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1. Olympic Games:

In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 28 major events and sub-events will remain unchanged. We are now three years away from the 2008 Olympic Games, and the competition events are basically determined. So, how are the Olympic events divided?

According to the information of the International Olympic Committee, the Olympic Games events are divided as follows: major events (SPORT), sub-events (DISCIPINES) and minor events (EVENT).

Like the Athens Olympics, the Beijing Olympics has 28 major events. These 28 events are: track and field, rowing, badminton, softball, basketball, football, boxing, kayaking, cycling, and fencing. , gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, wrestling, aquatics, modern pentathlon, baseball, equestrian, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.

Among them, some projects have no sub-items, and the water sports with the most sub-items include swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo and diving. Although track and field does not have separate events, it does have 46 events, including 24 events for men and 22 events for women. It has the most gold medals among Olympic events. Next is swimming. Although there are no sub-items, there are 32 events, 16 for men and women each.

International Olympic Committee President Rogge said that martial arts will appear as a competition event in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and its full name is "Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Wushu Competition."

Rogge made the above remarks while attending the opening ceremony of the 10th China National Games in Nanjing. He said that although the Wushu competition is different from the other 28 major events in the Olympic Games, this is after all a major breakthrough for Wushu to enter the Olympic stage.

According to Wang Xiaolin, director of the Wushu Sports Management Center of the State Sports General Administration, Rogge talked about Beijing’s application to enter the Olympic Games during an interview with the media in Nanjing on the 13th. This is also the first time that Rogge said that martial arts will become a competition event in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It also clarified the rumors that "wushu will become a performance event in the 2008 Beijing Olympics."

It is reported that the International Wushu Federation and the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee will conduct more in-depth discussions with the International Olympic Committee on the details of the Wushu Competition in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

28 major Events

302 events

303 gold medals

No, according to the "Olympic Charter", if it is to be an Olympic event, it must be decided 7 years before the Olympic Games. , the new event appeared as a performance event before it was added to the Olympic Games.

2. Olympic mascot:

Fuwa is the mascot of the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008. Its colors and inspiration come from the Olympic rings, the vast mountains and rivers of China,

The images of rivers, lakes and seas and animals that people love. Fuwa conveys the spirit of friendship, peace, positivity and the good wishes of harmonious coexistence between man and nature to children around the world.

The Fuwa are five cute and close friends. Their shapes incorporate the images of fish, giant pandas, Olympic flames, Tibetan antelopes and swallows.

Fuwa Beibei Fuwa Jingjing Fuwa Happy Fuwa Welcome Fuwa Nini

Each doll has a catchy name: "Beibei", "Jingjing" , "Huanhuan", "Yingying" and "Nini". In China, overlapping names are a traditional way to express love for children. When you put the names of the five dolls together, you will read Beijing's warm invitation to the world, "Beijing welcomes you".

Fuwa represents the dreams and aspirations of the Chinese people. Their prototypes and headdresses contain their connection with the ocean, forest, fire, earth and sky.

Their image design applies the expression method of traditional Chinese art to show the splendid culture of China.

Bringing blessings to every corner of the world

For a long time, China has had a tradition of conveying blessings through symbols. Each doll of the Beijing Olympic Games mascot represents a good wish: prosperity, joy, passion, health and good luck. The dolls bring Beijing's hospitality and blessings to all corners of the world, inviting people from all over the world to gather in Beijing to celebrate the 2008 Olympic Games.

The blessing conveyed by Beibei is prosperity. In traditional Chinese culture and art, the patterns of "fish" and "water" are symbols of prosperity and harvest. People use "carp jumping over the dragon gate" to imply success in career and the realization of dreams. "Fish" is also a symbol of prosperity and harvest. It has the connotation of having more than enough auspiciousness and having more than enough every year.

Beibei’s head decoration uses fish patterns from the Chinese Neolithic Age. Beibei is gentle and pure, a master of water sports, and complements the blue ring of the five Olympic rings.

Jingjing is a naive giant panda who brings joy to people wherever she goes. As China's national treasure, giant pandas are loved by people all over the world.

Jingjing comes from the vast forest, symbolizing the harmonious existence of man and nature. The decoration on his head is derived from the lotus petal shape found on Song porcelain. Jingjing is honest, cheerful and optimistic, full of power, representing the black link among the five Olympic rings.

Huanhuan is the eldest brother among the Fuwa. He is a fire doll, symbolizing the Olympic flame. Huanhuan is the embodiment of sports passion. He spreads passion to the world and conveys the Olympic spirit of faster, higher and stronger. Wherever Huanhuan goes, Beijing 2008’s enthusiasm for the world is overflowing.

