There is a chef in a university cafeteria who took time off to be a referee at the Beijing Winter Olympics. (Picture / Retrieved from YouTube)
Don’t underestimate the colleagues you usually work with! Following a few days ago, a foreign female colleague from a netizen company took a long vacation to participate in the Winter Olympics, and following winning the mixed doubles bronze medal in curling, the catering service center of Shandong University of Petroleum (East China) in the mainland recently served as a cafeteria, similar to that of a Taiwanese student restaurant. Chef Ming Zhixiang, who is usually a chef in a university student restaurant, recently took a long vacation and did not work. The reason is that he went to the Beijing Winter Olympics to serve as a technical officer of the arena, and then he will continue to serve as a referee for the Paralympic Games. The uncle chef who was able to change from a university restaurant to a referee of the Olympic Games was astonished by the degree of cross-border. He called the uncle in the canteen, who turned out to be a hidden professional master, “It’s basically a sweeper.”
This time, Ming Zhixiang took a long vacation from the chef on the university campus to become a technical officer of the Beijing Winter Olympics. After the Winter Olympics, he will continue to serve as a referee for the Paralympic Games until March 15, following all competitions are over. After another 21 days of quarantine, in early April, I will change into chef clothes once more and continue to work as a chef in a university student restaurant.
Ming Zhixiang, who seems to be just a chef in a student restaurant, was actually a professional ice and snow sports athlete. As early as the age of 10, he entered the sports school in Hulin City, Heilongjiang Province. He also won the fourth place in the province and the sixth place in the National Games. In 1985, he was also selected for the Bayi Ski Team of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. He won the third place in the National Games, but unfortunately he retired due to injury and was unable to continue his ice and snow athlete career.
Although due to his physical injury, he can no longer continue to play in the ice and snow sports he loves, but Ming Zhixiang, who loves sports, still takes time out every year to engage in ice and snow sports; With another identity, continue to touch the sports he loves.
In this Beijing Winter Olympics, the selection of technical officials actually started from the first three years of the competition. Ming Zhixiang, who was an athlete and had many refereeing experiences, has undergone many online and offline trainings. Finally, at the end of December last year, he received an invitation letter from the Organizing Committee of the Winter Olympics, allowing him to stand on the stage of the Winter Olympics as an alternative slash, and his multiple “cross-border” identities also made him this year’s An alternative focus of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
