Yesterday, the Chinese sports delegation announced that Ma Long and Feng Yu will serve as the flagbearers of the opening ceremony of the Chinese sports delegation at the Paris Olympics.
Team Dragons are familiar to everyone.
Feng Yu, a relative stranger, is the captain of the Chinese synchronized swimming team.
At the 2022 World Swimming Championships, Feng Yu and his teammates created a historic breakthrough and won the gold medal in synchronized swimming collective technical selection and collective free selection.
At the World Championships in Doha in February this year, the Chinese synchronized swimming team won 7 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze.
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In the past, men's basketball players were basically the flag bearers for the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games.
Men's basketball players are more well-known and tall, and they are very majestic and temperamental when they walk in front.
Los Angeles 1984: Wang Libin (basketball); Seoul 1988: Song Tao (basketball); Barcelona 1992: Song Ligang (basketball); Atlanta 1996: Liu Yudong (basketball)
Sydney 2000: Liu Yudong (basketball); Athens 2004: Yao Ming (basketball); Beijing 2008: Yao Ming (basketball); London 2012: Yi Jianlian (basketball).
Da Yao and the god of war carried the flag twice.
But with the Chinese men's basketball team being divided into the audience group for two consecutive Olympic Games, the situation has to change...
To be precise, since Rio 2016, it has been changed to other sports, when it was fencer Thunder.
At the Tokyo Olympics, it was women's volleyball player Zhu Ting and taekwondo athlete Zhao Shuai.
And this year's men's flag bearer belongs to Ma Long, and I think it is well deserved and expected.
The first is career achievement.
The 35-year-old legend has an unrivalled resume and is arguably the greatest player in table tennis history.
Three-time World Table Tennis Championships Men's Singles Champion, Three-time World Cup Men's Singles Champion, Two-time Olympic Men's Singles and Three-time Olympic Team Champion, National Games Champion, Asian Cup Quadruple Champion...
He won five gold medals in three Olympic Games, becoming the first athlete to defend his men's singles title at the Olympics and the athlete with the largest number of gold medals in China's Olympic history.
The second is temperament.
The Dragons are also very good in this area.
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