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Participating in the torch relay is an honour for an athlete, and the athletes who carry the torch at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games are carefully selected.

To the melody of "Ode to Joy," heavyweight champion evander Holyfield runs with the torch in hand, and he won a bronze medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. As the first baton in the field, he carried the torch high and ran a small half circle in the playground, and everywhere the torch went, people would pay attention and admire, as if the light emitted by its jumping flame could attract everyone's face and heart.

In the middle of the playground straight, Holyfield pulled out the Greek athlete Paraskovy? Patoridu (PArAFKeViPAtoULidoU), running together with the torch, at the Barcelona '92 Olympics in Laskovy? Patori won the 100m hurdles, becoming the first woman in Greek history to win an Olympic medal.

Together, the pair carried the torch for another ride before joining up with the third baton, Javis Evans, a four-time Olympic gold medallist in swimming in 1988 and 1992, who also won a silver medal in addition to the gold medal, and it looked like she was looking to continue her legacy.

The last shot was 1960 Olympic gold medalist Muhammad Ali (mUHAmmAdALi), who was suffering from Parkinson's disease and was standing tremblingly at the top of the gentle slope where Chen Kangjie and his team had just entered the arena in a white tracksuit.

Evans walked 100 meters on the track with the torch and ran up a gentle slope and lit the torch in Ali's hand with the torch in his hand.

At this moment, boxing champion Mohammed. Ali became the center of attention all over the world, with the crowd and athletes watching him, and hundreds of millions of people around the world staring at the 55-year-old athlete on television.

The current boxing champion Ali is a respected man, but that wasn't the case back then, even after he won the Olympic title.

Ali was born into an ordinary family in Louisville, Kentucky, when the racial segregation policy in the United States had not yet been abolished, and black people were generally discriminated against, so he was inspired to change this qiē through his own power at a very young age, so he began boxing at the age of 12, won the Golden Glove Championship twice in 1959 and 1960, and then became a professional fighter.

With his excellent performance, the 18-year-old Ali became a member of the U.S. team for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. In the 81kg competition, Ali won all three fights and entered the final. His opponent, the Polish Pieckiski, was a three-time European champion and a bronze medalist at the 1956 Olympics.

His prowess on the ring is impressive, with some describing his punches as sharp as a bee's sting, and his footwork as light and nimble as a butterfly fluttering. In addition, the young Ali is not only outstanding on the field, but he is also very active in life. In the Olympic Village, he greeted everyone and made all kinds of jokes with everyone, and became the most well-known athlete there.

After three rounds, Ali won by points and won his only Olympic gold medal. And his original footwork is also vividly called the butterfly step.

After returning to China, Ali felt the enthusiasm of the people from the airport. For a while, he also became the object of American courtship. The honor in front of him made Ali mistakenly believe that he had used his victory to change people's prejudice against people of color, but the cruel reality still shattered his dreams.

One day, he wore the gold medal around his neck and went to a downtown restaurant for dinner, but no one served him. He said, "I'm the champion!" I'm a gold medalist! The reply was, "Don't you see blacks forbidden!" ”。

Afterwards, an enraged Ali threw his gold medal into the sea, saying, "I don't want to play for such a country again".

During his professional boxing career, Ali won 56 of his 60 fights. 37 of those were knocks to the canvas and 3 of the 4 losses were due to fewer points. Such achievements have made him a well-deserved boxing champion.

Ali's trembling arms held the flame high, and everyone could clearly see that his left hand was shaking violently, but with his perseverance, he used the torch in his hand to light the fire on the leash connected to the cauldron tower, and after Ali left the flame, the flame slowly rose until finally the towering cauldron was lit.

The flame burned over the Atlanta Olympic Stadium, illuminating the beautiful night, inspiring everyone's yearning for beauty and peace, and inspiring athletes in every venue to work hard for the next 10 days or so to achieve the Olympic Games "Faster, Higher."

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Prior to the relay, Samaranch and Payne made positive and impassioned speeches on behalf of the IOC and the Organising Committee respectively.

