Fortune-telling lottery, signature of the sick man

When we mention our Olympic memory, the earliest thing that people can think of is 1984. Xu Haifeng won the first Olympic gold medal for China, but in fact, the China Olympic delegation participated in the Olympic Games for the first time in 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, 48 years earlier than 1984. As the Japanese invaders approached North China, China athletes embarked on the journey towards the Olympic Games with the expectations of the people of the whole country.

As early as 1896, on the eve of the first modern Olympic Games, Frenchman Coubertin sent a letter to Emperor Guangxu, inviting China to participate in the Olympic Games held in Athens. However, due to Empress Dowager Cixi, China was unable to attend. 1924, the international Olympic Committee recognized the All-China Sports Association as the Chinese Olympic Committee. 1932, China finally sent athletes to participate in the Olympic Games. With the support of Zhang Xueliang, Liu Changchun, a track and field athlete, bumped 2 1 on the waves of the Pacific Ocean before coming to the Olympic Games. However, Liu Changchun's performance on the field is not ideal, because he spent too much energy on the trip.

1936 The first 1 1 Olympic Games was held in Berlin, Germany. At that time, Germany needed to create a peaceful atmosphere through the Olympic Games to cover up their war intentions. In addition, Sino-German cooperation was relatively smooth at that time, so Germany invited China to send a delegation to participate in the Olympic Games, and the Kuomintang authorities decided to participate in the Olympic Games for their own interests. China's sports delegation to Berlin is 1, 4 1, including 69 athletes, who will compete in track and field, swimming, weightlifting, boxing, cycling, basketball and football. In addition, China will send a martial arts delegation to attend the World Sports Congress in Hamburg, and former Foreign Minister Wang and Wang of China will be the general leader of the delegation.

At that time, the biggest problem for the China sports delegation to participate in the Olympic Games was the lack of funds. According to "Estimation of Participation in 1 1 World Games" written by China Sports Association, China needs 220,000 yuan to participate in the Olympic Games, but the Nanjing government only promised to allocate170,000 yuan, leaving a gap of 50,000 yuan, which has to be raised by the sports association itself. Among them, local departments and celebrities donated 30,000 yuan, such as Chairman Ma Hongkui of Ningxia Province donated 3,000 yuan and Chairman Shang Zhen of Henan Province donated 1 10,000 yuan, but there is still a gap of 20,000 yuan, which has to be raised by China Men's Football Team.

Contrary to the usual impression, China men's soccer team was a veritable Asian hegemon at that time and won the Far East Games for many times. In order to raise funds, the China Men's Football Team was ordered to go abroad in advance. On May 20 1936, it set off from Shanghai and went to Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and India via Hong Kong for fund-raising competitions. It participated in 27 competitions successively and achieved an impressive record of 23 wins, 4 draws and 0 losses.

On June 26th, 1936, the China sports delegation arrived in Berlin on the Italian cruise ship "Cantor Floating Platform", joined the men's soccer team in Mumbai on July 8th, arrived in Venice, Italy on July 20th, and then transferred to Germany by train. On July 23rd, the German sports delegation finally arrived in Berlin and was warmly welcomed by more than 400 people from German embassy, overseas Chinese and students studying in Germany.

1 936 August1day, the opening ceremony of the Berlin Olympic Games was held. A total of 53 countries participated in the Olympic Games. Greece, as the birthplace of the Olympic Movement, took the lead in admission. Other delegations entered in alphabetical order in German, and the delegation of China ranked 13.

The next day, the Olympic Games began. The first event is the track and field competition. In the morning 10: 30 100 meter sprint preliminaries. China has three players, but failed to win the top two in the group and missed the semi-finals. Among them, Liu Changchun, the best performer, was far ahead for a time, but was eventually overtaken by his opponent because of his lack of physical strength, with a score of 165433.

In the following days, almost all China track and field teams were eliminated in the preliminaries. Only Fu, who participated in the pole vault, entered the final with a score of 3.84 meters. However, in the final, Fu Lubao failed to challenge the 4m and brought the first medal to the China delegation.

While the track and field team is fighting for the first place, the China Boxing Team is also sweating in the boxing world. There are four boxing teams in China. Due to the early boxing in Europe and America, Asian countries are at an absolute disadvantage in this respect. Players from Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and other countries were generally frustrated, and Wang Runlan, the only heavyweight player in China, also got off to a bad start. Due to the unfair enforcement of the referee, Wang Runlan finally missed the game with two wins and three losses. However, Jin, who participated in the middleweight competition, was shortlisted after beating Canada and Egypt in succession. However, in the final of116, Kim met the British boxing champion Hillimtown, and the Swedish referee always sided with Hillimtown, and finally lost in the eighth round. Although Jin lost, he created the best result of Asian boxers in this Olympic Games.

China men's soccer team, as the overlord of the Far East Stadium, had Li Huitang, the king of Asia at that time, which was highly anticipated by everyone. However, at that time, the Olympic football match was a single elimination system, that is, it was eliminated if it was lost, and China met Britain, the birthplace of modern football, in the first round. As soon as the lottery results came out, everyone was wailing. No one thinks that China can beat Britain, but everyone thinks that Britain will win easily. At 5: 30pm on August 6th, the Sino-British War began. After resisting the stormy attack of the other side's opening 10 minute, China began to fight back, and scored 1 ball in the melee, but it was ruled offside and the goal was invalid. Before the end of the first half, Li Huitang was hit in the abdomen by a powerful blow from the opponent. Although he got up quickly, he was already very weak.

In the second half, China's defense still left the British at their wits' end, but as the game went on, China players became more and more impatient and had more and more preconditions ahead. The Englishman seized the opportunity to score a goal, leaving China out of balance. Soon after, the British team scored another goal, and China lost 2-0, which shocked westerners who had always despised China. Since then, China team has been invited to visit European countries. Among them, the French Football League's Paris Red Star team wanted to sign Li Huitang with a high salary, but Li Huitang refused on the grounds of age. The head coach of the English football giant Arsenal even bluntly said that if Li Huitang was young 10, he would definitely have a place in the team. Li Huitang then took part in the 1948 London Olympic Games as a coach.

On August 7th, China men's basketball team played against Japan. Because of the hatred between the country and the family, everyone was full of anger. After the opening, China once led by a big margin, but was quickly disrupted by the Japanese team's foul. At the end of half-time, China fell behind by five points. In the second half, he played even worse, and finally lost by 16 points. In the second game, China played against France. In the first half, China fell behind by a big margin, but in the second half, he cheered. In the end, China defeated the French at 45: 38 and successfully advanced to the second round, but it didn't last long. In the second round, they lost to Peru and Brazil one after another, and finally missed the next round.

Although the basketball game was lost, it set a record in this basketball game, that is, the referee from China appeared in the Olympic Games for the first time, and Shu Hong, director of the sports department of Zhejiang University, presided over the basketball finals between the United States and Canada.

In the swimming competition, Chen Zhenxing and Yang Xiuqiong, who represented China men's and women's teams, were eliminated in the preliminary round.

So far, the journey of China sports delegation in Berlin Olympic Games has come to an end. If only from the performance point of view, the Berlin Olympics is undoubtedly a fiasco. However, if we consider that the players spent too much energy on the way to Berlin and suffered some unfair punishment in the competition, this achievement was actually expected in terms of China's national strength at that time. Needless to say, both China Boxing Team and China Football Team have demonstrated their strengths in their respective fields, while China Wushu Team has won the love of countless foreigners. From then on, China Kung Fu became famous overseas. In such an era of civil war and foreign wars, China athletes have proved by their own performance that China people are not the sick man of East Asia!