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  • October 2008

    • Officials Clear Chinese Gymnasts

      Associated Press  |  Oct 1, 08 9:30 AM CDT

      Officials Clear Chinese Gymnasts

      (AP) - China's 2008 gold medal gymnasts are in the clear, after international gymnastics officials said today the documentation provided confirms the women were old enough to compete. But the Chinese team that won the bronze medal 8 years ago still faces questions about the age of two competitors. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • age  • gymnastics  • gymnast  • Chinese athletes

  • August 2008

    • Chinese Athletes Went Through Hell for Gold

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 26, 08 5:16 AM CDT

      Chinese Athletes Went Through Hell for Gold

      (Newser) - China topped the gold medal tally at the Beijing Olympics but the road to glory was a tough one for many athletes, the Los Angeles Times reports. Judo gold medalist Xian Dongmei, the only mother in the squad, did not see her 18-month-old daughter for a year before the Games, while 15-year-old diving champ Chen Ruolin was ordered to skip dinner for a year. More »

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      China  • Olympic athletes  • Chinese athletes  • gold medalist

    • China's Gold Rush Pays Off Nicely for Athletes

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 23, 08 11:04 AM CDT

      China's Gold Rush Pays Off Nicely for Athletes

      (Newser) - Decades ago, bringing glory to the motherland would have been the sole reward for victorious Chinese Olympians. The glory is still there—plenty of it, as China leads the gold medal table—but champions can now expect an average reward of $300,000 in cash and bonuses, even before corporate sponsorship deals roll in, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • athlete  • gold medal  • Olympic athletes  • Chinese athletes  • Olympians  • corporate sponsorship  • gold medalist

    • IOC to Probe Chinese Gymnast's Age

      Times (UK)  |  Aug 22, 08 3:53 AM CDT

      IOC to Probe Chinese Gymnast's Age

      (Newser) - The International Olympic Committee has launched an investigation to determine if Chinese gymnastics gold medalist He Kexin is under the minimum age of 16, after a computer security expert turned up a document indicating that she's 14. Mike Walker yesterday posted an account of his search, in which he found official records listing her date of birth as January 1, 1994, on his website, reports the Times of London. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • gymnastics  • Olympic athletes  • Chinese athletes

    • Chinese News Agency Put Gymnast's Age at 13

      Associated Press  |  Aug 14, 08 8:00 PM CDT

      Chinese News Agency Put Gymnast's Age at 13

      (AP) - Just 9 months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government's news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this week. In its report Nov. 3, Xinhua identified He as one of "10 big new stars" who made a splash at China's Cities Games. It gave her age as 13 and reported that she beat Yang Yilin on the uneven bars at those games. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • gymnastics  • gymnast  • Chinese athletes

    • The Price of Reaching the Top

      Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 9, 08 10:27 AM CDT

      The Price of Reaching the Top

      (Newser) - Nearly all of Chin'a Olympic athletes come out of the country’s sports boarding schools—a system that depends on the dismal prospects of the country's poor. "A rich person would never let his child do this," the father of Athens gold medalist Chen Yanqing tells the Wall Street Journal . But "if we didn't send her away to sports school, she would have ended up a farmer." More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • Olympics  • Chinese athletes  • weight lifting

  • July 2008

    • Chinese Athletes Destitute After Glory Days

      NPR  |  Jul 23, 08 8:35 AM CDT

      Chinese Athletes Destitute After Glory Days

      (Newser) - Zhao Yonghua was a Chinese national skiing champion and won several gold medals. But now, at 31, she is bedridden from diabetes, exacerbated by overtraining. With no hope of recovery or employment, the former star finally had to sell one of her gold medals to raise money for treatment. As NPR reports, Zhao is only one of many athletes whose lives have been upended in pursuit of sporting glory. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • athlete  • gold medal  • Chinese athletes  • injured

  • June 2008

    • China's Quest for Glory Pushing Athletes Past Limits

      New York Times  |  Jun 20, 08 2:18 AM CDT

      China's Quest for Glory Pushing Athletes Past Limits

      (Newser) - China is going all-out in a sometimes destructive push to top the medal table at the Beijing Olympics, the New York Times reports. Athletes are risking their health by training while injured, and potential medal-winners are being pressed out of retirement. Olympic hopefuls are well aware that victory will bring fame and fortune—and failure a huge "loss of face" for the motherland. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • athlete  • Hu Jintao  • Chinese athletes

  • January 2008

    • China Shines Image for Olympics

      Der Spiegel  |  Jan 30, 08 2:29 PM CST

      China Shines Image for Olympics

      (Newser) - With less than 200 days to go before the Summer Olympics, Der Spiegel takes an in-depth look at China’s feverish preparations and finds a sprawling bureaucracy working overtime to project the perfect image to the world. But while Beijing might clean the smog, and even prevent rain, making communist China look like an open and free society won’t be easy. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • human rights  • Olympic Games  • Communist Party  • Chinese athletes  • Olympians

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