The 16th Beijing Games will open the curtain, and the scale of the competition will reach a new high.
Beijing, Beijing, August 6 (Reporter Yue Chuan) the news briefing of the 16th Beijing Games (hereinafter referred to as the “City Games”) was held in Beijing on the 5th, and the opening ceremony of the event will be held in late August. According to the introduction of the organizing committee of the competition, the current municipal games will consist of two major parts: Youth competition group and mass group. More Than 12000 players from all districts of Beijing and Economic and Technological Development Zone signed up for the competition, the scale of the competition hit a new high.
It is reported that the youth competition group has 28 major events and 33 sub-items, including track and field, swimming, football, basketball, volleyball, etc. There are also rock climbing, synchronized swimming, skateboarding, four items such as break dance are performance projects. The final stage of competitive events is from August to October. At present, the organizing committee has publicized the qualifications of participating athletes.
The mass group has a total of 15 competitions, including table tennis, badminton, go, chess, bridge, roller skating, balloon volleyball and other 7 National Games mass group competitions, fitness Qigong, Chinese wrestling, three traditional sports such as kites and five popular sports such as tennis, football, basketball, shuttlecock and marathon.
It is reported that in order to drive more people to participate and build an age-friendly competition system, the current municipal games have refined the project setting, with a large increase of 111 small items. At present, various events are in the registration stage, and the organizing committee is committed to making the events a “leader” of the multi-level and diversified national fitness competition system “.
At the news briefing held on the 5th, Chen Jie, executive deputy director and secretary general of the organizing committee of the event, said that the theme of the current municipal games was “wonderful 16 games, energetic double Olympic city, it is an important selection and training platform for Beijing to prepare for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and the 2025 Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao National Games. The event preparation office fully drew lessons from the excellent experience of Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games, and established an epidemic prevention and control mechanism focusing on prevention, combining prevention and control, and responding scientifically.
It is understood that the opening ceremony of this municipal games will be held in late August. Chen Jie revealed that the organization of the opening ceremony will advocate the concept of thrift and efficiency, which consists of two parts: the opening ceremony and the performance competition, with a total duration of about 50 minutes. At present, the relevant teams of the opening ceremony are carrying out preparations such as rehearsal.
The Organizing Committee of the competition said that the four-year municipal games will be widely carried out in strengthening amateur training in Beijing, cultivating high-level reserve talents, promoting the development of youth sports, it has played an important role in showing the development level of national fitness. In the next step, the organizing committee will continue to devote itself to improving the social attention and influence of the event, fully showing the city appearance and competition level of “The City of double Olympics”, and truly become a powerful measure to carry forward the “Beijing Winter Olympics spirit. (Finished)