ABSTRACT

After the modern Olympic movement was introduced to China at the beginning of the twentieth century (Guoqi 2008), a seminar organized in October 1908 by the Tianjin YMCA raised the famous ‘Three Questions about the Olympics’. When would China send its first athlete to participate in the Olympic Games? When would Chinese athletes win their first gold medal at the Olympic Games? When would the Olympic Games be held in China? (Hong et al. 2008) China spent 100 years in finding the answer to these questions.