Xinhua News Agency, Buenos Aires, October 19th, take stock of the “young” project
Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Chunyu Li Jia Rui Ni Ruijie
Youth Olympic Games is not only the growth platform of sports stars, it is also a practice field for some sports to go to the Olympic stage. The third Summer Youth Olympic Games closed in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the evening of 18th local time. Four new projects including speed skating, rock climbing, sports dance and karate were successfully completed. Among them, rock climbing and karate undoubtedly accumulated experience for their first Olympic show in Tokyo two years later.
Speed roller skating
Four years ago in Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, roller skating, rock climbing, skateboarding and martial arts were listed as performance projects and performed in Nanjing 2014 Sports laboratory.
This year’s Youth Olympic Games speed skating includes 500-meter rush, 1000-meter sprint and 5000-meter elimination. Colombia has strong strength in this project. In the women’s individual mixed project and men’s individual mixed project on the 7th and 8th, Columbia players Rueda and Reina won gold medals respectively.
Rock climbing
Rock climbing originates from mountaineering and is very popular among young people all over the world. This year’s Youth Olympic rock climbing includes three events: speed race, rock climbing race and difficulty race. Among them, the climbing wall height of speed race and difficulty race is 15 meters, and the wall height of rock climbing race is 4.5 meters. Each player ranked the top three competitions, ranking the smallest number and ranking the first, and so on, taking the top six to enter the finals.
In the women’s all around final held on the 9th, Austrian player Leitner won the championship; In the men’s all around final held on the 10th, Japanese player geitai won the championship, and Chinese teenager pan Yufei ranked fifth.
The modes of rock climbing events in the Youth Olympic Games and Tokyo Olympic Games are the same. It is understood that the countries with the highest rock climbing level in the world are mainly concentrated in Europe, and the outstanding Asian players are concentrated in China, Japan and South Korea.
Sports Dance
Break dance is a kind of street dance originated from New York in the 1970 s. It has outstanding personal style, strong skills and appreciation, and is loved by young people all over the world.
This year’s Youth Olympic Games sports dance break dance competition adopts the form of “fighting dance”. Both sides of the competition play one after another, and the referee scores the outcome according to the standards of creativity, personality, technology, pattern, performance, musicality, etc. The dazzling fast dance steps, rapid rotation and inverted freeze-frame posture make sports dance one of the most eye-catching projects of the Youth Olympic Games.
On the 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th, the sports dance project of this youth Olympic Games completed three competitions of men, women and mixed groups in four competition days. In the mixed group competition, the two players of each team are in cross-border (regional) group pairs according to the results of men’s and women’s competitions. The champions of the three competitions were won by Russian and Japanese players and Japan/Vietnam teams respectively. In Men’s match, Chinese teenager Shang Xiaoyu jumped into the top 8.
Karate
Karate originated from Japan and has integrated techniques such as kicking, beating, falling, taking, throwing, locking, twisting, splitting and cutting in its long-term development. Meanwhile, karate pays attention to etiquette and emphasizes tenacity, dignity and friendly spirit. At present, this sport is very popular in many countries and regions. People practice karate to exercise their bodies and sharpen their minds.
In this youth Olympic karate competition, male and female athletes are divided into three groups according to their weight. Within two minutes, according to the criteria of using various techniques and hitting different parts of the opponent’s body, those with multiple scores won.