Xinhua News Agency, Jakarta, September 2 (Reporter Liu Ning, Yu Qianliang, Xia Liang) Goodbye Jakarta, 2022 meet Hangzhou! The 18th Asian Games closed in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia on the 2nd, and the next event will be held in Hangzhou, China in 2022.
The closing ceremony was staged in the rain that night. Guo Dan, a roller skating and speed skater, entered the pengano stadium on a bright the five-starred red flag. The Chinese delegation sent 845 athletes to participate in the 38 major events and 376 minor events of this Asian Games, ranking first in the 10 consecutive gold medal rankings.
Happily, the Chinese delegation took a big step forward on the three big-ball sports project than the previous session. Although the Chinese U23 men’s football team was blocked outside the top eight and the men’s volleyball team participating in team B finally ranked ninth, the Chinese team won the men’s and women’s basketball gold medals, the women’s volleyball team won the championship and the women’s football team won the runner-up. In swimming and track and field events, Liu Xiang, Sun Yang, Su Bingtian and other athletes ranked among the top ten in the world in 26 events this year; swimming ranked the top three in the world in 9 small items, among which women’s 50 m backstroke, men’s 4x 100 m medley relay and men’s 400 m freestyle ranked the first in the world.
The Asian Games jointly organized by Jakarta and Jugang attracted more than 10000 athletes from 45 countries and regions in Asia and participated in 40 major events and 465 minor events. In the medal list, the Chinese team continued to top the list with 132 gold, 92 silver and 65 bronze. The Japanese team ranked second with 75 gold, 56 silver and 74 bronze, and the Korean team ranked third with 49 gold, 58 silver and 70 bronze. Although compared with the previous session, the Japanese team surpassed the South Korean team to rank second, the overall pattern of Asian sports has not changed much.
This Asian Games broke 6 world records. Liu Xiang cut waves in the swimming pool, making the world record of women’s 50-meter backstroke, which had been covered for 9 years, ancient. Su Bingtian rode in the track and field and redefined the men’s 100-meter speed of the Asian Games with 9 seconds 92. The 18-year-old Japanese player Chi Jiang shihuazi won 6 gold and 2 silver and was elected as the most valuable athlete in this Asian Games.
The closing ceremony performance was brilliant. In the rain, musicians and dancers from all over Asia sing and dance to show the world “Asian energy”.
Prince Ahmed, chairman of the Yao AO Council, announced the closing of the Asian Games.
At 20:02 local time, Prince Ahmed handed the flag of the Yao AO Council to the chairman of the Hangzhou sub-committee, the president of the Chinese Olympic Committee and the director of the State General Administration of Sports. Xu Liyi, vice chairman and secretary general of Hangzhou sub-committee and mayor of Hangzhou, received the flag from Zhengzhong, marking that the Asian Games officially entered “Hangzhou Time”. Later, the national anthem of the People’s Republic of China was played on the spot and the national flag of the People’s Republic of China was raised.
The promotional film of Hangzhou Asian Games city appeared on the big screen of the stadium, and the “Hangzhou time” performance with the theme of “yearning” showed various highlights.
Jack Ma, the outstanding citizen representative of Hangzhou and chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba Group, joined the Hangzhou girl holding the “water of West Lake” and Sun Yang, the world swimming star from Hangzhou, send a warm invitation together-2022. Hangzhou welcomes all Asian athletes and friends to come!
In the warm cheers of the audience, the “tide” of the emblem of the 19th Asian Games in 2022 was shocked and raised. Hangzhou tells Asia and the world-2022, meet Hangzhou, meet Hangzhou Asian Games!