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    Updated: 2004-08-11 09:35
    Olympics: China pins hopes in traditional strongpoints 

    中國在雅典可以得到多少金牌?在悉尼奪得28枚金牌位列三甲、甚至更進一步的情景會出現嗎?除開中國的傳統優勢項目,如乒乓球、羽毛球、射擊、跳水、體操和舉重之外,中國代表團還將力爭在金牌大戶的田徑和游泳項目上有所突破。

     

    Liu Xiang won a bronze medal in 110m hurdle at last year's indoor world championships. (newsphoto/file)

    How many gold medals for China in Athens?

    China grabbed 28 gold medals and finished at a historical third place behind the United States and Russia in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. To repeat that gold-medal spree, or even exceed the achievements in Sydney, is quite beyond most predictions for the Athens-bound national selectees of China.

    Since Sydney, China has tried to make progress in some medal- rich sports of Olympics, such as in the track and field, swimming and aquatics. The national sports authority pushed hard in the last four years on a developing project called "the 119 Project", which refers to the 119 gold medals in the aforementioned sports. The outcome, however, is not cheerful.

    China's prospect on the track stays one after four-year program, as highflying hurdler Liu Xiang shoulders the hope of China's athletics this time.

    Wang Liping claimed an unexpected gold medal four years ago in the women's 20km walking event, the only gold for China in the track and field competition, which is the biggest medal-bounded event in the Games.

    The 21-year-old Liu, who finished third at last year's indoor world championships as well as at the outdoor worlds, clinched his first win in the Osaka Grand Prix in May after beating American sprinter Allen Johnson with a season-best and Asian record of 13. 06 seconds.

    Walking event is another sport that the Chinese athletic team can pin their hope on, but the sport is far more unpredictable with the possibility of a participant being fouled out at right a last second.

    The women swimmers, led by world champion Luo Xuejuan, carry some expectations for their success in butterfly, medley and medley relay at last year's Barcelona Championships. But the Olympic pool could be the battlefield between the surging American team and Australian powerhouse.

    With no outstanding progress made by Chinese in the centerpiece of Olympics, most of the possible golds will still come from their traditional strong events, such as shooting, gymnastics, diving, table tennis, badminton, weightlifting and Judo.

    World champion Li Xiaopeng plays a vault. (newsphoto)
    Chinese gymnasts, who snatched three golds in Sydney, remains hot favorite amid the rise of new forces, the United States and Japan, as well as the fall of traditional tycoon Russia.

    Daring predictions have been made for Chinese gymnasts with a possible collection of five golds, as in men's team, Li Xiaopeng' s parallel bars and vault, Teng Haibin's pommel horse and women's beam by Fan Ye, repeating the sweet surprises in last years Anaheim world championships.

    Chinese divers also face unprecedented challenges from improving opponents and the unsteady form of themselves. The new spearheads, Tian Liang, who suffered both individual and synchronized platform defeats at last month's Mexico Super Final, and Guo Jingjing, who is recovering from an ankle injury, could yet guarantee a repeat of the undisputed domination in Sydney with five golds.

    In weightlifting, China's women team, who took a clean sweep of four golds in the Sydney Games, sit again in the driving seat but their supremacy has been toughly challenged by their neighbors Thailand, DPR Korea and Indonesia.

    The Chinese paddlers, who made wrap-ups in Atlanta and Sydney, and their fellow shuttlers, who harvested four golds out of five in Sydney, are set to match on toward the peak as the Chinese badminton team eyes on pocketing all even in the once lagging men' s doubles which was left as the sole regret for China in Sydney's badminton event.

    And in shooting, Xu Haifeng, head coach of Chinese shooting team, holds a handful of ace shooters in his roster though some of them seem to be in their best form. The withdraw of Yang Ling, men 's running target champion in Atlanta and Sydney who tore his Achilles's tendon on July 17, came as the latest hit for the Chinese shooting team.

    With competitors of all their superior events in good form, China will realize a closest wild guess between 21 and 24 gold medals, while one or two more addition might be reached by other events with luck.

    "Our target is to ensure our leading position in the second group," Li Furong, vice Chef-de-Mission of China, said.

    "Specially, I think we can win some 20 gold medals, and it's very difficult to capture what we earned in Sydney," he added. 
     

    (China Daily)

    Vocabulary:
     

    spree: a carefree, lively outing(狂歡)

    track and field: (田賽和徑賽,文中指田徑項目)

    aquatic: athletic activities performed in or on the water(水的, 水上的)

    aforementioned: mentioned previously(上述的, 前述的)

    hurdler: (跨欄比賽選手)

    sprinter: (賽跑選手)

    foul out: (文中指因為犯規,被罰出場或停止比賽)

    butterfly: the butterfly stroke(蝶泳)

    medley: (混合泳)

    parallel bars: (雙杠)

    vault: (跳馬)

    pommel horse: (鞍馬)

    beam: (平衡木)

    synchronize: to occur at the same time; be simultaneous(同步,文中指雙人跳水)




     
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