Paris, 12 August 2024 (TDI): The Paris Olympics 2024 concluded on Sunday with Team China winning 40 gold, 27 silver and 24 bronze medals, with the result marking the best performance for Team China in the Olympic Games organized overseas.
Chinese experts said this proves that the success of Chinese modernization can bring not only economic development, but also can benefit the improvement of public health and the environment for sports industries, to energize “sports for all” in an effective way.
This is the main reason why so many talented young athletes can continuously emerge from 1.4 billion population of China in the past decades, and they can also break world records in sports that have been dominated by the United States and other Western nations for a long time, analysts said.
Counting from China’s first Olympic gold medal in 1984 thanks to Xu Haifeng’s shooting prowess, China successfully surpassed the three hundred-gold medal mark in Paris. Over the past forty years, Chinese sports have evolved from achieving occasional bright performances to becoming an undeniable powerhouse of global sports.
The Chinese sports delegation showed a record-breaking performance, winning forty gold, twenty seven silver, and twenty four bronze medals in eleven major events and fourteen sub-events, totaling ninety one medals. This marks the best result for the country in the Olympic Games organized overseas since it started participating in the Summer Olympics in 1984,” Zhou Jinqiang, vice chief of the Chinese delegation, told a media conference in Paris on Sunday.
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Zhou said that Chinese athletes, whether during competitions or when interacting with the media, displayed natural friendliness, grace, and an evident love for their nation and pride in being Chinese.
Historic breakthroughs were made by Chinese athletes at the Paris Olympics in sports such as artistic swimming, tennis, rhythmic gymnastics and BMX cycling.
