China News Service, Salt Lake City, February 4th, Le Taowen, the president of the US Salt Lake City Huazhu Center and a well-known overseas Chinese leader, was in the "Winter Olympics 24 Hours" global all-media large-scale live broadcast jointly launched by China News Network and hundreds of Chinese media around the world. Said that Beijing successfully hosted the Beijing Olympics and bid to host the Beijing Winter Olympics, and felt very excited and proud.

  Le Taowen said that in the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, the Chinese delegation won the first Winter Olympics gold medal in history.

Since then, Chinese sports have continued to create new brilliance, and the overseas compatriots in Salt Lake City who are always concerned about the development of Chinese sports are sincerely excited about this. "I always feel that there is a special relationship between Salt Lake City and the Chinese Winter Olympics.

On February 16, 2002, in Salt Lake City, the United States, Yang Yang won the championship in the women's 500-meter short track speed skating final at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

For the Chinese delegation to achieve the "zero breakthrough" of the Winter Olympics gold medal.

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  Whenever the Chinese team goes to Salt Lake City to compete, local overseas Chinese will organize to watch the game and cheer for the Chinese delegation.

"(Last year) in early December, the World Cup was held in Salt Lake City, and our Salt Lake City Huazhu Center organized local overseas Chinese to cheer on Chinese athletes for three consecutive days. (This year) on January 12th, the Aerial Ski World Cup was held again It was held in Salt Lake City, and we organized overseas Chinese to go to the scene to cheer."

  "As long as it is (held) in China, whether it is the Winter Olympics or the Summer Olympics, we all feel that we are closely related. We are all part of the Chinese nation, whether Beijing's bid for the Olympics is successful or the Olympics are successfully held, we I am sincerely excited and sincerely proud, because the Chinese nation is the common root and common soul of our sons and daughters at home and abroad," Le Taowen said.

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