Chinanews client, Beijing, July 23 (Xingchen Liu) At the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games on the evening of the 23rd, the Chinese delegation walked towards the center of the Tokyo New National Stadium, dressed in a red and white dress. .

In the lens, this “China Red” is particularly spectacular and magnificent against the brilliant lights of the scene.

　　At the forefront of the team's phalanx are the two flag bearers of the Chinese sports delegation-Chinese women's volleyball leader Zhu Ting and Taekwondo Olympic champion Zhao Shuai.

The two held a bright five-star red flag, and the faces of the Chinese athletes were smiling, officially starting their journey to Tokyo.

　　The current Chinese sports delegation consisted of 777 people and 431 athletes, setting a new record for overseas participants of the Chinese delegation.

The average age of the athletes of the whole team is 25.4 years old. There are 138 people who have participated in the Olympic Games, of which 24 Olympic champions lead.

Data map: In the Men's Taekwondo Men's 58kg Gold Medal Match at the Rio Olympics, Chinese player Zhao Shuai defeated Thai player Hampa 6:4 and won the championship.

The picture shows Zhao Shuai biting the gold medal.

Photo by China News Network reporter Tomita

　　On the evening of July 17, the Chinese Olympic Committee announced that Zhu Ting and Zhao Shuai will serve as flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the Chinese delegation at the Tokyo Olympics.

Both are the first Olympic flag bearers, and Zhu Ting has become the first female flag bearer of the Chinese sports delegation at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics.

　　As the leader of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Zhu Ting has a very high popularity in domestic and international volleyball circles.

Joined the national team in 2013 and became famous in the World Championships in 2014. In 2015, he led the team to win the World Cup. In 2016, Zhu Ting led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the Olympic championship again after 12 years. She has won 8 championships and 6 MVPs (Most Valuable Player), and is the first Chinese athlete to win the Champions League MVP.

　　Another standard bearer, Zhao Shuai, wrote the history of Chinese Taekwondo. Five years ago in Rio, he was only 21 years old. He passed through all the way and won the 58kg champion of Taekwondo in a group of strong hands, and realized the Chinese men's Taekwondo. The Olympic gold medal "zero breakthrough".

Now he has grown into a leading figure in Chinese Taekwondo.

It is worth mentioning that as early as the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, he served as the flag bearer of the Chinese delegation.

Data map: On August 8, 2008, the 29th Summer Olympics was held at the "Bird's Nest" of the Beijing National Stadium.

The standard-bearer of the Chinese delegation is the famous basketball player Yao Ming. Walking beside Yao Ming is Lin Hao, a second-year student of Yuzixi Primary School in Yingxiu Town, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, who has won the honorary title of Hero Youth.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Ren Chenming (Pictures and texts compiled by Xu Xiyi)

　　Looking at the lineup of flag bearers in the previous Summer Olympics, there are also many bright spots.

　　In the history of the Chinese delegation, tall male basketball players have undoubtedly become the "big flag bearers" in the Olympic Games.

At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, China returned to the Olympic family. At that Olympics, Wang Libin, a 21-year-old men's basketball player with a height of 2.01 meters, served as the flag bearer of the Chinese delegation. At that time, he had been named the best center in Asia. .

　　In the 7 Olympic Games since then, from Song Tao, Liu Yudong to Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, the men's basketball players achieved a "monopoly" in the opening ceremony of the flag bearer of the Chinese delegation. Among them, Liu Yudong and Yao Ming achieved re-election.

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics held at the doorstep of his home, Yao Ming, who is 2.26 meters tall, raised the five-star red flag and walked at the forefront of the delegation team with the "earthquake hero" Lin Hao. This has also become a classic in the history of the Chinese Olympics. One scene.

　　In the Rio Olympics 4 years ago, the fencing players thunder broke the men's basketball "monopoly" in the standard bearer link.

This Chinese men's foil leader won the men's foil gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics and helped the Chinese men's foil win the first gold in the Olympics.

With a tall figure of 1.93 meters, he eventually became the first non-male basketball player flag bearer in the history of the Chinese Olympics.

　　Looking at the world, the previous standard bearers sent by multiple delegations actually have their own characteristics, and this has become a unique scenery at the opening ceremony.

Data map: The picture shows the Maracanã Stadium on August 5, 2016. When Pitta, topless and wearing traditional clothing, led the Tongan delegation to the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympic Games, there were countless fans in an instant.

　　At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Pita Taufatofa appeared in the opening ceremony as the flag bearer of the Tongan delegation. He chose to break the rules in his costumes. The shirtless upper body was covered with coconut oil, and the lower body was dressed in Tonga. His traditional dance skirt, sturdy body and unique dress made the world remember him.

　　It is worth mentioning that, as a taekwondo player, Pitta also qualified for cross-country skiing in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. He is a rare winter and summer "double repair" athlete in the history of the Olympics. Pitta was also re-elected for this Tokyo Olympics.

　　In the history of the Chinese sports delegation, the "God of War" Liu Yudong and Yao Ming served as the standard bearers of the two Olympic Games.

But in the history of the Olympic Games, it is rare to be able to serve as the standard bearer three times.

Karelin, a wrestler known as the "Siberian Bear", has appeared as a flag bearer three times in the Olympic Games in Seoul, Barcelona and Atlanta.

　　In this Tokyo Olympics, in order to promote equality between men and women in the field of sports, the International Olympic Committee encouraged delegations to send two flag bearers, one man and one woman. This is not the first time that two flag bearers, a man and a woman, appear together at the Summer Olympics.

　　As early as the 2000 Sydney Olympics, North Korean judo coach Park Jung-cheol and South Korean women’s basketball player Jung Eun by the way, dressed in black suits and white pants, held up the "Korean Peninsula Flag" and participated in the opening ceremony. The two flag bearers also officially opened the Korean-Korean sports. A precedent for delegations to enter the venue together at the opening and closing ceremonies of a large-scale comprehensive sports meeting.

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