In the long course of human historical development, apart from religion, which is an ancient social and cultural phenomenon, the Olympic Movement can be called a social and cultural phenomenon with the longest history. The origin of the Olympic movement can be traced back to 776 B.C. from written history. But the ancient Olympic Games may have existed for centuries before that. The Olympic Games, referred to as the "Games", are the world's most comprehensive games organized by the International Olympic Committee.
The Olympic Games originated in Ancient Greece and were named after the Olympic Games. Legend has it that the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Zeus, the king of the gods. The 1st Ancient Olympic Games were held in 776 BC, and 293 sessions were held in 394 AD***. The Games were held every 1417 days or 4 years. This cycle was later referred to as the Olympic cycle. With the rise of modern sports, the Greek people wanted to revive the ancient Olympic Games. In 1859-1889, Greece made a preliminary attempt by organizing four Olympic Games. Since 1883, the Frenchman Coubertin has been working to revitalize the ancient Olympic Games. The outfitting of the outfitting of the outfits was a major concern of the Olympic Games. The Frenchman Coubertin has been working on the outfitting of the ancient Olympic Games since 1883, when he said that he would pick up the outfitting of the Γ? It was established on June 23, 894 by the Sheng. The first Olympic Charter, drawn up by Coubertin, emphasized the amateur nature of the Olympic movement, stipulating that only honorary prizes would be awarded to the winners at the Games, and that athletes should not be given monetary or other material rewards in any form.The first Olympic Games were held in Athens from April 6-15, 1893.
The Olympic Games were the first of its kind in the world, and the first of its kind in the United States.
The ancient Olympic Games were basically held every four years, in a cycle known as the "Olympiad". According to this cycle, from 776 B.C. to 394 A.D. *** should be held 293 times; but in fact, the number of times to convene much less. However, the ancient Olympic Games have provisions, an Olympiad for a session, whether held or not the number of times as counted.
Ancient Olympic Games in the early stage, the competition program is not much, so the first 22 sessions of time only one day. Later, with the increase in the competition program, and then extended to two days. From the 37th to increase the number of juvenile competitions, the time was extended to five days. The first of these days is the opening ceremony with dedication and oath-taking ceremonies, the second, third and fourth days are for the specifics of the competition, and the fifth day is the closing ceremony with the awarding of prizes and the honoring of the gods.
Modern Olympic Movement
The modern Olympic Movement has become remarkable to the world, both in terms of the scale of development and the level of development. The Olympic spirit has been widely spread. It has been seen that, as a cultural phenomenon, Olympism, in the form of athletics, has closely linked peoples of different colors and cultural backgrounds, and has had a profound impact on human social activities and on human civilization. As a sports phenomenon, the Olympic Games is the most fascinating arena for human beings to explore the limits of physical ability; Olympic records and medals have become the lofty goals pursued by athletes, and the Olympic movement has become a global activity with great appeal, penetration and cohesion in a large number of participating countries and regions.
In 1893, according to the "father of the Olympic Games", "Coubertin's proposal, held in Paris to discuss the revival of the Olympic Games, the international sports conference. 1894 January, Coubertin drafted the revival of the Olympic Games and the need to explore the specific steps and the 10 issues, to the national sports organizations and groups. 16 June. "On June 16, the International Congress of Physical Education and Sport opened at the Sorbonne in Paris, with 79 delegates representing 49 sports organizations from 12 countries. The opening ceremony was attended by 2,000 people. The Congress adopted a resolution entitled "Revival of the Olympic Movement", and on June 23 the International Olympic Committee was established. The establishment of the International Olympic Committee marked the birth of the Olympic Movement.
2: Ancient Greece is a mythological kingdom, beautiful and moving mythological stories and bizarre folklore, for the origin of the ancient Olympic Games covered with a layer of mysterious color. Legend: the ancient Olympic Games is to worship Zeus and regularly held sports and athletic activities. Another legend has to do with Zeus's son Heracles. Hercules was known as "Hercules" because of his great strength. He in the city-state of Elis accomplished the task that ordinary people can not be accomplished, less than half a day's effort to sweep the king piled up cow dung in the barn, but the king did not want to fulfill the promise of 300 head of cattle, Herakles in anger drove away the king. To celebrate his victory, he held games at the Olympics.
