The Berlin Olympics are finally over.

At the Berlin Olympics, all the medals won by the Chinese team came from Chen Qiang, and the other competitors still did not win, and most of them were eliminated in the first round.

However, thanks to Chen Qiang, the Chinese team has achieved better results than in history in events such as long jump, triple jump, pole vault, etc., and at least more competitors have entered the finals.

In the swimming event, Yang Xiuqiong, the "mermaid" who had high hopes before the game, participated in the women's 100-meter freestyle and 100-meter backstroke competitions, but they were eliminated in the preliminaries. Compared with the world's top level, there is indeed a big gap between China's swimming and the world's top level. Yang Xiuqiong, who is invincible in China and even in Asia, can't even pass the preliminaries in the Olympic Games.

In the weightlifting event, the Chinese team sent three players, two lightweight, one welterweight, the result of the two lightweight players ranked 15th and 18th respectively, although this is not consistent with the status of China's world's largest weightlifting country in the future, but in terms of the first time to participate in the Olympic Games, it is very good to have such results. As for the welterweight, he failed three attempts and did not score.

In cycling, Dutch-Chinese athlete Ho Ho Wah met the champion of the Los Angeles Olympics by chance and was eliminated, otherwise, he should have been able to go further.

Basketball is a good sport, although the Chinese team lost the first game against Japan, but defeated France in the second game and advanced to the semifinals. However, in the semifinals, the Chinese team lost to Peru and finally lost to Brazil in the qualifying round, ending the Olympic journey with a record of 1 win and 3 losses. The South American countries of this era generally had good economies, well-fed and well-dressed, far away from war, and relatively strong in sports.

In football, the Chinese team was not very lucky, and they were eliminated 0-2 in the first game against the powerful United Kingdom. However, it is very good to lose only two goals, and even the British media say that it is not easy for the British to win this game. This can also be regarded as an affirmation of the Chinese football team.

Since the football team paid for their own expenses, the football team did not stay in Berlin and returned to China with the Chinese team at the end of the Olympics, and they left for Frankfurt on August 11 to start their journey to the European friendlies. In the following half a month, the Chinese football team went to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and other six countries, and played nine games.

In Eintracht Frankfurt, the Chinese football team lost 3-8 to Frankfurt FC. Eintracht Frankfurt was a strong team in this era, winning the German championship once in 1938.

Then in Austria, the Chinese football team lost 2-4 to the runner-up of the Austrian Professional League, and then lost to the champion of the Austrian Professional League that year with a disparity of 0-11. At that time, Austrian football was very strong, and Austria also won a silver medal at the Berlin Olympics.

In Switzerland, the Chinese football team defeated Geneva Football Club 3-2, which was also the only victory of the Chinese team in a friendly match in Europe, in which Li Huitang scored a hat-trick.

In Paris, France, the Chinese team drew 2-2 with the Paris Red Star team. The 1936 Red Star of Paris is also considered a team in Ligue 1, but it ranks relatively low in Ligue 1.

After one win and one draw, the Chinese football team lost to Le Havre Football Club with a score of 0-6. Immediately after that in the Netherlands, the Chinese team lost 3-5 to the Amateur team Ayak.

The last leg of the friendly match was England, where the Chinese football team lost 2-3 to British amateur champions Collins, and then lost 2-5 to the British professional champions of the year, Keschels.

After nine friendly matches, although they were all away games, the Chinese team only achieved 1 win, 1 draw and 7 losses. It also included a 11-0 defeat.

In the future, many people feel that Chinese football during the Republic of China is very powerful, and even has a world-class level. In fact, at that time, although Chinese football was considered the top in Asia, there was still a big gap between the top in Asia and the world-class, and this record of 1 win, 1 draw and 7 losses is enough to prove this.

Technically, China may not be too far behind, especially Hong Kong athletes, who are actually very good technically due to the influence of British football culture. For example, Li Huitang, his skills are among the best in the world.

