At the Paris Olympics, the Chinese swimming team concluded with 2 gold, 3 silver, and 7 bronze, a total of 12 medals—the most in history, with the highest number of medal-winning athletes ever. Particularly noteworthy is the young athlete Pan Zhanle, born in 2004, who won the first swimming gold medal at this Olympics for the Chinese team in the men’s 100-meter freestyle final, leading by nearly a full body length and breaking the world record. Some Western media found it hard to accept this fact and simply “broke down.”