Chinese Lives

Lin Hao, a brave kid, was known to all Chinese in the Wenchuan quake, who was caught under rubbles but kept calm to cheer his classmates up waiting for outside help. He finally managed to crawl out alive, but returned for another trapped classmate. Confident and lucky boy succeeded saving two classmates’ lives, and impressed the whole country.
His appearance at the ceremony with Yao Ming, is a humane choice, which means every fellow Chinese that suffered the quake has been remembered by the nation.

“Li Ning (Simplified Chinese: 李宁) is a famous Chinese gymnast and entrepreneur. He was born in a Zhuang family on September 8, 1963 in Liuzhou, Guangxi, China and gained his Bachelor of Law and EMBA degrees from Peking University.

Ning is most famous for winning 6 medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, including 3 gold medals (in floor exercise, pommel horse, and rings), 2 silver medals, and a bronze medal. In 1982, he won six of the seven medals awarded at the Sixth World Cup Gymnastic Competition, earning him the title “Prince of gymnastics”.

Ning retired from sporting competition in 1988, and in 1990 he founded the Li-Ning Company Limited, which sells footwear and sporting apparel in China. Ning remains chairman of the company’s board of directors.

Li was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2000. He became the first Chinese inductee of the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

In Beijing 2008 Olympics Li Ning was named to be the person to ignite the cauldron at the opening ceremony.”

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ning

Just days before the competition starts formally, let’s see what our sport stars are doing at their free time. Thanks to photographers’ hard work, we have following pictures.

Source: http://cache.tianya.cn/publicforum/content/funinfo/1/1222736.shtml

28th July marked the opening of the Beijing Olympic Village, and Chinese athletes attended the ceremony and moved in on the same day. Yao left America and appeared in the event. Finger crossed he will not yell at his team members during match. Liu Xiang, who won 110m hurdles in 2004 Athens Games, looks fine and relaxed. It was a surprise he won last time. Good Luck to him.
The village is newly built, costing a lot of money, branded as luxury building by BBC’s report in a not good tone. However, since this is the first time China host Olympics, the government did try most efforts to impress the world, of course in priority to provide athletes a comfortable accommodation. We are happy about that.