Last dream comes true

Though the country as early as in the 1950s had chosen to stop using the transliteration of the word "Olympics", which reads as "I can compete" in Chinese, today we can do just that - compete, says an article in Legal Daily. The following is an excerpt:

The country's Olympic pioneer Zhang Boling once asked in 1908 when China will be able to participate in the Games, when will the country get its first gold medal, and when will the country be able to host the Olympic Games. Now, the last question has been answered.

A hundred years ago, when the country was being bullied by invading imperialist powers and was known as the "sick man of east Asia", many compatriots with lofty ideals and steadfast convictions were sacrificing all they had to save the falling nation. And against this background, today the Chinese can shout out: "I can compete"