1932 Liu Changchun answered the first question as the only athlete from China who participated in the 10th Los Angeles Olympic Games.
1984 With a gunshot from Xu Haifeng, the China Olympic gold medal list successfully achieved a breakthrough of "0", and the second question was also answered.
It is estimated that the author who raised these three questions did not expect it himself. The third question was not answered until 2008 after 100. On July 65, 2006, 438+03, 5438+0, the sleepless night when the Olympic bid was successful, has also become an eternal memory in the hearts of Chinese people.
However, China's bid for the Olympic Games was not smooth, even full of twists and turns. As early as 1990, China was preparing for the Olympic bid. However, when the results came out three years later, it was beyond everyone's expectation. ...
The song "Asian Heroes" sung by Wei Wei and Liu Huan can be said to be memories of youth of many people. The 1990 Asian Games, which is closely related to this song, is also of great significance to China, because it is the first time that China has hosted a comprehensive international sports event.
Since 15 gold medal was won by China athletes at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984, the sports enthusiasm of the people of the whole country has been ignited, eager to show the world the new face of China after the reform and opening up. Therefore, the whole country attaches great importance to this Asian Games.
1990 In July, the preparations for the Asian Games were basically over. On the morning of the 3rd, accompanied by the State Sports Commission and the leaders of Beijing, Deng Xiaoping also visited the National Olympic Sports Center.
Looking at these brand-new sports facilities, Deng Xiaoping is very happy and satisfied. Wu Shaozu, director of the State Sports Commission, said, "I came to see if the moon is round in China or foreign countries. Now some young people always think that the moon is round in foreign countries, and we should educate them. "
Wu Shaozu and other leaders thought that Deng Xiaoping was referring to the Asian Games, but they just wanted to echo it. Unexpectedly, Deng Xiaoping immediately said: "I think these projects are very good, and hosting an Olympic Games is almost the same."
To tell the truth, the leaders at that time really didn't want to bid for such a large-scale event as the Olympic Games. Although bidding for the Olympic Games will increase China's influence, it is unusual after all, and they have no idea. Everyone just keeps silent.
Deng Xiaoping seemed to see the worries in his entourage, and then said, "Have you made up your mind to host the Olympic Games? Why don't you dare to do this? If you don't host the Olympic Games, you will waste half. "
Soon, Wu Shaozu reported Deng Xiaoping's opinion to the above, and the central leadership quickly agreed to bid for the Olympic Games.
Samaranch, then president of the International Olympic Committee, was very supportive of China's bid to host the Olympic Games, and even led a delegation to China to attend the opening ceremony on the eve of the opening of the 1 1 Beijing Asian Games, which was unprecedented in previous Asian Games.
On September 1 1, at the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, when Yang, then President, met with Samaranch, he made it clear that China hoped to host the 2000 Olympic Games, and Samaranch also made it clear that he supported it.
China's bid for the Olympic Games has been officially put on the agenda.
1 99 1 April1day, the Beijing municipal government publicly announced its bid for the 27th Olympic Games in 2000, and established the Beijing Olympic bid committee. Most of the staff of the "Olympic Bid Committee" are the original staff of the Asian Games Preparatory Committee. At that time, the slogan of China's Olympic bid was "Open China looks forward to the Olympic Games" and "Give Beijing a chance and give the world a miracle."
China's first Olympic bid can be said to have won the support of the people of the whole country. The Social Investigation Department conducted two public opinion surveys in China and Beijing, and found that 92.6% and 98.7% of the people supported the Olympic bid respectively. At the same time, compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao and overseas Chinese also expressed their support in various ways.
At that time, the Olympic Games was not just a carnival and a competition, but a part of politics. The people of China also expect to let the world know about China through the Olympic Games.
However, China's bid for the Olympic Games has been interfered by western countries, and they can stop China's bid for the Olympic Games by any means.
At that time, cities in Germany, Australia and Britain all took part in the competition for the right to host the 2000 Olympic Games. After all, this is the first Olympic Games in the Millennium, which is of great significance. In order to win the right to host the Olympic Games, they used the so-called "democracy" and "human rights" as excuses to frantically discredit China and incite hatred against China.
In an article entitled "Beijing should not host the Millennium Olympic Games" published in The Times of England, it even claimed that "even if Manchester fails, Beijing should not succeed."
When British Foreign Secretary Hurd visited Australia, he also shamelessly announced: "Manchester is the best choice. If Manchester doesn't succeed, everyone should go to Australia to take part in the Olympic Games. It would be a bad idea to choose Beijing. "
At that time, the United States had won the right to host the 26th Summer Olympic Games with 1996, and no city participated in the 2000 Olympic Games. However, the US government, which calls itself the "world policeman", has to intervene in this matter.
At that time, there were two opinions in the United States about Beijing's bid for the Olympic Games. One group believes that Beijing should never be allowed to win the bid to prevent China from becoming stronger through this incident. Another school thinks that Beijing can bid for the Olympic Games and hopes to "westernize" China.
In the end, the former opinion gained an overwhelming advantage. The United States openly opposes hosting the 2000 Olympic Games in Beijing or other cities in China, and asks American members of the International Olympic Committee not to vote for China.