This was followed by the swearing-in ceremony and the appearance of the theme song of this year's Olympic Games.

The representative who took the oath was the women's basketball player Teresa. Edwards and diving referee Hobie. Billingsley, whose oath will never change, is: "In the name of all athletes, I pledge to participate in this Olympic Games in a true spirit of sportsmanship for the sake of the glory of sport and the honour of our teams, and to commit to non-doping and to respect and abide by the rules that govern the Games." The referee's oath reads: "In the name of all referees and officials, I pledge to carry out my duties in full and open with true sportsmanship and to respect and abide by the rules governing the Games".

On a circular stage with the flags of the participating countries in the middle of the playground, the Cuban-born singer Gloriaestefan sang the Olympic anthem, "Reach".

Gloria István was once partially paralyzed in a serious car accident, but with her strong perseverance, she finally overcame her illness and stood on the stage again. Diane Warren (Anderwar) wrote the lyrics of this song quite well, such as "ificouldreach, higher, Justforone ttouchthesky" (If I can climb higher, I want to touch the vast sky), this song sings about the Olympic spirit, and it is also Gloria Eastervan's interpretation of the infinite possibilities of life, but no one knows, Standing on the stage and singing passionately, she relied on two 8-inch titanium rods implanted in her spine to stand up!

The lyrics are very good, but the tune Chen Kangjie doesn't like very much, and it is a simple folk style, because the creator believes that simple is grand. Maybe they don't care much about the external form, but for ordinary people, sometimes the form attracts them more than the content.

In the praise and cheers of tens of thousands of people, the wonderful opening ceremony came to an end, and from tomorrow onwards, all the protagonists on the field will be these athletes standing in the field. Each of their competitions will remain in history and will attract the attention of the world.

When the Hong Kong delegation entered, the people around him could see the solemnity on Chen Kangjie's face, not because the name of Hong Kong is HongKong alone, but also because the flag in front of them is the dragon and lion flag, the blue flag has a striking British rice pattern in the upper left corner, and the oval dragon and lion logo in the lower left corner, which is a typical British colonial symbol.

What is frustrating is that once their athletes win gold medals on the field, the national anthem played is the British national anthem "godS**ethequeen" (God Save the Queen), Chen Kangjie does not know whether to hope that those athletes of the same species will win the gold medal or hope that they will lose, which is a contradictory question. Thankfully, this will be the last time they will appear at the Olympics in this way, and from July 1 next year, when they compete in national competitions, they will have an A in their English names, the flag will change, and the national anthem will be played as "March of the Volunteers".

After standing for several hours, Chen Kangjie, who returned to the dormitory in the Olympic Village that night, could not rest immediately, but answered countless phone calls, including from home, Ouyang Zhenhua, Chen Jing, He Wanrong, they called from the hotel, as well as Zhao Yuexiang from Ba County, and Zhao Zhibang from the capital.

Everyone said that they had seen him, and from the tone, Chen Kangjie could hear that most of them were happier and excited than him, and before hanging up the phone, they would tell him a little bit, hoping that he could achieve good results in the next game and win glory for the country.

In short, those dozens of phone calls took more than two hours, and no one cared whether the long-distance call was very expensive, and there were still many people who didn't know his phone call in the United States, otherwise, it was estimated that he wouldn't want to sleep all night.

Because Chen Kangjie did not play in the next few days, he became an ordinary spectator more often, and these days are also the time when he accompanies Chen Jing the most, every day the two sisters and brothers plus Ouyang Zhenhua and He Wanrong A group of them go to watch the game in various venues, as long as there is a project in which the Chinese team participates, they will go to watch and cheer. Even the games of the Treasure Island hockey team, they will go to see it.

Relaxed time always flies quickly, a few days pass in the blink of an eye, and on July 26th, Chen Kangjie can no longer be so comfortable to be a spectator everywhere, he has to play the role of an athlete again, ready to take part in his competition.

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