Huanhuan's head decoration is derived from the flame pattern in Dunhuang murals. He has an outgoing and unrestrained personality, is familiar with various ball games, and represents the red

ring of the five Olympic rings.

Yingying is a Tibetan antelope who is agile, agile and galloping. He comes from the vast western land of China and spreads the good wishes of health to the world. Yingying

It is the Tibetan antelope, a unique protected animal on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and a manifestation of the Green Olympics.

The head decoration of Yingying incorporates the decorative styles of western regions such as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Xinjiang. He is agile and a good athlete in track and field, representing the yellow link among the five Olympic rings.

Nini comes from the sky and is a flying swallow. Its creative shape comes from the traditional sand swallow kite in Beijing. "Yan" also represents Yanjing (the name of ancient Beijing). Nini brings spring and joy to people, spreading good wishes of "good luck to you" wherever she flies.

The innocent, cheerful and agile Nini will make a shining debut in the gymnastics competition. She represents the green link among the five Olympic rings. Top ten reasons to choose Beijing

1 ． China, the world's most populous country, has never hosted the Olympics. If the 2008 Olympic Games are held in Beijing, China, which has one-fifth of the world's population and 400 million young people, the Olympic ideal and spirit will be more widely popularized and developed.

2. It has the economic strength to host the Olympic Games. Beijing is a city with great development potential. Its economy has been growing at a double-digit rate in the past decade. In 1999, the city's GDP was US$24 billion, and its per capita GDP was more than US$2,000.

3. Excellent sports performance. It has won gold medals and ranked fourth in the total number of medals in the past two Olympic Games. So far, Chinese athletes have won 1,317 world championships and broken world records 1,026 times.

4． Political stability and social stability. Among the world's major capital cities, Beijing has one of the lowest criminal crime rates, traffic fatalities, and fire rates. The city's security guarantees are capable of hosting large-scale sports events.

5. Brilliant culture. Beijing has a history of 3,000 years as a city and 800 years as a capital. It has many historical sites and rich cultural heritage.

6． Rich experience in organizing large-scale sports events.

Beijing not only successfully hosted the 11th Asian Games in 1990 and the 6th Far Southern Paralympic Games in 1994, but also won the right to host the 21st Universiade in 2001.

7. A beautiful Olympic Park is being designed. Beijing is building an Olympic Park in the northern part of the city with the most beautiful environment, covering an area of ??1,215 hectares. It includes a main stadium that can accommodate 80,000 people, 14 sports venues, an athletes' village and an international exhibition center. Together with 760 hectares of forest green space, it will be very suitable for Athletes compete and rest.

8. First-class communications, transportation, hotels and other social service facilities. Beijing has 344 star-rated hotels and 72,000 guest rooms (sets), with a reception capacity of 400,000 during the Olympic Games. The Capital Airport has an annual passenger capacity of 35 million passengers, and its routes connect to any country or city in the world. .

9． Central government support. On May 8, 2000, Premier Zhu Rongji said: The Chinese government fully supports Beijing's bid for the Olympic Games and will create good conditions for Beijing's bid in all aspects.

10. Strong public support. According to a household survey of Beijing citizens conducted by an independent survey company, 94.6% of citizens support Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games.

Gold Medal Recipe

On the eve of the 1956 Olympics, American weightlifter Paul Anderson was considered extremely overweight because of his overindulgent diet. In order to compete in the Olympic weightlifting event in Melbourne, Anderson followed a diet plan and lost 60 pounds in six weeks. In the heavyweight weightlifting finals, Anderson and Argentina's Campoto Schwedi lifted a total weight of 1,102 pounds. However, after the game, Schwedi's weight was 316.5 pounds, while Anderson's weight was 316.5 pounds. Only 314 lbs. As a result, Anderson won the Olympic gold medal in weightlifting. The Anderson diet recipe is a gold medal recipe!

The Pietists lost their gold medals

Scottish athlete Legere won the men's 200m and 400m championships in the track and field competition at the 1924 Olympic Games. Originally, he might have won the 100-meter gold medal, but since the competition was scheduled to be held on Sunday, he was still a seminary student and had to go to church, so he gave up the 100-meter race and went to church wholeheartedly.

