He recalled that during the 1984 Los Angeles Games, China’s first, when China won a gold medal he said to himself “Wow, these guys are good,” and was not surprised when they went from strength to strength in the years that followed.
China will have their largest delegation for any Olympics at the Beijing Games with more than 600 athletes.
Scherr said Beijing was not a one-shot opportunity for China because the inspiration many Chinese will draw and the sports infrastructure that has been built will keep it competitive.
“We think this will be a formidable system that we will have to contend with for a very long time,” he said.
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