On this day, 89 years ago, on August 1, 1936 (June 15, 1936, the lunar calendar), China sent a delegation to participate in the 11th Berlin Olympics. The opening ceremony of the Berlin Olympics was broadcast on television for the first time. On August 1, 1936, the Olympic flame arrived at the Berlin Olympic Stadium, and the 11th Olympic Games officially opened. The 11th Summer Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany from August 1 to 16, 1936. There were 4066 athletes from 49 countries (including 328 female athletes) participating. Countries participating for the first time include Afghanistan, Bermuda, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Liechtenstein and Peru. The countries with the largest number of athletes participating are Germany, 406, the United States, 330, and Hungary, 211. China has sent a team of 69 athletes (including 2 women), a martial arts performance team (6 men and 3 women) and a sports inspection group (35 men and 2 women). He participated in six major events: track and field, swimming, weightlifting, cycling, basketball, football and boxing. Except for Fu Baolu who passed the pole vault (who was also eliminated in the finals), the rest were eliminated in the preliminaries. The men's and women's sprint national record holders Liu Changchun and Li Sen, as well as the swimming star Yang Xiuqiong known as the "mermaid", and the national cycling champion overseas Chinese athlete He Haohua were all eliminated in the preliminary rounds; the football team's first match against the strong British team was eliminated 0:2: the men's basketball team lost 4 games and 4 games in the group competition; only the famous pole vaulter Fu Baolu made a strong leap and became the only China athlete to enter the finals. Fu Baolu once set the national record for pole vault in China with a score of 4.5 meters. Only martial arts performances were stunned by Westerners, especially pairs training, but they were a sensation in Berlin and popular in Germany. When the China delegation left the country by boat in Shanghai, famous swimming champion Yang Xiuqiong commented: The Berlin Olympics was an Olympic Games created by the Nazis. Although it was successfully organized in some aspects, it violated the Olympic spirit and helped German fascism whitewash peace. A little more than three years in the past, in September 1939, the German fascists launched a war of aggression, bringing unprecedented disaster to people around the world, including the German people. When celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Olympic Games in 1954, the International Olympic Committee had to review its mistakes and issued a communiqué, believing that the arrogant atmosphere of militarism and Nazism had shrouded this Olympic Games and had tragic consequences.