The champion who followed suit

Garrett, from Princeton University in the United States, has never thrown a discus, but he was lucky enough to win the championship. Garrett loves art and sports, and admires the immortal work of the Italian Renaissance - "The Discus Thrower". When he learned that the Olympics would be held in Athens, he wanted to compete. Friends say he has great arm strength and can compete in the discus throw. However, this project had not yet been launched in the United States at that time. Garrett did not even know the shape of a discus, and he knew nothing about the throwing method. So he made a discus according to the proportion of Milon's sculpture human body and discus, and simulated the posture of "The Discus Thrower". After playing around with it at home, he hurriedly came to Athens. During the competition, he discovered that the discus was so light (the ancient discus was far less heavy than today). It was both light and convenient, so he threw 59.15 meters without any effort and won the championship easily. The coaches and athletes on the field were stunned and puzzled by this player's amazing performance, while the audience cheered and applauded the American player who was just learning to practice. Later he won first place in the shot put competition.

Strange starting posture

On the track, dust was flying and laughter burst out. On the slightly sloped track, a 100-meter race was being held. Among the five finalists There was an athlete from the United States, Thomas Burke, who wore a distinctive vest and pants. Compared with other athletes wearing knee-length shorts, Burke's outfit attracted bursts of ridicule from the audience. Some women even hide their faces and dare not look at her. During the final, some athletes stood almost upright, while others bent over. Only Burke took a starting position similar to a squatting posture, which aroused curiosity and laughter from the audience.

However, Burke ignored this and won the first modern Olympic 100m championship in 12 seconds. Burke also won the 400-meter run with a time of 54.2 seconds, and the audience exclaimed: "Scud, the first Scud."

Visitor Championship

Tennis has been listed as an official event in the first Olympic Games. However, tennis at that time was not very popular and the level of professional players was not very high. The first Olympic tennis tournament was held near the pillars of the Temple of Cupid in Athens. Boland, a student at the University of Oxford in the UK, happened to be traveling in Athens. He was a tennis enthusiast and always carried his racket with him when he went out. The event was very popular. He had no intention of participating originally and wanted to try his skills, so he signed up on the spot. He swung his racket into battle and ended up beating all the opponents in the court, becoming the first tennis singles champion in Olympic history.

Traun, a student at the Higher Technical School in Dresden, Germany, was a track and field athlete and a tennis enthusiast. He participated in track and field competitions. Already eliminated in the preliminaries, he met Bolan by chance in Athens. Bolan invited him to pair up in a doubles match. As a result, the two won the doubles championship. Their unexpected gains during travel are truly enviable.

Small people are big "ghosts"

The champion of the first Olympic wrestling competition was the small German athlete Schumann. On a battlefield at the Panadena Stadium in Athens, he put four people from All 5 players from the country made it to the “challenge”. At that time, the competition was not divided into weight classes and was similar to the Chinese "fighting ring".

Although Schumann was small and light, those athletes who weighed dozens of pounds more than him were no match for him. He fell to the ground one by one. As a result, he won the Greco-Roman wrestling championship. However, his talent does not stop there. In the gymnastics competition, he won the vault championship again; he made great contributions to the German team's championship in the horizontal bar and parallel bars team competitions. Schumann was the athlete who won the most championships at the first Olympic Games. It’s true that people are small and “ghosts” are big.

Dispute over the venue

At the end of the competition, another scene of fierce dispute occurred. The King of Greece proposed that the Olympic Games are part of the Greek national culture and inseparable from Greece. Athens should become a permanent venue, otherwise it will be "an open plunder of the great and glorious Greek culture." And the founder of the modern Olympic Games, Gu Baidan disagreed with this view. He advocated that the games should be held in different countries and regions in turn to break the limitations of one country's "monopoly". Only in this way can the international nature of the Olympic Games be reflected and the Olympic Games be made more vital. With the support of the majority of National Olympic Committee members, Coubertin's opinion was finally confirmed. The Olympic Games can be held in turns in various countries around the world with different styles.

The Greeks’ first championship

Of the 285 athletes from 13 countries participating in the first modern Olympics, the host Greece accounted for 197, but by the end of the game , the Greek players did not even win a championship. The only hope left lies in the final marathon.

A total of 25 athletes participated in the marathon. Almost all the residents of Athens turned out to watch the marathon, which was very lively. In order to show solemnity, the Greek government sent a cavalry team to lead the way. As a result, dust flew up where the cavalry passed. The athletes found it difficult to breathe, and many dropped out of the competition midway. The starting point of the race is on a bridge called Marathon Town, and the total distance is about 40 kilometers. This is the first official race of the longest distance running in the world. When the contestants ran to a small village called Bikani, the French contestants were far ahead. , a few people could no longer run and were helped down.

