The Asian Games are in full swing, the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated together, and the sports event meets traditional festivals, showing “Chinese romance”. Making lanterns, painting fans, and using molds to print patterns on moon cakes, the Mid-Autumn Festival theme day experience activities in the athletes’ village were exciting. Zhejiang Guqin, Suzhou Pingtan, Kun Opera, tea ordering, and the West Lake Mid-Autumn Moon Appreciation Gathering were very popular. Through the Asian Games, the unique charm of China’s excellent traditional culture is presented to the world.

The more national it is, the more global it is. A cultural event with Jiangnan sentiment, the Hangzhou Asian Games embodies the unique Chinese style and opens a new window for the world to observe Chinese culture. Especially at the opening ceremony, the Chinese-style young people used the ground as a painting and danced on the ink. “A touch of painting” brought the time back to a thousand years ago; on the ground screen, in the Jiangnan painting scene with water and light, the elegant figure of the Song Dynasty woman The postures and ballet steps complement each other; the Gongchen Bridge constructed with panoramic three-dimensional images leaps over the Grand Canal, with a lifelike and vivid shape. One bank connects to the past, and the other bank connects to the present… “Chinese style” runs throughout, and “Chinese flavor” “Incorporating details, the “Chinese sentiment” touches people’s hearts. Chinese elements refresh the aesthetics of the sports event and tug at the heartstrings of countless people.

Culture is the aging of years and the precipitation of time. It is not only related to the past, but also related to the present and future. The short film “Meet in Hangzhou” with strong regional charm allows ancient and modern Hangzhou to have a dialogue across the air, showing the diverse style of Hangzhou as a “famous historical and cultural city, a city of innovation and vitality, and a city of ecological civilization”. At the opening ceremony, more than 100 million people participated in the relay and the “digital torchbearers” held the torch high, rode the waves from the Qiantang River, and lit the main torch tower together with the main torchbearers, demonstrating the fusion of tradition and modernity, technology Integrate with culture. In each venue, new generation digital technology is widely used, and smart operations empower events; outside the venues, new energy vehicles are used first, and outdoor projects present ecological beauty. Both inside and outside the stadium reflect the acceleration of high-quality development in Zhejiang. It can be said that through a sports event with “Chinese characteristics, Asian style, and splendid”, people can not only think about thousands of years and feel China’s profound cultural heritage; they can also see thousands of miles away, see China’s style of the times, and witness the new era. The development progress and spiritual outlook of China in this era.

Asia has a vast territory, a large population, diverse cultures and a long history. The Hangzhou Asian Games is like a bridge that not only brings special events active in a certain region into the public eye, but also allows different cultures to communicate and learn from each other using sports as a medium. The five events including martial arts, sepak takraw, cricket, jiu-jitsu and jiu-jitsu respectively represent the regional characteristics of East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and West Asia. These non-Olympic events enrich the competition content of the Asian Games and interpret Asia. Sports, the beauty of Asian cultural diversity. This setting provides a stage for sports and culture to complement each other. It is a vivid portrayal of Asian culture that is eclectic, learns from others’ strengths, and is full of vitality. As President Xi Jinping emphasized: “As a community with a shared future connected by mountains and seas and close by people-to-people and cultural exchanges, we must use sports to promote peace, insist on being good to our neighbors and mutual benefit, resist Cold War mentality and camp confrontation, and build Asia into a stable and peaceful place for the world. anchor.”

Civilizations are colorful due to exchanges, and civilizations are enriched due to mutual learning. In the second part of the cultural performance “Hand in Hand” at the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the “Egret Elf” traveled across the sea of ​​stars, hundreds of college students held luminous golden osmanthus to light up the long “Golden Osmanthus River”, and landmark buildings in various Asian countries and regions Presented, forming a beautiful Asian picture. The Asian Games torch lights up the night sky in the south of the Yangtze River; Asian guests and friends gather inside and outside Qiantang. From each appreciating their own beauty to sharing the beauty and beauty, the Hangzhou Asian Games brings “you” and “me” together into “us”, builds a bridge of communication between people from different Asian countries and regions, provides a stage for exchanges and mutual learning among diverse civilizations, and promotes Building a community with a shared future for mankind has injected strong impetus.

A trickle becomes a sea, a rush becomes a tide. The tide is the surging memory of Qiantang, the courageous leap of sports, and the powerful pulse of the times. As the tide rises from the Qiantang River, China’s excellent traditional culture has lasted for thousands of years and been passed down from generation to generation; as the tide surges into the new era, China continues to create new miracles in its old country and new destiny. Looking from the Hangzhou Asian Games to the future, let us use dreams as sails and struggle as oars to draw a new picture of the Asian Games and create a better tomorrow for Asia.