The most widely circulated story about the origins of the ancient Olympics is that of the marriage of Pelops. In order to select a civil and military emperor's son-in-law for his daughter, the king of Elis in ancient Greece proposed that the applicant must race with himself in a chariot race. During the race, 13 young men lost their lives under the king's spear, and the 14th young man was Pelops, the grandson of Zeus and the princess's sweetheart. Inspired by love, he bravely accepted the king's challenge and finally won by his wits. In order to celebrate this victory, Pelops and the princess in front of the temple of Zeus in Olympia held a grand wedding, the meeting arranged a chariot, jousting and other competitions, which is the original ancient Olympic Games, Pelops became the founder of the ancient Olympic legend.
The origin of the Olympic Games, in fact, has a close relationship with the social situation in ancient Greece. In the 9th-8th centuries B.C., the Greek clan society gradually disintegrated, and the city-state system of slave society gradually took shape, with the establishment of more than 200 city-states. The city-states were governed separately without a unified monarch, and there were constant wars among them. In order to cope with the wars, each city-state actively trained its soldiers. Children in the Spartan city-states were raised by the state from the age of seven and were engaged in sports and military training, leading a military life. War needed soldiers, soldiers needed strong bodies, and sports were a powerful means of training capable soldiers. The war promoted the development of Greek sports, and the competition programs of the ancient Olympic Games carried a clear military imprint. The people were disgusted by the continuous fighting and generally longed for a peaceful environment in which to recuperate. Later, the Spartan king and the king of Elis signed the treaty of "Sacred Truce Month". Thus, military training and athletic competition in preparation for military service were gradually transformed into games of peace and friendship.
The ancient Olympic Games
The ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC, to 394 AD, after 1168 years, *** held 293 sessions. According to its origin, prosperity and decline, roughly divided into three periods.
① 776 BC to 388 BC, this period of strife between the city states, but Greece is an independent country, political, economic and cultural are more developed, is the golden period of the Games. Especially in 490 BC, Athens, Greece, in the Marathon Valley after the defeat of the Persian army, the people's mood, the national prestige, the construction of many sports facilities, temples, etc., participants throughout the Greek city states, the Olympic Games flourished for a while, becoming the biggest festival in Greece.
② 388 BC to 146 BC, began to decline. As a result of the prolonged Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens (431 BC to 404 BC), the power of the Greek state was greatly reduced, and Macedonia gradually annexed Greece. Philip, the Macedonian monarch, also made his own self to participate in the horse race. Subsequently, although Emperor Alexander himself does not like sports activities, but still actively support, and regarded the Olympic Games as the highest sports activities in ancient Greece opening ceremony, to add facilities. However, this period of the ancient Olympic spirit has been greatly diminished, and began to appear professional athletes.
③ 146 BC to 394 AD, the ancient Olympic Games from decline to destruction. After the Roman Empire ruled Greece, although the Games were still held at first, but Olympia is not the only competition. For example, the 175th Olympic Games in 80 BC, the Roman economic laws of the outstanding athletes called the competition in Rome, and Olympia only held the Junior Games. By this time professional athletes had begun to appear in large numbers, and the Olympics became a competition for professionals, in which the Greeks lost interest. After the 2nd century A.D., Christianity ruled all of Europe, including Greece, advocating asceticism, advocating the separation of spirit and flesh, and opposing sports, which put Europe in a dark age, and the Olympics declined until it existed in name only. In 393 A.D., Roman Emperor Theodosius I declared Christianity to be the state religion, and considered the ancient Olympic Games to be against the tenets of Christianity and a pagan activity, and announced the abolition of the ancient Olympic Games the following year. In 895 A.D., the Byzantines and the Goetheans fought a fierce battle on the Alpheus River, which resulted in the destruction of all Olympia's facilities. Theodosius II burned the remnants of the Olympia buildings in 426 AD. In 522 and 511 A.D., two powerful earthquakes occurred one after another, causing Olympia to be completely destroyed. Thus the ancient Olympic Games, which had lasted for more than 1,000 years, ceased to exist, and the prosperous Olympia was reduced to ruins.
