Beijing 2022: Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu fans ask Chinese for support after Olympics stops overseas spectators

Jonathan White, October 2, 2021

2020年12月25日，在日本中部長野市的大帽子競技場舉行的國家人物滑冰錦標(biāo)賽上，日本人物滑冰運(yùn)動(dòng)員羽生結(jié)弦在男子自由滑規(guī)定動(dòng)作中表演。照片：共同社

China’s embassy in Japan and government spokesperson Hua Chunying have promised that there will be support for Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu at next year’s Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, after the skater’s fans called on Chinese fans to support him as foreign fans are banned.

中國駐日大使館和中國外交部發(fā)言人華春瑩承諾，明年北京2022年冬奧會將支持日本花樣滑冰運(yùn)動(dòng)員羽生結(jié)弦，由于國外的支持者無法參加本次奧運(yùn)會，這些粉絲呼吁中國的花樣滑冰愛好者們支持他。

Following the announcement on Thursday that the Beijing Games will not be open to overseas fans, Japanese social media users expressed their disappointment at not being able to travel and called on fans in China to support the two-time Olympic gold medallist.

在周四宣布北京奧運(yùn)會不向海外的冰雪運(yùn)動(dòng)支持者開放后，日本社交媒體用戶對無法前往北京冬奧會表示失望，并呼吁中國粉絲支持這兩屆奧運(yùn)金牌得主。

The Chinese embassy in Japan then sent a tweet from their official Twitter account promising support for the skater.

中國駐日大使館隨后在推特上發(fā)布了一條來自官方推特賬戶的消息，承諾支持這名花樣滑冰運(yùn)動(dòng)員。

“The voices of our fans have also arrived here. During the Beijing Winter Olympics session, we will firmly support the Japanese team with Japanese people living in China and Japanese volunteers at the tournament,” the account wrote on Thursday.

“我們聽到了粉絲的聲音，在北京冬奧會期間，我們將與居住在中國的日本人民和參加比賽的日本志愿者一起，堅(jiān)定地支持日本隊(duì)，”這個(gè)帳戶在周四寫道。

This captioned a tweet sharing the headline from a Mainichi newspaper article on Hanyu: “Hanyu fan 'local support, entrusted to Chinese people’ Beijing Olympics, seeing off overseas customers”.

這條推特分享了一家主要報(bào)紙關(guān)于羽生的文章的標(biāo)題：“因?yàn)?/span>不接待海外觀眾，羽生粉絲'拜托北京奧運(yùn)會的中國人民，支持他們的花滑王子”。

China spokesperson Hua Chunying, Director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of China, then added their support in response to the embassy’s tweet. 

中國外交部新聞發(fā)言人、新聞司司長華春瑩隨后對大使館的這一推特表示支持。

“To all the fans of Yuzuru Hanyu, I saw a voice saying, 'We will entrust the local support to the Chinese people.’ Please choose for me! And thank you for your understanding of China's support for the novel coronavirus!” she wrote in Japanese.

她用日語寫道：“對于所有的羽生的粉絲，我看到有聲音說：'我們拜托中國人民的支持?！徒唤o我們吧！謝謝你們對中國新冠病毒防疫的理解！”

“We will firmly support athletes from all over the world, including Japan, at both the Winter Olympics and Para. Following the Tokyo Olympics, we will do our best for the success of the Beijing Winter Olympics!”

“我們一定將在冬季奧運(yùn)會和殘奧會上為來自世界各國的運(yùn)動(dòng)員加油支持，包括日本運(yùn)動(dòng)員。在東京奧運(yùn)會之后，我們也要為北京冬奧會的成功盡我們所能！”

Chinese netizens have shown their support to Hanyu before.

中國網(wǎng)民此前也曾表示對羽生的支持。

In 2019 they expressed their sympathy to the skater when he won silver at the Grand Prix Final on his 25th birthday.

2019年，當(dāng)這位滑冰運(yùn)動(dòng)員在25歲生日的大獎(jiǎng)賽決賽中獲得銀牌時(shí)，中國人表達(dá)了對他的同情。

The hashtag “Feel Sorry for Yuzuru Hanyu” racked up more than 290 million views on China's Twitter-like Weibo after US skater Nathan Chen beat the Japanese superstar to gold.

美國花樣滑冰巨星內(nèi)森 陳（nathan chen）擊敗了這位日本巨星并獲得金牌后，中國微博上的“為羽生感到難過”的標(biāo)題曾吸引了超過2.9億人的關(guān)注。

There were almost no fans at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games this summer and there will be none from overseas in Beijing, though local fans are expected to be allowed to buy tickets.

今年夏天的東京2020奧運(yùn)會幾乎沒有粉絲參加，這次的北京冬奧會盡管當(dāng)?shù)赜^眾可以購買門票，但也將不對海外的觀眾售票。

Beijing will have even stricter Covid-19 protocols than Tokyo, the IOC revealed this week.

國際奧委會本周公布，北京將比東京更嚴(yán)格地執(zhí)行新冠疫情的防疫措施。

“Games participants who are not fully vaccinated will have to serve a 21-day quarantine upon arrival in Beijing,” the IOC said in a statement.

國際奧委會在一份聲明中說：“沒有完成接種疫苗的奧運(yùn)會參賽者在抵達(dá)北京后，必須接受21天的隔離。”