w88 casino News Network (Reporter Li Jing）8month17Sunday afternoon5hour, Shunyi Olympic Water Park was abuzz. Tang Bin, Jin Ziwei, Xi Aihua and Zhang Yangyang of the Chinese women's quadruple sculls team stood on the podium, excitedly waving the gold medals and flowers in their hands.
At this moment, Lin Yali did not know that the medals and flowers she had just prepared for the winners had been delivered to the Chinese players.
In Shunyi Olympic Water Park, as an Olympic volunteer, Lin Yali works as a meticulous concierge——Preparation of award materials. In people's minds, there are always noble and beautiful hostesses at award ceremonies. At this Olympics, delicate flowers lined the blue and white porcelain-themed cheongsam, making them even more glamorous. However, behind every medal and every bouquet of flowers in their hands is the hard work of too many people.
Lin Yali is one of these hard-working people.
102Placement of medals,102Bouquet of fresh flowers,76Country and region flag confirmation——This was Lin Yali’s work assignment during the rowing competition that just ended. But she didn’t know who the winning team was, and couldn’t see the solemn and luxurious award ceremony. She was quietly behind the grand stage, blessing and serving each winning team, and was busy for this historical moment that occurs every four years. Their work is vital, and a small oversight could hurt the feelings of the winning contestant.
Lin Yali is at work
“We have to give out awards every ten minutes, and we look very nervous. "Lin Yali commented on her work this way. The Olympic medals are made of gold inlaid with jade. Since the engravings on the medals for different events are different, special care must be taken when preparing the medals, and each medal must correspond to the correct event.
The medals must be placed in the same direction, and in principle they must be easy for the presenter to take out. Lin Yali was familiar with these during training. For solo events, there is only one medal in a tray and placement is relatively simple. However, when it came to the four-person and eight-person boat events, Lin Yali and her companions had to use their brains to consider every detail of how to arrange the medals beautifully and facilitate awarding.
When preparing the medals, they asked everyone to wear gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints on the jade and silk straps of the medals. Every medal is so precious and no mistakes are allowed, so Lin Yali holds every medal with both hands and never dares to hang it with one hand. "I finally understand what a heavy medal is," Lin Yali said playfully.
In addition to medals, another seemingly simple but complicated task is the preparation of flowers. The athletes' flowers seen at the award ceremony are actually composed of nine "Chinese red" roses. Because they are so bright, many people even mistake them for roses. Each bouquet of flowers contains5Plant grass as background, each type of grass has6Piece. Six and nine are both auspicious numbers in China, and the flowers as a whole show traditional Chinese characteristics. A piece of grass called Hongzhu is extremely easy to turn black and needs to be kept fresh at low temperature. Lin Yali and two companions stayed in the low-temperature room from time to time, wrapped in cotton coats and preparing medals at the same time.
“We keep the flowers fresh together,” Lin Yali said with a smile.
According to the requirements of the Olympic Organizing Committee, every bouquet of flowers must be completely fresh when awarded to athletes, without any flaws or signs of falling off and withering. These almost harsh regulations have put forward higher requirements for Lin Yali's work. During the rowing competition, all flowers are delivered to the venue two hours before the awards are given.30Carefully selected flowers from the box102The most beautiful ones also greatly increase their workload.
17Throughout the afternoon of 20260_20388|, Lin Yali and her two companions did not have a moment's rest with the frequency of awarding awards every ten minutes. Even when the Chinese team won the gold medal in the water behind them, they were not able to witness it. Lin Yali described the scene at that time and said that when she heard the cheers outside, she wondered if the Chinese team had won the gold medal. I also specially placed the gold medals twice, hoping that these gold medals would eventually be given to the Chinese team.
In fact, Lin Yali’s work is much more than that.
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Since the team leaders from various countries are very busy, less than five countries come to confirm the national flags every day, so Lin Yali and the others have to use the method of "chasing and intercepting" to ask for the assistance of the team leaders from each country. Lin Yali and her companions are responsible for the front and back designs of each country's flag, the abbreviation of the country, and the stacking of the flag stand. Even when the flag was wrinkled and not flying, Lin Yali still had to take on the task of ironing it. "This allows me to recognize the national flags of many countries now!" Lin Yali said happily.
Lin Yali (second from left) is arranging the national flag
After working in the water park for half a month, Lin Yali felt the most about what Olympic standards are. The high-level Olympic concept requires them to be meticulous in all aspects. In the room where the medals are placed, there are only Lin Yali and two companions at a time, and no one else is allowed in. Since they wear identification cards at work, any slight shaking of the registration card may cause deviation in the placement or damage to the flowers. Therefore, Lin Yali would always put the registration card away and hide it inside her coat. Lin Yali would pay a lot of attention to details like this.
Lin Yali said, this is called professionalism.
The award concierge team includes material preparation and flag bearers和conciergeMiss three groups. The close cooperation of the three can ensure that the perfect award ceremony is presented to the world.
Every day, walking into the venue, Lin Yali——This lovely girl will tell herself to treat this day with the best attitude, "My smile can infect others, and I want to be as 'fresh' as flowers."
