Photo: Good luck Beijing International Challenge race will start nest was first championship

Ruijing nest (Olympic official website Fanfan Photo)

 Olympic official website on April 18 - 9:00 today, "Good Luck Beijing" International Race Walking Challenge in the National Stadium - the "bird's nest" official start.  This is the first time the National Stadium public appearance, "the nest" finally ushered in the first batch of contestants, and viewers.

 The men's 20 km race walking competition from a total of China, Australia, Japan, Mexico, and nine of the 53 national athletes.  The men's 20 km race walking competition these players in the best of the year, is on the 4th, from Australia Zarifa, Dedalante (Jared Tallent).  He February of this year in Melbourne created a 1 minute 19 seconds out of 41 personal best historical results, ranked sixth in the world this year.  Good results this year, seventh in the world is China's Shaanxi Province, 68 in March, Wang Zhiping created in Zhengzhou 1 minute 19 seconds 46.  China's Liaoning Province, 37, Han Yucheng also very strong, he is the 2006 World Cup third place, was out of the one minute 19 seconds 10. Zhengzhou this year on top of the Grand Prix race of the Inner Mongolia's runner-up, No. 51-luminescence will also participate in this competition. Chinese athletes in the individual results of the most prominent is the man that has been given the Athens Olympic Games 20 km Race Walking sixth of the 39 athletes in Liaoning Zhu Hongjun, and in 2005 he was out of 1 minute 17 seconds 41, is the world's sixth-best results, he This year's best is one minute 23 seconds 53.

 Other famous athletes are 2007 men 20 km Race Walking World No. 1 Australia's Luokee when Slovakia, No. 4 Mexico athletes IDER Sanchez, as well as the Tunisian athletes ranked sixth Hatem song Rafah.

 This game winning athletes will become China's national stadium the "bird's nest" of the birth of a champion.

 Competition athletes go to the venue three times, and out of courts, through specialized channels, access to the Olympic Games the Olympic Park Avenue Landscape, Landscape Road, 20 kilometers to go 9 laps completed, the return from the original channel to the main stadium, a stadium-after 100 meters directly to the end, even if the end stage of the competition.