In Shanghai, a running activity is held at the F 1 track at the beginning of each year, which is well received by runners.
"All measures and settings may be inconvenient, but everything is for safety." 2021110, the traditional Shanghai racing track is about to catch fire. Wang Xiaofen, director of the competition, told the newspaper that the cost of the competition has increased and the labor consumption is greater. "But all epidemic prevention measures must meet the strictest standards."
This is the environment in which China Road runs now. Whether it is a "platinum standard" top-level event like Shanghai Marathon or a "small but beautiful" event like Prosperous Race, doing a good job in epidemic prevention and showing the "quality and human touch" of the event will be the key link to win the recognition of runners in the future.
The successful experience of getting on the horse makes the race more confident.
There is still one week before the first day of 202 1, and the information about the game will be released to the runners as usual. When pushing the information of this year's competition, the organizer put the competition information and equipment collection behind, and the first item at the beginning was the "Epidemic Prevention Guide".
When the road race gradually returns from this autumn, epidemic prevention has become the top priority of all competitions.
"When preparing the activity plan, we began to consider epidemic prevention from the middle of this year." Wang told the newspaper that from September to June+10, the epidemic prevention plan of the sports meeting was revised many times. According to the epidemic situation in Shanghai, the sports meeting has been coordinated with the Jiading District Health and Health Commission, and finally decided to arrange the implementation of the sports meeting with the highest epidemic prevention standards.
This is also a microcosm of epidemic prevention in domestic road races this year.
Official epidemic prevention notice.
165438+1in late October, just before the shooting of the only "White Gold Label" event in the world this year, the person in charge of the event admitted to the paper reporter that "the event plan has been revised several times, and 14 coping scenarios were designed from before to after the game, just to ensure the safety of the event."
"We did learn from Ma Shang's epidemic prevention plan, which is why we revised it again on June 5438+0 1 to raise the epidemic prevention standard to the highest level."
Wang cited several examples of adjustment, such as requiring all runners and field staff to have nucleic acid test reports; Only set up the "only entrance" to receive the competition package and enter the competition, and you must show your identity documents; The competition was conducted according to the strictest standards.
"This horse's experience and success give us more confidence in the upcoming race."
The investment environment is not very good, but the epidemic prevention environment cannot be bad.
The stricter epidemic prevention measures in the competition actually mean that the competition company has increased its investment in manpower and material resources.
"As we all know, there is a problem with the overall environment of sports events this year-that is, the investment and business environment will not be particularly good." Wang did not explicitly mention the investment situation of the race, but for a road race with a small scale, such as a thriving race, the influence and appeal of the race naturally declined by reducing the scale to prevent and control the epidemic.
"On the one hand, income may be decreasing, but investment in epidemic prevention has increased a lot." Wang told this reporter that this year's competition specially allocated a piece of epidemic prevention funds to ensure the improvement of epidemic prevention measures.
"Not only has the cost increased, but the workload of staff and volunteers has also doubled, but these are all things that must be done to ensure safety."
In fact, all the efforts and efforts made in epidemic prevention are in line with the principles upheld by the Chinese Athletics Association in marathon and road race this year.
"The Chinese Athletics Association adopts the method of classified policy. For example, the epidemic prevention and control of low-risk areas will gradually resume marathon events, and it is recommended not to carry out in medium and high-risk areas. " Shui Tao, deputy secretary-general of China Athletics Association, said in an interview with People's Daily that in the process of gradually resuming marathon events, the epidemic prevention standard cannot be lowered.
"According to the requirements of the competition and the overall situation, we require face recognition and identity information verification for all runners, which is responsible for everyone." Wang stressed that "everyone must be on our white list to enter the stadium."
Optimize runners' experience in strict epidemic prevention.
Repeated body temperature detection, face recognition and nucleic acid detection naturally increase the process of runners' participation. However, for events with smaller scale and shorter running period, we should improve the "humanization" and "attraction" of running the event while ensuring the quality of epidemic prevention, so as to gain the recognition of more runners in this special period.
For this reason, the organizers of the Prosperity Race also provided about 6,000 runners with 1000 free nucleic acid testing opportunities.
In Wang's words, "We hope to reduce everyone's entry cost as much as possible, which is also a benefit for everyone in the new year. However, there are still many shortcomings, and there is no opportunity for all runners to get free nucleic acid testing. "
In fact, it is not the only event that provides free nucleic acid testing for runners. For example, the thriving event-the Dongqian Lake Marathon in Ningbo in early February with 65438+,the organizer also provided free nucleic acid testing for 4,000 runners.
How to ensure the service quality of road running in strict epidemic prevention will be an important link that all competitions need to think about and improve for a long time to come.
In addition to the free places for nucleic acid testing, the thriving events are also trying more services-that is, allowing a certain number of relatives and friends to sign up for the competition and increasing the motivation for runners to participate.
"After all, there is another difference between this game and other games, and that is the first game of the New Year. Everyone definitely wants to share this moment with their families. "
In recent years, Wang has witnessed a little increase in the scale of events at Shanghai International Circuit-nearly 10,000 runners stood on the F 1 track last year, and nearly 4,000 relatives and friends were welcomed in the audience. The scene and atmosphere are quite warm.
This year, due to the epidemic, the organizers of the event only won about 200 places, and cheering relatives and friends also had to hold nucleic acid test reports to enter the venue.
"We still hope to continue this wonderful tradition, and of course we also hope to increase the experience of runners."