Standard Bearer-Asian Games

The Standard-bearer in each integrated competition would become a hot topic. Yao Ming is a standard bearer in the past Olympic Games opening ceremony. Requirements for the standard-bearer is rather restrict, in addition to the outstanding performance in the field, the certain image, temperament, and social influence would be taken into consideration. Under the special situation that Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian is not in China, Liu Xiang is suffering the disease. Many people speculate the current standard-bearer of the Guangzhou Asian Games would be chosen form swimming world champion Zhang Lin and badminton Olympic champion Lin Dan.

 Companied with Lin Dan, Zhang Ling would be more likely, as the last Standard-bearer was chosen from badminton team. Zhang Lin is hot now, shortly in the Asian Games torch relay, Zhang Lin as the first torchbearer took the torch from Chinese President Hu Jintao. The media stated this moment as the change of sports idol form Liu Xiang to Zhang Ling. Zhang Lin recently rises not only as national sport idols, also the most anticipated King. So he was chosen to be the Standard-bearer in this Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games.