Ancient Olympic Games events
Ancient Olympic Games athletic events are mainly track and field, and later gradually increased wrestling, pentathlon, boxing, horse racing, jousting, as well as chariot races, armed races and so on, up to 23 items. Most of the games for the original prototype of modern sports, the rules of the game is simple, arbitrary, some items such as the most rich in ancient Greek sports characteristics of the gladiator in modern sports has been extinct.
The ancient Olympic Games, the earliest established competition, but also from the 1st to the 13th Games on the only competition, the distance is 192.27 meters, which is exactly the length of the stadium. Later on, there were middle and long-distance running, and the distance was a multiple of 192.27 meters. At that time, there was no track mark, the boundary of the stadium paved with stones, that is, the starting line, the starting position of a variety of ways, the competition is only than a successive, not counting the time. Ancient Greeks love to run, in Olympia Alpheus river bank rock wall retained a motto of the ancient Greeks: "If you want to be smart, run! If you want to be strong, run! If you want to be healthy, run!" The pentathlon is a comprehensive competition at the games, and is very different from the modern track and field all-around sports in its method of competition. For example, in ancient times the pentathlon was accompanied by a flute, athletes held dumbbells as they passed by, the discus was actually a stone discus, and the javelin was a practical weapon of the time. While the first 4 events took place in the arena, wrestling took place next to the temple. Wrestling competitors had to be winners of the first 4 events, and wrestling had to win first place to become the champion of the pentathlon. In the ancient Olympics, the Spartans consistently dominated this event, virtually sweeping all the titles.
Gladiatorial combat was a combination of boxing and wrestling prevalent in ancient Greece, and the matches were so intense that they often attracted large crowds.
During the ancient Olympic Games, the junior competition program was established from the 37th only, the age limit is not clear, the competition is limited to field running, wrestling, pentathlon, boxing, gladiator has been held a few times, but not lasting.
Additionally, there were wonderful literary contests for poets, writers, artists, and orators. They began with the 84th Ancient Olympics in 444 BC, when Grotius, known as the "father of Greek history", read out chapters from his masterpiece "Histories" in praise of the Greek warriors who had defeated the Persian army at the Battle of the Marathon Valley in 490 BC, and won the first ever literary contest. Artistic competitions were also rewarded, even more so than sporting competitions, as in 338 B.C. when an Olympic Games following the Macedonian conquest of Greece had awarded poets all of the prizes belonging to sporting competitions.
The Birth of the Modern Olympic Movement
The modern Olympic Movement has become world-famous both in terms of the scale of its development and in terms of its level of development. The Olympic spirit has been widely spread. It has been seen that as a cultural phenomenon, Olympism, in the form of athletic competition, has closely linked peoples of different colors and cultural backgrounds, and has had a profound impact on human social activities and on human civilization. As a sports phenomenon, the Olympic Games is the most fascinating arena for human beings to explore the limits of physical ability; Olympic records and medals have become the lofty goals pursued by athletes, and the Olympic movement has become a global activity with great appeal, penetration and cohesion in a large number of participating countries and regions.
In 1893, according to the "father of the Olympic Games", "Coubertin's proposal, held in Paris to discuss the revival of the Olympic Games, the international sports conference. 1894 January, Coubertin drafted the revival of the Olympic Games and the need to explore the specific steps and the 10 issues, to the national sports organizations and groups. 16 June, the "International Congress of Physical Education and Sport" in Paris, the opening of the Sorbonne, 79 delegates, representing 12 countries and regions. There were 79 delegates representing 49 sports organizations from 12 countries. The opening ceremony was attended by 2,000 people. The Congress adopted a resolution entitled "Revival of the Olympic Movement", and on June 23 the International Olympic Committee was established. The establishment of the International Olympic Committee marked the birth of the Olympic Movement.
