Hangzhou Asian Games 16-Day Battle Ends

Hangzhou Asian Games 16-Day Battle Ends... See You in Aichi and Nagoya in 2026

Breaking silver medal Kim Hong-yeol closing ceremony Korean jockey... Farewell to the 'digital giant' who co-ignited the torch

The 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, held in six cities around Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, concluded on the 8th after 16 days of intense competition.

The closing ceremony began at 9 p.m. (Korean time) on this day at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium, the main stadium of this event, with the attendance of state councilor Premier Li Chang, the second-highest-ranking Chinese power, and other guests, and lasted 85 minutes.

The closing ceremony opened with a beautiful scene of colorful lotus flowers in full bloom using augmented reality technology around the Olympic Sports Center Stadium, nicknamed the 'Big Lotus', against the background of the gorgeous Hangzhou city night view shining like gold. 바카라사이트

On the 16th, under the banner of 'Asia', 12,000 athletes from 45 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), who reunited five years after the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games, enjoyed the largest sports festival in a festival of friendship and harmony.

After the performance of ‘To You, Flowers of Memory’, flag bearers and athletes from each country entered the stadium.

In Korea, 'legendary b-boy' Kim Hong-yeol (Hong10), the men's silver medalist in breaking at this competition, entered while waving the Korean national flag.

Breaking, karate, and water polo athletes who returned home on the 9th followed him.

In North Korea, Lee Cheong-song, winner of the 81 kg weightlifting class, held the North Korean flag high as the flag bearer.

Athletes from each country, wearing colorful uniforms, took pictures of each country at the stadium, held hands together, formed a circle, and regretted the moment of separation.

The Hangzhou Asian Games, which were postponed for a year in the aftermath of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) and held five years after the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games, are self-proclaimed as the cradle of China's information technology (IT) industry with the motto of being eco-friendly, digital, and smart. Hangzhou heated up.

This Summer Asian Games, which was held for the third time in China following Beijing in 1990 and Guangzhou in 2010, was evaluated as a success as it was held without any major noise, especially in game management and referee decisions.

At the closing ceremony, the Hangzhou organizing committee spread 'digital grass', made of about 40,000 fluorescent materials evenly woven, on the floor of the Olympic Sports Center Stadium and used it as a huge palette to appropriately embody the splendor of color.

Promotion that the Hangzhou Organizing Committee will hand over the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) flag and torch model to the Aichi/Nagoya Organizing Committee in Japan, which will host the 20th Asian Games in 2026, and that the next organizing committee will introduce local culture and welcome a visit in three years. performed.

Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City became the third city in Japan to host the Summer Asian Games, following Tokyo in 1958 and Hiroshima in 1994.

Sa Xiaoran, general director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Hangzhou Asian Games, gave a moving closing ceremony with love and respect, applauding the athletes who pursued their dreams and brightened the competition with great games, and thanking all the volunteers who dedicated themselves to hosting a successful competition.

As the support staff said their goodbyes with a request to remember Hangzhou forever, the 'digital giant', who became a hot topic as a co-lighter of the opening ceremony torch along with Chinese handsome swimmer Wang Shun, reappeared.

The Hangzhou Asian Games ended with the 'digital giant', along with athletes and volunteers from 45 NOCs, watching the torch being extinguished, drawing a heart above his head with both hands, waving his hands widely, and disappearing onto the stadium.