Top 10 domestic and international sports news in 2020
domestic
1. The Fifth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Party proposed to build a sports power by 2035
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from October 26 to 29. The plenary session proposed to build a sports power by 2035, which pointed out the direction for the reform and development of sports.
2. The preparations and preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics advance in an orderly manner
In November, the Beijing Winter Olympics Snowmobile Sled Center (Picture ⑧) venue certification activities were successfully held. The preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics were steadily advanced and fruitful results were achieved.
The construction of venues and infrastructure has entered the final stage. The "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics Sustainability Plan" was released. The global recruitment of volunteers for the Games has received enthusiastic responses from the public at home and abroad. Currently, the number of applicants is about 1 million.
At the same time, my country’s ice and snow athletes’ preparations for the Winter Olympics have also entered a critical period of transition from "excellent soldiers" to "sprints", realizing all-round guarantees for all 109 small events in domestic training bases.
3. Important documents for youth sports work have been released one after another
In October, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving School Physical Education in the New Era", pointing out that school physical education is a basic project to realize the fundamental task of cultivating people and improve the overall quality of students. The important work of advancing the modernization of education, building an education and sports country.
Prior to this, the State Sports General Administration and the Ministry of Education jointly issued the "Opinions on Deepening the Integration of Sports and Education to Promote the Healthy Development of Adolescents" to promote the integration of sports and education with a systematic approach to "integrated design and integrated promotion."
These two documents will play an important role in solving the difficulties of young people's physical health and complementing the shortcomings of the all-round development of talents.
4. Athletes continue to achieve good results to cheer the nation against the epidemic
On February 9, the Chinese women’s basketball team won the first place in Group B of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Women’s Basketball Qualifying Tournament with a record of three wins, and qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games one round ahead of schedule; on February 8, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong won Double skating champion at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships; Ren Ziwei won the Men's 1500m Short Track Speed Skating World Cup; and snowboard U-track athlete Liu Jiayu won the gold medal in the women's group of top international events.
At the critical moment when the people of the whole country are united in the fight against the epidemic, athletes use victory to cheer the country against the epidemic and provide strong spiritual strength.
With the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, each national team will prevent the epidemic, prepare for battles, make adjustments in time, make up for shortcomings, and organize training and competitions in an orderly manner.
5. New progress has been made in national fitness
In October, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of National Fitness Facilities and Develop Mass Sports", proposing to effectively solve the bottleneck problem restricting the planning and construction of fitness facilities by 2025, and the linkage work mechanism of relevant departments will be more complete and efficient, and fitness facilities will be allocated. It is more reasonable, and the fitness environment is significantly improved, creating a good atmosphere for the masses to participate in sports and fitness.
According to the latest data from the State Sports General Administration in 2020, my country's per capita sports area has reached 2.08 square meters, and the supply of venues and facilities has effectively increased.
6. The Mount Everest elevation measurement team successfully completed the task
At 11 o'clock on May 27th, 8 top attackers of the 2020 Everest Elevation Mountaineering Team successfully climbed from the north slope to the world's highest peak-the top of Mount Everest, realizing the first gravity measurement carried out by humans on the top of Mount Everest (Picture① ).
The climbing team stayed on the summit for 150 minutes, setting a new record for the length of time the Chinese stayed on the summit of Mount Everest.
On December 8, China and Nepal officially announced to the world that the latest elevation of Mount Everest was 88.886 meters.
7. China successfully hosted an important series of international table tennis events
On November 8, the ITTF Women's World Cup kicked off in Weihai, Shandong, making it the first domestic international sporting event to have foreign players participate since the outbreak.
Since then, the ITTF Men's World Cup and the ITTF Finals (Figure ②) have been successfully held in Weihai, Shandong and Zhengzhou, Henan.
Eight months after the suspension of the world table tennis, China took the first step to restart international competitions, demonstrating the role of a big country in table tennis.
Chinese players also achieved good results in the competition.
8. Release of the mascot of the Hangzhou Asian Games
On April 3, the mascot of the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, the smart partner "Jiangnan Yi", was officially released.
The mascot is in the shape of a robot. "Cong Cong" represents the ancient city site of Liangzhu, "Lianlian" represents the West Lake, and "Chen Chen" represents the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
The 19th Asian Games will be held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang from September 10 to 25, 2022. At that time, Oceanian countries and regions will participate for the first time, making it the largest Asian Games in history.
9. The Chinese Super League and the VBA successfully completed the semifinals and continued to deepen reforms
On November 12th, the 2020 Super League season ushered in the final match, Jiangsu Suning team defeated Guangzhou Evergrande team 2:1, won the team's first league championship in history (Figure ③).
On August 15, the 2019-2020 season China Men's Basketball Professional League finals came to an end. The Guangdong team defeated the Liaoning team with a total score of 2:1, successfully defended the title and became the "ten champion" of the vocational basketball team.
Under the normalized situation of epidemic prevention and control, both the Chinese Super League and the secondary vocational basketball team adopted a closed competition system, and resumed audience admission under appropriate conditions, and handed in qualified answers for the successful completion of the game, demonstrating the social responsibility of sportsmen , Received praise from all walks of life.
At the same time, the reform measures of the Chinese Super League and the vocational basketball team have continued to promote the development of the league in a more professional direction.
