Hu Jia & Peng Bo are Olympic stars for China in this sport that features springboard & platform
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Sweetest dream for Chinese diving team with six golds from Athens  Aug 29, 2004 ... Sweetest dream for Chinese diving team with six golds from Athens ... Sydney runner-up Hu Jia bagged the last and the sixth gold medal for China Saturday in ... with synchronized events in men's platform and women's springboard. ... final turned up to be the dramaticof all as Chinese pair Peng Bo and...
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List of Olympic medalists in diving - Wikipedia  This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in diving. See also: Diving at the Summer Olympics. Contents. [hide]. 1 Current Program. 1.1 Men. 1.1.1 10 metre platform; 1.1.2 3 metre springboard; 1.1.3 Synchronized 10 ... China  Hu Jia ..... Lists of Summer Olympic medalists by sport  Diving at the Summer Olympics...
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Tian Lang | Diving, Athens and Platform - Pinterest  Hu Jia - Diving - Athens Olympics 2004 - Mens 10m Platform ... I love sport! ... China's Lao Lishi (front) and Li Ting dive to the gold medal in the Women's 10 meter ..... Peng Bo - Diving - Athens Olympics 2004 - Mens 3m Springboard ..... This year's American squad doesn't feature any Olympic medal winners, but you can...
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China's Wu Minxia seeking 'perfection' with five Olympic diving ...  Aug 4, 2016 ... Chinese diving star Wu Minxia sets her sights on five Olympic records entering Sunday's women's synchronized 3m springboard event.
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In Quest for Gold and Glory at Olympics, China Pressures Injured ...  Jun 20, 2008 ... China Presses Injured Athletes in Quest for Gold ... SHANGHAI  When China's champion 10-meter platform diver suffered a detached retina ... Hu Jia, left, and Yang Linguang competing in May in Florida. ... a national hero and the country's most popular sports star in Athens when he won the 110-meter...
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Fu Mingxia - Wikipedia  Fu Mingxia is a top female diver, multiple Olympic gold medalist and world champion. Chinese diver Fu Mingxia won the platform-diving world championship in 1991 at the age of 12, making her ... At just 12 years old, Fu became the youngest international champion ever. It is a title she will hold forever because after the...
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Boardsport - Wikipedia  Boardsports are sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment. ... Stand Up Paddle Surfing (SUP): A variant of surfing where one always a stands up ... Similar to skateboarding, but also influenced heavily by snowboarding. ... Street Skurfing: Similar to Caster board, but the rider can move both feet...
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'More in the tank' for Boudia, Johnson as Rio diving events shift from ...  Aug 9, 2016 ... David Boudia and Steele Johnson are sky high after setting USA's ... {{::sport.name}} ... men's synchronized 10m platform event were expected to compete for a medal. ... men's synchronized platform, but not enough to compete with China ... "These six dives were some of the best we've done," Boudia said.
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List of Olympic medalists in snowboarding - Wikipedia  Snowboarding is a sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Snowboarding was one of...
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International figure skating - Wikipedia  Figure skating is a sport with participants across the world. Originally based in North America .... She would go on to win the next four World Championships. ... In 1995, Chen Lu became the first Chinese woman to win a World title. ... In 2010, they became China's first Olympic champions in any figure skating category.
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Xinhua  China, World, Business, Sports, Entertainment, Photos and ...  Xinhua, xinhuanet.com/englishenglish.news.cn, chinaviewbrings you headlines, photos, ... the Middle East, Americas and Organizations on politics, economy, culture, sports, entertainment, ... China's success lies in the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and .... Swimming pool built for tigers in Australia...
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Chinese Checkers Rules  The Chinese Checkers board is in the shape of a six pointed star. ... In a three player game the marbles will start in three triangles equidistant from each other. Each player chooses a colour and the 10 marbles of that colour are placed in the...
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Simone Biles wins 3rd gold medal in Rio, crushing field in vault final ...  Aug 14, 2016 ... Russia's Maria Paseka, from left, U.S. gymnast Simone Biles and Switzerland's ... on vault, the apparatus that most closely resembles the sofa and upholstered ... final, with the average of the two scores serving as their final mark. ... The vault rewards power and explosion; it's not for long, lithe body types or...
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Gymnastics - Team USA  6-17; Trampoline: Aug. 12-13. Medal events: 18 (14 artistic, 2 rhythmic, 2 trampoline) ... At last year's world championships, she finished eighth in the all-around  the ... At age 16, Hernandez is the youngest member of the women's gymnastics team. ... Zeng made U.S. history when she won the Youth Olympic bronze medal,...
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China's plans to launch a female taikonaut - collectSPACE: Messages  The All-China Women's Federation called on the central ... China's plans to put a woman into space aboard a Shenzhou craft appear to be ... pilots and commanders, and should be available for spaceflight assignments from 2012. .... commander of the country's manned space programme give several clues...
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Boardsport - Wikipedia  Boardsports are sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment. ... Skateboarding was then invented by surfers looking to "surf" on land. ... of a small, roughly rectangular piece of foam, shaped to a hydrodynamic form. ... scooters to perform freestyle tricks, in a manner similar to skateboarding and...
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History - Badminton World Federation  A contemporary form of badminton - a game called 'Poon', was played in India in the 1800s where a net was introduced and players hit the shuttlecock across the net. ... badminton became an Olympic sport in Barcelona in 1992 with the singles and ... medals in badminton at an Olympic Games since its introduction in 1992...
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THE SEOUL OLYMPICS - Canadian Wins In Sychronized - NYTimes ...  Sep 30, 1988 ... Sports  World  U.S.  N.Y. / Region  Business  Technology  Science  Health  Sports ... 30 (AP) - Zsolt Gyulay of Hungary won the gold medal today in the men's kayak ... Volleyball Soviets Rally Past Peru in Final SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. ... The Hungarian men's team won the bronze in men's team foil.
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Diving : AIS : Australian Sports Commission  Senior elite competition is divided into individual and synchronised springboard (1m and 3 m) and platform (10 m) events for men and women. Different...
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Diving - Wikipedia  Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while ... In platform events, competitors are allowed to perform their dives on either ... and the World Championships, platform diving is from the 10 meter height. ..... The first digit of the number indicates the dive group as defined above.
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Top Olympic Medal Winners - Topend Sports  The primary aim of most Olympic Games athletes is to win a gold medal, though winning any medal is a great achievement for most of them. Here are two lists,...