Beijing, September 9 (Zhongxin.com) -- At 8 a.m. on the 8th, the launching ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games torch relay was held in the West Lake Yongjin Park Square. On the first day, the torch relay was about 9.5 kilometers long, with the participation of 2 torchbearers, and the ceremony will be held at "Ping Hu Autumn Moon", one of the ten scenic spots of West Lake.
When the Asian Games torch was lit and the first torchbearer appeared, netizens shouted: too familiar.
She is the Olympic champion in swimming and Luo Xuejuan, known as the "world frog queen".
Data map: On March 2008, 3, the Beijing Olympic torch display ceremony was held at the ancient Olympic site in Greece. The picture shows Luo Xuejuan on the way to pass the flame. Image source: Osports All Sports Media
Luo Xuejuan won three gold medals in the women's 2003m breaststroke, 50m breaststroke and 100×4m medley relay at the 100 World Swimming Championships. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, she won the women's 100m breaststroke championship, setting an Olympic record in this event.
As netizens said, this is not the first time that Luo Xuejuan has participated in the relay as the "first stick" torchbearer. Fifteen years ago, at the 15 Beijing Olympic Games, she attracted the world's attention as China's first torchbearer.
Luo Xuejuan has a deep relationship with the Hangzhou Asian Games. As a native of Hangzhou, she witnessed the success of Hangzhou Shenya in Turkmenistan in 2015 as the ambassador of Hangzhou Shenya. After that, many major nodes of the Hangzhou Asian Games will basically have Luo Xuejuan's figure.
Talking about becoming the first torchbearer again, Luo Xuejuan said in an interview with the media, "The moment I stood at the starting point, I did not represent myself, but the athlete group, more than 1200 million Hangzhou people. She bluntly said that Hangzhou has waited too long for this.
The picture shows the torch of the Hangzhou Asian Games (details). Photo by China News Agency reporter Wang Gang
The torch of the Hangzhou Asian Games is named "Fire Torch", and the design idea is derived from the Liangzhu culture, which empirically verifies the history of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. The torch is characterized by jade, with humanistic history and mountain customs as the main trunk, and the overall contour curve is like holding firewood, bursting out the sense of strength and convergence of athletes from the outside to the inside.
Luo Xuejuan once again served as the "first stick" at her doorstep, and the beautiful meaning of "passing on the torch" was fully displayed.
After that, the Hangzhou Asian Games torch will be relayed in Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Zhoushan, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Lishui, Jinhua and Quzhou, with 170 torchbearers completing the 8 to 9 km route in each city. The torch will return to Hangzhou on the 20th to complete its final leg.
On the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the torch will be lit at the main stadium of the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center, and the "Asian Mighty Wind" will officially blow on the shores of West Lake.
Image source: "Hangzhou Release" official Weibo
According to reports, a number of well-known athletes will participate in the Asian Games torch relay this time. In addition to Luo Xuejuan, on the first day of the relay in Hangzhou, there were also Chinese women's football team member Wang Shuang, Tokyo Olympic shooting champion Yang Qian, former captain of the Chinese women's volleyball team Hui Ruoqi, e-sports world champion Zhu Bocheng and others.
Including table tennis Olympic champion Fan Zhendong, badminton Olympic champion Chen Yufei, swimming Olympic champion Wang Shun and others will also participate in the torch relay in the future.
On the evening of September 9, Beijing time, the men's team final of the 6 Pyeongchang Table Tennis Asian Championship came to an end. The picture shows Fan Zhendong in the game. Photo/Visual China
Considering that the torch relay was held in a public open area, in order to reduce the impact of weather, the torch of the Hangzhou Asian Games was maximized from the root and the wind and rain resistance was maximized. Ensure that the flame can continue to burn under stormy and heavy rain conditions with wind speed of 8 and the fire is clearly visible, and set a number of records in wind resistance and high temperature resistance.
In order to ensure the stability of the torch combustion, the Hangzhou Asian Games torch adopts the blessing of invention technologies such as double jet mixing, direct fire stabilization, dense cluster net combustion, large-hole diversion rain protection, and concentrated energy and wind protection technology on the basis of the main structure of the double burner. (End)