Word: xiaoshuang
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...more often than not, the mainland's most popular athletes are now picked by the free market. Liu Xuan, a pert gold medalist at the Games in Sydney, works as a model and starred as a plucky migrant worker in a movie called Far from Home. Fellow gymnast Li Xiaoshuang has recorded an album of pop ditties. Fu Mingxia, the legendary diver who first struck gold as a teddy-bear-carrying 13-year-old in Barcelona, has appeared on Sprite cans. "Sports is an industry now," says Guo, declining like a seasoned pro to discuss the details of her endorsement...
...reset his sights on the individual all-around finals. Alexei Nemov, 24, the anchor of the Russian team, was the most decorated gymnast in Atlanta when he took home six medals. But he did not get the title of best male gymnast that year - it went China's Li Xiaoshuang. Like Khorkina, the glamorous Nemov was here for his final Olympics, but he almost didn't make it. He had dropped out of training for two years after Atlanta, gained weight, lost it again, went into training, fell back out. Only in the past year did he settle down...
...they nonetheless performed better than expected, staying in the medal hunt almost to the end and finishing a respectable fifth. (Russia captured the gold.) In the individual competition, national champion John Roethlisberger pumped up the crowd with his intensity but couldn't match the grace of China's Li Xiaoshuang, who nudged out Russia's Alexei Nemov for the gold...
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