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Up above there is the bright sky, down below with a sea of waving flags. On November 22, the opening ceremony of our school’s annual sports meeting successfully took place on the sports grounds, on the west side of the Shipai campus.
Sports meeting opening ceremony successfully takes place
Lasting for two days, the sports meeting was dedicated to the theme: “Fight hard to show vigorous spirit, Forge ahead in the new era” and launched a total of 19 sports events. Athletes from 29 faculties and institutes took part, including 464 male and 590 female participants. 145 referees and other staff also joined in the meeting to provide sufficient services and ensure its smooth operation.
29 faculties and institutes takes part.
At the opening ceremony, Huang Zhaotuan, deputy secretary of the party committee, extended his sincere greetings to all the athletes, judges and staff. In his speech, he underscored the importance that we must fully implement the requirements of the party and the state, while regarding sports as an important vehicle of moral education, and further step up the development of sports programs. Huang also appreciated the fruits we have harvested in recent years in sports and encouraged all teachers and students to move forward towards the goal of building an innovative and high-level university, excel in education under the guidance of the spirit of "higher, faster and stronger".
Huang Zhaotuan, deputy secretary of the party committee, makes a speech at the ceremony
Representatives from athletes and judges also solemnly sweared that they would compete vigorously, perform well in the compsetition and take on responsibility for results to ensure fairness.
Athletes representative vows to compete vigorously
Referee representative vows to ensure fair results
Bearing everyone’s strong expectation, the school sports meeting kicked off.
The square team marches forward in front of the podium
Performance
The martial arts performance "Vigorous hey days", which combines cudgel play, marksmanship, Taiji sword practice, mantis boxing, arm boxing, and a collective knife show, received a lot of applause. At the competition of traditional martial arts, athletes were wearing colorful costumes with Chinese characteristics showing the diversity of the martial arts culture. The performance team consisted of 21 members, including those from the Guangdong martial arts team, trained athletes from SCNU, postgraduates and undergraduates who major in physical education.
The great martial arts performance
Intricate and artful Taiji sword practice
The aerobics performance, ignited the dream of sports and arts, showing the positive spiritual outlook of the students at SCNU. Sports aerobics and aerobics were the main content of the performance. Dancing to the lively music with vibrant rhythm, split, kick, jump and flip, the artistic sportsmen gave the performance professionally and beautifully, which won the cheers and applause from the audience all around.
Dynamic aerobics performance
Dynamic aerobics performance
As in the lyrics of “I love my motherland and I can’t split with it any moment”, the art troupe of staff in SCNU gave marvelous dance and a song called Me and My Motherland, enfusing their excellent performance with patriotism.
The art troupe of staff together sing songs
The exercise was led by a row of guides and done jointly by thousands of staff, teachers and students in the sports grounds in orderly fashion, filling the stadium with an energetic atmosphere and passing down the spirit of “health makes us happier”.
Thousands of staff, teachers and students do exercise together
International Students
More than twenty students from eight different countries attended the opening ceremony of sports meeting at SCNU on November 22. After several days of rehearsals, they made a brilliant performance with their teachers representing the College of International Culture.
Group photo of the School of International Exchange
Dewi Melina , took part in the ceremony together with her classmates. “I’m very proud of being a student of SCNU. Not until we watched the martial arts and dance during the opening ceremony did I know about other colleges of SCNU” said an Indonesian student. Another student, Rosalie Elvira, also expressed her heartfelt thrills of the momentum of the spectacle when the flag bearers ran across the court together. A student from Tajikistan said that tired as he was, he enjoyed the interesting process of being a participant in the opening ceremony.
Dewi Melina(the second from left to right)with her classmates
Rosalie Elvira expresses her heartfelt thrills
Student from Tajikistan(the third from left to right) and his friend also enjoy the sports meeting
Group photo of international students who participate in this event
Sports Meeting and Faculty Fun Games
There were 17 individual events and 2 team events during the 2-days sports meeting. The individual events consisted of 10 track events such as 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m, 110-meter hurdles, 400m, 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay, and 7 field events such as high jump, long jump, triple jump, javelin, discus, shot-put and hammer throw. Team events included the 50m face-to-face relay and the 10 people standing long jump relay. The hurdle project only opened the sports academy group.
Man 100m race
Medicine ball throw finals
Women 110m hurdles race
After the opening ceremony, the school running activities and the fun games for teachers and staff began. From the content to the form, the fun games had an all-round upgrade, using various inflatable facilities, in order to encourage teachers and staff to participate actively and strengthen their physique and team spirit.
Fun games that faculty memers all enjoy
Fun games that faculty memers all enjoy
Fun games that faculty memers all enjoy
“The inflatable facilities bring us a lot of fun. I can feel a strong sense of belonging to a team when we are in the game. Tacit as we are, so we win, which makes me feel very happy” says Fang Qingming, the vice president of the College of International Culture, whose team just won in the game.
Fang Qingming, the vice president of the School of International Culture shares his feeling
“Exercise make me feel more confident and calmer” says Zhang Jinrui, a student from the School of Chinese Language & Literature, who won the women's long jump in group A. She also expressed her great fondness for sports, and encouraged everyone to keep exercising, form the habit of sports and find fun there.
Source from SCNU wechat official account
Written and translated by Yang yi, Qiu Lezi, Ma Kaiyu
Proofread by Edwin Baak
Reviewed by Li Jianru
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