Beijing Winter Olympics Tinder arrives in Beijing for display and relay plan announced
2021-10-21 09:24:38Source: Xi’an Evening News
At the fire welcoming ceremony, the guards displayed the fire lights.Xinhua News Agency
Xinhua News Agency reported on the 20th that the Olympic Tinder came to Beijing again! The tinder for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics collected from ancient Olympia in Greece will begin to be displayed and torch relay activities on the land of China, which also marks the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
At 6 o’clock in the morning on the 20th, with the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee’s delegation to Greece arriving at the Capital Airport, the Beijing Winter Olympics Tinder arrived in Beijing smoothly. The special representative of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee-Vice Chairman of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee Yu Zaiqing walked out of the hatch holding a kindling lamp.
The Tinder welcome ceremony was held in the Olympic Tower on the north side of the National Stadium “Bird’s Nest” in the morning. Here once witnessed an “unparalleled” Summer Olympics in 2008, and on February 4 next year, “Bird’s Nest” will stage the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Beijing will subsequently become the world‘s first “Double Olympic City” that has hosted both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics.
The fire welcoming ceremony first reviewed the fire gathering and handover ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics in Greece through video. With the expectant gaze of the audience, the Beijing Winter Olympics flame lantern entered the event site. Cai Qi, secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and chairman of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, took over the burning torch lighting ceremony. The blazing Olympic fire will rekindle the passion and dream of the Olympic movement in the hearts of the Chinese people.
Subsequently, Zhang Jiandong, deputy mayor of Beijing and executive vice chairman of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, announced the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics fire display and torch relay plan. In the context of epidemic prevention and control, and in accordance with the requirements of “simple, safe, and exciting”, the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee insists on putting public health and safety in the first place, combining traditional torch relay with fire display activities, and innovating to create Beijing Winter Games. Olympic torch relay event.
The torch relay activity is based on the theme of “Meeting the Ice and Snow Covenant and Going to a Better Future”, with the slogan “Health, Joy, Vitality”, streamlining the scale of the relay, and increasing the display activities. It will be divided into three types: fire display, traditional torch relay and network relay. part.
According to the arrangement, after the Winter Olympics Tinder arrives in Beijing, it will first be displayed in the Olympic Tower in conjunction with the Olympic Torch Relay theme exhibition. Some of the Olympic global partners and the official partners of the Beijing Winter Olympics will combine corporate public welfare projects to widely promote the Olympic spirit and the Beijing Winter Olympics philosophy. In areas with abundant ice and snow resources and a good foundation for ice and snow sports, various ice and snow sports and cultural activities will also be combined for display.
From February 2 to 4, 2022, traditional torch relay activities will be carried out in the three competition areas of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, with a total of about 1,200 torchbearers participating in the relay. The Beijing torch relay focuses on the unique charm of the “Double Olympic City”, the Yanqing Division focuses on showing the brand new image of the “Most Beautiful Winter Olympic City”, and the Zhangjiakou Division focuses on showing the fruitful results of creating an Asian ice and snow tourism resort destination. In addition, the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee will also carry out the torch network promotion activities.
At the end of the ceremony, with the torch theme song sounded, the tinder was once again introduced into the tinder lamp, and was escorted to the Skydome Hall of the Olympic Tower, officially opening the tinder display activity.
At the ceremony site, the Tinder Stand for the Beijing Winter Olympics ceremony was unveiled for the first time, and its creativity was inspired by the traditional Chinese bronze ritual vessel-Zun. At the same time, tinder lamps, torch relay emblems and torchbearer costumes also made their debut in China for the first time.
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