China Daily, May 20th. On May 20th, the early summer in Beijing was full of vitality, tacit passing and decisive flag-pulling. The athletes sweated and enjoyed the infinite charm of flag football. Sponsored by Beijing Social Sports Management Center and Beijing Daxing District Sports Bureau, and hosted by Beijing Rugby Sports Association, Beijing Beiolive Sports Development Co., Ltd. and Beijing Luyin Heritage Sports Development Co., Ltd., the first Beijing Waist Flag Rugby Open will be held in Jujia Stadium in Daxing District. This open will take two weekends to compete for four days on May 20th and 21st, and May 27th and 28th respectively.
The event of this open competition is five-player flag rugby, which consists of three groups: men’s group, women’s group and mixed group. Nearly 500 athletes from 34 teams participated in the competition. The competition will adopt the competition system of combining group stage and cross elimination stage, and the participating teams will play 69 games in total until the corresponding ranking is produced. The first Beijing Waist Flag Rugby Competition aims to create a high-level model of Waist Flag Rugby Competition with high-standard competition guarantee, high-standard competition venue and high-level referee team, and promote the benign development of the project with brand competition activities.
There is also a carnival activity area at the Open, where the majority of national fitness enthusiasts can participate in all kinds of rugby fun experience activities, deepen their understanding and cultivate their interest in the experience, and take a seat in the viewing area during the intermission of the experience to feel the intense atmosphere and distinctive rugby charm at the competition site. Everyone cheers for the athletes and jointly ignites the competitive storm of Beijing Waist Rugby.
Waist flag rugby is a new trend sport, which comes from the training subject of American football with all equipment. It is mainly used for tactical drills and basic route exercises. The defensive way of flag-pulling is used to replace dangerous defensive actions such as catching and pushing, so as to reduce the risk of injury in training. Because of the safety of zero physical contact, less requirements for the venue, relatively easy to get started, and friendly experience for beginners, in recent years, the phenomenon of "online celebrity Exercise" has become the daily fitness program choice for young people. Nowadays, more and more people are discussing its technical and tactical improvement and project development. Holding the first flag rugby open is to build a communication platform for the majority of flag rugby fans, add flag rugby to the sequence of national fitness projects, continuously enrich the supply of national fitness events and meet the growing needs of citizens for a better life.
On May 3rd, 2023, at the annual general meeting of the International World Games Association (IWGA) held in Madrid, Spain, IWGA Sports director Sebastian Gavins announced that flag rugby would become the official event of the 12th World Games in 2025, which was a milestone for the development of flag rugby. At the same time, it also shows that the first Beijing Waist Flag Rugby Open will be held at the right time, which will add new momentum to the development of China Waist Flag Rugby.
Source: China Daily.
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