久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

  Home>News Center>Sports
         
 

New York pays tribute to China's 'Diving Queen'
(China Daily)
Updated: 2004-12-20 09:28

One of China's sporting giants has been invited to take a bite out of the Big Apple on December 31.


Gao Min, who was to retire after winning successive gold medals at the 24th and 25th Olympiad, waved farewell to the audience. [newsphoto/file]
Gao Min, who retired 12 years ago as the greatest female springboard diver in the history of the sport, will be a special guest of the organizing committee trying to bring the 2012 Summer Olympics to New York City. She is one of only five athletes from around the world to be honoured in the city's 100th anniversary of New Year's Eve in Times Square.

Erica Nelson, the bid committee's sports manager, said the city is honouring one athlete from each of the five regions that represent the Olympic rings. In the official invitation to Gao, who is representing Asia, Nelson said: "We could think of no better way to honour you for your magnificent accomplishments than on this massive stage when a billion eyes around the world will be watching."

Gao was born in Zigong, Sichuan Province, in 1970 and learned to swim at age four. She took up gymnastics a few years later, and began platform diving training after being spotted by a diving coach at the Zigong Sports School. She was selected for the Sichuan provincial team in 1980 and joined the Chinese national squad for intensified training in 1985 when she shifted to springboard competition.

Gao won her first major international title - the world three-metre springboard crown - in 1986 and over the next seven years she was never beaten in international competition.

Nicknamed the "Diving Queen," she notched 580.23 points en route to winning China's first Olympic gold medal in springboard at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and repeated the feat in 1992 at Barcelona. In between, she won three world championships, captured double gold at the 1990 Beijing Asian Games, and was voted one of the nation's top 40 sports stars since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

Now 34 and the head coach of the Kinsmen Diving Club in Edmonton, Canada, Gao remains the only female diver to eclipse 600 points on the springboard, and her record of 635 stands far beyond the reach of most of today's international crop.

"This is such good news, such a wonderful honour," Gao said when she received the invitation. "I am very honoured to take part in this ceremony and to represent China and Asia. It is especially meaningful for me because of Beijing hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics."



 
  Today's Top News     Top Sports News
 

Hu: "One country, two systems" thriving in Macao

 

   
 

EU aims to lift China arms ban by mid-2005

 

   
 

China helps track French satellite's orbit

 

   
 

60 killed, 120 wounded in Iraq car blasts

 

   
 

Sunken ferry kills 10 students in Shaanxi

 

   
 

Electric vehicles may be used for 2008 Games

 

   
  New York pays tribute to China's 'Diving Queen'
   
  S.Korea 3-1 Germany: Klinsmann woe
   
  Ronaldinho tempted by the Premiership
   
  Raptors defeat Nets 110-99
   
  China wins mixed doubles at Indonesia Open
   
  Iverson leads 76ers past Bucks 116-97
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 8000av在线| a级国产乱理伦片在线观看国 | 亚洲高清国产一区二区三区 | 免费一区二区三区久久 | 亚洲成人黄色在线观看 | 网友自拍第一页 | 一区二区三区国模大胆 | 男女乱淫免费视频 | 性猛交毛片 | 九九视频在线看精品 | 欠草视频| 国产成人精品一区二三区2022 | 久久99国产精品 | 美女131爽爽爽做爰中文视频 | 香蕉成人在线 | 精品伊人久久久久网站 | 日韩欧美中文字幕在线播放 | 日本一区二区三区不卡视频中文字幕 | 精品一区二区久久久久久久网站 | 深夜做爰性大片中文 | 国产精品久久久久久久福利院 | 精品免费久久 | 国产精品正在播放 | 国产精品大全 | 国产成人tv在线观看 | 国产精品久久免费观看 | 一级做α爱过程免费视频 | 韩国自拍偷自拍亚洲精品 | 国产一区二区精品久 | 初爱视频教程在线观看高清 | 久久精品久久久久 | 香港三澳门三日本三级 | 日本女人www | a级国产乱理伦片在线观看国 | 免费看一级毛片欧美 | 国产无套视频在线观看香蕉 | 亚洲成人自拍网 | 国产欧美日韩高清专区手机版 | 日韩精品午夜视频一区二区三区 | 72种姿势欧美久久久久大黄蕉 | 日韩午夜在线 |