10. Ke Jie became the youngest "eight crown king" of Chinese Go
On November 3, 23-year-old Chinese player Ke Jie defeated South Korean player Shin Zhenye with a total score of 2:0 in the 25th Samsung Cup World Masters Tournament Triple Final, winning for the fourth time. Won the laurel of the Samsung Cup (Figure ⑤).
With this victory, Ke Jie's personal world championships equaled Coulee and became the youngest "eight-time champion" in the history of Chinese Go.
International
1. The Tokyo Olympic Games postponed to 2021
On March 24, Beijing time, the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee issued a joint statement officially confirming the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics until 2021.
The Tokyo Olympics also became the first postponed Olympic Games in modern Olympic history.
On March 30, the International Olympic Committee announced that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will be held from July 23 to August 8, 2021, and the Tokyo Paralympics will be held from August 24 to September 5, 2021.
To ensure that the event is held as scheduled, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee is formulating epidemic prevention measures for all participants.
2. The world sports are temporarily closed due to the epidemic
Since March, affected by the epidemic, a series of important international and intercontinental sports events, including the Tokyo Olympics, the Men’s European Cup, the Men’s America’s Cup, and the World Championships in Athletics, have been postponed. The five major European football leagues, North American ice hockey, and baseball professional The league and other professional events have been interrupted, the Wimbledon Tennis Open, the World Volleyball League and other events have been cancelled, and the world sports are once suspended.
On May 16th, the Bundesliga was restarted, and then multiple events resumed.
3. Four major events including break dancing were added to the Paris Olympic Games
On December 8, Beijing time, the Executive Committee meeting of the International Olympic Committee officially passed a resolution to add breakdancing, skateboarding, surfing, and competitive rock climbing as official events of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Among them, skateboarding, surfing and competitive rock climbing will be added to the Tokyo Olympics for the first time on the Olympic stage, and break dancing will make its debut at the Paris Olympics.
In addition, for the first time in the Paris Olympics, the number of male and female athletes will each account for 50%, and the total number of medal events will be reduced from 339 minor events in the Tokyo Olympics to 329.
Fourth, the loss of superstars in international sports
On January 26, local time, the famous American basketball player Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. He was 41 years old.
On November 25, local time, the legendary Argentine star Diego Maradona died of a sudden cardiac arrest at home, at the age of 60.
Whether it is Kobe, who led the Los Angeles Lakers to five NBA championships, or Maradona, who is known as one of the greatest football players in history, their death has brought great shock and pain to the international sports arena and fans. .
5. Lewandowski won the first World Footballer
On December 17, local time, the FIFA 2020 Awards Ceremony was held in Zurich, Switzerland, and it was launched online for the first time.
The Polish striker Lewandowski, who played for the Bundesliga Bayern Munich, defeated Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi and won the title of World Footballer of the Year for the first time in his career.
The 32-year-old Lewandowski scored 55 goals in various competitions last season and won the Golden Boot in the Bundesliga, German Cup and Champions League.
6. Hamilton tied with Schumacher's championship record
On November 15th, Beijing time, in the Turkish Grand Prix of the Formula One World Championship (F1) this season, British driver Lewis Hamilton won the championship (picture ④) and won the seventh championship of his career ahead of schedule and tied. The record held by German "Car King" Michael Schumacher.
Hamilton won a total of 95 races throughout the season, surpassing Schumacher, who won 91 times, and became the driver with the most wins in F1 history.
Seven, Nadal tied Federer tennis Grand Slam record
On October 11, Beijing time, in the men's singles final of the 2020 French Open, Spanish star Nadal defeated Serbian star Djokovic 3:0 to win the championship (Figure ⑥).
This is the twentieth Grand Slam trophy won by Nadal, tying the record of the Swiss "king of Federer".
In Nadal's 20 Grand Slam trophies, including 13 French Open champions, 4 US Open champions, 2 Wimbledon champions and 1 Australian Open champion.
8. Multiple world records for middle and long distance races were broken
Although this year's outdoor track and field season has shrunk significantly, many middle and long distance running world records have been refreshed one after another.
In February, Ugandan star Joshua Cheputgue broke the men's world record for running 5 kilometers, and then he broke the men's world record of 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters in August and October.
In addition, Ethiopian Gidi broke the women's 5,000-meter world record, Kenyan Kandi broke the men's half-marathon world record, British player Mo Farah and Dutch player Hassan broke the men's and women's one-hour world record respectively.
9. The five major European football leagues set multiple records
In the early morning of August 3, Beijing time, with the end of the final round of Serie A, the five major European football leagues this season that were once interrupted by the epidemic have all ended, and many new records have been set.
Liverpool won the Premier League championship for the first time, winning seven rounds ahead of schedule and also created the fastest record in Premier League history; Bayern Munich won 5 Bundesliga, Champions League, German Cup, German Super Cup and European Super Cup in one fell swoop; Juventus The team reached nine consecutive Serie A championships two rounds ahead of schedule; Real Madrid surpassed Barcelona to win the La Liga championship after the rematch.
10. The Winter Youth Olympic Games was held in Lausanne, Switzerland
From January 9 to 22, the third Winter Youth Olympic Games was held in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Winter Youth Olympic Games has 8 major events and 16 sub-items. Among them, ski mountaineering is a new item, and ice hockey includes 3 vs 3 competitions.
A total of 1872 athletes from 79 countries and regions participated in the competition, creating the highest number of competitions ever.
The Chinese sports delegation sent 53 athletes to participate in 57 events and won 3 golds, 4 silvers and 5 bronzes (picture ⑦).
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