In response to this humiliating behavior of the United States, Samaranch made a speech in Switzerland on June 1993, demanding that the United States respect the independence of the International Olympic Committee and give up the campaign against China's bid for the Olympic Games.
However, the United States, which just won the cold war, ignored Samaranch's appeal, but intensified its efforts and passed the resolution of "strongly opposing Beijing to host the 2000 Olympic Games".
However, no matter how ugly the western countries are, China was in the lead in the first three rounds of voting. Therefore, at that time, many people in the world thought that China would definitely win the right to host the 2000 Olympic Games.
The result of the fourth round of voting will formally determine the ownership of the right to host the games. China's biggest competitor is Sydney. In previous rounds of voting, the Australian side has repeatedly published so-called "human rights" articles attacking China. At the critical moment 1993 before the vote at the Monte Carlo meeting in September, the Australian side also staged a farce.
1993 On August 3 1, Australian Special Television interviewed Zhang Baifa, executive vice chairman of the Beijing Olympic bid committee.
Prior to this, Zhang Baifa had expressed his anger at the United States for bringing politics into sports. An American friend of his said: You can boycott the Atlanta Olympic Games after what the United States has done to you.
In this interview, Zhang Baifa mentioned this matter and made it clear: "Although we have every reason to retaliate against the United States, we will not do that because we have always supported the Olympic Movement."
To Zhang Baifa's surprise, the Australian TV station actually adapted his speech and pushed the news that "China will boycott the Atlanta Olympic Games" every few hours in an attempt to interrupt China's growing bidding momentum.
Fortunately, it was Samaranch who helped China at the critical moment.
On the morning of September 24th, Beijing time 1993, Samaranch will officially announce the host city of the 2000 Olympic Games in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Although it was late, enthusiastic people did not choose to sleep, but held their breath and waited for the result.
At about 2: 26, Samaranch said, "First of all, I want to thank the following five cities for participating in this election."
After that, Samaranch began to call the roll. Among the five cities, Beijing ranks first in English letters. So he came up to watch Beijing. The big screens on both sides of the venue also showed a big "Beijing".
At that time, most domestic people who watched the live broadcast thought that China's Olympic bid was successful, and even could not help but stand up and cheer. Then, the English words on the big screen immediately became "Berlin" (Berlin), Manchester (Manchester) and Sydney (Sydney) .....................................................................................................................................
At 2: 27, Samaranch tore open the envelope and announced, "The winning city is Sydney."
At the moment Samaranch announced the result, even the Australians themselves froze. It took a few seconds to react and began to cheer and hug.
Who would have thought that Beijing was far ahead in the first three rounds of voting, but it was overtaken by Sydney in the fourth round of voting with a score of "45:43"?
The morning after the voting results came out, someone posted a slogan at the entrance of the first subway car in Beijing: "The Olympic bid was unsuccessful, and comrades still need to work hard."
At that time, everyone in the Olympic bid delegation felt that the reason why China lost to Sydney with a slight disadvantage was mainly because the facilities in Sydney were better than ours, and the western countries kept discrediting it. When they returned home depressed, they thought they would be looked down upon by China people, but they were warmly welcomed at the airport, which made them very moved.
Shortly after the Olympic bid delegation returned to China, Wu Shaozu participated in a National Day activity and was received by Comrade Deng Xiaoping.
Wu Shaozu knew Deng Xiaoping's expectation for China's successful Olympic bid, so he felt guilty when facing Deng Xiaoping.
However, Deng Xiaoping is very open-minded. Not only did he not criticize him, but he also encouraged him: "It doesn't matter if the bid fails, sum up experience."
After a pause, Deng Xiaoping said, "When I learned that Beijing's Olympic bid failed, my first reaction was that someone was playing tricks."
Facts have proved that Deng Xiaoping's intuition is very correct. Although the United States and other western countries have been smearing China endlessly, China responded calmly and always took the lead in the votes. Why was Sydney overtaken in the final round of voting?
The truth of the matter was not officially revealed until199965438+1October 22nd. At that time, a huge "bribery" scandal broke out in the Olympic bid.
John Kautz, then president of the Australian Olympic Committee, publicly announced that1On the evening of September 22nd, 993, he invited Kenyan Commissioner Mukra and Ugandan representative Enyanviso to have a meal and gave them $35,000 to vote for Australia.
Mukra and Enyanweisuo were insatiable and had no sportsmanship, so they immediately agreed. In the end, Beijing narrowly beat Sydney by two votes.
After entering 1998, China began to prepare for the bid to host the 29th Summer Olympic Games in 2008. The failure of the United States, Europe and Australia to bid for the Olympic Games this time does not prevent them from continuing to create trouble for our country. But this time they are not as monolithic as before, and there are voices in the United States against boycotting China.
The wheel of history rolled forward, crushing all opposition voices. 200 1 July 31Sunday sleepless night, the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games was successfully settled in Beijing, and Beijing really gave the world a surprise. Up to now, Beijing Olympic Games is still considered as the most successful and difficult Olympic Games in history.