History of the modern Olympic Games
The origin and development of the Olympic Games can be divided into two major phases from a historical point of view, the beginning of 1986 A.D. The Olympic Games held so far are collectively referred to as the modern Olympic Games. At the beginning of the 14th century, the European Renaissance led to the praise of the ancient Olympic spirit. In 1450, Matteo Palmiera, an early Italian activist, proposed that the spirit of peace and friendship of the ancient Olympic Games should be infused into people's social life and ideology. During this period, the excavation of Olympia was constantly emphasized. On January 10, 1852, Kuzius read out a report on the examination and excavation under the title of "Olympia" in Berlin, suggesting the restoration of the Games, which aroused a strong reaction from the society. The report was strongly criticized by the public. Between 1895 and 1889, on the initiative of the Greek Zabas, five national Olympic Games were held in Greece, but they were never expanded.
In Europe in the 19th century, with the development of science, culture and education, countries set up their own sports organizations, and some countries held competitions in certain sports, and Germany, Sweden and Britain also formed their own sports system or competitive sports. Just when people further demanded to organize international competitions, the first international sports federations were established, such as the International Gymnastics Federation in 1881, the International Rowing Federation and the International Ice Skating Federation in 1892. In addition, at the end of the 19th century, imperialism and monopoly capital emerged in the world, and the new powerful Wilhelm Germany wanted to start a war to re-divide the world market. France was a close neighbor of Germany, and if Germany started a war, the disaster of the war would firstly fall on the heads of the French people, and so the French people wanted to keep the peace. It was in this context that the idea of reviving the Olympic Games, a symbol of peace and friendship, was conceived.
Pierre de Coubertin, a French educator, proposed in 1883 to organize a competition similar to the ancient Olympic Games and to expand it to the world. 1892, he visited Europe to publicize the Olympic idea and called for the revival of the Olympic Games. In the same year, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Paris Sports Federation, he advocated the restoration of the "Olympic Games", and in January 1894, he wrote to the Olympic organizations of various countries, suggesting that an international sports conference be held in Paris in the same year. On June 16-24 of the same year, at the International Sports Congress held in Paris, representatives of 15 countries resolved to hold the Olympic Games once every four years. In order to organize the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee was set up on June 23, with Vikelas, a Greek, as the president and Coubertin as the secretary-general, and he also designed the emblem and flag of the Olympic Games in person. And on April 6-15, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece, and 311 athletes from 13 countries participated in the Athens Games. American athlete Jen Connolly won the gold medal in the triple jump with a score of 13.71 meters, thus becoming the first modern Olympic champion.
One of the most significant events in the history of the modern Olympics was the breaking of the ancient rule that women were not allowed to participate. At the second Olympics, despite Coubertin's insistence against women's participation, female athletes stepped into what had hitherto been a men's stadium. But the sexism didn't end there, and track and field wasn't open to women until the Ninth Olympics in 1928. Another memorable event in the history of the Olympic Games was the launching of the Olympic Torch in Athens, Greece, the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games, which was then carried in a relay to the site of the Games, where it was lit during the Opening Ceremony. Since 1924, the modern Olympic Games have been divided into the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The 8th Summer Olympics were held in Paris and the 1st Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix.
The first boycott of the Olympics on political grounds was in Melbourne in 1956. The British and French troops in the Suez Canal led to boycotts in Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon, while the Soviet Union's troops in Hungary led to Switzerland, Spain and the Netherlands refusing to enter the Games at that time.
The 1980 Games in Moscow saw the biggest "boycott" in Olympic history, initiated by the United States and joined by 61 countries to protest against the invasion of Afghanistan by the former Soviet Union. Afghanistan. In response, the Soviet Union gathered its Eastern European allies and returned the favor four years later in Los Angeles, citing security concerns.
Danish cyclist Jensen collapsed and died at the 1960 Rome Olympics, and the drug problem has followed the Games ever since. It wasn't until the 1988 Seoul Games that it became clear that world and Olympic champion and world record holder Ben Johnson was relying on steroids. The modern Olympic Games was born 100 years ago, through all the difficulties, its rise and fall, honor and disgrace affect hundreds of millions of people around the world, it is to strengthen the friendship between the world's people and athletes, and promote world peace and the development of world sports, played an indelible merit, which is the Olympic Games in the memory of the history of the people will not forget.
