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People's Sports Talks: Be with the Asian Games and Love the Asian Games

Cai Yawei
October 7, 2023 13:09 | Source: People's Daily Online - Viewpoint Channel
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"We have a home together, and we can't separate our hearts from each other and love each other." At the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the theme song "Love Together" resounded over the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium. "Harmony of hearts and love" is the charm that friendship gives to sports and makes the world embrace closely.

Sports make opponents become partners and make common progress with each other. In the women's 10m platform diving competition on October 3, Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi launched a fight for the gold medal. After five rounds of competition, the dust finally settled. Quan Hongchan scored three 9.5 points and four 10 points in the last action, and Chen Yuxi won the championship. Three days ago, the two also won the gold medal in the women's doubles 10m platform as partners without any suspense. As predicted by the outside world, the "golden combination" of Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi was absolutely dominant in the women's doubles 10m platform event. After the game, Chen Yuxi said, "Whether as a partner or a competitor, this is just their identity on the court." Their relationship in private is very harmonious and friendly. In the high-level competition between them, both of them have made great progress. "Tit for tat" on the field and common promotion on the field, competition has never been a stumbling block to friendship. Benign competition is not only the best interpretation of sports spirit, but also an excellent bridge of friendship.

Sports make love cross national boundaries and embrace each other closely. In the women's 50m butterfly swimming competition, Zhang Yufei broke the Asian Games record with a time of 25.10 seconds and won her sixth Asian Games gold medal. After the game, Zhang Yufei embraced and cried with the Japanese player Chi Jianglihuazi. At the last Asian Games, Chi Jiang Lihuazi also won six gold medals. In her confrontation with Zhang Yufei, except for Zhang Yufei in the 200m butterfly, the winners of other events were Chi Jiang Lihuazi. In 2019, Chi Jianglihuazi was diagnosed with leukemia. After fighting against the disease, she once again stood on the court and won the respect of her opponents, including Zhang Yufei. After the women's 100m butterfly race, Zhang Yufei also said that she wanted to send Chi Jiang a gift, "I hope she can enjoy this journey in China". Coincidentally, Deng Linlin, the retired gymnastics champion, also found the 48 year old Uzbek gymnast Chusovitina and asked for a signature. Deng Linlin said that "Qiu Ma" is her favorite athlete. In this grand sports event, all sincerity will echo. Athletes from different countries have established a deep and reliable friendship through the Asian Games, and sports is the strongest bond of this friendship.

Sports bring Asia together to build a community of common destiny. It is the common aspiration of the Asian people to promote peace, unity and tolerance through sports. The Asian Games are making Asia a closer "big family".

Be with and love the Asian Games. Friendship and solidarity are destined to be the main theme of the sports event of "heart to heart integration, Aida's future". Using sports as a bridge and a bond not only allows us to embrace each other warmly and sincerely, but also allows us to embrace a better tomorrow.

(Editor in charge: Yan Shuai, Qu Yuan)

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