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NEWS ABOUT: Chinese athletes

Chinese athletes stories: 9 news summaries

 Officials Clear 
 Chinese Gymnasts 

But some of the 2000 competitors were too young, FIG says

Oct 1, 08 9:30 AM CDT
(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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Chinese Athletes Went Through Hell for Gold

'Project 119' delivered medals at high price

Aug 26, 08 5:16 AM CDT
(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,... More »

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China • Chinese athletes • Olympic athletes • gold medalist

Olympics

China's Gold Rush
Pays Off Nicely for Athletes

Government, corporations give athletes big bucks on top of Olympic glory

Aug 23, 08 11:04 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

OLYMPICS

 IOC to Probe
 Chinese Gymnast's Age

US computer experts uncovers Chinese documentation listing age as 14

Aug 22, 08 3:53 AM CDT
(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... More »

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2008 Beijing Olympics • gymnastics • Chinese athletes • Olympic athletes

(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 "... More »

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 The Price of Reaching the Top

Chinese weightlifter left her family as child

Aug 9, 08 10:27 AM CDT
(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 ... More »

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

 Chinese Athletes
 Destitute After
 Glory Days 

80% are jobless, injured, or impoverished

Jul 23, 08 8:35 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

China's Quest for Glory Pushing Athletes Past Limits

Injured athletes pressured to keep training

Jun 20, 08 2:18 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

China Shines Image for Olympics

Bureaucracy in full spin mode with Games less than 200 days away

Jan 30, 08 2:29 PM CST
(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... More »

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