3: The modern Olympic Games are held every four years (leap year), Beijing in 2008, London in 2012.
4: The Olympic Games (Greek: Ολυμπιακο? Αγ?νε?, referred to as the Olympic Games) are international games organized by the International Olympic Committee that encompass a wide range of sports and are held every four years. The Olympic Games originated in Ancient Greece and were named after Olympia, where they were held, and the modern Olympic Games were founded by Baron Coubertin of France at the end of the 19th century. Since 1896, the Olympic Games have been held every four years (with three interruptions during the two world wars) for a period of no more than 16 days. Since the Winter Olympic Games were established in 1924, the Olympic Games are also known as the "Summer Olympic Games". The Olympic Games have now become a symbol of peace and friendship.
The following are the current official events of the Summer Olympics:
Programs Time
Archery 1900-1908, 1920, 1972-
Athletics 1896-
Badminton 1992 - ( 1972 as a performance sport)
Baseball 1992 - 2008 (1912, 1936, 1956, 1964, 1984, 1988 as a performance sport)
Basketball 1936 -
Beach volleyball 1996 -
Boxing 1904-1908, 1920 -
Kayaking 1936- (1924 performance event)
Cycling 1896-
Diving 1904-
Equestrian 1900, 1912-
Fencing 1896-
Soccer 1900-1928, 1936-
Gymnastics 1896-
Handball 1936, 1972-
Hockey 1908, 1920-
Judo 1964, 1972-
Modern pentathlon 1912-
Artistic gymnastics 1984-
Rowing 1900-
Sailing 1900, 1908-
Shooting 1896-1924, 1932-
Softball 1996-2008
Swimming 1896-
Synchronized swimming 1984-
Table tennis 1988-
Taekwondo 2000- (1988- 1992 performance program)
Tennis 1896-1924, 1988- (1968, 1984 performance program)
Trampoline 2000-
Triathlon 2000-
Volleyball 1964-
Water Polo 1900-1904, 1908-
Weightlifting 1896, 1904-1906, 1920-
Wrestling 1896, 1904-
The Winter Olympic Games are referred to as the Winter Olympics. The Winter Olympics are held every four years, and the main feature of the event is winter sports on ice and snow, such as ice skating, skiing, and other sports suitable for winter. The first Winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924.
5: Peace
6: The motto of 2008 is "One World, One Dream".
7: The Olympic spirit is "Faster, Higher, Stronger". What supports and creates "faster, higher, stronger"? It is "self-confidence, self-improvement and self-respect". This is not only the driving force of the Olympic spirit, but also the sublimation of the Olympic spirit. I want to learn, it is this "self-confidence, self-improvement, self-esteem" spirit. The lack of self-confidence has caused me to lose many opportunities. I remember when I took the examination for specialization, my ambition is the East China School of Politics and Law of the legal profession, however, on the eve of the examination, I flinched, I can? Can I really get in? It is because of the lack of self-confidence, I failed to get what I wanted. But I'm not discouraged, I want to learn from the Olympic athletes, to learn the female volleyball players that self-improvement, the spirit of tenacity
Great out of the ordinary, the details show quality. Learning the Olympic spirit is not an empty word, but an action. Gold Olympic athletes, after all, is a minority, the vast majority of us, are working in ordinary positions, however, ordinary positions can also create miracles, all the work requires hard work and innovation. The report of the 16th National Congress pointed out that "innovation is the soul of a nation's progress, is the inexhaustible power of a country's prosperity and development, but also a source of vitality of a political party." The key to innovation in a "new" word, to study new issues, even old problems, but also strive to come up with new approaches, new ideas, new initiatives. To deal with the relationship between pragmatism and innovation, only down-to-earth innovation is meaningful, "old bottles of new wine", should be avoided unnecessary renovation. Breakthrough stereotypes in order to realize the true meaning of the breakthrough.
