To the Editor of the "Nonrit-Cutwa Dany News"
Gin~The disappointment over the failure of the Chinese Olympic teams appears to be more widespread and more keenly felt than can be gauged from the outspoken criticism of A certain section of the Chinese press, referred to in your Saturday's issue.
The foding, in the circumstances, not unnatural. "While no. extraordinary performances could have been expected of the Chinese athlete in the track and field events—they really stood no chance pitied against the highly trained and. specialized 'Western teams—great hopes, perhaps unjustifably, had. been k: ndled that the nation's' representatives. at Toast would make a good showing in some of the other contests, and the expect ney had engendered not a small amount of pride in the Chinese teams. Hence their complete failure achieve even a modicum of success has brought about' a revulsion of But to talk of "humiliation" and disgrace," because these hopes have not been realized, is to allow the consideration of self-pride and face fo override the true sporting spirit. refuse to believe that any' member of the Chinese Olympic teams feels humiliated or disgraced because they failed {0 make a showing.
'To have competed fairly, to have tried their hardest, and to have lost without rancour—that is the true spirit of the Olympic Games and of fall games. In that spirit the Chinese athletes, men and" women, have worthily upheld the honour' of the country they represent, and their own honour as true sportsmen, HAT, Shanghai, Aug. 10,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.