World Cup 2010

DID YOU KNOW …

Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets in the NBA (National Basketball Association). Like Dikembe Mutombo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Tracy Mc Grady (United States) and Luis Scola (Argentina), he is one of the best players in the world.

Liu Xiang won the Mena's gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles in 2004 the Olympic Games in Athens. He was the first Asian man to an Olympic gold medal in athletics at win and his victory in Greece was cheered when he as a country of cultural progress, because this is against the stereotypes of what a great hurdler.At medalist the press conference Mena, following the 110-meter hurdlers, Liu said: "My victory is that athletes with yellow skin can run as fast as it was adorned with black and white skin." He was on 13 Born in July, 1983 in Shanghai, China.

The Chinese delegation at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney (Australia), and won 28 gold medals at events such as athletics, badminton, diving, gymnastics, judo, shooting, taekwondo, table tennis and weightlifting.

Kuoshu is the national sport in the People's Republic of China.

Lang Ping played Volleyball at the 1984 Summer Olympics for China. In the 1980s she was the best volleyball players in the world. In 2004, she the trainer U.S. women were `s national volleyball team. "Lang Ping is a person who has been uncommonly successful in every phase of her career as a player and coach, and their success are unmatched, "U.S. Chief Executive Officer Doug Beal said." She won every major event as a player for China during her career and was clearly the dominant Player in the world in the 1980s. "And they switched over seamlessly into almost every volleyball history, its role as a coach, leading China a silver medal at the Olympics Games in Atlanta in 1996 and successfully coaching professionally in Italy for many years. "

China sent 246 athletes to the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona (Spain). She participated in gymnastics, athletics, boxing, cycling, fencing, diving, judo, shooting, swimming, table tennis, archery, badminton, sailing, Weightlifting, wrestling, modern pentathlon, basketball and volleyball. The PeopleÂ's Republic of China finished the 4th Place in the medal tally with 54 (16 gold), trailing the Unified Team (112), United States (108) and Germany (82).

The Chinese metropolis has the 11th Asian Games held in 1990. More than 6122 athletes participated in more than 35 countries, along with 1,000 buses. It was the largest multi-sport event in the Third World in 1990.

Beijing 1990, the Women FIVB Volleyball World Cup hosts. It is the capital of China.

The Asian country has had many famous athletes in the past century: Kuo-Jung tuang (Table tennis), Lu Li (gymnastics), Chen Yueling (track and field), Fu Mingxia (diving), Zheng Meizhu (volleyball), Gao Min (diving), Haixia Zheng (basketball) Yang Xilan (volleyball), Zhuang Xiaoyan (judo), Hong Qian (swimming), Gu Jun (badminton), Chuang Tse-tung (table tennis), Wang Huifeng (fencing), Hsie-ting (table tennis), Wei Qiang (softball), Zhuang Yong (swimming), He Ying (archery), Ge Fei (badminton), Le Jingyi (swimming), Wang Junxia (track and field), Xu Yanmei (diving), Sun Fuming (judo), Li Duihong (shooting), Mo Huilan (gymnastics) and Qu Yunxia (athletics).

Zhu Jianhua was one of the most famous sportsman in China and in Asia. He was an Olympic bronze medalist and former world record-holder in the high jump.

The Chinese team won the women's volleyball World Cup defeating Cuba (3-1) in 1985. It was the 2nd World Cup victory for the People `s Republic of China.

China does not participate in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, URSS (currently Russia). Many Chinese Athletes in particular, Tsu-chin Lin hurdler, high jumper Ni Chih-, long jumper Hsia Chieh-ping, runners Sung Mei-hua, and volleyball players Yan Liang Zhang Rongfang, Zhou Xiaolan and Zhu Ling-ums Olympic chances.

Li Ning won three gymnastics gold medals in 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California (USA). Like Nadia Comaneci (Romania) and Vitaly Scherbo (Belarus), he was one of the best gymnasts of the 20 Century. Li Ning was born in September 8, 1963 in Liuzhou, Guangxi, China.

From 1993 Wang Junxia to 1996 was one of the greatest runners in China and Asia. She set three world records in 1993 (3.000 – meter and 10,000-meter events). This year she won the gold medal in the 10,000 m at the World Championships in Stuggart (Germany). At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta (Georgia, USA), notified them of their abilities in the world championships by winning the gold medal in the 5000-meter run.

The Asian country won the silver medal in softball at the Olympic Games in 1996 in the United States.

Diver Fu Mingxia won 5 gold medals at three successive Olympic Games: Barcelona (1992), Atlanta (1996) and Sydney (2000). She is an idol in her hometown of Wuhan, China.

Chuang Tse-tung was one of the most famous player in the history of table tennis (also known as ping-pong). In the 1960s she was an idol in the PeopleÂ's Republic of China.

China has viewed 8 times in the Olympics and has won a total of 33 medals. It has more Olympic medals, Iceland, Hungary, Australia and Poland joined.

Michael Chang had won one Grand Slam, is planning to open an academy for young players in China. He once said: "I have one wish, that is my experience from playing tournaments in the world gathered to contribute to the development of tennis in China. "

China sent, 219 athletes to the 1984 Olympic Games that were held in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Chinese delegation had athletes compete in 16 sports: archery (6), athletics (22), basketball (22), Kanu (4), cycling (7), Fencing (17), gymnastics (14), handball (15), wrestling (10), rowing (9), Shooting (17), swimming (35), tennis (1), volleyball (22), weightlifting (10) and sailing (4).

Alejandro Guevara Onofre: He is a freelance writerAlejandro is of Italian, African and Peruvian ancestry. He studied political science and journalism.He has published more than seventy-five research paper in English, and more than twenty in Spanish, concerning the world issues, olympic sports, countries, and tourism. His next essay is called “The Dictator and Alicia Alonso”. He is an expert on foreign affairs. Futhermore, Alejandro is the first author who has published a world-book encyclopedia in Latina America.

He admires Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter), Hillary Clinton (ex-First Lady of the USA), and Jimmy Carter (former President of the USA). His favorite film is “Gorillas in the Mist”.Some of his favorite books are “The Return of Eva Peron and the Killings in Trinidad” (by V.S.Naipaul), “Las Mujeres de los Dictadores” (by Juan Gasparini) and “Murder of a Gentle Land” (by John Barron and Anthony Paul).His personal motto is “The future is for those people who believe in the beauty o f their dreams” by Eleanor Roosevelt.

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