city|Su Bingtian:a game changer and a disrupter( 二 )


Tokyo 2021 is a reminder for Chinese people of another important a moment in Olympic history. In 1932, at the Los Angeles Olympics games, Liu Changchun, a Chinese runner lined up for the heats of the men’s 100m. Controversy surrounded him, coming from Dongbei (Northeast China), he had brazenly decided to race under the Chinese flag, rather than that of the Japanese occupied state of “Manchuko”. So, although there were two Chinese competitors, only Liu represented the Republic of China in those long-ago Games. Exhausted from over a month on a ship, without any ability to train while he travelled, anxious and concerned by the controversies surrounding his decision to represent the country he loved, rather than the oppressors he lived under, he failed to qualify for the finals. According to his own diary, he was beaten by a runner who was 0.1 second faster than him, needing to be in the first three to go through to the final, he was fourth. One can only imagine the Frustration at the time. Not just to him, but to millions of people at home in China supporting him and applauding his courage for standing up to the occupiers.
By comparison with those turbulent inter-war years, when this privately funded, self-trained athlete was the only man representing his troubled country; in 2021, China sent 406 professionally trained, well-disciplined and peak performing athletes to Japan to continue the Asian disruption. Only Germany (452) Australia (478), Japan (552) and the USA with a whopping 613[ https://olympicsvenue.com/which-country-has-the-most-athletes-in-the-tokyo-olympics-2021.html] athletes have more.


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