China News Service Client Beijing, September 17 (Reporter Xing Rui Zhang Jianyuan) Recently, the 14th National Games is going on in full swing, with the highest level of domestic athletes in the arena to jointly contribute wonderful games.
From the First National Games in 1959 to the 14th National Games in 2021, the National Games has a history of 62 years.
In more than half a century, the National Games has also grown vigorously with the continuous development of sports in New China.
In the process of its growth, there are many "little secrets", which have become "cold knowledge" for many people.
Zhong Nanshan is also a National Games athlete
Speaking of Zhong Nanshan, many people first think of him as an academician who saves lives and heals the wounded, and is also a recipient of the Medal of the Republic.
But when he was a student, Zhong Nanshan had another identity-an athlete.
At the first National Games held in Beijing in 1959, Zhong Nanshan, who was still studying at Beijing Medical College, participated in the men's 400-meter hurdles and broke the national record at that time.
After the National Games, Zhong Nanshan had the opportunity to stay in the Beijing team and become a professional athlete.
However, Zhong Nanshan considered repeatedly and chose to return to the medical field.
Only then has today's "Nanshan vibe, unparalleled scholars".
Square dance can also be on top of the arena
As the highest level and largest comprehensive sports event in China, the competition events of each National Games will be fine-tuned.
In addition to the events that these professional athletes participate in, this National Games will also hold 19 major events for the masses, including square dancing, radio gymnastics, Tai Chi and other leisure events that are popular among the masses.
And this also means that ordinary sports enthusiasts also have the opportunity to be on the top stage in the country.
The square dance competition for the current National Games ended before the opening ceremony. The competition was conducted online and offline, attracting hundreds of square dance teams from all over the country to participate.
Square dancing can also be on the top of China's arenas!
Why there is no medal list in the National Games
For international sports competitions such as the Olympics, the organizing committee will generally set up a medal list to allow the audience to more intuitively feel the results of each team.
In the National Games before the 2017 Tianjin National Games, the gold medals and the number of medals of each delegation will also be made public.
However, in order to reverse the "gold medal first" concept, let sports return to its pure nature.
Starting in 2015, national comprehensive sports games such as the National Games will only announce the results of the competition, and no more medal lists.
There was also a "half gold medal" in the National Games
In order to balance the sports strength of various regions, starting from the 1997 Eighth National Games, "exchange players" once became one of the characteristics of the National Games.
Each representative team voluntarily transfers its players to other teams so that they can compete on behalf of other teams.
Once an exchange player wins a medal, in some cases, 50% of the medals and points won by the modern watch unit and the original registered unit will appear, and the "half gold medal" will appear.
The original intention of this athlete exchange mechanism is to hope that the flow of talents is reasonable, orderly, and open, so that more athletes can have the opportunity to participate in the competition.
But in the process of implementation, some loopholes and problems in the rules have also been accompanied by it.
After many reforms and the cancellation of the medal list, the "XX.5" gold medal situation will no longer recur.
9-year-old children can also participate in the National Games
What were you doing when you were 9 years old?
Some people have already stood on the field of the National Games at the age of 9 years.
There is no age group in the skateboarding event of the National Games. The young player Zheng Haohao, who represents Guangdong, is only 9 years old, which arouses concern.
It is reported that she participated in the bowling event, but ultimately failed to enter the finals.
However, the experience of this competition will surely become an unforgettable memory in the growth process of the little girl.
The National Games used to be a "three-person transfer" in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou
From the first to the fourth, the venue of the National Games has always been in the capital Beijing.
Since then, with the development of Shanghai and Guangdong, the National Games finally moved out of Beijing and held in turn in the "North, Shanghai, and Guangzhou" three places with relatively complete hardware facilities.
Among them, Shanghai hosted the fifth and eighth competitions, the seventh returned to Beijing, and Guangdong hosted the sixth and ninth competitions.
However, starting from the Tenth National Games, the venue of the competition began to adopt the method of bidding.
Jiangsu won the right to host the 2005 National Games. The National Games went out of "Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou" for the first time. The subsequent National Games were held in Shandong, Liaoning, Tianjin and Shaanxi.
Those special teams
At the opening ceremony of the National Games, there were Lokomotiv Sports Association, Avant-Garde Sports Association, Coal Mine Sports Association... these special teams made many spectators feel a little strange.
In fact, they have been working silently for the development of China's sports industry for many years.
For example, the Locomotive Sports Association is the sports association of the railway industry. In this competition, they will participate in track and field, wrestling and other events.
The Avant-Garde Sports Association is based on forging the "four iron generals" high-quality public security iron army.
In other words, the avant-garde sports association delegation can be understood as a "police representative team."
The Olympic team becomes a highlight
In addition to the above-mentioned industry sports association delegations, the "Olympic United Team" has also become a hot topic in this National Games.
This type of team formation allowed many athletes who had just participated in the Tokyo Olympics to join hands again at the National Games.
On the evening of September 14, the adult five-a-side basketball final of the 14th National Games was held in Xi'an. The Olympic United Team (white clothes) defeated the Jiangsu team with a big score of 100:52 to win the championship.
The picture shows the Olympic joint team Pan Zhenqi (No. 10) makes a breakthrough with the ball.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
Affected by the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, the holding time of the National Games and the Olympics almost "crashed", and the time to prepare for the Paris Olympics was shortened to three years.
For collective events, if Olympic athletes return to the provincial team to prepare for a battle after the isolation, and then return to the national team, the cooperation between the team members will inevitably be unfamiliar.
In order to solve this problem, the "Olympic United Team" has appeared in women's football, women's basketball, shooting and other events.
If the Olympic joint team wins the National Games, the athlete’s unit will have a gold medal in the account: one player is counted as one gold medal, but the number of gold medals allocated to each conveying unit in the same event shall not exceed two.
In the previous 10-meter air rifle mixed team competition, Yang Qian and Yang Haoran once again joined hands to win a gold medal for the Olympic joint team.
In the table tennis mixed doubles match, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen will also be paired across provinces.
Whether the "Xinwen Lianbo" combination that fans are looking forward to can make up for the regret of the Olympics and stand on the highest podium, we will wait and see.
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