|The figure of a Chinese sportsman appeared at the Tenth Olympic
Games held at Los Angeles of the United States of America in the
year 1932. This was the first Chinese that had taken part in the
Olympics. His name was Liu Changchun. His road to the Olympics,
however, had not been level and smooth. After the September 18th
Incident, which was the seizure of Shenyang by the Japanese
aggressors on September 18th, 1931, as a step towards occupation
by them of the entire northeastern part of China, the Japanese
aggressors attempted to extricate themselves from isolation in
the international arena by doing something to legitimize the
puppet state they had set up that bore the name of Manchukuo.
They knew that the international athletic competition had an
influential position in the minds of people of the whole world.
So they harbored the evil intention of making Liu Changchun
participate in the Olympics on behalf of the puppet state
Manchukuo. They employed various ignoble means to compel Liu
Changchun to yield to