Tokyo Olympics ended successfully, Beijing Winter Olympics is ready to go
Text: Liang Xuan Design: Nie Yadong
Tonight, as the main torch of the Tokyo Olympics is slowly extinguished, when the five-ringed flag of the Olympics is handed over to the President of the International Olympic Committee Bach by the Governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, and then handed over to the next Olympic host, the mayor of Paris, Hidalgo, postponed by Bach. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which was held under tremendous pressure for one year, finally came to an end.
Although there were constant voices of doubt and opposition, even during the 16-day session, the voices calling for the termination of the Tokyo Olympics never stopped, but the impact of the epidemic on the Tokyo Olympics is generally within a controllable range, and the Olympics itself promotes and demonstrates The perseverance and hardworking spirit of human beings still touches the global audience. Bach said that the epidemic is in a dark tunnel, and the Olympics may be the light at the end of this tunnel. Today, with the success of the Tokyo Olympics, this dawn will become stronger and stronger, making the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics even more exciting in half a year.
The most difficult Olympic Games
Due to the rapid rebound of the epidemic in Japan, the Tokyo metropolitan area entered the fourth state of emergency starting on July 12 and will continue until the end of August 22. This also means that the Tokyo Olympics, which will open on July 23, will be in a state of emergency. In a state of emergency. Toshiro Muto, chief executive of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, still told the media on July 20 that the Tokyo Olympics did not rule out the possibility of cancellation at the last minute.
Since the postponement was announced last year, there has always been speculation that the Tokyo Olympics will be postponed again or even cancelled. On July 23, the Tokyo Olympics kicked off in this state of “uncertainty.”
Since the first positive case of the new crown in the Tokyo Olympic Games on July 1, to the latest data released by the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee on the morning of August 8, the participants found a total of 436 positive cases of the new crown during the Tokyo Olympics. Compared with the rebound situation in Japan, where the number of new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia exceeded 10,000 daily, which has lasted for several days, the trend of new crown cases in Tokyo Olympic Games participants is generally stable and controllable. Bach commented on August 6: “The probability of being positive for the new crown virus of Olympic-related personnel is only 0.08%. This is a very safe and secure Olympic Games.”
In order to ensure the health and safety of Olympic-related personnel, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee has invested huge manpower and material resources for epidemic prevention. According to the requirements of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, Olympic athletes must undergo nucleic acid testing every day, and media and other staff must undergo nucleic acid testing every 4 days. Dolby, Executive Director of the Olympics Department of the International Olympic Committee, spoke highly of the Tokyo Olympics’ new crown strategy at a regular press conference on August 7. According to Dolby, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee conducted more than 600,000 nucleic acid tests for Olympic-related personnel in two weeks. This is an unprecedented task.
The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee has also formulated strict epidemic prevention requirements for Olympic related personnel. For example, athletes, coaches, and officials of the Olympic delegation are strictly prohibited from having direct contact with Japanese society (sightseeing, shopping, dining, etc. outside the Olympic area). Individual delegation members who violate this policy will be warned and even have their Olympic certificates cancelled. President of the Moldovan Olympic Committee, Yulavsky, was reported to have been to Sensoji Temple, a popular Tokyo attraction. He was not only sent back to his country, but also urged by the Moldovan Parliament to immediately resign from his position as the chairman of the country’s Olympic Committee.
According to data released by the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee on August 7, 16 Olympic-related personnel have been severely warned for violating the epidemic prevention regulations, another 8 people have been suspended from the validity of their Olympic certificates, and 8 people have received the most severe punishment (cancelled) Olympic certificates). During the Tokyo Olympics, a total of more than 40,000 certificate holders entered Japan, of which only 32 were found to have violated the Olympic epidemic prevention policy and were punished, indicating that the vast majority of Olympic related personnel still consciously implemented the Olympic epidemic prevention policy.
However, according to Japanese media reports, during the entire Olympic Games, there were still loopholes in which Olympic-related personnel had direct contact with Japanese society but were not discovered. For example, on the opening day of the Tokyo Olympics, a large number of Japanese people gathered outside the New National Arena where the opening ceremony was held, and they were separated from the Olympic-related personnel by only a fence, and it was impossible to maintain a social distance of at least two meters. During the Olympics, there have been remarks in Japanese society that a new round of epidemic rebound in Japan is directly related to the hosting of the Olympics. However, according to a report by Japan’s “Mainichi Shimbun” on August 6, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga emphasized that he does not believe that the Olympics caused it. The spread of the epidemic in Japan.
With the successful conclusion of the Tokyo Olympics tonight, the Tokyo Olympics finally won the Olympic epidemic prevention battle, which also proved that the epidemic is not a barrier to hosting the Olympics. According to the chairman of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, Seiko Hashimoto, the relevant practices and experience of the Tokyo Olympics in epidemic prevention still need to be further summarized.
The success of the Tokyo Olympics also gave the outside world more confidence in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics that will open in half a year.
