Chinanews client, Beijing, July 21 (Reporter Wang Yu) After five years of waiting, the Tokyo Olympics, which has been postponed for a year, will finally be presented to the world.
The Olympic ship slowly set sail, and the world sports arena has entered "Tokyo Time" as scheduled.
Today, the Tokyo Olympic Games will start.
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Sydney also perfectly combines water and fire. Lighting the torch in the middle of the waterfall greatly stimulates the human imagination. The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games has therefore become a stage for the host countries to compete for their own creativity.
The athletes who lit the torch at the opening ceremony, wearing silver one-piece waterproof suits, lit the torch against the backdrop of the waterfall, and staged a wonderful scene of "fire in water".
So the question is: Why did the Tokyo Olympics start before the opening ceremony?
Back to Beijing time on September 15, 2000, Australia, the Sydney Olympic Stadium was shining brightly at night.
Australian indigenous athlete Freeman wore a silver one-piece waterproof suit and lit a rising torch against the backdrop of a waterfall. The blazing flame rose slowly from the water, staged a wonderful scene of the blending of water and fire, romance and creativity.
As we all know, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is the symbol of the opening of the Olympic Games. At this moment, eyes from all over the world are gathered here, and the grandest sports event on the planet begins.
But the outside world was impressed by the opening of the Sydney Olympics.
Data map: Group photo of the Chinese women's football team at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Image source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
Before the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics, the football event had already started, which also created a precedent for the modern Olympic movement.
The International Olympic Committee has written regulations that the competition day of each Olympic Games shall not exceed 16 days, and the opening ceremony shall not exceed 17 days.
However, the resulting problem is that, for example, in a single game such as football, which consumes too much physical energy, often due to the tight competition period, the athletes cannot get timely recuperation, and there are derivative problems such as severe physical overdraft.
Therefore, after negotiation between FIFA and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it is decided that the interval between two matches of the same team shall be no less than two days, and that special football matches shall be held prior to the opening ceremonies of each Olympic Games. This provision has been implemented since the 2000 Olympic Games.
The Beijing Olympic Games and Nigeria-Belgium games were held at the Shanghai Stadium.
The picture shows the Belgian team debut.
In 2004 Athens, Beijing and Rio Olympic Games, in addition to football, archery, equestrian and other events also started before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
The Tokyo Olympic Games is also two days ahead of the opening ceremony, starting on September 13.
The softball round-robin match between Australia and Japan at the Fukushima Agatsuma Baseball Stadium at 9 o'clock in the morning will be the first match of this tournament.
The Chinese national team will also fire the first shot in the Tokyo Olympics today, and the heavy task will fall on the Chinese women's football team, which has created countless brilliant achievements.
At 16:00 Beijing time this afternoon, the Chinese women's football team will face its strong rival Brazil. The battle is about to start. Both the Chinese delegation and the Chinese fans who care about the sonorous rose are looking forward to the sonorous rose to make a good start.
Data map: Group photo of Chinese women's football players before the Olympic preliminaries.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tao Shelan
In addition to Brazil, the Chinese women's football team is also divided into the F group with the Netherlands and Zambia.
Head coach Jia Xiuquan believes that the three opponents in the same group represent three types.
The Dutch team are upstarts in Europe, the veteran Brazilian team is experienced, and the new African Zambian team is famous for its forwards.
For the Chinese women's football team, every group match is a tough battle.
"There is never a so-called detour. Every step you take counts." Chinese women's football coach Jia Xiuquan said when summarizing the road to the Olympics. in."
The Tokyo party is destined to be an extraordinary journey.
In the face of a complex environment and a powerful opponent, the Chinese women's football team is ready to make a miracle in Tokyo.
On June 22, local time, Tokyo, Japan, Japan’s New National Stadium, this is the main venue of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Image source: Visual China
One day later, the men's football stadium also kicked off. The traditional football giants Brazil and Germany will stage a strong dialogue at the Yokohama International Arena.
According to the rules of the Olympic men's football competition, the age of the participating players should be under 23 (each team is allowed to have three over-aged players). Specific to the Tokyo Olympics, the participating players should be born after January 1, 1997.
Now that the Olympic Games are postponed for one year, the restrictions on the birth date of participating players have not changed, that is, they are still born after January 1, 1997.
That is the case, the Brazilian lineup still has famous players such as Richard Leeson and Martinelli, while the German men's football team is led by the former Bremen star Cruze and Leverkusen's main midfielder Amily.
What is more worth looking forward to is what kind of different sparks the youth collision brought about by the new forces of the old and strong teams will burst in the Tokyo Olympics.
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