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...Nonviolence To the rest of the world, Li's show-biz sabbatical may appear abrupt, but to his countrymen he is reprising the major themes of his life - self-sacrifice, service and discipline. At the age of 8, Li was randomly enrolled in a wushu class during a summer sports program. He had no idea what wushu was, which isn't surprising. At that time, wushu was only 13 years old. It was a committee-ordained synthesis of the various age-old Chinese combat forms (wushu literally means "martial arts"), intended to create a new codified sport. Emphasis was placed...
...Young Li was among the performers who accompanied Chinese delegations around the world, and his extraordinary ascent through the sport has never been duplicated. At the age of 11, he was part of a troupe sent on a goodwill tour of America and performed in front of U.S. President Richard Nixon, who jokingly asked the young fighter to become his bodyguard. Li's precocious reply - "I don't want to protect an individual; I want to defend my 1 billion Chinese countrymen!" - was regarded as a great propaganda coup by Chinese apparatchiks, whose darling he became. Li also became...
...Harvard, polo is not an elitist sport. Money or experience is not a limiting factor if you have the dedication,” team member J.P. Stilz ’11 said. “I think there is nothing less elitist than cleaning up horse crap...
...Brooklyn native enjoyed an illustrious high school career at Poly Prep as a two-sport letterwinner, and Harvard came knocking...
...just really excited about the opportunity of playing the sport that I hadn’t grown up playing,” Ajayi says of his ultimate choice. “It was so different for me, and the sky seemed to be the limit. So it was just kind of a spontaneous decision...