贝茨勋爵徒步第11天欢迎奥运会运动员20180929

华北理工大学曹妃甸校区——曹妃甸职业技术学院

今日徒步： 6.02 英里 / 9.70 公里

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我们都怀揣着梦想，可是为了实现梦想，你必须要有极大的决心，全神贯注地，极度自觉地付出最大的努力。  ——杰西 欧文斯-美国运动员，1936年柏林奥运会四枚金牌获得者

我热爱体育，特别是奥运会和残奥会。一个个战胜逆境的故事很是让我兴奋。经年累月默默无闻地训练只为了几天的比赛，成功和失败只在几分钟之间，那种处境让我们倍感渺小。它是人类不断挑战自己的底线取得胜利的过程，让不可能变成可能，取得个人的最大成就，是竞争对手也是朋友。这是一个梦想，即使别人告诉你不行你还是会尝试的梦想。三亚 理查德-罗斯（2008年北京奥运会400米铜牌获得者）一一句话总结的非常好，她说“我能承受失败，但是我不接受不去尝试。”

左起：訾晶晶、雪琳、刘哮波、贝茨勋爵、周吕鑫

徒步的最后一天有两名奥运会选手和一名中国国家女子足球运动员的加入，我们感到非常荣幸。刘哮波是2012年伦敦奥运会跆拳道铜牌获得者，周吕鑫获得了2008年北京奥运会10米跳台银牌，訾晶晶是中国国家女子足球队队员曾参加2006年U-20世界女子足球赛荣获亚军。他们的到来让我们的梦之队熠熠生辉。目前他们都进入了教练行列。体育生涯让他们收获良多，他们应该非常感激吧。

这几位著名运动员的到来且和我这么一个英国疯狂老人一起走完这最后五公里，真的令雪琳和我欣喜若狂，但是这还不是最最激动的地方，最棒的是他们和100多名学生一起走。这些学生参与了过去2周的从北京到曹妃甸为梦想行步256公里的行列。正是这些学生鼓舞了我们和运动员们。

我们乐于和他们分享奥林匹克休战理念。从2016年以来我参与了国际奥林匹克休战委员会的工作。

奥林匹克休战起始于公元前776年的奥运会比赛，从比赛开始前7天至比赛结束后7天，在这段时间里，让运动员、观众和奥运会有关工作人员得以安全来去。人们通常不会意识到这短暂的和平和休战时间才是奥林匹克运动会的目的。奥林匹克运动会最初的目的是和平、不是比赛。

进入1993年后的当代，奥林匹克休战才得到了联合国大会的支持。所有参加奥林匹克运动会的国家都签署了奥运休战宣言，将遵循奥林匹克运动最初的追寻和平与和谐的宗旨。但是很少有国家实施这项宗旨。这也是我们“为和平徒步基金会”第一次从希腊的奥林匹克村徒步4800公里到伦敦的目的所在。

通过那次徒步雪琳和我相识了，我们选择在2012年伦敦奥运会奥林匹克休战启动日结婚，并在那天我们成立了为和平徒步基金会。为了这个目标我们在2016年步行3025公里，从布宜诺斯艾利斯走到里约。在奥林匹克休战的旗帜下，我们亲眼目睹了北朝鲜和南韩运动员一起进入平昌2018年奥运会场馆。为了这个目标我们已经在构想2020年的徒步。

奥运会运动员加入我们的行列令人惊喜，大家非常雀跃。我们一行100多人沿着曹妃甸职教城的大道走完了最后的里程，虽然每个人加入的理由不一样，但是此时此刻我们都非常享受。我们都有一个想要去实现的梦想：今天的一小步就是朝着美好的明天一大步。这就是真正的奥林匹克精神。

原文 / 麦克·贝茨勋爵

翻译 / 李熙琳

翻译校对 / 李熙琳

微信编辑 / 杨帅

总校对 / 李熙琳、雪琳

贝茨勋爵日志英文原文如下：

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it requires an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort. “ (Jesse Owens–American athlete and four-time Olympic Gold Medallist at the 1936 Berlin Games)

I love sport and especially the Olympics and Paralympics. It is the stories of struggle over adversity that I find so inspiring. The years of hidden training and preparation for a few days of competition.  It is the minute difference between success and failure that should keep us humble. Its about humans pushing the boundaries of achievement, of making the impossible, possible. It is about achieving your personal best. Its about great rivalries and friendships. It is about dreams. It is about trying even when everyone tells you can’t do it.  Sanya Richards-Ross (Bronze Medallist–400m at the Beijing 2008 Games) summed it up perfectly when she said; “Failure I can live with. Its not trying that I can’s handle.”

For all these reasons being welcomed at the start of our final day by two Olympians and a professional footballer was an incredible privilege. Our very own Walk your Dream ‘Dream Team’ had excelled themselves yet again by inviting: Liu Xiaobo was an Olympic Bronze medallist at the London 2012 Games in Taekwondo (heavyweight) and also competed at the 2008 Beijing Games. Zhou Luxin was an Olympic Silver medallist at the Beijing 2008 Games (10m platform). Jing Jing Zi was runner up in the FIFA Women’s U-20 World Cup in 2006. All are now involved in coaching sports. Putting something back into sports which had given them so much. Gratitude is a wonderful attitude.

Xuelin and I were amazed that such great athletes would take time out to walk the final 5KM with a crazy old Englishman, but that was not the draw for them. It was the fact that they would be walking with over 100 young students who had taken part in this remarkable two-week, 256KM journey from Beijing to Caofeidian to ‘Walk their Dream’. They had inspired them as they also had inspired us along the way.

We were able to share with our Olympians our dream of the Olympic Truce. I have had the great privilege of serving on the Olympic Truce Foundation Board of the International Olympic Committee since 2016:

The Olympic Truce was a period of peace which surrounded the Ancient Games (776BC) for seven days before until seven days afterwards to allow competitors, spectators and officials to travel to and from the game in safety. Often people are unaware that this temporary peace or truce was the entire purpose of the Ancient Olympic Games. The Games were primarily about peace, not sport.

In the Modern era of the Games, since 1993, the Olympic Truce has been backed by a United Nations Resolution at the General Assembly. All countries taking part in the Games sign the UN Truce Resolution saying they will ‘pursue initiatives for peace and reconciliation in the spirit of the Ancient Games’ but few do anything to implement it. We would love to see that change and for the Modern Games to rediscover the power of peace through sport. This was the purpose of our first ‘Walk for Truce’ of 4800km from Olympia in Greece (birthplace of the Ancient Games to London).

It was through this walk that Xuelin and I met and we were married on the day the Olympic Truce came into effect for the London 2012 Games and on that day we also established the Walk for Peace Foundation. It was for this purpose that we walked 3000km from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Rio Olympic Truce. It was under the banner of the Olympic Truce that we witnessed those incredible scenes of North & South Korean athletes entering the Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang in 2018. And it is for this purpose we are also thinking what we might do to mark the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Truce–although I have a feeling that walking may be part of it.

For all these reasons it was a very special and unexpected welcome from our sportsmen and women and it contributed to a fantastic atmosphere as over 100 of us lined up along the wide boulevards of Caofeidian International Vocational Education City for the final hour of the walk. They all had different reasons to be there but we shared this in common–we all had a dream and wanted to do something to bring it to reality. To take one small step today towards a better future for tomorrow. That is worthy of the true Olympic Spirit.

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