Learning Fay Yang Olympic spirit, we must learn their dedication, willing to be lonely, willing to pay the spirit. The Olympic Games is short, but the Olympic Games bring us inspiration is eternal; the field of victory or defeat is temporary, but the spirit of self-improvement is forever
==
The origin of the Olympic rings
The Olympic movement has a series of unique and distinctive symbolic symbols, such as the Olympic logo, motto, Olympic flag, anthem, emblem, medals, mascots and so on. These symbols have rich cultural meanings, and they symbolize the value orientation and cultural connotation of the Olympic ideal. Today, with the continuous development and expansion of the Olympic Movement, the Olympic symbols have become a household name throughout the world and are y rooted in people's hearts.
The Olympic Charter stipulates that the property rights of the Olympic Symbol, the Olympic Flag, the Olympic Motto and the Olympic Anthem belong exclusively to the International Olympic Committee. The IOC may take all appropriate measures to obtain legal protection for the Olympic symbol, flag, motto and anthem at the national and international levels. In order to strengthen the protection of Olympic intellectual property rights and the Olympic symbol, and to safeguard and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the owners of Olympic intellectual property rights and the rights and interests of the Olympic symbol, China has successively promulgated the Provisions on the Protection of Olympic Intellectual Property Rights in Beijing Municipality (Decree No. 85 of the Beijing Municipal Government of October 11, 2001) and the Regulations on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol (Decree of the State Council of China of February 4, 2002), which are aimed at protecting Olympic intellectual property rights and the Olympic symbol. ***State Council Decree No. 345 of February 4, 2002) were issued.
The most widely circulated symbols in the world today are the Five Olympic Rings, which, with the development of the Olympic Movement, have become the image of the Olympic spirit and culture, and wherever the Five Rings "turn", the Olympic Movement takes root and blossoms.
There is an interesting story about the origin of the five rings. In 1936, the 11th Berlin Olympic Games held the first torch relay activities, the torch relay route from Olympia, from northern Greece out of the country, along the Danube River through Austria, and finally into Germany. In order to set the stage for this symbolic event, the President of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, Karl Diethem, and his colleagues followed almost exactly the same route as the ancient Olympic torch relay. Diem and his colleagues decorated the ancient Greek sites along the route almost exactly as they would have been for the ancient Olympic Games. When the torch arrived at the ancient stadium on Mount Delphi Parnassus for a special ceremony, Diem had the idea of designing and engraving the five rings of the modern Olympic movement on four sides of a rectangular stone about three feet high, which was placed at the starting line end of the ancient stadium. After the ceremony, the torch continued its journey north while the stone, which was used as a prop, was left behind at the old stadium.
Because few people knew the true identity of the stone with the five rings (later called the "stone of Dim"), it was for a long time thereafter treated as a "3,000-year-old relic of the ancient Olympic Games. The falsehood wasn't pointed out by Greek officials in Delphi until the 1960s, and in May 1972, the fake artifact was sent to another part of Delphi, the entrance to the Roman Forum.
In fact, the five-ringed symbol of the modern Olympic movement is attributed to Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics. The idea that the Olympic Movement should have its own symbol had been in his mind for a long time, and in 1913 he finally conceived the idea of a five-ringed logo and an Olympic flag with five rings on a white background, which he intended to launch on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the IOC.
In fact, it was the founder of the modern Olympic Games who created the five-ringed logo.
June 15 to 23, 1914, the International Olympic Committee in Paris, France, the Sorbonne held a congress, while celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of the IOC. At the commemorative meeting, Coubertin excitedly took out his own design of the five rings logo and a flag printed with five rings to show everyone, and suggested that they be used as the symbol of the Olympic movement. After listening to the explanation of the five-ringed symbol by Coubertin, the conference determined that the five Olympic rings and the Olympic flag should be used as the Olympic symbol.
The Five Olympic Rings symbol consists of five Olympic rings snapped together from left to right, either in a single color or in five colors: blue, yellow, black, green and red. The initial explanation was that the five colors represent the colors of the national flags of each country, and later the five different colored rings were interpreted as symbols of the five continents.