Sportsmanship moves the world
Tokyo 2020 is destined to become the most unique Olympic Games in history. Because of the need for epidemic prevention, most games of the Tokyo Olympics will have no audience. However, through TV broadcasts and media reports, the athletes’ tenacious and courageous sportsmanship is still spread. In the world, it moved hundreds of millions of viewers.
The Chinese delegation has achieved excellent results in this Olympic Games, but what is really touching is that every Chinese athlete has a moving and moving story behind him. Regardless of whether he won the gold medal or not, their hard work and hard work have cost 1.4 billion China. People are proud.
From the inspirational life behind the 14-year-old diving player Quan Hongchan’s “full score”, to the speed of Su Bingtian leading his teammates to run out of China, to Yang Qian showing the talented and interesting characteristics of a new generation of Chinese college athletes, as well as Wu Jingyu and Liu Hong , Huang Xuechen and other mother contestants struggle for their dreams… In the half-month period since late July, the Olympics have become an important spiritual force for the Chinese people to overcome the new round of the epidemic. When the 30-year-old Chinese race walking veteran Bian Tongda used 5 needles to pierce him to complete the 50-kilometer race walk, some netizens left a message, look at Bian Tongda, what other difficulties the Chinese cannot overcome?
The Olympics also inspires global audiences.
When Uzbekistan’s 46-year-old “grandmother-level” player Chusovikina ended her record-setting eighth Olympic journey, when American gymnast Byers returned to the arena after retiring due to injury, and returned from a cure for leukemia Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee shed tears on the field, fell and was far behind by his opponent but miraculously counterattacked the Dutch middle-distance runner Hassan… the power of sports is so inspiring.
The sports history of some countries and regions also made breakthroughs in this Olympic Games.
Qatar, the Philippines and other countries won the first Olympic gold medal in their own history; Italian athletes won the men’s 100-meter individual and relay championship for the first time in track and field; Hong Kong, China, achieved the best Olympic record since its return.
In an interview with a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily, the Chairman of the Hong Kong Olympic Committee of China Huo Zhenting said that with the help of the motherland, the athletes of Hong Kong, China have achieved excellent results in the Tokyo Olympics, which is an inspiration to the long-term development of Hong Kong.
Since the global outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, IOC President Bach has used “tenacity” more than once to describe Olympians from various countries and regions until the Tokyo Olympics showed the “tenacity” performance of all these players to a global audience. People will truly understand what is meant by “the Olympic Games may be the light at the end of this tunnel.”
Olympic reform is on the way
Although the noise from the outside has been accompanied by the Tokyo Olympics, as the Tokyo Olympics draws to a close, from the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, the International Olympic Committee and the international sports community, it has been possible to reach such a consensus-insist on holding the Olympics. The Tokyo Olympics was the right decision.
However, how to make the people more support the Olympic Games is still a problem. Some of the existing drawbacks of the Olympic Games itself, such as the huge scale of the event, the huge burden on the host, and the reduction of attractiveness to some people, are themselves causing more and more objections, and the epidemic has undoubtedly increased such doubts.
Ren Hai, an Olympic expert and professor at Beijing Sport University, recently told the China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter: “The modern Olympic Games is a product of the period of industrial civilization. Some of its concepts and designs also reflect the characteristics of industrial civilization, such as large scale, It consumes huge resources, etc. But now, human civilization is shifting from industrial civilization to ecological civilization, and the Olympic Games must be reformed to meet the needs of ecological civilization.”
In recent years, the bid to host the Olympic Games has become increasingly cold. The “Agenda 2020” that the current International Olympic Committee President Bach pushed forward after taking office is precisely to reform the Olympics by reducing the size of the Olympics and reducing the pressure on the host.
In addition, related surveys show that the Olympic Games’ attractiveness to young people is declining, which has also prompted the International Olympic Committee to add skateboarding, surfing, rock climbing and other sports that young people like more to the Tokyo Olympics in the context of losing weight in the Olympics. project.
However, when human civilization enters ecological civilization from industrial civilization, the reform of the Olympic Games is definitely not just about adjusting projects.
Ren Hai believes that the Olympic Games can pay attention to two directions in the reform process: one is sports life, that is, sports is developed around people’s lives, especially young people, they like what they think is fun or is in line with their own personality development. Sports, their love for a sport is based on their own needs. The Olympic Games need to notice that young people are no longer willing to be spectators or passively accept a competition or a sport; the other direction is ecological, but also It is the impact of the Olympics on the environment. The Olympics should be more friendly to the environment and embody symbiosis with nature and the environment.
Ren Hai said that the Olympic Games are the fixing stars of international sports events. Except for a few highly professional sports events, most sports events and events are organized around the Olympic Games. The outbreak of the epidemic has made the Olympic Games the most concerned thing about its epidemic prevention work, but in the long run, the Olympic Games needs a series of reforms from concept to design to respond to changes in the environment. These reforms have been reflected in the Tokyo Olympics and will continue to accompany the preparation and hosting of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Our newspaper, Tokyo, August 8th
China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily correspondent Ci Xin Source: China Youth Daily
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