China-Singapore Times Review: Going to the "Ice and Snow" together, overseas Chinese write a moving chapter

　　China News Agency, Beijing, February 19th,

　　Author Wu Kan Jinxu

　　As the Beijing Winter Olympics draw to a close, every wonderful moment will become eternity.

Unforgettable half a month, witnessed the glorious dream of ice and snow sports, and gathered together the surging power to the future.

　　Overseas Chinese are close to each other and dream come true for a hundred years. Whether it is the cheers and blessings separated by thousands of miles, or the hearty competition in the ice and snow arena, overseas Chinese and Chinese all over the world will go to this "Ice and Snow Appointment" and share the grand event with their ancestral country. , shared the glory, and wrote a moving chapter of the Winter Olympics Story Collection.

On the evening of February 4, the opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games was held at the Beijing National Stadium.

The picture shows the "Building a Snowflake" session at the opening ceremony.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Cui Nan

　　National events, overseas Chinese have action.

In the process of bidding, preparing and hosting the Beijing Winter Olympics, there are many overseas Chinese.

　　During Beijing's bid to host the Winter Olympics, overseas Chinese held a joint signing event.

After Beijing won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in 2015, the overseas Chinese continued to help the Winter Olympics.

At the beginning of 2022, the Overseas Chinese Ice and Snow Museum, with the participation of nearly 30,000 overseas Chinese from 53 countries and regions, was officially completed and opened, becoming another monument of love for overseas Chinese after the "Water Cube".

　　Since the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, overseas Chinese have paid close attention to various events. By organizing a variety of Winter Olympics-themed activities, playing videos related to the Winter Olympics in Chinese restaurants, and liking the Winter Olympics athletes on social media platforms, etc. An introduction to the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Overseas Chinese-language media have set up special topics on the Winter Olympics, and delivered the latest news to overseas readers through all-round, multi-level, and all-media reports.

　　The warm atmosphere of overseas Chinese celebrating the Winter Olympics also added a dynamic beauty to Chinatown.

In Chinatown in Milan, Italy, the Olympic flags and red lanterns complement each other; in Chicago Chinatown, the United States, the "Bingdundun" on the parade floats circles fans; in Vancouver Chinatown, Canada, overseas Chinese beat gongs and drums, dance dragons and lions. Welcome to the Winter Olympics.

Every wonderful moment of the Beijing Winter Olympics, overseas Chinese are witnesses, propagandists and helpers.

　　Global elites, chasing dreams at the Winter Olympics.

For a long time, the love between Chinese athletes and the Winter Olympics has been continuously written, and the footsteps of chasing ice and snow have never stopped, creating one highlight after another.

　　In the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Chinese-American ice hockey player Zhu Huiwen helped the US team win the silver medal. She was also the first Asian player in the US ice hockey world to participate in the Winter Olympics.

　　In the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Chinese-Canadian star Chen Weiqun won the runner-up in figure skating men's singles with his textbook-level skating skills and artistic expression.

　　In the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Chinese Ru Zijie became the first figure skater in Malaysia to qualify for the Winter Olympics, continuing the dream of ice and snow in a tropical country.

　　At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese girl Chen Kaiwen performed the "Chinese style" on ice and helped the US team win the silver medal in the figure skating team competition.

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　　In the ice and snow arena, Chinese athletes not only have dazzling achievements, but also have the unremitting pursuit of self-transcendence and the fighting spirit of never giving up.

The tears and hardships behind their dreams of ice and snow, the flowers and applause they gained from breaking through themselves, are also the most real and vivid footnotes to the Olympic spirit.

　　Ice and snow friends, holding hands with the world.

The Beijing Winter Olympics is not only a grand event for athletes from all over the world to compete, but also a platform to promote exchanges, adding an "ice and snow element" to the people-to-people and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.

　　From outstanding Chinese athletes who walk on snow and build their dreams to coaches who go abroad to coach, they use ice and snow sports as a link to unite forces, promote the integration of civilizations, and play an active role in promoting international sports exchanges and cooperation.

Among them are Chen Lu, a member of the Athletes Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and China's first world champion in figure skating, and Zhang Jing, a men's short track speed skating coach who won the Hungarian Officer's Cross. The beautiful pursuit of progress, and everyone involved is an interpreter of the Olympic spirit.

　　As Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympics, said: "The Olympics is not a competition, but a cultural exchange and integration that originates from the heart." As the first Winter Olympics to be held after adding "more unity" to the Olympic motto, Beijing The Winter Olympics is not only a sports event, but also a bridge to promote the understanding and integration of the world.

This "Ice and Snow Covenant" not only witnessed the birth of many world records, provided a stage for ice and snow athletes all over the world to surpass themselves, but also injected confidence and strength into the world plagued by the epidemic, and also brought together the Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad. Passion and dreams, hand in hand to the future.

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