young people, have appeared on the Olympic stage; follow the broadcast footage of the equestrian competition to the Palace of Versailles, and beach volleyball, judo and wrestling competitions are staged on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Watching fencing and taekwondo at the Grand Palace… Such scenes are really exciting.
6 “Dream Teams” + Swimming “Team”, Chinese Athletes Have Something to See
After the “shortest Olympic cycle in history”, the Chinese Olympic Corps will make its debut again after three years. In this Paris Olympics, the six “dream teams” of diving, table tennis, badminton, weightlifting, gymnastics and shooting will continue to be the “gold-winners”. In addition to these “facades”, what other projects does the Chinese delegation deserve to pay attention to?
Looking at the performance of this year’s Olympic qualifying competitions, this year’s Chinese athletes are full of expectations——
At the Doha World Swimming Championships in February, the Chinese team, which had not yet exhausted its main force, led the way with a record-high 23 gold medals (7 golds in swimming, 9 golds in diving, and 7 golds in synchronized swimming). Qin Haiyang, Zhang Yufei, Wang Shun, Xu Jiayu, Li Bingjie, Yan Zibei… the talented Chinese swimming “team” is expected to open a new breakthrough for the Chinese Olympic team in Paris; at the weightlifting World Cup in Thailand in April, the Chinese strongmen won 5 gold medals in the total score, and 4 people “in one fell swoop” “Breaking 5 world records… Looking forward to Paris, only 6 members of the Chinese team are qualified to stand on the Olympic stage. The road to the Olympics for the “Weightlifting Dream Team” is unprecedentedly fierce; at the just-concluded Badminton Asian Championships, Guoyu won 3 gold medals and 3 silver medals, and won 10 Olympic tickets in 5 individual events, becoming the only team in this event to compete in Paris with full quota.
It is worth paying attention to the new member joining the Olympic family this time – speed climbing. On this 15-meter-high track, more and more Chinese “Spider-Man” have broken through the 5-second mark, with success and failure falling within a hair’s breadth. This “speed and passion” on the rock wall will undoubtedly be a visual and sensory feast.
As the Paris Olympics approaches, the Chinese delegation is further optimistic. Currently, Chinese athletes are among the top three in the world in as many as 21 events and will become the most competitive group in the Paris Olympics.
Five people from Hunan have secured their “tickets” for Paris, and the new stars born in the 2000s are worth looking forward to
Without Hunan, there is no army. Three years ago, a total of 16 athletes from the Olympic Hunan Army competed in 8 major events in the Tokyo Olympics, and finally achieved 2 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 3 bronze medals. Three years later, our province currently has 21 key athletes preparing intensively for the Paris Olympics in the national team.
These 21 people come from 12 sports including gymnastics, trampoline, rock climbing, weightlifting, rowing, synchronized swimming, women’s water polo, badminton, taekwondo, wrestling, shooting and track and field. Among them, Long Jinbao and Deng Lijuan from the rock climbing team, Zhang from the rowing team Liang, Luo Zongshi of the Taekwondo Team of Hunan Orbital Group, and Jia Yifan of the Hunan Xiangshan Iron and Steel Badminton Team (first in points) have locked their “tickets” for Paris.
“Currently, our province’s athletes in the national teams in various sports have not suffered any major injuries, and preparations are progressing normally and smoothly.” Zhang Lianbiao, deputy director of the Provincial Sports Bureau, told reporters that in addition to shooting, wrestling, track and field, rock climbing and other sports, the following In addition to competing for spots through qualifying rounds, most events have already qualified for the Olympics.
After entering the 100-day countdown, the national teams in each event will also submit their Olympic lineups one after another in accordance with the rules. The final list of the Chinese delegation is expected to be determined about a week before the opening. Judging from the projects currently being prepared, our province has a number of “post-2000” rising stars such as Zhang Boheng, Zhou Yaqin, Deng Lijuan, Long Jinbao, Wu Peng, and Luo Shifang emerging in gymnastics, rock climbing, weightlifting and other sports, which is very exciting.
“This group of children have ideas and personality, and they are also hard-working and able to endure hardships. I believe that when they arrive in Paris, the post-2000 generation of the Chinese delegation will take the youth storm by storm.” In the view of Zhang Lianbiao, who also retired as an athlete. , children engaged in competitive sports always spend their youthful years in one competition cycle after another. The upcoming Paris Olympics is the big stage where the “post-00s” begin to play the leading role.
Only with the inheritance of the “front wave” can the “back wave” rise. In the Olympic Games, the inspirational stories of veterans will always be sung continuously – the 37-year-old rowing “model worker” Zhang Liang will start his fourth Olympic journey; Hou Zhihui and Jia Yifan, athletes born in the 1990s, have also become veterans. They are always ready to continue competing for the country; even Xiong Dunhan, a water polo girl who became popular on the Internet for her good looks three years ago, is also preparing for her competition. The third Olympic Games…
The countdown to the Paris Olympic Games is exciting. For athletes, they will embark on a new journey carrying honor and pride. I wish the veteran will never grow old and may he be young without regrets!
(First instance: Tian Zhenyuan; Second instance: Lu Xiaowei; Third instance: Jiang Yuqing)
2024-04-17 01:30:44
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