Word: mingxia
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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There was no shortage of winners as the Olympics loudspeakers began playing national anthems last week: Fu Mingxia, the poised Chinese diver who was not even born when El Loco began hitting home runs for Cuba; the Maldivian swimmer who became the first in his country's Olympic history not to finish last (in part because that position was already occupied by another Maldivian swimmer...
...member national team, from age 14 on they earn an average worker's salary, with bonuses for major victories. An Olympic gold medal brings 20,000 yuan, or about $3,700, equivalent to the average per capita income for a quarter-century. Says a prominent Chinese sports journalist: "Fu Mingxia is a money tree for her family." Still, that Olympic bonus is less than a fifth of what the Soviet Union offered athletes for gold at Seoul -- and about one-third of 1% of what American gymnast Mary Lou Retton earned from capitalist sources after her Olympic heyday...