Vocal Concerts, Duathlon, Fitness Craze –Turning the Sports Center into a New Favorite of the Long Weekend

       With the arrival of the warm and blooming May Day Long Weekend, citizens are gung-ho about outdoor activities. Apart from short-haul excursions,citizens also go for vocal concerts, duathlon challenge, fitness games, filling the hustling and bustling Sports Center with gym rats who came here to fully enjoy the pleasure of the spring vocation. Consequently the Sports Center is gradually becoming a “new favorite” for citizens to participate in fitness sports on holidays.

       Hot and maddening Mayday Vocal Concert

       On the first day of the Long Vocation, the MAYDAY 2017 LIFE TOUR Vocal Concert was held in the Stadium. It was 4 years since its last tour in Dalian. Once their fully charged craving was set off, the fans of this No. 1 Super Troupe of the Chinese Music Circle released such an astounding energy that brought about a miraculous scene in which there were “forty thousand viewers watching the concert inside and several hundred passers-by listening outside”. For the first time in its history, the Sports Center initiated its Complimentary Ticket Plan for the concert via WeChat and Microblog and other We Media, of which the click traffic ran up to 9000, attracting over 1000 fans to participate in the plan.

       Duathlon challenge brought up a breath of fresh air to the local sports activities

       On Mayday, over 500 excellent athletes from home and abroad put on a heated specialized international competition in the Sports Center. In that event the outer ring of the Sports Center was put to use for the first time as the race track of the Second Duathlon Challenge, which not only brought up a breath of fresh air to the local sports activities in Dalian, but also allowed the athletes to enjoy the spectacular scenery surrounding the Sports Center while running and riding along the track. Such international standard sports and cultural exchanges have further upgraded the cultural attainment of the city and promoted the popularity of the National Fitness Campaign.

       General fitness mobilization

       Most of the citizens who came to the Sports Center for fitness workout arrived as entire familties. These families devoted their holidays to fitness sports by “wriggling their necks and waggling their hips”, like what they sang in a song. “My parents like to play badminton, my wife and I like swimming, and my son likes basketball,” smiled Mr. Zhang, who is over forty years old, saying that his is a “family of sports”. On hearing that the Sports Center would open at lower prices or free of charge to the public during the Mayday holidays, they lost no time in booking the court and “... reached a consensus right away that the last day of the vocation would be spent here.”