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Kazakhstan has been a dominant force in boxing at the Asian Games, winning eight gold medals and 20 total medals since 1994. It’s almost a tradition that Kazakhstan wins gold medals at boxing at the Asian Games. Kazakhstan first competed at the Asian Games in 1994. Since then, boxing has won gold medals for the Central Asian country.

In 1994, Hiroshima, Japan, Nurzhan Smanov (welterweight) and Kanatbek Shagatayev (light-middleweight) were the Kazakhstani gold medalists. Four years later in Bangkok, Thailand, three Kazakhstani boxers won gold medals. They were Yermakhan Ibraimov (light-middleweight), Vyacheslav Burba (middleweight), and Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov (super heavyweight).

At the 2002 Asian Games that were held in Busan, South Korea, two more Kazakhstani boxers claimed gold medals. They were Nurzhan Karimzhanov (light welterweight) and Gennady Golovkin (light middleweight). Golovkin turns out to be the most decorated boxer in the history of Kazakhstan. He turned pro in 2006, became a two-time unified champion, and held multiple middleweight world championships.

Kazakhstan’s tradition of winning gold medals in boxing at the Asian Games continues in the 2006 edition at Doha, Qatar. But they only won one gold medal via Bakhyt Sarsekbayev (welterweight).

At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, Kazakhstan won another two gold medals in boxing. The gold medalists were Daniyar Yeleussinov (light welterweight) and Serik Sapiyev (welterweight).

The pinnacle happened at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. Kazakhstan was the best nation in boxing at that event. They won 6 gold medals from Ilyas Suleimenov (flyweight), Daniyar Yeleussinov (welterweight), Zhanibek Alimkhanuly (middleweight), Adibek Niyazymbetov (light heavyweight), Anton Pinchuk (heavyweight), and Ivan Dychko (super heavyweight). Another golden generation of Kazakhstani boxers appeared as Zhanibek Alimkhanuly followed Gennady Golovkin’s footsteps.

Turned pro in 2016, Alimkhanuly still holds an undefeated record of 13 fights. The 29-years old had held the WBO middleweight title since 2022. The gold medal tradition from boxing at the Asian Games for Kazakhstan stopped in Jakarta-Palembang, Indonesia. At the 2018 Asian Games, a total of 10 boxers represented Kazakhstan.

Not one was able to win the competition and the country only managed to get two silver medals. Kazakhstan would like to rise from its slump.

The President of Kazakhstan Boxing Federation, Kenes Rakishev, has pledged to raise the self-confidence of the nation’s boxing squad as they headed for the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, next September. Rakishev takes heart from the performance of their athletes at the 2022 Asian Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan, last November.

With 6 gold, 7 silver, and 8 bronze medals, Kazakhstan was the overall winner. “Our work with the athletes will continue as we look ahead to the Asian Games in China and the World Cup (Men’s World Boxing Championships) in Uzbekistan,” said Rakishev. “I was at the tournament in Amman, and I noted that in the battle for gold medals, when it remains to take only half a step to the highest level, for some reason our boxers stop.”

“I invited a famous coach from Moscow, Radislav Gandapas, to work on their psychology and raise their self-esteem even higher and believe in themselves. We will continue working on this aspect,” he stated.

Following the successful performance in Jordan last November, Kazakhstan rose to first place in the ranking of the International Boxing Association (IBA). “This is a well-deserved result of our entire team,” said Rakishev, commenting on the increase in the ranking. “We have managed to assemble a professional coaching and managerial staffs, raise the prestige of sports, and motivate athletes to achieve high results. I am sure that Kazakhstani boxing has taken a leading position in earnest and for a long time.”

Kazakhstan has many potential boxers that could be gold medalists at the 2022 Asian Games. Sanzhar Tashkenbay (minimumweight), who won the gold medal at the 2022 Asian Boxing Championships, also won the gold medal at the 2021 Youth World Championship. Another one is Aslanbek Shymbergenov (light-middleweight), who won the silver medal at the 2018 Asian Games and was a gold medalist at the 2022 Asian Boxing Championships.

Not only in the men’s division, but Kazakhstan also has several talented athletes in the women’s division. Alua Balkibekova (minimumweight), Zhaina Shekerbekova (bantamweight), and Karina Ibragimova (featherweight) all won gold medals at the 2022 Asian Boxing Championships.

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