ABSTRACT
Article 6 of the Olympic Charter focuses on the relationship between China's national image and the performance of China's elite athletes on the Olympic stage since 1949. It also describes the efforts of the Chinese elite sports system to achieve Olympic gold medals. China won its first Olympic gold medal in Los Angeles in 1984, marking a historic leap in Chinese elite sports. After that, Chinese elite sports began to enter the era of rapid development. The remarkable success of Chinese elite sports in the Olympic Games is due to China's sports system and the successive policy support. To continue to achieve Olympic success, the Chinese government issued a second ‘Olympic Strategy’ project when the previous one ended in 2000. Raising the national flag and playing the national anthem at the Olympic Games has become the highest mission of Chinese elite sports. And the burden of accomplishing that task falls on the athlete.
