Olympic Games is a world-wide sports event. It is a world-scale comprehensive sports event that advocates fairness, harmony, competition, and communication. It has also become a stage for the host country to show its national strength and culture. The conflicted world adds a color of peace, and it also helps the host country to show its comprehensive national strength and improve its international status.
Therefore, our country will naturally not miss the opportunity to host the Olympic Games. Since the establishment of the International Olympic Committee in 1894, the Olympic Games have been held for a total of 31 sessions. In our impression, the only Olympic Games held in my country was the 29th Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. The successful bid for the Beijing Olympic Games dates back to 2001, seven years ago.
But in fact, as early as 1990, my country had already proposed to bid for the Olympic Games. Even in 1993, when my country was bidding to host the 27th Olympic Games in 2000, it lost only two votes to Sydney, Australia at the time. Mr. He Zhenliang, who was in charge of Beijing's Olympic bid, returned with tears.
At that time, people believed that one of the countries that caused the difference between the two votes was North Korea at that time. Because in 1992, my country established diplomatic relations with South Korea, so many people speculated that it was possible that North Korea at that time had to turn to battle, which caused us to lose this "war" for the Olympic bid.
But in fact, the truth is not the case, and there is a hidden story behind it.
Let us go back to those years: In 1991, the International Olympic Committee began to "invite investment" all over the world, asking if any city was willing to host the 27th Olympic Games in 2000. Cities in various countries are naturally rushing, and my country also formally submitted an application to the Olympic Committee in December.
So, in 1993, voting began. The voting rules for the Olympic bid are multiple rounds of voting by half-elimination, that is, as long as there is no more than half of the votes, the Olympic Committee will eliminate some of the cities with lower votes, and then continue the next round of voting until the election A city with more than half of the votes.
After the first three rounds of voting, the only ones left are Beijing in my country and Sydney in Australia. In the first three rounds of voting, my country's Beijing has always been ahead of Sydney in the number of votes, but just when everyone thought that Beijing could secure the victory, in the last round of voting, my country lost to Sydney, which has been behind us, and only Only two votes were lost to the opponent.
Therefore, these two key votes have become the focus of people’s attention, but the Olympic Committee has been doing a good job of confidentiality, and it is still overseas. We are beyond our reach, and the Chinese have always advocated "willing to bet and lose." Big deal, come again next time.
But in 1999, representatives of Australia who participated in the Olympic bid told the truth at that time. Throughout the voting process, the names of the two countries that were finally toppled in battle did not include the word "North Korea". Instead, Egypt and Bulgaria were replaced.
In the first three rounds of voting, both Egypt and Bulgaria voted for Beijing, but just before the start of the fourth ballot, the Sydney side found representatives from Egypt and Bulgaria, and used 35,000 US dollars as "sports assistance". I hope they Able to switch to Sydney.
Australia was dominated on one continent at the time, and its national strength was much stronger than that of African countries and even China. Egypt and Bulgaria were naturally unwilling to "offend" them, so they accepted this "sports aid" in the last round of Turning back in the ballot led to a two-vote difference between Beijing and Sydney.
The Olympic Games, which has always advocated peace and progress, have been cast a shadow for a while. However, our country did not do much at that time, because the best choice at that time was to "bear the humiliation", and the venue for the 2000 Olympic Games had been decided long ago. Therefore, the most important task for our country is to continue in the subsequent bidding process. At the same time of working hard, we must also keep an eye on it. After learning this lesson, my country participated in the voting for the 29th Olympic Games in 2008 in 2001. At this time, my country's comprehensive national strength has entered the forefront of the world, and China has truly begun to rise. Under such circumstances, the Olympic bid has naturally succeeded.
finally in 2008, my country successfully held the Beijing Olympics, showing the world the mysterious Chinese culture, and also showing the world the new development and new image of China, which has changed China’s impression of the world. The success of the Beijing Olympics means that my country's cultural soft power has also reached the forefront of the world.
Judging from the story of the Olympic bid, Sydney's ignorance of fairness is really disgusting, and it also lets us know that only by continuous development and strengthening, can we slowly regain the right to speak and be in the world" Speak up", and to accomplish all this requires the efforts of all of us.
