2024-01-19 01:38:00
People’s Daily Online, Beijing, January 19 (Reporter Yang Lei) The 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Games will be held in South Korea from January 19 to February 1, Beijing time. About 1,900 athletes from 81 countries and regions are expected to attend Gathered in South Korea, they competed fiercely in 7 major categories, 15 sub-categories, and 81 minor categories.
The Winter Youth Olympic Games are held every four years. The first three editions were all in Europe, held in Innsbruck, Austria, Lillehammer, Norway, and Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2012, 2016, and 2020 respectively. The Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics is the first time the Winter Youth Olympics has come to Asia.
2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games emblem and slogan.Image source: 2024 Winter Youth Olympics official website
The slogan of this Winter Youth Olympic Games is “Grow together, shine forever”. According to the International Olympic Committee and event organizers, the slogan of the Winter Youth Olympic Games is based on “people of different genders, different ages, and different regions.” feedback” was finally selected. This slogan is also reflected in the competition mascot and medal design.
The mascot of the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games is “Menggio”.Image source: 2024 Winter Youth Olympics official website
The name of the mascot “Mengjiao” comes from a Korean word, which means the gathering of thoughts and the gathering of strength. Its prototype is the white tiger “Guardian”, the mascot of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and the black bear “Wolwol”, the mascot of the Winter Paralympics. “Bear” is a snowball during a snowball fight, which means that the younger generation unites to grow together. The medal design work “Shine the Future” provides a visual interpretation of “Growing together, shining forever”, reflecting the diversity of the Olympics and how the world contributes to peace and coexistence in different ways.
According to information released by the International Olympic Committee, the opening ceremony of the Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Games will be held simultaneously at the Gangneung Speed Skating Stadium and the Pyeongchang Dome Stadium on January 19. The theme of the opening ceremony is “Universe”, which symbolizes the infinite possibilities of young people. Young people participating in the opening ceremony will use the slogan “Grow together, shine forever” to “grow” in the process of exploring the inner world and the micro world. The heroine “Wuri” of the opening ceremony will embark on a fantasy journey to rediscover her past. Create your own “universe” from a long-forgotten dream.
The opening ceremony will still end with the Winter Youth Olympics torch lighting ceremony. The Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Games will launch a “digital torch”, which will also be “lit” outside the venue when the opening ceremony is held.
Zhang Hong, China’s first gold medalist in speed skating at the Winter Olympics and member of the International Olympic Committee, was appointed chairman of the Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Games Coordination Committee in 2020. At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Zhang Hong won the first Winter Olympic gold medal in speed skating for the Chinese sports delegation. In 2018, at the 132nd Plenary Session of the International Olympic Committee held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Zhang Hong was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee and a member of the International Olympic Committee Athletes Commission.
In addition, Gu Ailing, as a double champion of the Winter Youth Olympics and Winter Olympics, will officially serve as the global ambassador of this Winter Youth Olympics in 2023. She won two gold medals in the women’s halfpipe and big jump in freestyle skiing at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, as well as a silver medal in freestyle skiing slopestyle skills, and won the women’s big jump in freestyle skiing at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. and two gold medals in halfpipe and halfpipe, and a silver medal in freestyle ski slopestyle.
(Editors: Fang Jinglun, Gao Lei)
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