本周末，HYROX成都站举办。延续赛事近期的火热态势，本站比赛依旧吸引了一众体坛名将和娱乐明星跨界参与。然而，在8月1日的比赛中，出战男子接力项目的张继科，却在比赛过程中遭到了赛事官方直播间解说人员的调侃，引发了大众强烈不满。针对这一事件，北京时间8月2日，HYROX中国组委会通过社媒官方账号发出致歉声明，向张继科及广大观众道歉，强调将HYROX这项「每个人都能参与的运动」真正落到实处。
B | 以下是声明原文：大家好，我们是HYROX中国组委会，首先我们向参加HYROX成都站赛事的张继科先生，以及观看赛事直播的广大观众，致以诚挚的歉意。
Ronald Sakolsky fills a jar with sand from the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia, planning to bring it back to the US, on August 24, 2026. Photo: Lin Xiaoyi
On Monday afternoon, Ronald Sakolsky, an American teacher, set foot once again on the soil of the Mu Us Desert, in the Uxin Banner of Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He first came here in 2000. Back then, the land was little more than drifting sand. Today, it is green with trees – a transformation driven by decades of local effort.
He stood within Sakolsky Forest, a woodland formally named to honor his early donation toward local ecological restoration. There, he carried out a plan he had held long before this trip: filling a jar with sand from the desert to bring home to the US.
More than two decades ago, sand was the one thing this place had in abundance. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by the tireless efforts of Chinese desert fighter Yin Yuzhen and her husband to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert. He raised $5,000 – equivalent in 1999 to three years of income for Yin’s entire family – to fund their local tree-planting initiative.
The young saplings bought with that donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
When Sakolsky met Yin at the airport on Sunday, 26 years after his first visit to Inner Mongolia, he joked that he could not take a tree from the Mu Us Desert, but he could slip some sand into his shoes and carry a piece of the land back with him. Now, he had found exactly the sand he wanted – not just any sand, but from a place where persistence had turned desert into life, and where his own name had become part of that story.
“Promise is a promise,” he said. “Ms. Yin made a promise, and she fulfilled it.”
For Sakolsky, the sand is not just dirt. It is a metaphor, a bridge, a shared ground. He plans to tell his grandchildren what it means. “It’s not just a piece of sand in the jar,” he said. “It’s a jar of love.”
He used the jar of sand to symbolize that America and China share a relationship rooted in the same soil. He shook the jar, holding its two ends as if they were the two countries, and said that it shows we’re all on the same planet.
There is an old American joke, he noted, that if you dig a hole deep enough, you will eventually reach China. “We’re all on the same planet,” he said.
Earlier that day, while visiting Yin’s home, he spoke about the need for Americans and Chinese to see each other as family. “All Americans should understand that Chinese people and Americans can be family,” he said. “We can transcend differences if we focus on our common ground. We all love our countries, and we all value loyalty and respect – these are the shared virtues we hold dear.”
As for the sand he collected, Sakolsky said he would treat it as a treasure, alongside all his other precious keepsakes from China. He expects to display it in his living room – a daily reminder of the forest that carries his name and the people who made it grow.
。2026年8月1日，26-27赛季HYROX健身跑系列赛成都站开赛。我们十分荣幸地获悉，张继科先生报名了男子接力组别的比赛。
C | 然而，在比赛直播中，解说嘉宾的不当评述，给广大观看赛事直播的观众带来了负面的观赛体验，也背离了HYROX这项运动的初衷。对此，我们向张继科先生和广大网友表示诚挚的歉意，并进行了深刻地反思。对两位当事的解说嘉宾，组委会已于昨日(8月1日)解除了合作关系。HYROX一直致力于打造一项每个人都可以参与的竞技型健身跑赛事，主张“每个人都是自己的冠军”的运动精神内核。我们对张继科先生在比赛中表现出的拼搏精神与坚韧的运动品质表示由衷的钦佩，和无比的敬意。但因我们直播管理工作中的疏忽，给各方均带来了负面的体验，我们非常抱歉。
D | 对此，我们将加强自身各项工作的部署与执行，更谦卑地致力于推广HYROX的运动精神，把这项“每个人都能参与的运动"真正落到实处。我们将:一、完善解说嘉宾的遴选与培训机制，明确专业规范与行为准则。二、加强直播内容的审核与管理，杜绝此类情况再次发生。我们也将以此为鉴，持续提升赛事各环节的组织水平，让每一位健身跑参赛者，都能在HYROX这项赛事中，感受到最热忱的欢迎和最硬核的运动体验。HYROX中国已经向张继科先生及本次一同参赛的队友发出邀请，诚挚地邀请参与未来HYROX中国的各类比赛，让我们未来赛场见。最后，我们在今后的工作中，将不断提醒自身，以发展体育运动，增强人民体质为己任。HYROX的大门永远向每一位热爱运动的人敞开!