But at the level of tactical coordination, the Chinese team is too far behind. Of course, it was not only China, the whole of Asia at that time, and even Australia, was much worse than Europe in terms of football theory, and of course Australia at that time could not play China.

Therefore, the Chinese football team had a great record when it played an exhibition game in Nanyang, but it was kicked out by its opponent in Europe.

It is worth mentioning that Li Huitang's outstanding performance won the favor of the British giant club Arsenal, and Arsenal invited Li Huitang to join. Britain is the birthplace of modern football, and there are too many outstanding athletes in the whole of the United Kingdom, and they are willing to invite Li Huitang, a Chinese, to show that Li Huitang's strength is much stronger than the British players at that time. Even if Lee Wai Tong is only at the same level as a British athlete, Arsenal will choose a British player instead of Lee Wai Tong.

On the other hand, Chen Qiang also went to seven European countries with the sports delegation to start the investigation.

This time, the Chinese team participated in the Berlin Olympic Games, and the original budget was sufficient, but it was precisely because of the sudden addition of such an inspection group that the budget for the Olympic Games exceeded the standard, and in the end, it was through donations from all walks of life and the football team playing exhibition games to make money, so that the funds for coming to Berlin were sufficient.

Athletes only need to stay in one place in Berlin to participate in the Olympic Games, but the delegation has to travel to many countries, so the cost is much larger than that of athletes.

In fact, the original purpose of this delegation was indeed to travel abroad at public expense. At that time, the Ministry of Education was controlled by the CC Department, so how could you not take advantage of such a great opportunity to go to Europe! As a result, 11 members of the delegation were directly escorted by the Ministry of Education, and these 11 people were all central or local officials, such as provincial sports inspectors, as well as directors of certain stadiums, all of whom came to travel at public expense under the banner of inspection.

In addition, 15 members of the regiment received allowances from the National Sports Association, and they were considered to be semi-self-funded for their inspections. They are all front-line physical education workers, such as the heads of physical education departments of universities, or the presidents of sports universities. Compared with the 11 officials, these front-line sports workers are obviously more meaningful to investigate, at least after their inspection, they can return to China to apply what they have learned, and apply the advanced experience of Europe to daily physical education.

There were also 7 people in the delegation, who were completely self-funded. For example, Chen Bingde, director of the Department of Physical Education of Fudan University, Wang Shoufang, director of the Department of Physical Education of Soochow University, and Jiang Zhende, director of physical education of Myron Middle School, are willing to pay their own money to study in Europe, and they also really hope to develop China's sports industry.

The delegation originally had nothing to do with Chen Qiang, but Chen Qiang's outstanding performance in the Olympic Games made the delegation add Chen Qiang's name.

Seven gold medals and seven world records, this is an unprecedented achievement, and this kind of miraculous performance has also made Chen Qiang a celebrity in Europe. During the inspection process, the members of the delegation will always ask them about Chen Qiang's situation.

So the delegation decided to let Chen Qiang join the delegation. With Chen Qiang here, the compulsion of the entire delegation instantly improved a lot. Those Europeans did not know the members of the delegation, but they had all heard of Chen Qiang's name, and heard that Chen Qiang, the "world's No. 1 athlete", had come to visit, and the reception staff had paid a lot attention to the entire delegation, and the standard of reception had also been improved.

For example, it was originally the deputy mayor who came to receive the delegation, but after hearing that Chen Qiang was coming, it became the mayor to receive him personally. Another example is that the previous delegation ate ordinary work meals, but after Chen Qiang came, it became a main meal in a big hotel, and some places even held a welcome dinner for Chen Qiang.

The process of the investigation has also gone a lot smoother, when I went to some universities for inspection, the school was high and ignorant, those famous universities in Europe have a long history, and there is no shortage of well-known scholars in the school, but China is a poor and backward country, how can they have the leisure and elegance to take care of the delegation from China.

