August 21, 2024
At 1:30 a.m. Beijing time on the 27th, the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games was held on the Seine River in France. Athletes appeared on cruise ships. The opening ceremony used the Seine River and its banks as the stage. Following the footsteps of the torchbearers, the streets and places of interest in Paris were displayed one by one, performing a large-scale real-life "stage play". As the "Marseillaise" sung by all female voices sounded, ten female statues slowly rose along the banks of the Seine.
In this Olympics, the average age of athletes in the Chinese sports delegation is 25 years old, and the youngest skateboarder Zheng Haohao is only 11 years old. 19-year-old Sheng Lihao and 17-year-old Huang Yuting carried forward the tradition of the Chinese shooting team and firmly "shot" the first gold medal of the Paris Olympics; 18-year-old Deng Yawen won the first Olympic gold medal for the Chinese freestyle BMX team, breaking history; 19-year-old Pan Zhanle not only broke the world record of men's 100-meter freestyle and won the gold medal, but also won the men's 4x100-meter medley relay championship with his teammates, breaking the 40-year monopoly of the US team in this event; 21-year-old Zheng Qinwen won the women's singles tennis championship for the first time in history, becoming the first person in China and even Asia to win the Olympic tennis singles gold medal; the diving three-meter springboard and ten-meter platform doubles, mainly composed of post-00 athletes, won the gold medals, which made people sigh that "the diving dream team is stable and reassuring"... Self-respect, self-reliance, self-improvement, enthusiasm, cuteness, and generosity, young athletes have shown the world a more open, confident, and respectable image of China.
Each generation has its own Olympic mission, and each generation of Olympic athletes is the best embodiment of China's era. The post-00s Chinese athletes took to the Olympic stage with "super relaxed feeling" and became the protagonists, demonstrating the spiritual background of "looking at the same generation" towards the world and the Olympics. Their confident and generous spirit, their attitude of striving for results and enjoying sports more, not only comes from the blessing of super strength, but also comes from the confidence given by the powerful motherland. The natural and relaxed attitude they showed to the world is the epitome of China's openness, tolerance, self-confidence and self-reliance today.