At the halfway point, American Blake took the lead, followed by French and Australian players. When you get to Kawati village, it’s uphill. The leading runners were exhausted, and some even walked instead of running. At this time, Greek player Spiridon Ruiz quietly caught up from behind. At the 30-kilometer mark, the French runner who was originally leading withdrew from the race, but Ruiz ran more and more energetically, and the Australian runner kept a distance of 25 meters behind him. But not long after, the Australian player failed and withdrew from the competition. It seemed that no one could compete with Ruiz.

The match lasted for nearly three hours, and the King of Greece was waiting very anxiously in the box at the stadium. At this time, the messenger came to report good news: Greek player Spiridon Ruiz was approaching the stadium. When he was the first to run into the stadium, the audience was excited and excited. King George I could not sit still and stood up to watch. Ruiz was exhausted, but still kept a steady pace, encouraged by the enthusiasm of his compatriots. In the last few meters, Crown Prince Constantine and Prince George excitedly accompanied him to the finish line. After Ruiz crossed the finish line, he bowed to the king, and the king also walked down the viewing platform to greet the triumphant hero. People cheered and shouted, rushing into the field to lift Ruiz up. Thanks to him for winning this event for Greece. Because the marathon was established to commemorate the legendary story of the ancient Greek hero Philizidis who ran from the town of Marathon to Athens to report his victory. In the first modern Olympic Games, it was extremely significant for the Greeks to win this event.

Princes and dignitaries show off their heroes

The first king to participate in the Olympic Games was King Philip II of Macedon. In 356 BC, this king was far ahead in the Olympic horse-drawn carriage race. , received two commemorative coins, which are also the earliest existing Olympic commemorative coins. After Rome ruled Greece, the great dictator Emperor Neron was eager to participate in the Olympic Games, so he advanced the date of the Olympic Games by a year, held the Olympic Games in AD 67, and personally participated in the horse-drawn carriage race. When other contestants heard that Neron was coming to compete with them, they all backed away. Emperor Neron rode a single horse and became another champion after Philip II.

Sparta, which has a good sports tradition, also has a character worth mentioning, Princess Kunica. She defied the ban on women not to participate in the competition at that time, bravely participated in the Olympic Games, and became the ancient Olympic Games ’s first female champion.

The first dignitary to win the honor in the modern Olympics was Prince Olav of Norway. In 1928 he won the sailing competition at the Amsterdam Olympic Games. He succeeded to the throne as King of Norway in 1957.

In order to win the championship, I would rather lose my school status

The first modern Olympic Games was held in Athens, the capital of Greece, in 1896. After receiving the news, Connolly, a student majoring in ancient languages ??at Harvard University, was eager to try. However, the school believed that his participation in the competition would break the student status management system and opposed his participation. He did not listen to the school's advice and decided to go to Athens. The first event of the Olympic Games was the triple jump competition. Seven athletes from five countries participated in the competition. Connolly became the first champion in modern Olympic history with a score of 13.71 meters. When he returned to China with great honor, Harvard University expelled him for violating school rules. Connolly did not give up his sports training and became a well-known reporter and writer through his efforts, and became close friends with his schoolmate and the 32nd President of the United States, Roosevelt. In 1949, Harvard University corrected its mistake and awarded the 80-year-old Connolly an honorary doctorate in recognition of his contribution to the modern Olympic movement.

Floating pumpkins separated the swimming lanes and the cold sea water competed for first place

There were no swimming pools when the first modern Olympic Games were held, so the venue for swimming competitions became a big problem. Everyone was arguing about it. It was finally decided to do it in the icy waters of the Gulf of Zia near Pilaeus.

The "swimming pool" has unique swimming lanes, marked by pumpkins floating on the water. The swimming distance is not measured and is estimated based on feeling. Of the 9 people who signed up to participate in the 1,200-meter race, when they reached the finish line, they found that only 5 of them persisted. The method of the competition is even more amazing. First, the athletes are carried away from the shore like a small wheel. The starter sees that the distance is almost the same, and then orders the athletes to swim back to the shore. There is no requirement for swimming style. They can perform freely and press the time to reach the shore. Ranked in sequence.

Help others first, champion second

The 100-kilometer bicycle race in the first Olympic Games was held on the sports field instead of the road. Athletes have to circle the court 300 times. French player Vlamin has been in the lead since the start, pulling down his opponent for several laps. It seems that there is no big problem in winning the championship.

Suddenly, he found the Greek Corettis stopped. It turned out that the car was broken. It was not allowed to change the car at that time, and if it could not be repaired, it would have to be withdrawn from the competition. Vlaming immediately stopped to help the Greek racer repair the car before getting back on the road. In the end, he still won the championship with a time of 3 hours, 8 minutes, 19 seconds and 2 seconds!