Chinanews client, October 19th, on the 19th, Beijing time, the tinder handover ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was held at the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens.

As the vice chairman of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee Yu Zaiqing took the torch from the Greek Olympic Committee chairman Spiros Capraros and lit the tinder lamp to take it away, the fire handover ceremony was a complete success.

　　In the fire gathering ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics one day ago, in front of the 2500-year-old Hera Temple site, the Greek actress Sansi Giorgiou, who played the highest priestess, prayed to Apollo, the god of light, and used a concave mirror. The fire was lit.

　　The fire handover ceremony was held at the Panathinaiko Stadium at noon on the 19th local time.

As with the tinder collection, today's handover ceremony was carried out without an audience.

　　After the ceremony began, the Olympic flags with five rings were slowly raised along with the Olympic song.

Afterwards, the Chinese national anthem and the Greek national anthem were played in sequence, and the national flags of the two countries were raised respectively.

　　After the three torch relays, the Greek female skier Paraskevi Radopullu held the torch "flying" to light the torch stand.

The priestess lit the torch and handed it to the Greek Olympic Committee President Spiros Capraros.

　　Subsequently, the torch was handed over to the special representative of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, Yu Zaiqing, the vice chairman of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, by Spiros Capraros, who lights the flame lantern and takes it away.

　　It is worth mentioning that as the torchbearer, Li Nina, the world champion of Chinese freestyle skiing aerials and the "Snow Princess", passed the Beijing Winter Olympics fire to the last torchbearer in Greece-the Greek female skier Ladopullu Hands.

　　Li Nina has won three consecutive freestyle skiing world championships in women's aerials, and won two silver medals in the two Winter Olympics in Turin and Vancouver.

After retiring, she served as the image ambassador of Beijing's bid for the Winter Olympics and the presenter of Beijing's bid for the Winter Olympics delegation, and contributed her strength to Beijing's successful bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

　　Yu Zaiqing, vice chairman of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said in his speech: "At this moment, we will take over the fire of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the fire that carries the Olympic spirit will once again be displayed and passed on the Great Wall inside and outside, blooming peace and friendship on the land of China. In the face of the global epidemic, we will uphold the principles of life first and health first, and combine the fire display activities with the inheritance of the torch relay to create a unique torch relay journey."

　　Tinder for the Beijing Winter Olympics will leave for China with immediate effect.

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