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...twirling divers, but the rise of this 24-year-old Asian Atlas underscores the country's dramatic impact on the medal rankings after just two decades of Olympic participation. Three days into the 16-day Games, China was already halfway to its officially projected medal count of 20 golds. By Saturday, the country's medal pouch was bulging with 39 honors of every hue. Victories came in China's usual strongholds of diving (three golds so far), shooting (eight medals), weight lifting (six medals) and table tennis (four medals). But China also collected laurels in sports in which it barely...
...Bountiful as Athens has proved, this month's Games are a mere dress rehearsal for the triumphant display that China hopes to produce at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. The nation's sports czars caution that this year China might not match the 28 golds it collected in Sydney, largely because some of its veteran athletes were left home in favor of up-and-coming talent. More than 80% of China's current Olympians are first-timers, and their average age is just 23. China is looking to these rookies to use their Athens experience to thrash the rest...
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...Despite their tender age, plenty of China's novice Olympians are winning big in Athens. Nineteen-year-old marksman Zhu Qinan, who had participated in only two international competitions before last week, set a new world record during his successful gold-medal quest in the men's 10-m air-rifle competition, while 21-year-old Liu Chunhong broke three world records in the women's 69-kg category in weight lifting. Four years after China sent its first-ever female field-hockey team to the Olympics, the Chinese became the first squad in Athens to win a semifinal berth...
...final, finishing a miserable seventh out of eight. "The team is very young," explained coach Lu Shanzhen. "We did very badly today, but I hope to build a dream team by 2008." A day earlier, in the choke performance of the week, China's male gymnastics team tumbled from gold-medal shoo-in to fifth-place finisher. The disastrous showing owed largely to the mishaps of one 19-year-old Olympic newcomer, pommel-horse world champion Teng Haibin, who, in rapid succession, stepped twice out of bounds in the floor routine, slipped on the parallel bars and, in a crowning...