When Chen Qiang came, the situation was completely different, the posture of those universities was obviously much lower, and some places even wanted to hang a slogan "Welcome Mr. Chen Qiang to visit and guide", which instantly changed from ignoring to licking dogs. Everywhere Chen Qiang went, those who were engaged in sports work surrounded Chen Qiang, and many people were looking forward to talking to Chen Qiang or getting Chen Qiang's face-to-face guidance.

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In fact, the work of the delegation began before the start of the Olympic Games. A world leisure and entertainment seminar was held in Hamburg, Germany, during which there were also entertainment performances by groups from various countries, such as folk games and music performances, and the Chinese team also performed national arts at the conference.

In addition to this, the seminar also introduced some commercial propaganda such as the special products of various parts of Germany, the evolution of the textile machine, the progress of the means of transportation, etc., and the 11 officials were obviously very interested in it. Originally, they also came to travel at public expense, and it was naturally much more fun to see some customs or listen to music than to study sports.

When Chen Qiang joined the delegation, the delegation had already completed its visit to Denmark and Sweden, and its next stop was the Czech Republic, followed by Austria, Hungary and Italy.

The Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary do not have much to offer, but Italy has a lot of places of interest that are of interest to the officials of the delegation at public expense.

But in fact, in terms of the conditions of old China at that time, the expedition to the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary was more meaningful than going to Italy.

The Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary once belonged to a powerful empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed, and the Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary also became defeated countries, and their national strength was greatly weakened, from a world-class power to a third-rate country in Europe.

And because of the Treaty of Versailles, the military power of the defeated countries was limited, and military training was affected. However, the three countries have unanimously adopted the method of "replacing military training with physical training" and have achieved an increase in military strength.

For China at that time, these three countries were worth learning from.

At that time, China was also a weak country, with China's national strength did not have the conditions for all the people to be soldiers, China was also facing Japanese aggression, and needed to develop military strength to defend the country. At this time, replacing military training with low-cost physical training can also be regarded as a way to strengthen the country and the army.

The cost of training a physically strong athlete is much lower than training a qualified soldier. In the era of guns, an athlete only needs two weeks of military training to become a soldier.

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After finishing the inspection of seven European countries, Chen Qiang also took a passenger ship back to China.

Historically, when the Berlin Olympics came to an end, the Chinese delegation returned home, not to mention winning medals, but there were few people who could advance from the preliminaries.

In the face of such a result, the Chinese people showed various negative emotions, such as grief, indignation, and helplessness......

And all kinds of criticism have emerged. One of the more famous is a cartoon of "Chinese Olympians Returning to China", above the cartoon is a huge ocean liner, the dock is a crowd welcoming the return of Chinese athletes, and the athlete standing on the bow of the boat holds a huge duck egg, duck egg Shanghai has an Olympic five rings logo, indicating that Chinese athletes in the Olympic Games got a "duck egg" results.

Newspaper comments were even more mocking of the Chinese team's defeat, such as some commentators claiming that Chinese athletes went to watch the games, not to participate in them. This is quite like Yue Yunpeng ridiculing Sun Yue for listening to cross talk on stage.

It is said that when the Chinese delegation returned to China, the ship docked in Singapore, and the Chinese athletes at that time did not dare to get off the ship, because all the Singaporean Chinese would make mocking voices against them.

In this time and space, because of Chen Qiang's crossing, these criticisms and ridicules do not exist, although only Chen Qiang can win the gold medal, and the other players of the Chinese team are still nothing, but the people don't care about these, Chen Qiang's light alone has covered up all the flaws of the Chinese team.

When the passenger ship of the Chinese delegation docked at the Shanghai wharf, the surrounding area was already flooded for several miles, and the people of Shanghai spontaneously gathered at the wharf to welcome the Olympic athletes back to China.

Nanjing, on the other hand, even sent a bigwig-level figure to Shanghai to greet the Olympic delegation in person, which was an unprecedented high-level reception.

