四年一度的奥运会又临近了,这是一届与北京失之交臂的奥运会。 1993年北京市只差2票落选,当时我们为之愤愤然。六年后我们才知道现在得以举办27届奥运会的那座城市的申办者手脚不干净。于是我们多少心平气和了一点也明白了一些道理:原来一向道貌岸然的西方绅士也腐败得十分了得;原来我们中国人在国际上还有许多事情不是想做就可以做成,尽管我们十分诚实和努力;原来我们经济实力达不到一定水平的时候就要遭人欺负。记得在那个令人永世难忘的“9·23”之夜,我给《体育博览》写了一篇文章,其中有这样几句话:“它是一个遗憾,一个错失机遇的 The quadrennial Olympics are approaching again. This is the Olympic Games that missed Beijing’s time. In 1993 Beijing lost only 2 votes, when we were indignant. Six years later we learned that the sponsor of the city that is now hosting the 27th Olympic Games is by no means hand and foot. So we are just a little more calm and understand some truths: the original, always pious, western gentlemen have also become very corrupt; the original we Chinese people in the world, there are many things you can do not want to do, even though we are very honest and hard work It turned out that we were bullied when our economic strength did not reach a certain level. I remember in that eternally memorable ”9 · 23“ night, I wrote an article to Sports Expo, which has a few words: ”It is a pity, a missed opportunity