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China’s Olympic battle for legitimacy: The prehistory of the 2022 Beijing Games
Only through the lens of history can we understand why China fought so hard for a place in the Olympics on its own terms — to heal the scars of Western colonialism and civil war
A sporting start
Exactly 100 years ago a Chinese YMCA lecturer had a dream — that one day China would host the Olympic games.