The Olympic flag, 3 meters long and 2 meters wide, has a white background to symbolize purity. The five rings of blue, yellow, black, green and red are interlocked. the Olympic flag was first flown at the Olympic Congress in Paris in 1914. the Olympic flag flew for the first time at the Summer Olympic Stadium in Antwerp in 1920. After this Olympic Games, the Belgian Olympic Committee presented the IOC with an identical flag, which was flown during the Olympic Games, and later became customized, the opening ceremony of the successive Olympic Games by the previous host city to transfer this flag, which is preserved by the host city, the main stadium during the competition only hangs a substitute. 1952, the city of Oslo presented the IOC with the flag of the Winter Olympic Games, the handing over, preservation and use of the same method as in the Summer Olympic Games.
In June 1979, the IOC officially announced the meaning of the flag and the five rings: "In accordance with the Olympic Charter, the meaning of the Olympic flag and the five rings is: to symbolize the unity of the five continents and the athletes from all over the world meet at the Olympic Games in a spirit of fairness, frank play and friendship.
8: On July 30, 1932, the 10th Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles, USA. China selected Liu Changchun, a student from Northeastern University, to compete in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters of track and field. Liu Changchun became the first Chinese athlete to participate in the Olympic Games. Before the event, the All-China Sports Association sent only Shen Ziliang, the director-general of the Association, to attend the event because of financial problems. Later, the pseudo-Manchurian government shocked the whole country by announcing that it would send Liu Changchun and Yu Xiwei to participate in the Olympic Games, and finally the Association sent Liu Changchun to participate on behalf of China by all means.
July 1 in the Northeastern University Department of Physical Education graduation ceremony, by Zhang Xueliang personally announced Liu Changchun and Yu Xiwei for the athletes, Song Junfu for the coaches, on behalf of China to attend the Tenth Olympic Games. Hao Gengsheng letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and with the Chinese Sports Association Wang Zhengting, Zhang Borying consultation, by Zhang Borying urgent telegram Olympic Committee to enroll in the formalities.
At that time, Liu Changchun departed from the Shanghai dock and was warmly received by thousands of Shanghai citizens. Dr. Wang Zhengting, director of the Chinese Sports Association, along with his wife, came to the flag awarding ceremony and delivered a farewell speech: "Our country sent you to participate in the World Sports Congress for the first time since the founding of the country, which contains infinite significance, and I am now in the sincerity of my heart, on behalf of the All-China Sports Association to award you the flag, and hope that you will use the spirit of its struggle to carry forward in the Los Angeles Olympic Stadium to make the national flag of the Republic of China, flutter in the air, the flag of the Republic of China. The flag of the Republic of China, fluttering before the countries of the world, is a supreme honor."
On the opening day, the Chinese team temporarily cobbled together, by Liu Changchun national flag, Shen Zuliang for the general representative of the following, followed by representatives of four people: Song Junfu, Liu Xuesong, Shen Guoquan, Topping. Among them, Liu Xuesong, Shen Guoquan, Topping 3 people or in Los Angeles at the time of the temporary Chinese. But it is this temporary cobbled together team, opened China's participation in the Olympic Games in the history of the prologue.
After the start of the race, Liu Changchun 100 meters preliminaries results in about 11 seconds, in fifth place, was eliminated; 200 meters preliminaries in the sixth place, also fell. Later, due to travel, the 400 meters was abandoned. In the report of the Los Angeles Olympic Preparatory Committee, published a full-body photo of Liu Changchun, which reads, "The only representative of China's 400 million people --- Liu Changchun". But in any case, Liu Changchun's solo trip to the Olympics set a record for China's participation in the Games and had a profound impact on the world of sports.
China's first representative to the Olympic Games was Dalian's Liu Changqing
China's first Olympic medal-winning sport and athlete was shooting, Xu Haifeng
China's first Olympic medal-winning sport and athlete was the 23rd in 1984
China's first Olympic Games in which it was ranked fourth in the gold medals was the Barcelona Olympics in 1992
China's first Olympic Games to be ranked in the top three in terms of gold medals was the 27th Sydney Olympics in 2000
.