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...country's best-known diver, Tian Liang, a two-time Olympic gold medalist on the 10-meter board and until last week the world champion, wasn't even in Australia. He has been at loggerheads with China's sports administrators ever since he returned in triumph from the Athens Olympic Games. Conspicuously absent from the roster of divers headed for Melbourne, he lost his place on the national team because of what control-obsessed sports bureaucrats called his excessive "commercial activities...
...practice in 2002. Tian's ex-girlfriend, Guo Jingjing, made a public self-criticism in 2005 to avoid being kicked out of the national team for "attending too many social activities." But the "Prince of Divers" as he is called, would never concede that he was wrong. "Tian Liang never acknowledges his mistakes," top diving official Zhou Jihong told a local paper. "China's diving team would be destroyed if it included an undisciplined player like...
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...worse than traditional carriers.” Still, he insisted that the administration will keep an eye on Fung Wah, with “driver qualifications, including English proficiency, being something we will watch as we move forward.” The president of Fung Wah, Pei Liang, did not return requests for comment...
...Democratic Progressives and other Tangwai (literally "outside the party") candidates from campaigning in the election. K.M.T. and D.P.P. politicians alike favored free enterprise and Western ties, and both railed against pollution and corruption. The final days on the hustings, however, were overshadowed by the attempts of Hsu Hsin-liang, 48, a Taiwanese dissident in exile in the U.S., to return to Taiwan...