But it's normal to think about it, Wang Zhengting, the head of the Olympic delegation this time, is also a member of the Central Committee of the Republic of China, and the people sent to greet him can't be lower than Wang Zhengting. Either it is at the same level as Wang Zhengting, or it is one level higher than Wang Zhengting. And with Wang Zhengting's qualifications and the positions he has held in Nanjing, those who are one level higher than him can be regarded as bigwig-level existences.

In the evening, the Shanghai Municipal Government hosted a banquet for the Olympic athletes, and the next day, all the members of the delegation took a train to Nanjing to receive the welcome and commendation from Nanjing.

In Nanjing, Chen Qiang met with the government bosses again, and the big boss of Nanjing personally awarded Chen Qiang a medal.

Nanjing's official awards and celebrations lasted for several days, starting with the commendation of the big boss, to the Executive Yuan, to the Ministry of Education, and then to the National Sports Association. After the official commendation and commendation ended, there were some semi-official and non-governmental groups to celebrate the Olympic delegation, and Chen Qiang continued to eat every day.

In the Chinese dinner culture, wine is indispensable, Chen Qiang thinks that the amount of alcohol is not bad, but he can't bear to drink every day, the world is extremely good, Chen Qiang feels that if he drinks like this again, his body will definitely not be able to eat.

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In the morning, after Chen Qiang got up, he called the front desk, and the hotel waiter delivered breakfast to Chen Qiang's room.

This time, Chen Qiang's accommodation expenses in Nanjing are all responsible for Nanjing, after all, Chen Qiang is a figure personally awarded by the big boss, and he is the face of China's sports industry, so the reception can not be sloppy, and Nanjing arranged a good hotel for Chen Qiang. Since he doesn't have to spend his own money, Chen Qiang is not polite and enjoys the services provided by the hotel.

The waiter put the breakfast on the table, prepared another newspaper, and then he took out an invitation, handed it to Chen Qiang, and said, "General Chen, this is the invitation I just received." ”

Chen Qiang is no stranger to invitations, and he has been receiving invitations a lot these days.

"No, I can't drink it anymore, if I drink it again, I have to drink cirrhosis!" Chen Qiang had the intention to refuse, but he saw that the invitation was not only in Chinese, but also in German.

Chen Qiang opened the invitation and saw that it was an invitation letter from the Nanjing branch of the German ** Party to invite Chen Qiang to attend the dinner.

"The Germans have come to invite me, probably because the German Führer personally awarded me a medal! It doesn't hurt to participate in the following, after all, I just came back from other people's countries, and this face is to be given, so you can't put on your pants and don't admit it! And this foreigner's dinner party is all red wine and champagne, the alcohol content is lower, drink as much as you want, no one has poured wine, much better than the Chinese dinner! ”

Chen Qiang couldn't help but think of the dinners he participated in the past few days, whether it was the host's family or the guests, they all kept toasting Chen Qiang, with a posture that if you don't drink, you won't give me face. Chen Qiang felt scared when he saw the invitation.

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The place where the Germans held their banquets was the office of the SH company in Nanjing. The full name of the SH company is Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens Halske, which may not be familiar to everyone, but another name is definitely familiar:

Siemens AG!

This SH company is the future Siemens. As early as the end of the nineteenth century, Siemens has entered China, and with the warming of Sino-German relations, Siemens' business in China is rising, Siemens' business throughout China's north and south, before World War II, most of China's telegraph network, was built by Siemens.

The waiter introduced Chen Qiang into the banquet hall, and then met the host of today's banquet, the head of the Nanjing branch of the German ** Party.

However, Chen Qiang was more interested not in this minister, but in the vice minister standing next to the minister.

The name of the deputy minister is John Rabe!

The John Rabe who wrote Bella's Diary!

The John Rabe who established the Nanjing Security Zone and protected hundreds of thousands of Chinese refugees!

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