Chinanews.com, Beijing, November 11 (Reporter Yue Chuan) On November 17, 1953, the glorious team of the Chinese gymnastics team came into being. Now, after 11 years, this ace division has won a total of 17 gold medals in the Olympic Games, the World Championships and the World Cup, becoming the world's leading gymnastics presence.

Generations of athletes and coaches have worked hard and dedicated, and countless glorious figures and moving moments have complemented each other, jointly setting up this unforgettable 70 years. The unremitting efforts of generations of gymnasts have created the glory of today's Chinese gymnastics.

On the 17th, the Chinese gymnastics team world champion listing ceremony and the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese gymnastics team were held in the gymnastics hall of the Training Bureau of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China. Li Ning, Li Xiaoshuang, Li Xiaopeng, Huang Xu, Yang Wei, Xiao Junfeng, Zou Kai, Chen Yibing, Feng Zhe, Guo Weiyang, Zhang Chenglong, Liu Xuan, Cheng Fei, He Kexin, Guan Chenchen and other Olympic champions gathered together to celebrate the birthday of the Chinese gymnastics team.

At the World Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, Belgium in October this year, 10-year-old Qiu Qiyuan won the women's uneven bars championship. With this gold medal, Qiu Qiyuan climbed the world championship list of the Chinese gymnastics team today, becoming the 16rd member of this glorious collective.

"As an athlete, the greatest glory is to be able to wear the national team jersey and play for the country." Qiu Qiyuan said that this World Championships gold medal is a breakthrough in her sports career and the beginning of a new journey. She will train harder for the Paris Olympics and hope to take on more responsibility for the team on the world's biggest stage.

Including Qiu Qiyuan, the Chinese gymnastics team has produced a total of 83 world champions so far. The 83 faces on the Wall of Honor together form the glorious history of the Chinese gymnastics team.

Mamoru Watanabe, president of the International Gymnastics Federation and member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who attended today's commemoration, said that Chinese gymnastics is second to none in the world gymnastics field, and without China's participation, world gymnastics would no longer exist. He also believes that the Chinese sports community has made great contributions to the development and development of world sports that cannot be described in words.

The Chinese gymnastics team has been brilliant all the way, and the starting point of all this originated from today 70 years ago, from the first generation of gymnasts who bravely explored. It is the unremitting hard work of the predecessors that has opened a door for Chinese gymnastics.

Lan Yalan, who is nearly 90 years old, is the first member of the national gymnastics team. She recalled that from the beginning of the team's establishment, Chinese gymnastics has experienced countless difficulties and challenges, but several generations of gymnasts have never given up the pursuit of winning glory for the country.

As an iconic figure of Chinese gymnastics, Li Ning felt a lot of emotion when he returned to the familiar gymnastics hall today. Li Ning admitted frankly that when he saw his former teammates and young juniors, he missed the time in the gymnastics room in the past. Gymnastics brought him not only gold medals, but also the nourishment of sportsmanship, which made his life full of passion.

Looking forward to the Paris Olympics at hand, Li Ning hopes that the junior brothers and sisters with dreams will pursue their dreams with sportsmanship and passion, and he wishes the Chinese gymnastics team a victory.

As Li Ning said, the Paris Olympic Games, which will be unveiled at the end of July next year, are only eight months away, and this is also the most critical sprint stage in the preparation cycle.

According to the plan, the three national teams of gymnastics, trampoline and rhythmic gymnastics are about to devote themselves to the final winter training preparations before the Paris Olympics. At the commemorative ceremony, Zou Jingyuan, the champion of parallel bars at the Tokyo Olympics, Zhu Xueying, the gold medalist in the women's trampoline at the Tokyo Olympics, and Sun Dan, the coach of the collective group of the national rhythmic gymnastics team, expressed their vision of learning from their predecessors and striving to achieve better results in the Olympic Games.

"No great cause is easy to obtain, only hard work can be rewarded." Zou Jingyuan said that perseverance and hard work in training, as well as hardship and pressure in the arena, will become the driving force for the team to move forward. He believes that the united Chinese gymnastics team will once again show the style of Chinese gymnastics at the Paris Olympics. (ENDS)