Word: xiong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dive at his level, and now teenagers from the Soviet Union, East Germany and especially China threatened to beat him. At 28, Louganis is a superbly fit adult male; his imitators tend to look like underclassmen at a military school. But after nine dives he was 3 points behind Xiong Ni of China, young-looking even for his 14 years. Xiong's tenth and last dive was near perfect. Louganis, following him, somehow found the grace and courage to be a shade better in a harder dive, a flashing reverse 3 1/2 somersault. The win gave him both diving golds...
...xiong is a visiting scholar from International Politics Department of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He is here on a fellowship from Harvard-Yenching Institute...