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On August 3, Paris time, Roland · Garros cheered for a Chinese name, although the pronunciation of "QIN WEN" by foreigners is somewhat awkward, but the admiration and appreciation come from the heart, without doubt and prejudice.
"Zheng Qinwen" is now the most popular ID of Roland · Garros. People like her not only because she has the ability to beat the world number one, but also because she comes from a non-traditional tennis powerhouse and shows a different side of the Oriental woman – straightforward, outgoing and humorous, just like her sister Li Na. The Olympic Games are a stage of multiculturalism, and the France audience applauded and praised the yellow-skinned Chinese girl.
Playing 5 games in 5 days, and fighting 8 hours of anti-high temperature work in the past 3 days, Zheng Qinwen is so strong-willed, which very much matches the Roland · Garros motto engraved on the Chartier field: Victory belongs to the most tenacious.
A total of 329 gold medals will be awarded at the Paris Olympics, each representing the world's best in their respective fields. The physical weight of a single gold medal is 529 grams, but in reality, the gold content is very different. Among the 16 gold medals won by the Chinese sports delegation, the gold medals in the tennis women's singles and men's 100-meter freestyle are undoubtedly the two heaviest pieces, unsurpassed.
This is determined by the professionalism and global reach of the sport. There are more than 2,000 tennis players ranked in the ATP and WTA around the world, but only a few can stand on the Roland · Garros final every year. Although the Olympics are different from the Grand Slams, they also bring together the best tennis players in the world. As a result, tennis singles finals have attracted much more attention than other sports, and only the 100m in athletics and swimming and the final in men's basketball can be matched by the entire Olympic arena.
In the past, there have always been people who have questioned the significance of Olympic tennis and compared it to Olympic football. The reality is different, the history of tennis shows that the greatest player is Serbia Novak Djokovic, but he has twice shed tears on the court because of the Olympic disappointment.
Tennis knows no borders, and players have nationalities, so playing for the country is an athlete's highest spiritual goal. The upcoming men's singles final between Deyo and Alcaraz on August 4 has been listed as a high-demand event for this Olympic Games, and the scene of thousands of people competing can already be imagined.
Nine countries were able to enter the five individual finals of tennis at the Paris Olympics, and only China attacked in the mixed doubles and women's singles, which shows that Olympic tennis is not monopolized in the world, but is in the competition of a hundred flowers.
Although Australia, United States and France are the top three gold medalists in the nine-day pool, there are currently as many as 13 countries with gold on the books, and swimming is not only the most popular and watched event, but also one of the most competitive Olympic sports.
Poon's gold medal in the 100m freestyle is the equivalent of a 100m runner on land, and he has broken the world record by a large margin, becoming the only person to break the world record in the pool at the Paris Olympics so far. In a video widely circulated on the Internet in the past few days, the expert coach of the Australia team exclaimed, "It is impossible to lead a position in the 100 meters, subverting my 30 years of knowledge in this field", which proves the nuclear explosion yield caused by this gold medal in the swimming world.
Before the Chinese sports delegation set off for this Olympic Games, although the outside world predicted that the number of gold medals was still optimistic, we turned off the lights and ate wontons in our hearts.
If the swimming gold medal had been planned, the tennis gold medal might have been undreamed of before the Olympics, but both gold medals were epoch-making. It not only marks the hereditary territory in Europe and the United States, where the Chinese can also do their best, but more importantly, it clarifies the direction for the road of socialized development.
Swimming and tennis, almost two completely different gold medal production paths, one guaranteed by the national system, the other funded by the society, they have created the golden sign of Chinese sports in this Olympic Games, but after Paris, the topic of the social value of gold medals is destined to continue.
Chao News Special Reporter Yi Zhigang Zhao Lei Ying Luyang Editor-in-charge: Zhou Qin