1908 One day, the closing ceremony of the 6th Tianjin Track and Field Games was held. Rao Bosen, then acting director-general of Tianjin YMCA, got the slides of London Olympic Games through international channels and took them to Nankai playground to show the students the grand occasion of the 4th Olympic Games being held in London at that time (some people think it was Zhang Boling, president of Nankai). For students, the "Olympic Games" is a huge new thing with a strong sense of shock. Soon, these shocked and inspired students contributed to Tianjin Youth magazine and issued "Three Questions about the Olympics":
China, when can you send athletes to the Olympic Games?
When will our athletes win the Olympic gold medal?
When can our country hold the Olympic Games?
/KOOC-0/93/KOOC-0/September/KOOC-0/8, the Japanese Kwantung Army occupied the northeast of China. Then, a puppet regime-"Manchukuo" was established, and it was urgent to find a seemingly legitimate political identity for the puppet Manchukuo, and the Olympic Games was undoubtedly a better platform. The Japanese Kwantung Army repeatedly threatened and lured Liu Changchun, and published false news in the newspaper controlled by the secret service five times, falsely claiming that Liu Changchun would represent the so-called Manchukuo in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
Liu Changchun shouted angrily, "My conscience is still there, and my blood is still flowing. How can I forget my motherland and be an ox and horse for the puppet country? " He publicly stated that he would compete as an athlete from China. China Sports Organization Express International Olympic Committee signs up for Liu Changchun. "Jong" Zhang Xueliang generously donated 8,000 silver dollars to support Liu Changchun's tragic trip.
1On July 30th, 932, the China team consisting of only six people made its debut at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and Liu Changchun, as the only contestant, walked in front with the national flag in hand. The American media at that time wrote that Liu Changchun was the sole representative of the 400 million people in China.
On the second day of the opening ceremony, Liu Changchun stood in front of the starting line of the 100 meter sprint preliminaries. He wore a short dress with "white on the top and black on the bottom", symbolizing the fallen "White Mountain and Black Water" to express his national humiliation and family feud. Unfortunately, due to the fatigue of the journey, Liu Changchun gave up the 400-meter run; 100 meter and 200 meter preliminaries won the fifth and sixth place respectively, and failed to enter the final.
However, history has always fixed this moment: Liu Changchun, who has gone through all the hardships, took the first step of a nation's official entry into the Olympic Games with the determination of the people of China not to be outdone and live up to its mission, conveying the firm belief and tenacious will of a country to catch up with the world.
The first question in the "Three Questions about the Olympic Games" put forward by Tianjin youth: When can China send athletes to participate in the Olympic Games? There is an answer.
1984, 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games. On the first day of the Olympic Games, 26-year-old China shooter Xu Haifeng won the first gold medal of the Los Angeles Olympic Games with a score of 566 rings. He used to be a barefoot doctor and a salesman in a supply and marketing cooperative. This is China's first Olympic gold medal and a "zero breakthrough".
Seventy-six years after Tianjin students put forward the "Three Questions about the Olympics", New China answered the second question, "When can our athletes win a gold medal?"
1990, when Deng Xiaoping visited the National Olympic Sports Center, the main venue of the Asian Games, he suddenly asked the State Sports Commission and Beijing leaders who accompanied him: "Holding the Asian Games and the Olympic Games is beneficial to invigorating the national spirit and revitalizing the economy. Have you made up your mind? "
199 1 February, China began to bid for the Olympic Games for the first time, but in the end, Beijing lost by two votes.
1999165438+1On October 25th, the Beijing Municipal People's Government submitted an application for hosting the 2008 Olympic Games to the Chinese Olympic Committee, and the curtain of the second bid for the Olympic Games officially opened. 2001July 13, Moscow, the 1 12 plenary session of the International Olympic Committee officially opened. At this meeting, China finally realized his Olympic dream.
At this point, 92 years ago, Tianjin youth's "three questions about the Olympic Games" finally had a complete answer.