Chairman Yao (3)

Chairman Yao (3)

The reason why Yao Ming can be our proud is not only his talent and effort on basketball, but also his international influence and success on philanthropy.

Yao is keen to charity to help others including human beings, animals and natural environment. He invested many charity organisations, such as Chi Heng Foundation, China Youth Development Foundation, Project Hope, Red Cross, Shark Savers and WildAid. He also established a new charitable institution named by himself, Yao Ming Foundation. He participated in several public service advertisements which aims to remind people to protect wild animals.

Yao is a great ambassador of China. He is Chinese standard-bearer in 2008 Olympics opening ceremony. After his retirement from NBA, he has been continuing to promote the sports development of China. In July of this year, he helped Bei Jing to win the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics as an image ambassador.

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World swimming championships: China's Sun Yang

Chinese famous swimmer

Sun Yang is widey known as the most successful Chinese swimmer and the country's most famous athlete in history with world Asian, Olymic and National Records tied to his name. He began swimming at a young age, and first real breakout was at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when he was just 16 years old. He was the first Chinese man to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming. Sun even anchored the bronze-medal winning 800m freestyle relay, which was one of China's first relay medals in swimming. 

China's Sun Yang with his 400m freestyle gold medal

Australia outs Sun after violation. Swimming Australian made the decision to cut ties with sun, and tighten up regulations regarding foreign athletes that are training in Australia's excellence training centers. Under Cotterell's tutelage Yang won gold in both the 400m and 1500m freestyle at the London Olympics in 2012, smashing the world 1500m record in the process. Sun also won the 400m freestyle world title with the aid of a banned Australian coach, Brian King. He dominated the 400m final to win by more than a second in 3min42.5sec, the fastest time of the year. 

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Zhang Jike' next goal.

Zhang Jike prepared for Rio Olympics.

Being the Grand Slam champion, Zhang Jike is one of the main players of the men’s table tennis. After his defeat in this year’s World Championships, a lot may have thought if he is still motivated for the Rio Olympics. Well, in an interview, he said he still is. In fact, his next goal is to do better in the World Team Championships next year so that he can have a better chance for the Olympic Games. 

After losing in the World Championships, Zhang Jike said that he is still motivated for the Rio Olympics. 
After winning the world competitions since 2011, Zhang Jike became the strongest table tennis player in the men’s division. Being able to complete his Grand Slam in a continuous manner was such a feat. 
Therefore, he was considered as a superhuman. However, with his defeat in this year’s World Championships, he became just any regular player once again. It just shows that he cannot win all the titles even if he wants to. 

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Bahrain ten-year-old girl to become youngest athlete at world swimming championships

Youngest swimmer to make word champ debut

Bahrain ten-year-old Alzain Tareq swimmer to make world championships debut

Alzain Tareq is a ten-year-old girl from Bahrain is set to compete at swimming world championships. when Alzain Tareq steps on to the blocks for the women's 50m butterfly heats at Kazzan,Russia, she will become the youngest athlete making splash at world swimming championships. There are no age restrictions for the championships, she has qualified as the fastest female swimmer from her national trials. 

she has been learn swimming since the age of four, supported by her father. Her father is a former professional swimmer Tareq Salem, who train twice a day, five days a week, either side of her school studies. Her qualifying time of 41.12s in the 50m butterfly compares to the world record of 24.43s by Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom. Tareq has boldly declared that she won't fear anything or anybody. she said" the most important thing for me is gain experience of competing at high-profile events, watch the technical skills of famous Olympic champions and maybe even add some of their skills to my armory". 

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Chinese sports legend : Li Xiaopeng (gymnast)

Chinese Top Gymnast : Li Xiaopeng 

Li Xiaopeng is one of the world's greatest gymnast, who specializes in parallel bars and vault. He currently holds 16 world titles, more than any other gymnasts in China. he has been named the newest Ambassador for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. Li Xiaopeng has been won total  four Olympic gold medals and eight World Championships titles in his career. 

Li Xiaopeng in Olympic 2008

Li Xiaopeng was outstanding in the parallel bars and the vault, so much so that the International Gymnastics Federation named two moves after him- the "Li Xiaopeng hop" in the vaut and "Li Xiaopeng arm hang" on parallel bars. Also he achieved his greatest successes on the parallel bars, winning two Olympic gold medals in Sydney in 2000 and Beijing in 2008 and a bronze in Athens in 2004. He also won two world titles on parallel bars and three World Cups. One of his outstanding achievements was at the 2003 World Championships in Anaheim when he won three gold medals- parallel bars, vault and team.


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